Sentences with phrase «veil which»

Alexandra Munroe writes «her nets, which she claims separate her from people and reality, are a kind of imposed chastity veil which keeps her from real life, the man's world.»

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This gown has a matching lace veil which completes this stunning look!

Elfin — A classic two tier bouffant veil which is absolutely adorable.

She teamed the dress with a beautiful veil lace edged veil which was the perfect addition for a wedding in the grand St Paul's Cathedral.

AND a little fun fact, my «something borrowed» was my birdcage veil which I actually borrowed from my dear friend Emily who blogs over at Oh That Emily.

As Iris Murdoch observes, «Our minds are continually active, fabricating an anxious, usually self - preoccupied, often falsifying veil which partially conceals the world.»

But when Christ died on the cross, the veil which separated man from God in the Temple was torn in two from top to bottom.

I usually ask dancers to wear leotards and matching skirts with a transparent veil which falls over the chest and waist.

This stems from a realisation that the ceremony and the words were like the veil which hung before the Holy of Holies, and partook of the sacredness within.

For temple worshipers, God dwelt «outside» creation in the Holy of Holies, and the movement of creation began from the veil which symbolized the beginning of material existence and flowed outward toward symbols of the «days» of creation.

As a step in one direction leads from dogma to magic, a step in another leads to «gnosis,» the attempt to raise the veil which divides the revealed from the hidden and to lead forth the divine mystery.

Not exact matches

There is a concept in corporate law called «piercing the corporate veil» — which just means that someone suing your business can also sue you personally!

Instead of a traditional wedding dress, the soon - to - be Mrs. Jagger wore a YSL Le Smoking jacket (without a shirt underneath) accompanied by a loose white skirt and a veiled sun hat, which encapsulated the carefree, natural look that would characterize much of the decade.

The tussling over the arena, during which Katz made veiled threats about moving the Oilers from Edmonton three different times, has damaged his reputation with fans.

Startup organization Funders and Founders pulled back the veil on the startup lifecycle in this infographic, which was inspired by legendary investor Paul Graham's famous essay, «How to Start a Startu...

A common — yet equally frustrating — conversation we have almost daily, is with clients who are determined to promote their company within the text, or use thinly veiled references which may not mention their company by name, but baldly promote their service or product and think that the editor was born yesterday and won't notice.

And in a thinly veiled poke in the eye of the FairSearch anti-Google brigade which convened in the autumn of 2010 in the wake of the ITA acquisition, Schmidt highlight that many of its members still account for a huge percentage of the online travel market in the US.

«It is a classic move to make everyone poorer, cloaked under the veil of redressing income inequality,» Rosenberg said in Breakfast with Dave, a tipsheet for which Rosenberg's employer, Gluskin Sheff + Associates, charges $ 1,000 for an annual subscription.

It's an obvious instance, to which all who operated behind a veil of ignorance would readily consent, of exercising one's right to justice as fairness.

The tribulations of the faithful are no longer identical with the grace that saves them (although they drive them to seek that grace and are the veil under which it is hidden from the proud and mighty of this world).

There is a radiance on the face of the joyous that pulls out the beauty of the divine image, which lays buried underneath the veils of the passions.

Eliot Spitzer speaks with Hebah Ahmed, founder of Muslim Women Outreach, on France's controversial ban on wearing Islamic veils such as burqas, which took effect Monday.

When the holiness of the land (a divine proclamation) becomes the holiness of the state (a human creation) we all too easily move in the direction of theocracy veiled as statism (in which the state is the embodiment of divine will).

To be present among [the least of these] is to encounter what the Celtic saints called «thin spaces,» places or moments in time in which the veil separating heaven and earth, the spiritual and the material, becomes almost transparent.

Veiled threats, which were obvious with the repeated «Does the Vineyard know what you are doing?»

The sweetness with which he said it so thinly veiled his hostility that I couldn't help answering, «And how does your prayer list differ from your shit list?»

They perform all of the Muslim devotions, but it is said that this is only a veil hiding their true convictions, which are flagrant contradictions of Islam, even including belief in a trinity made up of the spirit of God (Ali), the outer form (Muhammad), and the propagator of the shari`a (Salman al - Farisi).

His Actions do VEIL his Attributes and Characteristics and those in turn VEIL HIS being from us (that which is beyond our dimensional limitations and normal comprehension)..

