Sentences with phrase «epiphany while»

You may get your next epiphany while brushing your teeth or pulling out weeds.

This led to a kind of epiphany while looking at the minimalist paintings of Agnes Martin at Dia: Beacon in Beacon, N.Y. «Beneath her tiny grids there was another tiny grid — the weave of the canvas,» he said.

But in 1957, he had an epiphany while staying with the painter Larry Rivers in Southampton, N.Y. Using two fenders he pulled from a 1929 Ford rusting on Mr. Rivers's property, he made a sculpture by running over the pieces repeatedly with a truck to bend them the way he wanted, then he fitted them together almost like puzzle pieces.

History of the breed Hubert, the son of the Duc de Gienne, was a spoilt, rich young man, who had an epiphany while hunting, and subsequently became the abbot of a large monastery.

She has an epiphany while watching a man don a massive diving suit: she is destined to be a diver.

I recently had an epiphany while listening to Melissa Katz, a wonderful student activist from New Jersey, talk about corporate education reform on the radio.

It's funny htat you had your epiphany while driving in the car... I also get crazy ideas during the strangest times.

But years later when I was teaching at Oxford, I had an epiphany while watching the rowing teams out on the river early one morning.

Many will have reached their own epiphany while in week three of pregnancy after discovering that the sperm and egg union resulted in a chromosomal human blueprint for their future babies.

Beddia had his first pizza epiphany while he was working at the Hitachino brewery in Japan in 2007.

For Sale by Owner Leslie Vander Baan had her entrepreneurial epiphany while navigating the difficult task of selling a car on her own.

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While checking out the house's outdoor garden, he says, «I had this epiphany: I love having access to this amazing food, in my backyard, that I can harvest in my boxers.

In 2012, after years of helping millions of individual investors understand the macro-economy and investment markets, and while assisting his institutional clients in positioning their portfolios to take advantage of these macro-trends, John had something of an epiphany:

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.

The Creator is on the left and is moving downward toward Jerusalem in his final manifestation as Satan, while Jerusalem, or the apocalyptic epiphany of Christ, appears as a naked female form moving upward toward Satan.

It was in a comedy club, while giving the eulogy for a friend who had committed suicide, that Nadia Bolz - Weber experienced her epiphany.

It is precisely at this point that I must ask you, precisely what action were you engaged in — existentially — while you sat there, having your epiphany?

While rejecting anthropomorphism, major traditions of Islamic thought — within and without the domain of mysticism — have given such texts a profoundly theomorphic explication, especially in conjunction with the epiphany of God's names in creation.

Thus his vision, beginning with man accepting, affirming, even willing the death of God in a radical sense, ends with man willing to participate in the utter desolation of the secular or the profane, willing to undergo the discipline of darkness, the dark night of the soul (here Altizer's affinity with the religious existentialists, who may not have God but who don't at all like not having him, is clearest), while the possibility of a new epiphany of the sacred, a rebirth of the possibility of having God once more is awaited.

I had an epiphany about soup a few years ago while reading I Know How to Cook.

I just had this kind of epiphany, although maybe that's not quite the right word because I think it had been coming on for a while and I just didn't realize.

While the hankie was still tracing its majestic yellow arc, the rookie back judge had a terrible epiphany: That isn't pass interference in the NFL.

While this may sound believable, those of us viewing YouTube before and during this grand epiphany were deluged with Faso's pro-tax bill ads.

BACKGROUND: In 1971, while contemplating the hamburger he was eating, American chemist Paul Lauterbur had an epiphany about how to use a magnetic field and radio waves to create images of living tissues.

In 2006 he had an epiphany of sorts while sitting in a meeting in Japan, jet - lagged from his trip.

Masse's epiphany came while poring over Hawaiian oral histories regarding the goddess Pele and wondering what they might reveal about the lava flows that episodically destroy human settlements and create new tracts of land.

It was only later that I changed my mind — a gradual, nay, ineffable process I should probably describe, for the sake of Beauty, as an epiphany at the end of a pier in Santa Monica while watching the sun go down through my Ray - Bans.

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.

Just as we are susceptible to change during the 90 minutes or so we spend on our mat, the same breakthroughs and epiphanies can awaken your soul while under the influence of art.

While the epiphany that life can be unjust comes with experience, my mom's encouraging words to start somewhere and never stop fighting for what I cared about is how I started writing for the Everygirl and why my newfound happiness has become so apparent.

While the show itself could be a bit scatterbrained in attempting to tackle so many ideas and issues all at once, her ultimate, hilariously ordinary epiphany from all of it is the best end - cap her journey could have asked for.

As Chris Terrio's screenplay tells it, Mendez's epiphany occurred while watching a late - night rerun of Battle for the Planet of the Apes.

Composer John Williams emphasizes many a character epiphany with the sounds of a church pipe organ while Spielberg remarkably juxtaposes light and shadow to hauntingly authenticate Agatha's notion that «sometimes to see the light, you have to risk the dark.»

The narrator knows all along, while the reader experiences the epiphany at the end of the story.

It was while working with second graders that Fryers says he experienced a tech - based epiphany: «touch tablets and great apps» — like Book Creator — «can really empower students to do things they wouldn't have been able to do independently,» he says.

It was while I was playing Mario Kart 8 Deluxe in handheld mode when I suddenly had my epiphany and realised the Switch was a big deal.

(She had an epiphany about the nature of space, she has said, while performing an exercise conceived by Nauman: lie on the floor for half an hour and imagine sinking into it.)

I thought of John Keats, stunned by the epiphany of «negative capability» while writing a letter in 1817, describing the phenomenon as «when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.»

Historian and curator Miwon Kwon speaks with artist Mark Dion about the epiphany he had while taking a dump in the rain forest, and how it lead to a brand new way of making work about the natural world.

while in college that she had an epiphany.

While I was restoring it, I had an epiphany».

Writing in The New York Review of Books, Joyce Carol Oates described the book as «a novel of ideas, a compendium of epiphanies, paradoxes, and riddles clearly designed to be read slowly and meditatively... this is a unique work of fiction bearing witness to much that is unspeakable in human relationships as in international relations, while it is also unknowable.»

What has not been mentioned is that the «Saul - into - Paul conversion theory», published by Elaine de Kooning in Art News in 1958, was not set in Willem de Kooning's studio and did not mention a «Bell - Opticon», unlike her account of 1962.13 Additionally, while the 1958 account's introduction dramatised Kline's breakthrough to abstraction as a «transformation of consciousness», or a «revelation» of Biblical proportions, invoking the example of «Saul of Tarsus outside the walls of Damascus when he saw a «great light»», the description of Kline's technical and conceptual breakthrough in this account nevertheless resembled previous accounts of Kline's development in its gradualness, uneventfulness and thoughtfulness.14 The breakthrough that Elaine de Kooning first recounted was a product of sustained technical experimentation and logical thought on Kline's part, rather than accident or epiphany: «Still involved, in 1950, with elements of representation, he began to whip out small brushes of figures, trains, horses, landscapes, buildings, using only black paint.

After winning this year's Turner Prize, the acclaimed and very recondite Helen Marten shared an epiphany she had while watching the torrents of visitors view her work at the Tate — a far larger and broader audience than she had previously experienced.

I had an epiphany the other day: While skeptics and catastrophists debate the impact of CO2 on future temperatures, to a large extent we are arguing about the wrong thing.

While therapy that works will often find a person experiencing a moment (or moments) of epiphany, these, alone are not enough.