This isn't just a double standard — it's a metaphysical impossibility.
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They're metaphysical, not Christian, but concern your relationship with God.
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Humanity is in dire straits from some otherworldly, metaphysical threat.
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Viewed from afar, however, their metaphysical positioning is the same.
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But the perspective of "Chronic" is more clinical than metaphysical.
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This mildly metaphysical distinction ends up having huge practical consequences.
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It wasn't just a metaphysical question; it actually might matter.
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"A heavy load of metaphysical baggage," John Wheeler called it.
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Maybe. But the film also suggests a potentially metaphysical dimension.
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He imbued clusters of vases and bottles with metaphysical heft.
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In her view, magic is the opposite of technology, metaphysical.
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But what, in a metaphysical sense, does it all mean?
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Her transfiguration unveils a metaphysical realm indistinguishable from music itself.
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It is about these custodians returning from a metaphysical space.
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It's an inspirational song, but it's also a metaphysical song.
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It's the metaphysical aspect of the body that I have portrayed.
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For the island of Ireland, the problem was close to metaphysical.
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I generally think of metaphysical stuff—things like death and void.
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"Sometimes people who are very metaphysical will see enlightenment," she said.
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I was not expecting to find the metaphysical life of butter.
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Mr. Coelho's lyrics on the record are metaphysical, apolitical and compassionate.
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There is something soothing and disturbing about it, something darkly metaphysical.
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Physical and metaphysical, but one is most impressed by physical suffering.
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It is a disturbing film for reasons that are almost metaphysical.
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They are corporeal, but also metaphysical — totems for resistance and transcendence.
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I always think of luck as being something intangible and metaphysical.
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"I'm obsessed with Halloween and the metaphysical connotations it has," she said.
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They're the perfect mix of the technological, the spiritual, and the metaphysical.
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I loaded every possible metaphysical stake you could pile onto one project.
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Rather, it is part of the metaphysical foundations of the market economy.
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And what results from this metaphysical exploration, she says, is her art.
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A small animated panda enters into a metaphysical journey to rediscover himself.
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A TRAFFIC intersection may not seem an obvious subject for metaphysical reflection.
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It was one of his daggers, an antique imbued with metaphysical power.
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The tone often shifts between intelligent but polemical journalism and metaphysical reflection.
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Potter herself takes a strong interest in the metaphysical side of life.
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How, exactly, do sellers of these metaphysical materials decide on price points?
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Sally Knuckles, a pastor of the Northern Virginia Metaphysical Fellowship, officiated. Mrs.
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His pieces, while ironic, are meant to convey a deeper metaphysical message.
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Death would no longer be a metaphysical problem, merely a technical one.
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So you're not claiming to have a foolproof plan for metaphysical reward.
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"Infinite Football" has similar concerns but somewhat more of a metaphysical bent.
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Her eighth novel is even more metaphysical and experimental than its predecessors.
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They look human but they are meant to be these metaphysical energies.
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So … a metaphysical thing brought him the thought that we are all material.
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People of many different metaphysical beliefs will be needed to defend that inheritance.
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And science by definition cannot consider anything metaphysical or supernatural as an explanation.
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It seems to be the place where the physical and the metaphysical meet.
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There simply has to be an end point there, as a metaphysical matter.
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In short, clouds exist in a realm where the physical and metaphysical touch.
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I'm a ghost, but my loss of me isn't even metaphysical—it's mechanical.
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There is a long-running, almost metaphysical, argument about the GOP's deficit hawkery.
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I like Lear for being very familial and political, as well as metaphysical.
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The thrill of both plays is how metaphysical and structurally unstable they are.
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Though the strands of this metaphysical story come unraveled, the music is engrossing.
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These people's expertise ranged "from the extremely scientific to the metaphysical," she said.
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There's a spiritual void in America, a loss of meaning and metaphysical horizon.
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You can debate which of these constitutes ISIS's "founding" in some metaphysical sense.
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Her ear paintings in particular, in which she renders the organ at roughly the size of an adult person, take on metaphysical airs as gateways into the inner mind — indeed, one of them is even titled "The Metaphysical Ear" (2011).
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Reve combines a pitch-black comedy of manners with swingeing satire and metaphysical despair.
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Anticipating its transition from territorial to metaphysical caliphate, Mr Baghdadi has designated a successor.
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"Light From Light" reveals it's far more interested in human concerns than metaphysical ones.
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Oh yes, did I mention there's a touch of the metaphysical in this story?
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Flynn and I never had any conflict of any kind, verbal, non verbal, metaphysical.
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Some of my friends in the mushroom world take this to its metaphysical conclusion.
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His crime, he seemed to be saying, was not actual but mental, even metaphysical.
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It's also true that it privileges the metaphysical over the material, recognition over redistribution.
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Naming and identification were negotiable for West, who treated painting as a metaphysical study.
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So did some sort of metaphysical shenanigans that day send her around the bend?
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With "Payne," Ruffmercy's visual style matches perfectly with Jae's gritty aesthetic and metaphysical political consciousness.
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An elaborate metaphysical trick, perhaps—but what does that matter, if it fills a need?
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The images, staunch in their flat-footed objecthood, are transmuted into something contemplative, abstracted, metaphysical.
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But at least the two sides are more conscious than ever of their metaphysical commonalities.
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"How do I summon a succubus," Tacodirtshield1 asked the subreddit devoted to all things metaphysical.
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It's a noticeably innocent moment amid a show filled with drugs, murders, and metaphysical absurdities.
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Tolkien, Lewis, and Rowling all imbue their fantasy worlds with a comfortingly metaphysical moral order.
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"It is spirituality understood in a metaphysical way as opposed to textbook religiosity," she says.
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Martin Anquiano and Mark Phillips run a metaphysical crystal shop in Silverlake, called Spellbound Sky.
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If you work a bit, you can persuade yourself of hidden depths and metaphysical sorrows.
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In Bernard McMullan's metaphysical solo show, Colin Hamell keeps Jimmy and 20 other characters afloat.
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In Bernard McMullan's metaphysical solo show, Colin Hamell keeps Jimmy and 220 other characters afloat.
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Each had their own personalized metaphysical tour guide, who remained with them through the session.
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There's a metaphysical whiplash in how quickly alarm turns into acceptance and then into forgetfulness.
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The source of the terror, though, is not a supernatural presence but a metaphysical absence.
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There is the highbrow debate about the metaphysical distinction between a tax and a penalty.
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The artist's latest project: a metaphysical meditation on the eternal in the form of bags.
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Metaphysical Painting offered a philosophical refuge for Italian artists shaking off their Futurist sugar high.
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So yeah, I would say don't think you're just going to be standing looking at the image like you're just watching Netflix... Also, all the dads who need metaphysical comfort should look into crystals — even a starter metaphysical kit can make a huge difference.
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Every crystal is said to have various metaphysical properties that have been passed down for centuries.
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Controversially, they suggested that God would be revealed more in revolutionary action than in metaphysical speculation.
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She's known for more artistic approach to her productions—it's not direct, it's metaphorical and metaphysical.
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Corruption erodes confidence in human nature itself, and thus undercuts democracy at its deepest metaphysical core.
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If you're more metaphysical, you could say that the humanities is an education for the soul.
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He wrote books — metaphysical how-to texts — that were stocked at the Hot Topic retail chain.
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It's a unique show, focusing on hefty metaphysical themes like God and the meaning of life.
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So many of your conversations orbit around a handful of metaphysical themes: truth, meaning, wisdom, beauty.
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The Board live in some other metaphysical space that humans can sometimes access with their mind.
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With her soft features and hesitant diction, Byrne gives Julie's confusion a sensual, almost metaphysical, intensity.
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He conjured dreamlike, metaphysical fairy realms, as well as portrayed real-life subjects as radiant beings.
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The works also feel like hand-drawn maps, perhaps charting a journey through a metaphysical region.
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" Our critics liked it too: Our first review called "The Good Place" an "ingenious metaphysical sitcom.
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Not taking blame, but rather shouldering of some of the metaphysical tragic weight of the thing.
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Whang wore many other hats, including a keynote speaker, metaphysical minister, published author, teacher and coach.
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However, their inexplicable metaphysical linking does not allow them to both survive in the same universe.
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In the vast majority of cases, people stick with whatever metaphysical system they grow up in.
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A comparison between Lincoln and Trump on matters physical or metaphysical, personal or political is illuminating.
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So you want to preserve what is good about religion and dispense with the metaphysical baggage?
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Whether made with chalk or chisel, Michelangelo's artworks mediate between the physical and the metaphysical realms.
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This is where Balke's metaphysical beliefs merge smoothly with the visceral effects of his innovative techniques.
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Material and metaphysical support from your partners inspires personal growth and a deepening of understanding for yourself.
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These worlds are tied together both through metaphysical portals and the psychic visions of people like Danny.
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What if you were wise enough to stump the concept of mortality itself in a metaphysical argument?
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On its website, it says Jedi "observe a metaphysical entity called the Force and often practise meditation".
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Biggers is interested in "power objects"—sculptures thought, in some religious cultures, to hold special metaphysical significance.
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A state in which all our metaphysical ideas simply dissolve in the presence of overpowering sensory experience?
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She wrote her dissertation on the metaphysical poet George Herbert, whose limpid, fervent verse touched a nerve.
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As its musical vocabulary has steadily expanded, Wye Oak has long pondered how the personal turns metaphysical.
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For everyone else, life simply goes on, same as before, but with less physical and metaphysical certainty.
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The de Chirico, "Metaphysical Interior with Small Factory" from 21916, one of the artist's paintings-within-a-painting, acts as a kind of avatar for the show: the very term Pittura metafisica, or Metaphysical Painting, was coined in 21920 by the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire to describe his work.
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The Carpetbagger Designing the costumes for "The Revenant" was both a physical and metaphysical challenge for Jacqueline West.
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While that conclusion is true, Hap explains it's just the beginning of the Nob Hill mansion's metaphysical capabilities.
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From a fan's perspective, though, the surprising emotion wrapped up in James' announcement is a bit more metaphysical.
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If history is dead, and truth is a metaphysical concept, then the archive discourse cannot provide historical depth.
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" Intellectuals like Anderson stake their claims "on heights of metaphysical perfection, and won't deign to notice anything less.
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In other words, he was sounding the trumpet for a battle of metaphysical ideas, not a physical contest.
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I stumbled upon this deck quite unforgettably and by chance at a metaphysical store in Woodstock, New York.
