Sentences with phrase «sense of nothingness»

Since the images redacted by the piece's performance are of no apparent consequence, we don't have an erased DeKooning drawing or a mauled poster of a dictator; we have a sense of nothingness, erased, creating a sense only that the photograph can behave as a Minimal object rather than a depicting thing — because it wants to and can.

Jesus purges the scribal bedevilment that infects them and us, making us fear freedom and giving us a sense of nothingness and powerlessness.

Not exact matches

Few can match Job for pure misery, a man who went from immense personal wealth and happiness to utter nothingness in a matter of days, and fewer can match him for stony faith — a resolute, steely trust that God had an answer, even if that answer didn't really make sense from an earthly perspective.

We are never without a spiritualism and though some sense the apparitions of Nothingness as a finality, Nothingness is a Something in itself and connot be discarded by anything.

Presence in the first sense is opposed to total absence or absolute nothingness, while in the second sense, it is opposed to partial or provisional absence of a present reality.

The self, then, is not a being in the sense of being a static fact, nor is it mere nothingness.

On position is truth and the vast majority of mankind sense that truth while the other is the hopless void of nothingness.

I reject hope in the sense that I believe that out of Nothingness we have come and to Nothingness we will return.

When we have deduced what we deduce by our reason and from study of visible nature, and then read what we read in His inspired word, and find the two apparently discordant, this is the feeling I think we ought to have on our minds» not an impatience to do what is beyond our powers, to weigh evidence, sum up, balance, decide, and reconcile, to arbitrate between the two voices of God» but a sense of the utter nothingness of worms such as we are; of our plain and absolute incapacity to contemplate things as they really are; a perception of our emptiness, before the great Vision of God....

They were people who had been brought up in a conservative Christian faith, who had rejected most, if not all of it, and who yet had a sense of being adrift on a huge ocean of nothingness.

A sense of enlightenment, solitude and nothingness, as well as flux and disorientation can be witnessed in these works.

The statue enacts a dialogue that many people feel internally, between a primal fear that everything could come crashing down, and an exhilarating sense that we are, somehow, managing to keep it suspended in the ether of nothingness.