Sentence examples for sensible form from inspiring English sources

Modern art, he says, is emblematic of a sublime sensibility, that is, a sensibility that there is something non-presentable demanding to be put into sensible form and yet overwhelms all attempts to do so.

Theophany, (from Greek theophaneia, "appearance of God"), manifestation of deity in sensible form.

To designers of stained-glass church windows in medieval Europe light was divine benevolence in sensible form.

He accepts there may be a few losses, but says Natural England is open to discussing "some sensible form of compensation" for farmers.

The Arab spring last year and the current struggles in Bahrain and Syria highlight the vital nature of collective public protest as the precursor and mainstay of any sensible form of effective democracy.

Setting aside questions about the actual mechanics of democratic systems, which obviously can vary from country to country, vast numbers of Muslims clearly accept that any sensible form of social organisation should be based on the will of the majority.

Remembering for Avicenna thus consists in the collation by the imaginative/cogitative faculty of estimative intentions on the one hand, and the appropriate sensible forms retained by the formative imagination, on the other.

Elections and referendums become dangerously outmoded tools if they are not enriched with more sensible forms of citizens' participation.

Aristotle took the rationalist view that every science or body of knowledge must resemble Euclidean geometry in consisting of deductions from first principles that are self-evidently and necessarily true and that, although the senses acquaint humans with the sensible forms of things, there cannot be knowledge of them unless reason is brought into play to apprehend their intelligible forms.

Bodies in this world exist through sensible forms; but the existence of the afterlife involves spiritual bodies attached to intelligible forms (Jambet 2006: 394-6).

Perception involves the reception of sensible forms without matter, and thinking, by analogy, consists in the mind's being enformed by intelligible forms.