Sentences with phrase «sense of wonder took»

Once the distinct, familiar sense of wonder took hold, I felt a sharp pang of guilt watching The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, part one of Peter Jackson's long - gestating Lord of the Rings prequel.

As the show demonstrates, Ron Pizzuti's keen eye and sense of wonder takes him from our backyard in Ohio to the countryside in India, responding to individual voices around the globe.

Not exact matches

Perhaps I should not have been shocked, but it did give me a sense of wonder and amazement that he would be considering taking this kind of step toward Christianity.

Some of us learned to become surgeons, pathologists or family physicians, and I gained a sense of wonder, which eventually took me into ministry.

And third, we give thanks not in order that God will know that we are thankful but precisely in order to make ourselves thankful: to help ourselves realize not only how lucky we are in comparison to so many others (which is part of it), but how fortunate we are just to be in this world; to help us appreciate the many blessings which each and every one of us enjoys; to rekindle in us the sense of wonder and awe and gratitude in response to all that we so often and so cavalierly take for granted.

But along with the praise, Wilson offers insights about the reasons these books are powerful: Lewis's generosity toward the authors he discusses, the way he finds passages that make them seem interesting; his sense of «wonder and enjoyment» in all he reads; his willingness to take up the great themes that engaged his authors, to put to work in criticism his «creative intelligence.»

Contemporary modernists like Barth, Barthelme, Coover, Pynchon and Gass offer works that are, in Dillard's estimate, nearly completely artifactual, objects of wonder, amusement or contemplation, but not to be taken in any sense as mirroring reality «out there.»

It is, of course, our story: the threat, real or simply paranoid; the flight in terror through the wilderness of despair; the wonder of sustenance in the desert; the darkness, the stillness, the strangely comforting loneliness of the cave in which we spend a night or a week or however long it takes for the noise and fury of our hell to subside; the perception of the gift, now, of gentle silence; the miracle, then, of the discovery anew of the «isness» of the Word, but the immediate, bitter protest against it because it will not let us stay in this place of haven from storm, this realm of the silence of gentleness, because it sends us back again, and because it rebukes the pride of our paranoia, our monumental sense of absolutely unique commitment and persecution; and finally our return, to call an Elisha on the way and to resume the work of ministry to Word of God and word of earth, renewed by the whole kaleidoscopic experience of the trip to the Cave.

Not in the usual sense since this appreciation was to take in the «wonder» of London's harbors, warehouses, and places of trade.

I think I've totally taken that sense of wonder with me when we moved to Suisse.

This is very interesting.I look at the number of striking options in our team and i wonder how Wenger will be signing a cf.However as i keep saying a cf is a need not a want.And needs are more important than wants.We have needed a World class cf since Robin Van P. Left.Just look at the feeling you get when you have a world class goalkeeper e.g Cech in the team.You feel relieved you know why?Its because the goalkeeper is very reliable, very talented and consistent.Imagine the feeling you would have when having a world class cf in the team.You feel very relieved you know why?its because the cf is very consistent, is super talented, will at most times finish off chances and will mostly create moments of magic.Arsenal need a world class cf so as to have that sense of reliability and to not put too much pressure on the midfield to always create chances for them.We neeed that consistency infront of goal to excel.Right now arsenal's centre forwards are very inconsistent, unreliable at most times and are not very clinical.We need a world class striker so that at least if the team is not performing he can take control and do something out of nothing.You need to understand the benefits of having a world class cf its not just about goals or talent but about being a leader of the attack, a strong scoring mentality and also the will to be consistent.World class cf's give your attack the ish factor.

When we take the time to take a breath and notice our surroundings, whether it be the changing colours of leaves or listening to the different sounds of birds, we slowly begin to introduce a sense of awe and wonder to our children.

You'll see children who delight in being allowed to live in the moment, who are free to explore nature and to go where their wide - eyed sense of wonder and imagination takes them.

Sensory substitution can take other forms, and one has to wonder, in terms of future technology, whether this ability to use other senses could be refined.

Take this game for example: keep a random encounters ratio of 10 monsters / minute, keep the non-existent interaction with the world, keep a simplicistic combat system (they weren't so simplicistic even back then) and discard good stories, nice graphics (the graphics of this game would have been considered amateurish at best on a super nes), gameplay, exploration, sense of wonder.

This was the kind of wholly unexpected discovery that not only gratified the kind of risk - taking that goes with venturing into the repertory - cinema circuit, but also refreshed my sense of wonder at the vast possibilities of this wide - ranging medium we celebrate here at Movie Mezzanine, reminding me that there's still a lot that can be done in cinema.

