While continuing his traditional neoclassical design practice Mies began to develop visionary projects that, though mostly unbuilt, rocketed him to fame as an architect capable of giving form that was in harmony with the spirit of the emerging modern society.

Adams, once a political visionary and now a man blind to the needs of his country, not only held fast to his notion of defending the monarchy but also made additional attempts to form similarly flawed Federation-like entities after that union's demise.

" Regarding his role as a public figure, Corgan has said, " My compulsion is to be a visionary mystic, and music has been of course my most successful form of communication, but I ’ ve also communicated through video, poetry, and just being a public pain in the rear.

The ordinance, adopted in its final form just before the writing of the United States Constitution, was a sweeping, visionary proposal to create what was at the time a radical experiment in democratic governance and economy.

Finally, he concluded: " Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk cemented Emperor's reputation as black metal's greatest band, and Ihsahn as its foremost musical visionary ; it also firmly established black metal as an art form that wasn't going away any time soon, and opened up a wide range of creative possibilities to the more progressive, eccentric wing of the genre.

Common complaints about the film were that little effort was put into getting the viewer to believe in the world, that few moments of the film could be taken seriously, and that Shyamalan was using the film as a form of self-indulgence ; instead of having a minor cameo, as in most of his films, Shyamalan cast himself as a visionary whose writing changes the world, and another character included a film critic — portrayed by actor Bob Balaban as arrogant, self-assured, and passive — who comes to a violent end.

Two currents remain evident in Has's output: one was his cinema of psychological analysis, the other his films of visionary form, in which he most often used the motif of a journey.

transl., The Divine Œconomy, 6 vols., London, 1713 ), which purports to reproduce the visionary notions of Antoinette Bourignon, but at least gives them in intelligible and consistent form.

Daydreaming is a short-term detachment from one's immediate surroundings, during which a person's contact with reality is blurred and partially substituted by a visionary fantasy, especially one of happy, pleasant thoughts, hopes or ambitions, imagined as coming to pass, and experienced while awake.

Sundar Singh's correspondence with the Swedish Lutheran bishop Nathan Söderblom in November 1928 further confirms that he claimed visionary contact with Swedenborg.

This story was later retold with more detail by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his fictionalized Historia Regum Britanniae, conflating the personage of Ambrosius with the Welsh tradition of Merlin the visionary, known for oracular utterances that foretold the coming victories of the native Celtic inhabitants of Britain over the Saxons and the Normans.

Scholars believe Ezekiel, with his blending of ceremony and vision, heavily influenced the visionary works of Zechariah 1-8.

Although the ultimate attainment for this type of mysticism is union with God, it is not necessarily visionary, nor does it hope only for ecstatic experiences ; instead, mystical life is successful if it is imbued with charity.

In addition, Hildegard influenced several monastic women of her time and the centuries that followed ; in particular, she engaged in correspondence with another nearby visionary, Elisabeth of Schönau.

It has a barbaric and oriental magnificence that asserts itself with a happy power and authenticity too often absent from visionary poems set within the Christian tradition.

Neuro-electronic interfacing is a visionary goal dealing with the construction of nanodevices that will permit computers to be joined and linked to the nervous system.

Miles described Milligan as :" a man of quite extraordinary talents ... a visionary who is out there alone, denied the usual contacts simply because he is so different he can't always communicate with his own species ...".

He was a visionary and began to dabble with electricity.

Daley openly supported immigration reform, and green building initiatives, for which he was presented with an Honor Award from the National Building Museum in 2009 as a " visionary in sustainability.

People with hypomania are generally perceived as being energetic, euphoric, visionary, overflowing with new ideas, and sometimes overconfident and very charismatic, yet — unlike those with full-blown mania — are sufficiently capable of coherent thought and action to participate in everyday activities.

The young visionary Stewart Brand, working with friends and family, and initially using the most basic of typesetting and page-layout tools, published the first edition of The Whole Earth Catalog ( subtitled Access to Tools ) in late 1968.

The visionary would consult with the Morning Star priest, who helped him prepare for his journey to find a sacrifice.

An album with " a very coherent structure " in the Magic Band's " most experimental and visionary stage ", it was Van Vliet's most commercially successful in the United Kingdom, spending twenty weeks on the UK Albums Chart and peaking at number 20.

While living in Aspen, Bayer had a chance meeting with the eccentric oilman, outdoorsman and ( to those who knew him ) visionary ecologist, Robert O. Anderson.

Along with Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, the Poetic Edda is the most important extant source on Norse mythology and Germanic heroic legends, and from the early 19th century onwards has had a powerful influence on later Scandinavian literatures, not merely through the stories it contains but through the visionary force and dramatic quality of many of the poems.

" " You Don't Pull No Punches, But You Don't Push the River ", one of the album's side closers, exemplifies the long, hypnotic, cryptic Morrison with its references to visionary poet William Blake and to the seemingly Grail-like Veedon Fleece object.

Having been introduced to Parks at a garden party at Terry Melcher's home, Wilson liked Parks ' " visionary eloquence " and began work with him in the fall of 1966.

A visionary project, " Production Concept for the 80s " was launched with the aim to run the night shifts practically unmanned.

