Sentence examples for as a nothingness from inspiring English sources

This creative capacity is what Jean-Paul Sartre is referring to in L'Imaginaire: Psychologie phénoménologique de l'ima-gination (1940; "The Imaginary: The Phenomenological Psychology of the Imagination"; Eng. trans., The Psychology of Imagination) when he describes imagining as "the positing of an object as a nothingness"—as not being.

Nishitani understood the historical phenomenon of nihilism as a vacuous nothingness that assaults the modern world, a world bereft of its ethical and religious moorings.

Ultimately Nishitani returns to the language of Zen Buddhism to express his conception of the "radical subjectivity of non-ego [muga]" as a "subjective nothingness" (shutai-teki mu) (NKC I, 88).

The thought crossed my mind that the town of Boulder had been set up by the cookbook as an extravagant practical joke — a nothingness at the end of the trail.

(Indian philosophers associate nothingness with lack of differentiation. They may prefer to describe Spinoza's world as a realm of nothingness dominated by a single overarching unity).

In March, Interior Secretary Gale Norton described this area as a "flat white nothingness" that could best be used as an oil spigot.

D'Agata reads this chronicle of annihilation as a celebration of nothingness itself, an indication of the excitement of the artist before a blank canvas in the presence of pure potential.

Judeo-Christian culture, however radically different in various ways it was from Greek culture, and despite negative theology's indications of a Deus absconditus as a kind of nothingness, nevertheless primarily considered the person of God as "the most perfect being" to be the basis of reality.

Also in 2005, German food critic Wolfram Siebeck visited the restaurant complained of the delays in service and of several of the dishes, described the mustard ice cream in a red cabbage gazpacho soup as a "fart of nothingness", while chef Nico Ladenis said of the restaurant, "Someone who makes egg and bacon ice cream is hailed a genius.

I do not experience nothingness as a universal or absolute state in the fear of death, Rosenzweig suggests, but rather I experience my nothingness—I experience nothingness as a particular "something" that threatens me and me alone.

Although the vacuum is conventionally conceived as a place of absolute nothingness, the vacuum in quantum field theory is understood to be full of fluctuating electromagnetic waves.