Sentences with phrase «sense of affinity»

It is probable that women feel a sense of affinity for art made by women.

The masked face in Self Portrait as the Mother of All Evil is initially disturbing, but this feeling is quickly followed by a sense of affinity, as the awareness that we all wear different masks throughout our lives (indeed, throughout the day) sets in.»

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With CMIT, the value proposition of being a trusted advisor in the community is something I had always pushed, and I have an affinity for IT... so I thought overall that it made a lot of sense.

Now we clearly need all of these, but my sense is that one is more healing, one is more liberating, one is more attune to the affinities of what our type actually really needs to begin to tell ourselves the truth.

Thus Lifton indicates that one characteristic distinguishing the rap groups from traditional therapy was «that of affinity, the coming together of people who share a particular... historical and personal experience, along with a basic perspective on that experience, in order to make some sense of it.»

The sense in which these relations between natural moments are external is that they are not simply contrasts and affinities between the essences of the terms, such as hold between them in the pure realm of essence.

It [the realism] arises from a conviction that there is no mere analogy, but an inward affinity, between the natural order and the spiritual order; or as we might put it in the language of the parables themselves, the Kingdom of God is intrinsically like the process of nature and of the daily life of men... Since nature and supernature are one order, you can take any part of that order and find in it illumination for other parts This sense of the divineness of the natural order is the major premise of all the parables... 132

Once again, this function is in no way to be identified with poetry understood as something opposed to prose and defined by a certain affinity of sense, rhythm, image, and sound.

Only union through love and in love (using the word «love» in its widest and most real sense of «mutual internal affinity»), because it brings individuals together, not superficially and tangentially but center to center, can physically possess the property of not merely differentiating but also personalizing the elements which comprise it.

I knew, of course, that it made sense to teach the two writers together, but I hadn't then thought very much about influences, comparisons and contrasts, affinities, rankings in the literary hierarchy and so on.

Thus his vision, beginning with man accepting, affirming, even willing the death of God in a radical sense, ends with man willing to participate in the utter desolation of the secular or the profane, willing to undergo the discipline of darkness, the dark night of the soul (here Altizer's affinity with the religious existentialists, who may not have God but who don't at all like not having him, is clearest), while the possibility of a new epiphany of the sacred, a rebirth of the possibility of having God once more is awaited.

There is in Jung a sense of the relational nature of wholeness that has deep affinities with the interpersonalism of Martin Buber.

He did not choose the most distinguished, the best, the most able; he chose those to whom his heart turned out of a deep sense of inner affinity.

But having become «twice born» in the James ian sense and gained self — acceptance «through altered powers of action,» I found with it the germ of an affinity with a multiple, unorganized transcendence.

We share a slightly nerdy sense of humour, an affinity for communicating the joys of science, and a hearty dislike of mini-preps.

It certainly doesn't help that Dolly's betrothed, Owen (James Norton), is a complete nonentity, both as sketched and rendered; ergo, there's no sense of proper balance or dramatic tension in Dolly's affinity for these two men.

With a wicked sense of humor, an affinity for the supernatural realm, a preternatural interest in books, and a proclivity for storytelling that began in his youth, Mark Lefebvre has capitalized on his talents as an author, and, more recently, as the Director of Self Publishing and Author Relations at Kobo.

With a wicked sense of humor, an affinity for the supernatural realm, a preternatural interest in books, and a proclivity for storytelling that began in his youth, Mark Lefebvre has capitalized on his talents as an author, and, more recently, as the Director of Self...

The glamorous appearance of Stingel's Untitled reveals his affinity for an abstraction that is a step into the sublime, but not in romantic sense and his interest in the seductiveness of the surface brings to mind the abstractions of Gerhard Richter.

«Current Locations» also speaks to these artists» affinity with creating a sense of place (or places): painter Barbara Marks creates voluminous pictorial & interior spaces with her deeply saturated color palette; Elise Church paints intimate environments based on her travels in space in time; Colombian artist, Esperanza Cortés incorporates natural resources and folklore motifs from her homeland as a means of exploring personal identity; Kyle Vu - Dunn sculpts warped «natural» environments to harbor the self; and Viviane Rombaldi Seppey blends world maps (with emphasis on places she's lived) with morbid imagery from traditional medical textbooks.

Along with this response to the natural world, I had an affinity with the abandoned farms, rusted cars and farm equipment, and the sense of the past that permeated this world.

Vuillard created what might be called «interior jungles»... Anyone who's looked at the overwhelming complexity of a forest interior like those painted by a Barbizon School artist or an American like Worthington Witteredge has sensed this affinity.»

This tiny Texas town has become a bucket - list destination for anyone with an affinity for Minimalism and even the mildest sense of adventure.

With a range of media extending from painting to video installation and the Internet, the common trait in all works is a metropolitan artistic genealogy rather than any ideological or stylistic affinity, as well as a constant effort to locate some sense of order within the chaos of contemporary life.

His abstracted figures and landscapes, however, reflected an affinity with the darker vision of European artists like Oskar Kokoschka and Edvard Munch, or more nearly contemporary artists like Alberto Giacometti and Francis Bacon, who shared his sense of human conflict and existential angst.

In this sense her work has some affinity with paintings of Frank Stella, which also spring from classic pictorial themes such as the distribution of light and dark, and the shape / ground relation.

I share Rothko's affinity for the early, primal evolutionary sense of humanness.

Dubbed «slacker abstraction», «provisional painting», «neo-formalism», «casualism» and «zombie formalism» (as coined by artist and critic Walter Robinson), many of the works in question share an affinity for flatness, process - based approaches, improvised gestures and, at times, a playful sense of humour.

In the notes to «Jackson Pollock Jazz,» Pepe Karmel, adjunct assistant curator at MoMA, sees an affinity between Pollock's paintings and the music that made his house shake: «Dripping, pouring, and throwing paint onto a canvas, Pollock infused his paintings with an unprecedented sense of rhythmic improvisation.»

In addition, the show suggests two unexpected affinities among these artists» works: the intersection between pattern and landscape, and the use of repeated line to induce a sense of balanced energy in a geometrically structured piece.

Makes sense that Buddhism would have an affinity for recycling, it's sort of reincarnation for inorganics.

Strategies including affinity groups and diversity committees help foster a sense of belonging and community support.

The affinity group helps create a sense of community among attorneys who are the first in their families to graduate from college, graduate from professional school, or enter a professional career, as well as those who have a low - income or working - class background.

It will be some time before we have some hard sales number to start looking at (and no doubt hold up for comparison against the HTC One M8), but for an early sense of shoppers» affinity for the smartphone we look no further than the substantial lines forming outside retailers carrying the model.

The coalition Parties» policy on Aboriginal affairs clearly acknowledges that affinity with the land is fundamental to Aborigines» sense of identity... The Government believes that this bill will allow and encourage Aborigines in the Northern Territory to give full expression to the affinity with land that characterised their traditional society and gave a unique quality to their life.45