Sentences with phrase «like veil»

Like a veil drawn across the landscape, the fog both reveals and conceals, frustrating our desire to capture an accurate image and moment in time.

Diane Arbus's startling Woman with a Veil on Fifth Avenue, New York City, 1968 presents the viewer with an extreme close - up of a grimacing woman bedecked in fur, huge pearl earrings and a web - like veil.

Her surfaces are composed of intricate patterns that appear to pulse, undulate, and recede into the canvas, like a veil or membrane.

Always thin like a veil, a screen, a barrier.

With titles like Veil of Faith, Veil of Love's Pleasure and Veil of Logic, Hirst makes it clear that each work tackles a vast, complex, overarching presence within the human existence; presences which many choose to believe provide clarity, but which really continuously baffle and bewilder.

I am trying to express this flux — this constant shifting of one thing over another, like a veil over the moment itself.»

Being a member of the Aldrich Faithful rips away every obstacle to your own bastardry like a veil, by removing the typical consequences and risk found in Dark Souls» invasions.

Smushing them into an umbrella name like Veil doesn't really make for any staggeringly new developments in the genre.

Filter words act like a veil between the reader and the character by Kathy Steinemann This article provides a list of writing filters, with practical examples of how to replace them.

One of the primary factors in my decision to self - publish was that I felt like Veil of Civility, as a political thriller tied to real - world events, had a certain shelf life that could mean big changes for the manuscript if it were to sit around waiting on the traditional route.

It's like the veil that is covering the secret to success is lifted, and they begin to realize that it is within their control to choose to embrace the Mindsets which will ultimately change the trajectory of their lives»

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This setting powder is like a veil of perfect golden hour sunlight, giving you a gorgeous glow all while reducing shine and blurring any perceived imperfections.

Her head was clear «like a veil had been lifted».

Once I discovered the world of plant allies and their protective Energies, I felt like a veil had been lifted.

Yet the army continues to challenge its authority, especially around iconic issues like the veil.

When a baby finally sleeps through the night it is like a veil is lifted from your eyes as a new mother.

This stems from a realisation that the ceremony and the words were like the veil which hung before the Holy of Holies, and partook of the sacredness within.

It drifts like smoke or storms in like flashes of lightening - insight or takes our breath; we make love, we learn, we sing, we watch the stars come out, we care, we connect, we labour, we carry, we nurse, we cry, we dance, we have these moments of transcendence, like the veil between heaven and earth is fluttering, we can't breathe for the loveliness of the world and each other, and just like that, we remember something.

The flesh covers the heart like a veil and will even drag it to hell if it is let... that «s why Christ takes that veil away so we can at last live from the heart (why do you think you hate it when you sin — it «s no longer you who sin, that «s not your true heart — its the flesh!).

We have these moments of transcendence, like the veil between heaven and earth is fluttering, we can't breathe for the loveliness of the world and each other, and just like that, we remember something.

The Lib Dem leader opted for a traditional intro but couldn't avoid slipping what looked like a veiled dig about Brexit.

For my look, I made sure to include girly pieces like this veiled headband and crushed velvet OTK boots.

Fabrics in these works are rectangular, square and triangular and colors are clear and intense, hung loose on the walls or attached to bamboo rods like veils in a state of ethereal equilibrium.

Sam Gilliam's takes a more immersive Rothkoesque approach in April 4, a tribute to Martin Luther King created a year after his assassination, staining and knotting the canvas to create wash - like veils of muted colour dotted with clots of crimson, which «may suggest bloodstains» the texts argue — though the painting doesn't hit quite the note of transcendence it aspires to.

I used to feel embarrassed if someone said my work looked feminine — it felt like a veiled insult and something to work against.

Not exact matches

She gives her students this example of how to counter a veiled proposition, like if someone says «I just want to get to know you better.»

And like most children who were adopted in the 60's, everything about my biological parents, my genealogy and how I came to be adopted remain cloaked behind a veil of secrecy.

First, simply because the president - elect does not like United Technologies» business decisions does not justify his issuing of veiled threats to blackball the company for actions that are perfectly legal, and this constitutes an unwarranted exercise of government power.

Logan licks his thumb and kneels to wipe a thin veil of dirt from his otherwise immaculate white Converse sneakers, before hopping back on a two - wheel electric scooter that looks like a Segway crossed with a skateboard.

But if you're anything like me, you may have detected within the psychedelic lyrics a veiled bit of social commentary aimed at the startup and venture capital economy.

So in conclusion, the situation will get worse for every Muslim unless they come with a pragmatic leader who preaches respect and coexistence with other religions and get rid of the nonsensical beliefs like mentioned above plus the veil and mistreatment of women.

it is a blood thirsty religion that likes to hide behind a veil of peace loving.

But I'm sure they were all fugly like most middle eastern women in general as that's why they wear veils.

There was a security, love, and wonder I sensed (at an early age) that only Catholics had ¯ the hushed, steepled churches and the priests; the parish school with veiled nuns whose black habits swept the floors; the picture of the pope on the bedroom wall, a strange man with what looked like an eggshell on his head who gave the sense of a wider world and eternity.

I'd like to think that I'm a part of this kingdom, even though my stuff and my comforts sometimes thicken the veil.

Andrew came on, unidentified, and dogmatically stated that a church should be run like a business and challenged David with a veiled threat «does the vineyard know what you're doing?»

Since we have such a hope, we are very bold, not like Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the Israelites might not see the end of the fading splendor.

Of course a muslim woman wearing a veil (tent) will think differently of you just like you think differently of her.

The Qur» an instead says «nothing is like him» (42:11), and he speaks «from behind a veil» (42:51).

• Why does God hide behind a veil of silence instead of talking to me in plain English (or whatever my native language is) like other people do?

If Jesus thus employed a familiar way of speaking, not just casually but in circumstances which made it the vehicle of a partly veiled assertion of his vocation, then «Son of Man» came to be something like a self - designation replacing the traditional title of «Messiah» That is how the writers of the gospels seem to have understood it.

And having read it and though about it for decades, I can state that many of the stories are poor attempts at literature or history, unless you like thinly veiled plagiarism.

that we sit in a building for two hours and many congregants never know each other on a venerable and honest level, but instead we keep the show going like the priests did in the old covenant temple after the veil was torn.

Just like when He died on the cross, the veil in the temple was torn from top to bottom, showing that the dividing wall between God and man had been breached, Jesus Christ has also made it possible for all to come before God — Jew and Gentile alike.

He believed that it will be like the pulling back of the veil to reveal what already is true.

Many of us who have written about Rawls» argument have noted that the people behind his famous «veil of ignorance» are a peculiar kind of people (i.e., people very much like John Rawls) and therefore can hardly serve as the normative deliberators producing universal moral principles.

; the healing of the blind man was the release of the disciples from «Jewish blindness»; names like Jaïrus and Bartimaeus contained subtle allegorical meanings; the Gerasene demoniac symbolized idolatrous heathenism; the rending of the temple veil meant the end of Judaism; the darkness at the Crucifixion symbolized the darkness of men's minds apart from Christ; the healing of the deaf mute was the symbol of conversion — either of Jews or Gentiles, it was not certain which!