Sentences with phrase «divine benevolence»
They assumed a divine benevolence and purpose.
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The title of Spike Lee's war drama, based on the novel by James McBride, suggests a war miracle movie where all are saved by kindness or luck or divine intervention, but there is no such otherworldly benevolence here, merely the sacrifice of four black servicemen — Buffalo Soldiers — to protect the folks of a small mountain village in Tuscany surrounded by the Germans.
In his description of a self - portrait, (written some thirty - seven years ago), he formulated an observation that might equally be applied to the entire oeuvre: «the photographer has caught the boy's hand... at just the right degree of openness, the right density of abandonment: a few millimetres more or less and the divined body would no longer have been offered with benevolence... the photographer has found the right moment, the Kairos of desire.»