The elemental nature of the fable and the film's quietly radical yet complementary merging of sound and image go hand in hand to summon a world that's as ephemeral as its protagonist's states of being, yet contains an emotional richness that
remains ineffable.
God freely and completely bestows the Godself in the encounter with humans, yet
remains ineffable because we creatures are incapable of fully receiving or understanding the one who is imparted.
Not exact matches
Despite this, Beckett's book
remains an important survey and reminder of what in Western thought is of value, and why, and demonstrates the truth articulated by both the Second Vatican Council and Saint Julian: «Whatever has been spoken aright by any man... belongs to us Christians; for we worship and love... the Logos which is from the unbegotten and
ineffable God... [and] those writers were able, through the seed of the Logos implanted inthem, to see reality darkly» (p. 51).
If he, wonder of wonders, still
remains obstinate, then finally resort to: THE FIGURATIVE SYMBOLISM DODGE and confide that sophisticated people like himself recognize that Eris is a Figurative Symbol for an
Ineffable Metaphysical Reality and that The Erisian Movement is really more like a poem than like a science and that he is liable to be turned into a Precious Mao Button and Distributed to The Poor in The Region of Thud if he does not get hip.
So he concludes that «the mystery in things
remains overwhelming enough without extending it to what is offered as explanation,» viz., «that divinity is
ineffable Being.»
We hope, because there
remains in Marlo an
ineffable sadness — within her, something is unresolved.