Sentences with phrase «desire for contemplation»

I want to communicate only to the extent that the painting will serve to induce or intensify the viewer's natural desire for contemplation without the benefit of a guiding principle.

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This being so, the more I consider the fundamental question of the future of the earth, the more it appears to me that the generative principle of its unification is finally to be sought, not in the sole contemplation of a single Truth or in the sole desire for a single Thing, but in the common attraction exercised by a single Being.
A contemplation of our species» desire for self - destruction, Garland's latest is a mind - bending, transcendent work that marvels at the beauty that can be born out desolation.
Thoughts such as wishes for another's misfortune, contemplations of self - harm, and taboo fantasies of sexual desires arrive unannounced, and worse, carry an allure to them.
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