Sentences with phrase «poetic nature»

His paintings and works on paper bear witness to the multiplicity of his inspiration and the strongly poetic nature of his oeuvre, across media — watercolor, oil and gouache — and through the recurring themes — his fascination with the Orient, desolate landscapes, and evocative scenes of ocean and shipwrecks — that continue to beguile viewers today.

The poetic nature of simple elements like texture and color are very important in my work... I like people to feel my paintings without touching them.

«I love the extremely poetic nature of Karen's work,» Pinto explains.

Concurrently, his work celebrates the poetic nature of hip - hop's language, both verbal and physical, as well as its powerful and empowering contribution to an increasingly hybrid global culture.

Each artist and their respective works have been selected for the poetic nature in which they, at times share an affinity in intent and expression, while in other instances are clearly diametrically divergent.

The film's performers are all - around excellent (McShane provides an anchor of subtlety to some of the shrill histrionics, and Winstone exudes potent personal angst from simple offhanded comments like ordering calamari), but it's Kingsley's menacing and humorous performance, a brutal force of near poetic nature, that reveals new layers with each viewing of the film.

The wonderful, poetic nature she speaks with helps bridge the gap from contemplating to deeply feeling healthier and in touch with our innate body - wisdom.

Contrary to the poetic nature of «righting past wrongs» that some attribute to the de-extinction of passenger pigeons, I view the de-extinction of the passenger pigeon as a project seeded in our present and future; it is a pivotal exercise in thought stressing the recognition that we are the drivers of change on this planet and that we have the cognitive ability to take responsibility for the direction of that change.

Dylan brings up the poetic natures of Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas.

Not exact matches

The translator offers a brief rationale of his task of presenting a rendering that is faithful to both the poetic and scientific natures of the text.

It would be difficult to decide which is the more poetic description of the kingdom — Whitehead's notion of the consequent nature of God or the traditional notion of heaven.

At first they may be taken merely as aesthetic moments, such as communing with nature, savouring memories andimages, meeting mysteries, the heightened sensing of musical sounds, odours, colours, the thrill of acute poetic expression, or moving encounters with other human beings; but on further reflection people often cite such experiences as having a spiritual quality and as hints of the divine.

I draw this notion from Aristotle's Poetics: «Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.»

In this way Whitehead formulates the poetic grasp of nature in solido.

Canadian folk - rocker Bruce Cockburn has also gained notoriety for shimmering poetic forays into both geopolitics (in the form of travelogue songs) and spirituality (celebrating nature and inner beauty in its multitudinous forms).

This was inescapable in view of Israel's concept of the intimate relationship between God and nature; but at the same time it imparted to their understanding of the inanimate world, and to their poetic expression of it, a beauty and elevation, and withal a majesty such as, one may venture the judgment, to rank them with the best poets of any age.

It is at this point that the very poetic and symbolic nature of the term «resurrection» begins to make itself felt even in the context of the ancient myth.

But after years of work on the poetic, metaphorical nature of religious language (and hence its relative, constructive and necessarily changing character), and in view of feminism's critique of the hierarchical, dualistic nature of the language of the Jewish and Christian traditions, my bonds to biblicism and the Barthian God loosened.

Quixote has survived the ravages of time chiefly because he is of his nature timeless; he enchants us with his absolute exorbitance, his ability to inhabit a parallel reality of his own, corresponding wholly to his own poetic and moral creed.

A middle position sees the biblical record as neither completely divine nor completely human, but as Involving both God and man; its authors conveyed profound insights into the nature Of God, but expressed this religious message in poetic form and in terms of the understanding of the world then current.

There is no belief in the inner superiority of spirit over nature, no conception of struggle between spirit and nature, nor of the inner growth which man can win in the battle with nature; there is lacking also the specifically modern pessimistic estimate of the world such as has received poetic expression from Strindberg or Spitteler.

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.

Indeed, and although he admits that given their poetic character those remarks do not lend themselves to an easy interpretation, one thing is nevertheless clear to him: the «fourth phase» should not be understood as an implicit statement made by Whitehead to the effect that the consequent nature is prehended by the actual occasions.

But whatever resources poetic interpreters discover and use take on the character of nature.

Using examples from mythology, Scripture, theology, and philosophy, Rollins shows how mankind has long been interested in speaking of God in these terms, to the point that «instead of thinking about our understanding of God as a poetic utterance arising from an encounter with God, it was thought that our understanding of God directly matched up with the very nature of God.

Because of the vague nature of the mythic - symbolic - poetic - ritualistic expressions of religion, some of those who idealize clarity find religion lacking in meaning and truth.

