Sentences with phrase «preciousness as»
But the distance, and the contrast with the moon's lifeless desolation, only magnified its beauty as well as its preciousness as an oasis of life in the endless void.
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Jackson points to the preciousness of the biblical words themselves as reason for such extravagance.
At most, you might deem it well to keep a few chosen specimens alive to represent an interesting and peculiar variety of humanity; but as for the rest, what comes in such surpassing numbers, and what you can only imagine in this abstract summary collective manner, must be something of which the units, you are sure, can have no individual preciousness.
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.
The time will come when time will run out for us too, and once we see that, we see also that for the 18 - year - old at McDonald's as well as for the old crock in the retirement - home cafeteria, every one of our suppers points to the preciousness of life and also to the certainty of death, which makes life even more precious still and is precious in itself because under its shadow we tend to search harder and harder for light.
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.
As you soak in your baby's preciousness you may not realize some interesting facts about newborn eyes.
Nor does it tell us anything about the pull toward rare extremes of ideas and facts, as opposed to sensations — the preciousness imparted to a piano, say, by the knowledge that Beethoven once pounded those very keys.
Consider the importance of this for a moment as we honor the value and preciousness of the very air we breathe.
Pointedly, Lucy gets a couple of eloquent monologues in which to ponder such weighty matters as the impermanence of all life, the preciousness of every moment, the human tendency to prioritize feeling over thinking, the depressing myopia of human experience in general, and the fact that life gains meaning only with the passage of time.
That Denis can produce a work that, without a trace of preciousness, is equal parts indebted to Barthes and Chicago blues, connected as arm is to shoulder to the film - historical legacy of post-New Wave French filmmaking, is only further justification for claim that the 71 - year - old is the greatest working director over the last two decades.
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.
And though in some ways the role encourages some of Field's worst tendencies (sentimentality, preciousness), it also brings out some of her best — such as her unexpected ferocity and precise subtlety.
- Kirkus «This devastating read stands less as a polemic against the death penalty than as a heartbreaking brief for the preciousness of life.»
Certainly though, if daintiness, delicacy and preciousness are to be counted as earmarks of a feminine style, there is nothing fragile about Rosa Bonheur's Horse Fair, nor dainty and introverted about Helen Frankenthaler's giant canvases.
Certain preoccupations with artworks are established early on in cinematic history: the preciousness of art objects anchors their roles as plot drivers, and anxieties intensify regarding the vitality of artworks and their perceived abilities to wield power over viewers or to capture spirits.
She continues to explore the flora and fauna of East End waterways, ponds, bays, and beaches as a testament to the preciousness of our natural resources.
Referencing a range of historical and contemporary codes and double meanings including floriography, the Victorian cultural phenomenon that used flowers as tokens to communicate hidden or forbidden pleasures, Fox developed the «Phantasieblume» body of work (2008 - 11), a series of intricately hand cut decorative objects resembling the preciousness of handcrafted Victorian lace sited within a series of cabinets.
As Lamargese wrote of Wise's work, «There's a wholehearted preciousness in being this unprecious about everything.»
They pack the same visual punch as the monumental plank and column works downstairs yet possess a greater sense of preciousness... like Fabergé eggs of our time.
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.
Used as a mediation device between the lush pastoral scenes contained within and the harsh actuality of their physical surroundings, the trunks and cases elicit visions of travel, preciousness and possession.