Sentences with phrase «discordant feeling»

He says, «Progress is founded upon the experience of discordant feeling.»

The clash of different prehensions of the actual occasions cause destructiveness and discordant feelings.

(Adventures of Ideas, New York: The Free Press, 1967, 257) These discordant feelings, in themselves destructive and evil, make a contribution by producing «the positive feeling of a quick shift of aim from the tameness of outworn perfection to some other ideal with its freshness still upon it.»

Progress, in God's eye, is based upon the experience of discordant feelings.

The failure to realize a higher form of perfection is preferable for Whitehead: «Progress is founded upon the experience of discordant feelings.

Not exact matches

Therefore, to the qualities already mentioned, I would add the following generic qualities: (a) an expansive quality associated with the feelings of subjectivity; (b) a retrogressive or inertial quality inherent in the conformal feature of simple causal feelings; and (c) a discordant quality present within the communal character of transmuted physical feelings.

When this occurs, the inherently self - surpassing quality of the feelings of subjectivity, which may either overreach themselves in an expansive quality that knows no bounds or else become blocked by retrogressive and discordant tendencies, instead forms the basis for the religious mode of experience «at the width where the «self» has been lost, and interest has been transferred to coordinations wider than personality» (AI 368).

When we have deduced what we deduce by our reason and from study of visible nature, and then read what we read in His inspired word, and find the two apparently discordant, this is the feeling I think we ought to have on our minds» not an impatience to do what is beyond our powers, to weigh evidence, sum up, balance, decide, and reconcile, to arbitrate between the two voices of God» but a sense of the utter nothingness of worms such as we are; of our plain and absolute incapacity to contemplate things as they really are; a perception of our emptiness, before the great Vision of God....

Anderson's sense of music as an instrument to create mood is very evident here, perhaps a little too much, as he blends in beautiful music when Barry is feeling love or happiness, and discordant cacophony when his mind is perplexed with frustration, fear or anxiety.

She's fine, but the character is so negative and undermining, even as the film seems to be on her side, and something about that feels discordant.

Yet there's something just off about the movie, something discordant or out of balance, and the biggest evidence of this is that the funniest stuff doesn't grow naturally from the story or characters, but feels appended, thrown on as afterthought, like a condiment, to add a little flavor.

This didn't indicate the LeBaron GTS's inherently superior driving dynamics; instead, it showed how American cars could score high on smooth roads while feeling discordant in real - world conditions.

The show itself ambitiously aims to be many things at once «figurative and abstract, humorous and serious, historical and contemporary «but it feels crowded and thematically discordant at times.

Similar works feel suffocated, and dissimilar ones look discordant.

Touching on the Freudian conception of «unheimlich,» or the uncanny feeling of something that is familiar yet discordant, Park illuminated his lengthy exploration of the dissonance of Korean identity, the notion of home in light of his country's divisive history, and the politics of the Korean War.