Sentences with phrase «for ordinary moments»

Not exact matches

Yet we share something with the Greeks every time we assemble for this great athletic contest: a desire to transcend the politics of the moment and reach beyond the ordinary limits of human achievement.

The ordinary Christian in one of the mainline churches, more inclined to look to the Bible for directions for living than concerned with problems of textual criticism, is apt to draw from them only an injunction to fidelity and perhaps a warning to be ready to die, since death may overtake one at any moment.

By 1980, however, the somewhat chastened magazine acknowledged he was not: «God is making a comeback Most intriguingly, this is happening not among theologians or ordinary believers — most of whom never accepted for a moment that he was in any serious trouble — but in the crisp, intellectual circles of academic philosophers, where the consensus had long banished the Almighty from fruitful discourse.»

Is this not the sole certainty: that one's so - called conviction is not altered from moment to moment as a result of the different things that happen to one, things that momentarily alter a person and alter everything for a person so that today he has faith, and tomorrow he has lost it, and he gets it again day after tomorrow until something completely out of the ordinary happens, at which time he almost inevitably loses it, assuming that he has ever had it!

For in the very generality that determines executive office there is a power that disengages from the common table of parish existence, from the direct and pathetic book of the common life, and from the moments of sudden truth that stun and depress and exalt the minister on his ordinary round.

The ordinary psychology, admitting fully the difficulty of tracing the marginal outline, has nevertheless taken for granted, first, that all the consciousness the person now has, be the same focal or marginal, inattentive or attentive, is there in the «field» of the moment, all dim and impossible to assign as the latter's outline may be; and, second, that what is absolutely extra-marginal is absolutely non-existent, and can not be a fact of consciousness at all.

After the immemorial evil of parricide for which the wrong man is convicted, after the irradiation of the Russian soul with baneful modern ideas, Dostoevsky enshrines a transcendent moment of ordinary fellowship in kindness.

One difference between a saint and a practicing theologian is the saint's ability, to shed — for the moment, at least — the personal hangups that beset ordinary mortals, enabling him (or her) to receive, clearly and sensitively, the penetrating insights that God would have one grasp.

And for reminding me that motherhood is full of these moments of magic amid our often rushed, crazy, and plain old ordinary days.

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Viago uses his best attempts to hypnotize them into not seeing anything out of the ordinary which makes for some especially laugh - out - loud moments as they come upon a corpse and warn the gentleman to take better care of their drunks friends.

It takes a perfectly ordinary urban moment — a jog through Central Park in wintertime — and turns it into a visual and aural overture for the film's layered and shifting moods.

Right from the moment we first saw her at age 13 in Atonement as the worryingly precocious younger sister at the big house, she's always seemed someone set apart, which makes playing an ordinary Irish village girl in this adaptation of Colm Tóibín's noted novel the sort of challenge which might just set the agenda for the rest of her career.

It's the only time we ever get to see things from Myers» point of view as we then spend the rest of the film trying to evade the unrelenting nature of him.Carpenter has a knack for delivering genuine chills but his real skill is in making the ordinary, «safer» moments just as scary.

One moment, with the photographer shooting pictures for the movie's poster, she lets us see Lovelace as she saw herself — freckled, ordinary, but «beautiful» for the first time.

Self - indulgent and, for the most part, misguided, A Life Less Ordinary is a bad film with occasional moments of genuinely good humor.

The moment is a fanciful, dramatically obscene sequence in which Churchill escapes his chauffeured state car and decides to ride the Tube for the first time in his life, surrounded by ordinary commuters, who let him know what they think about the Nazis and stop short of taking turns to sit on his knee.

It is as though the authors, the publishers, the teachers, and the professors of education share a bizarre consensus that ordinary children need to be shaken out of their complacency, stripped of their innocence, and frightened by the horrors that the world has in store for them at any moment.

I wish I knew so I could get ready for the next time or avoid tripping another switch that turns some ordinary moment into a horrible waking dream.

From ordinary obligations such as applying for a passport or sharing a holiday meal with relatives, he takes extraordinary flights of imagination; in extreme moments, such as the terrifying days following a cataclysmic earthquake in Istanbul, he lays bare our most basic hopes and fears.

At this moment, you put up $ 10K for stock worth $ 1.01 M, a $ 1M profit and ordinary income.

Whether it's creating balance, navigating turbulent times, or finding the magic in life's ordinary moments, there's something for everyone in this book.

Of the process, he said he was «interested in magical locations as well as the ordinary moments in - between» while he looked for «leaks in reality» in his attempt to capture current political and environmental conditions and the surveillance - saturated state of society.

In the spirit of Memorial Day and the start of summer, SEEN has a few personal moments for you from this legendary art couple — all taken from Artists Unframed, a collection of similarly legendary artists being perfectly ordinary.

My aim is to strip away the veneer of a subject and to capture a moment, not a dramatic one, something evocative perhaps, occasionally ordinary but always honest and without the need for a narrative.

Her attention to detail magnifies ordinary moments and conveys them with extreme subtlety, and sensitivity for light and space.

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These works, ultimately capturing everyday moments, encourage the viewers to intimately engage with the pictured subjects, and to seek out clues of their personal lives and character, reflecting our own searches for the extra in the ordinary and the thrill in the mundane.

From a search for Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa's hidden treasure and a speakeasy bar in Berlin to a vision quest into the Sonora desert and a trip to the Mayan homelands in Southern Mexico to experience the end of the world, Sarabia's new video / film installation will not only revisit the artist's complex oeuvre but depict how popular culture, personal histories, and ordinary events can be potent metaphors to understand the complexities of moments of cultural contact and exchange.

This new installation will revisit the artist's oeuvre and depict how popular culture, personal histories, and ordinary events can be metaphors for moments of cultural contact and exchange.

But the moment that made me finally enter treatment was so familiar and so ordinary: I woke up, had a slice of leftover pizza for breakfast, and wanted to die.

So rather than settle straight away for final expense or burial insurance, take a moment and find out what the underwriters are going to look at to determine if you can get ordinary whole or term life insurance while blind.

About Blog This right here is the story of our life's adventures together - the highs and lows, the fun, travels, and little ordinary moments, as we seek for a «Hearty Life» following stillbirth and loss in 2014.

«The current data provide preliminary support for the theory that couples build intimacy through hundreds of very ordinary, mundane moments in which they attempt to make emotional connections.

During the Fourth of July celebrations, take a moment to reflect on the price those ordinary people paid for their liberty.