thereness

They were in every room, not menacing, but just filling the space with their thereness.

Moses talking with God out there on the edge of the wilderness; a thereness.

The thereness is there for all who seek it.

It had no weight, just a peculiar thereness I couldnt otherwise identify.

More essential: paper books possess a permanent thereness; they need not be switched on to exist.

She is described as having "a thereness that was not there," and eventually she vanishes without a trace.

Mughal jewelry is very much about its carat-measured look-at-me thereness.

He seemed, in fact, to find this thereness a comfort, and so I didnt voice my own doubts and fears.

Almost immediately she was cautioning herself: “I find his thereness very threatening. ...

What most attracted me to Andrew was what also occasionally oppressed me: his thereness.

Without hereness, how does one locate thereness?"

Aunt Audrey was able with Seth's help to block off her mind sometimes, but never the steady pulse of that mind's existence; its thereness.

The fact is they are there and I have no means of knowing whether that thereness in some sense doesn't cling to what I call me.

But at the same time, you had the feeling that that thereness might suddenly stop-a feeling you did not get with any mountain.

“I have to recognize (despite play of wry and mocking smile on lips) that I find his thereness very threatening.”

McDowell objects that we should not think of what is really there in the world as something whose thereness has nothing to do with our responses to it.

I meant that you have all their restlessness and practical get- thereness; but you have what they haven't, Fleur--power to turn one's head.

Golf Ball is an example of the emerging "confident authority" of his single-image paintings with its "Rock of Gibraltar-like thereness".

Maybe it is the awareness of this that gives a light-touch show heft and focus, a sense of thereness, geography-free but concrete, without which flow becomes drift.

Still, only one character escapes Mr. Coover's nightmare of history, and that is John's wife herself, whose chief quality is "a thereness that was not there."

RahXephon Interlude: Her and Herself/Thatness and Thereness (August 7, 2003)

Art and design often play with thereness and not thereness, with absences, voids and implied absences.

As if history were a tapestry, and the congress the loom where everything was coming together, the present moment with its miraculous thereness, its potential right in their own atoms, their own voices.

John McDowell has challenged Mackie's assumption that a genuinely objective feature of the world must be something whose thereness in the world has nothing to do with human responses to it.

It was as solid as any Swiss mountain seen from its lower slopes against clear sky . . . and there was an equivalent feeling of weight to it, solidity, thereness.