Sentences with word «quiddity»

Ms. Hempel is, I think, one of the most enduring creations in American literature: tolerant, obliging to a fault, a little feckless, gifted in her own right but overwhelmed by the sheer endearing quiddity of each and every one of her students.

Exhibition view, I am attracted none the less, their variousness, their ingenuity, their élan vital, and that something, essence quiddity, I can not penetrate or name, Casey Kaplan, New York, 2015

Heidegger is here thinking deeply into the nature of what is presented in Van Gogh's painting, thinking to experience the deep inner quiddity, the «existential inscape» of a simple pair of shoes.

Gone Baby Gone (# 29) was rescued from rank (less) oblivion, and the neowestern quiddity of that Jesse James flick (# 7) found ever more converts.

They tell a story, and they do it with lots of the sort of stuff painters hanker after nowadays — facture, washy brushmarks, pentimenti, painterly quiddity, etc., all wrapped up in a bold and semi-abstract style.

In addition to knowing essences (the «whatness» or quiddity of things) the intellect also reasons, deriving new truths from ones already known.

I am attracted none the less, their variousness, their ingenuity, their élan vital, and that something, essence quiddity, I can not penetrate or name, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY

My «Quiddity» is based upon an ancient theology whereby Nothingness created all the «elemental» gods from which did spring up all the celestial nebulas and their proceeding galaxies wherein are contained many solar systems.

But essences (quiddity) do exist in the Mind of God - that was what I intended to say.

In his early lectures on the Psalms, Luther insisted that the word substance in the Bible refers not to the quiddity or whatness of a thing but to what «stands under and supports it,» The substance of a human being, therefore, is defined by the foundation on which he or she rests.

In other words, the vocabulary of the philosophers obscures, willy - nilly, the intention of the Bible, which defines human beings not by their quiddities and qualities but by their faith and hope.

Telling Clues from Surgeries The quiddity of these sensations has been strengthened considerably by neurosurgeons.

It's the quiddity of Dead Space — the thing that makes it what it is.

What we said: Reinventing older games to fit ever - expanding technological boundaries while maintaining their quiddity is one of the great challenges in game design.

Sure, the tense scuttles past armed guards under a roomy cardboard box are usually followed by a soliloquy on the nature of contemporary warfare, but Metal Gear's quiddity was always to be found in its shadows.

The lesson is intended to generate discussions about artistic merit, the quiddities of taste, and (as one young wag put it) «walking a mile in Jeff Koons's shoes.»

Since 2011, she has curated 3 group exhibitions, including the 2015 summer show — I am attracted none the less, their variousness, their ingenuity, their élan vital, and that something, essence quiddity, I can not penetrate or name — which runs through August 7th.

In this exhibition entitled «Quiddity», which means «the essence of things», art educator Erin Tapley experiments with various processes related to marbled design.

Dr. Tapley's exhibition «Quiddity», appears in the Presidents Gallery in the Simmons Visual Arts Center through November 17, 2016.

Of course it helps that his art — which, since the late 1960's, has scathingly filtered the readymade and assemblage formats through the quiddities of African — American experience — is stellar, and that his refusals are part of it.

He praises After Nature and the Action / Abstraction show; he pans Murakami but praises its «quiddity.»

Various manuals, for example, might be useful in many firms, if each firm had the ability to adjust the text somewhat to fit their quirks and quiddities.

This means that much of what we actually see of others outside our immediate circles is afforded by glimpses, hardly the best basis for soaking up the quiddities of «the other» and, perhaps, seeing oneself out there, too.

Now, this is a feast for scholars, I imagine: they can compare this version of Hamlet with that, make annotations online, and explore printed Elizabethan English in all its quiddities.

Reinventing older game series» to fit ever expanding technological boundaries while maintaining their quiddity is one of the great challenges in game design.