Example sentences of "[be] at the same time [art] " in BNC.

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1 At the same time that Coleridge was discussing Hartley with Wordsworth he was also constantly urging him to write ‘ a philosophic poem ’ — ‘ No man was ever yet a great poet without being at the same time a profound philosopher ’ .
2 We used to work eight hour shifts — morning , evening and night — and of these the night duties were at the same time the most boring and the most exciting , depending on whether there was anything ‘ on ’ .
3 Davie himself provides the example of a dedicated university teacher , who is at the same time a fine poet , a practitioner of rigorously evaluative criticism , and a judicious reviewer .
4 Irony is at the same time a characteristic form of the contemporary imagination and a way of thinking the specific forms of engagement which the distractions of the everyday and the interruptions of its temporality might facilitate in television viewing .
5 It is worth noting too that it can arise in different types of trust , either in a simple trust for restitution , for instance on death ; or in a continuing trust such as the fideicommissa familiae relicta discussed in Chapter IV , in which each successive beneficiary is at the same time a trustee for other family members .
6 Moody , sensitive and sometimes secretive she is at the same time a little girl needing to be cuddled and a teenager requiring her own space .
7 The Kingdom is at the same time a heavenly as well as an earthly reality .
8 Then she was like one of those seers who is at the same time a strange animal , like a priestess in a bear 's cave .
9 That she is so is essentially an untruth , but it is at the same time a socially undeniable fact , even today , although it was probably a more widespread one 20 odd years ago .
10 The West German system is at the same time a plurality or " first-past.the-post " system , a list system and an additional member system : in short a mixed system , which may be conveniently designated in the following pages by the initials WGMS .
11 It might be worth recalling Walter Benjamin 's view that there is always a verso and recto to history — each document of civilisation is at the same time a document of barbarism .
12 According to this view , interbreeding is at the same time the criterion of whether two forms belong to the same species ( e.g. the dark and pale forms of the arctic skua interbreed freely , so they belong to the same species ) , and also the reason why organisms in nature do fall into discrete categories , with few intermediates .
13 The amendments , which were first noted in the Law Society Gazette of 6 May 1992 , came into force with effect from 1 June 1992 , that is at the same time the changes occasioned by the SAR and the ARR were effective ( Law Society bulletin No 7 provides full details ) .
14 There the finite mind of man , which is but a fragment and form of the Infinite , discovers its true identity with the Absolute — and that is at the same time the return of the Absolute to itself , its own self-realisation .
15 The earlier of the two identifies the poet with his poetry , praying that after his death he should be forgotten : Sonnet 74 draws a different line , separating the Poet from his work : The point to be stressed at this juncture — forgive the interruption ! — is the turning of the other into the self and of the self into poetry , which is at the same time the turning of life into art and of transience into immortality : This marvellous poem can be linked , no doubt , to the series attacking time and proclaiming the certainty of the poet 's survival .
16 Reference has already been made ( p. 67 ) to the pattern by which the sexual or marital partner is at the same time the " good parent " ; the " good parent " approves and supports .
17 It is this version of the relationship between adult education and the women 's movement which is at the same time the most challenging and the most precarious .
18 That is at the same time the power of imposition of the definition of science ; that is , the power to draw the limits of the field , to decide who is in and who is out .
19 Hamlet is at the same time the catalyst and the theme of the entire play .
20 Marcus again smiled what Ludens saw as a mysterious complicit smile , as if Ludens were a talented tempter who was at the same time a fellow initiate .
21 He was a straightforward patriot , and , most of all , a man of action , who was at the same time a man of natural sensitivity towards suffering .
22 There was at the same time a dramatic decline in the amount of milk produced by urban cattle-keepers and supplied by road .
23 The modernist and Nietzschean devastation of the idea of historical progress was at the same time a devastation of assumptions of order , authority , stability , consonance , and repose .
24 The occupation forces in the territory of defeated enemies might be seen as temporary inconveniences , but there was at the same time a natural tendency to acquire overseas bases from which to extend the reach of America 's armed forces .
25 Yes , if I can just interject something here which I think is rather striking , when one used to go on holiday on the Continent , going to church was at the same time a bewildering an exciting experience because you could n't understand what was going on .
26 A staunch Methodist with an evangelical conviction that film exists to serve the Lord , he was at the same time the head of the family flour-milling business and imbued with a Yorkshire respect for ‘ brass ’ and profitability .
27 The repudiation of Hellenism in Jerusalem was certainly a reassertion of the faithfulness of the Jewish community to the God of Abraham , Isaac and Jacob , but it was at the same time the result of many individual choices .
28 From this perspective , electoral politics were only one aspect of the struggle , and the parliamentary leaders were considered subordinate to the leadership of the mass party , which was at the same time the leadership of the class itself Conservative and liberal parties , however much they in fact represented class interests , saw themselves as parties functioning within an established social order and a system of political institutions in which parliament was supreme .
29 First her challenge to the primacy of ‘ meaning ’ and support of ‘ cool ’ rather than ‘ expressive ’ aesthetic assumptions was at the same time an advocacy of the collapse of some sort of deep level of signified into the signifier .
30 This ‘ explosion of the instincts ’ was at the same time an explosion of contingency into the world of order .
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