Sentences with phrase «sense of mortality»

It does signal a sense of mortality,..

The works on display portray Naples a place where both old and new ideas collide, and where a yearning for life coexists with a looming sense of mortality.

Eventually all of Hodler's family, parents and siblings would die of disease, instilling a powerful sense of mortality in the artist.

The powerfully emblematic images of leaves, flowers, full moons and religious iconography that populate these pictures all implicitly refer to an impending sense of mortality.

Titled Desdemona for Hilton by Celia to celebrate the continuing conversation between Paul and Als, the show features new seascapes and portraits in which a sense of mortality coexists with the consoling beauty of nature and the flow of time that connects us all.

Without a sense of mortality, any artist's work is sure to suffer from superficiality.

DIRGE: Reflections on [Life and] Death explores how contemporary artists use their individual practices to capture, react to, reflect on, and make sense of mortality.

McCarthy confronts this sense of mortality in a more forceful way, taking it up on a personal level.

Commuting by car and looking for parking was a sense of my mortality shifting away like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.

When those tragic events happened, I had a heightened sense of mortality and realized I did not have forever to make my dream come true — I had to get started right away.

, but Boorman's interest is in the sense of mortality it reveals, both in their fight for their survival and in their battle with their consciences in the aftermath.

Not exact matches

One 20 - year study of workplace environments found that those cultures that lacked supportive relationships increased the risk of mortality by 240 percent, which makes sense when you consider that chronic stress is a leading contributor to premature death.

The Wisdom of Keith Richards (Wall Street Journal) Keith Richards, shrouded in an ever - present cloud of cigarette smoke, wheezes a laugh when it's pointed out that many observers, based on evidence to date, disagree with his sense of his own mortality.

It is a reminder of our own mortality, of our own coming end, and as such we can react with fear and irrationality when something disturbs our sense of right and wrong regarding our dead.

Man, some people are so scared of our mortality and insignificance in the universe, that they will cling to anything to try to prove that their «God» exists, even if it makes no sense at all.

I quite realize that this may seem an exaggerated, even an emotive, way of stating it; but I am quite sure that any honest man or woman, conscious of his mortality, is also conscious of the fact that he is not what he might have been, that he can not shift the blame to somebody else's shoulders (however many extenuating circumstances he may feel justified in adducing), and that, in at least one sense, the sense I have indicated above, he is a mortal failure.

Mortality and self - consciousness (in the double sense of self - awareness and embarrassment) emerge from the knowledge of good and evil.

Common practices do not make common sense and contribute to poor outcomes - the US ranks near the bottom as compared to other modernized countries in terms of maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality, despite high rates of medical and surgical interventions.

The Bee Informed Partnership, a research consortium based at the University of Maryland, tracks mortality rates, rather than overall population, to get a more accurate sense of colony turnover year to year.

«We will evaluate these responses for the first time at a regional scale using remotely sensed indicators of vegetation condition and fire - induced tree mortality to measure the response of floodplain forests to inter-annual flood variability and extreme climate events,» said Marcia Macedo, a research associate at the Woods Hole Research Center.

It also makes sense to think that judging from the flexitarian video here on Nutritionfacts detailing how as you move from animal based to plant based your BMI drops towards optimal range, your mortality drops, your chance of diabetes and so on decreases and more..

The latter makes more sense, given a large collection of research that shows that higher protein intake is associated with a significantly higher risk of all - cause mortality and chronic disease (32,33,33 — 52).

According to the study by Drs. Randy Cohen and Alan Rozanski and colleagues at Mt. Sinai St. Luke's - Roosevelt Hospital, New York, «Possessing a high sense of purpose in life is associated with a reduced risk for mortality and cardiovascular events.»

With The Crimson Court, I feel like Red Hook is taking us even deeper into Lovecraftian parentage, not just in expanding its supernatural mythos and pantheons, but also by delving deeper into the sense of tragedy, the sorrow of fragile mortality that must be a part of all horror.

Haunted by the ever - present stench of his own mortality, Marcus begins to question his sense of right and wrong.

This is not a deep movie — it's even airier than its predecessor — but it's nice to see topics like mortality and the romantic lives of retirees treated with a cynicism - free sense of fun.

To Amy's point about the difference between a role where Tom really gets to act, in the classical sense, versus one where he stages He - Man battles against CGI and his own «I do my own stunts, thankyouverymuch» mortality, I'd argue that a number of his best turns feature him capital - A Acting his way through He - Man battles against his own emotions.

His sense of humor plays lightly on themes of literature, mortality, and nostalgia, as if he were composing jazz riffs on an old banjo.

We go there as tourists to wander through ruins and marvel at the eerieness of time and mortality; perhaps we want the Oracle to make sense of our human lives.

UL is unique in the sense that this type of policy «unbundles» the pricing elements that make up a traditional cash - value permanent policy — interest earnings, mortality costs, and company expenses — and prices them separately.

Let that fact sink in along with the crushing sense of your own mortality.

The quality of the screen with the punchiness of its yellow color creates this incredible sense of absence, anguish, and mortality.

The first female artist to be commissioned for a solo show at Wales in Venice, Helen Sear's solo presentation... the rest is smoke explores the ideas of mortality and temporality by playing with the audience's senses.

The lemon — once a symbol of both luxury and mortality, of artistic ability and earthly decay, of the sheer might of ever - expanding empires and the ultimate meaninglessness of possessions — it contained all the conflicting dynamics which gave still life paintings their appeal; acting as «vanitas», seducing the senses while reminding the viewer of the transient nature of life.

Expanding upon the ideas he laid out in The United States of Jasper Johns, published in 1996 by Zoland Books, Yau traces the ways that the artist's work conveys a connection to the common experience — a «sense of life» that encompasses thoughts, memory, consumption, excretion, life, death, time and mortality.

That same loud and voluptuous defiance of time and mortality is broadcast loud and clear by Harriette Joffe in figural works on a bold scale, such as Blue Maya, a secure life drawing rendered in monumental splendor with electric flashes of bright blue and pink to put to rest any sense of the «dying of the light.»

Discussing the works Tom French explained: Though many of the works appear initially sinister, this is not always the case - encouraging a sense of self awareness and mortality can in fact be quite liberating.

Perhaps Fabo is looking for a sense of regeneration, a continuity which would make mortality less horrific by making it something that has the possibility of a happy ending.

But Rabinowitz meets local conservationists and scientists determined to hold fast, giving a sense of hope toward the film's end — but one tempered by hints of rising wildlife trafficking — and Rabinowitz's own mortality.

There's no sense to introducing winter mortality statistics, however true, to climate discussions; it's an obfuscatory and irrelevant issue that at best reflects yet another area of increased risk by entering unknown global conditions without a plan or understanding.

I view that situation will not be critical, in an existential sense, until the excess mortalities reach around 120 - 150 million deaths per annum (4 - 5 per second), i.e. not until it is likely that the population would be declining after we have fixed most other causes of avoidable mortality.

UL is unique in the sense that this type of policy «unbundles» the pricing elements that make up a traditional cash - value permanent policy — interest earnings, mortality costs, and company expenses — and prices them separately.