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
Appeal to kairos: These are times when ; therefore, is appropriate/ necessary.
From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021
These means of persuasion include ethos, appeal to ethics; logos, appeal to logic; pathos, appeal to emotions; and kairos, or timeliness.
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
