Asked about the role of the unconscious in creating fiction, she sounds somewhat French, somewhat starchy, and quite sensible: I do not think I can get any nearer than this to the sources of my story-telling; I can only say that the process, though it takes place in some secret region on the sheer edge of consciousness, is always illuminated by the full light of my critical attention.
Individual character is not important, and consciousness dissolves into sheer "perception".
In some sense, the mystery of her past experience is resolved, through her consciousness, through the sheer scale of her reaction to it.
A mystifying waste of time to some, a lifestyle to others, Destiny has kept its hold on the gaming consciousness this year through sheer force of will.
"We wanted to tap into people's consciousness through the sheer beauty and diversity of plants," said Dr. Christine Flanagan, an ecologist and manager of programs.
There's nothing secret about music's power in our lives, even if we are still a long way from having a proper understanding of it, but there is something astonishing and transformative about music's grip on consciousness – and the sheer variety of musics, from every age and every part of the globe that can do that.
4. "Intentionality" was a term first used by Franz Brentano to characterize consciousness as a sheer activity of aiming, directing itself toward objects or to its own unfolding.
Racist, misogynist – sure, he's those things but the real nightmare is that Trump has won through sheer irrationalism and stream-of-consciousness appeals to the least cogent regions of the human psyche.
Hookworms obviously hark back to psychedelic space-rock, but they have more at their disposal by way of effects gizmos, and more self-consciousness about the sheer physical effort and the dynamic possibilities of two chords and a riff repeated over and over again as noise emerges.
Most adult humans will either vomit or simply lose consciousness with confronted with the sheer embarrassment attached to the expressions 'epic karaoke night' and 'natural star quality'.
So he wasn't only contending with a "rational" paranoia; he was also ensnared in the ongoing anguish of comprehension and absorption, as the sheer size of the trauma inched into consciousness.
