Not exact matches
I think if Jesus were alive today (literally... I know to Christians he is alive) he would have
so much to say and clarify about the
tragedies that have unfolded
out of this organized religion.
I am
so sick
of hearing and seeing the word «miracle» thrown around when 1
out of many people survives some horrible
tragedy, whether caused by man or the chaos
of natural phenomena.
After they left, John and I just hung
out for another hour or
so talking about the loss
of his wife and the mystery it's shrouded in.I'm finding this happens quite often: that people who experience a
tragedy sometimes get another one fast on its heels.
No one can measure the known and unknown
tragedies that have grown
out of its defilement in our stock, nor the repercussions upon the human community at large from all the trauma
so caused.
Old and wise observers saw the first act
of a
tragedy, which had been played
out so many times before.
But» as
so often happens» God brings triumph
out of tragedy, and in the years that followed, he did just that.
I must have a word that I may speak
of that which is
so plainly pointed
out by the glory and passion,
tragedy and despair
of human living.»
We've expected that,
so on the
Tragedy Scale, this ranks at a 1.1
out of 10, just ahead
of someone putting ketchup on a Chicago hot dog.
So here — about two miles from the death and destruction
of Sept. 11, in a town where each morning 40,000 men and women boarded the ferry and the PATH train to go to work at the World Trade Center — played
out one
of the central dialectics
of the
tragedy's aftermath: To play or not to play?
Yet as the number
of such births grows,
so does the number
of tragedies — and those stories tend to be left
out of soft - focus lifestyle features.
It seems to me to be a real
tragedy that young people will be denied this right — and that both Labour and the Tories are willing to sacrifice our economy by yanking us
out of the single market, simply
so they can say they will end freedom
of movement.
«I'm doing this because a lot
of families are going through this,» Gardiner continued, «There's
so many
tragedies out here now, because people don't die one by one now, they're dying in bunches.»
«That's clearly part
of the
tragedy - on a personal level as well for a party, government and country level - that somebody whose real aim in life is to be prime minister, now has the task and seems
so lacking in enjoyment in trying to carry it
out,» he said.
The paper where he comes up with this, which was a 1931 paper, which is an absolutely sublime piece
of work — I might say, set against, the most terrible domestic [period]; his parents throwing things at each other, dreadful domestic turmoil back in Bristol — but
out of this
tragedy that was his private life came this foreseeing
of the whole subject
of antimatter, which is why Heisenberg praised it
so highly.
Now as it turns
out, I mean, again, you said no spoilers,
so incredibly all these threads are, to Shakespeare's credit, everything works
out okay a few scenes later and there's actually a happy ending, at least by the standards
of — I mean it's actually lumped in with the
tragedies.
In the face
of tragedy, we try to speak because
so often we rely on words to connect, to reach
out, to make sense
of the incomprehensible.
Not with joy or triumph, however, but with defeat and
tragedy, setting the tone — or rather one among several competing, conflicting tones — for what follows: A series
of battles (the «war»
of the title) where our favorite and not -
so - favorite superheroes repeatedly find themselves outmatched and
out - maneuvered by Thanos and his closest associates, the Black Order.
But making it longer would likely be considered a violation
of the Geneva Conventions,
so Snyder and Chris Terrio and Joss Whedon (brought on when Snyder had to bow
out of the end
of production due to a family
tragedy; he gets a script credit but not a co-director credit) try to do what they can with what they have.
There's the earnest Coast Guard sailor (Chris Pine as Bernie Webber) who was at the center
of a past nautical
tragedy and must now redeem himself by saving those aboard the tanker; the gruff officer (Eric Bana) who barks
out one dubious command after another; the obnoxious crew member whose ceaseless complaining grows (unintentionally) comical; the all - around nice guy who, because he's the gosh - darn nicest guy around, will invariably be subjected to the most gruesome fate; and
so on.
«I'm always more
of the dramatic force,
so I'm always like, «Let
tragedy befall these people,» because I think that great comedy comes
out of it, and great drama.
Our goal as indie authors is to produce a book that is a masterpiece both inside and
out,
so it's a
tragedy when a book's inner beauty is overlooked because
of an inferior cover.
The potential
of Avon is awesome — the reality is
tragedy... But the facts & figures spell that
out so obviously, I didn't think I really needed to add (much)
of my own outrage..!
The
tragedy is that advocates
of the Efficient Market Theory got
so hung up on being perceived as having figured
out everything there is to know about stock investing that they blinded themselves to the next set
of important insights, those that followed from the 1981 discovery by Yale Economics Professor Robert Shiller that valuations affect long - term returns.
I am
so grateful that within this family
tragedy, financial concerns are
out of the equation due to this amazing insurance.
Belonging to the generation that produced Abstract Expressionism (he was arguably the first champion
of Jackson Pollock), Greenberg saw in that artist's personal
tragedy a metaphor for the disasters
of American life and art, in which people were alienated from real culture, were being forced to live off kitsch culture («one
of faked sensations»... «because it was turned
out mechanically») and he was resigned to the fact that at the other extreme, the
so called avant - garde had taken off in another direction which was producing art for art's sake for themselves and the cultural elite.
For although this reluctant resolution may simply be motivated by the mundane
tragedy of my own private aging, it has become increasingly clear to me in recent years that much
of my current thinking about art was shaped rather decisively (if very indirectly) by that filial experience, and much
of the conjecture I am seeking to flesh
out in this essay is directly influenced by my first encounters with art — encounters which first took place and shape in front
of my father's modest but well - balanced library, in his ateliers (he must have moved house every two years or
so for a whole damned decade), at the opening receptions for the many group shows he was in, throughout the late 1970s and early to mid-1980s, in villages, towns and cities scattered across the Flemish plains.
Mothers dipped their infants into the river, «and sometimes these poor victims slip
out of their hands and drown,» wrote another visiting French painter, Élisabeth Vigée - Le Brun, but the little ones became instant angels,
so it wasn't considered a
tragedy.
«One way or the other, Gleick's use
of deception in pursuit
of his cause after years
of calling
out climate deception has destroyed his credibility and harmed others,» wrote climate journalist Andy Revkin on his New York Times «Dot Earth» blog, adding, «The broader
tragedy is that his decision to go to such extremes in his fight with Heartland has greatly set back any prospects
of the country having the «rational public debate» that he wrote — correctly — is
so desperately needed.»
Unison head
of legal services Adam Creme said: «The real
tragedy of the fees fiasco is the thousands
of wronged employees who couldn't aff ord to shell
out to get justice and
so lost
out.»
«
Out of tragedy and heartbreak, the families
of the 17 victims in Parkland came together and they decided that they would set aside for a moment their differences on all sorts
of other issues
so they could come together and fight hard on the things they agreed on.