Sentences with phrase «revelatory way»

He is a devotee of long shots, the revelatory way a person's face can show less than meets the eye, and the inventiveness of improvisation.

It's a revelatory way of preparing the vegetable, since leeks usually play a secondary role, where they get thinly sliced and pretty much disappear into whatever dish they are in.

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

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.

The challenge is to capture the essence of these subjects in new and revelatory ways, and in so doing to heighten their physical and emotional resonance.

Not exact matches

In «The Truth,» Strauss relays the revelatory moment when he discovers, with the aid of some highly skilled therapists, that a lot of the way he treats women stems from the way his mother treated him.

Another common way in which this seemingly revelatory phrase about the heart has hurt the church comes in the means of community.

When God is omnipotent, one can read history as the will of God, and history is way too full of evil, suffering, and violence to imagine it as revelatory of God's will.

He believes there is some point to the criticisms that Bultmann dissolves Christology into soteriology, 3 for he has been unable «to express in an adequate way the «objective» reality of the revelatory event Jesus the Christ «4 even though he does «intend a divine act in the fully real and «objective» sense.

A special act would be only potentially revelatory; a revelatory act would be a special act which is in fact received in such a way that it does reveal the inner being of the person to the one receiving it.

Hence, if we situate the call of Abraham, as well as other special revelatory moments of the history of religion, within the wider context of cosmic evolution, this may help soften the «scandal of particularity» associated with any unique or distinctive summoning by God of a particular people to bear witness in a novel way to the divine promise and mystery that come to expression first in the very creation of the world.

He simply affirms that making this affirmation is the only way of remaining loyal to the revelatory encounter itself.

we may legitimately maintain that the Christian way, with its incipient ecclesial character, was founded by the revelatory promise that came to expression in him and his proclamation of the reign of God.

At the same time, though, our own particular way of putting questions to the sources that are believed to contain a revelatory word will cause other hidden riches in these classic sources to go unnoticed by us, and it is the merit of Barth's theology to have emphasized this point.

At such times a relaxation of the apologetic approach and a new openness to the foreignness of alternative ways of looking at mystery become essential simply for the sake of the vitality and survival of the tradition's revelatory capacity.

Yet this unsurpassability needs to be understood in such a way as to avoid the connotation of a superiority that negates the revelatory value and validity of other religious traditions.

Isolated from its sacramental nursery, the «way of silence» has now become the «way of suspicion» iconoclastically declaiming the revelatory possibilities of all symbolic expression.

The exclusively Christo - centric character of revelation theology made it difficult for us to take seriously the revelatory character of primal religions, of Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and other religious ways.

We are merely suggesting here that the Whiteheadian notion of a «wider vision» goes some way toward interpreting the revelatory meaning of Jesus» consciousness and action.

However, to return to the main issue before us, it may seem that we are being disloyal to traditional Christian teaching if we in any way cast doubt on the universal and unsurpassable character of Jesus the Christ as decisively revelatory of God.

Hence, by its challenge to our favored images of God, especially those that present God as one whose favor we must win by our religious or ethical performances, the subversive, revelatory image of a God who participates in our own shame pulls the rug out from under a society that seeks by way of religion to legitimate its exclusivism.

So, too, events, in which we may find revealed to us something or someone in whom we are impelled to put our trust, are revelatory only in so far as we react to them in certain special ways.

David Griffin's christological reflections are devoted to the task of finding a way to affirm, meaningfully, that Jesus was a «special act of God,» in order to be able to say that to respond in faith to Jesus or to accept Jesus as genuinely revelatory is appropriate.

But they are revelatory only if we relate to them in the right way, namely, by relating to their essences - to what they are as they are.

But when the book enters into the electronic world of cyberspace our conceptions of God and our ways of apprehending Scripture as a revelatory text will change.

It is not at all impossible that what looks like pure projection from the point of view of psychology may in some way be revelatory of «being» when looked at theologically.

