Sentences with phrase «unreality of»

I remember him once talking about what he described as «the sheer unreality of studying public international law in the autumn of 1941.»

His is strongly outspoken on the unreality of man made global warming and would be a good match for Rich Keen (scanned his test paper).

I had also never seen a reality show, and did not know what to make of these people, the way everyone talked to the camera, the unreality of this reality.

An interactive exhibition with three digital artworks by artists using game technology to view the unreality of virtual landscapes.

In the air of the exhibition is also the mirage - like unreality of Hollywood, which is inseparable from Los Angeles.

Calling himself «the American painter of signs», he began to focus his attention on the reality / unreality of American society in pictures like: The American Dream I (1961, MOMA, New York).

An architect and designer who specialized in shop and restaurant interiors, which are by nature ephemeral, and furniture and utilitarian objects, Kuramata brought a lyrical dreaminess to his work that proves infectious even after the unreality of Japan's «bubble economy» for which it was created has long since burst.

Close up, the photograph (below) reveals the startling unreality of dozens of ships in near - collision; from afar, it resembles a mid-1960s Larry Poons painting.

Amid the unreality of the art market, here it comes again, only this time at home with old lessons about defamiliarization.

1996 Henry Darger: The Unreality of Being, The University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA [itinerary: Museum of American Folk Art, New York, NY; The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Chicago Public Library, Chicago, IL; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA] Dans les Royaumes del «Irréel, Galleria Gottardo, Lugano, Switzerland; Collection de l'art brut, Lausanne, Switzerland Art in Chicago 1945 - 1995, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

Darger's art also has been featured in many notable museum exhibitions, including «The Unreality of Being,» curated by Stephen Prokopoff (University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1996; Museum of American Folk Art, New York, 1997).

Henry Darger: The Unreality of Being.

And yet, the strange unreality of the present political atmosphere in the country means that lines that would seem overwrought in any other era carried the awful force of truth.

Though the film's first end credit proudly proclaims «Filmed entirely on Zoetrope Studios» as if revealing you to be the victim of an elaborate hoax, you needn't be a Nevadan native or frequenter to spot the unreality of the setting.

I hope that's intentional, a nod to the unreality of most»50s saucer effects.

The directing, the cinematography, art direction, set and costume design etc. are all unassailable in their quality and in their success at creating and immersing you in the sweeping unreality of this heightened Gothic world.

The intermission marks more than just a shift in narrative focus from Rana to Kochadaiiyan but in Ashwin, who then takes what works best to the next level by completely embracing both the story's inherently exaggerated nature as a «legend» and, more importantly, the fantastical unreality of and the unbridled creative freedom granted by her chosen filmmaking approach.

Whether Jerry is closing deals or flirting through his bachelor party (pretty much another deal), Crowe catches us up in the mad unreality of it all — an adrenaline - capitalist high that just keeps feeding on itself.

Another totem, droning on about the unreality of debt.

As for Enoch, I take Sunder's point about the essential unreality of his position - as well as its socially destructive nature.

When you do this consciously, realizing that to turn inward to the light within you is to live in the presence of God or your divine self, you soon discover the unreality of the objects to which you have hitherto been turning and which have engrossed you without.

Second, absolute idealism could be used to show the ultimate unreality of matter.

However, I might be one who believes in the unreality of pain or that the feeling of pain is always purely mental.

Among his many books are the first two volumes of a proposed trilogy, Thinking the Faith: Christian Theology in a North American Context, and Professing the Faith; Lighten Our Darkness: Toward an Indigenous Theology of the Cross; The Reality of the Gospel and the Unreality of the Churches; The Stewardship of Life in the Kingdom of Death; and God and Human Suffering.

To say that the word became flesh (1: 14), to insist on Jesus» thirst and weariness, and the reality of his death (20:27), is to argue directly against the basic gnostic idea of the unreality of this world.

So the Nirvana experience of Nothingness indicates not the unreality of Brahman or Brahman consciousness but rather «something beyond the last term to which we can reduce our purest conception and our most abstract or subtle experience of actual being as we know or conceive it while in this universe.

The sudden disappearance of the ego is what gives the sense of the unreality of the external world, but for Aurobindo this experience lasted only a short while, being replaced by more integral experiences of an «immense Divine Reality» behind, above, and within everything that had at first appeared to be illusory (OH 102).

If, however, we attain realization or moksa, then, from that standpoint we see the unreality of the empirical world.

Job, finding his existence intolerable, craved the unreality of the underworld, too empty of positive content to involve the sufferings of earth:

In another lecture we shall see how in morbid melancholy this sense of the unreality of things may become a carking pain, and even lead to suicide.

Whatever may be the reason, he is not implying the unreality of the humanity of Jesus.

The unreality of worship is one of the barriers to any kind of Christian nurture for many people.

But maybe the oppressive unreality of evaporating modernity can prompt the mind to seek for something more enduring.

In order to answer such questions we must remember that the insight into the unreality of everything that exists — even the Buddhas, the beings who belong to them, and the Teaching are illusory — is not intended for everyone.

The main component of deism is to free people from the unreality of the religions and the overbearing judgemental supernatural god figure, that is true.

While the Tathagata, in his teaching, constantly makes use of conceptions and ideas about them, disciples should keep in mind the unreality of all such conceptions and ideas.

And a society that believes this must, at least implicitly, embrace and subtly advocate a very particular moral metaphysics: the unreality of any «value» higher than choice, or of any transcendent Good ordering desire towards a higher end.

Her name, her body, and the shack she lives in blur into the unreality of dreams — but an unreality different than that of her initial impulse toward «a dream somebody had, and wrote it down, and it ended up in this book,» because her name, her body, and her shack all do exist.

However, there is a wide - spread skepticism among the semi-sophisticated, arising partly from a fear that prayer is unscientific and partly from a suspicion of the unreality of anything so intangible.

The unreality of this promise should be immediately apparent by looking at the math of exponential growth.

It's not the unreality of games that produces an impact, it's the structure of a game.

A technology discussion from the installers» perspectives about the current state of small wind turbines and everyday installation problems followed earlier presentations about the «Unrealities of Wind» that aimed at giving advice on how to choose a machine from the wide variety of new machines available in conjunction with the Small Wind Certification Council (SWCC).

Not exact matches

There is plenty of dysfunction in plain sight to suggest that the financial markets can't bear the strain of unreality anymore.

On the other hand, what lends an air of unreality to Kierkegaard's works is that our problems are so much worse than those faced by him and his contemporaries.

The Kierkegaardian literature has both a striking pertinence and an air of unreality about it.

If they seem to have a relative unreality (so to speak) it is because they are potential, not actual; they are unfulfilled, like packets of seeds or boxes of fireworks.

Where the Bench and the Bar genuflect before authoritarian forces the realization of human rights becomes a soap bubble transcience or promise of unreality.

They suggest that the «fundamental dialectic of our times is between reality and unreality, especially now that we have power to influence and create both.»

As Bennis and Mitroff argue, most of us are uncomfortable with unknowns and mysteries so we create unrealities to fill in the blanks.

Experiences during this process include feelings of unreality and shock, physical distress, preoccupation with the image and memory of the lost one, pouring out of grief, idealization of the deceased, guilt feelings, anger, loss of interest in usual activities, the unlearning of thousands of automatic responses involving the deceased, relearning of other responses, resumption of normal patterns of living, and the establishment of substitute relationships.