Sentence examples for texts of the master from inspiring English sources
The written texts of the master.
Similarly, in the Chandogya Upanishad, this ancient Sanskrit text tells of the master who asks his student to open the Banyan tree fruit, extract the tiny seed and then break it in half, revealing a hollow center.
How would this text by the master of minimal interplay of words and silence fare in the hands of the American director who likes to experiment with imagery on a vast scale?
"Doing it like them" becomes a mastering of the master colonising text.
Just as we can never master the texts of the past, so do we fail necessarily and constitutively to obtain conclusive self-knowledge.
Several of the master's madrigals can be usefully compared with those of his noble pupil that were set to identical texts.
Armah has pushed the efficacy of the "master-text" to greater heights by a more audacious attack on "massive political improbity". A Man of the People is held back by a subdued manner and "some sort of moral decorum". The intertextual distance is even more striking when Ogede compares Achebe's No Longer at Ease (1960) to Bessie Head's Maru (1971).
May 15 at 8: Peter Lieberson's "Neruda Songs" — lambent settings of texts by the Chilean master, which were magnificently launched by the composer's late wife, the mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson — lie at the center of a concert (with the mezzo-soprano Kelly O'Connor) that begins with Ravel's "Menuet Antique" and closes with Mahler's First Symphony.
In the frieze text of the show's final gallery, the master builder complains about the ugliness of New York City, which he had not yet visited.
The Lingbao School is a synthesis of religious ideas based on Shangqing texts, the rituals of the Celestial Masters, and Buddhist practices.