The ways of knowing God by natural theology (eminence, negation, and causality) are rejected because of the revelatory Word.22 Indeed, it is not true to speak of the creation as an «effect» of the Creator.

What is truly revelatory about Women Without Men is the way its deeply poetic style is fuelled with a strong feminist politics.

The most dangerous and addictive aspect of lust is its revelatory quality, the way it makes the whole of life that went before it feel like a wasteland of sleepwalking and tepid emotion.

Whether he was making a romance, mystery, comedy, or domestic drama, his use of the camera was always revelatory, and he showed an uncanny instinct for the ways sound could be put to poetic as well as narrative uses.

Without giving away the movie's big reveal (it's horrifying, in an everyday sort of way, but not «surprising» in a movie way) I can say that once we face it along with Jackie and Angelo and their loved ones, the film seems to go through much the same revelatory experience that Jackie has on the beach as she learns how to ride a board with help from a handsome, slightly younger instructor and soon - to - be-love-interest named Ian (Luke Wilson).

Casting rakish rising star Jean - Paul Belmondo as a hoodlum on the run from the law and American ingenue Jean Seberg as the sly, pixieish girlfriend who ultimately betrays him, Godard was riffing on the American gangster picture, but with its revelatory handheld camerawork and frenetic jump cuts, Breathless is clearly more than homage: it launched a New Wave, rewrote the rules of cinema, and along the way became the definition of cool.

As devastating as movies get, Kenneth Lonergan's grief drama is both intimately familiar — a New England community of distracted parents, randy high - school kids and bitterly cold winters giving way to spring — and revelatory for not sparing us the hard truth of loss.

It's an incredibly dark film, and in many ways bleak, but its exploration of the fermentation of evil in society is revelatory.

But the picture suffers in comparison to films that address convoluted sociologies (people point to American Beauty, but really, this game goes all the way back to The Graduate) with fury and courage (like Todd Solondz's Palindromes and Happiness) or with surpassing originality and wit (like Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums and Rushmore)-- it suffers most, in other words, from believing that what it has to say is still interesting, still revelatory enough by itself.

Christopher Abbott — until now, maybe best known for his brief appearance as a too - nice boyfriend on the HBO show «Girls» — delivers a revelatory performance as a not - too - nice boy - man who constantly, strategically, gets in his own way (until he very tellingly doesn't).

Once you find out just what's going on, you'll probably laugh at all of the absurd ways Rowan Joffe (The American, 28 Weeks Later), who is not very faithfully adapting the novel by S.J. Watson, has to contort the plot in order to get us all the way to the ridiculous climax that is supposed to be exciting and revelatory, when all of the while it is quite depressing and only raises more questions than answers.

They just need to share something meaningful and revelatory about their life in an interesting way.

, but revelatory in a way more true - to - life than any track outing could be.

Acute, refreshing, and revelatory, The Rational Optimist will change your way of thinking about the world for the better.

To crank out the awful, unusable designs that pave the way for the revelatory ones.

Okay, so I like walking, and I'm pretty sure any city - break article I write would include the (not so) revelatory idea that walking about is a great way to get a feel for a place.

In his urban pictures, he shows us commercial buildings the way they would like to be seen; both visions are revelatory and thought - provoking.

The exhibition title alludes to the artist's current approach to his art practice, making visible the concept of «recurrence» — a daily phenomenon and a mental way of understanding a revelatory sense that inhabits both life and art.

Using both printed whites and the negative space of the paper, Kelly expands the recurring themes of his work in a series of revelatory and unexpected ways.

Rarely does one encounter such a revelatory exhibition as «Things That Can not Be Seen Any Other Way: The Art of Manuel Mendive,»...

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.

Even for those familiar with Bradley's work, the forthcoming exhibition promises to be revelatory in its depth and breadth, highlighting the similarities across distinct bodies of work in ways not previously possible.

Bois's discussion of the way Matisse achieved a «decentering of the beholder's gaze» is revelatory.

But shifts in taste and priorities go both ways, as artists whom one generation thought weird, provincial, or minor can be revelatory for another.