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
Two important aspects of plot structure regarding time in a memoir are chronos and kairos.
From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021
Appeal to kairos: must be addressed now because .
From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021
The Greeks called that kind of time kairos.
From Time • Apr. 4, 2014
That, you could say, is kairos writ large.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
