kairos
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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I am briefly jarred out of eternity and back into the ordinary — out of kairos, sacred time, and back into chronos, chronological time.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2024
Appeal to kairos: These are times when ; therefore, is appropriate/ necessary.
From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021
To appeal to kairos, the student emphasized the immediate need for these services, as more students are now aware of their particular mental health issues and trying to deal with them.
From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021
But kairos is the time of the “right moment,” the eternal now, when time is not a number on a dial but the enormity of the experience inside it.
From Time • Apr. 4, 2014
That, you could say, is kairos writ large.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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