Sentences with phrase «fragmentary lives»

His greatness as a man lies not only in that he was able, more or less, to keep several different persons together in difficult times under the banner of «Thomas Merton,» but that he provides an enduring witness to all of us much less gifted seekers who have to shore up our own fragmentary lives in quest for the «hidden wholeness.»

«This pinnacle of faith in New Testament religion is the final expression of certainty about the power of God to complete our fragmentary life as well as the power of His love to purge it of the false completions in which all history is involved.»

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But these churches are not able to present a sufficiently convincing vision of what faith is, or of purposes worth living for, to evoke more than fragmentary commitment.

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.

Hartshorne's fundamental position, writes the author, is that birth and death are the necessary boundaries to an existence that is fragmentary, and only God is capable of sustaining the infinite novelty that would be required for everlasting life.

His purpose — as even, the somewhat fragmentary Asian Journal makes clear — was to enhance the contemplative life of his own tradition.

It is believed that the fragmentary insights of both Old and New Testament writers are fulfilled in God's dramatic incursion into human history which we see in the incarnation and atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ, in his life, death, and resurrection.

Our achievements may live on in the memories of others, but this is a very fragmentary and transient immortality.

It is grace alone, with the forgiveness it holds, which can release us to recognize and in some fragmentary way begin to live in self - giving love for God and neighbour.4

I never truly felt the pain of unbelief until I began to believe,» observes Christian Wiman in My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer, a rich, beautiful, spiritually honest, theologically informed assembly of fragmentary, God - haunted reflections about suffering, death, love, life, poetry, and the shimmering gift of the real.

The most important theses for the new beginning are as follows: We do not live in ««an infinite given whole», but in a set of fragmentary experiences.»

Living in this set of fragmentary experiences — which alone deserve to be called «concrete» — we form conceptions of unity, order, wholeness, etc. «It is not true that we are directly aware of a smooth running world.»

Based on analyses of LB1 and some other, more fragmentary remains, the discovery team concluded that the specimens belonged to a previously unknown human species, Homo floresiensis, that lived as recently as 12,000 years ago [see «The Littlest Human,» by Kate Wong; Scientific American, February 2005].

This suggested that the fragmentary gene bit was somehow required for healthy life.

Although specimens of fishes, marine reptiles, non-avian dinosaurs, birds, and mammals of this age have all been recovered from this now - frozen continent, most fossils, especially those of land - living species, are fragmentary and poorly informative, and a number of major vertebrate groups that likely once lived in Antarctica (e.g., amphibians, crocodilians) have yet to be discovered at all.

Although its fragmentary structure ultimately undermines its potential for depth, toilet - side philosophizing and rewarding performances from Hartley regulars Parker Posey, Bill Sage, Martin Donovan, Elina Löwensohn, and Miho Nikaido (the director's real - life wife) make for an enjoyable 85 minutes.

For many artists in the exhibition, the radical language of modernist painting developed during the early twentieth century - of collapsing and expanding picture planes responding to the frenetic pace and fragmentary encounters of modern life - continues to evolve as distortions and mutations of the image take on new permutations with each technological advance.

Calle's projects have frequently drawn on episodes from her own life, but this book — part visual memoir, part meditation on the resonances of photographs and belongings — is as close as she has come to producing an autobiography, albeit one highly poetical and fragmentary, as is characteristic of her work.

They are well known for constructing subjective databases of narrative material and making fragmentary miniature film sets with lights, video cameras, and moving sculptural elements to create live cinematic events.

Feminism proposed two alternative sets of criteria between 1970 and 1990: in the 1970s, the first — in whose development Schapiro participated — challenged the formalist canon for its exclusion of so much political narrative, and even formal content and materiality, and proposed alternatives that looked to craft, costume, folk art, surrealism, the real, lived experience, and the body; the second, developed by deconstructionist feminism during the 1980s, challenged the first for its essentialism and looked back to aspects of modernism other than those promoted by Greenberg, namely the fragmentary, the filmic, the appropriational, and the disruptive aesthetics of Brechtian distantiation.

Like a dissection of contemporary life, this fantasy of desire captures the kind of fragmentary images our eyes catch when we hurriedly cross a city street.

In seventeenth - century «still lifes of display,» the damask cloth introduced unity into a fragmentary depiction of displayed foodstuffs and objects.

«Drawn from Life,» is an exhibition of cast fragmentary sculptures, made in collaboration with his partner, a dancer.

For many artists in the exhibition, the radical language of modernist painting developed during the early twentieth century — of collapsing and expanding picture planes responding to the frenetic pace and fragmentary encounters of modern life — continues to evolve as distortions and mutations of the image take on new permutations with each technological advance.

Images that the public were never meant to see — of women disappeared by the Iranian regime — find fresh life in Soleimani's vivid, fragmentary arrangements.

Mona Hatoum's small portrait - format mirror You Are Still Here (1994) reflects its context by creating a succession of fragmentary representations — it may reflect the plant life of the artworks around it, or the face of the onlooker.

Heather Phillipson works with sculpture, moving image, text and sound, creating video installations and «talking pictures» (video with live voice) that weave the viewer through a collage of fragmentary and evolving ideas and narratives in multi-sensory environments.

Heather Phillipson works with sculpture, moving image, text and sound, creating video installations and «talking pictures» (video with live voice) that weave the viewer through a collage of fragmentary and...

The fragmentary and episodic connections traced between them may look like the debris of historical damage, but are charged with the openness to the future that the imagination and forging of life in common inspires.

Typically completed in a single sitting, Jackson's sequential drawings present a fragmentary, staccato - like form of storytelling where aspects of his daily life intersect with remembered scenes from movies and television shows or song lyrics.

On account of her own experiences in life, the artist weaves fictive events into the post-colonial history related to the countries of her origins and, using this material, constructs fragmentary narratives.

Seth Cluett «Inward Turning Histories» Year: 2015/2017 Duration: 22»27 In his text The Practice of Everyday Life, DeCerteau writes «Places are fragmentary and inward - turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of the body.

He appropriated this term in relation to his practice to describe an approach of inventive improvisation and instability which presents change as a permanent state arising from the chaotic and fragmentary nature of life.

It is the state of this single complex system, which provides the planetary life support system for humanity, that the PB framework is concerned with, not with fragmentary bits of it in isolation.