Sentences with phrase «ecstatic vision of»

Another new work, Northern Lights (2017), an ecstatic vision of the Aurora Borealis that suggests the technicolor light displays and drug - induced hallucinations of urban nightclubs.

Chase these heavy family portraits with a loose, ecstatic vision of a surrogate one: Everybody Wants Some, in which Richard Linklater returns to the brotherhood of his college baseball days, emerging with another feature - length party, but also a sneaky study of adulthood coming on fast, like the effects of a giant bong hit.

No small screen, in particular, could do justice to the movie's hypnotic final half - hour, a cosmic brainstorm of indelible images — gnarled branches, spiraling staircases, an ecstatic vision of the void — that earns its near - wordless homage to «2001: A Space Odyssey.»

To be a religious believer is to know that the hungers of the human heart will not find fulfilment without God, but even religious believers benefit from goals short of the ecstatic vision of the divine.

Unapologetically ecstatic visions of nature's flora are rendered with both guts and grace — evoking a personal style which seeks honesty, openness and pleasure.

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It reminds the believer that the vision of God unfolds amidst the splendor of holiness while also pointing toward the way in which the final movement to ecstatic wonder is always grace - filled and joy - laden.

Through Nietzsche's vision of Eternal Recurrence we can sense the ecstatic liberation occasioned by the collapse of the transcendence of Being, by the death of God — and we may witness a similar ecstasy in Rilke and Proust; and, from Nietzsche's portrait of Jesus, theology must learn of the power of an eschatological faith that can liberate the contemporary believer from the inescapable reality of history.

As examples of ecstatic reason we might cite Plato's vision of the Good, Spinoza's intellectual love of God, or Edwards's and Backus's love of Being and all beings.12

Despite those critics who cite this fragment of Blake's vision as evidence of a Gnostic hatred of the body, we have only to recall his continual and ecstatic celebration of sexuality and the body to recognize these lines as containing a vision of the regeneration and reversal of a fallen sexuality.

In the face of such a situation imagination can sometimes fuse myth and ecstatic reason to render a new vision, a new sense of direction and goal.

The special kinds of experiences that we would call ecstatic experiences and visions and the like can be mystical, but they need not be.

Such an intuitive or ecstatic insight often possesses a compelling urgency that lends it the character of logical necessity; i.e., at times the vision seems to impress itself upon cognitive awareness with forceful cogency.

There is the sheer giving and ecstatic happiness in being possessed by everlasting love, and concomitantly with this and fusing with it is the joy of possessing God as He is by means of the beatific vision.36

Simon «saw» — God revealed it to him in an ecstatic vision — that the Father had taken his prophet into the eschatological future and had appointed him the Son of Man.

But then Sheehan begins to back away from the idea of a vision: «It was an experience that could have been as dramatic as an ecstatic vision, or as ordinary as reflecting on the meaning of Jesus.»

We have now amongst us a sister whose lot it has been to be favored with sundry gifts of revelation, which she experiences in the Spirit by ecstatic vision amidst the sacred rites of the Lord's Day in the church; she converses with angels, and sometimes even with the Lord; she both sees and hears mysterious communications; some men's hearts she understands, and to them who are in need she distributes remedies.64

Kevin Keller (Director) is beyond ecstatic to finally share his vision of Carrie: The Musical with Riverdale.

His raw, wild colours, which veer dangerously between poetry and vulgarity, make me think of the wet English skies and silk dresses painted by Thomas Gainsborough, the ecstatic suns of JMW Turner and the visions of William Blake.

Anyone can see that the early Russian paintings in this show are a breathtaking escape from the old conventions of figurative painting, or that geometric art in the hands of great Latin American pioneers such as Oiticica and Lygia Pape is an escape from the ancien regime of the west, that their ecstatic floating forms are a vision of freedom.

He begins to make monumental pieces created by literally transforming a number of small - scale watercolors from 1916 - 1918 — pasting large strips of paper around the early watercolors to increase their size and reworking these new compositions into unusually large ecstatic watercolor visions.

Her installations disrupt and reorganize our vision and being in a way that enable us to see, imagine, and be differently — facilitating an embodied, contemplative, and ecstatic alternative to the amnesiac conditions of late capitalism.

The title Pure Pretty Fever lends itself to the sweet pastel colors and his optimistic visions of utopian oasis and wild desert homesteads as well as the ecstatic nature of a vision's production, like hallucinations in a fever dream.

His works typically begin with found footage, layering «viscerally distressed found film strips with provocative images, anarchic visual patterns, dirt, mold and other detritus in a sensuous, even ecstatic, vision of entropy and mortality — inscribed directly onto the film medium.»