Sentences with phrase «rules as an illusion»

Despite the palpable sense of cinematic tremor that's worked into scene after scene, the focus of the film remains on faces — on Mackie's subtly desperate clutching to military rules as an illusion of order, Geraghty's soft - featured guilt and fear, and Renner's «rowdy boy» coolness threatening to crumble into despair.

Not exact matches

This means that the philosopher's penchant for systematicity (which is characteristic of the rule of reason) must be understood, not as a means for advancing our understanding of the world as a whole, but rather as a self - generated illusion of mind as conditioned by the natural world.

I'm a muslim and i respect and love moses and jesus (peace be upon them) and as a muslim respect and recognize all the prophets that came before islam, what i want to say is, Islam has come to stay and it will stay, and all the others will embrace islam finally, its better for them to stop criticizing Islam, better criticisize muslims, because some have gone fanatic, but majority is acting the real role.and i can predict that after embracing islam these critical jews and christians would act more precisely on the rules of Islam.God doesn't depend on arab muslims or indian or Pakistani or african muslims to worship Him all the human beings and creatures are His property and He may chose some others to worship Him more well.So we muslims should not be in any illusion.

In his account of the optical illusion known as the beta phenomenon (23 February, p 34), Jan Westerhoff rules out...

Having set his own creative bar stratospherically high with classics like The Rules of the Game, The Grand Illusion and The River, it's hard to see this climactic statement as more than a compendium of odds and ends.

While films such as La Grande Illusion (1937) and The Rules of the Game (1939) are often cited as the director's finest works, Renoir has stated in the past that The River stands out as his favorite directorial effort.

When the black players» superior skills are apparent, the white players pull their rank as the ruling class, and the illusion that the game is being played by equals is over.

Their freewheeling style and flirting with illusion also recall white artists who did not quite play by the rules as well, like Al Held and Jack Tworkov.

Similarly, Ireland felt that the rules set forth by contemporary painting dogma (particularly Abstract Expressionism) created a standard by which all art was viewed and evaluated; consequently everything in comparison was «experienced as illusion.»

As a general rule no use is made of linear perspective to create the illusion of pictorial depth, neither is impasto emplyed to create textural effects.

But before we ask this question, we might reevaluate the meaning of consensus as being much more than fashion or instant trends, just as democracy is more than the illusion of majority rule.

As marriage and family therapist Terry Real, author of The New Rules of Marriage, says: «control is just an illusion.»