Word of the Day
sempiternal \sem-pih-TUR-nuhl\, adjective:
Of never ending duration; having beginning but no end;
everlasting; endless.
In all the works on view, Mariani conjures a sempiternal
realm that exists parallel to mundane reality and which is
accessible through art, reverie and the imagination.
--Gerard Mccarthy, "Carlo Maria Mariani at
Hackett-Freedman," [1]Art in America, September 1999
This is a sempiternal truth for institutions of high
prestige. Someone will pay (almost) anything for Ivy-ish
credentials.
--Dennis O'Brien, "A 'Necessary' of Modern Life?"
[2]Commonweal, March 28, 1997
Finally, Syon's orchards are the world as our imagination
would like it to be -- not wilderness, since orchards are
after all planted and cultivated by farmers, but a
sempiternal and ideal region of the mind.
--Thomas L. Jeffers, "That which sustains us,"
[3]Commentary, June 2002 |
