Sentences with phrase «nunlike ordinariness»

«Pop culture obscures the heartbreaking ordinariness of members of white supremacist organizations,» writes Baker.

What Ker discovers instead is a common concern for the «sheer ordinariness» of Catholic Christianity, the everyday «matter - of - factness» of its sacraments and sacramentals.

Corbyn's ordinariness, plain speaking anti-establishmentarianism has won him much support.

It is so because first - rate art makes imagined people, in all their ordinariness, real and therefore mysterious and transcendent, while our secular wisdom tends to make real people seem shallow and artificial.

What does the tradition teach him about how to speak of this Logos who is active in personal and communal ordinariness?

They present the Church as the Church of those who as sinners accept in faith the human life of all, with its ordinariness and its burdens, so that we experience our own lot as that of the Church, and ourselves as its members in that way; as the Church which is believed because we believe in God, the Church whose belief is not to be identified with what it experiences; above all as the Church which is the promise of salvation for the world which has not yet expressly recognized itself as part of the Church, the Church as the sacramentum of the world's salvation.

«We too are «virgins» who are incapable of bearing God,» until God deigns to be born in our ordinariness as in Mary's, argues Presbyterian theologian Cynthia Rigby.

Women's brains are predisposed to perceive life — and God — according to a pattern of connection and ordinariness, while men perceive life — and God — according to a pattern of polarities and otherness.

Nor is he talking about the utterly transcendent mystery of philosophers and mystics, the divine that allegedly lives in a far - off eternity uncontaminated by the ordinariness of time and space.

It was almost too much to bear: the absolute ordinariness of the scene, which would remind any of us of our own desks and unfinished projects, combined with a fear that she might not be back to finish things up, to clean the dust off the tape dispenser and wash out the water bottle for another use.

Its in the day to day ordinariness that Jesus is to be found in our midst and we should celebrate that and hang onto it — he never really had big buildings, big fanfares, big «ra ra» moments did he?

Mary the sinless Mother of God was, of course, lovely beyond all dreaming, but I was more drawn to the women among whom Christ lived who had shadings of flaws and ordinariness, of quintessentially female weakness: Martha testy in her kitchen, Mary Magdalene the penitent with her foolishly expensive perfume, her hair long enough to dry the feet of Christ, her tears for her many sins.

In his weakness and ordinariness, in the ease of his dismissal by those seeking something larger, in the character of his fragility, which fits so neatly into the world and into what is despicable about the world, Jesus is the Nobody whose prayer can mirror and fulfill the plodding of true prayer.

A grisly story, this — full of fervid, sanguine ordinariness.

This is life in its common ordinariness in which we try at least to preserve our sanity and at most to improve our lot and that of others around us.

The weakness and humility of the people, even their plainness, ordinariness and self - effacement, are the fertile soil in which things like love, generosity, and wisdom grow.»

The simple, present progressive verbs capture both the ordinariness of the action and its liveliness.

W. H. Auden perceived the ordinariness of time in his poem For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio.

They had a hard time with the ordinariness of him, with his humiliation at the hands of a powerful and corrupt authority.

Maybe music could not only prevent prison time, but ward off failure, ordinariness, and pain.

However, when you put the two together... when you sew a couple pockets into a big flowy skirt... it transforms that ordinariness into what feels like a heaven - sent miracle outfit.

But forgive these two guys for their astonishing ordinariness.

The shock of Lucas's death was compounded by the sheer ordinariness of the play that caused it — he wasn't hit awkwardly or with unusual force.

Yet like Sancho, we, too, are apt to convince ourselves of the innocuous ordinariness of our windmills.

The environment «poisoned by ordinariness, mediocrity and clear agenda to destroy talents» is from you, your fellow pastors and your churches that have condemned the people to such mental slavery that they are unable to think as creatures of a God who created us in his image.

After Philip May appeared on the show with his wife last year, one columnist noted that «he seemed to be able to don a mantle of such extreme ordinariness that he might as well not have been there».

I can't explain it, but I enjoyed the «ordinariness» of the main characters and their working relationship.

A documentary - style look at the lives of office workers in Scranton, Pennsylvania, The Office takes ordinariness and turns it into comedy gold.

It's not a new story, but that's the point: the sheer ordinariness of their experience lets De Botton use their relationship to explore the philosophical ramifications of everything from first date preparations to when to say I love you.

There are also eight Vicariate Apostolic and one Military Ordinariness in Ecuador.

The ironic distance derived from the film's framing device and fourth wall — breaking helps emphasizes the drab ordinariness and the utter acceptability of such cruelty.

Ms. Lambert's film builds nicely, staying in tune with the ordinariness and intimacy explored in Ms. Akerman's boldly rendered films.

Correctly, Seidl understands that his commentary is rather unnecessary, that the power of the work comes from the very ordinariness of the couples and families participating, the racial divide in the work involved in this industry, and his unflinching capturing of events we know occur but usually repress.

It's hard to imagine a more fitting choice to play the modest and mild - mannered pilot, and although he doesn't get a lot to work with from a character standpoint (Sully is extraordinary only in his ordinariness), the actor makes the most of even the smallest moments.

And the stripped - down acting style echoes the way Mitchell approaches the material, dwelling on the plodding ordinariness of the situation by using sharp comedy, sudden emotional responses and wrenching anguish.

Gary Oldman is one of those actors you could walk past in the street and not recognise — he has a quiet, unshowy ordinariness that not only allows him to disappear into the parts he plays but also does a very good job of deflecting public attention.

But the drifting scenes of ordinariness are especially disquieting, both while they are happening and in retrospect, after the nightmarish situation has begun to reveal itself, and after the brutal explosion of violence.

Filmed and played in a low - key, naturalistic style, the movie draws us in through its sheer ordinariness.

The cinematography really emphasises the ordinariness of the locale, contrasting it with frequent mentions of big cities such as London and Dublin.

It's not his exceptionality, but his human ordinariness, that makes Oscar's murder (by a transit police officer) sting.

It's the ordinariness of Bauman that makes him a good character for Jake Gyllenhaal to have picked.

Writer - director Jeff Nichols had to cast Loving this way because the entire movie insists on the ordinariness of its quiet, barely verbal protagonists.

It's not a masterpiece, but it is a rarity: one of those glimpses into another culture obsessed with ordinariness, mendacity, and universality.

But the actors are betrayed by a roundelay farce lacking in insightful moments and by Bogdanovich's medium - shot visual scheme that is either too poorly - lit, too pointlessly obfuscating (see especially a long track of Herrmann galumphing through the bowels of his ship), or so terrified of being obtrusive that its very ordinariness becomes distracting.

These fantastic alien forms are scuffed with ordinariness and even bathos.

But in trying to make a 10 - best list, I tripped right over my own divided soul right at the top: My two faves of 2016 are Jim Jarmusch's Paterson, an infinitely gentle - souled movie about the poetry of life and the life of poetry that finds more pleasure and meaning in ordinariness than most movies do in extraordinariness, and Yorgos Lanthimos» The Lobster, a perfectly sustained dystopian sick joke about the desperate, poignant futility of seeking human connection.

Mildred's act of bravery is her quiet decision to have her ordinariness weaponized in the Supreme Court case, Loving v Virginia, to strike a blow against institutional racism.

Asghar Farhadi is an extraordinarily perceptive filmmaker with a profound ability to distill the «ordinariness»... Continue reading About Elly

Asghar Farhadi is an extraordinarily perceptive filmmaker with a profound ability to distill the «ordinariness» of the human experience into cinematic form.

At the same time, it's Kapur's flourishes, the deviations from ordinariness, that keep Elizabeth from foundering in its period trappings.