Meaning of openture | Babel Free

Definitions

Refraining from seeking a resolution or ending for an emotionally difficult experience.

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Examples

“Still, the writer and director jokingly cautions that Serenity is not the start⟳ of a trilogy. “If I never got to shoot⟳ anything of Serenity again, I would still feel⟳ that I had told my story and I had given the actors what they needed and the fans what they needed and myself what I needed. There is closure here. But having killed Buffy twice, I’m also a great proponent of openture."”

“If you choose⟳ a life of awe, you will surrender⟳ the solace of certitude. You will live⟳ with more openture than closure and, unless you can learn⟳ to find⟳ a strange, exciting comfort in being presented with and grappling with the tremendous mysteries life offers, you will seldom feel⟳ calm or at ease for very long.”

“To use⟳ an old cliché of therapy-speak, we spend⟳ too much of our lives seeking “closure”….What we need⟳ more of, instead, is what the psychologist Paul Pearsall called openture. Yes, it’s an awkward neologism; but its very awkwardness is a reminder of the spirit that it expresses, which includes embracing imperfection, and easing up on the search⟳ for neat solutions.”

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