Sentences with phrase «spirit of particular places»

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That this should be wearisome is of course something the generation can not say, for the generation has in fact the task to perform and has nothing to do with the consideration that the foregoing generation had the same task — unless the particular generation or the particular individual within it were presumptuous enough to assume the place which belongs by right only to the Spirit which governs the world and has patience enough not to grow weary.

Whether it was a particular decade or a trip to a special place, designers are fascinated with the beauty of the past and the spirit of the present — recreating it with color, fabric and style this fall season.

A Balinese will also be careful to apologize to any spirits that may be gathered around a particular tree before he cuts down their dwelling place, and will wait for an auspicious day of the Balinese calendar before undertaking such a task.

Unlike Documenta's officious art - historical exercises in comparative viewing, their approach rather conveyed a commitment to very particular people whose work has remained difficult to place, not least because it epitomizes a certain spirit of irreverence.