Sentences with phrase «with illusory»

However, if digitization «democratized» fashion, it also diffused it, as it came face to face with the illusory power of the mass - market.

The work involves the creation of prismatic halos that follow the viewer, paired with the illusory nature of visual depth.

In the same manner, Uutinen provokes the viewer with the illusory materiality of her works.

Toxic - waste tones of green and roiling crimson suppurated between horizontal bands across bodices and skirts, spatted with illusory drips of paint.

The Flat Side of the Knife combines physical spaces with illusory spaces that appear only in mirrors, reflecting what the artist refers to as «layers of consciousness,» akin to psychological and hallucinatory spaces in the mind.

«Back in the Day» is a raunchy, nostalgic, coming - of - middle - age, high school reunion romp, and while that trope is trite, Rosenbaum brings some smart surprises to the lewd / scatological genre: the rude - nude - dude bouncing along in the pick - up truck and the slo - mo close - up of his giblets; the hiding in the shower dual vomiting scene, and my favorite, the homage to Hitchcock's «Psycho» shower scene with the illusory flash cuts and colored water going down the drain.

With the illusory truth effect, repetition creates a sense of validity; in essence, repeating is believing.

The other, since he evades purification and lives with illusory pleasures, making the illness difficult to cure, is estranged from the natural, lives a life contrary to nature and becomes a nonparticipant in this natural life which is communion with God.

It is very much to be desired that aesthetics would for once essay to begin at the point where for so many years it has ended, with the illusory magnanimity.

Replacement of the real, sustainable wealth which is generated by the manufacturing and export of goods, with the illusory, temporary wealth effect which is enabled by cheap credit and consumption.

Not exact matches

Each section of David and Goliath begins with a passage from Scripture attesting to the ennobling power of weakness or the illusory boon of strength.

That huge trade deficit with China is illusory to some degree.

Conversion is the relinquishing of illusory power: seeing that you are a child (with limited understanding) and listening, in your weakness, to what the father has to say.

The efficient causation (causa quod) of process theory, the existing state of affairs, corresponds with the apparent or illusory change of microgenetic theory, while the final causation (causa ut) of process theory, the state to be produced, the intention, corresponds with the real or intrinsic change of microgenesis.

Consequently, Camus admits that «at the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them» (MS 11).

With hope for the future, not in any illusory «progress of mankind onward and upward forever,» but in the confidence that the issues for time and eternity are in the hands of God, remarkable staying power is generated even in the midst of what appears to be social retrogression.

In FDR, Ted Morgan observes that Roosevelt made his mistake, with Stalin at Yalta by assuming «that the their fellow is a good guy who will respond with decency if he is treated right» Simon & Schuster, 1985, p. 756) In this respect, Roosevelt was heir to the attitude of Woodrow Wilson, of whom Arthur Link writes: «His faith in the goodness and rationality of men... and in the inevitable triumph of righteousness sometimes caused him to make illusory appraisals of the situations at hand and to devise quixotic or unworkable solutions» (Wilson the Diplomatist [Quadrangle, 1963], p. 17).

Insofar as he is able to penetrate through the superficial and actually illusory levels of his existence, man finds himself to be in immediate touch with the holy.

If we allow Blake's apocalyptic vision to stand witness to a radical Christian faith, there are at least seven points from within this perspective at which we can discern the uniqueness of Christianity: (1) a realization of the centrality of the fall and of the totality of fallenness throughout the cosmos; (2) the fall in this sense can not be known as a negative or finally illusory reality, for it is a process or movement that is absolutely real while yet being paradoxically identical with the process of redemption; and this because (3) faith, in its Christian expression, must finally know the cosmos as a kenotic and historical process of the Godhead's becoming incarnate in the concrete contingency of time and space; (4) insofar as this kenotic process becomes consummated in death, Christianity must celebrate death as the path to regeneration; (5) so likewise the ultimate salvation that will be effected by the triumph of the Kingdom of God can take place only through a final cosmic reversal; (6) nevertheless, the future Eschaton that is promised by Christianity is not a repetition of the primordial beginning, but is a new and final paradise in which God will have become all in all; and (7) faith, in this apocalyptic sense, knows that God's Kingdom is already dawning, that it is present in the words and person of Jesus, and that only Jesus is the «Universal Humanity,» the final coming together of God and man.

Time - space existence, therefore, as the arena of man's contact with the divine, is not a deficient mode of being, it is not illusory.

Such passages as the following seem to suggest that the evidence Whitehead offers for believing that CE is a unique kind of perception and that it is not illusory, i.e., supplies the subject with (more or less) accurate information about its environment, is primarily a particular kind of «experience.»

As one realizes what reality is, and sees the frantic and futile efforts people make to control it for the supposed interests of an illusory self, one is filled with compassion.

Yet he was also aware, in a way that many post-moderns are not, that no one can completely break with the past; any claim that one has done so is illusory.

The fascination with the demonic in modern literature, the tendency of many to turn psychoanalysis or «psychodrama» into a cult of self - realization, and the illusory belief that personal fulfillment can come through «release» of one's deep inward energies all show the peculiarly modern relevance of the «crisis of temptation and dishonesty» which Buber describes.

