Sentences with phrase «profane time»

Traditionally, the rituals of religion were identified as serving the major function of transcending present profane time.

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At Westglades Middle School in 2013, he'd been cited numerous times for disrupting class, unruly behavior, insulting or profane language, profanity toward staff, disobedience and other rules violations, the records show.

Disciplinary reports obtained by the Herald show that at Westglades Middle School, which he attended in 2013, he'd been cited numerous times for disrupting class, unruly behavior, insulting or profane language, profanity toward staff, disobedience and other rules violations.

Is a form of faith possible that will effect a dialectical union between time and eternity, or the sacred and the profane?

All such religious claims not only attempt to solidify and freeze the life and movement of the divine process, but they foreclose the possibility of the enlargement and evolution of faith, and ruthlessly set the believer against the presence of Christ in an increasingly profane history, thereby alienating the Christian from the actuality of his own time.

A truly dialectical leap of faith is inseparable from its ground in an absolutely profane moment of time and space.

place, at sacred times, through sacred persons as distinct from a profane, «unholy» people, and the adoration of God in spirit and in truth is not, indeed abolished, but radically relativized.

For while the sacred may be seen as that which gives meaning and value to the profane sphere, at the same time it may by its separateness and elevation tend to empty the profane sphere of significance and worth.

It is precisely this coincidentia of the opposing realms of the sacred and the profane that makes possible Christianity's celebration of the Incarnation as an actual and real event, an event that has occurred and does occur in concrete time and space, and an event effecting a real transformation of the world.

God pushes through nature and history to that earthly consummation in which spirit and nature will be unified, the profane sanctified, the kingdom of God established out of the kingdom of man, and all of time and creation drawn back into eternity.

This means that here negation and reversal are grounded in affirmation; time and space are negated in their profane or fallen form only to be regenerated or resurrected in their sacred or primordial form.

An authentically kenotic movement of «incarnation» must be a continual process of Spirit becoming flesh, of Eternity becoming time, or of the sacred becoming profane.

Images of paradise invariably testify to a longing or a nostalgia for an original paradise, i.e., for participation in an original cosmic Totality, a Totality present in a primordial time prior to the advent of the rupture between the sacred and the profane, a time when suffering, death, and alienation had not yet come into existence.

A dialectical negation of time and space culminates in a regeneration of Eternity — a renewal or repetition of a primordial Totality — and therefore an absolute negation of the profane is equivalent to a total affirmation of the sacred.

The doses of sacred violence required to contain the profane violence grow larger and larger, reaching the level of nation against nation, genocide, massive pollution, and many other excesses of violence common in our time.

What excites me now is that in your very vision of the profane and sacred bottom - touching, in your epiphany of the Eternal in a fragment of time this morning, you touched bottom to your father's knee and felt wholly other all over.

He wills the eternal repetition of the profane moment in time, and so looks forward to the future, instead of the past.

By making contact with the profane like Proust, and with the sacred at the same time, like Eliade.

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed:: Profane and sacred all at the same time.

It is precisely those who most deeply refuse our world and the forward movement of history and consciousness who are now driven to a primordial way, a way that masks the profane reality of time and death by apprehending it as being at one with a primordial unity.

Finding in its plot the negotiation of Christ and Eros in spaces heretofore considered inert and at times of its common life regarded as incidental or profane, Wiltshire Church could begin to appreciate its implication within the working of all social space and time.

Television transcends the profane by providing a media ritual which is at the same time engaging yet free of effort.

«During all this time I was never joined in profession of religion with any, but gave up myself to the Lord, having forsaken all evil company, taking leave of father and mother, and all other relations, and traveled up and down as a stranger on the earth, which way the Lord inclined my heart; taking a chamber to myself in the town where I came, and tarrying sometimes more, sometimes less in a place: for I durst not stay long in a place, being afraid both of professor and profane, lest, being a tender young man, I should be hurt by conversing much with either.

* At different times, Christians have tried to create laws to restrict the sale of liquor on the Sabbath or prevent language they believed profane.

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What a beautiful story and how incredibly real — it is crazy how children can go from asking the most profound questions we adults at times struggle to answer or struggle to answer in a way that gives justice to the question and yet, a mere 30 seconds later the same kid can turn to the most seemingly profane distraction.

I wanted him to be funny, eccentric, a bit profane at times.

