Sentence examples for isolated consciousness from inspiring English sources

An isolated consciousness driving ever deeper into itself, an extreme psychological situation followed to its bitter end -- it sounds like a novel by J. M. Coetzee.

In the first place there is Henry James, another European-American puritan obsessed with the isolated consciousness and the destructive powers of the imagination: a James tale such as Maud-Evelyn shares many of the preoccupations of Highsmith's This Sweet Sickness.

Lupton states, "In altering the narrative structure, Angelou shifts the emphasis from herself as an isolated consciousness to herself as a Black woman participating in diverse experiences among a diverse class of peoples".

These people will see themselves not as isolated and irrelevant centers of consciousness at the heart of universal mindlessness but as integral parts of an organic world, in which the potentialities of mind have always been present.

The kind of reading Franzen champions is not only a beleaguered undertaking -- in the modern technological regime, "the individual worrying consciousness," he writes, has become "ever more isolated from others like it" -- but a fundamentally antisocial mode of experience.

It documents a shift in consciousness of the kind that occurs when isolated, oppressed individuals discover that they are not alone and begin the difficult work of altering intolerable conditions widely regarded as normal.

In the absence of such connections – or so the proponents of the Strong Thesis will maintain – we do not have a stream of consciousness at all, merely a sequence of isolated momentary stream-phases.

But they may change its place in the civic consciousness, if the tower is perceived as too isolated or fortified at its base, or as having too little of a symbolic spire at its summit.

"We can grow healthy and move past suffering if we don't simply look at ourselves as isolated but look at ourselves as part of the greater consciousness of love".

In fact, it is only when one isolates, separates and distinguishes consciousness from materials stuff, from one's body, that one can achieve liberation.

Visual hallucinations as part of PSVP are isolated without associated mental disturbances such as dementia, psychosis, or altered state of consciousness.