Sentences with word «immensity»

The traditional calculation of the age of the universe in terms of thousands, not billions, of years — popularized by Bishop James Ussher — had hitherto obscured the sheer immensity of sensate anguish that had been a part of the world — and on which evolution depended.

Plensa's latest body of work, spanning two exhibition spaces — One Thought Fills Immensity at Richard Gray Gallery in the Hancock Tower and Secret Garden at Gray Warehouse on the west side — explores silence as a gift in today's noisy world.

It's hard to appreciate the sheer immensity of Canada.

They mingle echoes of Rorschach patterns, tie - dye reveries and the intimate immensities of Asian landscape painting.

In the stories, characters struggle with loneliness, loss, and the strange truth that any moment can be filled with immensity or emptiness.

It was a storm of such immensity that it encircled the entire planet and lasted for almost a year.

If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Just as Life itself seems to fade into insignificance within the sidereal immensities known to astronomy, so does the happy simplicity which seemed to indicate a steady rise of consciousness from the lower animals to Man lose distinctness in the extraordinary diversity and profusion of living forms now known to biology.

Boyle does raise some interest points in his stellar quest concerning ethics and the limits of rational thought, and the sun, shown as a blistering orb of brutal immensity, makes for a useful metaphor for the unknowable infinity of the Universe; often this and his visual artistry make Sunshine seem like a slight hat - tip to Solaris.

Because he is so invested in his ideas, Goldsmith took immensity to the nth degree, and launched the «Printing Out the Internet» crowd - sourced exhibition in Mexico City in 2013, which he spoke about in the second part of his talk.

What had been a blind and feral immensity was now becoming expressive and personal; and its hitherto amorphous expanses were being moulded into features of an ineffable face.

We pretend that romantic comedies or naturalistic thrillers set in the present day are more «realistic» than any that require us to remember that we live between immensities, for no more than a fraction of sidereal time in a world that we did not make.

But this still doesn't explain why people are so frequently returning to his work, why people, like me, find themselves getting lost in the vast and variant immensity of his canon; in everything from his essays to his children's novels.

If not enough Light is given to this Atheistic Sapling to become a AtheisticTree of righteous Immensity, it will dwindle away and die without coming to full Fruition of Atheism's Righteousness.

If not enough Light is given to this Atheistic Sapling to become a Atheistic Tree of Righteous Immensity, it will dwindle away and die without coming to full Fruition of Atheism's Righteousness and Light.

His statement is crystal clear: «man knows at last that he is alone in the universe's unfeeling immensity, out of which he emerged only by chance.»

Blaise Pascal in one of the most famous of his pensées confesses to feeling «engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified... The eternal silence of those infinite spaces alarms me».

I said at the beginning of this paper that the human world of today has not grown cold, but that it is ardently searching for a God proportionate to the newly discovered immensities of a Universe whose aspect exceeds the present compass of our power of worship.

The suddenness of the apparition, the majestic immensity of the heavenly being, struck him so strongly that he could not remain standing.

Scipio turns his eyes back to the earth, and Africanus exhorts him to see how insignificant worldly glory is in comparison to the celestial realms, or even to the vast uninhabitable regions of the globe, or to the unimaginable immensity of the Great Year of the cosmic aeon, and then tells him to fix his mind always on heavenly things, to ignore earthly rewards and earthly censure alike, and to be guided only by virtue.

Daisies Cafe sits on a block of Lackawanna between the baroque immensity of Our Lady of Victory basilica and the storefront office of the Erie County Conservative Party.

I had the sudden image of an armada of solitary humanoids in their big puffy spaceships drifting slowly through the silent and airless immensity of space.

Jacques Monod concurred; in his 1976 book Chance and Necessity he wrote, «Man knows at last that he is alone in the indifferent immensity of the universe, whence which he has emerged by chance.»

As Lee Haney used to say, intensity builds immensity.

This all helps create a feeling of immensity regardless of the small town these characters reside in.

It's where you get to overlook your luxury car's dimensional immensity and focus not just on its climate - controlled opulence but also on its road manners, which should be both stately and sporty, engaging you in your drive yet sparing you from its worst elements.

The incomprehensible immensity of our universe inspires a deep sense of awe — and inspires as well many questions.

The overwhelming gorgeous immensity of it all, and the awe - inducing beauty of the tiniest fragment of the earth.

We live our lives at the edge of an amazing immensity.

The actual immensity of the subject is in contrast with the blunt, boxlike formats of the pieces themselves.

A similar sense of inward immensity marks the almost micrographic fields that Krasner and the Ukrainian - American artist Janet Sobel crafted in the late 1940s.

The internet and all of its myriad offerings creates an immense wealth of possibilities, options, research, sources — but at the same time immensity brings risks.

In a 2012 solo exhibition at Locust Projects, he transformed the exhibition space by constructing remnants of classical architecture - archways, pillars - creating, «an armature for the experience of finding oneself alone in an architectural immensity that falls away and recedes in perspective like fading memories and fog enshrouded mountains.»

Of course, in 1966 it would seem to require a necessary immensity to portray, in any possible way, the alliance of myth and antiquity: the battle of Greek gods and human giants against the background noise of Vietnam, so iconic and gigantic as they appear in Naples and Berlin, where I well remember gasping in front of the Pergamon frieze in the Pergamon Museum.

By limiting his inspirations to the local scenery, and by maintaining a signature low vantage point, Jacobshagen documents the spiritual immensity of the Nebraskan land and sky.

On view from November 13 through December 15, 2014, Constellations III will introduce fresh Suknović's interpretations of abstract immensity.

Its gyrating white immensity powers down into the depths from under the curl of a green surface wave.

One Thought Fills Immensity borrows its title from William Blake's Proverbs of Hell, 1790.