Sentences with phrase «between ecstasy»

Meanwhile, in my own columns from the festival, I will be balancing between ecstasy and the suspicion that I have just missed the best film in years.

Hitchcock scholar Donald Spoto said The Lodger marked «the first time Hitchcock... revealed his psychological attraction to the association between sex and murder, between ecstasy and death.»

marked «the first time Hitchcock... revealed his psychological attraction to the association between sex and murder, between ecstasy and death.»

The album has a dance - as - the - world - collapses quality, teetering all perennial between ecstasy and emotional disrepair.

If the term «ecstasy» is applied at all to the giant figures in the succession from Amos to Second Isaiah, I would want to insist on Lindblom's distinction between ecstasy of the absorption type (involving loss of rational control) and that of the concentration type, and a very clear further distinction between the circumspective religion of the prophets and the more common ancient Eastern type of introspective, mystical piety.

Not exact matches

To regard the ordinary embodied experience of men and women as theologically significant in a positive way is to receive all these images of physical delight, of beauty and ecstasy, of human growth and nurture, of the contact between human persons that the touching of bodies can make possible.

The portrait is psychologically true: the perennial tension between the animal ecstasies of the flesh, which bind one to unthinking material necessity, and the rational freedom of the spirit, which is always striving to subdue the brute.

In the relationship between these two primary and inseparable parts of prophetic preaching the controversy over the role and nature of ecstasy is resolved.

Through the two hemispheres of the human brain, each making distinctive contributions to human activity, a fresh way is provided for comprehending the traditional tension between faith and reason, ecstasy and ethics, eros and agape.

There are the absurd oppositions existing between life and death, growth and decay, pleasure and pain, ecstasy and sorrow, light and darkness, good and evil, order and chaos.

For Burke, the movement between the sacred and the profane was simply a transition from one form of ecstasy to another.

Liverpool are a team of agony and ecstasy with nothing in between.

After all, the council's former chairman, David Nutt, was sacked for, among other things, outlining the statistical similarity between the dangers of horse - riding and ecstasy.

I've spent the last 10 years studying the meticulous balance between a spiritual practice of ecstasy and embodiment and a spiritual practice of mindfulness and spirit.

It's not just the look (which is ineffably right, from the mutton chops and the peasant dresses to the battered screen doors and the neon glow), it's the feel, the rhythm of hanging out, of talking yourself into a state of shivering ecstasy or fear or something in between.

Raising a highly gifted child may be ecstasy, agony and everything between.

Along the way, they delve into such essential questions as whether humans are biologically compelled to make myths; what is the evolutionary connection between religious ecstasy and sexual orgasm; what do Near Death Experiences reveal about the nature of spiritual phenomena; and how does ritual create its own neurological environment.

This experience culminates in a moment of intimacy between both entities and preludes the ecstasy found in gratification and death.

That tension between reason and emotion, a male - dominated world and feminine ecstasy, informs her work and is perfectly embodied in the drawing M Is for Mother (1998), seen here, that was a highlight of the exhibit.

That tension between reason and emotion, a male - dominated world and feminine ecstasy, informs her work and is perfectly embodied in the drawing

But how perfectly Lucas deploys them here to suggest both ecstasy and rapacity; think of John Donne's hands roving «behind, before, above, between, below».

In Filomeno's work, there is a tension between baroque beauty, in which excess defines ecstasy, and an existential loneliness of a being devoid of its context.

On Stellar Rays presents Apnea's Rhapsody, a multi-layered installation and performance project by JAŠA, exploring the tension between perceived experiences of awe, ecstasy and beauty, and actual conditions of a specific time and place.

His abstract self - portraits and corresponding poems are capsules of his vulnerability, each representing a chapter of an ongoing love story between himself and his art — wavering from feelings of joy to fear, to doubt and confusion, and ultimately the overwhelming ecstasy of falling in love all over again.

Schimmel has organized major one - person retrospectives for artists Chris Burden, Willem De Kooning, Takashi Murakami, Laura Owens, Sigmar Polke, Charles Ray, and Robert Rauschenberg, and significant thematic exhibitions such as The Interpretive Link: Abstract Surrealism into Abstract Expressionism, Works on Paper, 1938 - 1948 (1987), The Figurative Fifties: New York Figurative Expressionism (1988), Hand - Painted Pop: American Art in Transition 1955 — 62 (1992), Helter Skelter: LA Art in the 1990s (1992), Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949 - 1979 (1999), Ecstasy: In and About Altered States (2006), and Collection: MOCA's First 30 Years (2010).

It's a technique that flirts with geometry, calligraphy and cartography; plays with varying degrees of flatness; and finesses its way between the emotionality of Abstract Expressionism and the formal ecstasies of Color Field painting.

While it interests me that working this way speaks directly to technical and historical photographic processes, I'm most excited by the accidents of the resulting images: the movement in between my three frames, and the mis - registered overlapping... Outside of the reasons this process was originally developed, mainly a solution to reproduce the world's color, I'm looking for: unseeable squirming, shifting, and growth, arms flailing in ecstasy, or light slowly moving across our walls.

Her work often pits itself between extremes and emotions; polarized between agony and ecstasy, violence and care, ambiguous and coherent to unpick power structure, domination and oppression and its effect on the body.

The Europeans brought shame to the tropics, and from the conflict between the refusal and acceptance of imposed traditions, a society was born whose biggest feast is that one which celebrates bodies in ecstasy: the carnival with its contradictions, catharsis, irrationality, radiance and libido; a carnival that somehow rules the country and underlies the recent paintings of Lannes.

A similar mystic ecstasy is captured in religious iconography depicting illuminations, and in installations by Marina Abramovic and Nicola Martini, which explore the relationship between matter and perception.

Infused with ecstasy and a dark beauty, Marco Mazzoni's art underlines the connection between the natural world and our own.

In between are many of her most recognizable images, like her hyper - erotic paintings of pearls between glistening lips parted in ecstasy and her video of grimy, stiletto - heeled feet kicking through glass.

It's tempting to attribute all this to the differences between the drug that shaped the image - repertoire of pop culture in the 1990s (Ecstasy), and the drug that did the same job very differently in the 1960s (LSD), but this still doesn't account for the exhibition's ability to teleport the viewer to that earlier era.