Sentences with phrase «in ordinariness»

But in trying to make a 10 - best list, I tripped right over my own divided soul right at the top: My two faves of 2016 are Jim Jarmusch's Paterson, an infinitely gentle - souled movie about the poetry of life and the life of poetry that finds more pleasure and meaning in ordinariness than most movies do in extraordinariness, and Yorgos Lanthimos» The Lobster, a perfectly sustained dystopian sick joke about the desperate, poignant futility of seeking human connection.

It's hard to imagine a more fitting choice to play the modest and mild - mannered pilot, and although he doesn't get a lot to work with from a character standpoint (Sully is extraordinary only in his ordinariness), the actor makes the most of even the smallest moments.

«We too are «virgins» who are incapable of bearing God,» until God deigns to be born in our ordinariness as in Mary's, argues Presbyterian theologian Cynthia Rigby.

It is so because first - rate art makes imagined people, in all their ordinariness, real and therefore mysterious and transcendent, while our secular wisdom tends to make real people seem shallow and artificial.

Not exact matches

What does the tradition teach him about how to speak of this Logos who is active in personal and communal ordinariness?

They present the Church as the Church of those who as sinners accept in faith the human life of all, with its ordinariness and its burdens, so that we experience our own lot as that of the Church, and ourselves as its members in that way; as the Church which is believed because we believe in God, the Church whose belief is not to be identified with what it experiences; above all as the Church which is the promise of salvation for the world which has not yet expressly recognized itself as part of the Church, the Church as the sacramentum of the world's salvation.

Nor is he talking about the utterly transcendent mystery of philosophers and mystics, the divine that allegedly lives in a far - off eternity uncontaminated by the ordinariness of time and space.

Its in the day to day ordinariness that Jesus is to be found in our midst and we should celebrate that and hang onto it — he never really had big buildings, big fanfares, big «ra ra» moments did he?

Mary the sinless Mother of God was, of course, lovely beyond all dreaming, but I was more drawn to the women among whom Christ lived who had shadings of flaws and ordinariness, of quintessentially female weakness: Martha testy in her kitchen, Mary Magdalene the penitent with her foolishly expensive perfume, her hair long enough to dry the feet of Christ, her tears for her many sins.

In his weakness and ordinariness, in the ease of his dismissal by those seeking something larger, in the character of his fragility, which fits so neatly into the world and into what is despicable about the world, Jesus is the Nobody whose prayer can mirror and fulfill the plodding of true prayeIn his weakness and ordinariness, in the ease of his dismissal by those seeking something larger, in the character of his fragility, which fits so neatly into the world and into what is despicable about the world, Jesus is the Nobody whose prayer can mirror and fulfill the plodding of true prayein the ease of his dismissal by those seeking something larger, in the character of his fragility, which fits so neatly into the world and into what is despicable about the world, Jesus is the Nobody whose prayer can mirror and fulfill the plodding of true prayein the character of his fragility, which fits so neatly into the world and into what is despicable about the world, Jesus is the Nobody whose prayer can mirror and fulfill the plodding of true prayer.

This is life in its common ordinariness in which we try at least to preserve our sanity and at most to improve our lot and that of others around us.

The weakness and humility of the people, even their plainness, ordinariness and self - effacement, are the fertile soil in which things like love, generosity, and wisdom grow.»

W. H. Auden perceived the ordinariness of time in his poem For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio.

The environment «poisoned by ordinariness, mediocrity and clear agenda to destroy talents» is from you, your fellow pastors and your churches that have condemned the people to such mental slavery that they are unable to think as creatures of a God who created us in his image.

A documentary - style look at the lives of office workers in Scranton, Pennsylvania, The Office takes ordinariness and turns it into comedy gold.

There are also eight Vicariate Apostolic and one Military Ordinariness in Ecuador.

Ms. Lambert's film builds nicely, staying in tune with the ordinariness and intimacy explored in Ms. Akerman's boldly rendered films.

Correctly, Seidl understands that his commentary is rather unnecessary, that the power of the work comes from the very ordinariness of the couples and families participating, the racial divide in the work involved in this industry, and his unflinching capturing of events we know occur but usually repress.

Gary Oldman is one of those actors you could walk past in the street and not recognise — he has a quiet, unshowy ordinariness that not only allows him to disappear into the parts he plays but also does a very good job of deflecting public attention.

But the drifting scenes of ordinariness are especially disquieting, both while they are happening and in retrospect, after the nightmarish situation has begun to reveal itself, and after the brutal explosion of violence.

Filmed and played in a low - key, naturalistic style, the movie draws us in through its sheer ordinariness.

But the actors are betrayed by a roundelay farce lacking in insightful moments and by Bogdanovich's medium - shot visual scheme that is either too poorly - lit, too pointlessly obfuscating (see especially a long track of Herrmann galumphing through the bowels of his ship), or so terrified of being obtrusive that its very ordinariness becomes distracting.

Mildred's act of bravery is her quiet decision to have her ordinariness weaponized in the Supreme Court case, Loving v Virginia, to strike a blow against institutional racism.

At the same time, it's Kapur's flourishes, the deviations from ordinariness, that keep Elizabeth from foundering in its period trappings.

