In Jacob's Room (1922) she achieved such emotion, transforming personal grief over the death of Thoby Stephen into a "spiritual shape".
In "On Re-Reading Novels" (1922), Woolf argued that the novel was not so much a form but an "emotion which you feel". In Jacob's Room (1922) she achieved such emotion, transforming personal grief over the death of Thoby Stephen into a "spiritual shape". Though she takes Jacob from childhood to his early death in war, she leaves out plot, conflict, even character.
Just as any specimen of a human being's biological material can be analyzed to reveal his or her underlying genetic design, so too can a single sample of an artist's creation be examined to discover the spiritual shape of the artist.
At a packed meeting last month at his synagogue, Bet Am Shalom, Mr. Nightingale spelled out his story's later chapters: how a childhood spent with black spirituals shaped a career singing for the New York City Opera and other groups while earning a living as an accountant, and how he married again, this time to a Jewish woman from White Plains, Gillian Friedlander, with whom he had two children.
How the president's spiritual beliefs shape his private life and public policy.
His current research interests involve the relationship between learning and identity, and how processes of constructing and transmitting spiritual knowledge shape social identity and practice in diverse settings.
Through Malick's signature imagery, we see how both brute nature and spiritual grace shape not only our lives as individuals and families, but all life.
Erica Gragg, who runs spiritual Escape to Shape fitness retreats at locations like the Surf Shack in Montauk on Long Island, where daily meditation sessions form part of the program, prefers "inexpensive tank tops and long-sleeve tees from H & M, throw-on cardigans from KD Dance".
He draws the link between theosophy and the meanings of a Global City, where the transnational reach of religious and spiritual teachings shapes how the globalization of capital could catalyze new ways of thinking about urban form.
This kind of juvenile narcissism, which is also a state of spiritual insight, shaped Terrence Malick's "Tree of Life," a movie with which "Beasts of the Southern Wild" has an evident kinship (not only because both films won prizes in Cannes).
The scenarios 'Unlimited', 'Passivity and collapse', 'Cooperation and de-growth' and 'Smart and Spiritual' are shaped by distinct trends and weights including environmental, resources, economic performance, international cooperation and social preferences, which systemically influence all other factors considered in the system.