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Ponza still has not, as far as I can tell, become Dan and my mother's metaphysical bonding place.
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Immersed in reading a book, it feels like being inside architecture, a metaphysical space surrounded by the words.
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Carnival's very literal carnal celebration, in the Catholic tradition, gives way to the sober, metaphysical reflection of Lent.
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But I enjoyed it—particularly how the apparition's abilities to manipulate objects in truly metaphysical ways was portrayed.
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Editors' Choice Our recommended titles this week are anchored by a sense of place, both physical and metaphysical.
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Enough with politicians who treat each election as a matter of metaphysical survival, a clash of existential identities.
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Anne Gilman's super-sized scrolls feel like hand-drawn maps, perhaps charting a journey through a metaphysical region.
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"Turquoise is like a stone of protection," he added, referring to the stone's reputed spiritual and metaphysical properties.
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"Bein' alive and bein' a woman and bein' colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet": Hello.
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Washington conventional wisdom told us economic stagnation, higher taxes, greater regulation and fewer manufacturing jobs were metaphysical certainties.
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This raises a lot of metaphysical questions, but it makes for a pretty cool, if otherwise unremarkable, Pokémon.
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It is what I call the aura of fedora: a distinct doucheyness that manifests on the metaphysical plane.
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On a more metaphysical level, Anthony said last month that he had attained some level of "peace" with himself.
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If you've been missing some thing—physical or metaphysical—Mercury retrograde has given you the space to find it.
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But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
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" In another letter she wrote, "Metaphysical query: Is one morally responsible for what one does in other people's dreams?
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"Like a god controlling lightning bolts, he could throw ideas," he said of de Chirico in his metaphysical period.
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The line, like most of the dialogue surrounding the metaphysical nature of the Good Place, is played for laughs.
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The contrast between the space opera setting and the desert setting makes 2049 into a physical and metaphysical odyssey.
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The light in Reuben Wu's Love is Metaphysical Gravity, shot at the Svalbard Satellite Station in Norway, is breathtaking.
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Its analysis shows that it is, in reality, a very queer thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
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Eva wasn't the first anime to marry fun action tropes with deeper religious symbolism and an overarching metaphysical tone.
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I work and teach classes at a metaphysical center called Unlimited Thought Life Enrichment Center in San Antonio, Texas.
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But their songs contained all manner of complexities: rhythmic and harmonic, as well as tonal, political, philosophical and metaphysical.
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"Talking Heads can show the power of imagination to lead us into a metaphysical and magical experience of metamorphosis."
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He is our metaphysical poet, using the desiring, sexual body to ask poetry's eternal questions in distinctively contemporary ways.
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This view is becoming the metaphysical undertone of many state-of-the-art technological breakthroughs and commonly-accepted opinions.
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There is a path somewhere between Wallace's external projections and the self-devouring metaphysical conflict of players like Kobe.
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I wanted to approach it from a non-metaphysical angle, a statement on how we are as human beings.
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In 2012, eBay changed its policy and added spells, potions, and metaphysical guidance to its list of banned goods.
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They believe psychoactive plants like ayahuasca, peyote or psilocybin open people's minds to metaphysical realms and deeply meaningful experiences.
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From those sounds he created expansive, meditative tracks that hover between the physical and the metaphysical. Kranky. Sept. 28.
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But her expansive works defy such national clichés, and instead frequently channel abstract metaphysical concepts into acutely mysterious forms.
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Mind-body dualism is often ridiculed in contemporary philosophy as a legacy of stubbornly metaphysical, patriarchal and Western thinking.
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We're battling a constellation of ideas, not a conventional army, and there are no final victories in metaphysical conflicts.
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Subjectivity is hard to isolate, by definition, and examples of new metaphysical sensations are not exactly a regular occurrence.
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"Bein' alive and bein' a woman and bein' colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet," she says.
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" He described it as "a curious New York scripture that arose during the heady metaphysical counterculture of the 1960s.
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The Checkup "Love, and a cough, cannot be hid," the English metaphysical poet George Herbert wrote 400 years ago.
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To give it a twist, they added elements from the Italian metaphysical painters Giorgio de Chirico and Mario Sironi.
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The filmmaker's narration nuzzles up to the metaphysical, and frequently anthropomorphizes the mountains that practically seal off Guzmán's homeland.
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Anna Biller's "The Love Witch" (June 24), a Maryland Film Festival discovery, is a metaphysical astonishment of another sort.
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On a more metaphysical level, a paper book is an object that has meaning beyond the words inside it.
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A "healer" called Metaphysical Meagan on Instagram claimed "perineum sunning" boosts energy, regulates hormones, and strengthens organs in November.
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The late poems offer some of the metaphysical satisfaction we feel when we reach the final poems of Stevens.
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I'm not sure that Chute answers the metaphysical question posed by the title of her book; it hardly matters.
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Independent book publishers, motivational speakers, and metaphysical-minded artists and writers then became part of the Los Angeles landscape.
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Legendary painter Francesco Clemente as the metaphysical Genie Mustafa, who is the interface of a 3-D Printing Lamp.
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Given Phoebe's belief in fate and the metaphysical, it was just too good a story to come to an end.
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I think of laws as having a kind of primitive metaphysical status, that laws are not derivative on anything else.
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That's the reason for this metaphysical movie's enduring cult status: a genuinely hilarious film that glimpses the meaning of life.
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The narrator's metaphysical road trip invites the reader to see how he's unable to fix himself with good intentions alone.
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A Ghost Story is a movie about grief, intimacy, and the metaphysical presence of loved ones after they are gone.
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She literally picked one of the three possible symbols—blood, water, shit—that root you in so many metaphysical systems.
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Whereas the Man in Black is on a metaphysical, almost philosophical, journey through the park, Grace's mission seems more practical.
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For its 63-year anniversary, his new production at HERE Arts Center imbues Berlioz's score swith metaphysical and abstract connotations.
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Conor McGregor could've had a genuine claim to the metaphysical pound for pound rankings had he won on Saturday night.
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The comic is described as a metaphysical horror story that follows the subjects of an experiment involving mind expanding drugs.
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The fantasy world she inhabits is an avowedly secular one: It is filled with magic but stripped of metaphysical meaning.
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" The opera "Die Meistersinger" is enchanting because "Wagner without his erotico-metaphysical paraphernalia is a better composer than with it.
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Like the clitoris, the neon works are small yet powerful, illuminating themselves and the space—physical and metaphysical—around them.
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In 2015, Etsy's decision to ban metaphysical services like spells, enchantments, and other supernatural services caused outcry among pagan vendors.
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"[A] mysterious wonderland that cleaves, intermingles, and collages a house's physical and metaphysical counterparts," Maher says of A Second Home.
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This practice and others in his performative and pedagogical career get at a larger metaphysical foundation upon which Geys worked.
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A wellness micro-influencer named Metaphysical Meagan set the internet on fire when she posted a photo of herself sunbathing.
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Geometry of Shadows details the restlessness of de Chirico's mind as he endeavored to develop a metaphysical language for painting.
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We ask ourselves what sparks joy in our lives and examine whether Marie Kondo's philosophy extends into the metaphysical realm.
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Their explanations are by turns mundane and metaphysical; some are skeptics, believing that the mind is playing tricks on itself.
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The dead body was also, for many centuries and in many different places, the subject of art, contemplation, and metaphysical meaning.
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On DAMN, it's as though this metaphysical world merges with Lamar's religious beliefs, complimenting and contrasting with them to enlightening degrees.
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By turns allegorical, metaphysical, fictional and factual, Devotion shows rather than tells what it means to give a life to writing.
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Thus O'Reilly self-funded with revenue from his previous game, Mountain, a mountain simulator in the same metaphysical vein as Everything.
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Meanwhile, the psychic services industry — which includes astrology, as well as tarot-card reading, palmistry, and other metaphysical services — is growing.
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Fontana's objective for his art was the breaking of dimensional limitations, both physical and metaphysical, and it still achieves his goal.
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Case in point: Hodor's metaphysical origin story that left fans weeping "Hold the door!" for the latter half of Season 6.
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The Metaphysical Book of Gems And Crystals explains that some signs have upwards of four stones that exhibit this special harmony.
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If there are parallel metaphysical systems out there, wouldn't it be possible to tap into them as an alternative to vaccines?
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On top of the rock they realise they have crossed some sort of metaphysical boundary and fall into a deep sleep.
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The sensates who make up the metaphysical sci-fi series already fall along the vast spectrum of sexuality and gender identity.
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It became a kind of metaphysical nihilism, in which the great truth the artist had to communicate was that nothing matters.
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In some ways, "Sausage Party" is closer in spirit to "The Lego Movie," which raised its own set of metaphysical questions.
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One director's vision of metaphysical vacuity had mutated into another's pulp horror, and, in both cases, we were seized with apprehension.
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Marvel is certainly trying out a new direction for the studio with the more metaphysical Doctor Strange, played by Benedict Cumberbatch.
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Levy continues to lead a metaphysical lifestyle, which in the past included mediation, experimental drugs, sexuality, and ultimately, her art practice.
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Astrology is still a common spiritual practice, and astrological and planetary markings are still used in different metaphysical paths and traditions.
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The very pretty and cheery multicolored images that romance inspired are charming, but they don't deliver much of a metaphysical punch.
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As the story progresses, it slowly opens up from the concrete specifics of the brothers' intertwined lives to larger metaphysical themes.
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I attach no importance to the metaphysical aspects of his arguments, but I consider his views on physical & psychological issues valuable.
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Such is the duality and lesson of Ms. Sánchez's art: It's grounded in the material world but points toward something metaphysical.
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The paintings, and their almost psychedelic palette, are as fleshlike and physical as O'Keeffe's New Mexican work is stripped and metaphysical.
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They're all conservatives, bewildered by a world that no longer takes its shape from the political and metaphysical assumptions they share.
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One gag, in good Indian metaphysical tradition, has a man drowning in quicksand call for a rope; he's handed a snake.
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The research is preliminary, but it upends standard medical thinking about the brain and raises more than a few metaphysical conundrums.
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If Spinoza seemed to take away humanity's metaphysical freedom, however, he gave it an unprecedented degree of political freedom in exchange.
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Not only have these laws been the cornerstones of the field of physics, but they're also applicable to the metaphysical world.
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Even among those who broadly share a set of metaphysical beliefs, the exact meaning of those religious words can be bitterly contested.
