Sentences with phrase «profound meditation»

Transforming the everyday into profound meditations on love and loss and renewal, Gonzalez - Torres» works — including his iconic light strings, candy spills and paper stacks — offer uncompromising beauty and simplicity.

I remain thankful for A Ghost Story, which David Lowery made on a lark and somehow delivered one of the most profound meditations on the passage of time you will ever see.

Mula sa kung ano ang noon (From What Is Before, Lav Diaz, 2014) A profound meditation on recent Phillippine history with not a single minute of its six hours wasted, and the most beautifully photographed film of the year.

Whereas in Up we begin by being overwhelmed with truths about the human condition, then descend into a comparative banality that improves as the film goes on, ending in a close approximation of the beauty of the prologue, in Inside Out we start with silly fun that threatens to go nowhere interesting, and then slowly move towards profound meditations on the meaning of life.

The trailer markets the film as a feel - good comedy, and while the source material is uplifting, hopefully the movie will capture the deeply dark and profound meditations on life that Hornby's novel offered.

But, Judith's discussion and preparatory sequences not only changed my perspective on pranayama but enabled me to comfortably sustain longer and more profound meditations.

Mgr Burke offers a profound meditation upon the role of the feminine and of gift of self in reaching human fulfilment.

Whatever the case, though, and whatever Heidegger's other motives may have been, his determination to think through what he called «the history of being» — from its remotest origins to its uttermost ending — led him to produce what, for all its eccentricities and deficiencies, remains one of the profoundest meditations on modernity and on the nature and history of modern nihilism written in the last century.

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Mgr Burke, a lecturer at Nairobi University, Kenya, continues his profound meditation upon the role of the feminine and of the gift of self in reaching human fulfilment.

...... June 24th 2004 The sermon is a profound meditation on the readings, particularly on the fifth chapter of St. Paul's Letter to the Ephesians.

Faces Places, then, registers as a profound meditation on the compulsion some artists feel to make their work, and its completion, indistinguishable from the day - to - day actions and recollections of their own lives.

What is equally remarkable is that although the film must be seen as a whole, both Him and Her, they work just as well individually, becoming a profound meditation on relationships, reality and memory when seen together.

- Edan Lepucki, New York Times bestselling author of California «Catherine Chanter has done something remarkable here, she's written a profound meditation on belief and humanity and manages to tell a terrific story in the process.»

As the story unfolds, it becomes a profound meditation on the burden of expectations, familial ties that bind, and the explosive nature of buried secrets.»

Dentistry, Judaism, the Boston Red Sox, Facebook, genetics, a biblical cult and a broken billionaire: Only a writer with Joshua Ferris» considerable talents could turn these wildly disparate topics into a profound meditation on the meaning of existence.

This subtle and wise work is more than a re-imagining of Sherlock Holmes but a profound meditation on faultiness of memory and how, as we grow older, the way we see the world is inevitably altered.

Through the lens of one all - American family, Thomas has crafted a profound meditation on the meaning of success, the joys and challenges of marriage, and the lure (and traps) of the American dream.

It is a profound meditation on faultiness of memory and how, as we grow older, the way we see the world is inevitably altered.

Alternately lovesick and ecstatic, Amity Gaige's deftly imagined novel offers a profound meditation on history and fatherhood, and the many identities we take on in our lives - those we are born with and those we construct for ourselves.

Then again, Publishers Weekly conclude that it offers «a profound meditation on the battle between good and evil and the roles choice and chance plan in the shaping of a life», and Booklist gives it a starred review.

Will Self's biggest, most ambitious novel yet — a profound meditation upon the nature of religion and a caustic satire of contemporary life.

A stunning story about how love and war inalterably change the lives of those they touch, The Surrendered is elegant, suspenseful, and unforgettable: a profound meditation on the nature of heroism and sacrifice, the power of love, and the possibilities for mercy and salvation.

His memoir is a riveting, visceral, profound meditation on physical violence and the failures and triumphs of love.

As Lee unfurls the stunning story of June, Hector, and Sylvie, he weaves a profound meditation on the nature of heroism and sacrifice, the power of love, and the possibilities for mercy, salvation, and surrendering oneself to another.

«A brave, profound meditation on identity, trauma, loss and courage... reminds us that there are two sides to every war and that history never ceases to be written... A novel that demands its place alongside Richard Flanagan's The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Mark Dapin's Spirit House.»

It was a profound meditation on form, functional and otherwise — the ultimate source of art's essential comfort, wisdom and hope.

If you buy into the belief that they embody «profound meditations on doubleness», you'll glean something worthwhile from them.

«His work is a truly important, profound meditation on the most important issues that we are facing as a society today.

The Jean - Michel BASQUIAT retrospective at the Beyeler Foundation was a profound meditation on the nature of creativity.