Word: timelessness
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...strange that this should be so, for there is a timeless quality about Marées' art that should win popularity in any age. Though he often drew and painted figures from ancient mythology, he did so out of respect for classical form and balance rather than in an effort to record again the long familiar heroics. He succumbed to none of the emotional excesses of his romantic contemporaries, and while he was always true to nature, he never became a slave to realism. To heighten mood, he sometimes painted his figures in green and orange-a practice that...
Much of Pins and Needles, however, is as timeless as good show music can be, and at its best Rome's 25-year-old sleeper is a match for any show album on the market. Certainly no album of the current season more tunelessly defines the Wallflower's Lament...
...problems Faulkner addresses in his novels are indeed universal problems, only coincidentally influenced by the exigencies of the moment. Like all great art, Faulkner's novels emerge from a sense of the timeless universe of unchanging human rather than from the dangerously ephemeral world of contemporary problems. Just as Faulkner locates the center of a writer's philosophical contribution in the writer's official statements of belief, he also recognizes the individual rather than society as the pivot of moral action. Harvard, product and producer of so many individuals of moral courage could have hardly desired a more honorable...
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Tillich defined eternity as the "trans-temporal unity of disrupted moments in time." "Timeless and endless temporality do not describe eternity," he explained, using Hegel's term of "bad infinity...