Unapologetically
ecstatic visions of nature's flora are rendered with both guts and grace — evoking a personal style which seeks honesty, openness and pleasure.
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.
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.»
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.
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.
Not exact matches
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.»