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Ganesh Baron works with virtual reality mazes that task users with escaping absurd, metaphysical environments by interacting with different objects around them.
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As it is, the Cambridge Divinity Faculty has always encompassed a wide range of metaphysical beliefs, from Christian to Muslim to agnostic.
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It was a very meta locked-room mystery with metaphysical significance that played out like a myth, an allegory, and a dream.
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Even now, it is fiercely alive—a one man serio-comic farrago of sexual transgression, psychic pain, metaphysical horror and cultural lament.
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I think we are rebranding a lot of new age and metaphysical ideas, just because we are really interested in those topics.
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I'm a spiritual guy, so I joined a metaphysical church back in the 80s when I first got to the Big Island.
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One I enjoyed using a lot was #crystalhealing because people are sharing information about crystal healing and the metaphysical aspects of crystals.
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The reveal of Hodor's big secret traverses time and space, and instantly threw Game of Thrones into the realm of the metaphysical.
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Writing under his own name, Pessoa is terse, metaphysical, sentimental: I contemplate the silent pond Whose water is stirred by a breeze.
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In a country of existential reflection, the concept of circular motion embodied by the roundabout inevitably invites metaphysical commentary, even if inadvertently.
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It's an album of stately, autumnal, metaphysical cowboy songs Mr. Weir wrote with the lyricist Josh Ritter and the guitarist Josh Kaufman.
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Ponsot found her way through nature (she might have been happiest as a metaphysical garden poet), but she promises nothing like consolation.
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While this might sound like hippie metaphysical jargon to you, there's a deep truth here that's extremely relevant to every business owner.
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On a metaphysical level, this Venus/Saturn contact manifests as setting healthy expectations for yourself, especially through the guidance of a mentor.
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You could blame it on McCraven's coherent taste as a bandleader, or you could take could come to a more metaphysical understanding.
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Their metaphysical tastes range from Carl Jung's psychology to ancient Stoic philosophy, which calls for self-control and transcendence of material wealth.
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At first, this is sort of fun, a nifty jaunt between two realities that adds some compelling metaphysical wrinkles to the series.
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Jessie Mueller, Joshua Henry, Lindsay Mendez and John Douglas Thompson star in a metaphysical musical of fraught love and real nice clambakes.
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Janet, the all-powerful virtual assistant (imagine an intergalactic Alexa) on the metaphysical sitcom "The Good Place," does not have a tattoo.
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Can you comment on the role that fences — both literal and metaphysical, from border walls to discriminatory policy — play in forming identity?
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We soon discover that there is a supernatural mechanism at work, a metaphysical machine that customizes life-changing visions for each person.
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His study was the metaphysical idea of Magic, which found expression not only in performance, but in practice, commentary, design and contemplation.
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The New Critics, among them T.S. Eliot, favored 17th-century metaphysical and religious poets like John Donne and George Herbert, both clergymen.
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In recent years, Terrence Malick has picked up the pace of production while also displaying a boldly original style of metaphysical inspiration.
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Szalay's rapid, unabashed thematic framing allows him to exercise his own metaphysical sincerity, a connection to earnest feeling that is often touching.
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The jagged lines, slanting rhymes and metaphysical drama of her poems should be sufficient to bring you into her mind and world.
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I attach no importance to the metaphysical aspects of his arguments, but I consider his views on physical and psychological issues valuable.
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Such metaphysical questions are what, from the very beginning, gave philosophy a bad name, because to practical-minded people they appear useless.
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The most famous example is John Perreault's 1967 article titled "Metaphysical Funk Monk," about a William T. Wiley show in New York.
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Ether, the topmost chamber, focuses on spirituality and the metaphysical — objects that grapple with our understanding beyond the boundaries of our universe.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Art, as we know, is here to pose metaphysical questions about the nature of life and meaning.
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KEN BUCK, R-COLORADO: The swamp is geographically Washington D.C. but in a metaphysical sense it&aposs just a place where values change.
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The show does not present a comprehensive dialogue on the topic by any means, but it does consider the metaphysical abstractions of it.
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Whatever their feelings about metaphysical matters, Mr Hagee and Mr Jeffress are both unshakeable in their support for America's new policy towards Israel.
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In "Metaphysical Salami" (2018), a hairless, naked figure with yellowish skin seems to be wrestling with a multi-limbed linear, gunmetal blue form.
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The story follows a main character named John Deadle who stumbles into a metaphysical and existential black hole and struggles to get out.
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But the physical crosses over into the metaphysical, and this is where Trump's hands underscore the successes and ultimate failure of his campaign.
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All those past lives and cultures, assimilated through the metaphysical ear, are integrated into the collective unconscious represented by the show's final installation.
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Blur the lines between different types and a blizzard of bizarre contradictions and metaphysical puzzles can follow, leaving viewers puzzled and sometimes furious.
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It's as trippy as it is metaphysical, using sugary, pop-esque shapes and colors to reference the symbolism of astrology in Islamic culture.
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I was alone with my reflection, sweating, trying to decide whether "Keep coming back to the mirror" was encouraging, ominous, or oddly metaphysical.
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Obama would have made good in some metaphysical sense on his pledge to "unite" the parties, but at great political and substantive cost.
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He has just one arrow in his abdomen and is gazing up at the sky in an ecstasy at once physical and metaphysical.
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But why would you want to when combat, in all of its messy physical and metaphysical glory, is so much more than that?
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For "The Prison," Smyth adapted a metaphysical text by her friend Harry Brewster, in which a condemned man communes with his own soul.
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To get there, the minority who believe this would have to convince the rest of us of this metaphysical, or religiously based, assertion.
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But if Bergman's work elevates these struggles to the realm of the metaphysical, Lanthimos's approach is less lofty, ballasted by blood and grit.
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The rules have prompted head-scratching among Chinese eaters, and even some metaphysical speculation about what makes a jianbing in the first place.
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It's very clear in Mike Nichols's film version, too, that the political and metaphysical were of less interest to him than the personal.
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The next day, it comes to town, seemingly sprung into reality from her imagination, bringing with it a barrage of other metaphysical horrors.
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Revealing how de Chirico's inner life was punctured by emotional extremes, the reader is compelled to reconsider the meaning of his metaphysical paintings.
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When Hugo stops calling after they have sex, she ties herself in metaphysical knots to interpret his evasions as signs of forthcoming commitment.
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Pollan's sources of information heavily represent metaphysical constructs of psychological theories brought to bear on the psychedelic experience rather than rigorous neuroscientific analysis.
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He is chasing hard after something metaphysical, and his camera still works in service of the great beauty and pain of that pursuit.
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Runtime: one hour Debuts: Saturday, October 22, at 9 pm on BBC America A man who solves metaphysical mysteries by transcending space and time?
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The whole evokes the metaphysical: for instance, crystal as the body's conduit to the spiritual, a tool to facilitate enlightenment through the third eye.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The medical culture of India is perhaps among the world's most complex, integrating the scientific and metaphysical realms.
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Perhaps the idea behind the "mysticism and ritual" section was to give its ambiguous and porous subject, that of the metaphysical, room to swim.
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In the growing number of countries where the government claims a right to monitor and guide people's metaphysical beliefs, it is a different story.
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Our weekly tutorials were fraught, ending in either frustration ("No, Lydia, for the last time, you may not poke your father") or metaphysical musings.
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The metaphysical Netflix drama has taken over our collective consciousness so much, Blake Lively is still talking about practicing The OA's movements, months later.
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His intention was to present conflict in metaphysical terms, and to probe deeper than newscasts do despite a nightly deluge of facts and minutiae.
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That's not just a metaphysical question, but increasingly a geopolitical challenge that is putting tech giants like Apple and Alphabet in a tough position.
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Wright's particular obsession is the past — his own, and the very idea of the past, which is to say, the metaphysical nature of time.
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It's a blasphemous blood bath, a metaphysical action caper, stylized and splattery, that doesn't have great depth but makes up for it with volume.
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Neither has any interest in metaphysical principles or historical missions; they do not aim to justify Judaism as a constructive force in world history.
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Rather, "true fiction" conceives of an invisible metaphysical plane that extends infinitely forward, backward, even sideways, into every possible temporal, topical and spatial dimension.
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The style, in which the everyday and the macabre, the American small town idyll and the metaphysical killer BOB, collide in an unusual way.
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The metaphysical journey that character goes through and the way it nearly tears her to pieces and ultimately rebuilds her was inspiring to me.
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Better yet, I'll offer two answers — one metaphysical, one political — and use the successes and failures of "Game of Thrones" to help illustrate them.
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As the story goes to the African desert and beyond, the novel "takes flight in some head-splitting metaphysical directions," Terrence Rafferty wrote here.
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Manny Jacinto, a star of the metaphysical sitcom "The Good Place," would like to be the kind of actor who does his own stunts.
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" But lately, I've revisited the metaphysical toiling of Annie Dillard: "Why are we watching the news, reading the news, keeping up with the news?
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In his part gnomic, part mechanic's style, Mr. Pirsig's narrator declares that the real world is a seamless continuum of the material and metaphysical.
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As Heim's translations make clear, what de Chirico meant by "metaphysical" was nothing less than a kind of allegorical consciousness that refused finite meaning.
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It turns out that nobody ever really dies anymore in this universe, a physical and metaphysical marvel driven by the need for fan service.
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That would explain the title of the collection: "Akasha," a Sanskrit word that refers to an ethereal space at an earthly or metaphysical level.
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A symphony of metaphysical and material references bounce around and collapse in on each other, striking a minor chord that reverberates around the space.
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Looking beyond the squabbles over science and God, Mr Gray sees the challenges implicit in abandoning the metaphysical and moral order that Christianity once provided.
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It also plays the metaphysical framework surrounding the characters — the existence of God or other deities, and the actual structure of the universe — for laughs.
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Why it matters: There's a metaphysical question at the core of it — whether IEA's closely watched reports reflect policy and investment trends, or shape them.
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The compound, which sits between the Bronx and Queens, is a metaphysical and literal island surrounded by New York City's towers of wealth and industry.
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Part-electronic label, part-metaphysical visual art duo, Ultramajic is a force driven by like-minded creatives and fueled off of post-digital new ageism.
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Imagine a kind of metaphysical limbo that has taken the form of speed-dating, and you more or less have the vibe of the resort.
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The second is to postulate a parallel metaphysical system, upon which our health depends, undetectable by modern scientific methods but accessible to a skilled expert.
