Sentences with phrase «of much contemplation»

Our reasons for changing careers are often the source of much contemplation and certainly self examination.

Not exact matches

It has taken me many years, lots of study, and much contemplation.

Established a few years earlier by Bruno Hussar, a Dominican monk of Jewish origin, Isaiah House was intended to be a center for Christian — Jewish dialogue, a much - needed sanctuary for Israeli converts to Catholicism, and a retreat for Christian contemplation of the «mystery of Israel.»

The point for us is that for these two 20th century professors — as much as for any mystic wrapped in contemplation in some more remote ashram — the inevitability of death brought one face to face with the question of whether his existence had any point.

In the last paragraph of the Third Meditation, one notices a direct reference to Catholic instruction: «For, as the faith teaches us, the supreme happiness of the other life consists in that single contemplation of the Divine Majesty, of which we already experience, albeit in a much less perfect contemplation, but that causes us nonetheless to rejoice of the greatest contentment of which we are capable of sensing in this life» (42).

But so much of our thinking is influenced by the Greek ideals of contemplation, changelessness, spirit, transcendence that we find it hard to imagine heaven in other ways.

Such learning begins with prayer and the Scriptures, it unfolds with pondering the vast riches of the centuries of study that have gone before us, it deepens in thought and contemplation, it enlarges the mind with much reading and listening and questioning.

There's a lot I love about the Catholic tradition — the connection to history, the liturgy and ritual, the time for contemplation, the sense that the «great cloud of witnesses» that surrounds us is very much alive and active and a part of our lives.

So when choosing what list of the best recipes to make next, we didn't need much contemplation about choosing salmon.

Also, Hall's contemplation of impeachment could be a little much for this largely suburban district that elected George Bush by nine points over John Kerry.

It's hard to imagine this tale of tradition and miracles leading skeptics to contemplation, much less faith.

Sharing much in common with George Lucas» «American Graffiti» or Greg Mottola's more contemporary «Superbad ``, this is a funny and insightful coming - of - age contemplation.

McTiernan's film did not offer much in contemplation of wealth, inner peace, or even sexual attraction in regards to the romance that blooms between the two characters, but the film exudes charm to this day, and provided Denis Leary with one of his more purely enjoyable performances in film, right up there with The Ref and The Neon Bible.

Alas, too much of Storytelling moves away from Solondz's social critique, casting its audience as that of intellectual lector in contemplation of the auteur's professional injuries.

One of the first things that struck me during my caffeine - infused contemplation this week, was that most beginning Forex traders simply put too much pressure on themselves right out of the gate.

Much of today's dialogue surrounding equality and acceptance involves the dissolution of strict binaries, and Engender «s artists are adding a much - needed layer of contemplation to the ongoing conversation about what it means to challenge labels of beMuch of today's dialogue surrounding equality and acceptance involves the dissolution of strict binaries, and Engender «s artists are adding a much - needed layer of contemplation to the ongoing conversation about what it means to challenge labels of bemuch - needed layer of contemplation to the ongoing conversation about what it means to challenge labels of being.

Diebenkorn often said how much he owed to European painting and the debt is acknowledged here, in the second room of the show, in big works depicting human figures framed in landscape — on a terrace, at a window — or secluded in shady interiors, in placid unanimity with their surroundings, sunken - eyed, reading, or lost in contemplation.

Much of his work has art historical references but nods to religious / spiritual ceremonies that highlight repetition as a space for meditation and contemplation.

Museum visitors are depicted in relation to museum objects, their bodies as much forms for contemplation as the artworks depicted, as in In Order of Appearance IX (2012).

The image shows a young Indian girl with her head lowered in contemplation and this is one of the artist's best «plate» paintings that cover much of the surface with pieces of broken dishes.

The benches offered visitors a place of quietude and contemplation after the influx of so much sensory stimuli.

Spending as much time in contemplation of the studies as with the paintings, I was determined to enter the mindset of Boyd, deciphering the annotations (mostly notes on color names) and following the steps in the mixing of the tones that wound up on the canvas.

They soon tired of mourning, however, and put the replica to increasingly profane uses, ranging from Chadwick Dalton's reenactments of Nelson's death from within the model (as documented in a remarkably incoherent film *) to Torrent Chadwick's use of it as a bar — thereby originating the term «Man o'Bar» — and finally selling it to the Victoria and Albert Museum in Mumbai, from which the editors recently reclaimed it at no small personal cost (much of the pamphlet is devoted to Shaw's ecstatic contemplation of Blachly's edibility after they abandon ship).

Instead he made a work that invites the viewer to contemplate (and contemplation of art always involves feeling at least as much as intellection) human spatiality, which is the only spatiality there is, phenomenologically speaking.

So after much contemplation and more Pinspiration searches, I decided that this thing needed to be painted (not sprayed) black and in a satin finish, and although those geometric appliques are super cool and made the dresser the funky, fun find it was, I needed to tone the Southwest - ness of the dresser down slightly by also painting those the same color.

For modern gals, the bedroom is as much a place of contemplation and relaxation as it is one of seduction.

PS This pic above accompanied the email, and upon reflection and contemplation of the scary medical instruments shown, was probably a little too much information.

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