Sentences with phrase «life in a blur»

Her name, her body, and the shack she lives in blur into the unreality of dreams — but an unreality different than that of her initial impulse toward «a dream somebody had, and wrote it down, and it ended up in this book,» because her name, her body, and her shack all do exist.

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In our hyper - connected social world, the lines between our personal and professional lives are more blurred than ever.

It's a dramatic U-turn in the quest for the perfect work environment — a migration back to the cubicle from the often - idealized home office, but a cubicle reimagined for a time when the line between domestic and professional life has never been more blurred.

This creating out of passion and love, the carrying, the seemingly - never - ending - waiting, the knitting - together - of - wonder - in - secret - places, the pain, the labour, the blurred line between joy and «someone please make it stop,» the «I can't do it» even while you're in the doing of it, the delivery of new life in blood and hope and humanity?

One season blurred into another, with pictures taken on the beach mixed with those of pajama - clad kids in our living room.

Reducing communication to being an instrument at the service of the advancement of the churches has blurred the very meaning of communication and its relationship with mission, and has allowed the development of a mistaken theological concept about its place in the life of the church and the world.

We live in a culture that constantly blurs the lines between necessity and pleasure, and so it should come as no surprise that what couples argue about the most is money and spending.

The result is a movie that blurs the lines between fact and fiction, documentary and feature film, telling the story of childhood elation and adult struggle, in a motel where this happens every day and featuring dozens of extras who live within miles of the set.

They point to other destructive aspects of television that have been stressed by television researchers and theorists; the privatization of experience at the expense of family and social interaction and rela - tionships; (33) the promotion of fear as the appropriate attitude to life: (34) television's cultural levelling effects which blur local, regional, and national differences and impose a distorted and primarily free - enterprise, competitive and capitalistic picture of events and their significance; (35) television's suppression of social dialogue; (36) its distorted and exploitative presentation of certain social groups: (37) the increasing alienation felt by most viewers in relation to this central means of social communication; (38) and its negative effects on the development of the full range of human potential.

One's identity as person is established in community, contrary to the fears of some that participation in intensive group life will blur and diffuse one's individuality.

We're in an era where limits are pushed and boundaries are crossed; where walls are broken and judgment is blurred; when sexuality is trivialized, lying is a means to an end, and selfishness is a way of life.

Occurring as it does in the context of a review of one of the most spectacularly successful empirical historical investigations in the whole field of life of Christ research, it is clear evidence of a tendency of the «new hermeneutic» to blur the distinction between statements possible on the basis of academic historical research and statements possible only on the basis of faith.

The truth about Jeremy Lin is that his story is a sports movie brought to life, so maybe that blurs people's reality a little bit in both directions.

I'm always trying so hard to get things perfectly in focus that sometimes I forget the best images are the ones that show children as they really are: a blur of motion, activity, happiness, and life.

In the past, silver nitrate was commonly used which stung and swelling of the eyes and blurred vision for the first few days of life.

The first year of your baby's life passes by so quickly in a blur of milestones and sleep deprivation, that by the time they reach 12 months old you have both earnt a celebration.

Every day with an infant is an adventure, but it's easy for all the special moments in your baby's life to fade into one big blur if you don't take the time to help preserve your memories.

C - SPAN knew that live footage from the floor, even shaky, blurred video from a mobile device, was going to be more effective than still images or third - party tweets describing the activity in the House.

Sir Alistair Graham, a former chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, said: «At the moment it all looks very muddy and blurred and worthy of a full investigation.»

The author focuses her attention and dismay on the relentless growth in the commercialization of education and scholarship within universities, the resultant diminishment of the intellectual commons, and the elimination or blurring of the boundaries that separate the distinct values and virtues of academic life from those of the commercial sector.

The essence of the theory is that life will become an unmemorable blur unless people engage occasionally in what Walford describes as «rather crazy» activities, which act as signposts marking the passage of the years.

Scientists typically don't classify viruses as living organisms, but giant viruses like these, with their own protein - making machinery and other functions normally carried out in living cells, blur the lines between what's alive and what isn't.

I did not want to live my life in a blur, unable to remember what I did the night before and unable to fully live each day to the fullest.

Life at that point still felt like a blur, but I do remember that our days were completely structured, down to the hour: we cleaned our rooms, ate and sat in therapy.

