As directed and co-written (with Jim Taylor) by Payne, «Election» is a tart study in teacher - student relations, adolescent pecking orders and the nasty vicissitudes of living in a world of haves and have - nots. (salon.com)
But it ought to be clear that the sermon, though the primary channel, is not the only one, and unless the sermon is supplemented by discussion groups, forums, directed reading, and pastoral counseling in the intimate and personal vicissitudes of life, the sermon is apt for the most part to fall on unresponsive ears. (religion-online.org)
Those, on the other hand, who say that they are in despair are generally such as have a nature so much more profound that they must become conscious of themselves as spirit, or such as by the hard vicissitudes of life and its dreadful decisions have been helped to become conscious of themselves as spirit — either one or the other, for rare is the man who truly is free from despair. (religion-online.org)