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Only monks have the power to convert offerings of money and cakes into "good merit"—metaphysical gold stars that can be transferred to dead relatives.
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He was a seeker, a sensual mystic, a fierce moralist who didn't want to be known as a moralist, a partly historical, partly metaphysical poet.
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Mr. Lubezki can infuse Sunset Boulevard, Venice Beach and other often-filmed spots with a beauty that feels erotic and metaphysical at the same time.
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After all, Lillian and Genevive will likely not give you an authentic metaphysical experience, and no notebook will protect you from a Category 5 hurricane.
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But still, a show that avoids putting its metaphysical eggs into that notion respects the self-inflicted bullshit that goes on underneath our ebony sheens.
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Bobby's bickering parents, played by Jeannie Berlin and Ken Stott, supply a few Yiddish-inflected laughs, as well as the requisite touch of metaphysical fatalism.
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"There are paintings that seem to convey what I'm trying to sound like," he said on a recent Saturday morning, considering the image's metaphysical qualities.
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"Under the Silver Lake" is less a cinematic folly than a category mistake, taking the sterility of its own imaginative conceits for a metaphysical condition.
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The paintings in the Bronx, and their almost psychedelic palette, are as flesh-like and physical as O'Keeffe's New Mexican work is stripped and metaphysical.
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I think it's because of the metaphysical aspect of poetry, the way in which symbols and imagery are used to suggest something larger, something deeper.
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Jenkins sat directly behind the U.N.C. bench like some metaphysical reminder of how painful it can be to get so close to glory and falter.
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The bird's-eye view (or god's-eye, given the movie's metaphysical reach) evokes the opener of Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining," a film Peele references throughout.
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Laura Christine Leeker and Kyle Edward Priddle were married June 29 at the Duke Mansion in Charlotte, N.C. Bridget Sweeney, an ordained Metaphysical minister, officiated.
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As de Chirico wrote in his essay, "On Metaphysical Art," published in the April-May 1919 issue of the magazine Valori Plastici: The appearance of a metaphysical work of art is serene; it gives the impression, however, that something new must happen amidst this same serenity, and that other signs apart from those already apparent are about to enter the rectangle of the canvas.
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Wallace doesn't simply set a scene and novelize his characters into facile life; rather, he makes an almost metaphysical commitment to see reality through their eyes.
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One of the striking features of America's ideological landscape is the fact that the liberal-conservative divide transcends everything else, including deep theological or metaphysical differences.
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There was nothing really metaphysical or righteous at work; this is biblical strictly in the sense that the future described is both broadly punitive and big.
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But Ryan has a pretty consistent and somewhat metaphysical theory of poverty whereby helping poor people by directly providing them with additional material resources doesn't count.
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Science doesn't consider God as a possible answer to any question whatsoever because God is a metaphysical construct and thus not part of the physical world.
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With porn, health concerns, and metaphysical questions, I think what is happening is a combination of boredom, anxiety, and marijuana smoking during these late-night hours.
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Two other justices found the search lawful in a concurring opinion that nonetheless deemed consent while unconscious a "metaphysical impossibility," reasoning that consent was not required.
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On Sunday morning, there's a full Moon in Pisces that puts you in the mood to share your highest, most metaphysical ideas with others, spreading peace.
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Appearing in flashbacks to 1930s Berlin, Hari's character is part of a metaphysical period piece that meshes with the show's setting in current-day Los Angeles.
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The great, consummate idlers of literature (Ivan Goncharov's Oblomov or Melville's Bartleby) are figures of metaphysical quest: They exemplify ways of being human with unusual complexity.
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The frescoes are part of an exhibition called "Monday," commissioned by the Fondazione Memmo, that loosely illustrates the melancholy and metaphysical angst associated with that day.
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Her early influences include the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, as well as local metaphysical bookstores, where she'd browse publications on tarot, meditation, philosophy, and poetry.
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Both artists explore the metaphysical and appropriate images from classical antiquity in vacant landscapes and lone portraits, demonstrating shared affinities across different mediums and time periods.
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Similarly, feminist metaphysicians have argued that metaphysical distinctions between superior and inferior categories (mind/matter, essential/contingent, self/other) were often used to express male superiority.
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In 22005, he directed the entire first season of HBO's metaphysical crime series, "True Detective," written by Nic Pizzolatto and starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson.
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I say "qualified" because the show seems to be venturing into metaphysical realms that could undermine the techno-political urgency that makes it feel so essential.
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There was a slight sense of metaphysical unease in the train car, as if everyone was looking around and wondering: Why aren't you in a car?
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The jokes that the universe plays on hapless human creatures may be cruel, but they're also funny, and the Coens are skilled and wily metaphysical pranksters.
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Isolate the phrase and you get a metaphysical meditation on vision: the artist presents an image to be seen, not knowing if it will be seen.
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Indeed, the best Hopper's always seem to wed the mystery of Metaphysical painting to a perceptual experience, where Hopper expresses alienation by his use of light.
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In literature, fighters are often portrayed as darkly romantic figures, set apart from their teammates and shrouded by metaphysical sadness, but the reality is hardly ever cinematic.
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In it, he emphasized the anti-holistic aspects of French Post-Structuralist theory and their opposition to metaphysical wholes and grand narratives (theories that provide totalizing explanations).
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I am neither joking nor exaggerating when I say The Discovery shares a good deal of its metaphysical logic with the ghosts of 1995's Casper. Regret.
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However, the Black people who choose hip-hop as their art are rarely allowed to examine metaphysical beings without an echo of doubt, suspicion, concern, or trivialization.
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It is no overstatement to say that for him, the word "vast" took on a metaphysical dimension, where the vast world and our vast thoughts are united.
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Claire DeWitt, with her metaphysical bent and haunted past, and Phoebe Sigler, burrowing into the depths of Inland Empire, are refreshingly now and timeless all at once.
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By tumblr has a very specific audience and, who knows, maybe all 555 million monthly visitors are dying to learn the metaphysical truth about tumblr dot com.
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Hispanic and liberal Catholics love the present pontiff for his support for migrants and the global South; conservatives yearn for the metaphysical certainties offered by his predecessors.
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You're not adding value to an oyster by dressing it with diced green apple and raspberry foam; you're actually removing not just financial value, but metaphysical value.
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Convincing millions of people to watch a weekly satire about the absurdity of our metaphysical beliefs is an accomplishment, but The Good Place goes a step further.
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The best way to describe this particular dish/game would be to call it a metaphysical exercise in allowing diners to season their food ... with mini-bowling.
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"It is at the same time a tale about an epidemic, a symbol of Nazi occupation, and, thirdly, the concrete illustration of a metaphysical problem," Camus wrote.
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Though the only borders it depicts are metaphysical (skeletal customs agents make an appearance), "Coco" will arrive at a moment of pitched far-right and nationalist sentiment.
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She discovered Mr. Bingham's event through a friend she met at a metaphysical center that does reiki healing, with whom she later confided in about her sightings.
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It's arithmetic (or, at least, "chronos" time, which is regular, linear time), and metaphysical (that's "kairos" time, or the time of "timing," the right moment, an opportunity).
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I felt as though I were walking on a metaphysical plane where no one else but me could walk, and whose pathways were known only to me.
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Here Goethe imagines a metaphysical tug-of-war over Faust's soul that zooms toward redemption in a way that is brainy, sublime and devilishly hard to stage.
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The song title translates as "Praise for the Institution of Cynicism," and the lyrics — with English subtitles in the video — are a broad-spectrum, almost metaphysical protest.
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All the below stories from the past day or two are technically unrelated but, as TC Sottek noted on Twitter, seem related on some deeper, metaphysical level.
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" In a recent e-mail interview, he added, "I've always felt more connected to aliens in a metaphysical/psychic sense than in a 'mathematical' or scientific sense.
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Like everyone else on the internet, Metaphysical Meagan's post led me down a wormhole, where I ended up 56 weeks deep in various perineum tanning advocates' feeds.
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They were, after all, professionals — or at least, hoping to be, having undergone years of intense preparations for this six-hour "metaphysical SAT," as one called it.
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Metaphysical Masterpieces 1916-1920: Morandi, Sironi, and Carrà continues at the Center for Italian Modern Art (421 Broome Street, 4th Floor, Soho, Manhattan) through June 15, 2019.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads NORTH ADAMS, Mass — For nearly 20 years Trenton Doyle Hancock has been exploring "Mounds" as an organizational and a metaphysical system.
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What makes the humanities absolutely necessary is, if you're not a metaphysical and a spiritual person, you can use the word soul in a secular way, right?
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Or the date reflects the arcane calculations by Roman scholars, from about 200AD onwards, who wanted to pin down the dates of every metaphysical event, from creation onwards.
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In New Delhi, Mukherjee had encountered the Modernist painter Jagdish Swaminathan, whose proclivity for mysticism and the metaphysical counterbalanced the didacticism and pedagogy of her other mentor, Subramanyam.
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On May 24th the Church of England launched an app for the Alexa platform that allows users to pose metaphysical queries to the speaker on their kitchen counter.
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Another painting titled "U Shape Choir, Blues for Radigue" (2016), as well as several other pieces with terms referencing Hindustani classical music, expresses themes of a metaphysical poet.
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Fifteen years ago, a large swath of the literary community had embraced the idea that DeLillo—and his mode of metaphysical, politically resonant fiction—belonged to the past.
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Read These Stories Next:These Are Our Top Reads Out In NovemberWhy I Had A Metaphysical Crisis While Watching ArrivalCan Julianne Moore Be Our New Book Club President Please?
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"Magic, to me, is an intersection or union of the mystical, spiritual, divine, daemonic, metaphysical, paranormal, or supernatural, with the physical, material, mechanical, electrical, or digital," Madara explains.
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Delving into the metaphysical and the spiritual realms, Krauss presents a stirring, sprawling exploration of the "unformed and nameless life" that exists alongside the one we're consciously living.
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The aura of fraught "mystery," the classical ambience, and the traces of an enchanted, archaic world enduring in modernity call to mind de Chirico's roughly contemporaneous metaphysical paintings.
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Instead, he prefers some kind of mental powers that, according to his description, are similar to cloudbusting or other pseudo-scientific, metaphysical beliefs about the powers of concentration.
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Or it could be that by turning the spiritual center to partisan ends she would hasten its collapse, heightening polarization and hustling us deeper into metaphysical civil war.
