Ekphrasis e enargeia na historiografia de Tucídides e no pensamento filosófico de Paul Ricoeur by Martinho Tomé Martins Soares

“…In the Greek schools of the Roman Empire, the handbooks of rhetoric (Progymnasmata) defined ekphrasis as a speech that brings the subject matter vividly before the eyes. These manuals also point to Thucydides as one of the best specialists in this rhetorical technique which consisted, essentially, to give vividness (enargeia) imagery to the speech as a way to engage the imagination and feelings of the reader. …”
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Computational media and the paradox of permanence by Miguel Carvalhais, Pedro Cardoso

“…This paper argues that it is our refusal, and our fear, of impermanence that drives our desire to construct a worldview that is biased for permanence, even when the opposite lies before our eyes, as with computational media. This leads to a dissonance between the world as it is and the world as we perceive it, and to a paradox at the heart of computational media forms. …”
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On Geo Maher's Anticolonial Eruptions by Kevin Bruyneel

“…This political time is created in the moment of the emergence of these moles from the shadows in order to ambush and take advantage of the “hubris” of colonizers who are comfortable in their own blindness, in not-seeing what they cannot grapple with, that which is right before their eyes; colonization and all it has wrought upon the colonized. …”
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Ekphrasis e enargeia na historiografia de Tucídides e no pensamento filosófico de Paul Ricoeur by Martins Soares, Martinho Tomé

“…In the Greek schools of the Roman Empire, the handbooks of rhetoric (Progymnasmata) defined ekphrasis as a speech that brings the subject matter vividly before the eyes. These manuals also point to Thucydides as one of the best specialists in this rhetorical technique which consisted, essentially, to give vividness (enargeia) imagery to the speech as a way to engage the imagination and feelings of the reader. …”
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Sin and Synodality: The Struggles of the Third Mexican Council by Michael A. Romero

“…The bishops of New Spain did not use the language of “enlarging the space of one’s tent”, but they were deeply and genuinely disturbed by the evils present concretely before the eyes of the Church. The Third Mexican Provincial Council of 1585 will be examined as a case study of how the Church has listened to and responded synodally to large-scale abuse of human dignity perpetuated and legitimized by the social order. …”
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The invented Baja California: visions of a Mexican territory in the middle 20th century by Héctor Mendoza Vargas, Karina Busto Ibarra

“…The traveling style of both authors involves a cultural consideration, since an invented space emerges before their eyes from their own experience in the peninsula. …”
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BRAZIL: TRAPPED IN THE MIDDLE LEVEL OF DEVELOPMENT by LEONID MAZKOVICH Grigoriev, VIKTORIJA ALEKSANDROVNA Pavlyushina

“…After the presidential elections of 2014, the painful loss of the «domestic» World Cup and corruption scandals of 2015, the country was pulled into the recession that threatens the long-term development goals.The future of Brazil is the fate of the most important economic experiment, going on before our eyes. We need to understand the reason for this turn of events and what the prospects are. …”
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BOOK REVIEW: DAN HORAȚIU POPESCU, "LAYERS OF THE TEXT & CONTEXT: PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR & FRIENDS", ORADEA, EDITURA UNIVERSITĂŢII DIN ORADEA: PARTIUM, 2020, 258 P. by Emil SÎRBULESCU

“…Thus begins the account of a life-long travel adventure, where the icy plains of the Netherlands parade before our eyes, and German taverns, excellent libraries, friendships born on the street, offer the most varied hospitality that one could get: rooms rented by boatmen, acquaintances of acquaintances who offer young Fermor a room, young Central Europeans who have fun with him, Transylvanian manor houses and Magyar nobles who spoil him. …”
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Digital Transformation Processes in Education Space in Sustainable Development by Mutsalov Saidakhmed, Khazhuev Islam, Khazhbikarova Maret

“…This process has been unfolding before our eyes for more than a decade, and everyone observes its separate fragments. …”
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BOOK REVIEW: DAN HORAȚIU POPESCU, "LAYERS OF THE TEXT & CONTEXT: PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR & FRIENDS", ORADEA, EDITURA UNIVERSITĂŢII DIN ORADEA: PARTIUM, 2020, 258 P. by Emil SÎRBULESCU

