Sentences with phrase «fleeting sense of»

Psychologists now have evidence that contemplating your own death activates what they call the «legacy motive» — a powerful but fleeting sense of generosity and drive to make the world a better place before you kick the bucket.

His work, Unfolded Gold (Metallah), depicts geometric creases akin to an unfolded sheet of paper solidified with a gold leaf finish, highlighting a fleeting sense of form within a rigid, immutable presence.

Auto - use defence weapons give you a fleeting sense of security, but in reality do very little bar granting you a few extra seconds to escape.

Greece is more than a place; it is where my roots are, a primal memory woven inside me with passion, hunger, and a fleeting sense of peace I extract momentarily.

The Phantom's 0 - to -60-mph time of well under six seconds belies one's fleeting sense of immovability.

I'm not quite sure why, but as we were crossing a street I had a fleeting sense of panic that if one of the children became separated from us, how would we ever find them?

I also imagine there is some fleeting sense of liberation when throwing the catfish — a brief reminder that the world is big and colorful and full of possibilities like flying catfish.

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I didn't position for this because that's not my job so calling it gives me absolutely nothing — except a sense of self - satisfaction, which will be fleeting.

But underneath it all is a small, almost imperceptable current of life, and a promise of things so wonderful, we can not even comprehend them.I've seen it and sensed it, and tasted it, even if only for sporadic fleeting moments.

Grant rather that each day may do something so to strengthen my hold upon the unseen world, so to increase my sense of its reality, and so to attach my heart to its holy interests that, as the end of my earthly life draws ever nearer, I may not grow to be a part of these fleeting earthly surroundings, but rather grow more and more conformed to the life of the world to come.

Hence, new qualities that emerge are not merely empirical qualities of new «occasions,» they are also «eternal objects,» belonging to a world of what Plato called forms or ideas; they are both immanent and transcendent: «Here Alexander inclines towards an empiricist tradition... which identifies that which is known with the fleeting sense - datum of the moment; Whitehead, with his mathematical training, represents a rationalist tradition which identifies that which is known with necessary and eternal truths.

Babies do a lot of growing in the first 6 weeks and it doesn't make financial sense to invest in something so fleeting.

It's so important to look back on these times and not have a sense of regret — but more of a fulfillment inside your heart, knowing that you were fully present during each and every fleeting moment... spills, messy countertops, piles of laundry, and all.

Learning how to live wholeheartedly is what allowed me to be the type of person that truly appreciates those fleeting moments of happiness as well as the ability to cultivate a deeper sense of joy, optimism, and contentment regardless of the ups and downs of life.

But in an era when sense of place feels fleeting — and designers are fleeing their home cities for other places and other fashion weeks — it was symbolic that this show celebrated a quintessential American city.

So it goes with Bondoc, a fleeting and flimsy piece from the directorial trio of Mihai Mincan, Cristian Delcea, and Mihai Voinea that hinges — for all its drawbacks — on the profound sense of sadness shared with its eponymous subject.

Allies magically respawn, even when your crew has been wiped out (allegedly they're «reinforcements», but it just looks like the game's cheating in order to keep the illusion going), making any attempt to keep your buddies alive fairly pointless, and as a result of their fleeting appearances, it's tough to relate to any of them in any sense other than being the current level's cannon fodder.

Occasionally you'll make that perfect hit that wipes the screen of pigs and feel a small sense of satisfaction, but that feeling is fleeting, and all you're left with is bland, repetitive gameplay.

A fleeting smile is all Patricia offers to indicate her sense of accomplishment and satisfaction at completing the difficult project.

Its sheer scope and sense of wonder are amazing at first, but the immersion is fleeting.

Her work focuses on the layering and interconnection of people, places, and perceptions, the fusion of seemingly opposing ideas, and an underlying sense of geometry and order amidst organic, fleeting materials and notions.

Pfeiffer no longer uses the long - exposure image to record her fleeting ghostly presence, but the sense of things being in play and unresolved remains palpable.

He aims to pursue the fleeting quality of beauty; perfection is synonymous with perfect questioning, rather than a stable state of the mind and the senses.

As a philosophy major in college, I became fascinated with the mind's sense of self and its relationship with the fleeting, beguiling material world.

That sense of not knowing what you're doing is distilled in the final result and that's why they're so amazing; they immortalise a feeling or a collection of feelings, a fleeting, colourful happiness.

These images — of a lynching, of soldiers, of men high on horseback subsumed by dense jungle — are fleeting, and the exerted effort necessary to see them creates a sense of violent voyeurism.

The exhibition title, Optasia, is Greek for «vision or apparition» and the artist, in the gallery's press release, credits it with capturing «the sense of what I see in fleeting moments of the reflections I photograph.»

In a sense these are «pictures of a floating world», a world in which the stillness of a painting is a paradox poised against the restless motion of life and fleeting time.

There is always the sense of a fleeting «seized» moment of a life on the run from a car window, plane or train.

A consistently resourceful street photographer, Arndt captures fleeting gestures and momentary juxtapositions between people and their surroundings, finding in them a sense of emotional or psychological depth.

Maybe not the freshest idea in the world, but the participating artists felt genuine pain at the destruction of their works (which included a preponderance of sad - eyed kitty cats and doggies, natch), while my own refusal to save the life of a threatened work filled me with a real, albeit fleeting, sense of guilt.

His works are inherently sardonic while at the same time harboring a romantic sense of history and fleeting memory.

Conceived in a fleeting moment, Park's calligraphic marks reflect his interest in reaching a sense of «pure emptiness», an attempt that is made afresh with each new painting.

Intuitively one senses with some melancholy the passage of time, of the shifting moods of awakening and receding, ultimately, of the fleeting nature of our own journey.

Perhaps we sense in Gabriele's work the fleeting and fragile nature of youth and beauty.

It was a painful journey facing up to where I was getting my sense of self - acceptance, how fleeting that source was (others» approval, getting an A, etc.) and taking responsibility for knowing myself, my strengths and limitations, my expectations of myself, and how that combination can assist in propelling this profession forward.