Sentences with phrase «yawning abysses»

So playful in appearance and yet precariously balanced on yawning abysses, hers is an archaic universe of loops, of compulsive repetition, of ambiguous dramaturgical objectives.

There is no way to judge a culture across the yawning abyss of time... I'm not really concerned about any backlash.

But Abraham's faith was not of this sort, if there be such a faith; for really this is not faith but the furthest possibility of faith which has a presentiment of its object at the extremest limit of the horizon, yet is separated from it by a yawning abyss within which despair carries on its game.

General Eisenhower has repeatedly told us that in a nuclear war there can be no victors, only victims; and General MacArthur, speaking in Tokyo, said, «Another war may blast mankind to perdition, but still we hesitate, still we can not, despite the yawning abyss at our very feet, unshackle ourselves from the past.»

But to worship (which is the expression of faith) is to express the consciousness that the infinite yawning abyss of quality is fixed between them.

Granted, the yawning abyss that separates those two films manifests itself quite obviously in the quality of the final products and is enough to make my argument invalid.

Not exact matches

And obviously God is separated from man by the same yawning qualitative abyss when He forgives sins.

Golden Abyss relies exclusively on a series of directionally - based screen swipes that would make any Resident Evil 6 fan yawn; the lack of tension and difficulty during these interactions tend to undermine the mostly uniform difficulty that precedes the final hour or so of gameplay.

MGS4 defies the boundaries of what is visually possible in gaming and creates a story so emotive, so deep, so emotionally tethering that Leonardo DiCaprio falling off that piece of wood into the icy abyss below would barely produce a yawn in comparison.