Sentences with word «revelatory»

But this year something different happened, and I can't quite say how or why, but a new organ was switched on and connected with the rest of my being - the eye, the brain - in revelatory ways.

They should see democracy as revelatory of how religious institutions can be combined with quite different institutions to build a moral social life.

My trip to India was steeped in new experiences — filled with revelatory moments of both joy and disgust.

The film is led by revelatory performances from Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig, both of them exploring rewarding new dramatic range without neglecting their mad comedic skills.»

And in Buddhism, the illuminating moment of enlightenment may be understood as a kind of revelatory experience even though there is no self - revealing God.

Over the next decade, Feinstein discovered a seemingly inexhaustible potential for revelatory content in her initial point of reference, the grid.

The event, this sequence of disastrous episodes, is interpreted as revelatory event, disclosing the nature and intent of Yahweh — his nature as Lord of creation and his intent to make of Israel a people.

In the surrender of faith we allow ourselves and our consciousness to be shaped by a set of revelatory images and stories.

Bolstered by revelatory star turns from Aaron Pedersen and Aaron Glenane as the latest ute - drivin», pig - shootin» incarnations of the Australian male's primal, predatory id, Power's skilfully crafted feature debut demands global exposure beyond genre fests and midnight showings.

There is an immense truth and honesty in this synthesis of the two parts of her life — something that has a quietly revelatory power in a world that too often quarantines the professional from the emotional in a falsely hygienic way.

What's most revelatory about seeing these paintings in person is the role played by the white gaps of untouched canvas, which edge many of Forge's marks.

With volcanoes spread throughout its highlands, Central America is one of those rear destinations that reward even the most jaded world traveler with revelatory experiences.

The emphasis that both Protestant and Catholic theology must now develop more forcefully (and Vatican II already took implicit steps in this direction) is that God's revelatory word comes in the form of promise.

In her review of Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture For a Modern World, Sue Hubbard expressed her view that the Tate had missed the opportunity to build a more revelatory show than was actually achieved by choosing not to use in the show explanations of Hepworth's work in terms of her religious beliefs which Lucy Kent had explored in a catalogue essay.

What «Eloise» shares with «The Florida Project,» Sean Baker's risky and revelatory new film, is the ability to tell its young heroine's story from two perspectives at once.

These are hardly revelatory factors when it comes to discussing Arsenal's problems but they become particularly pronounced away from home, where Arsenal's miserable decline as a Premier League force is most evident.

A still more revelatory moment came when Mackey read an advance copy of the book Firms of Endearment, co-authored by Raj Sisodia, explaining how enterprises with passion and purpose outperform.

Designed to modify entrenched rhetoric surrounding mid-century abstraction, the show contained revelatory works by Norman Lewis, Alfonso Ossorio, Charlotte Park, Alma Thomas and many others.

However, the startlingly revelatory character of the image of God's identifying with the lost, at least as it relates to the repressed aspects of our selfhood, interrupts our frustrating attempts at self - justification.

However distinct the metaphysical context in which she defined the meaning of these events, Eddy saw them as having revelatory meaning precisely because they were historical events.

But the most revelatory moment by far came when I spied a lovely Cezanne in the Thannhauser Collection, off the main gallery.

So it is therefore appropriate, I believe, to inquire into the particular revelatory function attached to certain modalities of scripture which I will place under the title Poetics, in a sense I will explain in a moment.

Solnit's expansive and interdisciplinary approach to unpacking these works is a lesson in the contingencies of art history, and her book offers some truly revelatory moments about time, photography and seeing.

Release: Friday, June 19, 2015 [Theater] Written by: Rick Famuyiwa Directed by: Rick Famuyiwa Rick Famuyiwa's Sundance darling isn't particularly revelatory filmmaking, but it's much more intelligent than its dopey title suggests, rejecting racial stereotypes and erasing cultural gaps as confidently as it embraces its young leading trio as a righteous symbol of individualism.

They become particularly revelatory when they tell the story of someone and what the gospel means to that person.

Anything That Moves is a highly entertaining, revelatory look into the raucous, strange, fascinatingly complex world of contemporary American food culture, and the places where the extreme is bleeding into the mainstream.

And everything has the potential for disclosing this horizon in an exceptionally revelatory way for a particular group or person at any particular time.

Consisting of three steel towers — each some 9 metres (30 ft) high — visitors could climb the staircases to the platforms, which Bourgeois envisaged would become stages for intimate and revelatory encounters between strangers and friends alike.

Even then, it's at best Marvel producers making a fun Easter egg for the audience — nothing revelatory for the story.

That lack of consideration is the series» most unfortunate waste of a promising storyline, one that could have imbued this second version with something refreshing or even revelatory.

First, it must be based upon a conviction that a particular person, event or tradition has a special revelatory significance for man.

It is a fundamental structure of our being to be open not only to the world, but also to transcendent mystery, even apart from the experience of any special revelatory vision or word.

The show became a dialog of how works could either assume material form or remain immaterial, documenting an important revelatory concept in the history of art.

For someone with a morbid curiosity of the cult of Scientology, Going Clear isn't exactly revelatory.

Writings identified by the first line of the «typescripts,» as they are called include revelatory pieces such as «When I start to paint...,» dated April 1, 1950 and «In this moment...,» dated Nov. 25, 1950.

«The Whitney Museum's revelatory survey of the work that earned O'Keeffe such derision, the evocative, more - or-less abstract art she made starting in 1915 — phenomenally early for an American artist — should reopen eyes to an undeniable fact: O'Keeffe produced some of the most original and ambitious art in the twentieth century.»

Since (as the term «phenomenon» suggests) all phenomena are appearances that become manifest out of an encompassing horizon of incomprehensible being, there is something revelatory about everything whatsoever.

Michael B. Jordan's revelatory lead performance deserves to be in the Oscar conversation.

The Serpentine's revelatory retrospective of work by the Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862 — 1944), curated by Birnbaum of Sweden's Moderna Museet and the Serpentine's Emma Enderby (now a curator for Public Art Fund), might have been one of the most widely covered exhibitions of the year.

The properly theological and revelatory sense of Scripture, which was always an essential part of traditional exegesis, could never be considered as «religion within the confines of pure reason» and was therefore unacceptable.

For many years, Peter Iden has enjoyed a reputation as one of Germany's most admired critics, and for each of his interviews he takes evident care to research thoroughly the work of his interlocutor, with the result that he elicits particularly revelatory responses.

Heavily edited / compressed, it makes for a breezy half - hour if not necessarily revelatory disclosure, at least in the three episodes sent for review.

While not full of too much revelatory information if you're already an experienced hacker, it is useful to have a single, bound resource of such information.

In this book we shall be asking whether the central revelatory image given in Christian faith can bring fresh intelligibility to our experience of mystery, cosmos, history, and personal existence.