That cooperative synergy flies in the face of the idea that abstract art is a high - minded affair that has nothing to do with the animal impulses of
flesh and blood reality.
Even a Kingdom - inspired vision of the good future can be given
flesh and blood reality only by making use of facts about what is and can be.
And they touched him then and there and believed, for they had had contact with
the flesh and blood reality of him» (Letter to Smyrna, Chap III, Iff).
Not exact matches
This, of course, is not to say he is not rightly esteemed truly human, a man of
flesh and blood with the peculiar Biblical force of that phrase; indeed it might be claimed that the very stress laid on the limited character of his experience makes us more vividly aware of the
reality of his human nature.
As Isaac Berkson wrote over 50 years ago, «The ethnic group is not a system of ideas but a nationality, a community of persons; it is a living
reality related, indeed, to thought, but still
flesh and blood and desire
and no mere pale abstraction.
«The
reality of a resurrection without
flesh and bones, without
blood and members, is unintelligible.»
In the wonder
and ultimate mystery of love, spiritual truths come alive; they take on
flesh -
and -
blood reality by being incarnated in persons.
The pre-Easter Jesus was corporeal, a
flesh and blood human being; the post-Easter Jesus is a spiritual
reality, actual, even though nonmaterial... The pre-Easter Jesus was finite
and mortal, he was limited as all human beings are,
and he died.
Here celluloid's gift for facsimile achieved its ultimate expression, the complete transmutation of
reality into illusion, as three - dimensional
flesh -
and -
blood beings were transformed into two - dimensional ghosts shimmering on a screen.
After a night of sleep he discovers why, when his dreams become
reality in the form of his deceased wife (McElhone, Laurel Canyon), now laying next to him in true
flesh and blood fashion.
It can be mentioned here that Apple has also filed a patent for similar technology, complete with a transparent screen for augmented
reality, though what we have in the Iris Tablet is a product in
flesh and blood, which is always better than mere patent drawings.
Franzen fluidly dissects the meaning of identity
and the intersection between our online avatars
and our
flesh -
and -
blood realities.
So please spread the word to your friends (both in the
flesh -
and -
blood world
and the social media world of Facebook & co.), to your followers (whether you are a cult leader or a tweeter)
and to your coworkers (after all, how many
reality shows do you know that you can follow at work?).
It helps me keep some distance from
reality, even if those cats are right there,
flesh and blood, just a few inches from me.»