He's a person with a life, a family, friends, people who love him and people he loves, and the very ordinariness of his day leading up to his death, with mistakes and decisions both good and bad, and the laid - back, observational filmmaking draws us into his existence in a way that may allow you forget about history and invest in his future, one that will never be.

But Nichols, whose superior Midnight Special opened earlier in 2016 (and made our aggregate list), is so committed to capturing the noble ordinariness of his subjects and their lives that he zaps the story of urgency.

The CSL's main problem in the current marketplace is one of mechanical ordinariness: that straight - six may have been taken out a few cc, but there wasn't any claimed increase in performance — it was timed at 7.3 sec to 60mph and wouldn't quite reach 140mph.

Most immediately, though, it is the story of one man — of a marriage foundering and recuperating in its mystery and ordinariness, of the shallows and depths of male friendship, of mourning and memory.

That one was too small, that one had only two roads in and out, that one looked as though it saw so few visitors that there would be no way for her not to stand out, despite all that ordinariness she tried to camoflage herself with.

What she terms «sublime ordinariness» manifests itself in a muted pastel - and - beige colour palette, and recurring visual motifs such as pearls, butterflflies, hearts and motivational slogans, act as reminders of the ubiquity of the mundane and the cute in presentations of identity and taste in social media and beyond.

Brennan's work has been shown in the UK and Europe, in 2014 she was part of Progress at The Foundling Museum (London), which included her commissioned project A Fall of Ordinariness and Light.

Her work has been extensively shown in the UK and Europe, in 2014 she was part of Progress at The Foundling Museum (London), which included her commissioned project A Fall of Ordinariness and Light.

In his paintings Moffett extends the traditional two - dimensional frame in a number of ways, including converting the ordinariness of the flat plane into highly textured reliefs, making paintings that are opened up and turned inside out, or presenting intricate illuminations through the use of video projections on the canvaIn his paintings Moffett extends the traditional two - dimensional frame in a number of ways, including converting the ordinariness of the flat plane into highly textured reliefs, making paintings that are opened up and turned inside out, or presenting intricate illuminations through the use of video projections on the canvain a number of ways, including converting the ordinariness of the flat plane into highly textured reliefs, making paintings that are opened up and turned inside out, or presenting intricate illuminations through the use of video projections on the canvas.

Although this work is described in the catalogue as «one of his seminal, total works,» it is not a great work of art, but an indulgent exercise in blandness and ordinariness.

She uses red or white in her works to refer to cultural, spiritual and traditional memories as well as meditation, Zen, emotion and the ordinariness of everyday life.

In this way we can be afforded insights that have the capacity to transfigure the ordinariness of life and offer us deeper meaning through the unification of the intellect with our emotions and imaginations.

Born in Montclair, New Jersey in 1927, Dodd shares the commitment to the gritty ordinariness of the everyday with another native of that much misaligned state, the poet William Carlos Williams, who was interested in «a new art form -LSB-...] rooted in locality which should give it fruit.»

The eleven artists juxtapose divergent approaches in conversation with each other, reflecting on primal questions consuming artists over the millennia: Elliot Arkin's conceptual use of web - based commerce spins an absurdist view on the commodification of artists; Babette Bloch's stainless steel reassessments of nature and artistic precedent limn positives and negatives through light; Christopher Carroll Calkins's street photography captures moments of under - the - radar narratives; Valentina DuBasky's acrylic and marble dust works on paper and plaster are a contemporary comment on the prehistory of art; Gabriel Ferrer's performance - like in - the - moment sumi - ink drawings on handmade paper reflect on memory and personal narrative; Christopher Gallego's realist, pure light - filled oil painting elevates the ordinariness of an artist's space to visual poetry; Ana Golici, in pergamano and collage, takes inspiration from 17th Century female naturalist, entomologist and botanical illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian to explore questions of science, nature and objective truth; Emilie Lemakis's monumental amplification of an ancient Greek krater employs scale to upend perceptions for the viewer's reconsideration; Mark Mellon's bronzes address the oppositions of movement and stillness; the alchemy of Michael Townsend's uncontrolled poured acrylic paintings equate the properties of materials with the turbulence of the universe; Jessica Daryl Winer's engagement with luminous color and choreographic line reflects in visual resonance the sonic history of a musical instrument.

Kim's words are intentionally observational — even mundane — in their content, but these phrases keenly express the ordinariness and changeability of everyday life.

Orto Botanico # 1 (2014), a large - scale silver gelatin print, presents a sculptural form emerging from a base of incongruous materials; the hint of surrealist photography projects an atmosphere of ambiguity over the relative ordinariness of the colour photographs that appear alongside it in the exhibition.

His work is unified and characterised by its calm intelligence and a kind of extraordinary ordinariness that helps us see its subject, the world around us, in a new way.

In Ireland the ground for civil partnership or gay marriage had been harrowed by couples such as Katherine Zappone and Ann - Louise Gilligan, whose public appearances in their ongoing court battle for the right to an Irish marriage revealed their unthreatening, almost nunlike ordinarinesIn Ireland the ground for civil partnership or gay marriage had been harrowed by couples such as Katherine Zappone and Ann - Louise Gilligan, whose public appearances in their ongoing court battle for the right to an Irish marriage revealed their unthreatening, almost nunlike ordinarinesin their ongoing court battle for the right to an Irish marriage revealed their unthreatening, almost nunlike ordinariness.