Sentences with word «abnegation»

How is that anything but a pact of abnegation of risk?
«Insurgent» picks up several days after the events of the first film, with Erudite leader Jeanine (Kate Winslet) denying involvement in the attack on Abnegation, instead placing the blame on Tris (Shailene Woodley), Four (Theo James) and the rest of their sympathizers, who have since sought refuge with Amity.
The film stars Shailene Woodley as Tris Prior, who is living in a dystopian version of Chicago where people are sorted into certain factions based on their personality (Abnegation for selflessness, Dauntless for bravery, and so on).
Beatrice Prior (Shailene Woodley) is a member of the selfless Abnegation faction, but she faces a big decision in the next few days.
Born into Abnegation, which values selflessness, Tris signed up with Team Dauntless in the inaugural movie.
The implication is that womanhood, or the soul of all our humanity, will be redeemed not in self - assertion but in abnegation and subordination.
If you don't know Abnegation from Amity or Candor from Erudite, then «Allegiant» isn't going to help any.
The action once again takes place in a community that is divided into five factions defined by personality traits, with Abnegation left much depleted after an attempted genocide in the first outing.
After nearly seven years in power, and repeated abnegation of their principles — on foreign ownership, on military procurement, on corporate subsidies — should we abandon any hope of intellectual consistency from our governing party?
If Ford's shenanigans seem like a parochial concern, the Keystone XL pipeline is one of national importance where there's clear abnegation of leadership by corporate Canada.
God awaits us in an act of self - abnegation intrinsic in the metalepsis, in the sacrifice of Logos, defined as a Ground of Being explicated by Edith Stein not as delimited rather where, ``... the self - limitation of his power as regards its external efficacy is itself act and effect of his power.
The Communists» cheerful self - abnegation made them a different species from today's socialist movements, at least in the West.
[5] It was to free us from this that God wished to manifest himself in the self - abnegation even unto death of his Son.
Traditional attitudes toward the natural environment make Indians, like the Japanese, more disposed than Americans to pursue happiness modestly.15 And almost six decades after his assassination, Gandhi's traditionalist emphasis on austerity and self - abnegation remains a powerful part of Indian identity.
In case you're new to the series, or have just plain forgotten, «Insurgent» is set inside a future post-apocalypse Chicago, where a new society has been formed by using personality traits to divide individuals into factions named Abnegation, Amity, Candor, Dauntless and Erudite.
Matthews is the leader of Erudite, which means she's got a killer IQ along with those killer heels, and she's convinced that Divergents are a threat to her plan to overthrow Abnegation.
(Abnegation = selfless; Erudite = intelligent; Candor = honest; Dauntless = brave; Amity = peaceful).
There's a seduction / rape in the picture that spools out slippery like a biblical allegory, climaxing with a message of self - abnegation written on a bathroom window and a realization by our antihero that he's doomed to learn something from the destruction of every single thing in his life that's pure, of everything that comes with the potential for a future.
It's more than a vision of the apocalypse, though — it's a vision of self - abnegation based on an essential dislike of the human race.
The sequel picks up with the fallout of the slaughter of the entire Abnegation faction.
Beatrice was raised in the faction called Abnegation, an Amish - like group that prides itself on selflessness and humility.
Han's treatments of submission and subversion find form in the parable, as the housewife's self - abnegation turns increasingly severe and surreal.
Vega has entered self - abnegation territory, but then he did sing for Suicide.
This show feels religious in that self - abnegation way.
electronic narcosis, with consequent effects of isolation, alienation, fear, abnegation of responsibility, and loss of joy.
Beatrice Prior (Woodley) is born into Abnegation.
Let me try to make up for this by recommending a book to put in the Christmas stocking of the administrative lawyer in your life: Law's Abnegation by Adrian Vermeule.
D'Arcy takes it as a given that there's a protective shield around time - intensive parenting practices to keep anyone from observing out loud that it's antithetical to feminism to demand such high levels of self - abnegation from women.
This gives us the opportunity to see some of the other factions — since the first film only really focussed on Abnegation and Dauntless — namely Amity, Candor and the factionless.
Successfully responding to these maddening critiques takes time and energy that could be better spent on, well, anything else, and in many cases, not a little self - abnegation.
As the quotation adduced by Mr. Laughlin demonstrates, the altruism Rand despised, reduced to concrete practices, was precisely the life of self - abnegation and sacrificial service to all that Christ commands of his followers.
He is the author or co-author of nine books, most recently Law's Abnegation: From Law's Empire to the Administrative State (2017).
But he knew the meaning of cupio dissolvi, and he taught that without such self - abnegation the gift of personality reduces the Passion to pantomime.
It sought to elevate the human person to the exclusion of his body, renouncing it and denying its value through neglect and abnegation.
It is easy to confuse salutary self - denial with a spiritual parsimoniousness that mistakes all abnegation for virtue.
Besides, I was fearful that Johnson, robed in new garments of self - abnegation, might one day turn to the American public and announce that he had exhausted all diplomatic resources — when in fact he hadn't begun to use them.
This is at best misleading: Writing in the cultural context of the liberal West, Soloveitchik often devoted more words to emphasizing the necessity of humility and surrender for a genuine religious life, but he had no more esteem for a purely submissive religious posture than for an exclusively assertive one — a point made clear by his frequent condemnations of mystical self - abnegation.
Rather than seeing man's beatitude in the abnegation of self, Worcester felt that the purpose of therapy was to help the person «find freedom and to discover a better way of life for himself.»
So desperate are many of us for vision that we will embrace it at almost any price, including the price of the abnegation of critical thinking and understanding.
Adrian Vermeule is Ralph S. Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School and author of Law's Abnegation: From Law's Empire to the Administrative State.
It hurts to renounce part of your own identity, even if you consider the abnegation a necessity.
Although in the depths of abnegation he sees himself as nothing, J. B. finds freedom in acceptance of this condition.
But the church needs its Marthas as much as it does its Marys, and Van Slaag's detachment is an abnegation of his responsibilities as pastor.
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