Sentences with phrase «feeling of affinity»

By matching their behaviour and energy levels, you can subtly create a feeling of affinity.

Not exact matches

Because of that, Dunbar feels we have different layers or slices of friends: One or two truly best friends (like your significant other and maybe one other person), then maybe 10 people with whom we have «great affinity» and interact with frequently, and then all sorts of other people we're friendly with but who aren't actually friends.

Not only do they make you feel something, they encourage you to believe in something and hold it up as worthy of affinity and even loyalty.

But even the more conservative wings of the Wesleyan tradition (which because of their basically orthodox stance and their commitment to a «supernatural» articulation of Christian faith, have often felt some affinity with the fundamentalist wing of modem Protestantism) have not been able to find a home in the circles of either modem fundamentalism or more recently in neo-evangelicalism.

Regarding his intellectual affinities, Hartshorne feels himself to be «closest» to Charles Sanders Peirce, Henri Bergson, and A. N. Whitehead.4 He expresses gratitude to his Harvard professors C. I. Lewis and H. M. Sheffer for introducing him to «logical exactitude,» and especially to Professor William Ernest Hocking, his first teacher in philosophical theology, for fresh insights into a philosophically trustworthy vision of God.5 Furthermore, he acknowledges some indebtedness to Josiah Royce, William James, and Ralph Barton Perry, as well as a close kinship to the Russian existentialist Nicolai Berdyaev.6 Nevertheless, Hartshome's philosophy is strikingly similar and most profoundly indebted to that of A. N. Whitehead.

Niebuhr's affinities with Edwards are clear in the final lecture, «Toward the Recovery of Feeling,» which points to the importance of religious emotions for apprehending God.

In face of the threat of Anglican bishops, the Congregationalists drew closer to the Presbyterians, with whom they felt a theological affinity.

Her inspiration had come from the work of a Russian, Dr Igor Charkovsky, who in the 1970's had organised dolphin - assisted births in the Black Sea and felt that the common evolutionary origins of humans and dolphins in water explained a natural affinity.

He was not, however, an Austrian and felt little affinity with Vienna and the rump state of Austria.

As the embodiment of Jewish self - determination, it is inevitable that a very large number of Jewish people will instinctively feel some affinity towards it, no matter how conflicted that may be by its government's actions.

Jeremy does not know my father so I can only presume that because of the much - publicised fact that my father was a Sinn Féin councillor, Jeremy felt that they would share a political affinity and was proposing to use that to ask my father to apply pressure on me.

[80] Turning his attention once more to Parliament, Livingstone attempted to get selected as the Labour candidate for the constituency of Brent East, a place which he felt an «affinity» for and where several friends lived.

I'm looking for my best friend, my lover, my spiritual partner, my back bone, and my soul mate... Is SHE out there??? A woman with whom one has a feeling of deep and natural affinity, love, intimacy, sexuality, spirituality, and compatibility... Is SHE out there??? The one woman who can always...

If you feel shy, or lack the affinity to come up with a compelling essay, don't worry: the site gives you clever ideas for each of these preferences, or alternatively they can be left out too.

Stillman does however feel an affinity with Wes Anderson, director of The Royal Tenenbaums and The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, who is similarly drawn to well - off, eccentric, articulate characters and deadpan wit.

Paul Greengrass felt like a solid choice given that Captain Phillips appeared to be well - liked by everyone, and I thought the Academy might repeat their affinity for more offbeat material by nominating Spike Jonze for Her, but instead Alexander Payne picked up his third nomination and Martin Scorsese, despite certain «controversies» surrounding Wolf of Wall Street, landed his eighth Best Director nod.]

So their special affinity doesn't seem to matter as much as the quality of their material and their particular feeling for it.

I felt an affinity for that kind of investment; recalling my own obsession with records, and subsequently with literature, helped me understand his attraction to machines.

I agree with ylhoff that prejudice is in our DNA to the extent that the evidence suggests that humans have lived in tribal groups for a very long time, and I think most would agree that in order to function in a pack you have to feel an affinity to the group - and, thus, by extension, a distrust of outsiders.

Though she grew up in Philadelphia, Boynton felt an affinity for country music since her childhood days of watching cowboy shows on TV and listening to rockabilly stars like Buddy Holly.

Monks is appalled by Freeboot's violent histrionics and Manson - like affinity for the hidden messages buried within Lennon and McCartney lyrics, yet acknowledges that he hears echoes of his own feelings when Freeboot speaks about the disintegration of workers» rights, the escalating differential between the haves and the have - nots, and the slap - on - the - wrist «justice» doled out in cases of billion - dollar corporate malfeasance.

I think my accounting education has served me better personally (rather than professionally) as I feel we've always had our «ducks in order» b / c of my educational background (and God - given tendencies / affinities.)

Walter Isaacson, author and president of the Aspen Institute, feels a similarly powerful affinity with New Orleans, saying, «I inhale the mixture of humidity and magnolias, and it's like Proust biting into the madeleine.»

