Sentences with phrase «vanishing worlds»

Lament as we may the vanished world of Christendom, it is not present to us, and we must also come to recognize that with the erosion of Christendom we can no longer respond either interiorly or cognitively to the classical forms of Christian belief.

That will help researchers better understand the vanished world in which these ancient creatures lived.

I think he is being courageous,» counters Nigel J. H. Smith, a geographer at the University of Florida in Gainesville who has traveled widely in the Amazon collecting folktales and legends — including those of the mapinguari — which he describes in his book The Enchanted Amazon Rain Forest: Stories From a Vanishing World.

The evocation of that vanished world is alone worth the price of admission.

The Hospital for Broken Things, which specializes in repairing the artifacts of a vanished world.

The novel is packed with details that re-create a vanished world.

Once again, Philippa Gregory has brought a vanished world to life — the whisper of a silk skirt on a stone stair, the yellow glow of candlelight illuminating a hastily written note, the murmurs of the crowd gathering on Tower Green below the newly built scaffold.

- Publishers Weekly «Kuhns» focus on a closed community allows her to keep her story from drowning in period detail while emphasizing both the limitations and the charms of the Shakers» vanished world.»

Just as Hannah Kent brought to life the vanished world of 1820s Iceland, so Jessie Burton reveals the intricacies of 17th - century Amsterdam in her first novel, The Miniaturist.

Entering the «artificial paradise» of glass beaded butterflies, spiders and their webs, mirrored glass declarations such as «I Walk Everyday In Search of You» and «The Vanished World,» Wynne's work embodies Rococo complexity and allure in a wide variety of forms and materials.

Photograper Alasdair Ogilvie has toured the world for twenty - five years, documenting» buildings existing and now vanished - churches and chapels, missions and homes, schools and smoke houses.This is the vanishing world of Tin Tabernacles & Others.»

Not exact matches

Not to worry: The Knick looks great, and the talkative Soderbergh hasn't completely vanished from the film world, giving snappy interviews like this.

Likewise, investors have turned to real estate investments in the hunt for rate of return that had vanished from the world of bonds.

I'm really not sure if one day all the Christians will just vanish in piles of clothes and unmanned vehicles, because over the 2,000 years there have been so many different ways we imagined the end of the world coming.

@ Concert: «I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despi.cable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidean mind of man, that in the world's finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, for all the blood that they've shed; that it will make it not only possible to forgive but to justify all that has happened.»

Our race is vanishing, andi t's the most beautiful in the world.

Until its moral capital had completely vanished, it traded on a sense of moral outrage at the injustices of the world, and it proposed a revolution to create a better one.

My doubt, they say, would vanish in an instant if I would just pay more attention to all the things God is doing in the world, if I would just have a little more faith.

Through the events that faith knows as the Incarnation and the Crucifixion, God empties himself of his sovereignty and transcendence, and not only does this kenotic sacrifice effect the dissolution of the opposition between Father and Son in the new epiphany of God as universal Spirit, but so likewise vanishes the opposition between God and the world.

They see so much beauty there, and so much destructiveness from human society, that they seem to desire a world where humanity would vanish and the natural world prosper.

When the foundations of our world begin to shake — when relationships end, when long - held beliefs no longer satisfy, when our securities vanish — our ability to deal with the remainder of our world begins to shudder too.

Growing in that relationship does mean gradually pruning away those parts of one's life which hinder it; however, Jesus is never quoted as promising that when he died (and rose) that all sin would vanish from the world.

While he is inside, he is safe from the winter storms; but after a few moments of comfort, he vanishes from sight into the wintry world from which he came.

It is interesting to contrast Whitehead's extreme objectifying and abstractive position reflected here and stated concisely in Science and the Modern World that «Mathematics is thought moving in the sphere of complete abstraction» (SMW 21) with his later statement in Modes of Thought: «Hence the absolute generality of logic and mathematics vanish» (MT 98).

More generally, one is likely to be struck by the extent to which the book addresses itself to a world of male «female relations and childrearing that has been, for better or worse, consigned to the past, as vanished as the code of chivalry» although preserved in Freidan's book as (like Whyte's conformism) a summum malum ever to be guarded against.

Then the religious reflex of the real world will finally vanish.

The religious reflex of the real world can, in any case, only then finally vanish, when the practical relations of everyday life offer to man none but perfectly intelligible and reasonable relations with regard to his fellow - men and to Nature.

We must survive, even living as fully as possible in this world, because God needs Israel for the sake of his holy Torah, so that God's presence does not vanish from the earth because there is no place for it here.

It comes at last — the only unpoisoned gift earth ever had for them — and they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence, where they achieved nothing, where they were a mistake and a failure and a foolishness; where they have left no sign that they have existed — a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever.»

Since the end of World War II, however, there have been alarming signs that it is not just Christendom that is vanishing and not just Christian orthodoxy which is disintegrating.

As the competition for a share of the world's limited goods becomes more bitter, justice will vanish in the desperate struggle for survival, and tyrants and bureaucracies will arise to establish some order among the needy and fearful people.

Thus when the classical picture of world harmony broke down after being eroded by scientific theories of evolution and entropy, its naively conceived divine counterpart also vanished — quite fortunately we may say in retrospect.

The religious visions of mankind have usually pointed toward something or someone that saves the world of nature and of human experience from vanishing into a total nothingness.

To what extent is the individual, unique, vanishing actual occasion still to be understood as a concretion of an actual world, or to what extent is the multiplicity of other occasions, which are concretized in an actual occasion and which exhibit its environment, to be understood as a world?

«The world to which he was born... has vanished....

Two of the mightiest man - made monuments in the world simply vanished in a cloud of darkness before our eyes.

As the church once lived and conducted her mission in the precisely post-Hellenistic and post-Roman-imperial world, remembering what had vanished but not knowing what if anything could come next, so the church must now live and conduct her mission in the precisely «post» - modern world.

In light of our recent performances and the phrase «worst start to a season» has suddenly vanished from the websites and papers, the gunning faithful are once again puking rainbows, making out with mermaids, frolicking with nymphs and dancing with unicorns and all is well in the world.

Whatever negative emotions I was feeling would vanish and all was right with the world.

This old - fashioned message would have been familiar to Aristotle and Kipling but appears to have vanished from the modern world, where the idea of «character training» seems like something from the sepia - tinted past.

Imagine a world where suddenly fruits and vegetables were vanishing off the plates of even the most finicky eaters in your family.

owerri, if you believe that baba suwe has a magical power to make drugs vanish in his system, then, you must be living in another world not this one and in this century.

I SLIP on the virtual reality headset, expecting the real world to vanish.

The block on excavations has been the latest in a series of obstacles for archaeologists working in Egypt — the home of perhaps one - third of the world's antiquities, which reveal a vanished culture in unmatched detail (see «New research in an ancient land»).

«If those interactions were turned off, or if there was only one world, then all such effects would vanish, and Newtonian physics would reign supreme,» says Wiseman's colleague Michael Hall, who is also at Griffith.

The world seems to vanish into gray.

If the aquifer goes dry, more than $ 20 billion worth of food and fiber will vanish from the world's markets.

An ocean that once covered Venus has long since vanished, leaving a hot, dry world.

The species, Atelopus varius, vanished suddenly from streams across Costa Rica and Panama in the late 1980s and early 1990s, one of the many victims of the deadly chytrid fungus that has decimated amphibian populations around the world.

A crate containing some the world's most important hominin fossils vanished amid war in 1941 — along with secrets about the origins of language