For the individual, the religious experience must be direct and unmediated by texts, traditions, or personality. |
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There is no narrative voice-over, and so the band members are essentially free to tell their own story unmediated by the film-makers. |
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This creates the illusion that one is experiencing reality unmediated, burrowing into the truth of existence. |
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Ordinary rural women worship these non-Brahminical deities directly, unmediated by any priestly intervention. |
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Her photographs have the look and feel of mere snapshots, as unmediated realism, unencumbered by artifice and self-conscious construction. |
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Blogs were supposed to be unmediated, immediate communication, and content that could be delivered on the hoof. |
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Her work is so much more about self-expression in an unmediated way than the artists you're bringing up. |
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We witness the characters' first unmediated encounters with the world outside their barred back door. |
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We do not have an immediate, unmediated access to Galilee but approach it only through maps, films, photos, books that are produced by somebody. |
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Rather, it asks that we trust a record of things seen and heard, a record direct and unmediated by the knowledge and opinions of others. |
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Their publication gives the public unmediated and unrestricted access to this direct evidence for the first time. |
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Though he's preternaturally young, his unmediated aggressiveness has tempered any bit of boyishness. |
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By contrast, the logic of Buddhism relied on natural language and examples drawn from unmediated personal experience. |
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While in the past the word of God was mediated through the prophets, now God has given direct and unmediated communication by the Son. |
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No such distinction exists in fetishism, where object and spirit are one and the same, fused in an unmediated anti-symbolic relationship. |
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The insignificance of poems that directly describe an unmediated experience is the emperor without clothes. |
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Mr. Lazarescu recalls the best Cassavetes, a film that allows direct, seemingly unmediated access to its characters and their emotions. |
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The writer wants to believe his genius is arriving, pristine, unmediated, to his readers all over the world. |
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Motion Studies are dry point etchings that adopts the idiom of the unmediated gesture. |
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For many artists, the pixelated line that is the hallmark of digital drawing programs has become as available a device as unmediated strokes of pen and ink. |
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Eloquent leaders with strong voices of unmediated outrage have emerged. |
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Documents leaked from Snowden indicate that the NSA possesses unmediated access to the company data. |
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Yet there was a strong response to the voluntary access and the views of clients support the value of unmediated access to the product. |
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Online redress offers opportunities for faster communications, secure negotiations and unmediated computerized assistance. |
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Thanks to these new provisions, cooperation between the ANA and the provincial authority will be more unmediated and efficient. |
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Readers, wherever they are from, want to feel that they are in direct, unmediated contact with greatness. |
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Minimalist aesthetics and Cagean ideals shared the goal of a more direct, unmediated, authentic art experience that transgressed the boundary between art and life. |
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And when this is achieved simply by actors performing in front of us the very unmediated nature of the event lends it a power that is unsurpassed. |
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It was precisely his insistence upon the importance of personal decision, direct and unmediated by artificial ratiocination, that lay at the root of his rejection of Hegel. |
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These activities often take place on privately run social networking sites that allow political figures and institutions to communicate with the public in unmediated, high-profile fora. |
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A newspaper report from a war zone may not, it's true, have all the immediacy of a live television feed, or even the spontaneity of an unmediated blog. |
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The opposition develops into sects, which are comparatively small groups that strive for unmediated salvation and that are related indifferently or antagonistically to the world. |
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Bringing smallholders in Latin America into unmediated competition with subsidized and supported industrialized farm products from the global North places millions of productive farmers-and food-producers-at risk. |
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Russia's own role in fixing the terms of German unification was now erased from memory, replaced by a mythical sequence of unmediated aggressions whose ultimate purpose was to justify current Russian policy in the Ukraine. |
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Every library in the group can have unlimited access to OCLC resource sharing services, including loan and photocopy requests and mediated or unmediated requests. |
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Aside from the technical aspects, free, unmediated access to statistical data involves a considerable amount of work on accessibility, on what allows users to be truly independent. |
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The play has an unmediated heat, anger and bewilderment, like the scream of a wounded man surprised by injury, and the bluntness and hurriedness of someone who wants to say something important fast. |
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Grillo's discourse heralds the palingenetic mission assigned to the Internet as the transparent unmediated site where true democracy necessarily flourishes. |
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He disputes the rationale that allowing unmediated theological influence of politics amid pluralism is fundamentalistic or invites sacralized politics or theocratic claims. |
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It upheld an essentialist conception of value in which the relation between the object and the sign was held to be immanent, direct, and unmediated. |
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The dissolving of the brushstroke in Forest answers the compression of individual black points in Hive, 2003, into a swarm that emerges unmediated from the broad green ground. |
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The artist acknowledged that the lacquer might be invisible, but argued that philosophically it was out of keeping with the unmediated nature of his work. |
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Unmediated devices are motivated rhetorically, while mediated devices are motivated both rhetorically and referentially. |
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Unmediated experience must dash with artistic invention and intervention. |
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