Sentences with phrase «peculiar life»

For this Tuesday Evenings presentation, Collings promises an evening of aesthetic intensity and lurid biography as he shares the peculiar life experiences that fed into his optimistic abstract paintings about light that he makes in collaboration with mosaicist Emma Biggs.

That word calls to mind both the unusual physiognomy and peculiar life cycle of the insect species that spends most of its life underground, emerging only every 13 or 17 years.

Bildmuseet's Joachim Schmid exhibition is a comprehensive and multi-facetted exploration into our peculiar life with photographs.

It revolves around the peculiar life of Holly Golightly, a New Yorker socialite and her cat.

In the film, Mia Wasikowska's Edith Cushing gets caught up in the peculiar lives of the Sharpe siblings (Tom Hiddleston and Jessica Chastain) at their titular estate, a creaky, isolated mansion with secrets of its own.

Elephant seals have extraordinary and peculiar lives.

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The truth seems to be that medicine is merely the most obvious point of collision between forces set in motion by the peculiar development of Jewish life in America.

At first blush, it may seem peculiar that there is a difference between feeling happy and finding life meaningful.

While, as McGraw reminds us, «a movie is not a driver's manual for the road of life,» Tarantino and Theology has opened up to its readers several concrete ways of appreciating Tarantino's peculiar form of religious devotion.

In his book, «How To Eat To Live,» Muhammad outlined a rather detailed and sometimes peculiar set of guidelines for eating, presumably designed to improve health and prolong life.

In a world in which all barriers to action and expression have been crushed, we are no longer open to Bonhoeffer's quiet but firm recognition when he writes: «The peculiar fact that we lower our eyes when a stranger's eye meets our gaze is not a sign of remorse for a fault, but a sign of that shame which, when it knows that it is seen, is reminded of something it lacks, namely, the lost wholeness of life, its own nakedness.

Surely it is a waste to toss my life away on the peculiar combination of my own experiences — unexpected conversations and mountain - top exhilaration, mixed with periodic headaches and a tablespoon of robin - song at dawn.

Her reflections on the priesthood and the Christian life are frequently affecting, and she obviously has little sympathy for the Women?s Ordination Conference, the National Catholic Reporter, and others in the U.S. who have tried to use her peculiar circumstance in promoting the ordination of women.

$ 16.95 Muriel Spark, Dame of the British Empire, expatriate Scot living in Tuscany, has been practicing her peculiar brand of elegant satire for half a century.

Even if he is a Christian, for example, he can set aside all the particular beliefs about Jesus Christ, God, miracles, salvation, and eternal life that he recognizes as peculiar to that tradition.

Vitality, Completeness, Fulfillment — these are not to be found among the immediate commonplaces of life, but in transcending them, or escaping from them, or in that peculiar form of excess: exceeding them.

thinks, that the Tigris and the Euphrates have not a common source, that the Dead Sea had been in existence long before human beings came to live in Palestine, instead of originating in historical times, and so on... We are able to comprehend this as the naive conception of the men of old, but we can not regard belief in the literal truth of such accounts as an essential of religious conviction... And every one who perceives the peculiar poetic charm of these old legends must feel irritated by the barbarian — for there are pious barbarians — who thinks he is putting the true value upon these narratives only when he treats them as prose and history.

A Peculiar People: The Church as Culture in a Post-Christian Society by Rodney Clapages InterVarsity, 251 pages, $ 14.99 paper A prolific evangelical Protestant writer, Clapp proposes an understanding of «church as way of life» along lines made familiar by the work of Stanley Hauerwas.

I have taken as my primary task to locate the «specificity» of the Christian life — that is, the peculiar images that should form and shape the character of Christians.

They do not live in cities of their own; they use no peculiar language, they do not follow an eccentric manner of life.

But the two can not finally be kept apart, for Christian belief receives its peculiar stamp and structure from that living tradition in which Jesus Christ is acknowledged to be the defining center.

This peculiar kind of hope itself opens up the possibility of a particular stance in the world: one of concern for others even at the expense of concern for the survival of our way of life.

The theory of the identity of religion with the sum total of man's cultural and social life does not do justice to its peculiar nature.

Of all varieties of social life and grouping within a given society, religious associations of a peculiar and not of the traditional type will arrest the attention of the student.

