How To Use Otherness In A Sentence

  • Besides the floor upon floor, shelf upon shelf of books, there was that element of feng shui, not simply location but the geomancy of that locus, its spiritual otherness.
  • Before the internet arrived to form the perfect delivery mechanism for mystical bluster, it was left to partwork magazines to provide a fix of 'otherness', made 'real' by the paucity of information and the scrappy, fragmentary way it was presented ( Things magazine
  • It's an image that is rife with a frank sexuality that isn't shy to speak up for its otherness.
  • These writers, increasingly referred to as the third generation of Francophone writers, have thematized identity and otherness as conditioned by their location in the diasporic and/or exilic space.
  • I've already suggested that female otherness is an overdetermined feature in a genre that tends to describe an object of visual pleasure and fascination from a masculine perspective, often to an audience understood to be masculine as well. Ekphrasis and the Other
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  • In my terminology otherness or alterity is definitional, and specifically polar (the two terms of a polar opposition are jointly exhaustive and mutually exclusive).
  • McMaster understands alterity as a dialectic of self and otherness.
  • Genuine respect for ‘otherness’ entails much more than modern religious pluralism can deliver.
  • Indeed, the most unstoppably undead monsters are almost always in some sense religious, figures of monstrously divine or anti-divine otherness. Timothy Beal: There's No Such Thing As Osama Bin Laden
  • Do everyday clothes as dance gear impact its otherness as an experience?
  • In this history of otherness, we are at a transitional stage. Foucault and Derrida - The Other Side Of Reason
  • The signs are that there is no such readiness, that otherness and difference are still prohibited. Foucault and Derrida - The Other Side Of Reason
  • For us, real marionettes, string marionettes, produced those moments of otherness, they created a spell, something very unnerving, disquieting.
  • It is a symptom of incomplete development in the encounter with otherness and individuation of one's own personality.
  • Quenched, inhuman, his fingers upon her unrevealed nudity were the fingers of silence upon silence, the body of mysterious night upon the body of mysterious night, the night masculine and feminine, never to be seen with the eye, or known with the mind, only known as a palpable revelation of living otherness. Women in Love
  • The game broke down barriers, although the positive elements of "otherness" - the shared Judaism a lodestone - fostered a proprietary self-branding. Thestar.com - Home Page
  • The ‘fastest girl in town’ label accentuates and casts a deprecatory shadow onto her racial otherness, and she eventually leaves Ruby.
  • I have tried to show how these festivals help produce the desire for otherness and difference, in ever more complex forms.
  • In the film, he is able to depict the sense of otherness and alienation that many teenagers feel.
  • In his many evocations, he renders his sense of place and otherness with deliberate diction and well-placed references.
  • The search for the disreputable which reinforces the notion of difference as objectified otherness is often carried out with the help of Third World women themselves.
  • Few films have so fluently, so poignantly and amusingly, described contemporary Britons' attempts to overcome the shock of otherness.
  • Lou Dobbs, that paragon of choice xenophobic political battles to pick and win, hopped on this “American Otherness” bandwagon like it was the last copter out of Saigon and is riding it for all it's stupidly worth — which is pretty much just huzzahs and dittoes from the scrape-knuckled fucktards who flock to him post-their mid-afternoon Limbaugh-lovin 'refractory period. Archive 2009-08-01
  • This paper, proceeding with the definition of dissimilarity, probes into the relationship between selfness and otherness to reveal the cross-cultural essence of translation.
  • The airport fills in as a liminal zone where one's own otherness (within our ‘own’ culture, and even to oneself) becomes more visible, if not necessarily legible.
  • As personifications of radical otherness, the monsters of supernatural horror are often identified with the divine, especially with its more dreadful, maleficent aspects. Timothy Beal: There's No Such Thing As Osama Bin Laden
  • The intolerant base their views on a factual error, which then fuels a general suspicion of otherness.
  • Then, the essay explains that the public sphere of early print is founded on alterity, on Otherness, on the non-English and even the anti-English.
  • Communion in the Eucharist does not destroy but affirms diversity and otherness.
  • The abyss of ethnographic otherness has been momentarily bridged.
  • The program notes ascribed a savage or exotic otherness to the performers who were packaged into neatly schematised and imperialised glosses for ready consumption by the spectator.
  • Yet it never quite loses its quality of otherness, as demonstrated by its use in this recent Brussels apartment block.
