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"Presence" in a Sentence (21 examples)
He was still as still in the presence of danger.
Mary is not used to being made fun of in the presence of others.
I could say nothing in my dad's presence.
At the party, one of his political opponents humiliated him in the presence of many guests.
The shy boy was utterly embarrassed in her presence.
He lost his presence of mind at the news.
The child was scolded by his mother in the presence of others.
The naive man was utterly embarrassed in her presence.
John felt the presence of a ghost in the dark room.
Don't talk about it in my mother's presence.
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Any painter can benefit from the presence of a live model from which to draw.
Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
Bob never said anything about it in my presence.
Despite being less than five foot, she filled up the theatre with her stage presence.
Perrin Ferris succeeds in his equally demanding task of maintaining some semblance of presence while sharing the stage with a chronic upstager.
I'm convinced that there was a presence in that building that I can't explain, which led to my heroic actions.
Presence means: the constant abiding that approaches man, reaches him, is extended to him. But what is this source of this extending reach to which the present belongs as presencing, insofar as there is presence? True, man always remains approached by the presencing of something actually present without explicitly heeding presencing itself.
Within a completely neutral horizon, the primordial continuous stream of experience is presenced without interruption. As this time, the past and future have no meaning apart from the now in which they are presenced.
Just as the bread and butter can be presenced as more than just the bread and the butter, so baking a loaf of bread can be more than just the baking, the baker, and the bread.
2005, James Phillips, Heidegger's Volk: Between National Socialism and Poetry, Stanford University Press, →ISBN (paperback), page 118, From the overtaxing of the regime's paranoiac classifications and monitoring of the social field, Heidegger was to await in vain the presencing of that which is present, the revelation of the Being of beings in its precedence to governmental control.
Benner (1984) captures the essence of this when she describes presencing as the art of 'being with' a person without the need to be 'doing to' the person.
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