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He sketches a theological family tree that, while selective, highlights the connections between these individuals across generations: They read one another's metaphysical treatises and visited one another's communes.
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But the idea that parts of the brain may be recoverable after death, as conventionally defined, contradicts everything medical science believes about the organ and poses metaphysical riddles.
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But there was also literacy's metaphysical promise — that you could write your way into new futures, into places that existed outside of imaginations made narrow by anti-blackness.
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Clothing can act as a sort of metaphysical armor, and Ms. Electra found out early on you don't need much of it to protect yourself from the world.
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In the First Symphony, Mr. Salonen seemed intent on reminding listeners that this piece is an earthbound symphonic composition, not just Mahler's first step into the metaphysical beyond.
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Whether you're fond of long journeys or find adventure and novelty through metaphysical or academic conquests, yours is a generation that finds meaning by looking up and out.
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But they also provided the moral, cultural and metaphysical common ground that political reformers — abolitionists, Social Gospellers, New Dealers, civil rights marchers — relied upon to expand liberalism's promise.
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Don't worry, they start off with a lovely palette cleanser of Reggie philosophy, in case you need a moment before the potentially-troubling metaphysical connotations of Mario spirit possession.
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"Everybody kind of groans about it, but its message, if we can get metaphysical about it, is not to be so focused on the linear organized mind," Stellas says.
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But plainly, strongly held religious belief is not a political killer; far more people were and still are prepared to vote for his Conservatives than share his metaphysical ideas.
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The metaphysical tale encouraged Musk to ask bigger questions about subjects that interested him, such as space, the impact one person can have, technology and the future of mankind.
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Or, to get metaphysical for a moment, isn't all of "reality" just a flawed simulation presented to us through our senses on the big Mac screens of our minds?
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She was a fashion model, Playboy magazine's Miss November 1992, an LGBT activist and wrote "a series of astrology, new age, spiritual and metaphysical books," according to the website.
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There is a whole class of celebrity sorcerers in Indonesia—men with names like Ki Gendeng Pamungkas, Ki Kusomo, and Ki Narto, a self-proclaimed expert of the metaphysical.
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Lou Amundson of the Knicks said he was limiting his phone use these days, owing to his metaphysical perspective on the growing prominence of electronic devices in modern life.
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Michael Schur's ingenious metaphysical sitcom "at first seems more like a movie idea" but "over five previewed episodes, it holds up," James Poniewozik wrote in The New York Times.
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We treat romantic love as some unchanging, metaphysical object waiting to be found and grasped, even though these "traditional" modes of courtship and coupling are actually relatively recent developments.
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Related: Matthew Barney's Early Work Is a Metaphysical Gut-Check Experience Now: A Conversation with Doug Aitken Doug Aitken's 30 Days of Art Happenings Takes Over London's Barbican Centre
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Herndon's PhD is "very much intertangled" with the making of PROTO, a joyful and weird, metaphysical whirlwind of experimental electronic compositions, which comes out today, May 10, on 4AD.
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"Parsifal" is Wagner's metaphysical meditation on the knights of the Holy Grail, the goblet supposedly used at the Last Supper and which later caught Jesus's blood on the cross.
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Unified by its beautiful, sensual, rusty color this thrown-down failure at holding rational order seems like a timely defensive metaphysical principle: e pluribus unum (out of many one).
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The songs are far closer to the bare-bones settings and emotional volatility of early PJ Harvey, along with some of the metaphysical musings of late-1960s psych-folk.
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In the popular imagination de Chirico's name is synonymous with a certain ambience, characteristic of the Scuola Metafisica (Metaphysical School) of painting, in which he was a seminal figure.
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Mourning their disappearance intersects with mourning the inevitability of it, the constant flux of becoming and unbecoming, the continuum of life and death, in both cultural and metaphysical sense.
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The pictures Morandi made under the Metaphysical rubric are derived from neither myth nor Nietzsche; whatever is roiling the depths beneath their serenity is contained in the paint itself.
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They carry on as though they do, but science and reason had completely undercut the metaphysical claims of monotheism, which is to say the idea of absolute moral truth.
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Breaking from the straight ahead folk songs that had dominated his debut album, the series of rhetorical queries and metaphysical shrug of a refrain have become Dylan's calling card. 2.
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She began collecting objects by going to flea markets throughout Los Angeles and buying items that stood out to her that had prevalent themes of nature, children, and the metaphysical.
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The argument provides a stimulus for formulating some methodological and metaphysical questions, and it suggests naturalistic analogies to certain traditional religious conceptions, which some may find amusing or thought-provoking.
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The key hooks are the story, the characters, the art design, and — on the gameplay side — the allure of slowly building this team of thieves and planning metaphysical heists together.
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In a phone interview, Lowenstein ranked his theories for the cause of the grand existential moments described by the metaphysical astronauts, and resultant spiritual searching from least cynical to most.
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Lowery edited the moody, metaphysical mystery Upstream Color in 2013, and this year he co-wrote the screenplay for Alexandre Moors's adaptation of the Iraq War novel The Yellow Birds.
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Every great fantasy novel hinges on a metaphysical quirk that separates its world from the real one, a thought experiment that spawns a whole galaxy of related questions and concerns.
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It was a lowly portfolio career, but such was his determination to do something literary with his education: He had studied English and gotten a master's degree in the metaphysical.
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I've never had my palm read, but I wonder what sort of metaphysical juju is conjured by turning an age-old astrological practice into a commodity for teens on Etsy.
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A post from an Instagram "healer" who goes by "Metaphysical Meagan" has gone viral because she claims to have regulated her circadian rhythm by aiming her butthole at the sky.
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The anguished performances (and realistic makeup) are profoundly disturbing, while the riddles that are projected on the wall after each death strive for metaphysical weight that doesn't quite feel earned.
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I don't know why, but I presume that his metaphysical pessimism, with its assumption of hard realism, compromised him philosophically by failing to locate his art within a human context.
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For the Bitcoin carnivore, there is a kind of metaphysical parallel between decentralized digital ledgers and an imagined idea of what our ancestors ate, and by extension, how they lived.
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It includes wine and cheese, yes, but also a metaphysical luxury: that of expanded time, to lounge poolside on those built-in stone benches, to take in that magical view.
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Ammons had a friendly, open, searching style, one that sometimes veered toward the metaphysical but tended to find its grounding in the crunch of wit or a small, superb insight.
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For most of two hours, "Hereditary" slowly unspools a depiction of evil — a claustrophobic, alarmingly funny, disarmingly realistic spectacle of extreme metaphysical and psychological disturbance — that feels like something new.
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I'm happy to report that Macavity and his minions are foiled, and Grizabella (Jennifer Hudson), the only character truly in need of a metaphysical makeover, comes forward for her reward.
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In addition to being filled with as many twists and turns as a first-rate suspense thriller, "Dawson City" is packed with near-metaphysical intimations, both awe-inspiring and humbling.
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" In the end the only reward he takes is a metaphysical one, as described by an uncharacteristically sentimental Zenigata to Clarisse: "he ran off with a tremendous prize… your heart.
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The secularization of American society means that the religious right and the churchgoing African-American community share a metaphysical worldview that's faded elsewhere in our spiritual-but-less-religious nation.
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Less than two decades ago, Louis Menand's The Metaphysical Club offered us a superhuman Holmes who translated the lessons of the Civil War into a language for modern American liberalism.
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But Mr. Mungiu, one of the crucial figures in the post-dictatorship flowering of Romanian cinema, has a gift for infusing daily routines with an almost metaphysical sense of dread.
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When every home has an Amazon Echo, Google Home, an Apple HomePod or some other smart speaker, the companies are already signaling, all human and metaphysical needs will be fulfilled.
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A few chapters into John Wray's fourth novel, "The Lost Time Accidents," Waldemar Tolliver presents a kind of metaphysical accounting ledger — a "reckoning," as he puts it — of his current situation.
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But this video goes beyond the usual purely scientific discussion to delve into deeper metaphysical questions, like the philosophical puzzler known as the Ship of Theseus, and the problem of consciousness.
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When I headed to the Asheville Raven & Crone, a metaphysical supply shop north of the city center, two days before the eclipse, the ethos was one of self-care, not resistance.
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Space Stone: The Infinity Stone that can control the physical (and metaphysical) aspects of space, namely opening up portals and wormholes that allow the wielder to teleport rapidly around the universe.
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She faceplants, and is rebooted for the first of many times, each time coming back as a stronger, smarter, better Janet through some kind of metaphysical machine learning that's never explained.
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I found instead (among other things) a deep repository of ideas: metaphysical meditations, raw explorations of the roles of sex and drugs in spiritual life, and musings on the artistic process.
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"In occult and metaphysical fields, many people like to call themselves experts without any credentials or qualifications, so unfortunately it can be difficult to sort out what is bullshit," she said.
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"The big difference—and I think it is a metaphysical difference—is that the cat in Verhoeven's movie is a professional cat, and our cat was an unprofessional one," she says.
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Or of "Orpheus, Tired Troubadour" (1970), in which the weary, mannequin-like Orpheus lays down his musical instruments amid a metaphysical cityscape so common in his art from 50 years before?
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In cricket, the metaphysical is woven into the material rules: The "Spirit of Cricket" mandates that the game be played not only within the laws but the spirit of the game.
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The documentary approach has the merit of reminding the viewer or reader that the artist has a body as well as a mind, that death is more than a metaphysical problem.
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The quest for happiness amid postwar suburban anomie had already spawned Dianetics, the metaphysical movement first propounded in 1950 by L. Ron Hubbard, who four years later rebranded it as Scientology.
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In a nearby wall text, Ms. Quaytman comments on how af Klint, working like a "mad scientist," was able to join both rational and intuitive faculties to conjure invisible, metaphysical ideas.
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In this sense the post-Christian religious landscape is potentially taking Christianity's gender gap and widening it, playing its own metaphysical role in the growing divergence and polarization of the sexes.
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We'd gathered Monday, with the Franklin family's blessing, to behold a trove of all kinds of genius — physical, musical, oratorical, sartorial, tonsorial, metaphysical — the most staggering genius, of course, being Franklin's.
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He changed his name in 1914, during a sojourn in Paris (1911-1915) with his brother, who was already becoming known for the dreamlike metaphysical paintings that proved foundational to Surrealism.
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Before long, amid the swells and landscape beauty shots, Sando is dropping gnomic wisdom that announces the story's metaphysical ambitions and reminds you that lamas come on land and on sea.
