Sentences with phrase «exaltation of»

I tweet to encourage thoughtfulness about God & exaltation of Him.

I tweet to encourage thoughtfulness about God & exaltation of Him.

Among the romantics, who frequently sought insight and inspiration in exotic places, terrifying emotional states, and the sublime exaltation of nature, Delacroix located this experiential narrative within the act of painting itself — specifically, within the optics of illuminations zone of greatest chromatic activity: half - light.

In the midst of the formulation of dynamic new spatial concepts and the exaltation of the creative process as an occasion for free and sovereign action, there is nonetheless a sobering strain of desperation and violence in the new work.

Praise and hate coexist here; there is the exaltation of positive forces of resistance and of a valuable cultural legacy, but there is also inconformity in relation to the disregard from part of the state and society and to the incapacity to solve basic problems.

Inspired by historical sources as varied as the Italian futurists (for their interdisciplinary and offbeat interpretations of industrial development) and folk or outsider artists native to the American South (for their exaltation of the amateur aesthetic and embrace of the everyday), Blackwell's artworks address such contemporary themes as environmentalism, excess, utility, and (re) use with a fresh and playful sense of experimentation.

The Beat Generation was closely linked with artists of Abstract Expressionism who also broke with tradition and social norms in an exaltation of unfettered personal expression.

, where you can admire Monet's Water Lilies, Renoir's The Seine at Chatou and a variety of other masterpieces, including the seven murals which make up Edward Steichen's In Exaltation of Flowers, on view together for the first time in more than a century.

The three artists worked closely together in the 1930s and 40s, and as Karmel notes, all «[began] with the sublime melancholy of metaphysical painting, and [transformed] it into the sublime exaltation of the nineteenth - century Romantic landscape, expressed in the language of abstraction.»

It is not in the symbol, nor in interpretation nor in an exaltation of motive, it is not in history.

It speaks of the exaltation of the human spirit, of our finer instincts and loftier ambitions, of the ability of the soul to soar and sing.

European Romanticism, a movement that took place from about 1800 to 1850, emphasized individualism, intense emotion, and the exaltation of nature and the pre-industrial past.

Edward Steichen: In Exaltation of Flowers Through May 13, 2018 Rachofsky Quadrant Gallery, DMA Organized

This presentation of Edward J. Steichen: In Exaltation of Flowers represents a two - phase project conducted by the Conservation and Curatorial departments of the Dallas Museum of Art.

The exaltation of Brazilian has been in evidence across New York's galleries in recent months.

Vaisman's paintings both reflect and represent this situation, themselves paying homage to the exaltation of the (empty) art object, the object of substitute pleasure.

These trends ramified in art as the return of the figure via painters like David Salle and Eric Fischl, Julian Schnabel's audacious neo-expressionism (he painted on broken dishes), and the exaltation of grown - up toys and commercial polish.

She has contributed to, and been written about, in several anthologies of literary criticism including: The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind (Fence Books, 2015); The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip - Hop (Haymarket Books, 2015); What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America (University of Alabama Press, 2015); The & Now Awards 3: The Best Innovative Writing (Northwestern University Press, 2015); I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing By Women (Les Figues Pess, 2012); eco language reader (Portable Press at Yo - Yo Labs and Nightboat Books, 2010); American Women Poets in the 21st Century (Wesleyan University Press, 2002); and An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art (University of Michigan Press, 2002).

He gravitated toward the human aspects that many felt modernism lacked in its dogmatic exaltation of machined mass products intended for anonymous consumers.

John with his arm thrown around Ella's shoulder, his face and eyes lit with the exaltation of the gloriously drunk, Lilly crying in her arms, what Ella knew to be her own much younger face blurred in movement as it turned toward Lilly's cries at the exact moment of the camera's looking.

He hit the nail on the head in accosting this exaltation of self - esteem in American education.

The Focus on Time's Up: From the all - black dress code in protest of sexual harassment — which nearly everyone in attendance followed — to the widespread exaltation of the Time's Up initiative to each of the actresses who walked the red carpet with an activist as their date, this year's Globes was about so much more than handing out trophies.

In his essay «Elio's Education,» scholar D. A. Miller has placed it on a continuum of Mainstream Gay Movies (or MGMs) with Maurice (1987), Brokeback, and even Moonlight (2016) for its alleged aestheticization of gay male sexuality: in other words its elevation and exaltation of same - sex desire for its beauty, with the implicit goal of erotically neutering and normalizing it for straight audiences.