All immediacy, in spite of its illusory peace and tranquillity, is dread, and hence, quite consistently, it is dread of nothing; one can not make immediacy so anxious by the most horrifying description of the most dreadful something, as by a crafty, apparently casual half word about an unknown peril which is thrown out with the surely calculated aim of reflection; yea, one can put immediacy most in dread by slyly imputing to it knowledge of the matter referred to.

The immediate man (in so far as immediacy is to be found without any reflection) is merely soulishly determined, his self or he himself is a something included along with «the other» in the compass of the temporal and the worldly, and it has only an illusory appearance of possessing in it something eternal.

John Paul II wrote in the apostolic exhortation Christifideles Laici: «The common outcry, which is justly made on behalf of human rights — for example, the right to health, to home, to work, to family, to culture — is false and illusory if the right to life, the most basic and fundamental right and the condition of all other personal rights, is notdefended with maximum determination.»

The evangelical subculture, Balmer argues, is just a «socially constructed reality,» one that is «illusory and incongruous with the larger world.»

Confidence in the emergence of a new world culture to perform the function of supplying Protestants with the same kind of unity which they once derived from Western European culture is a vain and illusory hope.

Those wandering jobless who do make it to states with GR find that their hopes for a bit of security are illusory.

«No one has ever touched Zeno without refuting him,» he writes in a short essay commenting on the fundamental line of thought in his chief philosophical work, Process and Reality.16 In the same essay he explicitly distinguishes his theory from two other opposed positions: on the one hand from the view that interprets the character of becoming as illusory and becoming itself as simply empty and nonexistent in comparison with beings and their being.

Faced with these wonderful facts of human life (charity, beauty, etc), evolutionary reductivists default to subjectivity, assume that our impressions of value are illusory and see moral reasoning as a sophisticated mechanism to get what we really want (a free decoder ring to anyone who, without laughing, can explain my Petco experience in these terms).

It goes hand in hand with defending an illusory status quo of western Christendom culture.

Writing with critical fervor in I Corinthians, the apostle Paul reminds his readers that Christ's resurrection, in its fullest expression, is eschatological, a word spoken in the future; when Christians claim its fullness prematurely, he argues that word becomes illusory and destructive.

In this claim Wang was indeed asserting a diversity in the universe; he did not claim with Parmenides and Bradley that Being is one and diversity is somehow illusory; more to the historical point, he was not asserting a Buddhistic version of diversity as illusion.

In the religiosity of Hellenistic culture there was a world - denying, gnostic kind of piety that scholars equate with the so - called «divine man» that was in its own way just as illusory and immature as the nationalist warrior piety of Palestinian Judaism.

In addition, when exposed to such hoary doctrines of some classical Eastern religions and philosophies as that of the fundamental unreality or illusory character of the entire material world and that of the all - encompassing reality of God, the average Westerner can only respond with astonishment and incredulity.

I may be blocked or unconscious or dumb, but in my six decades I have not experienced the notion that what is ``... not in alignment with Love is completely illusory.»

Having pointed out the failure of Hasker's various attempts to show the apparent advantage of process theism with regard to moral evil to be illusory, I turn to his attempt to show the same with regard to natural evil, understood as evil not caused by human agents.

The result is unmistakable, however; the arithmetic relationship at with Bergson arrives here is presented by him not as illusory but as having an objective basis.

It would bring us into constant conflict, as it did Jesus, with those systems of heroics that enslave and intimidate people at the same time they bestow on them an illusory and fragmentary significance.

In keeping with Waldorf philosophy, we believe that premature exposure to too many choices and ever - changing structures can give an illusory sense of freedom that can actually undermine the attainment of genuine and deep freedom later in life.

In fact, I am of the opinion that democracy has become illusory in town with this small number deciding for many decades who even appears on the ballot.

Even on a night when Hillary Clinton was at the top of the ticket, aspiring to be the first woman president, and Sen. Chuck Schumer flirted with the record books as he rocketed to a fourth term, New York Democrats» hope of reshaping their congressional delegation proved illusory.

Unfortunately the Labour Right have no intention to settle for any sort of compromise with Jeremy and his politics — it's «Game on» with the Right Blairites, and all hope of avoiding a showdown is illusory.

WARPED PERCEPTIONS As a two - time All - American golfer for the University of Georgia, I can personally attest to the illusory perspective that the hole is larger on some days compared with others, as Andrea Anderson writes in «Towering Targets» [Head Lines].

When these images are coupled with unseen, gentle manipulations of the real hand carried out by an investigator, test participants experience their illusory fingers as so real that when their video - manipulated digits appear stretched to cartoonish lengths, they believe they have touched a wooden block that lies far out of reach.

To induce an illusory perception of the material properties of the hand, a group of neuroscientists from Bielefeld University, the Max - Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics (Germany), and the University of Milano - Bicocca (Italy) asked volunteers to sit with their hands lying on a table in front of them.

«We conclude that the slowdown of warming is likely to prove illusory, with more rapid warming appearing over the next few years.»

Lynch's preoccupation with other worldly character or places that represent humanity's darkest nature is this time reserved for Hollywood, the greatest illusory world of all that destroys far more souls than it makes dreams.