Sentences with word «mystification»

There is a fine line between delving into the mysteries of life and engaging in mystification, and Mr. Gomes lands on the wrong side of it.

«Our struggle is not against actual corrupt individuals, but against those in power in general, against their authority, against the global order and the ideological mystification which sustains it.»

to the real, away from mystification to clarification, away from magic to maturity, away from mystery to revelation [Pricksongs and Descants (New American Library, 1970), p. 791.

How can we talk about extraneous agency without trailing off into mystification?

His work epitomizes a peculiarly modern way of dealing with moral problems: debunk, deconstruct and dissolve them by treating them as products of sociological pressures and ideological mystifications.

Even in those paintings in which the emphasis is on the psyche of the woman, the mystery is often in Picasso's own mystification: his realization that in understanding another person, one can go only so far; his realization that in understanding oneself, one can see only «through a glass darkly» This is reflected profoundly in his famous 1932 painting Girl Before the Mirror,

Mysticism without politics becomes mystification.

Shaken down to bare fact and described without the Scotland Yard mystifications dear to the professional exposers.

A public of the church where the bureaucrat finds new «outlets» for «input,» where mystification and repression can often breathe heavily — yet still a public where the gift of God's liberating word is preached, where the sacraments of God's encompassing reality are re-presented, where the dangerous memory of Jesus is kept alive, where a genuine community of persons who actually live the Christian reality may yet be found

All of these involve mystification of reality, and they have a long history of distorting Western thought and practice as well.

Undue mystification of the «participation in the death and resurrection of Jesus «has caused us to lose sight of its historical, social effects and challenges.

There is a palpable disgust or, at best, mystification towards people who voted to Leave.

Only frustrating but also more than probable, it can generate mystification.

Peter Weir's attempt to make a «Casablanca» for the 80s - a romance set against a background of exoticism and intrigue - suffers from hazy plotting and a constant, pretentious mystification.

But the most intriguing mystification arises from the film's presence in 2011, a haunting presence that gets between our fixated gaze at the newest device in our hand and the chance of being Jean Dujardin's George Valentin accidentally bumped into by Berenice Bejo's Peppy Miller.

The title is the first mystification, for Toni Erdmann does not exist.

After a long summer of special effects, explosions, stabbings, shootings, gross - out comedies, supernatural mystifications, horror stories and movies about the alarmingly sophisticated sex lives of teenagers, September brings relief.

Is it the whole mystification of the artist as a rebel / social outcast?

This familiar longing for clarity is felt inVanishing Point where we see a lone figure whose mystification is reflected in the glass of a city building.

In a 1965 statement entitled «Art, Religiosity, Space - Time», the Brazilian artist Lygia Clark asserted: «Art is not bourgeois mystification.

A trenchant, brave, and important essay by Auticulture blogger, Jasun Horsley on the cultural mystifications of the popular transgender meme, and its role in the pernicious identity politics of our time.

Fees in most areas are really determined by how much the biller can push the envelope which in turn is determined by a whole bunch of non-market things from power relationships to service mystification.

As such, the judgment demands attention, particularly in the context of the renewed mystification occasioned by some of the judgments handed down in the months in between Huang and AG (Eritrea).

Of course, to a public celebrating its own mystification, that hardly mattered.

The Fellows will speak in tones of awe and mystification about their presence in this place with these people (I remember this «pinch - me» feeling quite clearly from my own time as a Fellow).

Bruder revels in mystification.

«Tal R is a master of the elevation and mystification of everyday life... The bronze sculptures by Tal R that have been emerging over roughly the past two years are not formed by the artist's hand in the classical sense.

So it rightly criticises creationism and «intelligent design», yet it rarely challenges the mystifications of deep environmentalist thinking, such as Gaia theory, or the numerous varieties of Eastern mysticism that are so fashionable in Hollywood.

People have idealized the human body, treated it as a temple, a purity, and that mystification must end.

If tradition is, respectively, an ideological construct, a mystification, or an exclusionary institution, the disciples reasoned, then why respect it?

Why turn a humbling mystery into a mystification of injustice?

In both society and church, the need to fight against obscurantism, mystification and outright oppression is as clear now as it was in the 18th century.

A Catholic priest, Simon wasn't attacking Catholic practice, but Bernard marshaled Simon's findings in support of his thesis: Following the path of the Jews, Catholics had abandoned the teachings of Jesus for hierarchy, magic, and mystification.

He was special but all the mystification that goes along with his existence has not been adequately explained yet.

Sociology was therefore initially addressed to the mystification of a religion that claimed and pretended the world was a given.