  • The colonisers, more or less impregnated with the evolutionist model and, before that, the belief that they were the carriers of a universal civilisation, saw in otherness a primitive and deformed version of their own identity.
  • Without the self-canceling move into otherness via negation, philosophy's assignment, as Agamben puts it bluntly, is to imagine how a thing might be what it isn't. Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
  • But writing does function as the object of desire for the heroine, that which she quests after, that which sustains her subjectivity and gives her consciousness of otherness in the world.
  • Instead it is rather what he calls the pathologies of hyper-expressivity, so well diagnosed by Baudrillard, that need to be resisted not through the infinite speeds of the rhizomatic plane of immanent desire, but through a corporeal, therapeutic slowing down in order to open the body and the soul to otherness, and to revitalise the jaded sensibilities of the 21 st Century human organism. Mute magazine - Culture and politics after the net - CULTURE AND POLITICS AFTER THE NET
  • Some alchemical mix of beauty, muteness and otherness. Times, Sunday Times
  • Whatever that otherness is seems to come from somewhere deep within us. Sunday Reading
  • The brutality of ‘Victorian’ responses to otherness is echoed in Walter's bleak experience in the institution he is sent to after the death of his parents.
  • The otherness of ego enwraps each of us like a prison, but the magus takes all of earth as his body.
  • True identification humbly acknowledges the limits of human understanding and values the mystery of nature's "suchness" — its irreducible otherness — by creating a space for acknowledging its "intrinsic value. Blake, Heidegger, Buddhism, and Deep Ecology: A Fourfold Perspective on Humanity's Relationship to Nature
  • Lou Dobbs, that paragon of choice xenophobic political battles to pick and win, hopped on this “American Otherness” bandwagon like it was the last copter out of Saigon and is riding it for all it's stupidly worth — which is pretty much just huzzahs and dittoes from the scrape-knuckled fucktards who flock to him post-their mid-afternoon Limbaugh-lovin 'refractory period. “Res-pect Mah Authori-taaaaaayyyyh!”
  • If the other is grasped as resistant to any finite understanding then we have surely grasped the otherness of the other. Philosophy at the Limit
  • Next, because the female consumes a viewpoint, existence is worn otherness.
  • And again, like you said, these are not mega-stars whose celebrity and otherness is intimidating.
  • And yet each of these forms of otherness is simultaneously overcome: the "slovenly wilderness" (which is already "Tennessee") is made to "surround" the jar in imitation of its roundness; the creaturely subject becomes a sovereign; and the static, spatial image of ekphrastic description is temporalized as the principal actor in a narrative. Ekphrasis and the Other
  • The title of this book, Alter / Asians, is meant to challenge the categorical otherness that is still imputed to Asia and Asians in Australia.
  • We cannot, in his view, evade the radical Otherness of non-being; hence the obligation of the living is to fight for life at all costs.
  • Nissan also calls attention to the narrator's ‘otherness’ by incorporating a substantial number of words from Ladino into the text, which is written mostly in Spanish.
  • Anthropology, our source of narratives of otherness, has a professional bias towards difference.
  • The program notes ascribed a savage or exotic otherness to the performers who were packaged into neatly schematised and imperialised glosses for ready consumption by the spectator.
  • And when my living children were born, I was overwhelmed not only by their beauty, but also by their otherness.
  • The different connotation between them dominates the aesthetic criterion. Anyway , the otherness of their conventional architecture is dissimilitude .
  • Then, in a kind of mockingly Hegelian negation of negation, the very dimension of otherness is cancelled: one does it with oneself. The new feminists: lipstick and pageants
  • It denies the possible otherness that would render the unknown worth knowing.
  • History, with a capital H, similarly can not tolerate otherness or leave it outside its economy of inclusion.
  • Cannibalism was one method of establishing otherness in early modern representations of all three groups.
  • In fact, immigration, the influx of otherness, is crucial to the spiritual upkeep of the nation.
  • If the Modern Era was a rage for order, regulation, stability, singularity, and fixity, the Postmodern Era is a rage for chaos, uncertainty, otherness, openness, multiplicity, and change.
  • By Christensen's era, religion gave way to science, and a new form of otherness evolved: the female hysteric.
  • Once "vocality" is reimagined from the waver and give of textual inscription, it is always at base equi-vocation, a case of present contingency — evincing, without vouching for, the existence of a potential otherness in one and the same wording. Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
  • Such smoothing over of differences, however, would have diminished the powerful sense of otherness that is such a valuable aspect of the book.
