Sentences with phrase «ecstatic moment»

And after we returned to the savannahs and abandoned the trees, did we long for those great graceful leaps and ecstatic moments of weightlessness in the shafts of sunlight of the forest roof?

Ambiguity can be partially transcended most of the time, and fully transcended in certain ecstatic moments in which the awareness of being in loving union with all life blots out all alienation.

The film is full of quietly ecstatic moments like this, which perfectly set the timbre.

For that ecstatic moment for which we, in our several ways, so avidly search — or having once gained, try constantly to recapture — is in fact to be found in the simplest, most ordinary and «trivial» events and objects of our everyday lives.

For us the ecstatic moment, toward which in so many ways we so earnestly strive, is to be found where the term itself literally suggests it is to be found: in ecstasis, standing outside, going beyond, being beside oneself.

We need to sense what Wallace Stevens has called «engulfing moments» — ecstatic moments, if you will — when we stand outside ourselves and are renewed in the authority of our vocation.

This applies not only to ecstatic moments but also to the plodding discipline.

The reasoning associated with those events can only experience and seek; for nothing that occurs in our ecstatic moments can be manipulated or controlled.

There are several ways out of this conundrum, and some of them may well involve new compromises which seem unlikely in this ecstatic moment, but which may come about, all the same.

Most of the artists coming out of a holiness - pentecostal ethos were divided souls, split between the focus on holiness of behavior and the ecstatic moments of congregational worship.

Just as each individual must arrive at his nadir of exhausted possibilities, at which point of death he is united to God, so also that portion of the human race which has achieved its historical limit must now find death and life in an ecstatic moment of self - forgetfulness.

What an ecstatic moment it was for me when Jacob, who was lying on the bed with me nursing, pulled himself up to a sitting position, frowned long and hard at the shield clinging to my breast, and peeled it off.

Albany Common Council President Helen Desfosses has an ecstatic moment...

Thor's «He's a friend from work» has already been shown to the audience but honestly, had they kept it under wraps, it would have been an ecstatic moment in the theater.

A novice middle school teacher, fresh from experiencing an ecstatic moment of student learning, burst into the teachers» room to share her news.

Once these are planted, you'll need to water the shoots every day until finally, in one ecstatic moment, you wake up to find a squat cabbage, or a lanky runner bean outside your door.

A veritable escape from reality, Mandy Greer's current exhibition, «The Ecstatic Moment» at the Hudson River Museum, immerses the viewer in all of Greer's diverse artistic practices at once.

A blonde ingenue type, played by the actress Elizabeth Banks, watches a crowd thoughtfully through a window and then, in an ecstatic moment, joins it - only to end up in a Day of the Locust - style mob.