Sentences with phrase «for grandeur»

An open - plan dining space with vaulted ceilings cries out for the grandeur of rich damasks in opulent golds and on - trend purples.

Casting his own artistic practice in the harsh light of circumspection, he enumerates the guilty pleasures associated with his craft — painting's ardour, its penchant for grandeur, beauty and emotion — and so finds an alibi for his art.

Somehow, though, his wish for grandeur now carries more than a whiff of escapism.

In past years, one would start to get hyped for the grandeur that is E3 to take place, but with it's demise last year, gamers are going to have to look for alternate sources for upcoming gaming news for the year.

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Nothing will prepare you for the grandeur of this iconic site in the flesh.

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Ideal for breakfast, lunch and dinner, the Café Vihar is popular for its grandeur in simplicity.

With its spectacular chandeliers and mirrored ceiling the magnificent Wentworth Ballroom is renowned for its grandeur and quality service.

MY FAVOURITE BUILDINGS ARE the Hubert Baker houses on the Kalk Bay to Muizenberg road, FOR THEIR grandeur.

Also known as the Mestyf and the Mastie, this is a giant breed known for its grandeur and good nature.

As for Grandeur Peak, David has been an outspoken champion since its inception.

As he matures, his desire for grandeur and fame is channeled into shaping the fates of the impoverished and overlooked children of the Pu'unene sugarcane plantation workers.

Cinematographer Rachel Morrison, a current Oscar nominee for her work on Mudbound, visualizes the film's many lavish vistas with an eye for grandeur.

Many of those in Terrence Malick's exquisite and also exasperating new film — his fifth in a career spanning four decades — are remarkable for their grandeur: billowing volcanoes, churning geysers, hissing fumaroles, spiral nebulas seen through the eye of the Hubble space telescope.

We scoff at the commonplace in the process of reaching for a grandeur we're convinced it lacks.

So our intuitive admiration of the form is a mixture of respect for the grandeur or size and a response to the faithful reflection of physical fact.

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They would rather kill me for saying, «muhammad was just another human with illusions of grandeur», then be confident in their religion.

After God had created the animals, all the essential roles had been filled, but «the Divine Artificer still longed for some creature which might comprehend the meaning of so vast an achievement, which might be moved with love at its beauty and smitten with awe at its grandeur.»

Go back into mommy's basement and think about that for a while before getting delusions of grandeur.

Karek40 — you are truely truely suffering for dellusions of grandeur.

For all the grandeur of the epic Tam o» Shanter, the verse opera Jolly Beggars, and the major unscored lyrics, nothing equals the simple lyrics he set to the auld hieland airts.

In general, the counterproposals boast proportionality and restraint, and manage to impart a sense of grandeur without disregarding the surrounding landscape, historical context, or human visitors for whom the memorial is ultimately being constructed.

If ever there was a political movement exclusively for sociopathic idiots with delusions of grandeur, the tea party would certainly be it.

But for all of its glory and grandeur, the Bible contains a darkness you will only notice if you pay attention, for it is hidden in the details, whispered in the stories of women.

Familiaris Consortio presents a wholly compassionate yet objectively truthful account of the Magisterium of the Church's teachings on marriage and the family and in its introductory paragraph states: «In a particular way the Church addresses the young, who are beginning their journey towards marriage and family life, for the purpose of presenting them with new horizons, helping them to discover the beauty and grandeur of the vocation to love and the service of life.»

Recognize, on the other hand, that within the domain of our experience man is at the head of one of the two greatest waves into which, for us, tangible reality is divided, and that therefore he holds in his hands the fortunes of the universe: and immediately you cause him to turn his face towards the grandeur of a new sunrise.

Transformism as well as, if not better than, the theory of «fixed types» can give to the universe that grandeur and depth and unity which are the natural atmosphere for Christian faith.

If we are able to sing those words lustily, let it be because we are seduced by the grandeur and grace of the salvation she describes, but let it also join us to those who yearn for a turning of the socioeconomic tables.

The Catholic Christian Church requires itself a principle of cosmic unity that will bind in one whole all wisdom natural and revealed; a principle which will give to Christianity a grandeur and a truth that will far outshine its rivals, and give to man with its deeper truth, the humility, charity and promise ofmercy that comes only of subjection to God, a subjection for which the heart of man cries out.

In the great «transvaluation» that followed, there was no sphere of social, religious, or intellectual life that the Church did not claim for itself; much was abolished, and much of the grandeur and beauty of antiquity was preserved in a radically altered form, and Christian civilization — with its new synthesis and new creativity — was born.

Interesting, because for me I'm more awestruck by simplicity and humility in many places of worship than I am in what usually manifests in excess splendor, and grandeur.

The grandeur of their productions, the images of «success,» their «positive thinking» messages, and their offering of gifts and goods in return for donations translates the Christian message into an attractive consumer package that reflects a cultural form similar to that of media consumerism.

And theoretical discussions often praise its philosophical grandeur without providing any firm guidelines for empirical testing.

It plays to our sense of religious grandeur, for the mountain is Zion, where Jerusalem is built.

The Reverend William Corbin promised his people that it would «cause the Heavens to drop Fatness round about your Habitations, and the Earth to bring forth Plenty; and you shall not fail of abundance of all things for the maintenance of your Grandeur and comfort of your Lives...» 2 And many substantial New Englanders found that the promises were fulfilled.

And sometimes it seems there is more room for wonder, mystery, grandeur, delight, beauty, and reverence in astro - physics than in religion.

As a young man I took God's existence for granted, seeing the divine hand in the grandeur of the stars and the beauty of the flowers.

Now, for the first time in history, we could really see ourselves in all our grandeur.

«To understand a reassertion of the grandeur of politics, you must risk a crick in your neck» (Simon & Schuster, 1983, pp. 21 - 26) Will's «crick in the Neck» refers to his call to go all the way back to Plato, but for my purpose we need go back only to the 1960s to try to see what took place in that baffling decade to produce the current liberal difficulty.

The grandeur of their productions, the images of «success,» their «positive thinking» messages, and their offering of gifts and goods in return for donations translates the Christian message into an attractive consumer package.

Dear friends, much still needs to be learned about the form in which the Church takes her place in the world, helping society to understand that the proclamation of truth is a service which she offers to society, and opening new horizons for the future, horizons of grandeur and dignity....

It's encouraging to get this kind of support for the unique simplicity and grandeur of the Bible.

The juxtaposition of seeing a massive ship in the middle of a field with no water in sight save for a small brown pond is disorienting, but only adds to its grandeur.

Yet, many folks will ever become unendingly complacent upon the societal grandeurs for selfish wantings sakes, trying to avail themselves valiantly never to be outdone by those who tend to be in broadest simplifications adjuring for peaceful resolutions.

Never, ever settle for anything less than the spiritual and moral grandeur that the grace of God makes possible in your life: That was John Paul II's challenge.

For low - church Protestantism, the world is sufficiently charged with the grandeur of God to begin with.

Niebuhr, for all his vitality and power, loved Pascal's doctrine of «the grandeur and misery» of the human being.

Yet in Plato and Aristotle, the third volume of Order and History, his is strikingly uncritical of Plato, whose work, for all of its spiritual grandeur, was arguably in tension with the open society.

Out of the other I could see the church — the Church of the Tears of the Blessed Virgin — and beyond the church were the mountains, hovering high in desperate grandeur, heavy green for miles, then hazy blue into the blue sky.