Sentences with phrase «in a definitive way»

The installation is not lost to memory, but it has a resistance to entering history in a definitive way.

I want answers to my questions in a definitive way.

Buddhism deals more in a definitive way of reaching enlightment, where as followers of the bible tend to have to interpretate it in their own manner.

So, too, his view that standards of truth will vary from one time and place to another, as well as his denial that there are available to any rational agent standards of truth sufficient to resolve fundamental moral, scientific, and metaphysical disputes in a definitive way.

Speaking to the Indiana Area School of the Prophets in August, 1980, Trotter explores how theology and imagination are related, this time from the perspective of the words a religious community chooses to express what is finally incapable of being expressed in any definitive way.

As I've written in the past, sidelining the objectivity of truth encourages the triumph of bourgeois religion, a generic do - good sentimentality characterized by only one stricture — which is that the conduct of the well - off, well - educated, and well - intentioned residents of the rich world of the West is not to be judged in any definitive way.

God's method in history, or «God's elective preference,» in Luigi Giussani's phrase, has been to choose certain groups, individuals, and elements in his creation (for example, the Jews, Mary, the apostles, bread and wine) and then place them in his service in a definitive way, for the good of the whole world.

It's impossible to read the minds of Academy voters in any definitive way, and I wouldn't be honest if I didn't put my own prejudice out there: I'm not exactly the world's biggest fan of Guillermo del Toro's film.

She writes in her artist statement that she feels she's pursuing some elusive ultimate truth, making it hard to discuss her work in a definitive way, particularly as abstraction relies on sense impressions.

Her work, with its broad, muscular brushstrokes, perfectly balanced compositions, even at their most off - kilter, and thickets of dense strokes alternating between darting, grass - like lines and luscious patches of drippy color, contributed in definitive ways to just how expansive and expressive abstract painting could be.

The installation is not lost to memory, but it has a resist - ance to entering history in a definitive way.