Sentences with phrase «tangible things of this world»

The major task of the comic hero, therefore, as Nathan Scott insists, «is to remind us of how deeply rooted we are in all the tangible things of this world....

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What I experience as I stand in face of — and in the very depths of — this world which your flesh has assimilated, this world which has become your flesh, my God, is not the absorption of the monist who yearns to be dissolved into the unity of things, nor the emotion felt by the pagan as he lies prostrate before a tangible divinity, nor yet the passive self - abandonment of the quietist tossed hither and thither at the mercy of mystical impulsions.

One of the unexpected things that happened as a result of starting Brave New World Designs is that it has offered two unexpected things: 1) a tangible business that my kids can see in operation and understand (vs. my life on the Internet, which is sort of nebulous to them), and 2) a way for me to connect with the girls.

This vision of isolation receives its apotheosis in A Bar at the Folies - Bergère [6], perhaps the most poignant image of alienation ever painted, a deadly serious spoof of Watteau's Gilles in completely modern «naturalist» terms, the anonymous yet concrete figure trapped between the world of tangible things and that of impalpable reflections, existing only as a way station between life and art.

While she draws inspiration from tangible objects or images, von Heyl's paintings are not representations of real things in the world.

Modern life, with its insistent focus on the computer screen, has become increasingly disembodied, but here is a world in which labour is enacted in the realm of tangible things.

In works made after 1969 Guston renounced his previous interest in abstraction in favour of «a world of tangible things, images, subjects, stories like the way art always was» («Philip Guston Talking», Philip Guston Paintings 1969 — 80, exhibition catalogue, Whitechapel Art Gallery, October — December 1982, p. 50).

Determine what tangible, real - world actions or artifacts are evidence of these things.