Word: paradoxes
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...Crucified God by Jürgen Moltmann (Harper & Row, 1974). A leading German Protestant theologian probes the central Christian paradox, God's identification with man through Christ's suffering on the Cross...
...greatest paradox is that American influence in Israel actually carries over into the Arab world. For 25 years Egypt attempted militarily to extort demands from Israel. When that try failed, Egypt applied diplomatic pressures, forcing the Arabs into dealing with the U.S. to bargain concessions from Israel. Only through a commitment to Israel can the U.S. influence Arab policy...
Wealth! Its attainment is such a paradox! The bees were after it, and came to McKay's garden expecting it. But none of them ever became rich, because a fortuitous accident is required for that; hard work is never sufficient. Bees are not eligible for much in the way of wealth, in spite of their integrity. This was how McKay explained it to himself as he knotted...
Adams' photographs are too thoughtful and rigorous to be called nostalgic. But some of their poignancy comes from the paradox of their making. The replicated image and its mechanical multiplication of fact slowly wore down 19th century romanticism and moved irony to the center of modernist culture. The camera, as Critic Susan Sontag pointed out, makes us tourists, not just in Yosemite, but within all reality. With Adams, however, the camera became the romantic's last defense. There was no irony. What you felt?scrupulously and with great technical skill?is what...
...paintings since 1973, that hunger is palpable, and it takes nothing for granted. "To paint from life at this point of time," he argues, "demands both the transgression and the inclusion of doubt." Transgression, because any effort to depict something is a shot at certainty; inclusion, because the central paradox of realism is that representation can never be completed. There is always a level of detail below which paint cannot go. What makes the realist painting is not complete illusion, but intensity; and there is no in tensity without rules, limits and artifice...