Sentences with phrase «mystical quality of»

Pressuring the limits of sculpture's narrative potential, both exhibitions assume the mystical quality of myth or allegory.

With all the endless commentary and chatter about the need for the institutional Church to be restructured, renewed, reformed or «re» whatever, it is always good to be reminded of the essentially mystical quality of the Church and of her integral part to the plan of creation and the Incarnation.

Fundamental to Teilbard's cosmic perspective is his appreciation of the mystical quality of the scientific venture.

Thus we get yet another one of those «You scratch my back, I scratch yours» subplots that Disney Animation animated films are so fond of, but rather than pad the run time the journey to the briny bottom gives us more insight into the mystical qualities of this universe.

Furthering the enigmatic and mystical qualities of these works, the handmade, the appropriated, adaptation and the found have been considered.

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And in so doing it forsakes its uniquely Christian quality and becomes an Oriental - mystical type of «religion.»

In conclusion to this sketch of Altizer's affirmations we must say a word about his affirmation of the eschatological quality of Christianity which, he holds, most definitively and radically separates Christianity from «religion» in general, and Eastern mystical religion — the essence of «religion» as such — in particular.

That's not surprising, because as William James pointed out in «The Varieties of Religious Experience», two of the defining qualities of mystical experience are noetic quality and ineffability.

I see no consistent basis within the framework of Hall's own thought for asserting that this particular kind of experience is somehow «illegitimate,» that its aesthetic quality is greatly inferior to that which results from the experience of art or nature or interpersonal relationships or even of mystical contemplation.

Halos, auras, flashes of light, pins and needles running down your arms, the sudden scent of sulfur — many symptoms of a migraine have vaguely mystical qualities, and experts remain puzzled by the debilitating headaches» cause.

giving it an almost mystical - like quality in the eyes of ancient practitioners.

According to Laurie Pressman, Pantone's vice president, Ultra Violet, a vibrant shade of purple, is supposed to be empowering and optimistic and also «speaks to thoughtfulness, a mystical quality, a spiritual quality.»

Leatrice Eiseman, Executive Director of the Pantone Color Institute, tells ELLEDecor.com, that purple has rich, transcendent associations, noting,» It's often associated with mindfulness practices, so it has that spiritual or mystical quality that's attached — a little bit of magic that's inferred in the color.»

All of the titles for sale right now have some kind of romantic, mystery, thriller, or otherwise mystical quality to them that naturally lends itself to a wink of the gorgeous hero's eye or bloody fingerprints appearing on the screen.

The mountain top setting gives it an almost mystical quality and the stunning sight of the beautifully - designed temple against the mountain backdrop, is reason enough to visit Pura Besakih.

The level of comfort and build quality manage to impress almost across the board, Logitech crafting within their mystical forges a pleasingly comfy set of cans that seem quite sturdy, although I'm yet to take a hammer to them in order to test this.

Some of the qualities explored were a conscious shift to complexity, content, mystical, psychological and pictorial relationships, asymmetrical composition, expressive color, feeling and a depiction of the landscape of the mind.

In some works, the softness of his painting style and the candy - like colors add to the mystical, dreamlike quality of the feathery forests and twinkling skies.

In each work, Edefalk captures the evanescence of subjects that often exude a mystical and fragile quality marked by time and space.

Often monumental in scale and interlaced with shells, beads, and feathers, her art took on a mystical quality — a «defiance of ordinary verbal communication,» she called it.

Oliveira's works often have an almost shamanistic quality to them that is at once melancholic and mystical and which is intensified by the artist's loose, but thick brushwork and skillful manipulation of gradations in light and color.

While many of the themes of his work are dark, such as Assassination of Malcolm X, 1981, his approach was to give historical moments a mystical, symbolic and ecstatic quality.

The paintings» swirling surfaces of yellows, grays, and sea greens felt like vortexes of pure expression, tapping into the mystical power of painting that great artists like Sigmar Polke espoused — but with a new quality of openness and warmth.

As I wrote of her solo show at Canada Gallery a year ago, in Bradford's subtle hand, water has a reactive, mystical, ultimately ominous quality, refracting shapes, oxidizing colors, and overwhelming her subject matter.

Featuring solitary, enigmatic subjects set against vibrant, but dramatically vacant landscapes, many of Oliveira's paintings possess an almost shamanistic quality that is at once melancholic and mystical and which is intensified by the artist's loose, but thick brushwork and skillful manipulation of gradations in light and color.

The stability of the last ten thousand years of theHolocene climate is NOT the result of some mystical inherent quality of «homeostasis», it is the inevitable outcome of very few, and small forcing factors on the climate.