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moment and vision
As it was, his vision blurred and for a moment he was unable to move.
Precisely at the moment when it has lost its vision the mind of the community turns out from itself in a search for the ontological standard whereby it can measure itself.
Now he knew that the moment illuminated by the vision on the train would have to be approached.
At this moment he was unfortunately called out by a person on business from Porlock, and detained by him above an hour, and on his return to his room, found, to his no small surprise and mortification, that though he still retained some vague and dim recollection of the general purport of the vision, yet, with the exception of some eight or ten scattered lines and images, all the rest had passed away like the images on the surface of a stream into which a stone had been cast, but, alas!
The passage continues with a famous account of an interruption: " At this moment he was unfortunately called out by a person on business from Porlock, and detained by him above an hour, and on his return to his room, found, to his no small surprise and mortification, that though he still retained some vague and dim recollection of the general purpose of the vision, yet, with the exception of some eight or ten scattered lines and images, all the rest had passed away like the images on the surface of a stream into which a stone has been cast, but, alas!
This vision, defended by some historians, who even named this phase of the history of the Asturian kingdom as that of the " lazy kings ," originated because it appears that in that moment there were no important military actions against Al-Andalus.
She has a vision of the cave in that moment, and it turns out that Adela had, while in the cave, received a shock similar to Mrs. Moore's.
Stieglitz, who had worked so long for this moment, responded by indicating he was already thinking of a new vision beyond pictorialism.
After some time Narada experienced a vision wherein Narayan ( Vishnu ) appeared before him, smiling, and spoke " that despite having the blessing of seeing him at that very moment, Narada would not be able to see his ( Vishnu's ) divine form again until he died ".
Emphasizing that joy is only available in the present moment, his stated vision is to create a world free of stress and violence.
The field of view ( also field of vision, abbreviated FOV ) is the extent of the observable world that is seen at any given moment.
At that moment, he said his tongue was loosed and he saw a vision.
Moments of vision may come from simple natural effects, as Pater notes elsewhere in the book: " A sudden light transfigures a trivial thing, a weathervane, a windmill, a winnowing flail, the dust in the barn door ; a moment – and the thing has vanished, because it was pure effect ; but it leaves a relish behind it, a longing that the accident may happen again.
Jones was courted by the major labels, and chose Waronker because of his work with Randy Newman, and because, she said, she had a vision of standing in his office the moment she saw his name on the back of Newman's Sail Away album.
In the twelfth century, Bernard of Clairvaux spoke of Comgall and Bangor, stating,the solemnization of divine offices was kept up by companies, who relieved each other in succession, so that not for one moment day and night was there an intermission of their devotions .” This continuous singing was antiphonal in nature, based on the call and response reminiscent of Patrick ’ s vision, but also practiced by St. Martin ’ s houses in Gaul.
On the way down, a vision of Zeena's face makes Ethan try to turn aside at the last moment, but he recovers and hits the elm tree.
A vision of Unit 01, with much of its armor missing, ( the real Unit 01 is at that moment within the Tree of Life, and still fully armored ) is seen holding Gendo in much the same manner as Kaworu in Episode 24.
On January 15, 1951, during seated meditation by Lake Lagunita at Stanford, he experienced what he describes as a " hinge moment ", after which he dropped out of the pre-med program with a new vision for the purpose of his life.
The statues depict a moment described by Saint Teresa of Avila in her autobiography, where she had the vivid vision of an angel piercing her heart with a golden shaft, causing her both immense joy and pain.
According to the theory of persistence of vision, the perceptual processes of the brain and the retina of the human eye retain an image for a brief moment of time.
" Vionnet was not concerned with being the " designer of the moment ", preferring to remain true to her own vision of female beauty.
Some like dispensational premillennialism tend more toward an apocalyptic vision, while others like postmillennialism and amillennialism, while teaching that the end of the world could come at any moment, tend to focus on the present life and contend that one should not attempt to predict when the end should come, though there have been exceptions such as postmillennialist Jonathan Edwards, who attempted to calculate the precise timing of the end times.
She constantly expects to lose her vision at any moment, yet somehow she is the only person immune to the contagion of blindness.
Indeed, the Commune's vision of a communal France based on a federation of delegates bound by imperative mandates issued by their electors and subject to recall at any moment echoes Bakunin's and Proudhon's ideas ( Proudhon, like Bakunin, had argued in favour of the " implementation of the binding mandate " in 1848 ... and for federation of communes ).

