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

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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.

• “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

• “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

• “And so we become dull; we are not alert and we miss the signs that there is a crisis coming: a' kairos 'moment - the moment when we are brought up sharply and given a deadline, notice is served on us;”

  Anglican Mainstream

• “It describes a decisive moment, perhaps a "kairos" time.”

  NextReformation

• “kairos," a specific time, and so of short duration.”

  Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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