Sentences with phrase «mysterious sense of»

In 1958, he began making Attese (Waiting), monochrome surfaces that he sliced open with a single gesture or inscribed with multiple cuts at irregular intervals across the canvas, exposing backgrounds that had been artfully darkened with black gauze to create a mysterious sense of illusion and depth.

Like another partially nude figure with his face covered by the T - shirt he's raising over his shoulders, this reclining figure implicates the viewer in a voyeuristic role complicated by the figures» mysterious sense of psychological distance and removal.

Another New Years Day (oil on canvas), by contrast, maintains a similar cinematic atmosphere, but here the mysterious sense of malevolent augury is even more palpably present and distinctly disquieting.

A caffeine addict's personal ballad adds a mysterious sense of romance to Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney.

You have only to take two men, in any gathering, endowed with this mysterious sense of the future.

I remember the mysterious sense of freedom I experienced when Japan surrendered unconditionally to the Allies in 1945.

Are you feeling a mysterious sense of urgency?

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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.»

In that particular instant, however, an overpowering feeling suddenly swept through him; he felt seized by a mysterious «presence,» a Being just beyond the reach of his senses, but absolutely there!

The chairman of Christian Aid also appeared to blame the ongoing debate over Europe on a growing sense of nationalism in the UK, he said: «With the Scottish independence agitation and all the questions about a federal UK quite a lot of people feel we need to affirm now what we are, what we distinctively are as English even more than British and that imperceptibly I think strengthens some of this unease about that mysterious entity called Europe which is over there.»

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.

The universe is itself so vast and mysterious that it is more than enough to induce the sense of awe and joyful gratitude that characterized earlier religious experience.

But, most of all, can theologians and philosophers sense and express what Dewey called «that mysterious totality of being the imagination calls the universe» (CF 85)?

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.

They sense a fascination with the process of dying and the mysterious state of death.

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.

Luther's protest against Rome was necessary, and we should reverently say that the division of the Church, like the division of Judah and Israel, like the division of heaven and earth at the beginning, was in some mysterious sense «from the Lord.»

In theology this has meant a tendency to attribute to God only a-terms or perhaps only a-terms in some mysterious «super-eminent» sense, while treating r - terms as more characteristic of the subdivine.

The sense of the awesome and the mysterious in the earlier scene gives way here to theological assurance and eloquence.

We noted that without our having an antecedent sense of the silent and mysterious depths of reality, the idea of revelation has little meaning.

There have always been available in human life mysterious modes of expression intimating such a sense of being embraced by a deeper dimension.

Definition of NUMINOUS 1: supernatural, mysterious 2: filled with a sense of the presence of divinity: holy 3: appealing to the higher emotions or to the aesthetic sense: Synonyms: spiritual magic, magical, mystic, occult, weird

Tillich, more philosophically inclined, saw original sin as a result of «man's existential predicament,» our haunting sense of «estrangement» from ourselves, from each other and from the mysterious source of our being.

The Warriors are not mysterious in the sense that it's pretty clear they'd be silly to skip taking one of the excellent big men assuredly available.

Perhaps the most mysterious advertisements have come from a group based outside Richmond, Va., which calls itself Common Sense and has produced a blizzard of mailers attacking Democratic candidates in the three Senate districts.

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.

«The most beautiful and deepest experience a man can have is the sense of the mysterious.

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.

In a sense, the ultimate key question is how the brain conducts the mysterious process by which it absorbs information in the form of lights and colors, sounds, smells and tactile inputs and transforms them into physical actions — ideally behaviors that are appropriate responses to the inputs.

«If you look at brain signaling on the level of individual neurons, it looks very mysterious, but if you take a step back and observe the activity of a population of hundreds of neurons instead, you might see simpler, clearer patterns that intuitively make more sense.»

And I mean it made sense vaguely at least to me that you could dream things and they could come that you could dream things and that it happened on the other side of the world and they would turn out to have been true or [that you] could predict the future in some way by some mysterious means.

Whereas the top - down approach makes lots of sense because that's how we learn most things in school, the bottom - up one remains quite mysterious, as mysterious as how a child learns his or her mother tongue.

As she typed away in a corner of the room, she listened to the scientists try to make sense of Europa's mysterious surface.

He wanted to know why quantum physics ruled the universe, why the mysterious fuzziness of nature at its most basic gave rise to the rock - solid reality presented to human senses.

The findings help us understand one of our more mysterious senses.

The Native American tale of how the canyon formed is apparently an attempt to make sense of mysterious landforms.

Quantum spin is one of the most fundamental properties defining the physical state of an atom or a subatomic particle, and also one of the most mysterious: Although it has mathematical similarities to spinning in the familiar sense, it is an oddly abstract attribute, and it does not mean that particles actually rotate like little tops.

Spirituality isn't just some mysterious, otherworldly phenomenon that only happens in a formal worship service; it's our life force, our energetic footprint in the world and our sense of connection with the big «All There Is.»

I am romantic, mysterious, sociable, with sense of humor.

Who'd have thought this is how the pieces fit You and I shouldn't even try making sense of it I forgot how we ever came this far I believe we had reasons but I don't know what they are So blame it on my heart» oh Love moves in mysterious ways It's always so surprising When love appears...

His newfound sense of peace is quickly derailed, however, when a mysterious illness begins to decimate the community.

Not much happens in The Midwife, but its depth and texture make this a moving film about families, time passing and shared history — and the handful of scenes in the maternity unit where Claire works, five or six little miracles of birth, somehow add to its sense of a life as mysterious and precious.

While staying overnight in the house, the sisters sense a mysterious presence in their midst - noises startling them in the night, objects moving about, a fallen picture of an unknown woman posed next to their mother.

This was the first European animation ever funded by Japan's Studio Ghibli and shares with that studio's films a sense of nature's mysterious power.

Writer / director / producer M. Night Shyamalan returns to the captivating grip of The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable and Signs with Split, an original film that delves into the mysterious recesses of one man's fractured, gifted mind.

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 mysticaof 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 mysticaof 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 mysticaof 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 mysticaof 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 mysticaof 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 mysticaof 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 mysticaof four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; 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These two unglamorous peeks into our native: folkways — some bizarre, some banal — are mysterious and disturbing, their seedy, documentary - like casualness heightening a sense of unanswerable terror.

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.