Sentences with phrase «profane yet»

This year we had three strong, very different nominees — Denis Côté's documentary meditation on captive animals; Michael Dowse's wildly profane yet tender hockey comedy; and Sarah Polley's genre - bending family memoir.

He lands a job as an assistant to the profane yet haughty Evie Walton (Walters), an aging diva of a retired actress.

Not exact matches

No doubt the total vision promised by an apocalyptic form of faith is not yet present upon our historical horizon; for, immersed as we are in a fully profane consciousness, we would seem to have lost the very possibility of apocalyptic vision.

«The profane,» for Hasidism, is only a designation for the not yet sanctified.

The human difference is this: If the Messiah has not yet appeared, then the world is still profane, and our task is to wrest him forth, to go and fetch him, so to speak — to do what is necessary to bring him on.

Yet a primordial Beginning and a sacred «Center» are meaningful only insofar as a chasm lies between the sacred and the profane.

Yet this movement of the sacred into the profane is inseparable from a parallel movement of the profane into the sacred.

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.

That man who does not believe that each day contains an earlier, more sacred, and auroral hour than he has yet profaned, has despaired of life, and is pursuing a descending and darkening way... It matters not what the clocks say or the attitudes and labors of men.

However, from another perspective, the very profane Existenz which our destiny has unveiled may yet prove to be a path to a universal form of faith.

Yet it is Nietzsche's vision of Eternal Recurrence, a vision also employing but inverting the sacred language of the mystics, which most clearly illuminates the thinking and experience of a history which is becoming totally profane.

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

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.

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.

It's posh yet profane, cartoonish yet human.

I'm disappointed that Paramount has yet to make available stateside the longer, allegedly more profane Australian cut of «Crocodile» Dundee, a version that for starters dispenses with those quotation marks.

IFC's Brockmire was a fantastically profane and yet emotionally rich look at trying to claw out of rock bottom.

And yet, Scorsese's film at least (I haven't read the Kazantzakis novel) is far from the insulting and profane work that some detractors would lead you to believe.

Pursued by the kind of shifty, shadowy military - scientific organisation that would make William Stryker proud, ol' Logan hits the tarmac (in true Little Miss Sunshine style) with a mute mutant girl named Laura and a cranky old geezer... Namely Professor Charles Xavier, played with alternating tenderness and profane gusto by Stewart, who gives his finest turn yet in the role, as Charles battles dementia with pharmaceuticals.

If the plotline is perfunctory, but the pace is electric, and the action that includes explosions, deadly shipping crates, and Reynolds bare buttocks in a burning building, is as profane and yet insouciant as Deadpool himself, who engages in graceful acro - gymnastics amid the havoc he wreaks while cracking wise before, during, and after cracking heads.

Nevelson gave yet another explanation of her preference for wood: adopting metal during wartime would have profaned the sacrifice of those overseas.

It is a work that encapsulates his multicultural practice, balanced on the knife's edge between those essential yet polarised elements of human experience: the sacred and the profane.

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.

I'm not yet prepared to say that all the action is with the «profane» and none of it in the «sacred,» but the practical is a vital source of learning that is still held at too great an arm's length at law school.

Your next laptop (or maybe your boring old one, with a software update) now represents yet another way to turn on the lights, turn up the heat, and add profane items to your grocery list.