Sentences with phrase «fragments of lives»

There is no particular story; no beginning, middle or end, just fragments of lives lived and rituals performed.

I found similar things while digging in the various gardens I have made: old nails, old medicine bottles, fragments of china plates... That is what the Future Library is like, in part: it will contain fragments of lives that were once lived, and that are now the past.

Home is where the heart is, and love, longing, and grieving for the departed fragments of our lives we can never return to are lovingly realized in John Crowley's exquisitely crafted and beautiful «Brooklyn.»

In a boat, we become whole again, and the flying fragments of our lives that whirl about us daily become concentrated in us.

The important thing today is that we should be able to discern from the fragment of our life how the whole was arranged and planned, and what material it consists of.

Whether single or not, each fragment of life is meant to teach you something, I believe.

Director Penn shifts time between McCandless's last stop in Alaska, his peripatetic wanderings and fragments of his life from before he was reborn as Alexander Supertramp, gracefully revealing McCandless's motivations and subtly concealing a denser, deeper truth until the final moments.

Ozon is back in sensitive - drama mode for this almost subliminal personal story of a young woman trying to piece together the fragments of her life and understand her conflicting expectations and desires.

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Writing down my hopes, reminiscing on my past, or just noticing the way that the leaves are turning - it's a gorgeous meditation on the fragments of life.

The source of their considerable power lies, I think, in the tension Edwards achieves between compositional complexity and visceral imagery, between sheer form and fragments of the lived - in world.

Each is accompanied by an image; each offers a fragment of life.

Holland Cotter, «Review: Susan Cianciolo Lets Others Pick Through Fragments Of Her Life», The New York Times, July 2nd, 2015

By weaving together fragments of the living with this murky, shadowed past, Ashcom's reality provides a prompt to mythicize one's own memories through the lens of Hoys Fork.

Apichatpong Weerasethakul, as one of the most original filmmakers and artists of our time, has developed a distinctive language which approaches fragments of life, from passing gestures to the great cycles, from the often occurring to the unseen, in arresting and compelling narratives.

, on show at The Modern Institute till 2 June 2012, where fragments of the life of an artist, as narrated through pages of notebooks, become a part of the works on display.

Evans meticulously assembles prosaic materials, such as scraps of paper, scotch tape, pencil shavings and correction fluid into diagrams, maps, flowcharts and diary entries that obsessively catalogue the fragments of a life.

The second thing is that it shores up fragments of living history - by reproducing them in meticulous facsimile - that would otherwise be lost for good.

Metonymically, what is here is the city, the street, the economy, the periphery, the margins — a fragment of life in Leimert Park.

Based on sketches and photographs of places he visited, people he met, these records of fragments of life mark a shift in the artist's practice known until now for its mark - making abstract canvases.

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The little fragments eventually join up, creating a new pocket of life.

The work is part of an effort to bring dying reefs back to life by growing tiny coral fragments in labs or nurseries — between four and 25 times as fast as they'd grow in the wild — and planting those fragments on reefs.

Fragments of branching coral — the type that looks like animal horns — were attached with fishing line to skeletal branches of PVC pipe, creating a small forest of life in the middle of an otherwise desolate patch of ocean floor.

Instead, Griffith took survey of his life — fragmented market, baby on the way — and decided to abandon the deep dive and return to the surface.

Though Trump campaign spokesperson Jason Miller released a statement early Tuesday morning praising Melania Trump's address as «beautiful,» and noting that her «team of writers took notes on her life's inspirations, and in some instances included fragments that reflected her own thinking.»

The previous fragment, translated from Siete términos médicos que todo el mundo debería conocer, is a clear example of situations we all have lived at some point in our lives — some expert is using a set of technical terms we simply don't know, and therefore we can't follow.

So that's why essentially the «nooma's» are not this complete theology, they're fragments of... of life.»

Both of these ways of life are shown to be ultimately unstable in one who is aware of their full implications, and to point beyond themselves to the religious way of life, different aspects of which are represented in Fear and Trembling, Repetition, the Concept of Dread, Philosophical Fragments, and the Final Unscientific Postscript.

