Sentences with phrase «effaces what»

To describe a work as an autobiography merely because of the first - person pronoun effaces what distinguishes autobiography: the belief in the existence of a stable self and the meaningfulness of human action.

That does not efface what I have written just because I am not adding anything to it.

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And further, what would it mean if we thought our moral sensibilities could be completely effaced?

Our Lord, burden us not with what we have not the strength to bear; and efface our sins, and grant us forgiveness and have mercy on us; Thou art our Master; so help us Thou against the disbelieving people.

What allowed Jesus to attract to himself so many of those lacking social or religious credentials is his self - effacing desire to exist alongside of them rather than above them.

My midwife got to the house first and we talked about what was possibly going on, and I went ahead and had her check me, and I was at a 3, 50 % effaced, and very squishy.

Hofstadter: Yeah, well what I remember is he came to pick me up at the train station, and he was very, very sweet, very kind, very gentle and very humble, and his sense of humor came out very quickly and it was a self - effacing sense of humor.

And so «While We're Young» is essentially a riff on Murphy's «I'm Losing My Edge,» his super witty and self - effacing dance single about a hipster fearing his creeping obsolescence as a newer, more savvy, more wired - in generation redefines what's cool.

You never quite know what Félicité is thinking, because even in her wise, self - effacing love for other people, she always seems to be keeping a secret of her own.

Wakanda puts up a literal front that effaces its true beauty; what appears impoverished is, in fact, the seat of technological advancement.

What, then, is at stake when art adopts words — or effaces them?

Of course there's other esoteric and interesting «hows,» but to have the audacity to put forth a «what» that you have invented is to take a particular position in relation to the wide visibility of methods that, at the very least, conditionalize if not efface artistic agency.

Berkenblit may paint over charcoal or over calico, ever mindful of what she exposes or effaces.

Two free standing display case works employ optical films to simultaneously efface the details of the objects beneath and generate iconic silhouettes — a process that can be seen as the delamination of the specificity of the object to reveal what embedded information might be maintained.

Postmodernism rejects the distinction between high culture and mass or popular culture, tends to efface the boundary between art and everyday life; and that refuses to recognise any single style or definition of what art should be.

Looking back at John Christian's introduction to the book, where he cogently explains the selection of the exhibition with such a self - effacing exposure of his encyclopaedic knowledge of the subject, I am reminded of what a colossal job he did to bring this study to fruition.

In engaging history, the painting complicates the question of time — what awaits this young man is much more relevant than his present; in fact it effaces it.

The reason they evince «climate skepticism» in responding to survey items on «belief in» human - caused global warming is that those items aren't measuring what people know; they are measuring «who they are, whose side they are on,» in a mean, illiberal, collective - knowledge - vitiating, individual - reason - effacing cultural status competition.

A moment later she'd taken the folder out again and was shuffling through the pages once more, not seeing what was on them, hoping perhaps that the words would be magically effaced, that at some imminent stroke this would all come to nothing.

It is a dictatorship, a banana republic dictatorship at its finest, yet most Realtors do not even realize what a bad, nonrepresentative, top - down, Soviet style rolling oligarchical band of in - house, self - effacing, deluded, south - facing elitists controls their communal fate.