Sentences with phrase «intense experiences of»

This beautifully illustrated book presents a new account of one of the most distinctive, long - lasting and fascinating chapters of modern British art: how artists have used painting to record their personal, sensuous, immediate and often intense experiences of life.

«Ultimately, what holds true for each of the artists in this exhibition is a consistent tackling of very personal, intimate and often very intense experiences of life.»

Can we simulate the intense experiences of issues like homelessness through putting on a headset, especially considering how inaccessible so much of this technology still is?

It was one of the most intense experiences of my life.

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It was one of the most intense experiences of my life.

The intense experience of the personal encounter with God is expressed in free and open emotional language that satisfies the quest for spirituality and enriches religious expression and popular culture.

After three solid days of intense poverty in Africa, we took a small plane (which was an intense experience of itself) to a spot about 250 miles away from Kampala,...

The death of his mother when he was six and of his father when he was 16 pushed Merton into an intense experience of the vulnerability felt by so many between the wars, and led to a cosmic sense of loss and nearly to a breakdown, both physical and mental — a vulnerability he described as «living on the doorsill of the Apocalypse» (ibid.).

That was quite possibly the most intense experience of my life and I have had a couple babies among other things.

Indeed, Wong's films may not be directly or overtly political, however there is often an «indirect relation to the political» via Wong's conveying of «a particularly intense experience of the period as an experience of the negative; an experience of some elusive and ambivalent cultural space that lies always just beyond our grasp».

Zhao added in a heartfelt tone, «You understand why they might suffer poverty and backwardness... this was the most intense experience of my life.

The thematic ideas and inspirations that sparked Three Colors: Blue (1993), though typically ambitious in scope, seem sketchy when compared to the intense experience of watching this exquisite film.

Through its particular characteristics, the power unit offers a particularly intense experience of this supreme performance.

While the intense experience of looking at Wilson's work may resonate with the strange intimacy we have with computer screens, the artist is less interested in visual metaphors for media interfaces, and more interested in the intersections of landscape, process, and time.

«A landmark exhibition at Tate Britain celebrates how artists have captured the intense experience of life in paint.

Despite vast differences in approach and style, the works included all capture the sensuous, immediate, and intense experience of life through the medium of paint.

Focusing on modern figurative painting from the second half of the 20th century, with Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon at its heart, Tate Britain will also examine how artists in Britain captured the intense experience of life in paint.

Blake Conroy's six large laser - cut paper works offer both an abstracted view of natural forms, and an intense experience of an increasingly seen art - making process enabled by technology.

Moreover, I possess extensive skills in the major design applications like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign and intense experience of branding, layout, color, and typography for both digital and print media.

From hobby interests to gender identity, some children will have a more intense experience of not being like the rest.

For instance, disorders like depression and schizophrenia are marked by a flattened affect (Levin et al. 1985), while anxiety disorders are characterized by the intense experience of negative emotions (Mennin et al. 2002).

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I find the intense focus on the details of the diners» experiences and the great respect and care shown to make their dining special incredibly applicable to businesses beyond restaurants.

«The experience of discovering a country or city is more intense when it's done in an active way,» says Paul Bierman of Tourist Run Amsterdam.

Flow is a term coined by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in his book Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience to mean complete absorption in a given task where concentration is «so intense that there is no attention left over to think about anything irrelevant.»

Follow - up studies that asked volunteers to find time for 15 minutes of device - free solitude each day for a week and keep a journal of their experiences showed the same thing - fewer intense emotions and a greater awareness of subtle ones.

This feeling is familiar to anyone who has drifted over a hill on a roller coaster or flown on a parabolic «zero - gravity» flight — often referred to as a «vomit comet» ride because of the intense nausea the experience can trigger.

Most concerning is the 4.1 % decline in same - store sales in the U.S. Higher prices and more intense competition are hurting the chain, not to mention that sense of shame and self - loathing many consumers experience at McDonald's.

At the core of craft, Koch says, is an intense focus on the customer experience.

High - profile venture capitalists and entrepreneurs, including venture capitalist Brad Feld, Moz's Rand Fishkin and Y Combinator president Sam Altman, have declared that no, they don't always feel like they're «crushing it,» and yes, they have (or know entrepreneurs who have) experienced feelings of intense doubt and darkness

«As I lay in a dazed condition with my eyes closed (I experienced daylight as disagreeably bright) there surged upon me an uninterrupted stream of fantastic images of extraordinary plasticity and vividness and accompanied by an intense, kaleidoscope - like play of colors,» he continued.

Yik Yak's combination of anonymous messaging and intense locality shows that there's a genuine interest in userbases in having an experience with not only those around them, but potentially those that they don't yet know.

That probably has been Trump's experience in life: the intense desire of people to be with The Winner, or a billionaire, makes folks suppress their hurt feelings.

As you wonder through your more directionless times on your journey, you will experience intense moments of feeling lost and hopeless.

The intense physical demands are just one facet of the experience; campers must also avoid up to 100 «scare actors» — Ten Thirty One repertory players and local hired guns authorized to forcibly handle, capture and exact simulated torture on ticket holders.

«It's hard not to look back — the past couple of years have been the most intense, humbling and incredible periods I've experienced professionally living in India and bring a part of Snapdeal / Freecharge and Bharti Airtel.»

As Mueller digs into CA's political ties, and Facebook promises to restructure itself to better handle the maelstrom of problems that formed through its platform and factored into the election results, both companies are experiencing an intense amount of scrutiny, from more eyes than ever before.

In June, the Western US experienced the most intense heat wave ever to strike so early in the year, leading to dozens of flight cancellations.

For those traders who lack the time and experience to perform this type of intense analysis, trading signals are an excellent opinion.

However, in today's intense and stressful society, we often lose track of our emotions and we spend long periods of time experiencing negative feelings without even realizing it.

The really funny part is that there's also a scientific explanation for the physical experience of intense prayer.

Like one of Dostoevsky's bored nihilists, he lived for intense experiences and weird beliefs to fill the void in his soul.

Particular past experiences, especially if they were emotionally intense, continue for a long time to affect the emotional tone of subsequent occasions.

It's been my experience and the experience of so many of my patients that these wounds flare up whenever we are in close and intense contact with our families.

If we view the soul as an effective social system for the procurement of intense experience, we can legitimately apply to it Whitehead's statement in «Immortality» that «the more effective social systems involve a large infusion of various soils of personalities as subordinate elements in their make - up — for example, an animal body, or a society of animals, such as human beings» (IMM 690).

Perhaps Francis, who had a singular (and singularly intense) personality, experienced the temptation to think of reform, as some of our contemporaries do, in essentially Pelagian terms: as something we effect by our own efforts and our own lights.

If the pastor has a keen awareness of what we have come to regard as the interpersonal hurt of his patient; knows the desperate and yet fatal need of the patient to evade further pain, no matter by what means, and often by striking out and hurting loved ones; feels something of the almost overwhelming and intolerable anxiety the patient experiences; is not too shaken by the terror evoked through what Kierkegaard expressed as «shut - up - ness unfreely revealed»; and can accept the consequent intense feelings of guilt and shame which isolate the patient from himself, from others and from God, then his ministry has within it the necessary element for a supportive and creative experience for the patient.

The fourth cry is from the beginning of Psalm 22, and shows that not only was Jesus experiencing great physical torment, but was also undergoing intense spiritual pain.

Worship services were designed to permit intense experiences and expressions of faith, even those that seem wild and unruly to outsiders.

Death is then, another instance of the more general way in which all history and all events move backward in time «from the Sasa period to the Zamani, from the moment of intense experience to the period beyond which nothing can go» (ARP 29).