Sentence examples for immediate encounters from inspiring English sources

Her poems generally emerge from immediate encounters with the objects, people, events and language of everyday life rather than from memory or hyperintimate experience.

The rather abrupt transition from Egypt is softened by immediate encounters with articles whose Egyptian motifs reflect the revivalist styles of the 19th century.

Fierce Southern resistance to political messages of change has a lot to do with belief in the value of immediate encounters and a primary fear of strangers and outsiders — especially black or Northern ones — who may bring harm.

We filter our immediate encounters through the meanings that get cued or triggered from amongst the vast corpus of ideas, "facts," labels, categories, beliefs, impressions, stories, etcetera we carry around in our minds.

Ms. Burton's is more rational, or at least more determined to maintain her foothold in the rational world, despite her almost immediate encounter with Quint's ghost.

Christian theologians, such as Emil Brunner and H.H. Farmer, spoke of a "divine-human encounter," and Martin Buber, a Jewish religious philosopher, described religious experience as an "I-Thou" relationship; for all three, religious experience means an immediate encounter between persons.

The final outcome is that reference cannot be fixed solely in terms of language and abstract descriptions; it rather presupposes an immediate encounter in reality through our experience.

This situation resulted in an immediate encounter between the introduced settler and the inhabiting adults.

Client violence rendered women vulnerable to unprotected and high-risk sex both in the immediate encounter, as well as in future scenarios given their heightened awareness of the violence that could ensue if they refused sex or insisted on condom use.

The story of his looking will have been one about the immediate world, encounters and consolation.

He and the world heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko had dinner in London last Thursday but Klitschko, who helped to launch a boxing academy yesterday as part of the Fight for Peace project, poured cold water on any prospects of an immediate ring encounter.