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

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