Sentences with phrase «incantations of»

Arthur Jafa: «Air Above Mountains, Unknown Pleasures» Opening: 6 — 8 p.m., Gavin Brown's enterprise, 439 West 127th Street What you should know: Jafa's stunning and shocking 2017 video Love Is the Message, The Message Is Death is a celebration of blackness (or Blacknuss, as Jafa calls it, per composer and orator Rahsaan Roland Kirk) and a lament over its systemic oppression, set to the gospel incantations of Kanye West's «Ultralight Beam.»

In fact, one of the earliest incantations of such a project was the World Nomads Ambassador program (in 2008), in which my partner (at the time) and I had use of a camper van and some complementary toys for a 6 - week Australian adventure.

That's one of the things I love about travel; our motivations and incantations of a dream trip is different for everybody.

What is certain is that independent films have been staking a claim in this genre with their low budget, more grittily authentic incantations of love.

He's in his 40's and seemingly has a lot more downtime than previous incantations of Bruce Wayne.

Reminders of the transcendence of God could be a helpful corrective: We can not bend God's will to serve our visions of the perfect human society, nor can we summon divine favor through incantations of equality.

Children learn by heart the surviving portions of the periodic table and recite as incantations some of the theorems of Euclid.

Marie Kondo's abracadabra incantation of «Does It Spark Joy?»

Like the incantation of a powerful spell, Marvel fans finally heard the magic words: Doctor Strange is getting his own movie.

After his acid - tongued, ultra-contemporary take on burdened romance in 2012's Celeste and Jesse Forever, director Lee Toland Krieger embraces a far more fantastical and glowingly cinematic incantation of fateful love with his follow - up, The Age of Adaline.

Recent curatorial projects include Every Time A Ear di Soun — a documenta 14 Radio Program, SAVVY Contemporary, 2017; The Conundrum of Imagination, Leopold Museum Vienna / Wienerfestwochen, 2017; An Age of our Own Making in Holbæk, MCA Roskilde and Kunsthal Charlottenborg Copenhagen, 2016 - 17; Unlearning the Given: Exercises in Demodernity and Decoloniality, SAVVY Contemporary, 2016; The Incantation of the Disquieting Muse, SAVVY Contemporary, 2016.

Recent curatorial projects include «The Conundrum of Imagination», 2017; «An Age of our Own Making», 2016 — 17; «Unlearning the Given: Exercises in Demodernity and Decoloniality», 2016; and «The Incantation of the Disquieting Muse», 2016.

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And if you listen very closely, there are echoes of Cosell's legendary incantation, his exultant chime, in this one - sentence call made yesterday by a three - judge patent trial and appeal board in Alexandria, Virginia:

It's exciting to preach the gospel of «magical money - losing incantation that inexplicably makes you rich».

Not only does the rhetoric of Crisis on Campus combine the sensibilities of a management consultant report with the urgency of a liberal - progressive manifesto tinged with futurist incantations, it is also an apocalyptic prediction of the consequences of ignoring his suggestions.

All those rituals, incantations, prayer beads, phials of holy water etc. aren't necessary.

Big invisible magic man chanting magical incantations does NOT provide any sort of meaningful answer that answers any relevant questions.

Jesus didn't give the Lord's prayer as a magic incantation (though many believers use it this way); it is supposed to prod us on to deeper levels of conversational prayer with the Lord as you point out.

Starting in antiquity, I found that the ancient Greeks did not generally approve of abortion, while their Roman counterparts favored the use of thaumaturgy and incantations.

When we do this, we are treating the words «in Jesus» name» like they are some sort of magical incantation by which we will get whatever we ask for in prayer.

The idea that this couple had any delusions that who they are, fundamentally, changes in any way just because they recited some incantations and signed a marriage certificate shows how flawed their perception of reality is.

The doctrine of Inspiration makes the Bible a book of magical incantations, to be flung out whenever «the devil» comes around, or when our spouse, boss, or neighbor simply does something we don't like.

There were ablutions and incantations and the babbling utterances of the Sibylline Oracles but nothing that could rightly be called a sermon.

She has said a million incantations and followed the rules the best of her abilities.

As evidence that Jesus possessed magical powers, knew the right incantations or was on good terms with the prince of demons, they would be of most dubious worth!

My ears fill with Alfredo's incantations and the rhythm of the Lakota chant.

Of course, that hasn't stopped us from seeking to bind Him with human sacrifice, incantations, and legal covenants.

No, they weild the name of God as if it were an incantation.

Now that the gloomy shadow of the earth Longing to view Orion's drizzling look, Leaps from the antarctic world unto the sky, And dims the welkin with her pitchy breath, Faustus, begin thine incantations, And try if devils will obey thy hest, Seeing thou hast pray'd and sacrific'd to them.

«Christians get the power they seem to possess by pronouncing the names of certain daemons and incantations...»

Perhaps she did; the Bible is a veritable treasure trove of magic, superst!tion, curses, incantations, fantasy and other imaginary stuff.

Folks, I hate to say it, but deluding yourself that dunking your kid in water while saying incantations somehow appeases some guy who sits up in the sky running the lives of everyone on the planet, is... well, flat out crazy.

There are prayers too, one on building a house (3:12); one for success at gambling (4:38); and particularly in playing at dice (7:50); an incantation for the exorcism of evil dreams (6:46), etc. etc..

In this form of fantasy the powers are always mysterious, but by certain rites, incantations or motions they can be drawn upon by humans and used to human ends.

Having religious longings of a sort (he swore that the later poems were as religious as the early ones, though secretly so), he wrote like a helpless saint; but having faith smaller than any mustard seed, he saw no chance of moving mountains except by courage and incantation.

Having faith smaller than any mustard seed, he saw no chance of moving mountains except by courage and incantation.

In a magic incantation text which does not rise to the moral level of these great psalms of penitence, there is nevertheless to be found a remarkable list of what must evidently have been regarded as wrong by the best Babylonian thought.

But we must be ward ourselves against all such forms of Scripture twisting and treating the Bible like a magical incantation book full of secret codes and magical formulas.

Similarly the coming of redemption depends not upon our power or on the practice of magic incantation over mysterious forces, but on our repentance and our return to God.

Positions of power, incantations, special handshakes?

i am thinking of performing some spells and incantations for him also.

I think we misstate the blood of Jesus when we try to make it into some kind if magical incantation (i.e. pleading the blood).

These days, «public service» is too often a matter of incantation rather than fact, as public office has become an expression of ego rather than of conviction.

It didn't seem to have occurred to the well - meaning vandals who'd thrown out baby, bath, and bathwater that all ritual is a reaching out to the unknowable and can be accomplished only by the noncognitive: evocation, allusion, metaphor, incantation» the tools of the poet.

It looks as if prayer for other persons might be mere wishful thinking — at best an attempt at thought transference, at worst a relic of primitive magic and incantation.

Starhawk sees spells and incantations as ways of transforming one's own consciousness, purging oneself (individually or in groups) of depression, anger and hatred, and putting oneself in right relation to the self, others and the universe.

They take longer than everybody else's food, so you imagine that the cook is back there with some culinary book of spells, muttering magical incantations to conjure up this mysterious glorified pancake.

Where the eye - sting of tear gas was commonplace and ants crawled through sugar bowls and old women on the streets sold llama fetuses over which witches might mumble incantations to change the people's unchangeable fate?

The word alchemy evokes an image of a medieval conjurer murmuring incantations over a boiling cauldron, attempting to turn lead into gold.

After the singing of a prayer / incantation, the family vanishes from view.