moment and Adam
The result of us relying and living our life according to our own understanding is that, from that moment ( the eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil ) on, we are to rationally consider what to believe and filter with our natural understanding, rather than accepting what is good directly in our will, which was depicted of the Most Ancient people by Adam.
Thus Calvin argued that Jesus was exempt from original sin because he was sanctified at the moment of birth so that his generation was without blemish ; as generation has been blemishless before the fall of Adam.
Kapuściński claimed, in response to a question posed by Adam Michnik, that his attitude to Communism changed early on, " the decisive moment having come in the year 1956 " ( presumably a reference to the events of Poznań June and the process of de-Stalinisation brought about by the Thaw of Gomułka, and the Hungarian Uprising ), although he remained a loyal member of the Party until December 1981 and never spoke out against it afterwards, including during the period of the Third Republic following the Party's self-dissolution in January 1990.
Adam Phillips suggests that ' the radical nature of Freud's project is clear if one imagines what it would be like to live in a world in which everyone was able-had the capacity-to free-associate, to say whatever came into their mind at any given moment ... like a collage '.
Baruch also learns of a pre-immanent heavenly Temple: “ Temple was already prepared from the moment I decided to create paradise .” And I showed it to Adam before he sinned .” ( 2 Baruch 4: 3 ).
In the turbulence of the moment Sunson Naa Adam, younger brother of Karaga Naa Ziblim, defied the Ya Naa and moved to Karaga to occupy the vacant skin before Naa Andani could get to Karaga.
From that moment on, Adam II continues to have night terrors until they become visions and he starts having them when he's wide awake, losing control of his actions.
The left panel ( 220 × 97. 5 cm, 87 × 38. 4 in ) ( sometimes known as the Joining of Adam and Eve ) depicts a scene from the paradise of the Garden of Eden commonly interpreted as the moment when God presents Eve to Adam.
They shake hands, during which Adam holds a moment too long only to tell the agent, " You're a good man, Agent Hull.
Holland paid a visit to Paris in 1787 this is thought to have been in connection with his design of the interiors at Carlton House, from this moment on his interior work owed less to the Adam style and more to contemporary French taste.
The Silence referred to is the climax moment of contemplation in ascension, where the soul resides in the third and highest realm within Barbelo, at which point the descension back to the first realm where Adam and Seth reside begins, blessing the other realms on the way down.
Hugh Jackman emphasized the importance of the Fall in the film: " The moment Adam and Eve ate of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, humans started to experience life as we all experience it now, which is life and death, poor and wealthy, pain and pleasure, good and evil.

moment and heard
Ensign Vesole decided that he would not tarry until he heard the whispering of the bombs, and when night began to fall, he put Seaman 2/c Donald L. Norton and Seaman 1/c William A. Rochford on the guns and told them to start shooting the moment they saw an enemy silhouette.
For bicameral humans, when habit did not suffice to handle novel stimuli and stress rose at the moment of decision, neural activity in the " dominant " ( left ) hemisphere was modulated by auditory verbal hallucinations originating in the so-called " silent " ( right ) hemisphere ( particularly the right temporal cortex ), which were heard as the voice of a chieftain or god and immediately obeyed.
" His maternal grandmother, who had suggested his birth name of Samuel, also came up with his nickname: " heard the name on a soap opera she liked and decided from that moment on he would be Mikey.
: Can it be supposed that the moment the electors are allowed a freedom of choice they will immediately be seized with a desire to vote for some distant candidate with whom they are unacquainted, rather than for those whom they know – who are near to them, whose speeches they have heard and who have personal recommendations to the favour and respect of the town and neighbourhood.
Dennis later described the first time Brian heard their song on the radio as the three Wilson brothers ( and soon-to-be-band member David Marks ) drove in Brian's 1957 Ford in the rain: " Nothing will ever top the expression on Brian's face, ever ... THAT was the all-time moment.
Reporters heard soon after of the coincidental blackout of Concrete, and sent the story out over the international newswire and soon the town of Concrete was known ( if only for a moment ) worldwide.
" Aside from Larry, who had always commented on how talkative they were, this moment is the only time on the show that anyone has ever heard The Darryls say a word.
It was quite an amazing moment in my life and at some point after I heard my voice came out I felt like God was saying to me ' Donna, you're going to be very, very famous ' and I knew from that day on that I would be famous.
In Nadesico, seeing this scene is a major bonding moment between Akito and Gai, and it is seen and heard several times in the first few episodes.
A flashbulb memory is a highly detailed, exceptionally vivid ' snapshot ' of the moment and circumstances in which a piece of surprising and consequential ( or emotionally arousing ) news was heard.
He could not recall what happened prior to, or immediately following the news, yet reports an image fixed in his mind, in photographic form, of the exact moment in time that he heard of the assassination.
" Then he began singing, and the men, after listening a moment, joined in the chorus as if it were an old acquaintance, though they evidently had never heard it before.
The prelude to this moment can be heard on " The Good Old Days " from the Babyshambles Sessions, in which, after the lyric, " A list of things we said we'd do tomorrow ," Doherty yells ' Get a tattoo!
“ They will kill Benjamin ,” she reported her Uncle Silas saying, “ and then me, but I will do for at least one of them, by God .” At that moment, she said she heard whooping outside the fort, and then Indians were inside.
When he first heard of their coup, he exclaimed " this is the happiest moment of my life ", and he wrote that the Bolsheviks were the " expression of the most fundamental longing of the human soul ".
According to Al Clark, the creators of Priscilla heard about the film while shooting theirs, and " for a moment troubled " until they read the script of To Wong Foo, when they decided that it was sufficiently different to Priscilla to not be a commercial and critical threat.
According to a New York Times editorial, " For a moment that vast audience was lifted from partisan thoughts to heights from which it could have a glimpse of the promised land of peace .... Not only did Mr. Baker do his best, but he made one of the best and most moving speeches heard of late in any political meeting.
It is the same as when we accidentally hear a tune we may have heard at a stormy or an ecstatic moment in our lives, and find, to our surprise, that we are reexperiencing the emotion we felt then, feeling ecstasy again or rage and the impulse to kill.
These are always conducted with the utmost silence and secrecy till the moment of execution ; and when the workmen yield, as they sometimes do without resistance, though severely felt by them, they are never heard of by other people ".
At that moment the bell is struck very quietly ( pianissimo ) so that the striking itself is not heard, but only the reverberations as it dies away.
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At that very moment, she heard her name being called.
At the same moment, violent blows were struck upon the door ; all fell silent and turned toward the entrance ; furious voices could be heard distinctly:
At that moment he heard a crash outside and through the window saw a motor-cyclist dead on the road and his bloodstained passenger staggering up the path towards him.

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