Sentences with phrase «close affinity»

At his best in symbolic vision and act he is in close affinity with Ezekiel.

The Gospel of Thomas, the Secret Book of James, and the Gospel of the Hebrews have such close affinities that most scholars assume the maternal Holy Spirit is meant in all three texts, even though it is perfectly clear only in the Gospel of the Hebrews.

For someone who claims close affinities to Dewey and the pragmatists, this surely will not do.

He continued: «I didn't inherit the naturally close affinity that my predecessor had earned with the press over a long period of time.

Mounted on top of a rich painted wilderness that covers the walls from floor to ceiling, these are paired with a series of works made this year of scenes at Studio Film Club, a makeshift bar and film club in Trinidad run by Peter Doig (with whose work Ofili has long had a very close affinity).

In fact, as one familiar with the many schools within Hinduism, I as a Christian find myself in closer affinity with some of the Hindu concepts of God than those of the Jewish and Islamic traditions.

Manny Lopez, a philanthropist and the co-founder of MADD Coffee Company, has a close affinity to this program, given his personal upbringing.

In his book Gods Behaving Badly (SCM), theologian and sociologist Pete Ward offers an explanation for why we feel such a close affinity to certain famous people.

In his remarkable personal appeal to artists, Pope John Paul II suggested how beauty in the work of artists can be a bridge to the transcendent: «Even beyond its typically religious expressions, true art has a close affinity with the world of faith, so that, even in situations where culture and the Church are far apart, art remains a kind of bridge to religious experience» (John Paul II, Letter to Artists, 1999, 10).

And one item in this list bears a close affinity to the dilemma of Dinah Morris, which George Eliot would delineate just three years later:

The close affinity of the Fourth Gospel with the apostolic Preaching will become plainer if we attempt an analysis of it somewhat on the lines of our analysis of Mark.

The close affinities of Christianity to contemporary Hellenistic alternatives compel us to consider the extent to which it should be understood against this background instead of that of the earlier Hebrew prophetism and its peculiar consequences in Israel.

For a century they certainly had close affinity with religion - primarily religion refracted through Protestant moral and cultural norms.

Okay, maybe they passed out while demonstrating the close affinity between outdoor cooking and beer.

They have a close affinity with Aaron.

Labour has always had a close affinity with Scotland.

There is in fact a fascinating phenomenon: tropical forests that have close affinities with South America co-occurring with temperate and arid areas shared with North America.

The second sample showed a closer affinity with the Midlands and southern Britain where the livestock Improvements of the later 18th century were most active.

An analysis of the yeast's genetic sequence revealed its closest affinity to one of two highly diverse Patagonian populations, confirming it was the cold - loving microbe that, 500 years ago, found its way to the caves and monastery cellars of Bavaria where lager beer was first concocted.

Also, the large brain size and shape of the hand suggested a closer affinity with Homo.

But Leonor's son Tony (Michael Barbieri) has formed a close affinity with Jake, becoming inseparable across the past few weeks.

The English had a close affinity with the breed and gave it such nicknames as the English Coach Dog, Spotted Dick, and the Plum Pudding Dog (the Dal's spots resembling the candied fruit and nuts that fleck Britain's traditional holiday dessert).

Sincerely committed to the belief that local government has the closest affinity to the people governed, and firm in the conviction that the economic and fiscal independence of our local government will promote the health, safety and welfare of all the citizens of this Cit

Eve Aschheim finds a closer affinity between abstraction and photography or abstraction and landscape, but she also finds them as different as night and day.

I found the word paintings the most compelling, perhaps because they felt like honest statements (and have the closest affinity to the babble of the «street»).

Other works in the show depict Flanagan's close affinity to the land art movement of the 1960s.

He began to feel a closer affinity to the Transavantgarde who, in reaction to the prevalent mood of conceptual abstraction, advocated the revival of painting and a return to art history.

My own take on Byars is that his closest affinities were with the Arte Povera artists active in Italy in the Sixties and Seventies.

«Although Rothko's approach to color and subject,» Gage wrote, «has something in common with, for example, Barnett Newman's, perhaps his closest affinities among contemporary artists were with the work of Ad Reinhardt, whose adoption of near - monochromatic color groupings form the late 1940s and exclusive concentration on symmetrical composition from around 1950 have clear parallels in Rothko's work.

The son of psychiatrists, Téllez developed a close affinity with institutionalized patients with mental illnesses.

Although he is classified by art historians as a Pop Artist, he differs from Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein in that his subject matter has close affinities with Dada and Surrealism.

Conceived as a parallel journey through the works of the two artists, this volume reveals the close affinities that underlie their work: everyday subject matter simplified to pure formality, neatness of arrangement, repetition and variation and strong brushwork.

Technically, Rothko's closest affinity is with the art of Matisse in the period of the Blue Window of 1911 or the Dance of 1910, a time when the French master sought what he described as a scheme of absolute colour within the limits of a few simplified planes.

In particular, one is struck by her close affinity for the shapes and colours of the local terrain, as well as her intricate compositional skills.

His closest affinities were with the elegant Johnsian painterliness of Lethbridge — and, by association, that of Richmond Burton and Terry Winters — rather than the grittiness of Ligon and Wool.

Interestingly, cats from Flinders and Tasman Islands have close affinity, in terms of microsatellites, with the Cocos Islands.

«With their strong track record in supporting victims of road collisions with high quality legal assistance, and their close affinity with the values and mission of RoadPeace, Moore Blatch are the perfect addition to our legal panel.»

As an individual who has a close affinity with animals (especially canines), I believe that working as a dog daycare assistant at Pets R Us will be a cinch for me.