Sentences with phrase «of ordinary existence»

Leigh and his typically brilliant cast create, with extraordinary sensitivity and craft, a vivid, lived - in story of ordinary existence, in which even modest dreams — such as the father's desire to open a food truck — carry enormous weight.

This austerity isn't meant to capture the rhythms of ordinary existence, but rather to present a heightened, filtered, clarified picture of what that existence might mean.

A woman's retreat is about stepping out of your ordinary existence to listen and to attune your truest most authentic self.»

In autobiographies, finally, intermediary theology has a source for understanding how language and belief move into a life, how a life can itself be a parable, a deformation of ordinary existence by its placement in an extraordinary context.

It can despise the timidities and adjustments of ordinary existence.

The clown not only stands outside and over against the sphere of ordinary existence; he revalues it and refreshes it by standing at the same time most deeply within it.

Not exact matches

As much as we want to be like Peter, it's often incredibly tempting in the midst of our mundane and rather ordinary existence to be like Paul.

Then we will see that our actual existence is, from the viewpoint of the inherited ontology of nature and grace, «mixed» from its origin and at every step, «a pilgrimage in which the miracle of divine love... is the most ordinary of events.»

On a lonely two - hour walk home from my piano lesson, seeing an otherwise ordinary sunset, I was suddenly flooded by light and absorbed in a sea of light which, although it did not extinguish the humble awareness of my finite existence, overflowed the barriers that normally separate us from the surrounding world.

Yes David it sounds like something very a ordinary duty, but contribution to the betterment of humanity is far more accomplishment than self centered assumption of our salvation.in the past and even now, individualism is still the center of most christians existence, thats what the pope is trying to correct.

According to Gerardus Van der Leeuw, «The game points beyond itself: downward, to the simple, ordinary rhythm of life; upward, to the highest forms of existence.

He or she must turn aside from the confinements of ordinary concerns, the tensions of the workaday world, and affirm a different order of existence.

The univocal and equivocal imaginations deny metaphor, deny that any new insight can come through the ordinary — the one flattens it to sameness, the other escapes from it — but what Lynch calls the analogical imagination delves into the mundane, for it is precisely in and through the complexities of historical, limited existence that insight comes, if it comes at all.

He reserved his deepest faith not for America but for the world as he saw it, on the theological assumption that the ordinary and everyday — the most mundane elements of human existence — are a gift from God.

man's special place in the cosmos, his connexion with destiny, his relation to the world of things, his understanding of his fellowmen, his existence as a being that knows it must die, his attitude in the ordinary and extraordinary encounters with the mystery with which his life is shot through.

Instead, we shall pass from the first to the fifth way, showing in each case how the existence of God can be known with certainty by reflecting on ordinary human experience.

As many people know, St Thomas Aquinas stated that one could demonstrate the existence of God in five different ways, starting from five different features of the ordinary world around us.

Drugs admit one to a haven of light and life, the momentary grasp of which is preferred by the addict to the boredom of ordinary self - centered existence, despite the darkness and death which are the price of the fleeting ecstasy.

But it does require the supernatural grace of God to live twenty - four hours of every day as a saint, going through drudgery, and living an ordinary, unnoticed, and ignored existence as a disciple of Jesus.

For in the very generality that determines executive office there is a power that disengages from the common table of parish existence, from the direct and pathetic book of the common life, and from the moments of sudden truth that stun and depress and exalt the minister on his ordinary round.

Christian communication needs to find its rootage, its raw stuff, from within the experiences of daily life, and then attempt to show in what way this ordinary, day - by - day existence has ultimate meaning.

Limit - experiences are those happenings in our lives that shock us into a recognition that our ordinary existence is encompassed by a previously unacknowledged realm of the unknown.

Even before the axial period, archaic or primal religions already had an at least embryonic sense of a sacral dimension that could interrupt life and bestow on it a wider significance than that given in ordinary existence.

The transcendent existence of concrete objects is also the ground for our ordinary presupposition that they are public entities.

This alienation is a natural part of existence; that is, it belongs in the typically expectable repertoire of ordinary people in everyday life.

Just as the world of poetic texts opens its way across the ruins of the intraworldly objects of everyday existence and of science, so too the new being projected by the biblical text opens its way across the world of ordinary experience and in spite of the closed nature of that experience.

