Sentences with word «preciousness»

We know that Christ's vanishing and the vanishing of every human moment and the self we are at every moment serve to underscore the utter preciousness of life.
As Lamargese wrote of Wise's work, «There's a wholehearted preciousness in being this unprecious about everything.»
The title of Leah Meyerhoff's feature - length writing and directing debut, I Believe In Unicorns, seems designed to push away anyone dubious about preciousness, especially when it comes to stylish coming - of - age indies.
Signs get torn from their contexts and images often get channeled into dense compounds that delight in their materiality (though not ceremoniously — the artist insistently staves off preciousness with stains, burns, holes, puns, frays).
Whether it is in the area of family problems, as in Cosby or Mother and Son, race relations and childhood preciousness as in Different Strokes, or chauvinistic ockerism as in Kingswood Country, the comedic hero reassures us of the presence of a divine guarantor by embodying our fears and facilitating their catharsis.
Though a few pieces verge on preciousness, the best demonstrate how immediate sculpture can be when unburdened by excessive theoretical context.
That is the sting of it, that in the vast driftings of the cosmic weather, though many a jewelled shore appears, and many an enchanted cloud - bank floats away, long lingering ere it be dissolved — even as our world now lingers for our joy — yet when these transient products are gone, nothing, absolutely nothing remains, to represent those particular qualities, those elements of preciousness which they may have enshrined.
Also, an elegant clutch, small, will give more preciousness outfit.
By «queerying» popular imagery and utilising the props of everyday life, the aim is to destroy the aura of preciousness surrounding art.
We do witness such preciousness today, when the entire lifecycle of the painting itself - from conception, to execution, to sale, to postgallery life - becomes something on which artists must actively dwell.
The Taro Ishida collection possesses a refined, even sacred preciousness and rarity.
WASHABILITY This one is so easy to wash and care for it makes up for it's preciousness around liquids.
Knightley's character flirts with Manic Pixie Dream Girl preciousness, but imbues the character with a humanity that transcends the type; she's got a lovely monologue at a key moment in their arc (concerning her love of vinyl, of course) that moves the film into the realm of pathos with an almost invisible dexterity.
Writer - director Mark Wilkinson gracefully elides backstories while arranging his converging narratives into a neat fugue, but the overall preciousness of his conception is suffocating.
Not only feels real, but it avoids preciousness and cute eccentricity and, in its lean, almost grave, cut - and - dried delivery makes more of an emotional impact because we're able to imprint our own memories of adolescence upon it.
Director Robert Benton captures the droll eccentricity of small - town life without any of the usual phony preciousness.
At times, Lucy the movie veers precariously close to the New Age preciousness of such films as Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life or Darren Aronofsky's The Fountain.
Playing It Cool's interminable preciousness culminates with a scene that visualizes ME's disconnect from the love - dovery around him by rendering him monochrome in a colorful world.
But those trailers (and the undercurrent of latent sexism and fanboy preciousness) have kept a lot of people wary of the film.
But the madness of the myopic POV rescues Swiss Army Man from its own preciousness; this is the hipster odyssey of healing gone completely unglued, as though Hank were remaking some Focus Feature in his severely damaged head.
The general preciousness of The Florida Project serves to mask, or at least distract from, the emotional toll living in such dire straits has on the people in the motel.
In the interior environment, Akari lanterns join a related body of work in cut - and-folded bronze plate designed to winkingly play off of the perceived preciousness and self - seriousness of bronze sculpture.
Her collages are missives documenting the precarious preciousness of life.
The raw, often attitudinal sculptures and paintings of William J. O'Brien reject the sentimentality and preciousness generally associated with the handmade.
Their tiny preciousness draws the eye toward them for closer inspection, beckoning the viewer to scrutinize each and every hash mark and detail.
Around the corner at the Rosa Esman Gallery, Katherine Bowling, in her second solo show, exhibits landscapes that combine deep vertiginous perspectives with a lush physicality but balance a bit too adeptly between preciousness and abandon.
The flawlessly white walls, and beyond - pale, lime waxed white wood floors set up a kind of quivering, pallid preciousness that inspired church - like silence.
In addition to Smithson's use of silt, crystal, and rock, the piece's fixed location outside and the its dependence on the lake's water levels in order to be viewed — it was visible for two years after its creation until it became submerged, resurfacing only occasionally — countered the characteristic preciousness placed on the art object - as - artifact.
With little preciousness, Ryan champions these sloppy green ceramic objects, pocked with her fingerprints, making them animate on their lofty perch.
I have a now 3 yr old boy and he's just a bundle of constant sweet preciousness.
By balancing structure with nurture and always remaining mindful of the inherent preciousness of each and every child, we have the opportunity to help our children realize dramatic strides and in the process discover (and re-discover) the joy in parenting.
Irreverence toward a material's original function (and context), preciousness in its preservation, and fetishization of its form (divorced from its original function) are central to Sibony's sensibility, and apparent in his current exhibition at Greene Naftali Gallery.
That is the sting of it, that in the vast driftings of the cosmic weather, though many a jeweled shore appears, and many an enchanted cloud - bank floats away, long lingering ere it be dissolved — even as our world now lingers for our joy — yet when these transient products are gone, nothing, absolutely nothing remains, to represent those particular qualities, those elements of preciousness which they may have enshrined.
I wonder of how many times did I just unconsciously stormed through things, people and moments, never fully aware of the magic and preciousness surrounding them?
He also affirmed the sanctity and preciousness of human life, and said that no amount of violence that Christians receive is ever an excuse for retaliation.
We live in a time of increasing moral awareness about animal life, and its preciousness, and its testimony to the magnificence of creation.
Nevertheless, most feminists have deep feelings about the preciousness of the potential life that develops within women.
The reality of divine grace confirmed and sustained her conviction about the preciousness of human beings and provided her with a standard to judge the way social and political institutions enhance or retard human dignity.
They knew no joys comparable in quality of preciousness to those which we shall erelong see that Brahmans, Buddhists, Christians, Mohammedans, twice - born people whose religion is non-naturalistic, get from their several creeds of mysticism and renunciation.
The awareness of the brevity and preciousness of time is increased in our mid-years along with a strengthening of our insight into priorities and values.
The language was a person - Jesus Christ - who revealed to us not only the tenderness of the merciful Father, but the preciousness of humanity.
Jackson points to the preciousness of the biblical words themselves as reason for such extravagance.
The problem is when people start taking things that are fundamental to the Bible, like male / female duality and the preciousness of human life established in Genesis 1, and saying, «Eh, these things don't matter,» and then go on to support causes that contradict these foundational values (e.g., gay marriage, abortion).
We can't not know the preciousness of human life - therefore, if we tell ourselves that humanity is a matter of degree, we can't help holding those who are more human more precious than those who are less.

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