Sentences with phrase «of objects of beauty»

Though they can serve specific functions, they often serve as a sort of picture frame, a space to host a rotation of objects of beauty for contemplation.

Following a suggestion by Liberal Democrat assembly member Caroline Pidgeon that the process may have been «prejudged», Boris replied that: «I find it very depressing that you persist in this Taliban - like hatred of objects of beauty.»

Not exact matches

I think print will always be beautiful, wonderful and luxurious in its own way because it's an object, but in terms of where I was getting my information, my day - to - day consumption of style and beauty information and inspiration, everything went toward digital.

That the bragging happened a decade ago doesn't change the reality that a man who might be president sees half the country's population not just as objects for his own aesthetic gratification — we knew that thanks to the beauty pageants and the string of model wives — but objects for his physical gratification as well, regardless of how the women in question feel about it.

For centuries, gold has been the object of desire and envy for many people because of its beauty, allure and worth.

Ultimately, of course, beauty is a function of experience, but we commonly use the term to refer to objects so structured as to stimulate such experience.

The sense of beauty is a positive response growing out of a relationship of the person to the aesthetic object.

For though the sphere of culture Itself belongs partly to the realm of truth, beauty and holiness which ultimately has no need to defend itself before the court of utilitarianism, faith and its object transcend even these good things.

It is apparent in an art which is capable of turning even Campbell soup - cans into objects of artistic representation (Warhol), or in a music which discovers aesthetic value in common noises and in listening to silence (Cage), or in a photography which captures the beauty of doorknobs and cracked walls, driftwood and wrinkled faces.

Beauty is felt when there is some congruence between the aesthetic object and the observer's pattern of sense perception and related responses.

This is primarily because it has proven to be a powerful aid in the effort to avoid dealing with works of art or literature as products of the human spirit: aesthetic objects that move us with their intricately wrought beauty, humor, and insight.

Objects of beauty and love are hints, clues to the divine.

The object is not venerated; Beauty is, by means of the resemblance mysteriously conveyed by the icon.

If I am thinking of this object as a piece of coal having certain characteristics, I might be either surprised or be amused by your commenting on its beauty or its being a part of the crust of the earth or a thousand other comments, each true but not relevant to my consideration.

It is an object of beauty, order and delight.

Even beauty must be stripped of its surface in order to become an intelligible object of contemplation.

As the American poet and essayist Mark Signorelli has written: «Once it became common to doubt or to deny that man had any essential inclination toward beauty or truth, the purpose of making objects intended to unite beauty and truth in various ways was no longer evident.»

Natural objects were glorified, my spiritual vision was so clarified that I saw beauty in every material object in the universe, the woods were vocal with heavenly music; my soul exulted in the love of God, and I wanted everybody to share in my joy.»

This harmony or beauty can be facilitated by beautiful objects, but it may also obtain quite independently of them.

«It's important for young Muslims to understand the beauty of this country - that this is a land of freedom, even though there may be people objecting to building a mosque in New York or threatening to burn the Quran,» said Abdul Malik, the event's organizer.

Truth of the matter is even if astethic beauty is inherent in an object, there's no real way to determine who is qualified to judge the piece.

Also in a sense Hume was not exactly at odds with what kant said about beauty being relational and a quality of experience (i.e. not a physical property of an object).

It sees the truth of any sort of object (say an apple) not as that object itself, in its strange and lovely transience, passing through its various moments of existence (seed, tree, ripened fruit hanging on the bough, fruit eaten or moldering away) but as the unchanging form on which it is modeled (the apple that never shines forth in the beauty of its own color, that has no flavor or fragrance, that has never lived).

Above all, aesthetic value implies the transformation of contradictions into contrasts that arouse a fullness and intensity of feeling, a sense of beauty, in those who experience the aesthetic object.

Never underestimate the beauty of ordinary objects in a resonance of remembered effort and landscape.

The beauty of this, and something you can't really appreciate until you have a bulky LPO (large plastic object) in your home, is that it takes up so much less space compared to a regular high chair.

Even as an adult, I prefer the beauty of a wooden object versus a plastic one.

Free play, especially with natural objects, is strongly encouraged, and much consideration is given to the function and beauty of every aspect of the school environment.

Fiber arts cultivate a tactile form of understanding that puts students in touch with the beauty of everyday objects and their means of production.

It is creating a natural environment full of beauty and reflection: small natural objects, mirrors, light, wooden toys and quality experiences.

This image has impressive depth, clarity, and tracking over a large field of view, and is a great reminder that even familiar objects can be sources of great beauty.

But the objects Haeckel examined are, in themselves, of outstanding beauty.

The beauty of the Standard Model is in its symmetry; mathematicians describe its symmetries with objects known as Lie groups.

The hand learns the best way to grasp objects — that's the beauty of it, says Ghazal Ghazaei at Newcastle University, UK, who helped develop the device (Journal of Neural Engineering, doi.org/b6t7).

Illustrated with the author's photographs, Infrastructure reveals a strange beauty in objects such as the egglike sludge digesters at a Boston sewage treatment plant, the tangled pipes of an oil refinery, and the wooden water towers perched atop the roofs of New York City.

Russian space agency Roscosmos has released a video shot from the perspective of Earth, showing our Moon and Sun replaced with other planets in the solar system and well known stars, highlighting the scale and beauty of some of the best known astronomical objects.

Everything in your life, especially objects that are near and dear to you, like your beauty bag, can affect you energetically in many areas of your life.

I find I like them to have a balance of plainness, such that the jewelry can be quickly discerned and picked out, and luxury, such that they are in themselves objects of beauty, but they may be any material, ** and a range of sizes can serve.

Part of the beauty of the splurge object is that it is perfect in every way.

A few objects of beauty that have caught my eye lately....

Our handmade and leather jewelry boxes are objects of beauty in their own right, capturing loose items in one pretty place.

When you come to Moscow these are Moscow women, in Odessa — Odessa ones, and in Lvov the story is the same... However, can you object to local citizen when you find yourself in the very epicenter of women's beauty — Kiev?

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We also visit the other side of the coin, an artist who make bikes as objects of beauty.

It's too bad so much work that went into the layers of the film's beauty is muted by the object that's intended to enhance it.

Jack Black is the skin - deep everyman obsessed with female physical beauty hit with a fairy tale spell, and Gwyneth Paltrow is the object of his affection, an obese woman (she wears a fat suit) he sees as a sleek, model - slim blonde beauty.

Social commentary of a slightly different kind, Mike Binder's The Upside of Anger is the sort of upper class dysfunction opera that's fallen on hard times (The Safety of Objects, Fallen Angels, A Home At The End of the World, Imaginary Heroes) since the glory days of American Beauty and The Ice Storm, finding itself rejuvenated after a fashion in the smart, warm performances of Joan Allen and Kevin Costner.

Available for a mere # 2.49, this wordless, vignette - based survey of curious goings - on among the everymen of Prague, of which chicken fetishism and dough inhalation are the least alarming, is an object of very bizarre beauty indeed.