What takes us and her there is the tale of how the world - beating New York Times got the scoop on Ellsberg's «Pentagon Papers,» how paranoid, profane and punitive President Richard Nixon (glimpsed in silhouette, heard on the infamous «tapes») and his Justice Department stopped it, and how the Washington Post stepped in, found its edge, voice and spine and took up cause, fighting (with the Times) all the way to the Supreme Court for «the public's right to know.»

In time, Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, and Eazy - E joined forces with DJ Yella (born Antoine Carraby) and MC Ren (born Lorenzo Patterson) to form the group N.W.A. With their 1988 album Straight Outta Compton, N.W.A.'s profane and provocative lyrics (particularly the infamous «F ---- Tha Police») made them one of the most controversial groups in the history of rap music, and if they weren't the first gangsta rappers, they certainly brought the sound to a mass audience for the first time.

Yet what makes Judd Apatow's follow - up to The 40 - Year - Old Virgin such a consistently good time is its ability to provide sincere rom - com sweetness without sacrificing any of its lewd, profane edge.

Three Billboards is dark and profane, at times funny and at others tragic.

Beyond the nervy magnetism of Baruchel's ballsy, profane lead performance, Real Time has a sizable asset in its dispiritingly accurate view of the shittiness of small - town life in Canada.

Although profane and violent as well as crass and ridiculous at times, the film is also eccentric and dynamic, with humanity and heart shining through the cynical quips.

He isn't afraid to take on a quirky comedy and make the most of a script that features him spending most of his time onscreen talking to a profane teddy bear.

His latest, Knight of Cups is certainly as impressionistic as these last two features, and hinges once again on a restless nomad, this time a faded Hollywood screenwriter hovering betwixt the sacred labors of his profession and the profane temptations of his surroundings.

Like Django Unchained, the writer - director reflects modern times on the Old West, but with more scalpel - sliced dialogue, profane poetry, and gore.

M Gustav is referred to as a man out of time, even in his own time; he is dainty, elegant, he is suave (if also unexpectedly profane — all the character's notes are hit absolutely perfectly by Fiennes, who is perhaps the film's revelation).

The first red band trailer for Deadpool is here, and it looks like just the over-the-top, profane, violent good time one would hope for.

Thurman really makes Cal's 20 - year - old male voice shine through, as sarcastic and profane as that can be at times.

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Released from 1989 to 1994, it's three hours of profane, mean - spirited hyperviolence, and it perfectly embodies a time when Japan's direct - to - video anime market surged with sex and violence like a collective id unchained.

What has never been sufficiently taken into account by «serious» criticism is the character of these works as monumental and ironic put - ons, blagues, a favorite form of destructive wit of the period, inflated to gigantic dimensions — pictorial versions of those endemic pranks which threatened to destroy all serious values, to profane and vulgarize the most sacred verities of the times.

Instead, he returned time and again to certain underlying themes — the shapes lurking underneath the carpet, as it were — including repressed memories, disjunctions between selfhood and social structures as well as fault lines between the sacred and the profane.

The image of the cowboy, which was sanctified in a time when the lifestyle they represented was a possibility, was continually profaned the more it was plastered on empty products promising to fill the void in the American consumer.

Similarly, Ofili's sexually explicit and dynamic manipulation of the two figures, at times blending into one, prompts viewers to question their perceptions of push versus pull, active versus passive, sacred versus profane.

Glenn Kaino's kinetic sculptures transform familiar objects and activities to explore the complexities of time, the juxtaposition of the sacred and the profane, and the dialectic of ancient and contemporary culture.

The dwarfed cities encased beneath colorful bell jars appear relic - like, yet also profane at times — their jutting skyscrapers evoking a curiosity born of both estrangement and familiarity.

Instead, he returned time and again to certain underlying themes — the shapes lurking underneath the carpet, as it were — including repressed childhood memories, disjunctions between selfhood and social structures as well as fault lines between the sacred and the profane.

He might have seemed, at the time, to be speaking for the great cultural movement about to emerge — for James Joyce, with his layering of classical myth and the profane reality of early - twentieth - century Dublin in Ulysses; for Picasso, whose postwar art of pastiche seemed to disassemble and recombine historical styles just as his earlier work had taken apart and reconstructed pictorial space; for Stravinsky, whose music had found a sense of modernity in both primitive ritual (The Rite of Spring) and the mincing artifices of the eighteenth - century ballroom (Pulcinella), and who sought for his Oedipus Rex «a medium not dead but turned to stone.»

Not because you are profane but because they don't have time for your spew, however authentic.