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But in the time-honored traditions of both horror and rock, things get wilder and stranger as the big finish approaches: Malerman's story takes flight in some head-splitting metaphysical directions.
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Whenever "Twin Peaks" gets this metaphysical, it may be best to read it as Frost and Lynch generating darkly poetic visual metaphors to describe a universe abandoned by the benevolent gods.
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Besides, while Campolo believes that life can be meaningful with or without a god, his work these days is less about grandiose metaphysical claims than about simple acts of hand-holding.
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Ever since her early moment of affinity with Dickinson, Smith has been attracted to poets whose plain language conceals a yearning for something metaphysical or eternal: Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, Philip Larkin.
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In Larraín's fantastical rendering, Neruda is pursued by a police official who is also a great reader; the pursuit becomes more metaphysical than real, a study of the seductions of narrative.
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Slowly but surely, though, scholars and performers are embracing Ustvolskaya's music, which is, as she characterized it in that 21970 interview, truly new: grueling but cathartic, shockingly visceral and fleetingly metaphysical.
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Other producers and DJs have explained this metaphysical rave experience as a way of communing with the divine, but Minimal Violence have it right, comparing it to the world of dreams.
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As for those sensitive physical locations, UNESCO's mandarins are right to point out that they have no remit to settle metaphysical matters that have divided countless millions of people over many centuries.
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The Refined Feline's $369.99 (yes, actually) Lotus Cat Tower will pose elegantly in your living room corner like a metaphysical sculpture with four perches, a sisal scratch pad, and a hiding hole.
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While fighting, the armies engaged in the terrible war begin to shape-shift into demonic entities, and he discovers that he's caught in No Man's Land in a much greater, metaphysical struggle.
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One minute I was not even thinking about crystals, and the next, as though in a blackout, I found myself standing in the middle of a pricey metaphysical shop in Santa Monica.
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With Mercury in your sign until April, expect everyone else to be on the same wily metaphysical page as you—your sharpened mind now allows for an astute explanation of the unexplainable.
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And it includes "Metaphysical Interior with Lighthouse" (1918), which frames a painting-within-the-painting of a lighthouse inside a series of mysterious wooden structures that run deep into the pictorial space.
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To combine the world of the metaphysical with style, crystals will be curated by "season," complete with a mood board and soundboard to clearly convey the intention and theme of each collection.
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But for some evangelicals, a stronger sense of participation in holy mystery offers a metaphysical jolt to the system — at a time when the relationship between evangelical worship and politics seems broken.
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Schrader distills the spiritual and cinematic preoccupations that have defined his career as a writer ("Taxi Driver") and director ("American Gigolo") into an austere and elegant study in metaphysical and political anguish.
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Think of Beto O'Rourke, who married into a vast family fortune that helped him launch a political career and whose much shorter primary campaign played out as a sort of metaphysical walkabout.
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Those of us who like to read more richly metaphysical or satirical fantasies may be, in Dickens's phrase, envious of the ease with which Dragt's readers have for so long been entertained.
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Though political theorists of democracy routinely speak of Jefferson's Declaration of Independence or Hamilton and Madison's Federalist Papers, Whitman's poetry of a half-century later explicates the metaphysical underpinnings of transcendent democracy.
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The President has shown an almost metaphysical capacity to escape scandals that would doom any normal politician, and may assume he can skate through his latest controversies without incurring serious political damage.
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The windowsill, once uncluttered, now casts shadows like the battlement of a castle: The entire length is littered with vessels whose labels make preposterous metaphysical promises, all of which I half-believe.
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John Weidman's book situates nine of the country's would-be presidential assassins, from John Wilkes Booth to John Hinckley, in a metaphysical shooting gallery and lets them goad one another across time.
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The unity of what was once one of the most peaceful places on Earth was becoming two, like a cleaver coming down on the social, spiritual and metaphysical bone of a community.
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To commit an act of terrorism may not yield the same metaphysical reward promised by radical Islam to its martyrs, but it nevertheless assures practitioners a certain kind of in-group status.
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To commit an act of terrorism may not yield the same metaphysical reward promised by radical Islam to its martyrs, but it nevertheless assures practitioners a certain kind of in-group status.
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Sometimes described as a metaphysical noir thriller, it tells the story of two friends who become fixated on a young woman and a maid at a country inn run by a retired couple.
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" The "elder brother" has left and forgotten "his homeland," while the Kong Po is the land of snake-monk Nagarjuna who left the "center" to pursue a philosophy of śunyata, or metaphysical "emptiness.
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The private Jack Whitten, the sculptor, allowed himself to be a wanderer with no set destination, improvising with the random objects around him and imbuing them with personal, sentimental, historical, and metaphysical meaning.
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But Hodor's end combined the visceral spectacle of him being torn to shreds by ice skeletons with a series of dizzying metaphysical questions about whether he had chosen to sacrifice himself at all.
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But had Sam not been given this metaphysical opportunity to right her wrongs, had she never been in a car accident, she'd just keep being mean — and probably having a blast doing so.
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So what is it that drove these astronauts—many who are engineers, physicists, and analytic thinkers—away from science and to the metaphysical; and sometimes to what many may consider more fringe ideas?
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She invites them all to her wedding without Donna's knowledge, hoping that being in their proximity will cause some metaphysical epiphany about which one of them supplied the sperm that fertilized Donna's egg.
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In her second book, " Duende " (2007), the Smith who danced freely within the sphere of place and history is undone by the real and metaphysical responsibilities of the erotic life she has chosen.
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He sticks to the visual and psychological conventions of war-movie naturalism in order to expose their limitations, and also to find metaphor, magic and metaphysical terror in the midst of grim realities.
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Marjorie Prime director Michael Almereyda's metaphysical portrait of the psychologist behind the boundary-breaking "Obedience to Authority" experiments of the 1960s is like a combination of a historical drama and an experimental film.
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Our metaphysical spirit quest began after local news reported that a Wyoming woman named Divel McLean said her Dorothy Lynch brand dressing exploded when she was preparing a meal at a friend's house.
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I wanted to create a film that made you feel that same sense of spectacle, but also establish a feeling of transformation, that you're reaching into some metaphysical space, and contacting evil spirits.
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He was the one who freed humanity from servitude to God, and God, reacting like the loving patriarch "He" is, cast humanity out from his metaphysical playroom and into the world of matter.
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Innocence and guilt are legal (and also metaphysical) standards, but when we talk about the behavior of artists and our feelings about them, we are inevitably dealing with much messier, murkier, subjective issues.
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At the opening, he acknowledged that it sometimes takes several tries to get the right kind of conversational arc — not every customer service representative indulges in metaphysical philosophizing, but some are surprisingly sympathetic.
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He is not, although by the time McBride is swimming through a watery tunnel toward a rebirth — complete with a portentous, symbolic umbilical cord — the film is en route to a metaphysical collapse.
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They include Alison Blickle, Max Maslansky, and the metaphysical mystic known as L. Gray also founded the "Energetic Residency," a meditation and art studio above the garage for performances, sound baths, and workshops.
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The Chief Justice probably wasn't making a metaphysical point—but the philosophers Andy Clark and David Chalmers were when they argued in 'The Extended Mind' (1998) that technology is actually part of us.
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Its ornamental splendor charms the eye and also fulfills a beneficial metaphysical purpose by suggesting a dangling sense of continuance free from pressing urgency through the use of cloisonné enameling and hanging beads.
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For three days, his Holiness moderated sessions on weighty metaphysical topics such as the criteria for valid reasoning, the fundamental constituents of the universe, origins of life and the subjective experience of the mind.
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Read These Stories Next:Marion Cotillard Has A Test For Brad Pitt In This Exclusive Allied ClipDear Johnny Depp: I Don't Need You In My Life AnymoreWhy I Had A Metaphysical Crisis While Watching Arrival
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Set in a post-apocalyptic world, a student named K journeys to the capital of the Holy Empire to take The Sacred Examination, which will qualify him for metaphysical research service in the court.
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What if the gatekeepers read it and saw it as arrogant, me stepping out of place, writing about metaphysical selves as if I had the creative freedom of a white writer in this industry?
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To get a better sense of what witches really do, we chatted with real-life witch Melissa Madara, owner of Catland, a metaphysical boutique in Brooklyn, to clear up a few myths about witchcraft.
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The ritual sacrifice of so many children certainly seems barbaric—and it's unquestionably horrific—but the civilization involved, the Chimú people of Peru, were likely working in accordance with their spiritual and metaphysical beliefs.
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This aspect of season 6 has always been total hokum, especially since Locke's bald metaphysical awfulness made him seem more and more like an America's Got Talent contestant impersonating Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now.
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And so, considering the almost metaphysical turn our conversation has taken, I can't help asking them... Do you feel like writing music is a spiritual process, or is that me projecting it onto you?
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But in 2016, decades after Lessons of Darkness was completed and on social media instead of in a darkened arthouse theatre, the void spits out something other than deep, metaphysical understanding about human nature.
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The Flag and the anthem and what they symbolize transcend the policies or actions of any president; concomitantly, no president has that much metaphysical power to irrevocably establish the moral meaning of a country.
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The most talked-about element, though, is likely to be Ramon's strange visions, which point to a possibly metaphysical connection with his psychiatrist (Peter Macdissi), a family man dealing with his own personal issues.
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Since her introduction in November 2014, Alexa has neither devolved into the malevolent intelligence predicted by Arthur C. Clarke nor ascended to the metaphysical eroticism promised by Spike Jonze (by way of Scarlett Johansson).
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"There's a metaphysical thread, sure, but, really, the works are more experiential, in referencing the actual needs and wants of the body — which I think women may be more in tune with," Finn says.
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Taking place in parts in a desert in an "indistinct future" as well as in Arizona's Petrified Forest, for which the novel is named, Atkinson crafts static spaces in the midst of metaphysical transition.
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The history that Mokyr details can be seen as a story of gradually decreased metaphysical illusion, with ineffable spirit being driven, by turns, out of the cosmos, the biological tree, and the human mind.
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Eileen Chen is a scholar of folk religion who has been fascinated and nervous about the metaphysical world since she was a child in Hong Kong, exposed to her grandmother's enigmatic work as a shaman.
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Adding in the metaphysical aspect, we are working with tantric principals of moving energy to not only feel more pleasure, but to remove emotional blocks stored in our bodies physically or in our auric fields.
