How To Use Presentness In A Sentence
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Jerry L. Thompson Smith's pieces, far from being dispassionate arrangements of geometric elements, retain an eerie sense of presentness, as if they have us fixed in their invisible gaze.
The Artist in All His Dimensions
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They retain an eerie, anthropomorphic sense of presentness; faceless, eyeless, even, bodyless—Smith plays havoc with familiar proportions and divisions—they nonetheless seem to confront us and fix us with their invisible gaze.
The Artist in All His Dimensions
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We journeyed together, flawed, failing, but always aiming at constancy, at presentness, at openness to grace.
Times, Sunday Times
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One of a true Christian's treasures is the "presentness" of his salvation.
The Thirsty Theologian
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But here, the impact dissipates in the "wink-wink" cleverness of the mailbox / porno juxtaposition, and in the excess of little pictures, undercutting the "presentness" of the other images.
Undefined
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See, our mums and dads worked with the legacy of minimalism and conceptualism, their hold on the ‘presentness’ of the work, we are, by distinction, children of ‘the moment’.
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Hans-Geory Gadamer think that the temporality of aesthetic being is the presentness of aesthetic being, but the presentness also belongs to the history of effect.
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The framing of the question of the presentness of scholarship in terms of place is more than rhetorical or metaphorical.
Heart and Head at Kalamazoo, or, The Displacement of the Entirely Out of Place
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The possibility that this is so may explain why his pieces are generally short and appear to be in the thick of the argument from the first sentence — and convey, whether his subject is Raphael or Norman Rockwell, a sense of the moment, of sheer presentness.
An Eye on the Tremors
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Any event must have all three properties, pastness, presentness and futurity, but this is a contradiction.
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He was attracted by the idea that intrinsic motivation is located in the present moment, and reaches a peak when you are so absorbed in a task that time seems to slow down or even to stop altogther (akin to what the art critic Michael Fried calls ‘presentness’, as in “Presentness is grace”).
F is for Flow « An A-Z of ELT
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They retain an eerie, anthropomorphic sense of presentness; faceless, eyeless, even, bodyless—Smith plays havoc with familiar proportions and divisions—they nonetheless seem to confront us and fix us with their invisible gaze.
The Artist in All His Dimensions
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Reid grants that perceptions, memories and imaginings often differ in degree of force and vivacity, but, he argues, this difference is insufficient to account for the special quality of presentness represented in perceptions, the special quality of pastness represented in memories, and the special quality of atemporality represented in imaginings.
Reid on Memory and Personal Identity
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a study of the pastness of the present and...of the presentness of the past
