Word: timelessness
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Visiting museums where I could appreciate the dignity and beauty of timeless artworks has always been an uplifting emotional experience for me. I have always left museums feeling enriched and proud of what sensitive men and women can create from an empty canvas with paints and a brush, from unformed stone or wood with a chisel...
...dealing with sexual acts, the declaration never swerves from traditional natural-law theory, which holds that "immutable laws" written by God are part of human nature. The church has always transmitted these timeless principles, the declaration says, "however much the opinions and morals of the world may have been opposed to them...
HELPRIN HAS a striking ability to make the remote and unusual seem familiar and understandable, and, on the whole, his stories are most effective when he centers them around places and people which are geographically or simply ideologically distant. By means of the timeless themes of the human need for roots, for the security of family and culture, for the love of the land, he makes them seem a conceivable part of modern experience...
...best known of Jung's psychoanalytic heresies is his formulation of a collective unconscious−a timeless, unbounded level of awareness that exists outside history and culture. It is a kind of mother lode of mankind's mythologies and symbols, not rationally conceived but intuited through dreams and visions. A vast scholarship supported these theories. Whether or not one accepts them in the mystical sense, there is no denying the energy and intellect behind their authorship. Jung had the capacity to treat the universe as if it were an enormous crossword puzzle. Everything was interrelated; starting...
...scene--a graceful tracery of arching columns silhouetted against a deep blue sky spangled with constellations, with the sound of the waters of fountains playing gently in the background. Even the music, which all too often sounded like Masterpiece Theater fanfare, couldn't destroy the mood of timeless innocence...