  • Music poses an enormous challenge to a writer: its abstraction refutes description, but its very otherness can be liberating.
  • Tim's Sri Lankan experiences led him to consider how just as a snake sheds its skin, so too can we shed our fear of otherness, and learn to embrace other cultures.
  • Whilst ‘interesting’ camera angles always suggest a lower budget, here they serve to accentuate this place's otherness.
  • The otherness of early modern religious agents and culture is translated into (for us) more acceptable modern forms conformable to our own cultural assumptions.
  • Where the legal definitions of childhood were constructed in order to protect children against working in the mines until their bones grew soft from lack of sunlight or weaving rugs until their legs were crippled from sitting and they were going blind, these same definitions have been used to create target groups for "otherness" - and ugly otherness at that. Thinking with my fingers
  • The abyss of ethnographic otherness has been momentarily bridged.
  • God's difference is categorially different, so to speak, from one creature's otherness from a second creature. Cusanus, Nicolaus [Nicolas of Cusa]
  • And in this scrutiny and disapproval my issues with class and otherness have resurfaced, again in relation to an academic environment.
  • We publish even including the one-off collections, which are often not especially "otherness"-related only 17-18 stories and 20 poems per year. Archive 2005-07-01
  • Note the capitalization of ‘Racial Groups’ --the categories of Otherness implied by this umbrella term are themselves subsumed by the exaltation of the metacategory.
  • Irwin's Arabic learning also inclines him to emphasise the ‘otherness’ of the Alhambra, such that mere Europeans cannot hope to comprehend its full significance.
  • They soared above the mountains of Otherness, over the great dragon reserves of Nemea. The Three Furies
  • The modern pop star seems to have lost a great deal of the flamboyant otherness that characterised his/her 80s predecessors.
  • What are the possibilities for conceiving of difference and otherness within such a world? Foucault and Derrida - The Other Side Of Reason
  • Moreover, I will show how in Shelley's essay, alterity is a strategy for controlling the traffic between identity and alterity, rather than a quasi-objective form of otherness. The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality
  • The thrown-off abject, the product of abjection, is thus the symbolic and disguised repository of that violence and basic otherness-of-the-self-within-itself, the means for staking out a supposed identity over against it. Hogle, Introduction, Frankenstein's Dream, Praxis Series, Romantic Circles
  • Elements of transformation, however, occur most pointedly in the encounter with otherness.
  • John McCain has not commented on Rep. King's remarks, but I will say that this has been an issue that both - that both Sen. Obama and his wife have addressed on the campaign trail before, Michelle Obama most emphatically, saying that his name, the name Hussein, has been invoked to stir fear and anxiety about "foreignness," "otherness," and it's something that the Democratic party should not tolerate in this election season. CNN Transcript Mar 9, 2008
  • It made relations of 'alterity', otherness, central to the study of all such relationships. The Times Literary Supplement
  • But what is more miraculous than this: that one might taste another in his otherness and let him be?
  • The multinationals and their advertising companies were always quick to incorporate signs of otherness.
  • It will lose all otherness, and become merely one among many simulations in a world that has lost all depth, fully digitalised and pressed flat against the computer screen.
  • The distinct otherness in glass transition and devitrification temperature of five polyalcohols reflected the feebleness and power in the aspects of glass transition ability.
  • I want to insist, however, that in the case of his funeral orations, Derrida's concern for presence and otherness is not merely theoretical.
  • Then, as Americans, they found themselves consigned to a perpetual state of 'otherness' - twice treated as strangers in their own land. Hamdan Azhar: Strangling Gaza and the Radicalization of Political Discourse
  • Indeed, I sometimes put the matter this way: the clearest way to domesticate the otherness of the other is to talk about alterity.
  • And how, I ask you, does this reflect on their other viewpoints concerning difference and otherness?
  • In sociological terms, her case suggests a positive and unilinear relationship between the negative tenor of existence on earth and the degree of transcendent otherness ascribed to God.
  • Likewise, contemporary comparatist discussions of cultural alterity may blur rather than sharpen historical distinctions and our sense of the otherness of the past.
  • So I guess we're obsessed with the exotic otherness of the genre right now.
  • He pulled with his mind, drawing all his being inwards, pouring himself into that blob of otherness. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE

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