kairos
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
How did you use kairos in your paper?
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
Appeal to kairos: must be addressed now because .
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
