As it was, his vision blurred and for a moment he was unable to move.

There was a blur just under my focus of vision, a crash ; ;

If the historian was convinced of his own correctness, then he should not allow his vision to become fogged by disturbing facts.

He could no longer build anything, whether a private residence in his Pennsylvania county or a church in Brazil, without it being obvious that he had done it, and while here and there he was taken to task for again developing the same airy technique, they were such fanciful and sometimes even playful buildings that the public felt assured by its sense of recognition after a time, a quality of authentic uniqueness about them, which, once established by an artist as his private vision, is no longer disputable as to its other values.

At the same time he watched carefully to see how one attached pegboards to stone walls, but Mr. Blatz was usually standing in his line of vision and it all seemed so simple that he didn't like to disclose his ignorance.

It seems clear, when one takes into consideration the exceedingly defective eyesight of the patient ( we shall describe it in detail in connection with our second question, the one concerning the psychical blindness of the patient ), that he had to rely on his sense of touch much more than the usual portfolio-maker and that consequently that faculty was most probably more sensitive to shape and size than that of a person with normal vision.

He was oblivious of the form of the object actually being viewed, precisely because he could not assign it to a visual shape, already learned and held in visual memory, as persons of normal vision do.

The `` belaboring '' is of course jocular, yet James was not lacking in fundamental seriousness -- unless we measure him by that ultimate seriousness of the great religious leader or thinker who stakes all on his vision of God.

It was said that he had had a vision.

As a consequence of his vision and audacity, there was now a land free from kings, a vast continent for new beginnings.

In 2008, psychology professor Benny Shanon published a controversial hypothesis that a brew analogous to Ayahuasca was heavily connected to early Judaism, and that the effects of this brew were responsible for some of the most significant events of Moses ' life, including his vision of the burning bush.

According to the Vita Ansgarii (" Life of Ansgar "), when the little boy learned in a vision that his mother was in the company of Saint Mary, his careless attitude toward spiritual matters changed to seriousness (" Life of Ansgar ", 1 ).

However, when Kirk's spectre appeared, Graham was apparently too shocked by the vision to throw the knife, and Kirk's ghost faded away forever.

The show's creators originally wanted Phil Silvers in the lead role of Pseudolus, but he turned them down, allegedly because he would have to perform onstage without his glasses, and his vision was so poor that he feared tripping into the orchestra pit.

Saint Anthony had been under the impression that he was the first person to ever dwell in the desert ; however, due to a vision, Saint Anthony was called into the desert to find his predecessor, Saint Paul.

After these events, Saint Anthony had a vision where the whole world was full of snares and traps.

However, for at least a century, some scholars have maintained that the description of Grendel ’ s lake in Beowulf was borrowed from St. Paul ’ s vision of Hell in Homily 16 of the Blickling homilies.

The vision was taken up by all four Gospels and applied to John the Baptist and Jesus, leading God's people out of exile.

" The author also states that he was on Patmos when he received his first vision:

The various dates given in the book suggest that Ezekiel was 25 when he went into exile, 30 when he received his prophetic " call ", and 52 at the time of the last vision c. 571.

The book of Obadiah is based on a prophetic vision concerning the fall of Edom, a mountain dwelling nation whose Founding Father was Esau.

And still others support the idea that the " book of vision " was written shortly before the fall of Nineveh at the hands of the Medes and Babylonians ( 612 BCE ).

William Gibson would later reveal that upon first viewing the film, he was surprised at how the look of this film matched his vision when he was working on Neuromancer.

This mentality created a vision on strongly defined gender roles, which led to the advancement of the free love movement.

Mendes considers the voice to be Ball's, but even while the writer was " strongly influential " on set, he often had to accept deviations from his vision, particularly ones that transformed the cynical tone of his script into something more optimistic.

Kolbe's life was strongly influenced by a childhood vision of the Virgin Mary that he later described:

" Brad DeLong strongly criticised Age of Extremes: " The remains of Hobsbawm's commitment to the religion of World Communism get in the way of his judgment, and twist his vision.

This mentality created a vision on strongly defined gender roles, which led to the advancement of the free love movement.

It is strongly implied that he will never hear Lews Therin voice again, as he accepts him as part of himself, and two are completely united-this may be the fulfillment of Min's vision that saw Rand merging with another man.

It also produced strongly dissonant scores in measures of community welfare, relating with interpersonal intelligence, clearly communicating vision, and building a sense of personal worth within the community.

The story climaxes with Ransom's vision of the essential truth of life in the Solar System, and possibly of the nature of God: strongly paralleling the journeys of Dante in the Divine Comedy.

Church's mission and vision is love for God and sharing the Gospel are strongly linked to patriotism ; emphasises both the spiritual kingdom and nation-building.

Alternative Green continued to promote Hunt's own vision of green anarchism, and due to his policy of publishing articles from across the political spectrum, Alternative Green was strongly attacked by many anarchists and socialists.

Her father's idiosyncratic vision had included a commitment to unlimited procreation, which she strongly rejected ; criticism of childbearing would become a major theme in her work.

The blue plumage also reflects ultraviolet light strongly, and so may be even more prominent to other fairywrens, whose colour vision extends into this part of the spectrum.

The party chose, almost by default, Robert Russell of St. Albert, a highly controversial figure who had been passed over twice, but who had a strong desire for the position, and who had strongly supported David Hunter's vision for the party.

Karl Marx's vision of a perfect worker's utopia was strongly influenced by both Cabet's idealism and by the proof of it as a working reality in Illinois and Iowa.

Benn was for a time strongly attracted to the Maoist vision of a peasant-led social revolution.

Many scholars identify Emerson as one of the first writers ( with others, notably Walt Whitman ) to develop a literary style and vision that is uniquely American, rather than following in the footsteps of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and others who were strongly influenced by their British cultural heritage.

* the Lisbon Strategy of the European Union, since it is strongly supported by the liberal parties, and sets out a vision of a future Europe.

The newly formed party was heavily influenced by Fascism and Corporatism ( but also included several elements interested solely in Nationalism or Ultramontanism ); it had a vision of social equality that drew comparisons with Marxism, but was strongly anti-communist ( anti-bolshevik ).

Still, the paper started a controversy in which Sloterdijk was strongly criticized, both for his apparent usage of a fascist rhetoric to promote Plato's vision of a government with absolute control over the population, and for committing a non-normative, simplistic reduction of the bioethical issue itself.

Though these two differ greatly in their general theological orientation ( the first is strongly Reformed and Neo-Calvinistic, the second is Charismatic ), they share a postmillennial vision in which the Kingdom of God will be established on Earth through political and ( in some cases ) military means.

Elements of his public policy were taken strongly to heart by the Swedish government, including his price-level targeting rule during the 1930s ( Jonung 1979 ), and also his vision of a welfare state.

He also argues that the eventual outcome strongly resembles Edward Bernays vision for the " Democracity " during the 1939 New York World's Fair.

However, Peter Davison strongly opposed this move because he felt that Nyssa was the companion who was " most suited to his vision of the Doctor.

Scholarly investigation into historical source documents has raised questions about whether Saint Simon Stock's vision actually happened, or if this tradition about him arose later, perhaps as a means of expressing in the form of a story, the strongly held Carmelite spiritual belief in the favor and protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary.