His art, too, involved a surrender to chance, accident and disorder.
The doxastic venture model may thus be regarded as capturing the spiritual challenge of faith more satisfactorily than evidential proportion models do, since it involves a deeper surrender of self-reliant control, not only in trusting God, but in accepting that there is a God indeed, this God who is to be trusted.
Real horsepower involves a sense of surrender, especially when your mode of transport prefers nibbling grass at the side of the road, before achieving an average speed of two miles an hour.
And the audience needs a way to pretend otherwise, a chance to imagine that this make-believe family's ultimate normalization does not involve a total surrender to imaginary forces of conformity.
The process of portraiture involves a certain kind of surrender on the part of the person being painted: I've painted businessmen who find it very difficult to let go, to subject themselves to a painter's brush, and others for whom the chance to relinquish professional control is surprisingly exhilarating.
It's also a practice that involves a tension between control and surrender: she has the ability to parachute into anywhere in the world, but her views and angles and lighting are in Google's hands.
The other involves an unprecedented transfer of wealth across Europe's borders and, in return, a corresponding surrender of sovereignty.
At the same time, though, Europe is engaged in a unique historical experiment involving an unprecedented voluntary surrender of national sovereignty -- most recently the control of currency.
This does not imply a surrender to evolutionary particularism.
