It was a brief passage of reflection between the two men, both acknowledging the depth of their faith.
For me, it all begins with cherishing the dignity, the worth, the value of all human life". It was a brief passage of reflection between the two men, both acknowledging the depth of their faith.
It contains moving passages of reflection on what his powers as artist have been able to accomplish, and valedictory themes of closure.
"When he returned from the theatre of war and from being the agent of whistling death out of the skies…" writes Ford in one of those luminous passages of reflection that have become a kind of signature, "he may have been in the grip of some great, unspecific gravity, as many GIs were.
Depending on how he arranges them, they evoke different feelings, different interpretations, and it is these that interest him, more than the events themselves; when telling his story, he often glides over long periods in a single paragraph or selects one tiny incident, dispensed with in a sentence or two, as a jumping-off point for long passages of reflection.
The most famous passage in the "Reflections" is his chivalrous but overwrought hymn to the glory of poor, dim-witted Marie Antoinette: "Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men. . . .
In a famous passage in the Reflections, Burke had lamented: "I had thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her [Marie Antoinette] with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone".
But it's not at all clear from this passage how the reflection could be built in to the original thought, especially since there appears to be a shift in tenses (the second awareness is temporally posterior to the initial awareness).
His book weaves biblical passages and faith-based reflections with advice on leadership and determination on the football field.
In one passage, he interrupts a reflection on an altar to the Emperor Augustus with his thoughts on Roman noses and then describes a nearby restaurant.
