Sentences with phrase «impure hands»

Correspondingly, Rosenkranz is known for filling branded water bottles — Evian, FIJI, SmartWater — with skin and urine hued pigments in a way that reinserts the body into a water filtration process that companies would have us believe is untouched by human's impure hands or even the air we breathe.

This situation is nowhere more clearly described in modern literature than in the novels of Franz Kafka: «His unexpressed, ever - present theme,» writes Buber, «is the remoteness of the judge, the remoteness of the lord of the castle, the hiddenness, the eclipse...» Kafka describes the human world as given over to the meaningless government of a slovenly bureaucracy without possibility of appeal: «From the hopelessly strange Being who gave this world into their impure hands, no message of comfort or promise penetrates to us.

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On the other hand, his complaint that if all possibilities are primordially envisaged, the course of events can add nothing to what God already has, seems to me to confuse pure and impure possibilities and to be based on a different view of the relation of actuality to possibility than Whitehead's.

Bringing to mind the coquettish collaged hands in Max Ernst's minuscule work Murdering Airplane (1920), the reference, which could be easily overlooked, adds just the quirky, impure ambiguity that abstraction now seems to need.