Sentences with phrase «ecstatic moments of»

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?

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.

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

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We transcend ordinary life, as it were, in moments of imaginative, ecstatic insight, sometimes brought on by the power of nature, and sometimes by the power of love, or even by the power of what is ugly or evil.

Experience must be interpreted, otherwise «myth and faith would perish the moment that the innocence of the ecstatic passes away.»

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.

At the other extreme are those moments of ecstatic joy which are the zenith in our quest for the good life.

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.

Perhaps the most heavily significant moment of the Manchester United Fulham game came when United went ahead at 2 - 1 and David Moyes in his ecstatic relief went dancing on to the field in his joy.

My dilemma is this: On learning of her pregnancy I was ecstatic, truly it was the happiest moment of my life.

One of the major effects of pregnancy hormones is experiencing mood swings; you could be ecstatic one moment with the growing life within you, while the next moment you may want to burst into tears at the slightest thing.

If you go in with focus and intention, you can even make eating a piece of chocolate an ecstatic act as opposed to something you do while texting that becomes one fleeting moment of pleasure lost in other moments.

Opening to the body in each moment, opening to passion, opening to pleasure, makes life itself ecstatic and so the divisions between your sexual life and the rest of your life melt away.

Part of me is ecstatic to relax and reset, while a big part of me is getting wistful about my last moments with this incredible group of kids.

I love the way Blame captures the kaleidoscopic emotional experience of being a teenage girl, one moment ecstatic and exuberant, the next dreamy and dark, the next angry and despairing.

But when a former prison buddy informs Bronson, «You just pissed on a gypsy on the middle of fucking nowhere,» it pretty much sums up the film: Moments of ecstatic brutality that never amount to anything outside their own existence.

Scenes of bonding between Halley and Moonee, in which they dance together on a lawn with the sun flickering on their faces, are constructed as ecstatic or madcap interludes and rarely register as meaningfully expressive moments.

, but it is one of the few moments when Elizabeth: The Golden Age puts aside its pretensions and becomes a brilliantly ecstatic piece of kitsch.

Speaking as someone that has never seen the musical on stage, or who went into this film with any preconceived notions of how it should or shouldn't be, my personal take on Rent is that it is an interesting, ambitious, but somewhat flawed endeavor that has enough good moments to recommend, but enough weaker elements to keep me from becoming ecstatic over it.

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

I admire his harsh, humiliating honesty, and I love the moments of beauty so ecstatic they feel almost unhinged.

And when the moment arrives for your nuggets to fly into the arms of their ecstatic new families, you will no doubt shed a tear... but it will be the happiest good - bye you could ever imagine.

If you don't like it, can you at least stop complaining about it and let those of us who are ecstatic enjoy the moment please?

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.

While many of the themes of his work are dark, such as Assassination of Malcolm X, 1981, his approach was to give historical moments a mystical, symbolic and ecstatic quality.

McGinley's elaborate and rigorous process of photo - making creates moments of breathtaking beauty: naked feral kids poised in ecstatic abandon.

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.

These shots of Vicious, culled by Prince from mass media sources, show the musician in various moments of punk rock ecstasy, as well as in states of visible deterioration — in one he is seen in the ecstatic thralls of an on - stage performance, while in another he appears catatonic, lying on the ground in a presumably drug - induced stupor with microphone held limply in one hand.