There are several references in the RgVeda, associating Soma with the visionary seeing of Light e. g. RV 9. 4, RV 9. 5, RV 9. 8, RV 9. 10, RV 9. 42.

In 1989 Harry Falk noted that, in the texts, both haoma and soma were said to enhance alertness and awareness, did not coincide with the consciousness altering effects of an entheogen, and that " there is nothing shamanistic or visionary either in early Vedic or in Old Iranian texts ", ( Falk, 1989 ) At the conclusion of the 1999 Haoma-Soma workshop in Leiden, Jan E. M. Houben writes: " despite strong attempts to do away with ephedra by those who are eager to see * sauma as a hallucinogen, its status as a serious candidate for the Rigvedic Soma and Avestan Haoma still stands " ( Houben, 2003 ).

Prominent deceased distinguished supporters include philosopher A J Ayer, founder of the BHA Harold Blackham, visionary science fiction writer Sir Arthur C Clarke, social and political theorist Bernard Crick, child psychologist and activist Dr James Hemming, jazz and blues singer George Melly, comedian Linda Smith, broadcaster and journalist Sir Ludovic Kennedy.

Rosegger ( or Rossegger ) went on to become a most productive poet and author as well as an insightful teacher and visionary.

James's " vastation " initiated a spiritual crisis that lasted two years, and was finally resolved through the thorough exploration of the work of Emanuel Swedenborg ( 1688 – 1772 ), the Swedish scientist, religious visionary and teacher, and mystic.

Musical Times called him " an outstanding teacher of song interpretation – visionary, precise, tireless and loving.

Therefore, a good and visionary teacher can play a prominent role in making the future of his students while as a corrupt teacher can only harm his students much more seriously than a class of corrupt and perverted judiciary, army, police, bureaucracy, politicians or technocrats.

Founded in the late 1960s by the visionary choreographer and teacher Jan Dewulf, it is still one of Bruges most important cultural ambassadors.

Additionally, many visionary artists of this type are actively engaged in spiritual practices, and some have drawn inspiration from hallucinogenic intoxication.

Such literature is " marked by distinctive literary features, particularly prediction of future events and accounts of visionary experiences or journeys to heaven, often involving vivid symbolism.

Though ill-received by mainstream American reviewers, Dead Man found much favor internationally and among critics, many of whom lauded it as a visionary masterpiece.

He had known for some time of visionary experience achieved by taking drugs in certain non-Christian religions.

The concept of " Smart Growth " has emerged in the last 10 – 20 years driven by " new guard " urban planners, innovative architects, visionary developers, community activists, and historic preservationists.

Above all, he was moved by the impulse to penetrate the secret of natural beauty and to reinterpret it through its own means ; an attitude fundamentally different to that of David ... there results a truly personal and unique art admired as much by the Cubists for its plastic autonomy, as by the Surrealists for its visionary qualities.

Hired by industrialist and visionary Walter Paepcke, Bayer moved to Aspen, Colorado as Paepcke promoted skiing as a popular sport.

On 25 September 2004, Branson announced the signing of a deal under which a new space tourism company, Virgin Galactic, will license the technology behind Spaceship One — funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and designed by legendary American aeronautical engineer and visionary Burt Rutan — to take paying passengers into suborbital space.

Due to the Panic of 1893, the area ’ s visionary brothers left a struggling “ soon to be town .” Other town developers include Aaron Hart a pioneer developer through the area who drained marshy land by a ditch called Hart Ditch.

Arguably the most famous grid plan in history is the plan for New York City formulated in the Commissioners ' Plan of 1811, a visionary proposal by the state legislature of New York for the development of most of Manhattan above Houston Street.

CalArts confers honorary Doctor of Arts degrees to artists who have consistently represented the bold innovation and visionary creativity championed by the Institute, and who have each made extraordinary contributions to contemporary arts and culture.

Gray had conceived of a visionary project to arrest the settlement of the Leaning Tower of Pisa by freezing the soil underneath, and formed the organization in 1965 as a vehicle for the implementation of this idea.

* Visionary environments: Buildings and sculpture parks built by visionary artists – range from decorated houses, to large areas incorporating a large number of individual sculptures with a tightly associated theme.

The addition of intertwining ribbons seems to have been influenced by a combination of 19th century theatrical fashion and visionary individuals such as John Ruskin in the 19th century.

The work is distinguished by its visionary mysticism, " broad philosophy of harmony with nature ," and ecstatic consciousness.

" The Alabama Science in Motion ( ASIM ) Program is a visionary educational program established in 1994 by the Alabama Legislature.

The bridge was conceived, designed, built and funded by local visionary Walter Taylor, a contractor who lived in Graceville ( adjacent to the suburb in Chelmer ).

* An introduction by Robinson, outlining the visionary role of such fiction

His flight was sponsored by department-store magnate Rodman Wanamaker, an early visionary of Trans-Atlantic commercial flight.

* The Swedenborg Society The Swedenborg Society translates, prints and publishes works by the Swedish scientist, philosopher and visionary, Emanuel Swedenborg.

" In short, Visionary art begins by listening to the inner voices and inner perception of the soul .> It goes on to say that visionary art is a product of an inner process, and may not even be thought of as art by its creator ; it also differentiates Visionary art from Folk art.