The sense of wonder, and also what it would mean to have that world taken away when you've been exposed to it.

Directed by Chris Columbus — writer of «The Goonies» and «Gremlins» and director of «Home Alone» and the first two «Harry Potter» pictures — the film takes its spectacular premise and then treats it flatly, with no sense of wonder.

How Much to Put Down When You've Got Extra Cash... I'm wondering how much additional cash, if any, it makes sense to put down, considering the tax benefits of financing and the opportunity cost of taking the money out of where it's sitting now...

Keep your sense of wonder at the ready on a 21 - day adventure that takes in the iconic sights of southern Africa.

No visit to Jordan is complete without enjoying the incredible Bedouin hospitality as they enchant all of your senses with stories of their ancestors and take you off - the - beaten - path to discover the best hidden wonders that their country has to offer.

If you're thinking of taking the grand children away then TAUCK UK family holidays are designed to spark a passion, inspire a sense of wonder, and enrich understanding, and when these experiences are shared with loved ones, they bring you closer together.

The Curious Giraffe shares your sense of wonder, so take a load off at this establishment if you want to explore the town of Stellenbosch.

The game's tactile nature and tangible sense of wonder were unlike anything seen in an action game, and the world took notice.

And so, partnering with David Hellman, most notably the artist behind Jon Blow's Braid, the two took to Kickstarter to help restore that sense of wonder as best they could with Second Quest, an upcoming, hard - bound graphic novella «for those who love videogames but want more compelling worlds and a sense of real discovery» and «anyone who's felt the pull of distant landscapes and longed to explore a world full of mystery.»

The inspiration for many of the rooms and chambers were taken from industrial complexes of NASA and the Soviet Space Program, so there is a constant sense of eeriness and wonder in this broken facility.

JJC I wonder if you have any kind of sense now of something similar taking a sudden turn or whether you've detected any sign of it.

My ultimate goal is to arrive at the place when the drawing leaves me with a sense of wonder, the same feeling that I have when I take photographs of nature in the first place.

With her mammoth but gossamer assemblages of shelves, ladders, milk cartons, Windex, portable fans, stepladders, dead rats, and drafting tools, Sarah Sze takes on the big boys without losing her sense of fragility and wonder.

2002 Extension, Magasin 3, Stockholm Konsthalle, Stockholm, Sweden Attitude 2002, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan (catalogue) Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany (catalogue) Spoleto Festival, Charleston, WV, USA 2001 Authentic / Ex-centric: Conceptualism in Contemporary African Art, 49th Venice Biennale, Fondazione Levi, Venice, Italy Unpacking Europe, Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands; toured (catalogue) The Short Century, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich; toured (catalogue) Art through the Eye of the Needle, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway Give and Take, Serpentine Gallery and Victoria & Albert Museum, London Secret Victorians, Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA, USA Vantage Point, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland Sense of Wonder, Herzliya Museum of Art, Israel

Since the 1960s he has been an international figure in the world of art, an inventive and uncompromising abstract painter who has continued to take the most extreme risks in his work, and to develop new ways of expressing his sense of wonder and delight in the world around us, and in the further reaches of the human imagination.

2001 Authentic / Ex-centric: Conceptualism in Contemporary African Art, 49th Venice Biennale, Fondazione Levi, Venice, Italy 2001 Unpacking Europe, Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands; toured (catalogue) 2001 The Short Century, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich; toured (catalogue) 2001 Art through the Eye of the Needle, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway 2001 Give and Take, Serpentine Gallery and Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England 2001 Secret Victorians, Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA, USA 2001 Vantage Point, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland 2001 Sense of Wonder, Herzliya Museum of Art, Israel

The 36 - artist group show at Kunsthalle Wien takes the timespan from Fordism to the Internet of Things as a backdrop for practices in which ubiquitous mechanisation is not necessarily a calamity but, at best, an opportunity, a counterpoint to «improvisation and a sense of wonder» that perhaps even makes explicit how necessary those human qualities are.

The artist's decidedly contemporary take on nature with its infinite range of line and form allows the artist's entry into a dynamic and distinctive vocabulary — one that has not only influenced the dialogue, but also continues to elevate the elemental and provide a sense of Nature's wonder.

According to a BBC article this is one of those extraordinary exhibitions that make the public wonder whether we've collectively taken leave of our senses or inhabit a netherworld of time warped irrelevancy.

At the time, plenty of us wondered whether Jony Ive and his team had taken leave of their senses and Android fans in particular were damning in their condemnation of the move.