kairos

The concept of kairos is a major component in all my novels thus far - love the way you have applied it to conventions, which I have not attended for several years now due to time constraints, mostly.

Faire Time 2007

In rhetoric kairos is a passing instant when an opening appears which must be driven through with force if success is to be achieved.

January 2007 2007

In rhetoric kairos is a passing instant when an opening appears which must be driven through with force if success is to be achieved.

Faire Time 2007

Prof. Lunsford credits the students she studied with "kairos" - the ancient Greek term for the ability to say the right thing at the right time.

The Globe and Mail - Technology RSS feed 2009

I do not think, however, that Augustine thinks of this as a binary – rather, time as God experiences it is with the full meaning of the word kairos -- it is time in its fullness, literally, the right time: “In the eternal nothing is transient, but the whole is present” (Confessions 228).

Orals Reading: Saint Augustine and Time Mary Kate Hurley 2007

I do not think, however, that Augustine thinks of this as a binary – rather, time as God experiences it is with the full meaning of the word kairos -- it is time in its fullness, literally, the right time: “In the eternal nothing is transient, but the whole is present” (Confessions 228).

Archive 2007-07-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2007

In the same way that through perspective drawing two dimensions can give us the impression of three, what the Greeks called kairos is simply a chronos -bound impression of the fuller existence of time beyond our current ability to perceive.

Flow/flOw. Ann Althouse 2007

Lunsford's team found that the students were remarkably adept at what rhetoricians call kairos-assessing their audience and adapting their tone and technique to best get their point across.

ZB DIGITAAL Edwin Mijnsbergen 2009

Lunsford's team found that the students were remarkably adept at what rhetoricians call kairos -- assessing their audience and adapting their tone and technique to best get their point across.

Slashdot: Book Reviews 2009

Lunsford's team found that the students were remarkably adept at what rhetoricians call kairos -- assessing their audience and adapting their tone and technique to best get their point across.

OPINION 2009