Sentences with phrase «preciousness which»

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

My kids are now 3 and 5, which are amazing ages, and I want to hold on to their preciousness with all my might, even though I know it's futile.

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.

Prince offsets the self - consciously sensual overlay of pigment he applied to Untitled (de Kooning) with its deliberately over-the-top chromatic range and aggressive application, which smothers any sense of preciousness or «prettiness.»

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.

At the EMST, the Moldovan artist Pavel Brăila presents a luxurious - looking freezer filled with jars of snow collected at the Sochi Olympics, a witless commentary on the preciousness and decadence of the tourist - drawing, nationalism - fueling events of which Documenta is but one example.

The relative cheapness and potential multiplicity of the books countered the preciousness of unique art objects, an attitude which these artists sought to supercede.

Is their preciousness the same reactionary force which distanced new art from the general public in the first place?

Its goals were laid out in the 1963 offset lithograph Fluxus Manifesto (on view at The Museum of Modern Art), which denounces the «bourgeois» preciousness and exclusivity that surrounds art, promotes art «for all peoples,» and calls «cultural, social, and political revolutionaries to united front and action.»

There is preciousness to my existing in the album, which I calls into question: it is now devoid of one of its main characters.