Sentences with phrase «drawn from ordinary life»

Michael Craig - Martin: Drawings includes more than 30 drawings of subjects drawn from ordinary life, which he portrays using a mechanical line.

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The recognition of the parables as being drawn from the daily experiences of the peasant life, in the first century Palestine, 150 lays stress on the close connection between ordinary day - to - day experiences in life and the message concerning the divine rule.

The ordinary Christian in one of the mainline churches, more inclined to look to the Bible for directions for living than concerned with problems of textual criticism, is apt to draw from them only an injunction to fidelity and perhaps a warning to be ready to die, since death may overtake one at any moment.

An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).

Drawing on examples from the past and present, David Parish explains why our ordinary lives are important... More

Pavan Sangria Challenge entrants are challenged to draw inspiration from their dream destination using original ingredients local to their chosen locale and an individual twist on traditional sangria that epitomizes the good life, vacation, travel and the longing to escape the ordinary.

The Last Dead Girl, the prequel to Harry Dolan's critically acclaimed Bad Things Happen, plucks an ordinary guy from an ordinary life and draws him into an amateur investigation of his lover's death, an investigation discouraged in no uncertain terms by the cop assigned to the murder.

The target of a professional assassin, he and those around him are drawn into a trap from which few will walk away.Who will live and who will die?John Wesley Tucker is neither an ordinary detective nor an ordinary man.

The artist — popular both within and beyond the art world for his darkly subversive, laugh - out - loud drawings and sculptures — takes his place alongside Tino Sehgal, whose Tate Modern Turbine Hall piece last summer saw performers talking to gallery - goers, telling them intimate stories from their own lives; Laure Prouvost, the French - born, London - based maker of warmly mischievous installations and films; and Lynette Yiadom - Boakye, whose apparently traditional portraits of ordinary sitters turn out to be fabrications drawn from her own imagination.