Word: fleshly
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Westerners often compare the Koran to the Bible, but as religion professors routinely explain, a closer Christian analogy is Christ himself, described in the opening of the Gospel of John as a divine expression ("In the beginning was the Word") subsequently made flesh. Like Christians regarding Christ, Muslims believe that the Koran was not created but has existed with God for all eternity. If "Jesus is God's revelation, and the meaning [to Christians] of that revelation unfolds in the events of his life as described in the Gospels," writes comparative religion expert F.E. Peters in his book The Monotheists...
...Scream is not about my individual nakedness—if it were, I might go to section nude—but about the collective experience. I could never have done eight for eight as a solitary runner, but only as one among many in a huddled mass of naked flesh...
This is pop music in the same sense that Broken Social Scene is, and in fact head Parader Adam Pierce has employed a Broken-esque collaborative ethos on this, his fifth release, bringing in buddies from groups such as HiM and The Dylan Group to flesh out the sound. The most notable contributions come from Kristin Anna Valtysdottir, usually found vocalizing for the Icelandic pop-sensations Icelanders múm, whose airy, breathy style here is truly creepy...
...novelist John le Carré says that he will never write again about George Smiley. Le Carré cannot think of Smiley anymore without seeing Alec Guinness. The actor stole the author's creation, hijacked it into flesh. One remembers that some primitive peoples feared being photographed because they thought the camera would make off with their souls. Mention George Smiley to anyone who knows Le Carré's spy novels and his memory will instantly throw onto its screen the image of Alec Guinness. Smiley will not be fat and smudgy looking, as the novelist imagined him. He will be simply, immutably...
...form of translation: the filmed flesh, the visible image, seems to have the advantage. Great movie characters do not often beat on the gates of prose, begging to be turned back into words. (Movies get "novelized" sometimes, of course, but novelization is merely a spin-off, like a doll or a T shirt.) Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind sold a million copies in its first seven months. After the movie appeared, Rhett Butler was irreversibly Clark Gable. Scarlett O'Hara was Vivien Leigh. Mitchell's prose withered to the irrelevance of an architect's blueprint after the house...