Sentences with phrase «of narrative passages»

Not exact matches

At some point during the early Upanishadic period the objective and subjective quests for unity tended to draw together Often both types of inquiry are presented in the same passage or narrative (Chan.

These contrasts add to the subjective intensity of the passage of the Bill as an actual event and function as dynamic elements in a narrative.

Personally, I think that the context includes not only where in Scripture the passages are from (including rhetorical function, narrative position, etc.) and the historical - cultural background, but also the context of the person using the quote.

Students of narrative semiotics, those who investigate the internal logic of a passage of literature, often use a «semiotic square» to describe a story's relation to a series of four opposing propositions.

I have read the passage you refer to (a number of times) and there is no doubt that the narrative flows much better without it.

I see that passage as historical narrative of a conversation Jesus had with Philip.

In fact he so strongly feels the need to press his point that he has crossed over into the field of New Testament studies to wage his campaign there as well.1 And indeed Childs has performed a valuable and needed service in reminding us that what we have now is not just individual passages, nor is it just the «books» which as larger units give the individual pieces a place in the larger narrative.

In The Fidelity of Betrayal, Rollins goes on to criticize the Western Church's almost frantic attempt at «closing over this traumatic rent in the text» by affirming some biblical narratives over others and by explaining away passages that are inconsistent with favored narratives.

The present - day narrative alternates with passages set before, during, and after World War II, and it was in the depiction of the atrocities perpetrated by my Nazi characters that I shocked myself.

With such metaphors in John as the «bread of life» and «vine and branches,» these passages lack the narrative quality which would make them parables.

Here, indeed, it is less formal, and story and teaching alternate more freely; yet even so each of these works provides examples of sequences of ethical precepts, more or less complete in themselves, and comparable with those which we found in - the epistles; and these are related to passages of narrative which serve to introduce them.

Judy Barron's narrative is interspersed with passages of varying length by Sean, who provides his version of many of the events his mother describes.

To his narrative he has naturally added summaries, as well as what have been called «panels of progress» — which summarize but also indicate the passage of time (2:47; 6:7; 9:31; 12:24; 16:5; 19:20; 28:31).

However, several scholars have suggested that mocked is not a later alteration, but what Mark originally wrote, I believe that Mark took mocked from Psalm 69:9; in his narrative of Jesus» death, Mark weaves together Psalms 22 and 69, as he does other Old Testament passages elsewhere in his Gospel.

These passages are all narratives of a synoptic type and include the Miracle at Cana (2:1 - 11), the Cleansing of the Temple (2:14 - 16), the Healing of the Nobleman's Son (4:46 - 53)» the Anointing at Bethany (12:1 - 8) and the Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem (12:12 - 15); it is at least possible that the evangelist was here using a written source or oral tradition that had become comparatively «fixed» in form.

(cf. 18:20 and 14:11); Jeremiah's profound grief, 8:4 - 9:1; his affinity with Hosea, 13:16 27 but in many other passages as well; the certainty of destruction, 14:10 - 18; the quality of the «Confession» in 15:10 - 18 (as also elsewhere) that brings Jeremiah closer to us than any other figure in the Old Testament; the symbolic act again, chapter 19 — only Ezekiel among the prophets performs more such acts than Jeremiah; the bitterest of his confessions, 20:7 - 18, matched in the Old Testament only in Job (cf. Job 3); his association with Baruch in the remarkable narrative of chapter 36, «in the fourth year of Jehoiakim»; and his devastating words on Jehoiakim, 22: 13 - 19, bitter testimony to what was in Jeremiah's eyes the miserable rule of a miserable king.

13:30) or, as some scholars think, to the Transfiguration which follows almost at once in the Marcan narrative; it is only the editorial juxtaposition of the two sayings, falsifying their original contexts, which turns the whole passage into a prophecy of the return of the Son of man within a generation.

Weathers writes with humor of his ordeal, but so many passages by his wife, children and friends dam the narrative flow.

Steering clear of the cliched, referential signifiers usually leaning in on such pronounced periods and narrative passages, Gerwig casts a wry glance at a transitional period for a faux rebel dreamer whose moments of truth come not from her romantic attachments but her complex relationships with a best friend and an endearing but domineering mother.

Here, a son — and now king — shaken by the loss of his father, must return to his homeland to be shaped into a true leader, where the general narrative thrust wouldn't be out of place shuffled in with some spare «Macbeth» passages.

The passage's problem isn't in its lack of action or even its forced romance, but that it's overlong and inessential to the narrative.

Seidel cites a passage from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave in which Douglass recalls the impact of hearing fellow slaves singing in the middle of the night.

