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

The moment must be right, and an effective communicator needs to be aware of their audience in terms of kairos.

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