Sentences with phrase «mysterium tremens»

by Walter Chaw Event Horizon approaches the science - fiction idea of a mysterium tremens, hints that it will be about the inscrutability of an alien intelligence — like Lem's and Tarkovsky's (and Soderbergh's) variations on the theme of Solaris, for instance, or that monolith in 2001.

It's not particularly gross (which it should be), it's bereft of the original's mysterium tremens (which has already spawned similarly soulless comic books and videogames — and one frankly amazing short story by Peter Watts), and it doesn't have any staying power.

Stripped to the bone, as capable of viciousness as it is tenderness, it achieves what seems impossible by creating a sense of the mysterium tremens in the body of a human - looking alien.

There is a pressing need, he argues, to find the way out of contemporary liturgical banality in order to rediscover «something of the mysterium tremens et fascinans» of what the sacred liturgy, at its best, can truly express.