Sentences with phrase «mortal span of years»

Yet we have been able to find a way of asserting the abiding worth of our mortal span of years, such that our having existed at all can be said to have had dignity and value.

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First of all, that human life in our span of years and so far as man's history is concerned is, like the created world itself, derivative from a realm of heavenly existence which abides eternal over against the transient, mortal, and uncertain span of our years.

Mortal, an exhibition of work by Kiki Smith at the Dallas Contemporary, on view through Dec. 17, spans the last 10 years of the artist's output and includes the installation of Pilgrim, a set of thirty industrial steel windowpanes of mouth - blown stained glass.