Sentences with phrase «abhorred human»

Fiction was a common tool to illustrate beliefs about valued or abhorred human characteristics.

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Nature abhors a vacuum, and so do we humans, so when we're driven by a desire to close that breach.

Rather, Defund Planned Parenthood protesters abhor abortion as a profound violation of human rights, and they believe that the videos released by the Center for Medical Progress prove that Planned Parenthood harbors a crass and denigrating attitude toward the unborn — hard to dispute.

Even if we abhor the beliefs of others, we are exhorted to see them as complex human beings like ourselves.

Between you and I, from my sinful human perspective I abhor the doctrine.

If there is a vacuum in our life where God ought to be, we will fill that vacuum with something; for the human heart, like nature itself, abhors a vacuum.

In practice, most have a very human tendency to abhor the idea of a beginning to time.

Niccolò Machiavelli wrote The Prince nearly five hundred years ago and although pious renaissance observers abhorred the idea that ends might justify means, Machiavelli's political treatise remains an astute account of human nature and the struggle for power.

But Wallace Threadgill, a rival demographer who blithely celebrates the human potential of every zygote and abhors Piper's Ehrlichian doomsaying, cautions Eleanor about Piper's demonic persuasion.

The Terrorist is a deeply human story of a man in the last years of his life, who, unexpectedly, has again found love but who is sucked back into a cynical, dangerous milieu he abhors.

She adds, «Success for an African writer... depends on the West, [and Western publishers want] savage entertainment: stories about ethnic cleansing, child soldiers, human trafficking... the stereotypes Africans abhor.»

If they are not taught from an early age that humans are the pack leaders, they will jockey to gain that position for themselves — not because they are necessarily bullies, but because nature abhors a vacuum.