Sentences with phrase «epiphany in»

Well... I had a BIG, Humongous forced epiphany in 2010....

You note your epiphany in 1999: He (or she) who tells the best story wins.

Back in the U.S., another 3L was having a similar epiphany in a corporate law context.

«Tracey had this epiphany in front of the Rothko and understood what an artwork can do to you emotionally,» says Clearwater, who recently became director of the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale after leading MOCA for the last 18 years.

The «instant» of the show's title refers to the car accident of Futurist poet F. T. Marinetti, who famously dramatized the crash as a moment of epiphany in his Futurist Manifesto of 1909.

Using maps, pencil lead, globes, old dictionaries and the like, Batle finds inspiration and «epiphany in mundane materials.»

Pollan intertwines history, anecdote, and epiphany in this paradigm - altering view of the mutually beneficial relationships between humans and four plants that have thrived under cultivation and satisfied specific desires: apples and sweetness, tulips and beauty, marijuana and intoxication, potatoes and control.

Copy editor Kara Snow had this epiphany in the 2015 Jaguar F - Type S Coupe recently in the Santa Monica Mountains above L.A.: «When I hit the powerband, which happens seconds after a good stomp on the accelerator, I am pushed back in the pilot seat.

Dr. Papadimitriou: In my study, the participants reported a sort of epiphany in which the qualitative nature of science emerged.

We have entered a post-genomic era in which we yearn to create some kind of bio-scientifically engineered paradise where all sentient life can languish in some bovine stupor, in some chemically altered pseudo reality stage - managed by transnational psychotropic drug dealers who offer to chemically separate us from the emotional squalor of our Precambrian brain through a vast array of designer lifestyle drugs, where we sit in uninterrupted epiphanic bliss at the feet of a statue of a Quarter Pounder in some prosaic cobblestone courtyard at a secluded Ronald McDonald House next to an 18 - hole golf course, or in some kind of edenic trans - human extended epiphany in a university seminar room overflowing with just the correct mixture of a Leibnizian optimism and Nietzschean Dionysian pessimism.

Remember the visual epiphany in the middle of Jim Jarmusch's Stranger Than Paradise, when John Lurie and Richard Edson visit Eszter Balint in the city sometimes known as «the - mistake - by - the - lake»?

Linklater himself appears at a pinball machine to tell an extended anecdote about author Philip K. Dick and in so doing pinpoints a rare epiphany in cinema in which the face of God appears to highlight His own confusion and lack of geography.

After years in industrial beekeeping, he had an epiphany in 2007 while sitting on an elk path in Montana thinking about the situation: dead bees, missing bees, mites thriving on chemical strips meant to kill them.

Earthrise was an epiphany in space.»

His epochal text, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), is often conceived as the starting point of modern astronomy, as well as a central and defining epiphany in the history of all science.

In 2007 he was still casting about for a novel resource — one that contained so much power it would cost less than coal — when he had an epiphany in midair.

The real epiphany in this recipe is dressing roasted vegetables after they come out of the oven.

National Socialism especially, as the Hungarian Catholic philosopher Aurel Kolnai wrote in 1950, sought to negate «Christian civilization as such,» scripting a dark epiphany in which man «wrenched himself free from Christianity and construed the automatic workings of his fallen nature into a mirage of self «made heaven.»

Steele describes colorfully (if one may be permitted the term) his own epiphany in discovering his black manhood and power in exploiting white guilt.

I wasn't raised in a Christian family, but had an epiphany in my early 30's which I found was answered by going to church.

Hence William Blake's epiphany in his Auguries of Innocence»:

In fact, in the New Testament, the divine epiphany in Christ is represented in terms of temporal categories: his incarnation or birth, his life, passion, death and rebirth or resurrection.

Yet that metaphor of the mirror is too Platonic, because God's epiphany in the world is not through mere surface shadows, but is in the coming to be, development, and passing away to make room for novelty of primary natural units, each of which truly exists and acts in its own right and according to its own nature and structure for its time, and interacts with other units in a process of mutual actualization and eventual replacement.