It is a union which is not of divine will and origin but founded upon earth and therefore is the «veil of corruption» The body must be cleansed, «the veil of corruption» must be taken away, before the divine life can enter as the spirit enters the temple.

If Jesus thus employed a familiar way of speaking, not just casually but in circumstances which made it the vehicle of a partly veiled assertion of his vocation, then «Son of Man» came to be something like a self - designation replacing the traditional title of «Messiah» That is how the writers of the gospels seem to have understood it.

What this means is that when Paul talks about blindness and the veil in 2 Corinthians 2 — 3, he is not talking primarily about how a person receives eternal life by faith in Jesus Christ, but about all the other truths of the gospel which are contained in the rest of Scripture, and which are centered on the person and work of Jesus Christ.

«A demythology which does not become an ideological critique reinforces the ideological veil that hangs above our social reality simply because its partial explanations create an elite sense of complete enlightenment.»

The life process of society, which is based on the process of material production, does not strip off its mystical veil until it is treated as production by freely associated men, and is consciously regulated by them in accordance with a settled plan.16

His naturalistic approach removes the veil of completeness and order which reason brings to the world and reveals instead a world which is essentially incomplete — an open - ended, chaotic world of pure contingency.

«The supermarket heavens of my new neighbors,» Jan writes from his suburban apartment in Washington, D.C., «which draw a veil over suffering and therefore make no sense of it or of anything else, take me back to those beautiful, terrible days, when our dear city turned in its sleep and its dreams were dreams of a crucified God.»

The idiom of resurrection recognizes this, and it is opposed to alternative views of man, either that a part of man survives death or that death is unreal, an illusion, simply being the name for the veil through which a man passes into a fuller life in another world from which we are ourselves cut off.

By dying He has «consecrated a new and living way through the veil» which separated human experience from the world of supreme reality (x. 20).

«I shall never forget that night of December,» writes Jouffroy, «in which the veil that concealed from me my own incredulity was torn.

I see again that moon, half - veiled by clouds, which now and again illuminated the frigid window - panes.

If you've never seen the original Star Trek, you probably don't know that the original series, which aired during the turbulence of the late 1960s, was designed to be veiled social commentary from the get - go.

Verily, Allah is All - Aware of what they do.AND tell the believing women to lower their gaze and be modest, and to display of their adornment only that which is apparent, and to draw their veils over their bosoms, and not to reveal their adornment save to their own husbands or fathers... Qur «an 24:30 - 31

; the healing of the blind man was the release of the disciples from «Jewish blindness»; names like Jaïrus and Bartimaeus contained subtle allegorical meanings; the Gerasene demoniac symbolized idolatrous heathenism; the rending of the temple veil meant the end of Judaism; the darkness at the Crucifixion symbolized the darkness of men's minds apart from Christ; the healing of the deaf mute was the symbol of conversion — either of Jews or Gentiles, it was not certain which!

The mists of time through the historical church have veiled this truth which you highlight so well.

For example, the Hindu Upanishads which emerged during the axial age inform us that we are normally tied up in a world of maya (which means «veil» or illusion).

Then comes a list of lesser things «beyond necessity, purely as a special service to God, which is contrary to faith... Tonsures, chasubles, albs... altar cloths, lights... bells, holy water, holy salt, incense», and a further list of ambivalent things: «veiling of statues, keeping fasts (except for the clergy), Litany of the Saints, Hymns to Mary of an evening, Confession torture, Palm swallowing, Passion sermons eight hours long, Consecrating the fire,... St Martin's Goose... three Christmas Masses, Oats on St Stephen's Day, St. John's draught».

During the recent controversy over whether Muslim women in Britain should wear the veil, Dr. Taj Hargey, chairman of the Muslim Educational Centre in Oxford, wrote «In contrast to a blind acceptance of specific 7th - century tribal Arabian dress and cultural norms, which have no eternal scriptural endorsement (as believers are required only to be modest), modern Muslims should revive the Islamic principle of ijtihadto interpret the faith for themselves.»

So if Jesus has fulfilled the Law why would He now add a new Law (wearing a veil) in the New Testament which was never even part of the Old Testament Law.

Heb 6:19 This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil, Heb 6:20 where Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.

[18] Insisting on the importance of the veil for women, responding to a situation where a group of young women in the church of Carthage, claiming that the status and virtue achieved by their renunciation freed them from social conventions (which insisted that women remain veiled in church), boldly took their positions in church with faces uncovered and head unveiled, Tertullian reiterates forcefully that there is great danger in such actions because