Word: transcendentalized
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As he worked on his 53rd and last film in 1963, Yasujiro Ozu may or may not have known that he was near death from cancer. But An Autumn Afternoon has a feeling of firm, final wisdom and of almost transcendent serenity. It is a quiet film, but not a...
Despite such criticisms, the differences between Eastern and Western spirituality may sometimes be more apparent than real, the assumed opposition more a matter of semantics than truth. At the root of both is man's continuing quest for the experience of the transcendent, which must work itself out among...
As for that condensed book, whether it is a designer's prank or decorator's slip, it neatly symbolizes the transcendent banality that is shot through the movie like a dose of glucose. Kahlil Gibran would sound like Wittgenstein next to the woozy wisdom dispensed here: "You'...
CRIES AND WHISPERS is Ingmar Bergman's examination of the anguish each human being undergoes when he first discovers that man has no defenses: that transcendent faith in an otherworldly God answers none of his urgent earthly needs; that a developing intellect may bring with it a ruthless hunt for...
Each of these characters represents a mode of action which is insufficient for sustenance in a world where simple faith has become impossible. Agnes is strangled by a faith which permits her no earthly satisfactions; Anna is supported by it, but Anna can exist only by serving others as a...