Sentences with phrase «lost in contemplation»

On the crowded streets, the subjects appear lost in contemplation, immersed in a world of their own, or defiant and uncompromising as they return the photographer's gaze.

Dubuffet requires the viewers to participate in this frenzy of visual information, and asks them to get lost in contemplation and experience, in Dubuffet's words, «viewing by the mind, not the eyes».

In series such as South Central (1991 - 1993), for which Steinmetz photographed in and around Knoxville, Tennessee, we see solitary, mostly youthful, figures in a suburban environment, often lost in contemplation.

Diebenkorn often said how much he owed to European painting and the debt is acknowledged here, in the second room of the show, in big works depicting human figures framed in landscape — on a terrace, at a window — or secluded in shady interiors, in placid unanimity with their surroundings, sunken - eyed, reading, or lost in contemplation.

Dubuffet requires the viewers toparticipate in this frenzy of visual information, and asks them to get lost in contemplation and experience, in Dubuffet's words, «viewing by the mind, not the eyes».

Buddhism is negative, a gospel of escape, its most characteristic symbol a monastery or a statue of Buddha, lost in contemplation.

Both Strauss and the physicists seem to say that a man is most fully himself when he loses himself in contemplation of eternity, but the truth is that, deep down, persons are incapable of losing themselves, of not knowing the truth about themselves in some sense.

Not exact matches

The text by Michael Downey is an invitation to understand how people today are still finding their lives by losing their lives in prayer, work, and the contemplation of the mystery of God.

Gazing into the depths of the immense complex of which he is a part, whose roots extend far below him to be lost in the obscurity of the past, he again fortifies his spirit with the contemplation and the feeling of a universal, stubborn movement depicted in the successive layers of dead matter and the present spread of the living.

Eckhart says that Mary is the one who's still learning, whereas Martha is the one who has learned perfectly because she combines contemplation and action — though Eckhart doesn't use those words — in an unselfish, detached way She can now operate as the soul «without a why» and be effective spontaneously without losing that contact with God.

My church had succumbed to writer Richard Rohr's prediction, «When the church is no longer teaching the people how to pray, we could almost say it will have lost its reason for existence,» Yet in the congregations I have visited, silence, meditation and contemplation were commonplace, and many new members testified to the spiritual attraction of prayer.

The prayer of adoration is the highest form of all because in it self - concern is lost in the joyous contemplation of the supremely good.

The same goes for video - there's no obvious pixel humping anywhere, but you won't lose yourself in sheer contemplation for the colors it captures.

This loop of climbing, contemplation and aerial journey really is the base of the exploration of the world in this Zelda and I really wanted to be able to take pleasure in getting lost.

In determining the amount and duration of maintenance the court shall consider: (A) the income and property of the respective parties including marital property distributed pursuant to subdivision five of this part; (B) the duration of the marriage and the age and health of both parties; (C) the present and future earning capacity of both parties; (D) the ability of the party seeking maintenance to become self - supporting and, if applicable, the period of time and training necessary therefor; (E) reduced or lost lifetime earning capacity of the party seeking maintenance as a result of having foregone or delayed education, training, employment, or career opportunities during the marriage; (F) the presence of children of the marriage in the respective homes of the parties; (G) the tax consequences to each party; (H) contributions and services of the party seeking maintenance as a spouse, parent, wage earner and homemaker, and to the career or career potential of the other party; (I) the wasteful dissipation of marital property by either spouse; (J) any transfer or encumbrance made in contemplation of a matrimonial action without fair consideration; and (K) any other factor which the court shall expressly find to be just and propeIn determining the amount and duration of maintenance the court shall consider: (A) the income and property of the respective parties including marital property distributed pursuant to subdivision five of this part; (B) the duration of the marriage and the age and health of both parties; (C) the present and future earning capacity of both parties; (D) the ability of the party seeking maintenance to become self - supporting and, if applicable, the period of time and training necessary therefor; (E) reduced or lost lifetime earning capacity of the party seeking maintenance as a result of having foregone or delayed education, training, employment, or career opportunities during the marriage; (F) the presence of children of the marriage in the respective homes of the parties; (G) the tax consequences to each party; (H) contributions and services of the party seeking maintenance as a spouse, parent, wage earner and homemaker, and to the career or career potential of the other party; (I) the wasteful dissipation of marital property by either spouse; (J) any transfer or encumbrance made in contemplation of a matrimonial action without fair consideration; and (K) any other factor which the court shall expressly find to be just and propein the respective homes of the parties; (G) the tax consequences to each party; (H) contributions and services of the party seeking maintenance as a spouse, parent, wage earner and homemaker, and to the career or career potential of the other party; (I) the wasteful dissipation of marital property by either spouse; (J) any transfer or encumbrance made in contemplation of a matrimonial action without fair consideration; and (K) any other factor which the court shall expressly find to be just and propein contemplation of a matrimonial action without fair consideration; and (K) any other factor which the court shall expressly find to be just and proper.