Sentences with phrase «mysterious sense for»

That is to say, expressionism had the power to communicate forcefully the images and the feeling of the artist; therefore, the great German expressionists, such as Emil Nolde, whose «Head of a Prophet» is one of the most powerful statements of the haunting and mysterious sense for Christ of modern art, evoke in us a response that is not the response of immediate and instant recognition.

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We can only salute as it passes that restless and mysterious figure, knowing at last that there must be in him something mystical as well as mysterious; that whether in the sense of the sorrows of Christ or of the sorrows of Cain, he must pass by, for he belongs to God.»

Moreover, unlike his colleagues C. D. Broad and G. E. Moore, Russell did not long hold fast to the extensive and absurd violation of Occam's razor entailed in maintaining some sort of mysterious ontological status for sense data or percepta apart from their originating objects (which are now «constructions»).

Or is the ageless religious sense of the mysterious destined for shipwreck on the rocks of a totally secularistic interpretation of the world?

But the baptism is no magical performance, for it promises escape only to the seriously repentant; at the same time it is no merely symbolical act in the modern sense; it is rather a «sign» in the antique meaning of the word, which guarantees the mysterious union of the symbolical act, now occurring, with the future event which the symbolical act prophesies.

Perhaps, therefore, in some mysterious sense, there is an answer, but I for one am unable to think in such terms.

Suddenly, or perhaps not so suddenly as we might have imagined, all kinds of people in all kinds of ways began an honest search for a new sense of the transcendent, the mysterious, the holy.

In a development which only added to the sense of a return to the Major era, the Mail on Sunday featured a mysterious report of a love affair which would have serious implications for David Cameron.

In particular, theta activity increased at the junction of three brain areas: the parietal region, just behind the crown of the head, which perceives sensory information and integrates it into the mysterious state called consciousness; the temporal lobe, behind the temples and responsible for making sense of sound; and the occipital lobe, located at the bottom back of the brain and responsible for processing vision.

ive thought about it and have come very close, but there has always been some mysterious gut - sense that it just wouldnt be healthy for me.

Other titles in this section include: Naomi Kawase's sweet, light and leisurely AN; Tom Geens» COUPLE IN A HOLE, about a couple living in an underground forest dwelling to be left alone to deal with their mysterious grief; DEPARTURE, Andrew Steggall's delicate first feature about longing, loneliness and nostalgia for a sense of family that may have never existed; Jacques Audiard's Palme d'Or - winner about a makeshift family trying to cement their bonds, DHEEPAN; the World Premiere of Biyi Bandele's FIFTY, a riveting exploration of love and lust, power and rivalry and seduction and infidelity in Lagos; the European Premiere of Maya Newell's documentary GAYBY BABY, following the lives of four Australian children whose parents all happen to be gay; Mark Cousins returns to LFF with his metaphysical essay film I AM BELFAST, Stig Björkman's documentary INGRID BERGMAN — IN HER OWN WORDS, a treasure trove of Bergman's never - before - seen home movies, personal letters and diary extracts alongside archive footage; Hirokazu Kore - eda's beautiful OUR LITTLE SISTER, focusing on the lives of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystical.

Even as The Place Beyond the Pines careens from one situation to the next, evolving and adapting to its new elements as it goes along, what remains constant is the sense of authenticity in every scene, a mysterious and evocative atmosphere supplanted by earthy cinematography and a moody score, strong empathy for each of its damaged characters, and powerhouse performances from a game cast.

Already, with his first feature, Saturo displays an uncanny sense for finding just the right place for his camera, and a knack for bringing out the unexpected in every scene, as he follows a lonely high - school student's mysterious, quixotic search for the identity of a homeless man who's apparently been killed by young street thugs.

By day they compete for the best office furniture left behind and try to make sense of the mysterious pro-bono ad campaign that is their only remaining «work.»

But Cady senses something else behind Gault's mysterious façade, and as the two grow closer she learns that his closely guarded secrets could spell life or death for the town — and for Cady herself.

Classic and yet contemporary, Tuskers is an exciting and mysterious backdrop for the sense - awakening vegetarian menu, crafted by our talented chefs, melded with an inspired cocktail list and iconic design.

Or maybe fortunately, in the sense my monies are saved for mysterious future ventures...

Other highlights of this auction include Lot 20, «Duridium,» a 26 - by - 36 inch magna on canvas, dated 1964, by Roy Lichtenstein (1923 - 1997), estimated at $ 600,000 to $ 800,000, which sold for $ 607,500; Lot 21, «Ileana Sonnabend,» a 1963 metallic paint on canvas, 77 3/4 - by -128-inch work by Frank Stella (b. 1936) that has a high estimate of $ 600,000, and which sold for $ 684,500; Lot 29,» Evening in the Studio,» a monumental painting that out - Rubens Rubens by Lucian Freud and has an ambitious high estimate of $ 3,500,000, and which sold for only $ 2,422,500; Lot 30, «Lying Figure,» a large, interesting composition by Francis Bacon (1909 - 1992) that has an ambitious high estimate of $ 2,500,000 and is starker than his more painterly small works, and which was passed at $ 1,600,000; Lot 35, «Bedouin (Personage Gris et Rougeatre),» a great Jean Dubuffet (1901 - 1985) painting that is conservatively estimated at $ 700,000 to $ 900,000 and which sold for $ 992,500; and Lot 46, «Aux Bons Principes,» a more colorful but not as strong Dubuffet that has an ambitious high estimate of $ 3,000,000, and which sold for $ 2,202,500; and Lot 63, an untitled, large painting by Sigmar Polke (b. 1941) that has a mysterious, luminous and mystical sense of a great mountainscape by the Sung Dynasty masters of China and has a conservative high estimate of $ 300,000, and which was passed at $ 150,000.

Karsten writes: «Weight's paintings are captivating for many reasons - his color sense is perfectly in tune with his mysterious imagery, his realism is modified by the emotions of fear and anguish, and his compositions reveal a deep understanding of 2 - d image structure... It isn't mastery over materials that keeps me looking at Weight's work though - it's his crazy, compelling, haunted voice, and how he gives us a frank look at the unknowable world of individual emotional lives.»