What seems more problematic is the virtual exaltation of Dirty Harry vigilantism, the storm trooper mentality and behavior on Nolte's part that the film breezily takes for granted...

But in some environments, the excessive exaltation of scholarship can lead to a kind of intellectual snobbery.

He accepts the early tradition that various disciples had visionary experiences, most probably located in Galilee, and that these experiences led to the founding of «a community which preached the resurrection and exaltation of Jesus as the Messiah and / or the Son of Man among their Jewish contemporaries.»

The false exaltation of a closed and impervious independence is one of the main blocks today to human fulfilment.

The same exaltation of false freedom used to justify abortion — the liberty to redefine the very nature of the human person — is now at work in the revolution of same - sex marriage.

The reduction of the traditional concept of human nature was at the heart of the nominalist rationalism which characterised the Enlightenment, with roots at least as far back as the Reformation's exaltation of the individual and of fideism.

Today the young left cherish their local chapters, communes, or particular factions, in which everyone has a voice and criticism is valued, like early Lenin's love for the soviets and Robespierre's exaltation of the local societies of French towns and cities.

I hope I am right in thinking that you have enjoyed a direct experience of God - an experience of communion with the Central Spirit of Things and have known what intensity of joy and exaltation of spirit that mystical experience brings.

At times an even masochistic exaltation of suffering has been espoused as the most authentic form of spirituality.

Under the influence of scientism, the Enlightenment's exaltation of reason, modern philosophy and the suspicions cast by social science many intelligent people today suspect that religious symbols are no more than psychic or social «projections.»

In the resurrection and exaltation of Jesus, God was already «taking his great power» and was about to reign, finally and forever, over that part of his universal Kingdom which had rebelled against his wise and just rule.

There is no longer any need to disengage the exaltation of personality from the quest for cosmic purpose.

This past year, when the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross coincided with Yom Kippur (the last time was 1899, the year of Chagall's bar mitzvah, when, he tells us, he discovered he was an artist), Chagall's work acquired for me an added resonance.

One element in Joachim's thought was exaltation of the poor.

The death and heavenly exaltation of Jesus as Lord has inaugurated this new age.

The Inquisitor eventually comes to visit him in his cell, mocks him, berates him, denounces him for his failure and the failure of the ideas of love [167] and servanthood and the exaltation of human freedom that he brought.

Mixed with this exaltation of the moral sensibilities there is also an ardor of sacrifice, for the beloved deity's sake, of everything unworthy of him.

When Bishop William Paley [1743 - 1805] wrote his Natural Theology, he intended his work to be an exaltation of God.

The social upheaval of May 1968, its rejection of morality and authority, its radical exaltation of individual freedom and the fast secularisation process that followed precipitated the transition of Western societies to the non-repressive civilization advocated by Herbert Marcuse, the postmodern father of the Western cultural revolution.

Most of all, the great moment of the resurrection in Mark ends not in the exaltation of the Messiah, but in the fleeing of the first resurrection witnesses, «for they were terrified» (Mk 16, 8).

Constantly attempting, as he tells us, to bracket from his scientific method of investigation «faith - knowledge» and to «prescind» from the teachings of the church, he nevertheless» in as naive a fashion as one can imagine» fails to bracket the «knowledge» he has imbibed from the political culture around him, knowledge which assures him that our society has been mistaken in its exaltation of the individual.

Its suggestion that our biosphere is merely so much waste matter and the human body, at best, a rather unsatisfactory ship in which the intellect has to sail, expresses an unrealistic, mindless exaltation of that intellect — narrowly conceived as searching for facts — and a corresponding contempt for natural feeling....

The exaltation of war in male culture has typically been accompanied by a strident sexism.

The first action of Yahweh is the exaltation of the Temple Mount.

In a time of the triumph of doubletalk, the substitution of statistics for facts, the exaltation of the medium over the message, and the erosion of a sense of the future, the role of the imagination and its uses in our common life, particularly religion, needs our continuing attention.

This exaltation of Church or of Christianity leads us then to an effort not to reconcile men with God or to redirect their love and ours toward God and the neighbor but rather to convert them to Christianity.

In his History of the Synoptic Tradition, we find him accepting an authentic «such sayings as arise from the exaltation of an eschatological mood», oor, «sayings which demand a new disposition of mine», 49.