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Like Clarice Lispector's novel that audaciously takes an unexpected turn — the character struggling to reconcile her metaphysical yearnings with her physical presence — Rattlesnake Bells in the Desert does not default to a simplified, monolinear narrative.
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It's a science fiction story that reexamines the Cold War spy thriller genre, where instead of the Berlin Wall being a physical construct, it's a metaphysical one: the Crossing, a rift between two parallel dimensions.
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Mr. Egan once again offered his particular brand of metaphysical counsel: It is all about what you can see (a stunning view) and what you cannot see (meaning that I should ignore the trail's hazards).
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FaithInvest is now planning a meeting in Hong Kong where leaders and prominent practitioners of Asian belief systems (including Hindus, Buddhists, Taoists and Confucians) will be invited to turn their metaphysical beliefs into ecological practice.
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It had been almost two years since Jana had spoken to her mother (a lazy abstention, no grudge in particular), but she felt sure she would know in some metaphysical way if Catherine were dead.
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Adams' site revealed that after her aunt passed away in 2003, she quit modeling full time and dedicated her time to writing and running GODDESSY, a New Age company that offered astrology and metaphysical books.
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With quality contributions from yacht-rock veterans Michael McDonald and Kenny Loggins, the bassist and musical virtuoso Thundercat's "Show You The Way" brings deceptively cheery instrumentation to a metaphysical exploration of the lightness in darkness.
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The paragraph concludes with a typical metaphysical twist, with the narrator stating that, in addition to being a father and husband, he is a "much published and much renowned poet" in a fantasyland called Helvetia.
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Since coming into his own as a podcaster, Holmes has created a space where comedians, physicists, spiritual gurus, and musicians can open up about weighty, metaphysical concepts and reveal insights into who they fundamentally are.
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December 11 — 25% off a monthly subscription to My First Reading Club See Details The last box in the sale is a metaphysical jewelry subscription from the people behind the popular monthly Moon Box subscription.
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" The book nods to Walker Percy's "The Moviegoer," though Henry's despair is not spiritual alienation but "metaphysical dislocation," a melancholy brought on by being "another among legions of puny figurines in the vast synthetic exhibit.
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And the film does take seriously its role as a sort of metaphysical sci-fi — in the vein of a movie like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind — which is, at its core, always ethical.
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Frye helped her secure a fellowship at Harvard, where, in the sixties, she began to write a doctoral thesis on what she called the "English Metaphysical Romance"—the gothic fantasy novels of the nineteenth century.
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Steps toward deepening that Saturnian commitment can be taken when action planet Mars makes a gentle connection with Saturn on Tuesday afternoon, creating the opportunity for you to enrich your relationships on a metaphysical level.
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Noah Pritzker's small, sour debut film, "Quitters," is steeped in the metaphysical malaise of its main character, Clark Rayman (Ben Konigsberg), an arrogant San Francisco teenager and budding Iago from an upper-middle-class family.
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Tessa Thompson and Lakeith Stanfield star in "Sorry to Bother You" (July 6), a metaphysical comedy, directed by Boots Riley, about telemarketers endowed with supernatural powers; Armie Hammer, Terry Crews, and Danny Glover co-star.
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Belief systems — be they based in religious, astrological, metaphysical, or deeply personal rituals — are coping mechanisms, helping to guide us through a world that feels, at times, full of forces beyond our control or comprehension.
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In King's novel, it's the orgy that seals the bonds of the Losers' Club, with Beverly's sexuality functioning as a kind of metaphysical glue binding the members to each other and to their future selves.
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The metaphysical answer is that the fantasy genre, in many of its most successful manifestations, depicts worlds caught between enchantment and disenchantment, between a magic-infused or god-touched premodernity and an emerging secular dispensation.
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And ultimately, if you read widely enough, it becomes clear that the genre rewards the combination of the two purposes, the successful integration of the political and the metaphysical in a single world-building complex.
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She also ventures into outer space — with Robert Pattinson, André Benjamin and a very cute baby — in Ms. Denis's "High Life," a mind-bending science-fiction allegory elegantly accoutered with sex, violence and metaphysical speculation.
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At one point in his career, Gagnier worked on his forms from both the inside and outside, suggesting that he wanted to inhabit his figures, to become, in some metaphysical sense, one with their bodies.
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"It's a blasphemous blood bath, a metaphysical action caper, stylized and splattery, that doesn't have great depth but makes up for it with volume," James Poniewozik wrote in his review for The New York Times.
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And looking at Joel and Ethan's work, and seeing those elements that give it this metaphysical quality — you talk to Javier Bardem, and he says he wasn't even playing a human being in his mind.
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Imagining a future in which humans are spread out on inter-connected planets, the collection was grouped around the different cultures on our new hypothetical homes, and the individual environmental and metaphysical challenges they face.
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The director Joel Potrykus specializes in monomaniacal loners on the wrong end of luck, and his third feature, "The Alchemist Cookbook" (June 16), which premièred in March, at South by Southwest, gives obsession metaphysical dimensions.
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In the first quarter of the book I was held back from investing too much in the story because it seemed as if the metaphysical rug was about to be pulled out from under us.
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Here, the taller walls seem to rise in the herky-jerky rhythms of the city's skyline, evoking the New York paintings of Piet Mondrian as well as the Metaphysical street scenes of Giorgio de Chirico.
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What he's trying to do is carve out a space in which these questions can be addressed in secular terms, or to replicate the things that religion does well outside of organized religion or metaphysical commitment.
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After a lot of emotional and metaphysical hand-writing, these two lines converge for a bizarre twist that raises profound questions of morality, all of which the filmmakers ignore for a paradoxically saccharine and morbid climax.
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"This has a certain metaphysical element to it — that we are living in the 'right here right now,' but then our lives will be over and all that's left is what we stood for," he shares.
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In the place of the Tahanis (Jameela Jamil) and Oscars (Fred Armisen) of the TV world, it's the ridiculously charming and lovable Alan (imminent internet bae Charlie Barnett) who ends up entangled in Nadia's metaphysical growth.
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In an age when blasphemy laws are horribly abused in many countries, and regimes like those of China, Iran and Turkmenistan deal brutally with dissent in metaphysical matters, that is not just a question for bureaucrats.
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We spoke over the phone after he'd just successfully defended his thesis, which uses set theory and probability to argue against the traditional metaphysical convention that the world is simple and is in fact extremely complex.
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The explanation is that he is able to walk in his visions, which we've previously seen in bits and pieces but will be more substantial this year, as Bran comes into his own as metaphysical force.
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In ways that Louis Menand explored in his book " The Metaphysical Club ," it left a generation stripped of the appetite for more war-making and even (as Menand has argued) of any confidence in moral absolutism.
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The common thread linking the podcasters' interest in evolutionary psychology and their metaphysical dabbling is the quest to transcend the ego, and to overcome the idea that we are personally aggrieved by enemies wholly unlike ourselves.
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When the departed are temporarily allowed into the land of the living during the Day of the Dead, Miguel finds himself between both metaphysical worlds, on a journey to uncover his musical potential and familial roots.
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As the title of "Ghostbox Cowboy" indicates, the unpopulated metropolises built by China's government have a metaphoric affinity with this unusual movie — a scary, dryly funny dissection of entrepreneurial absurdism bleeding into existential and metaphysical despair.
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Written by Isa Mazzei, a former sex worker, the film imagines the tech-driven metaphysical horror of a webcam girl (Madeline Brewer) whose online persona locks her out of her own site and takes it over.
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The rest is a fevered mishmash of spiritual and supernatural nonsense that feels like a trap of another kind, a metaphysical zone defined by arbitrary laws and by characters who are constantly screaming each other's names.
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However, we ultimately concluded that if we granted you immortality on these terms we would have to spare everyone whose parents told them this, which would create an insurmountable logistical and metaphysical problem for our systems.
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The objective aspects of Catholic teaching on marriage — the supernatural reality of the first marriage, the metaphysical reality of sin and absolution, the sacramental reality of the eucharist itself — do not just recede; they essentially disappear.
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But as new businesses have come in, some of the old ones, like Controversial Bookstore, a metaphysical book shop on University Avenue, and several family-owned hardware and liquor stores, have been able to hold on.
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But the most recent performance took on a more metaphysical tone, reflecting the struggles of an idyllic but threatened little place, where dusty country roads dissect golden fields, but a declining populace questions its very survival.
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Abrams is too slick and shallow a filmmaker to endow the dramas of repression and insurgency, of family fate and individual destiny, of solidarity and the will to power, with their full moral and metaphysical weight.
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China's pledge that it won't allow war and chaos on its doorstep sounds like a metaphysical musing in the presence of hostile military forces conducting live fire operations, nuclear tests and missile launches over sovereign nations.
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At different points in the book, Cardona uses the word "across" as a noun, to describe the country across the border—Mexico—but also, it seems, the metaphysical realm of pure transgression in which he resides.
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By casting her psychological portrait of the prophet under the auspices of the Prague writer, Zornberg ushers the reader into the sinuous, metaphysical angst of a man facing the divine and the elusive meaning of life.
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"There was nothing metaphysical about what I did," he said in "Keeping Time: The Photographs of Don Hunstein" (2013), a career retrospective written by Jon Pareles, the chief pop music critic of The New York Times.
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What's more, Buddhism's non-dualistic metaphysical notion that everything has inherent "Buddha nature" — that all beings have the potential to become enlightened — may predispose its adherents to be receptive to spiritual guidance that comes from technology.
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He lays out the case that Islam as a set of metaphysical beliefs and ethical norms can flourish, in America and elswhere, under the principle of church-state separation which was dear to the Founding Fathers.
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Furious and darkly funny, it's a tight, explosive encapsulation of our very specific moment in history, and one that brings both the physical and metaphysical into the picture as it considers what could be the future.
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The content of these discourses is variously metaphysical, ethical, literary and romantic, but what makes them worth attending to is less what is said than the unspoken currents of meaning and feeling that Ceylan's camera captures.
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Sironi's netherworld, rendered in Klieg-light chiaroscuros of chalky whites and sooty blacks, never settles into a single stylistic camp despite the overriding influence of Metaphysical Art, tapping Cubism, Futurism, and Expressionism for its disquieting visions.
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By channeling the universal themes of life and death, Adam Fuss Daguerreotypes & The Womb of the Pre-Raphaelite Imagination explores the metaphysical side of mortality, where inherent and timeless symbolism is captured by early photographic techniques.