“…Thus begins the account of a life-long travel adventure, where the icy plains of the Netherlands parade before our eyes, and German taverns, excellent libraries, friendships born on the street, offer the most varied hospitality that one could get: rooms rented by boatmen, acquaintances of acquaintances who offer young Fermor a room, young Central Europeans who have fun with him, Transylvanian manor houses and Magyar nobles who spoil him. …”
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Tiempo percibido y narración literaria by María Isabel Filinich

“…This narrative resource, that comes from the traditional in medias res beginning, emphasizes certain facts and places them before the eyes of the addressee in a close position that forces us to establish a meaning link between them. …”
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Neurotransplantation: the time has come? by Sergey N. Illarioshkin

“…Newest scientific achievements in this field, improvement of cell protocols and successful resolving of a number of technical and medical problems allow saying that neurotransplantation becomes clinical reality just before our eyes.…”
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Easymatch- An Eye Localization Method for Frontal Face Images Using Facial Landmarks by Muhammed Emre Colak*, Asaf Varol

“…There are many eye detection methods in the literature, and most of them rely on the Viola-Jones method to detect the face before localizing eyes. In this paper, a straightforward approach to detect eyes from images which contain a frontal face is proposed. …”
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“I could still see her in my mind’s eye”: Water and Maternal Imagery in Uwe Johnson’s Anniversaries: From the Life of Gesine Cresspahl by Caroline Rupprecht

“…As this article demonstrates, the effect of “blurred boundaries” is achieved through water, which functions as paradigm for the mother-daughter relationship: the narrator-protagonist Gesine’s memory is shaped by the experience of near-drowning before the eyes of her mother, Lisbeth, who commits suicide via self-immolation during Reichskristallnacht . …”
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Virtual Reality System and Scientific Visualisation for Smart Designing and Evaluating of Lighting by Rafał Krupiński

“…Development of virtual reality (VR) technology and augmented reality, which is now taking place before our eyes, makes us inclined to think how to use this reality in lighting technology. …”
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Svevende dåpsengler by Elisabeth Andersen

“…The angels “came to life” during the Baptism service: by means of a special mechanism located in the attic, they were made to descend before the eyes of the congregation, holding the font in one or both hands. …”
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“A player, a playwright, and the most famous poet in the world”: Highs and Lows in The Player Queen by Alexandra Poulain

“…On the other hand, Septimus himself is an incompetent spectator, who is so engrossed in his poetic vision that he fails to pay attention to the momentous change that is really going on before his eyes, although this concerns his own wife Decima, the eponymous Player Queen who comes to replace the real queen. …”
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Idee i ideaty by Michał Heller, Janusz Mączka

“…The original view of Joseph Życiński, presented in his book The Structure of the Metascientific Revolution (1988), boils down to the observation that almost before our eyes a great revolution took place, not in science, but in the philosophy of science, that is the meta-scientific revolution. …”
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IMAGES AND DISCOURSE ON BODIES, FAMILIES AND SUBJECTIVITIES: STIGMATIZING MANIFESTATIONS, IDEALIZATIONS AND INEQUALITIES IN THE DEBATE ARENA by Cristiane Marques Seixas, Daniela Menezes Neiva Barcellos, Eliane Portes Vargas, Flávia Milagres Campos, Francisco Romão Ferreira

“…These expressions - based on socially constructed images of the body, situated in contexts such as professional practices in different fields permeated by tensions and involving family relations - express, to a great extent, patterns of healthy eating and beauty that deserve the dedication from a research point of view, since they appear before our eyes in a naturalized and apparently crystalline way. …”
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Clinical blindness in conjunction with childhood bacterial meningitis by Tuula Pelkonen, Markku Kallio, Terho Latvala, Irmeli Roine, Heikki Peltola

“…Experienced pediatricians diagnosed clinical blindness if the child did not make eye contact, did not blink or move the eyes, or remained unresponsive to bright light or movement of large objects before their eyes. Of 1515 patients, 351, 654, and 510 were from Finland, Latin America, and Angola, respectively. …”
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