Sentences with phrase «brute matter»

Still other canvases veer in the opposite direction by merging undulations of vivid, carnivalesque blues, pinks, oranges, or greens with somber dark swathes into curves that evoke chaotic balloon sculptures or failed attempts to wring order from unruly sausages of brute matter.

The paintings are separated into four sections, Of Brute Matter (I - VI), Where the Light is as Darkness (I - IV), As Above So Below (I - VI), and Here's Looking at You Too (I - II).

In the great chain of being, brute matter has never fared well.

Guston was a painter of brute matter and even more squalid inclinations.

««Tis inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should (without the mediation of something else which is not material) operate and affect other matter without mutual contact... Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws, but whether this agent be material or immaterial is a question I left to the consideration of my readers.»

Brute matter could not enter the lists as a rival explanation; a negative thing, mere potentiality.

We have to realise that all brute matter, including dogs, can not commit sin.

Not exact matches

It might be just a simple brute fact that matter came into existence for no good reason.

«I bless you, matter, and you I acclaim: not as the pontiffs of science or the moralizing preachers depict you, debased, disfigured — a mass of brute forces and base appetites — but as you reveal yourself to mc today, in your totality and your true nature.

In general, any God (as creative will) must confront within the total unity of his consciousness a twofold Given, consisting of Form (logic, mathematics, Platonic ideas) and Matter (brute fact content, a «receptacle»).

For that matter, it is a brute fact woven into the fabric of the universe (and not mere opinion) that even having the Jonas Brothers on your iPod is not «cool.»

Religious believers are dismayed by evolution theories because, by locating the origin of all things in the brute indifference of matter, these theories seem to destroy the eschatological hope for that perfection and perpetuity of life beyond the grave in which we are reunited with loved ones and freed from the curses of sin and death.

Whitehead makes a beginning at putting the world back together by advocating the replacement of the brute concept of matter with that of organism and replacing the other parameters of space / time with the concept of event.

But this critical Jew saw, not the mystery of an ancient Mass, but a solemn farce: two great hulks of dead matter nearly breaking the backs of suffering brutes condemned to carry the weight of alleged gods!

It is clear that spirit and matter can not be thought of side by side, alien and heterogeneous like two particular objects of our experience which are met with next to one another in their difference as mere brute facts.

Certainly our established Western categories and ways of language and thinking provide no manifest way of so conjoining brute fact and final salvation or everlastingness and matter - of - fact entities.

The contextual nature of language leads Whitehead to conclude that there are «no brute, self - contained matters of fact, capable of being understood apart from interpretation as an element of a system» (PR 14).

Along with dualistic mythology several developments in scientific thought since the seventeenth century have contributed to the exorcism of mind from nature: first, there is the cosmography of classical (Newtonian) physics picturing our world as composed of inanimate, unconscious bits of «matter» needing only the brute laws of inertia to explain their action; second, the Darwinian theory of evolution with its emphasis on chance, waste and the apparent «impersonality» of natural selection; third, the laws of thermodynamics (and particularly the second law) with the allied cosmological interpretation that our universe is running out of energy available to sustain life, evolution and human consciousness; fourth, the geological and astronomical disclosure of enormous tracts of apparently lifeless space and matter in the universe; fifth, the recent suggestions that life may be reducible to an inanimate chemical basis; and, finally, perhaps most shocking of all, the suspicion that mind may be explained exhaustively in terms of mindless brain chemistry.

Pranay Sanklecha, writing for Surreal Football, points out that attacking or defending Berbatov on the grounds of effectiveness is to promulgate the fallacy that only effectiveness matters, whereas one of the great things about being a football fan (as opposed to a manager) is that you are able to look for and take more from the game than simple, brute efficacy.

It is a game that anyone can play, no matter their size, because it is not a game of endurance nor is it a game of brute force.

Because it's a LaBute picture, closer to the truth that Lakeview Terrace is a film about misanthropy — that no matter the cloth, the uniform is the general shittiness with which we treat each other — and, more, how easily we shed the raiments of civilization when confronted with the brute, caveman essence of competing for sex.

Florence Pugh has come flying in out of nowhere with this delectably sinful turn as the young wife of an impotent brute who falls in love with a servant and won't let anything stand in the way of their relationship, no matter how many lines of decency and morality need crossing.

For the hooligan Ben, there are no questions that can't be answered with brute force, but the others are more likely to ponder deeper matters, like right and wrong, life and death, and the commercial viability of religion.

Some of these victories were simply a matter of brute force (Amazon can afford to lose money on their ereader devices in pursuit of greater market share, for example, and Amazon loves to gobble up potential competitors like Audible and Goodreads).

Gauging the effectiveness of a squad is actually quite subtle now, as it's not just a matter of brute force that wins out.

Firms confront a number of client challenges: (1) dissatisfaction and failure to address it; (2) insufficient knowledge of the client's business; (3) high, unpredictable cost; (4) inefficiency and an economic model that «applies brute force» (read: lots of high - priced lawyers billing loads of hours) accompanied by a failure to assess appropriate value to task / cases from the client perspective; (5) failure to deploy technology to streamline operations and provide enterprise solutions; (6) an absence of process and project management; (7) a transactional approach to client matters rather than one that provides enterprise solutions; and (8) poor customer service.

Law firms focused on input — hours and origination — and applied a brute force, labor - intense approach to all tasks and matters regardless of client value.

It should not matter for a company like Facebook whether their users» personal information was forcefully obtained through brute - force, or whether Facebook's personnel were manipulated to hand in that information to malicious and untrustworthy party.

What this means is that «if anyone breaches T - Mobile (it's only a matter of time), they could likely guess or brute - force every user's password,» reports Motherboard.

No matter how badly you've gone through the brutes, the interview room should be the last place to squawk about it.