Sentences with phrase «fragmentary character»

This fragmentary character is suggestive of continuity.

In Jesus Christ a standard was set which reveals the inadequacy and fragmentary character of the standard of behavior set forth in Exodus.

Even when we sense the tragic and fragmentary character of our acts, we are likely to place them outside the framework of history.

In the Introduction, I used the sprawling campus and geographical layout of Michigan State University as symptomatic and symbolic of the fragmentary character of modern knowledge.

In a way my question about «totality» and «the refusal of distance» sums up the other questions and suggests that a stance which has a larger component of irony and understatement toward the self might be able to bear the fragmentary character of existence with less restlessness toward totality.

The title suggests the film's fragmentary character, and that in turn suggests one of the film's main themes: the failure of technique to redeem lives from chaos.

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Now Whitehead's recognition of the fragmentary or imprecise character of speech parallels an insight shared by Heidegger, Merleau - Ponty, and their theological disciples — i.e., the practitioners of the new hermeneutic.

The intense and ambiguous characters, in both video and sculptural media, challenge established identity roles such as gender, ethnicity, age, sexuality and family relations, and convey a vision of a fragmentary, commercialized world caught in a process of continuous technological development.