I see an anthropomorphic concept of God... that God / Universe / Nature acts in human ways... as either a conceited sin of pride or a poetic metaphoric description, that is in objective reality, almost impossible to ignore in any Western culture.

You may wish to call nature «God», and that's fine in a poetic sense, but if you do that then you can't attach any supernatural attributes to what we call «nature.»

Yet, as Whitehead (1920, p. 17) observed as early as in 1920, the variety of metrically discordant temporal series is entirely compatible with one single underlying «creative advance of nature,» or, in less poetic words, with universal becoming.

An object such as, for instance, a silver votive vessel comes into being not only by the interplay between the dark hiddenness of the earth and the radiant openness of the heavens — hidden ores brought up to shine in the light of day — but by the reverently poetic approach of mortals toward the gods and by the lordly approach of the gods toward mortals, out of the hidden realm of the divine, announcing themselves in the powers of nature.

It is certainly due to Whitehead's defense of «the creative advance of nature,» which seems to be nothing but a poetic term for the uniform time of Newton.

The technological reduction of nature from a source of moral guidance to an obstacle to human freedom and mastery is complicated by the more poetic transformation of it into an object of reverential worship.

Wren as a first name is delicate, lyrical and poetic, and a beautiful choice for parents who love names derived from nature.

Last week I waxed mildly poetic on the ephemeral nature of living beings and the inorganic reality of a fossil.

It is also almost poetic to think that dark matter, which gets its name from its mysterious nature, could have helped to destroy ancient life on Earth.

In this combination of anthology and commentary, Felstiner argues that poetic language effectively leads people to appreciate nature, recognize the imperiled state of the environment, and take steps toward better stewardship of the world.

hmm crazy fun and always making people laugh, im poetic in nature and deep in thought always keepin you on your toes and ready for the next adventure.

Cole paces the movie with a certain poetic elegance rarely found in Hollywood romances anymore, especially those of this nature.

Even as the perfect crime collapses in betrayal and the irrational impulses of human nature, The Asphalt Jungle is a model of elegant construction, street - level tragedy, and poetic justice, a film that both embraces the romance of the criminal code and acknowledges the mercenary impulses of outsiders and upstarts who have no code.

Even in comparatively conventional mode, Bill Morrison's work still benefits from the poetic potential of nature's repossession of its own elements.

It has everything you expect from one of his films: poetic, sometimes ridiculously so, voiceovers, long shots of nature being nature (or not), very little dialogue and a way of looking at a familiar subject that I, at least, had never quite thought of before.

As I conclude these thoughts, my mind is flipping through the poetic excursion it just had the privilege of experiencing; scenes allowed to sink in so that the vastness of the volcanic nature swallows all attention, or the peculiarity of the aspect ratio which brings to mind Cormac McCarthy's lack of quotations; an artistic expression which empowers the themes and mysticism of the film.

The film's nadir is a scene in which Curtis recites a poetic «song» to a group around a campfire and which becomes the occasion for a montage devoted to the beauties of a kitschy soundstage version of «nature,» followed by glimpses of other salt - of - the - earth slaves at rest who register like warmed - over Depression archetypes.

Examining Chile's relationship with its coastline, Guzmán links poetic observations about the life - giving nature to the horrors of Pinochet's regime, including the dumping of bodies into the surrounding sea.

While it offers more mysteries than answers, The Tree of Life is a poetic sermon that attempts to tackle the nature of life and death on a scale that is both micro and macro; both intimate and grandiose.

So while comparisons to the undercover nature of Rogue One's third act last year are inevitable, it's hard to think of a more poetic way for Finn to prove himself, once and for all, as a loyal member of the Resistance, than by making him return to the side on which he was originally raised and trained to serve.

Justin Timberlake's character describes himself as «poetic by nature».

Working with the great cinematographer Emmanuel Lubeski (Children Of Men), Malick spends much of the brilliant first hour assembling exalted images of man and nature with an intuitive, poetic style that recalls Wong Kar - wai.

The Asphalt Jungle (1950)-- 7:00 PM «Even as the perfect crime collapses in betrayal and the irrational impulses of human nature, The Asphalt Jungle is a model of elegant construction, street - level tragedy, and poetic justice, a film that both embraces the romance of the criminal code and acknowledges the mercenary impulses of outsiders and upstarts who have no code.»

Raging Bull (1980, Martin Scorsese): The best director currently working in American movies hit a career peak by turning the life of boxer Jake La Motta into a poetic meditation on the nature of violence.