Contains - Alphabet (topic word for each letter)- Comic Summary (read a story and summarise it in comic form)- Hand (research a volcano in history and pull out main facts)- Imagination (descriptive writing prompt)- One Sentence Only (summarise each paragraph in a chosen text)- Positive and Negative effects (foldable sorting effects of volcanoes)- Storyteller (narrative writing prompt)- Structure of a volcano (information sheet for students to create a volcano diagram)- Types of volcano (foldable that involves matching names, description and picture)- Volcanic Eruptions Comprehension (information passage with questions)- Volcano cloze (information text with missing words about volcanoes)- Volcano explorer (gathering information from interactive voclano website)- Volcano Vocabulary (foldable involving matching topic words to definitions)- Witness vs. Scientist (foldable involving sorting statements)

Each student's «narrative passage» would also be recorded on a iPad, giving Wilson a baseline of reading and writing skills she and the students will build on during the school year.

answering factual, inferential, main idea, and derived - meaning questions from longer narrative passages; working with maps in the context of a passage

Several unique features set it apart from other resources in the field, including narrative and expository passages at each level from pre-primer through high school, as well as all self - contained selections being highly representative of the structure and topics of materials found in basal readers and content - area textbooks.

Several unique features set it apart from other resources in the field, including narrative and expository passages at each level from pre-primer through high school, as well as all self - contained selections highly representative of the structure and topics of materials found in basal readers and content - area textbooks.

Reading features short narrative, expository, or document passages, and focuses on locating specific information, making inferences, and identifying the main idea of a passage.

I recommend Enon to readers who enjoy quiet, interior narratives; long (but not belabored) descriptive passages; a strong sense of place; and to those who won't mind spots of weak plot and dialogue in order to get to the good stuff.

How does the narrative incorporate the passage of time, and does it do so effectively?

The Passage was heralded by some to be too long at over 800 pages but I found it compelling because of its narrative.

While Soli has evocative passages of narrative, often bringing the country to life, that can not be said of her characters.

Written as a double narrative, Krester's hefty tome is ambitious in both scope and style; at times the passages are wry and beautifully rendered and at others they fall flat in a torrent of florid prose.

With its kaleidoscopic array of literary forms, from interior dialogues to infographics to prose passages that read like poetry, Young's narrative powerfully mirrors the multifaceted nature of his experience.

Written from Lucy's point of view, the narrative has excellent pacing, fine descriptive passages, and a wry sense of humor.

When her narrative threatens to become prosaic, Cox will inject a passage of stream - of - consciousness free verse to jolt herself and her readers awake.

His first travel narrative, Flight of Passage, was hailed by The New Yorker as «a funny, cocky gem of a book,» and with The Oregon Trail he brings the most important route in American history back to glorious and vibrant life.

Redondo's narrative is slowed a bit by longish descriptive passages that plunge us into the embrace of the cold, dark, mid-winter forest.

Perhaps the best aspect of the narrative is found in those numerous passages that either are or border on steam of consciousness narrative.

Regarding the flashbacks mentioned earlier: Though these passages — comprised mainly of Caleb's and Elspeth's past experiences and reflections — add to the understanding of their characters, they come across in a few too many spots as misplaced or superfluous, thereby hindering the flow of the narrative.

Or would you have the narrative voice change, too and correspond with the gender of the point of view of the passage?

But many of the passages and monologues in his earlier, groundbreaking work, such as «The Electric Kool - Aid Acid Test» and «Radical Chic & Mau - Mauing the Flak Catchers,» are much more poetic in content and vision and much more powerful as poetry than as narrative.

«Justin Cronin's Passage trilogy is remarkable for the unremitting drive of its narrative, for the breathtaking sweep of its imagined future, and for the clear lucidity of its language.

The app presents short passages of text at a time and triggers relevant video, animation, image sequences and sound content related to the narrative.

This collection also features HD cutscenes of a new narrative based on the mobile game, Kingdom Hearts Unchained X. Finally, rounding out the bundle is the brand new content — brace yourselves — Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth By Sleep - A Fragmentary Passage -.

Clare Rojas at Anglim: The passages of abstraction in Clare Rojas» narrative paintings always seemed to me the most appealing bits.

Incredibly, and without the overt drama of the narrative of Ugetsu, that is somewhat the sensation I had when I walked from Kiki Smith's exhibition at Pace Gallery in Chelsea, through a narrow passage way into a new smaller wing that Pace has built under the High Line and found myself, without preparation or expectation, in an exquisite, thrilling, soul - soothing, museum quality exhibition of craft objects and artworks, arranged in an inventive, harmonious, and instructive manner for contemplation.

Walking through the show, I kept thinking of a passage from Ben Davis's recent book 9.5 Theses on Art and Class that dovetails with the narrative arc of Rohrbach's exhibition and accompanying catalogue.

«Passage Dangereux» and «Precious Liquids» are narratives about a young girl going through the rites of pPassage Dangereux» and «Precious Liquids» are narratives about a young girl going through the rites of passagepassage.

Much of the meaning of Liu's painting comes from the way the washes and drips dissolve the documentary images, suggesting the passage of memory into history, while working to uncover the cultural and personal narratives fixed — but often concealed — in the photographic instant.