This depends upon there being a brain, an arrangement of cells in a particular part of the body which by reason of its peculiar coordination makes the given routing able to «know» in a distinctively human manner — quite different from, although certainly continuous with, the sort of «knowing» that is possible for the higher grades of animal life.

Human dignity is «to be found in the kind of life that honors and upholds the peculiar nature that is ours.»

This concern with the peculiar status of the monk is the leitmotif of the volume Contemplation in a World of Action (1973), which brought together a large number of Merton's essays and conference papers on the monastic life done during the»60s.

The expansion of the universe, its experimentation with so many peculiar patterns, and above all its hospitality to the evolution of life and the birth of consciousness persuade us that it may be a story with great consequence.

It is from this peculiar perspective that the monk should be able to get a sense of the deepest meaning of life itself; he also «will be in some sense critical of the world, of its routines, its confusions.

One can not afford to lose status on this peculiar kind of ladder, for the prevailing notion of American life seems to involve a kind of rung - by - rung ascension to some hideously desirable state.

I haven't discussed the peculiar propensity for religious conflict that seems to be characteristic of the Southern Crossroads or the enormous importance of the Middle Atlantic region to American Jewish life.

The very achievements of the Christian life bring peculiar difficulties.

He has received his life, his existence, his peculiar being from God, precisely as the thousands of animals have their characteristics from God.

For they neither inhabit cities of their own, nor employ a peculiar form of speech, nor lead a life which is marked out by any singularity.

With some peculiar completeness each member occasion of the living person sums up the past of the society, (PR 244, 531.)

Like the ancient dybbuk separated from its body and consigned to wander the world, modern man senses his detachment from life as the peculiar curse of his modernity, the price paid to Satan in return for distance.

He was writing, not for a group within a group, the Palestinian church living on under the shadow of the Jewish synagogue and a part, though a somewhat segregated part, of Jewish society, observing its own peculiar Halakak; Mark was writing for a martyr church in the world's metropolis, under the darkening shadow of a tyrant's throne and in the midst of a corrupt society of which the church could not possibly form a part.

This sense of the world's presence, appealing as it does to our peculiar individual temperament, makes us either strenuous or careless, devout or blasphemous, gloomy or exultant, about life at large; and our reaction, involuntary and inarticulate and often half unconscious as it is, is the completest of all our answers to the question, «What is the character of this universe in which we dwell?»

These perspectives were generally oriented to the European continent, and hence saw the peculiar developments of American life and institutions in terms of unusual, to be sure, but continuous extensions of European life.

Where, then, does this order come from, this teeming life I see from my window: urgent spider making her living with her pre-nylon web, coyote crafty across the ridge - top, muddy Rio Grande as warm with no - see - ems (an invisible insect peculiar to early evenings)?

And inasmuch as any basic Christian affirmation is molded to the vital energies which work upon it in any nation or country, it ought to be possible to gain insight into the fact that classical Christian eschatology is interpreted in present American life in a peculiar way.

I have found that on occasion I really sympathize with a friend of mine who feels that organizations of people are to be avoided as the plague; but I think that is peculiar of me, probably because I live in a rather close - knit community and sometimes find a «gold - fish» existence somewhat fatiguing.

Whereupon Lucas concludes: «the inheritance of a common form in a living regnant society consists in the serial coordination of the successive subjective aims of the actual entities (i.e., the complete and peculiar «summation» of the series by each succeeding term) toward a final end or «satisfaction» of the society as a whole» (TVF 44).

Now it is the peculiar claim of Christianity that the life of Jesus Christ, in its complete sense, is the special revelation» of God.

The latter was arguably the strongest obstacle to the development of a properly conjugal spirituality; i.e. an ascetical approach for married persons powerful and deep enough to help them seek perfection within - and not despite - the conditions peculiar to their proper way of life.

New information This unbalanced exposition includes a peculiar and rather controversial division of the different forms of religious life into three main strands: monastic, apostolic and evangelical.

But the principle of modification is perfectly general throughout nature, and represents no property peculiar to living bodies.»

There is a peculiar quality about water — perhaps its essential purity and its fundamental place in the economy of all life — which especially fits it for use as a symbol of the forgiveness of sin.

The most peculiar side of Shaker life was their worship service.

In fact, given the degree to which the «early followers of Jesus... suffered Rome's punitive regime, living at the edge of prison,... risking torture and execution,» Taylor finds it exceedingly peculiar that «Christians today are so accepting» of Lockdown America.