Sentences with phrase «circumscribe understanding»

These defining properties of each field both advance and circumscribe understanding.

The world of galleries competing for new talents in increasingly harsh art world environment creates urges for hot and hip that will attract audiences and potential buyers, almost inadvertently producing a circumscribed understanding of who can create such works.

Not exact matches

the Christian whose understanding of the incarnation is so circumscribed will either embrace the one (Jerusalem) and hate the other (Athens) or try in vain to unite what can only remain strange (and strained) bedfellows...

Even so, there are some basic outlines that circumscribe academic communities: their face - to - face quality, their common pursuit of knowledge and understanding, and their integral character, the sense in which the quality of the individual's thought and the quality of the communities» thinking are mutually dependent upon one another.

In so doing he circumscribes the nature and role of the imagination, especially its synthesizing power, making it dependent on the understanding» (CJ 95).

In fact, two gems from Pascal's Pénsées would make for perfect epigrams with which to begin and end Kugel's book: «The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me» (which sums up his argument about the absolute «smallness» and «silence» that circumscribe our existence and lead us to transcendence), and, «The heart has its reasons, which reason can not understand,» (which sums up his argument against rational reductionism).

Elisa (Sally Hawkins) in «Shape» is isolated by her inability to speak, while Moonie (Brooklynn Prince) in «Florida» is circumscribed by childhood, but both use fantasy in ways their respective directors (Guillermo del Toro and Sean Baker) understand as a survival tactic in a harsh world.

As often happens in Vedovamazzei's work, a complex visual system connected to the impossibility of understanding or precisely circumscribing visual signs, is tackled through a light, ironical attitude; the viewer is confronted with ambiguous signs and objects, hardly assignable to precise categories.

«This show... has been very cathartic because I understand that everything was circumscribed, that this was always my path.