When I arrived in the village of Neive, I instantly felt an affinity for it, and wasn't surprised to learn it has been included on a list of the most beautiful villages in Italy.

With each companies weapons looking and feeling completely different you'll soon find yourself with an affinity for a particular brand of gun, creating almost a loyalty of sorts.

You'll have to know a vague idea of each character's «role» in a group (which is fairly obvious once you're at the 50 + hour time mark), you probably need to know how to level artes (which the game does a very nice job of explaining), and knowing how to gem (even only on a very basic level) would probably be helpful, but you by no means have to go into the world of affinity coins to complete the main story assuming you are a player of average skill and ability level, nor do you have to feel the innate need to update your character's equipment every 5 minutes (unless if you're preparing for a boss encounter).

Still, it's enjoyable enough, but it's hard to see anyone feeling a real affinity with Blades of Time's characters and world.

There are some interesting WRPG wrinkles in things like the party member affinities (though something it feels like an «easy mode» of Dragon Age, or something, where it's characters» opinion of you can only go up) and character customization.

He also particularly admires — and feels an affinity with — the drawings of the British artist Colin Self, whose work he only discovered two years ago.

So although American viewers will reflexively relate the streaming brushstrokes in her paintings to New York School painting, or to the work of an American closer to her in age, such as David Reed, she may feel just as much affinity for European practitioners of improvisational painting such as Pierre Soulages, Howard Hodgkin or even Gerhard Richter.

Painting in the genre of Abstract Expressionism, I feel a strong affinity for artists such as Joan Mitchell and Willem De Kooning, whose work also emphasizes action and emotion over ideas.

And the painters who were around at the time: Leon Kossof, Frank Auerbach, people like that, I felt a kind of affinity with.

Though they reacted against the gestural wing of Abstract Expressionism, Noland and Louis felt an affinity with non-gestural, «imagist» branch (e.g., Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko, and, later, Barnett Newman), who all worked on a heroic scale with large fields of color and simple, often unitary, imagery.

Inspired by the assertion of Roland Barthes in La Chambre claire (Camera Lucida)(1980) «I have determined to be guided by the consciousness of my feelings», the works are themed around the idea of emotional affinity.

Another artist with whom Hoyland felt an affinity was Hans Hofmann, one of the least well - known of the American Abstract Expressionists, whose exploitation of the textural possibilities of oil made a strong first impression on Hoyland when Clement Greenberg first introduced Hoyland to him in 1964.

He began to feel a closer affinity to the Transavantgarde who, in reaction to the prevalent mood of conceptual abstraction, advocated the revival of painting and a return to art history.

For example, I feel a great affinity for Victor Hugo and his comprehension of the underworld of suffering.

Pace felt an immediate affinity with Hofmann, who, in turn, viewed Pace as one of his prize pupils.

The show is crowded in places, and many groupings feel arbitrary, more out of necessity rather than any sort of visual or conceptual affinity.

Ranging from Willem de Kooning, Andy Warhol, Bruce Nauman and David Hammons to Steve McQueen, Lorna Simpson, Felix Gonzalez - Torres and Chris Ofili, Encounters and Collisions presents an extraordinary cast of artists who have influenced Ligon or with whom he feels affinity.

She will also discuss the artists she feels an affinity towards in terms of values and working practices including Philip Guston and Louise Bourgeois.

Starting point for Van Eeden's selection is the affinity he feels for certain artists, who, like himself, put a degree of narrative into their work.

The masked face in Self Portrait as the Mother of All Evil is initially disturbing, but this feeling is quickly followed by a sense of affinity, as the awareness that we all wear different masks throughout our lives (indeed, throughout the day) sets in.»

It is probable that women feel a sense of affinity for art made by women.

NYT: «I asked him whether he felt an affinity with the work of Chuck Close, who similarly paints portraits that disclose next to nothing about their subjects.

Henri Matisse is a really foundational artist for me, as is late 1960s American and European conceptual art, certain Arte Povera artists, as well as French and German painting of the 1960s through to the»80s — Yves Klein, Daniel Buren, Martin Barre, Olivier Mosset, Blinky Palermo, Gerhard Richter, Martin Kippenberger, Imi Knoebel, Sigmar Polke — not to mention many non-art practices, such as design, writing and music... I haven't ever really felt or even understood the need to situate myself in any lineage, other than a sort of elective affinities grouping, which is maybe a very contemporary luxury for an artist.

The gallery has had a huge impact on me and I feel a strong affinity with the values of the organisation.

Katz most certainly demonstrates Pop sensibilities, including the flat commercial feel of his subjects and monochrome backgrounds, and his affinity for large scale works and printmaking.

In these brilliant landscapes, an affinity with the darker shades of feeling we commonly associate with Albert Pinkham Ryder and certain aspects of Marsden Hartley gave us a glimpse of something we hadn't suspected - a romantic quality, sometimes verging on the tragic, that's very different from the sunlit world we know so well in the landscapes.

When you to this, your words will generate strong feelings of gratitude, respect, and affinity in the other person.