The chair of the Calgary - based Famous 5 Foundation applauded Carney's epiphany in London, while regretting the legacy he left on Canada's circulating currency.

You said you had an epiphany in interviewing some of these former steel workers — that as a woman of color, you could empathize with middle - aged white men.

That's because Modern Man has found so many epiphanies in Flaubert, Rilke, Mallarmé, Rimbaud, Joyce, and all those other last flowers of the Ironic Age.

My quest for delicious homemade gluten free churros has had it's moments of complete and utter failure as well as recipe epiphanies in the way of street fair style fried donuts.

Speakers addressed circumstances necessary to produce a cultural environment that nurtures creativity; the role of epiphanies in the creative thinking process; and how science can contribute to enhanced creativity.

In some ways, Lucy represents the point at which both roles converge, and Johansson has the unusually difficult job here of subtly conveying her character's observations, reactions and eventual epiphanies in a mostly deadpan, flattened - out register that becomes only more subdued as the film progresses.

For the May giveaway, I am giving away a copy of my friend and former colleague Robert K. Elder's book: «The Film That Changed My Life: 30 Directors on Their Epiphanies in the Dark.»

Director Rian Johnson introduces the film «Under The Skin» as part of the BFI Screen Epiphanies in partership with American Express at The BFI Southbank on July 27, 2015 in London, England.

Damon Wise from the BFI talks to director Rian Johnson, who introduces the film «Under The Skin'that inspired him, as part of the BFI Screen Epiphanies in partership with American Express at The BFI Southbank on July 27, 2015 in... More

Damon Wise (R) from the BFI talks to director Rian Johnson, who introduces the film «Under The Skin'that inspired him, as part of the BFI Screen Epiphanies in partership with American Express at The BFI Southbank on July 27, 2015 in... More

Director Rian Johnson attends a screening of the film «Under The Skin» as part of the BFI Screen Epiphanies in partership with American Express at The BFI Southbank on July 27, 2015 in London, England.

After each of the epiphanies in Stephen Hero, Joyce has to crank up and get the narrative moving all over again.

I suspect smaller French cities get skipped over on the way to the countryside, where people seek life - affirming epiphanies in a quaint, Provençal setting or for suntans on the southern beaches.

This was one of my very first epiphanies in regard to the IPCC numbers.

melissa, i turned 40 in june, and i must say, i too roll around epiphanies in my head almost daily:) if this is a «mid life crises»... i say, bring it ON!

Not exact matches

This smoothie was, in fact, a fruit - flavored epiphany: I had no liquid assets, had maxed out my credit cards, and had put everything I had into the new company.

Gravity was flooded with stories from ecstatic workers elsewhere who suddenly got raises from converted bosses who tossed them out like Scrooge after his epiphany — even, in one case, at an apparel factory in Vietnam.

«One day I had an epiphany — what if you married ballistic tech with furniture to make shields in the public space?»

The epiphany, as McClurg described it, was that Dell not only had to transform the company from a traditional computer seller into an IT services company, but that security would play a key role in that metamorphosis.

In recent years, the broader business world has experienced a similar epiphany about the power of design to enrich products and experiences, connect with customers, and help companies accelerate growth.

«What a lot of my peers don't know is that in that process, Michael woke up one night and had an epiphany.»

It's 2011, and I'm in Los Angeles sitting in the living room of a mentor of mine, actor Andy McPhee, and I have an epiphany --

But before all that came his pot - shop epiphany, and before the epiphany he was just a California dude with a brand - new medical marijuana card burning a hole in his pocket.

One winter day in 2010, the Montreal couple were watching hockey and chatting with friends on Facebook about the game, when suddenly Maisonnave had an epiphany.

Many hours spent in front of the console led to an epiphany that turned into a career: «Someone makes this, so this must be a job.»

That's why their epiphanies and visions often sound so simple, in a «Why didn't I think of that?»

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