Things are really there...capture the thereness of them--Charles Hopkinson. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
There's a "thereness" to the action, fleeting and fantastical but somehow also grounded and natural. From Wordnik.com. [Jose Antonio Vargas: With "Avatar," Technology Has Never Looked So Human in Film (VIDEO)] Reference
In the words of one Japanese garden designer, the scene must lose its "thereness" so as to put the viewer into the frame. From Wordnik.com. [Not PC] Reference
In Antonello's work - and there are fewer than 40 paintings which are indisputably his - there's a special Sicilian sense of thereness which is without measure, which refuses moderation or self-protection. From Wordnik.com. [New Statesman] Reference
It must be my hereness and thereness, I thought, or the velvet kneebreeches. From Wordnik.com. [Creatures: A Memoir] Reference
But it is also a song that opens territory, relaxes being-thereness, out into space. From Wordnik.com. ['Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' as an Ambient Poem; a Study of a Dialectical Image; with Some Remarks on Coleridge and Wordsworth] Reference
" He seemed, in fact, to find this 'thereness" a comfort, and so I didn't voice my own doubts and fears. From Wordnik.com. [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]
In my explorations of and with the consultees my presence, thereness, and authenticity were all important. From Wordnik.com. [Humanistic Nursing] Reference
Verstehen basically means ‘thereness’, ‘openness to experience’, or ‘primordial comprehendability’. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference
Many men and now women seem to think that providing financially is a replacement for providing attention and a sense of “thereness.”. From Wordnik.com. [Reposition Yourself] Reference
In-touchness with these sensations and our responses informs us about our quality of being, our thereness, our degree of presence with others. From Wordnik.com. [Humanistic Nursing] Reference
The physicality of Josie struck me again, and the way in which this adds to his reality, to his thereness, his facticity, if that makes sense. From Wordnik.com. [The Space Between Words: Further Thoughts on Garage] Reference
If the prospect of a minister running the country by Blackberry seems frightening, the strangely unthere-thereness of Environment Minister Hilary Benn's appearance this week is surely worse. From Wordnik.com. [Wednesday lunchtime update] Reference
What is striking about "The Star" is not so much is evocation of being-thereness, as its portability: this is a lullaby that creates, enacts, conjures being-there no matter where it is sung. From Wordnik.com. ['Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' as an Ambient Poem; a Study of a Dialectical Image; with Some Remarks on Coleridge and Wordsworth] Reference
Lil's own obese body is frequently cause for consternation and distaste, but it also becomes the sign of her unrepentant thereness, in direct contrast to the carefully coiffed and shy ladies of her childhood. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Professor:] Reference
How can we hope for a sustained thereness, presences of nurses with other man (patients, patients 'families, professional colleagues, and other health service personnel) as "We" in an ongoing struggle of community considering their multitudinous differences?. From Wordnik.com. [Humanistic Nursing] Reference
Rosen would then argue that investigating whether this sentence is true should be a perfectly straightforward empirical pursuit, that in no sense have we abrogated “the Realist's rhetoric of objectivity, already-thereness, discovery and detection” (293). From Wordnik.com. [Moral Anti-Realism] Reference
(the man in it) and yet is diaphanous, its thereness as mysterious as ours. From Wordnik.com. [Half Moon, Small Cloud] Reference
The pomposity of Nina, absence or barely-thereness of MKors and the ineffectiveness of Tim, sorry, Tim spoils it. From Wordnik.com. [Tom and Lorenzo/Project Rungay - The #1 Project Runway Blog] Reference
There was always a promptness and "all thereness" in his nature, with a decided touch of self-reliance, and I may even say audacity. From Wordnik.com. [A Tale of One City: the New Birmingham Papers Reprinted from the "Midland Counties Herald"] Reference
Trying to intend to her the total visual backwash of the images I am providing in colour scheme with her retroflection and thereness on apogee. From Wordnik.com. [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference
Terry, when in a frank and modest mood, had sometimes said to me that, with all the virtues of strength, faithfulness, and getting-thereness, his car was not to be called a fast car. From Wordnik.com. [My Friend the Chauffeur] Reference
"tangible, separable" thereness 'of the objects represented.'. From Wordnik.com. [Quazen] Reference
His almost-thereness echoed in the empty space where he wasn’t. From Wordnik.com. [It was a year ago today « knitnut.net] Reference
“I meant that you have all their restlessness and practical get-thereness; but you have what they haven’t. From Wordnik.com. [The White Monkey] Reference
His almost-thereness echoed in. From Wordnik.com. [March « 2008 « knitnut.net] Reference
2003-12-01 ~ 9: 09 p.m. my hereness is merely a distortion in your thereness temporarily. From Wordnik.com. [vampishone Diary Entry] Reference
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