Sentences with phrase «perplexity at»

I have much the same thrill and perplexity at the architectural violence of Gordon Matta - Clark — or those trashing the gallery today.

I found it harder than ever to avoid my perplexity at what the art really means.

In faith's response to its kenotic image of God there lies a surprising way of bringing new meaning to our normally confused sense of mystery, to our puzzlement about evolution and other recent discoveries about the physical universe, to our perplexity at the broken state of social existence, and finally to our own individual longings and sufferings.

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In any perplexity about how to respond to this or that, his many friends would at the drop of a hat telephone him for counsel.

By this event they are enabled, even compelled, radically to redefine their notion of his sovereign power as it affects their lives; but if they are allowed in that place to glimpse the ultimate secret of his ways, this would seem in part at least to be because there he made, in the person of his Son, their perplexity and their pain his own.

Israel becoming a nation again Israel will be in possession of Jerusalem when Israel is surrounded by armies no time is near Earthquakes Seas roaring nations in distress with perplexity wars and terrorism days of Noah and lot the generation at the end 2 Timothy 3:1 - 5, 7 «Difficult Times Will Come» 1But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.

At about the age of fifty, Tolstoy relates that he began to have moments of perplexity, of what he calls arrest, as if he knew not «how to live,» or what to do.

The fact that we can die, that we can be ill at all, is what perplexes us; the fact that we now for a moment live and are well is irrelevant to that perplexity.

In the discourse itself (Luke 17:22 - 37), Jesus anticipates the early church's perplexity over the nonappearance of the supernatural Son of man, the divine being who will come and usher in the final days at the end of history.

At the risk of oversimplification, the interlocutors argue for God's temporal as well as eternal justice, while Job expresses perplexity over their claim for his temporal justice.

In 1850, in In Memoriam, Tennyson expressed perplexity about the ancient earth and evolution, before On the Origin of Species was published in 1859: «Are God and Nature then at strife, / That Nature lends such evil dreams?»

Here, and in the perplexity and anger at Jewish rejection of the apostolic mission, is the germinating seed of Christian anti-Semitism.

the possibility and necessity of living in a dimension of meaning in which the urgencies of the struggle are subordinated to a sense of awe before the vastness of the historical drama in which we are jointly involved; to a sense of modesty about the virtue, wisdom, and power available to us for the resolution of its perplexities; to a sense of contrition about the common human frailties and foibles which lie at the foundation of... our vanities; and to a sense of gratitude for the divine mercies which are promised to those who humble themselves.

Religion is at one and the same time irrelevant as a sure guide to the perplexities of practice and eternally relevant as ultimate transcendent principle.

There are paradoxes and perplexities in the Franciscan way of life no less than in other Christian ways and most of them appear at some point in Francis» own career.

Here Cochran seems to be guilty of the sin which Whitehead called «misplaced concreteness,» but at least the physicist's perplexities are a comfort to the biologist; and though the complementarity principle leaves a host of problems unanswered, at least it poses a few new questions.

The early attempts at elaborating the Muslim system of belief grew out of the issues raised by Kharijism — due to the impact of Islam on the Arab Bedouin society — and the perplexities of the non-Arab communities which were gathered under the banner of Islam.

In ancient Israel's most dismal, hopeless hours, prophetism continued to speak with honesty, realistically acknowledging the anguish of Israel's existence and the fearful perplexities therein for the prophet; and yet at the same time it joyfully affirmed Yahweh's reign and the ultimate success of his Word.

Before we go further we must look at one of the perplexities in all discussions of love, the problem of language.

Furthermore, one who is at all close to the men in the services can not be blind to the perplexity of many of the men, even while the fighting continues.

On the right, there is precisely the perplexity that you would expect to be triggered by a measure so brazenly at odds with standard Conservative ideology.

Look at the root cause of your poo perplexity!!

are expressing perplexity over the market for bonds, which is institutional and driven by accounting and regulatory concerns (ALM, pension funding regs, risk charges on surplus for holding equities, marking investment grade bonds at amortized cost rather than to market, etc.).

Then you land at Delhi and reach your hotel through the ineffable perplexity of Indian traffic - and you realise that Great Rail Journeys can probably get you anywhere successfully!

The jury is out on whether or not this qualifies him as a communist, but his claim does provide a source of perplexity when evaluating the inspiration for his ongoing Kandor sculpture and installation series — the newest of which being currently displayed at Gagosian Gallery (Beverly Hills) alongside the latest chapters of his filmic project, Extracurricular -LSB-.....]

He had just left the Chelsea School of Art after an unsatisfactory period as a figurative painter in an institution that overvalued abstract expressionism, and was «thrashing about as an artist» attempting to express his perplexity and anger at the dismal political situation facing the left at the time.

British painter Cecily Brown (b. 1969) nurtured an early fascination of «scary» art: «I had sneak looks at it, like you might look at Playboy», just as German painter Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) was attracted by art's capacity for uncertainty, perplexity — and coincidence.

«This is a man who never stopped laughing, who always spoke in riddles, who identified with the joker, and is always actively engaging us with that perplexity, the idea of paradox in paintings,» biographer Justin Spring proclaimed of artist Roberto Matta at Pace Gallery's West 25th Street branch last week.

The jury is out on whether or not this qualifies him as a communist, but his claim does provide a source of perplexity when evaluating the inspiration for his ongoing Kandor sculpture and installation series — the newest of which being currently displayed at Gagosian Gallery (Beverly Hills) alongside the latest chapters of his filmic project, Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction (EAPR).