Sentences with word «ineffable»

Because good and holy liturgy lifts up our hearts — sursum corda, as the Roman Canon reads — to an experience of transcendent and ineffable mysteries.

«Peace» is experienced as ineffable unity and harmony, yet is only partially grasped and understood.

Can she tolerate being on the edge of ineffable experience?

Hawtin, who has a close connection with electronic music, creates the work as both a formal experiment and an effort to articulate otherwise ineffable feelings and sensibilities.

The craving for ineffable truth and the worship of the oracles of such truth have been constants within Romanticism, Symbolism and other metaphysical schools of thought and aesthetics.

For his second feature after the gentle teen comedy The Myth of the American Sleepover, writer - director David Robert Mitchell has produced the most unexpected and downright unnerving fright flick in years, a film that riffs smartly on the classics while adding something ineffable of its own.

Thank You for Your Service is admirably frank in its depiction of lingering trauma but too often struggles to capture its more ineffable qualities.

Foremost among their findings is that the principals who lead these schools do not rely on ineffable qualities like supersized charisma; rather, they enact a common set of actions and practices that, when implemented continuously and with fidelity, reliably enable teachers, students, and schools to thrive.

So, take a step forward and embark on the journey of yoga to savor the magical transformations in ineffable ways.

Superficially adapted by Daniel Clowes (author of «Ghost World») and clumsily directed by Craig Johnson («The Skeleton Twins»), it's memorable mostly for Woody Harrelson's ineffable charm and multi-faceted performance.

The brilliance of the man's eye in locating the menace and ineffable sadness in the midst of the bright and the mundane.

Despite this, Beckett's book remains an important survey and reminder of what in Western thought is of value, and why, and demonstrates the truth articulated by both the Second Vatican Council and Saint Julian: «Whatever has been spoken aright by any man... belongs to us Christians; for we worship and love... the Logos which is from the unbegotten and ineffable God... [and] those writers were able, through the seed of the Logos implanted inthem, to see reality darkly» (p. 51).

The revelation of God is God himself acting within events and making himself known to those who are able to witness the events (and therefore among whom alone they can happen) as a concrete, ineffable Reality.

Wire and wood, in his work, may refer to drawing and Baroque decoration, while blank paper renders invisibility as a palpable but ineffable presence.

Upon completing Gears of War 4's 8 - 10 hour campaign, those two decisive words constantly reverberated in the back of my mind, evoking a rather ineffable sensation.

To trace possible direct parallels between the book and Let the Sunshine In calls for deeper excavation than would be possible after a single screening, but I suspect it is nothing so literal, and that Barthes's influence permeates not only this film but Denis» body of work as a whole, dedicated as both artists are to the eschewal of the obvious and the outlining of states on the fringe of expression, of ineffable auras.

I have traveled up the West Coast and across Puget Sound to explore just how the dean of relationship research has transmuted the most ineffable of experiences — love — into something particularly precise: mathematics.

Known for their Kauai vacation rentals that showcase impeccable taste and ineffable style, The Parrish Collection Kauai announces three new Kauai cottages in the Kukuiula Makai neighborhood.

God freely and completely bestows the Godself in the encounter with humans, yet remains ineffable because we creatures are incapable of fully receiving or understanding the one who is imparted.

They are more often invitations to dive into ineffable richness and chaos even, to discover and explore

Le Brun's move away from the wholly abstract to a representational account of the more ineffable aspects of human longing, nostalgia or pain is symptomatic of an increasing plurality of approach in the last years of the century.

The refracted light, bouncing off the glittery silicate, creates ineffable layerings of space, where skeins of color seem to hover above the previously applied layers of paint, a softly sensual contrast that halts the the aggressive, creative - destructive momentum governing the painting's gestation, forcing an about - face in the character of the work.

Wading through the scum - stench'd mud of mythology — most saliently the encroachment of Christianity on every older world religion — and practically ineffable ideas about masculinity or building civilization over the detritus of human corruption, whatever it's about in the end, Refn's lyrical oddity is an endlessly fascinating, completely visceral experience.

Left: Alito in his Princeton undergraduate days, where he was a Woodrow Wilson Scholar, «thinking great and ineffable thoughts,» as his yearbook puts it.

Their existence, and therefore their identity, is that ineffable lack of consciousness behind the face, which was once the outward sign of consciousness.

A squeegee, when it rubs against a screen, exerts a steady, hard pressure whose ineffable physicality kills off any imagery that the silkscreen itself will depict.

It was truly ineffable.

In this magical story about loneliness, ghosts, adventure, letting go, and true friendship, Liesl explains that she likes the word ineffable because it means «a feeling so big or vast that it could not be expressed in words.»

Yet it has some nagging, almost ineffable weight, pulling it toward real - world decisions.

Often an artwork that on its own leaves visitors scratching their heads will, when installed with other work sympathetic to it, make perfect, if ineffable, sense.

This marks a major shift in the meaning of death, from ineffable human destiny to legislated human right.

Nathaniel calls our attention to Bishop Trautman's difficulties with the word ineffable as reported in the Erie Times - News.

In fact, the sea is presented as a monster that only God's ineffable power...

The filmmaker has borrowed from Chekhov the soul - baring introspection that can be so ineffable on the page or stage yet becomes so damply sensitive and dramatically vague on screen.

This dilemma can only be mediated by openly insisting that only metaphorical uses of concepts to stretch beyond themselves can approach an adequate characterization of the otherwise ineffable domain.

In this essentially pre-philosophical philosophy, being revealed itself as the silent, mostly ineffable process by which all things emerge out of the hiddenness of nonbeing, waver for a time in the openness of being, and then pass away into hiddenness again.

Even allowing for «the secret Scilly Cay sauce,» the seafood presented that same ineffable Anguillan wonderfulness.

One way to get a grip on this seemingly ineffable property would be to build a conscious machine.

There are ineffable properties of natural foods that we are hard - pressed to isolate in synthetic supplements.

While it only comes in one shade (so far), think of this cream - to - powder wonder similar as you would to a translucent powder, lending ineffable coverage and tamping down shine on a range of skin tones.