A millennia-old nomadic existence, shaped by seasonal hunting and fishing patterns, had been exchanged, by the late 20th century, for life in settlements.
Whereas Buster Keaton was a frozen-faced stoic and Harold Lloyd had his empty-framed glasses, Chaplin had his "little tramp", the ups-and-downs (mostly downs) of whose existence shaped a story of human resilience.
A comment that strikes one person as unreasonable and rude will strike another as a bold and colourful salvo., telling it like it is, courageously defending their interests" Which, coincidentally, is the basic conclusion of a new Pew Center study that finds Republicans and Democrats trapped in impermeable bubbles of their own experience, their whole existence shaped in different ways.
Similarly, unconscious computations in human or monkey eyes abstract the existence, shape and color of an object from an array of subjective sense impressions (Lorenz 1978, p. 11).
The challenge comes when we pick ourselves up and whittle away to find the core of our existence, shape it, reform our lives and go on to make beautiful music that originates in our core--the soul.
Shakespeare's double-minded, if not actually two-faced, attitude — absorption in Catholic ritual, rejection of the fanatic commitment that Catholic existence demanded — shaped his understanding and taught him a productive fear.
The University of Oxford's Dr Keith Small said it "gives more ground to what have been peripheral views of the Koran's genesis, like that Mohamed and his early followers used a text already in existence and shaped it to fit their own political and theological agenda".
Dr Keith Small, an expert on Koranic texts at the University of Oxford, told The Times: "This gives more ground to what have been peripheral views of the Koran's genesis, such as that Mohamed and his early followers used a text that was already in existence and shaped it to fit their own political and theological agenda, rather than Mohamed receiving a revelation from heaven".
Modern aesthetics presupposes the perspective of a subject confronting an external object and thereby misses the way art works inconspicuously in the background of human existence to shape and transform our sense of what is and what matters.
