The carefully selected, closely framed shots made using 35 mm film are filled completely by the seemingly impenetrable, monochromatic patterns of the rainforest flora, and — with the exception of the obvious existence of a camera — do not evoke
any kind of human presence.
Her canvases are void of figures, and yet
a kind of human presence lingers in them, as if an individual as just stepped out of view.
Not exact matches
The
presence and operation
of power are not limited
of course to the life
of human -
kind.
The lesser
kinds of reverence have been noted only in order that we may be quite clear that even in Catholic circles the term worship is applied normally to God and none other, although it is important that we understand that by association with God and His
presence and work, creatures are seen in the Christian tradition as worthy
of something even more remarkable than the respect for personality
of which democracy has spoken — they are worthy
of reverence which is religious in quality, reverence about which there is a mystery, just as in
human personality itself there is a deep mystery by reason
of its being grounded in the mystery
of God.
The initial structure was simple and theologically eloquent: The glory, the
presence,
of the Lord is revealed with uncommonly convincing power - the term which is often used for this
kind of revelation is «theophany» - signifying the Lord's commitment to the Covenant (a pact, an agreement, a working arrangement between two parties) implicit in the divine -
human encounter (ch.
And I still like it even though I understand and agree with your dislike
of church «vision,» because this hymn isn't about a vision for the future
of an organization, or a vision for any
kind of institutionalized growth, but a vision
of the constant
presence of God in our lives, and in our very being, denying our need for material wealth and
human approbation for the true spiritual fulfillment that comes from God.
Over generations, the
human appreciates some benefit that the animal provides and encourages its
presence while the animal becomes separated from others
of its
kind in the wild.
The computers will then «learn» what
kind of land cover, what timing pattern
of greening and what
human densities best predict bird
presence, and generate a million more simulated observations for each species: points where it is predicted to be either present or absent at different times throughout the year.
Written long before the sequels were published, Garland's script seizes on key ideas from the novel, but spins them in exciting new directions, using his source as a
kind of leaping - off point (even the opening meteor detail is a bit
of a departure, albeit one with rich other - worldly implications) from which he offers five tough women a chance to make first contact with this alien
presence, and perhaps save the
human race in the process.
David Lynch's moving true - life tale
of the severely deformed Joseph Merrick and his rescue from the hell
of a Victorian circus sideshow stars the late John Hurt, who is unrecognisable, yet recognisably
human — the
kind of vulnerable, sensitive performance that made him such a phenomenal screen
presence.
Dalwood's
human subjects never themselves appear, though their
presence and absence is signalled in all
kinds of sidelong ways — a pair
of slippers and a hookah on a step, a typewriter on a table in Burroughs's room, the wobbly moon hanging over the hill where Kelly died.
De Kooning's most perfectly beautiful paintings, perhaps, came even earlier, in the late Forties when he had been concerned with the city as an experience as well as with the
human figure, with which he often had odd difficulties, and made some
kind of fusion between the two themes, resulting in a sequence
of miraculously «occupied» canvases, free
of the
human figure but alert, bristling with its
presence.
From the other extreme, others believe that the
human species, no matter what it does, can only be a threat and compromise the global ecosystem, so that humanity should reduce its
presence on the planet and prevent any
kind of interaction with it.