(MASTERFILE) Cathy Lowery, 50, of Western Springs, Ill., says her mother was doing fine in her assisted living home until she developed age - related macular degeneration (AMD), a condition that causes severely blurred vision or blindness.

In any event, life has been wonderful but a bit of a blur this past six weeks since giving birth to a small child.

We can start to blur the boundary between our practice and our lives, living more and more in the present moment and appreciating the richness in the world around us.

Being in the midst of change, as I have been over the last month or so, often feels like living in the middle of a blur.

Please forgive me: Life is like a hurricane here in Duckburg Race cars, lasers, aeroplanes - it's a duck blur You might solve a mystery or rewrite history Duck Tales, Oo - oo Tales of derring - do, bad and good luck tales, oo - oo

Many long days and nights were spent on her restoration, and in the process the lines began to blur between the life of the restorer and the one being restored as comparisons were made of their similarities.

The latter group can find solace in that there's no shortage of products out there that can help you look airbrushed in real life and blur what nobody needs to see.

In the early stages of the relationship it is normal to only see each other on a date night, but as the relationship becomes more serious the boundaries of your separate lives should start to blur.

Lucia, a writer of children's books, dips in and out of fiction in her own life, the line blurring so often that it's hard to tell what's real and what's fantasy in Lucia, Lucia.

There's no reason the imaginative freedom that animation allows shouldn't be unleashed on adult themes, especially when graphic novels have entered the literary mainstream and when CGI has blurred the line between live action and animation in films like «300.»

He must quickly decide what he's willing to sacrifice in pursuit of perfection as the lines between his personal and professional life become blurred on a life - changing day for a few hundred young men with dreams of playing in the NFL.

Programmed to be the ultimate law enforcer, RoboCop's not supposed to remember his human past - but memories of life, love and family are flooding in, blurring the line between man and machine, even as RoboCop sweeps the streets of «scum.»

As his marital problems merge and blur into his fantasy life with prostitutes and call girls, a long - dormant secret friend of his childhood surfaces in his delusions.

In the Season 4 finale, as Hank awaits sentencing, the lines between his real life and the movie based on his life blur as the film's star hits on his ex-wife and he feels stirrings of passion for the actress hired to play Karen.

Fact and fiction begin to blur in this comedy drama in which a filmmaker casts his parents, his siblings, and himself in a story loosely adapted from their own lives and personalities.

Based on true accounts, the superficial lines between subject and bystander are blurred and bound together, allowing individuals to walk in a vast space and thoroughly live a fragment of the refugees» personal journeys.

And this in turn, becomes a metaphor for Andy Kaufman who, as the film reiterates, purposefully blurred any distinction between his work and life.

It slides from art to life — thoughtfully poking around in that blurred space between them — and jumps around in time, all while flipping from Kaufman to Mr. Carrey and then to Mr. Carrey as Mr. Kaufman.

Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchette bring the legendary story of «Robin Hood» to life as only Ridley Scott can and Colin Farrell falls into a love that blurs the line between reality and fantasy in «Ondine» on DVD this week.

This descent into underground sex culture in Peru, where the divisions between pornography and real life start to blur, is mirrored in an aesthetic where memes and pixels start rupturing the «real».

The unbelievable but mostly true story of four young men who mistook their lives for a movie and attempted one of the most audacious heists in US history; American Animals takes the thrill of the heist genre and turns it inside out, blurring the line between truth and fiction in a wild story of money, movies and the search for meaning.

As much time is spent on their story arc as any other, which does occasionally blur the thematic resonance of the story to be more about the new culture of India vs. the traditional class and matchmaking structure, but one can also read into this the angle that India, like the building and its residents, is an old country that must also find new life through new ideas, not getting stuck in old ways of thinking at the cost of growth.

The blurring of time in Comet is likely trying to say something earnest about memory, significant moments and living in the present.

Sure, Robert Rodriguez made a giant leap in blurring that line with the release of «Sin City,» but director Timur Bekmambetov takes it to a whole new level with «Wanted,» a fast - paced, in - your - face cartoon come to life.

In 2001, Michael Bay shot the aftermath of «The Day That Will Live In Infamy» using a lens that blurred the gory details, ostensibly for the aesthetic purpose of disorientation.

As Neal Gabler notes in his book Life: The Movie, the 19th - century boundaries between high and low culture were blurred by movies and other electronic media in the 20th.