A mix of prose, poetry and monologues, "Through the Night" follows the interlocking stories of several black men and boys, the youngest 10, who experience "an unexpected epiphany on the same evening that changes their lives forever," according to production materials.
Watching Lloyd's playful, critical take on The Tempest, I had an unexpected epiphany.
Still, each mini-concert brought unexpected epiphanies — Ciaramella made you think about all the noise and bustle that can't be perceived in paintings of rustic scenes — and together the performances provided a vivid cross-section of current early-music practice, which tends to prize tangy timbres and springy rhythms.
These escape routes all lead back to the person you really are, and that person know that what really counts extends far beyond the individual: the glory of creation, the beauty of nature, the heart qualities of love and compassion, the mental power to discover new things, and those unexpected epiphanies that bring the presence of God -- these universal aspects are your true source of power.
He goes for no easy bathos, and the result is an unexpected emotional epiphany at the end.
Such a path eventually comes to an apparent dead-end, but this dead-end seen dead-end seenurns out to be a "clearing" (or Lichtung), that is, a place from which the trees have been removedifferently turnsrs an unexpected vista, an epiphany that, althouth itoresults only from walking a particular path for oneself, nevertheless seems to come from out of the middle of nowhere.
As readers, the Page Turners don't rise to any sustained perceptions or transformative epiphanies, but unexpected nudges from books do help set each of the three heroines on inner-sleuthing missions reminiscent of the more somber one in Wolitzer's last novel, "The Doctor's Daughter".
A note for a recent men's collection cites Gilles Deleuze's idea of "assemblage," observing that Michele's clothes "become an assemblage of fragments emerging from a temporal elsewhere: resurfacing epiphanies, entangled and unexpected".
IN a room full of wonders, little epiphanies strike in strange and unexpected ways.
There are no candy cane epiphanies or take-home morals – just occasional light-flares from unexpected sources and surges of sensation that might make existence worth enduring.
He discovered early on that there will always be unexpected moments to relish, and nobody helps a reader to experience or relive these evergreen epiphanies with more insight.
