Sentences with word «knowingness»

There is a level of understanding, of knowingness in all of us.

Others experience vivid dreams about their babies or prophetic dreams about their pregnancies, and / or rely on their intuition or inner knowingness more.

The world of fence - sitting, not knowingness could be used to describe science.

It happens when the relationship with the customer is shrouded in trust and there's a deep knowingness that you share the same values.

That said, I think the full - speed ahead into hip - with - the - millenials pop culture knowingness approach that some seem to be implicitly recommending is fraught with problems.

Patience is about holding onto the unshakeable knowingness that you will get there, even if you don't know where you're going.

That feeling of knowingness inside that you don't quite think you can spend the rest of your life with this person.

The artificiality of its sets, from the deep, bolds colors of its sunshine to the more lurid palette of the carnival are cute, but fails to really mean much when the film fails to balance a seriousness about real world disillusionment and an appropriate knowingness about its satire.

On some posters (not this one) the tag line is «Raises screen acting to a new level of sexual knowingness» -LRB-!!!)

Donald Sutherland as the villainous President Snow is represented more frequently by white roses than in person so when he does appear with a big wolfish grin, there is the delicious knowingness of a megastar arriving for a third act cameo.

Disarming its audience with knowingness, wicked humour and a surly pretence at not giving a damn it ultimately packs the potential to move you, perhaps even to tears, because in the end this is a film that cares a great deal.

The historical reappraisal that gave the western genre a moral grandeur to match its awesome settings is short - circuited by Cooper's Millennial - style knowingness.

A couple of decades ago, this hodgepodge of suspicion and literally steamy sex might have been an Adrian Lyne movie (Lyne's fine Claude Chabrol remake Unfaithful seems to have had some influence on the setting); in today's Hollywood, it's an attempt to replicate the corrosive arch knowingness of David Fincher's Gone Girl adaptation, tasked to Tate Taylor, director of The Help.

That is to say, it's derivative in a whole - hearted way that takes a lot of stuff you've seen before and pushes it to an absurd extreme — not in the manner of Tarantino-esque intertextual knowingness, but in the sense that Shyamalan seems to think he can make this material deeper, more resonant, altogether more significant than elsewhere.

But underneath the suggestion of peculiar knowingness an apparent and immense credulity lurked.

«Just look at him, in all his sexy knowingness.

They have a very contemporary knowingness of how paint — here an unconventional mixture of oil over vivid acrylic grounds — can be made to perform.

Their faces are presented again in her latest paintings, according to Scurr, to «[challenge] herself and her public to look again at the unknowing knowingness of children on the threshold of adult worlds.»

Those ideas, he claims, have been shaped by (1) the modern idea of «progress,» with its ultimate goal of «maturity,» and (2) postmodern social conditions which sometimes, for example, «enlist children as consumers,» transforming innocence into knowingness and cynicism.

Turquoise is believed to help awaken spiritual gifts and inner knowingness.»

But he has helped me in my not knowingness.

Moving «quickly» or not often comes with a sense of knowingness and security when one has made the right choice.

He states «Theirs is a world of fence - sitting, not - knowingness, but not - trying - ness either».

It does ascribe to god «all knowingness» and also recognizes that he knows how the story ends.

Sexualised images of underage girls in beauty pageants are presented in the same publications, accompanied by sub-headings that project a sexual «knowingness» onto their behaviour.

We do this by establishing an intimacy with our own inner essence — the quiet voice of our inner teacher that speaks in terms of love, silence, knowingness, kindness, and bliss.

Prenatal yoga helps attune the mother to the inner knowingness that lies within her and her baby to experience the transformative and powerful event of birth from a place of strength, grace, purpose and infinite wisdom.

With all of this knowingness, you might think «My, that Cat has it all together, geesh, what an enlightened Cat...» to which I would laugh and say «knowing something and truly being that knowing are two very different things».

Sure, those sneaky human feelings get in the way sometimes — anger, fear, inadequacy, jealousy — but, more and more, the knowingness gently nudges them away to be replaced with letting go and letting things flow.

But that humor you find is still only through the knowingness and not through any wit found in the screenplay or physical comedy clout by the performers.

Johnson and co-writer Mark Herman are clearly hoping that this dose of knowingness will deal with the issue; you may find yourself thinking that all this doesn; t quite add up as the film plumbs some murky narrative depths.

But all the knowingness in the world can't save the Muppets from the actual pitfalls of doing a sequel.

The knowingness that undergirds this series and movie goes a long way toward justifying their baser qualities — the stomach - churning violence and the pervasive whiff of machismo that permeates them.

That she's beautiful doesn't hurt, but she brings a dignity and knowingness to a role that can pull the whole enterprise up a notch.

Embedded in the knowingness of the piece is the notion that we've irrevocably lost something in our post-modern self - awareness: that smug satisfaction allows gaggles of freshmen appreciation classes to giggle at the rear - projection and mattes in Vertigo while losing sight of the fact that the artifice is the message.

And it seems like they all have the same weakness — adults presenting their all - knowingness of math to those who don't.

Turtle, 11, who has just the right mixture of knowingness and hope, has been sent to live with her extended family in Florida during the Depression.

For me, there is a knowingness in your humour that feels very English.

«She nonchalantly leans on the car sensually smoking her cigarette,» Bennett explains, «and casually walking around the beautifully shaped fenders of her Corvette with a sense of ownership and knowingness that women are so rarely given credit for embodying.

Meditating on the contrasting still of a forest to the frenzy of a city, Zito's work evokes a mood of displacement that is «between a yearning for universal truths and relativism, between a desire for sense and a doubt about the sense of it all, between hope and melancholy, sincerity and irony, knowingness and naivety, construction and deconstruction, (Genco Gulan).»

They lack the sort of knowingness that taints so much modern and contemporary art and yet define their own mode of sophistication.

Visual artists from Picasso and Chagall to Jean Dubuffet and Cy Twombly sought childlike brio as an antidote to knowingness.

Through the process, the winds have subsided to where I have calmly, and with «knowingness» made my choice for my life's direction.»

«Intuitively weave them in» — this spoke loudly to me, although it's been my experience that intuition quietly bubbles up from deep within — it's a inner - knowingness that can't be forced.