So Whitehead's reply to Berkeley is, in effect, that matter really does matter in the ordinary sense of the word, since whatever acquires material existence is always capable of influencing by means of signs the becomings of subsequent «things.»

So transferring the existential valence of existing to «actuality»» has the logical effect of reducing our ordinary sense of «existing» to that of «self identity» and so picture the act of creation as one of adding existence to already constituted individuals.

What has here been said applies to the historical in the direct and ordinary sense, whose only contradiction is that it has come into existence, which contradiction is implicit in all coming into existence.3 Here again one must guard against the illusion of supposing that it is easier to understand after the event than before the event.

This is no ordinary argument for the existence of God, though it could easily enough be taken as such by some readers, especially because of its unabashed references to the God of Abraham and Moses and its well - placed quotations from the Hebrew Scriptures.

Although we can articulate how ambiguity and how commitment structure each phase of the microscopic process by which an actual occasion realizes itself, we must also spell out just how ambiguity and commitment structure the macrocosmic process of commitment that structures ordinary experience, the moral life, social existence, responsibility for our past acts.

Through the great religions of the world man is trying to find some clue to the mystery of life and to find some expression of those longings within himself which transcend the confines of ordinary material existence.

augured a new and more disturbing understanding of mystery while showing the provisional and imperfect character of the world of ordinary human existence.

It is easy to see, from a reading of such Old Testament references, that such a continuation of bare existence carried little hope and made little appeal to the ordinary Jew of the time.

In the course of human existence it has been the role of «religion» to provide the «answers» to our limit questions and to illuminate our boundary experiences by placing them in a larger than ordinary context.

Evangelicals have been able to capture the imagination of ordinary people and provide them with a concrete understanding of the transcendent in daily existence.

GENEVA — The two largest collaborations of physicists in history Tuesday presented intriguing but tentative clues to the existence of the Higgs boson, the elementary particle thought to endow ordinary matter with mass.

One of the further possibilities opened up by advanced computing in this laser research is the creation of antimatter — the mirror nemesis of the ordinary matter that makes our existence.

We know of its existence only by its gravitational effect, even though it may outweigh ordinary matter five to one.

This and several other lines of evidence point to the existence of a mysterious form of invisible matter that exerts a gravitational influence on other matter and outweighs ordinary matter by a factor of about 6 to 1.

Its putative existence is primarily inferred from the anomalous rotations of satellite galaxies such as the Magellanic Clouds, which orbit the Milky Way too quickly to be explained by ordinary gravity alone.

Several astronomical measurements have corroborated the existence of dark matter, leading to a world - wide effort to observe directly dark matter particle interactions with ordinary matter in extremely sensitive detectors, which would confirm its existence and shed light on its properties.

Positive typically means that there were findings (which would be bad), and negative means that there were no findings (that nothing out of the ordinary was in existence).

Questlove has become the go - to guy for pop - music perspective in music documentaries for a reason he proves once again here: He brings a musician's knowledge of why a piece of music is special (his analysis here of «Don't Stop «Til You Get Enough» is a mini-music class) as well as a fan's appreciation for what that music meant to millions of ordinary people — how Jackson's music during this era not only defined the time, but made the world a better place simply by its existence.

The extraordinary and thrilling true story of four friends (Evan Peters, Barry Keoghan, Blake Jenner, and Jared Abrahamson) living an ordinary existence who brazenly attempt to execute one of the most audacious art heists in US history.

In the extraordinary and thrilling true story, the 31 - year - old American Horror Story actor plays one of four friends living an ordinary existence who brazenly attempt to execute one of the most audacious art heists in U.S. history.

Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore star as the upper - middle - class couple whose «ordinary» existence is irrevocably shattered by the death of their oldest son in a boating accident.

Interestingly, the insights they share about making the most of each moment are also very applicable to those of us who lead ordinary existences.

Content with an ordinary existence, McCall resurrects his special skill set after Teri (Chloë Grace Moretz), an indentured young prostitute he's befriended, suffers a serious beating at the hands of her pimp.

But the more our daily toil and struggle in the sloughs of ordinary human existence and human suffering increased, and the more our journey within in the fearful paradoxicality of everyday life contrasted with the neat and seemless principles of neoliberal logic of privatization, the more rational Marxism sounded to me.