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The first reference to this geographic/metaphysical/mysterious location comes at the start of the season premiere, when Karl Strand (Gustaf Skarsgard), Bernard (Jeffrey Wright), and Delos employees extract the memories of a deceased American Indian host.
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" Peter Tatchell, a gay-rights veteran who defends the liberty even of religious conservatives, finds that advancing metaphysical ideas is generally unhindered in his home country, Britain, "apart from the occasional over-zealous arrest of bigoted preachers.
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Various justifications have been offered, from lists of the practical benefits of past discoveries that seemed useless when they were made, to the metaphysical notion that the better we understand our universe, the better we understand ourselves.
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Virtue is a long, tranquil soak in the tub on a Sunday morning, a cleansing both physical and metaphysical, enveloping yourself in ribbons of color from your favorite bath bomb while Chopin plays softly in the background.
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Based in New York City's Greenwich Village, Doctor Strange must act as an intermediary between the real world and what lies beyond, utilizing a vast array of metaphysical abilities and artifacts to protect the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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The metaphysical gymnastics required to become Steve Bannon have little to do with any commitment to a set of ideas, and a lot to do with making oneself a figure about whom a movie could be made.
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In her practice, clients choose cards based on what she calls "the law of attraction," finding themselves drawn to those they are destined to choose due to metaphysical forces that couldn't easily be distilled into an app.
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Dancers in Schlemmer's rigid, voluminous, geometric costumes became living sculptures moving mathematically, like marionettes, over fields of color — a plastic metaphysical vision that would haunt the performance art of Robert Wilson, David Bowie, Lady Gaga and others.
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Sports of The Times RIO DE JANEIRO — A thousand metaphysical miles from the well-heeled Olympic zone, a couple of activists and I entered the Favela do Mandela, a ramshackle collection of brick-and-tar-paper buildings.
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You might engage with them as actors in the narrative; the house, we discover, is occupied by a family seeking metaphysical truth, and who in the process has created a dimensional rift, opening portals to otherworldly dimensions.
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These dangerous games finally came to an end in Thursday night's Season 3 finale, in which Ambrose, played by Bill Pullman, shot Jamie because he was a metaphysical threat — quoting Jung, talking about the unconscious, questioning fate.
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We'd be foolish to believe that any drug is the magic fix that will once and for all end the metaphysical conundrum of experiencing fear, sadness, anger and despair during the most vulnerable time of our lives.
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We expect the titles of children's classics to be deliberately intriguing, marked by an unexpected metaphysical juxtaposition — a witch meets a wardrobe — or at least to suggest an intriguing concept, time wrinkling or a philosopher's stone sought.
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On a sunny cold New Year's Day here in New York, the piercing light and the sharp air can serve as a metaphorical — and metaphysical — reproach, even if you're stone cold sober; it's not desirable hangover weather.
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Any answer that does not take seriously that for faithful Catholics, the doctrine being debated is a matter of weighty metaphysical truth, not just politics or optics, fails to appreciate the gravity of the question being asked.
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Hers is a written universe of climbing, self-clinging ideas that manifest as the plants and animals accompanying the solitary female alchemist (a recurring theme in Varo's oeuvre), on the lookout for higher understandings of the metaphysical.
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The film doesn't have an official rating, but I'd give it a PG-13 for awkward sex, the theft of a corpse, dramatically easy gun violence, and metaphysical theory that shouldn't be allowed to escape from AP Philosophy.
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These jars, and others like them in India and Indonesia, are suggestive of a complex set of burial practices involving various stages of decomposition, which ancient peoples may have associated with various spiritual or metaphysical phases of death.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads On Sunday, October 000, 2016, in the Bronx, Betty Blayton-Taylor, an unsung figure in the art world, quietly transitioned into the spiritual cosmos she often conjured in her abstract metaphysical work.
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The ex-prime minister's faith is also the subject of an essay published this week by Theos, a London-based religious think-tank; as part of a series of essays on heads of governments and their metaphysical beliefs.
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This complaint is so trivial as to be laughable; the fees are microscopic compared with the outrageous costs and destructiveness of renewable power, even if we agree for discussion purposes that they are "excessive" in some metaphysical sense.
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When an argument for higher purpose is put this way — that is, when it doesn't involve the phrase "higher purpose" and, further, is cast more as a technological scenario than a metaphysical one — it is considered intellectually respectable.
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You have to look past the violence and jokes to notice, for example, that moment in "Three Billboards" when Frances McDormand's character, shattered by the murder of her daughter, engages a deer in metaphysical conversation: Still no arrests.
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If the filmmaker Charlie Kaufman, best known for scripting metaphysical puzzle films like "Being John Malkovich" and "Eternal Sunshine Of the Spotless Mind" were to try his hand at a Young Adult story, "Every Day" might be it.
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In 1966, during a two-month visit to New York City, Venet's metaphysical and metaphorical nihilism was deepened by his encounter with American puritanical Minimalism, and he consequently incorporated it into his "just-the facts-ma'am" reductive style.
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For Martin Heidegger, the will to power was the last gasp of metaphysics—an attempt to capture the "basic character of all beings," which Heidegger wishes to supplant with his post-metaphysical idea of being-in-the-world.
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" Here is another stretch of prose that put my teeth on edge: After a particularly metaphysical set of musings, Carson smiles and apologizes "for waxing philosophical, which is one of the lesser vices, and a habit that Mrs.
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The problems with the point system quickly became apparent, a pattern that repeated itself over and over, onscreen and off, as the writing staff wrestled with both the story and their own notions about ethics and metaphysical reward.
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This interconnectivity becomes the central conceit of the Dark Tower, which explicitly links most of King's stories together in one vast multiverse and explains that there are metaphysical doors between the worlds that allow all this to happen.
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These idiosyncratic imaginings encompass a compact overview of Carrà's Metaphysical output, the movement's most salient body of work other than that of de Chirico and his polymath brother, Alberto Savinio, the subject of last season's exhibition at CIMA.
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In metaphysical terms, says Mr Palmer, Ms Tennant was closer to Pelagius than to Calvin: in other words she refused to believe in man's incorrigible wickedness and felt that humans had the capacity to take action to save themselves.
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AMONG conservative Americans, a school of conventional wisdom holds that Christianity in Europe is rapidly heading for extinction, as the historic faith is supplanted by secularism, Islam or just a lazy-minded lack of concern for all things metaphysical.
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Complete with idealistic rhetoric, eager platitudes to resolve any political conflict, a grin on his face and hope in his heart, and mindboggling metaphysical ambition, the Maryland rapper has cemented his reputation as hip-hop's leading self-help guru.
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Such figures had stoked his interest in "power objects"— sculptures that, in some religious cultures, are thought to have special metaphysical significance, with the power to ward off danger for those who made them, or visit it upon others.
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Despite the series heading, Lock's novel engages not merely with his American antecedents but with decadent fin de siècle art and modernist literature that raised philosophical and moral questions about the metaphysical relations among art, science and human consciousness.
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Her concern with this connection can be understood as a philosophical rumination on the mind-body problem as well as a metaphysical inquiry into the relationship between essence and existence, as explored by the Persian philosopher and physician Avicenna.
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But on their next film collaboration, the metaphysical science-fiction thriller "Altered States," Mr. Gottfried could not spare Mr. Chayefsky from the wrath of its director, Ken Russell, who had been brought into the production to replace Arthur Penn.
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On a track called "Poetry," Q-Tip's lyric, sinewy and self-referential, leads to a smartly realized trumpet dialogue (Hargrove, overdubbed), which in turn leads to the gently beat-tripping final section, featuring a lovely metaphysical hook by Badu.
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A man of impending middle age identified as Son (the longtime Wooster Group member Ari Fliakos) stands in a white bedroom (Marsha Ginsberg's set gently suggests a transitional area between home, hospital and some kind of metaphysical limbo state).
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Her performance as a stripper who just wanted to get even had a metaphysical edge to it as Lopez, herself an underdog as an actress and a musician, finally got the credit she's been fighting for her entire career.
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When he published his autobiography last year, after so many metaphysical meanderings, he titled it "The Lost Traveller's Dream," a nod to the poet William Blake's reference to wanderers in the wilderness seeking to distinguish between good and evil.
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They arrive expecting nonstop, penetrating metaphysical conversations with wise elderly people and instead just wind up plying them for recipes or knitting advice or watching "Wheel of Fortune" with them or restocking latex gloves for the Guest House nurses.
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Many communities, including the Muiná-Muruí in the Colombian Amazon (who are also present in the film), have reclaimed to grow and use the plant, anchored in metaphysical practices that have existed since before the arrival of the Spanish.
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I learned that the prosperity gospel sprang, in part, from the American metaphysical tradition of New Thought, a late-19th-century ripening of ideas about the power of the mind: Positive thoughts yielded positive circumstances, and negative thoughts negative circumstances.
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Instead of the usual drunken art world brawl, we were entering into deep rapport with friends and strangers, exchanging metaphysical insights about the nature of the world, and expounding detached, trance-like comments about the down sides of ordinary reality.
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It was a season that featured arguably The Good Place's best episode ever (the wildly conceptual "Janet(s)") but also one that spent a lot of time on Earth trying to make some of its more metaphysical plotting mean something.
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"It's toying with a lot of new things like parallel universes and kind of philosophical ideas and working on a deeper level ... the metaphysical is just a whole new world that's opened up for Marvel," co-star Rachel McAdams said.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads LOS ANGELES — The title of the CalArts 2018 MFA show, Rattlesnake Bells in the Desert, curated by Daniela Lieja Quintanar, is lifted from Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector's metaphysical novel, The Passion According to G.H. (1964).
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" Since it's more or less impossible to glean takeaways about virtues and values from the text, Coward wrote, "Perhaps we should see Les Liaisons dangereuses less as a metaphysical tale of evil than as a practical fable about winning and losing.
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On the other hand, the emergence of "spiritual but not religious" as an ever more popular metaphysical stance means that lots of people now admit to not knowing much about any of the Abrahamic faiths, either their differences or commonalities.
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Omens of menacing times could also be gleaned from Metaphysical Masterpieces 1916–1920: Morandi, Sironi, and Carrà at the Center for Italian Modern Art, an exhibition of paintings completed just before the Fascist takeover of the Italian government in 1922.
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Instead, he organises his book around seven themes, of which the other six are satire aimed at Jewish norms; bookish and allusive wordplay; vulgarity and the body; mordant metaphysical irony; the folksy quotidian Jew; and the ambiguous nature of Jewishness.
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