All profoundly religions people are gripped by a vision of reality which is not only beyond the state but beyond the difficult lessons of experience, beyond the realistic analysis of social forces and societal needs, beyond the prudential calculations of common sense, and beyond the fragmented bits of data we get from daily life.

One day we find a fragment of unknown quality, origin, and intent that was written in Egypt 20 generations after Jesus» life and this is somehow historic proof of anything?

Thus life is fragmented into a multiplicity of competing selves, alienated from their Creator, from one another, and themselves.

Generally they hold that a fragmented theological curriculum is unacceptable because it is inadequate to a unity that «the faith» or the «life of faith» is supposed to have.

It brings together (a) fragmented reflections from my three years of living and working with the Paraiyar communities in about 20 colonies around the town of Karunguzhi in Chingleput District, Tamilnadu (1985 - 87); (b) systematically documented data from a six - week intensive field trip in two of these 20 colonies, i.e., Malaipallaiyam.

In Living Faithfully in a Fragmented World: Lessons for the Church from MacIntyre's «After Virtue» (1998), Wilson responds to moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre, who concludes his celebrated 1991 critique of modernity by calling for «the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained through the new dark ages which are already upon us....

We have not an individual identity, but fragments of experience; not the narrative of a life that is in some sense a whole, but a decentered flow of experience.

These fragments were most often borrowed from the lives of saints with the same name.

By providing only fragments from biblical books (in this case part of an oracle from Isaiah, a reassurance from Paul, a parable from Jesus), they leave a suggestive opening, not only to other texts but also to the even more fragmented tissues of our individual lives.

Zarathustra's art and aim is to be the creative poet of the world, to save the temporal world through reconceiving and revaluing life and the world, «to compose into one and bring together what is fragment, riddle, and dreadful chance» (TSZ 161, 216).

But in the merry - go - round of our modern life, so frayed and fragmented, thoughts have no chance to ripen and settle during the day, and are abandoned.

In reaction to the fragmented, depersonalized, hectic style of the secular city, people are seeking community and evincing interest in a chosen discipline for their lives.

To live well instead of badly we need a certain strange confidence that, despite our fragmented and discontinuous experience, somehow it all eventually makes sense.

If you want concessions that the Big Bang happened (which is only postulated theory supported by fragments of data indicating the universe is expanding...) then you need to concede that there is the possibility of life after death due to all of the reported NDEs.

The shape of that fragment is extended to a full orbit when the community, made a community by the words, the work, the living presence of Jesus, bore witness to the size of the event itself.

Either American democracy is living on social capital inherited from an earlier time when Americans shared a common perspective on life's questions, in which case we face a slow descent into the fragmented and violent world Hauerwas sees; or else the enthusiastic, individualistic and yet genuinely loving piety of Emerson, Whitman and Ellison has a better grasp of our human nature, and it really is possible to be both democratic and virtuous.

Unless these understandings can be recovered and shared alongside those of the new cultures among us, we will continue to live in a fragmented and brittle society.

One of the few fragments of genuine information about «The Princes in the Tower» - the sons of King Edward IV of England, widely supposed to have been murdered in the Tower of London in 1483 on the orders of their uncle who became Richard III - concerns the spiritual life of the older of the two boys, the 12 - year - old King Edward V.

Over the course of his writing life, Augustine combined a number of elements from his fragmented culture — Neoplatonic philosophy, Roman civic morality, the heritage of the great Roman poets, Manichaeism — with his dominant but open - ended Christian faith, into a new synthesis.

We move out of the church alone as well, carrying with us our own fragments of warmth and insight as we seek to make connections between the great symbols of the faith and the stuff of everyday life.

We experience our culture as fragmented; we live on bits of meaning and lack the overall vision that holds them together in a whole.

For life in a highly fragmented and specialized society, the pastor as theological integrator can perform a socially unique role in building provisional bridges to enable us to stay in touch with our common humanity fashioned in the image of God.