Sentences with phrase «about human foibles»

Mighty Aphrodite's affectionate Greek chorus is the obvious point of analogy, and so we expect another heavy, forgiving sigh about human foibles, this time in the eternal city, as per Allen's European funding.

In the end, the history of zoology reveals as much about our human foibles as about the animals we study.

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the possibility and necessity of living in a dimension of meaning in which the urgencies of the struggle are subordinated to a sense of awe before the vastness of the historical drama in which we are jointly involved; to a sense of modesty about the virtue, wisdom, and power available to us for the resolution of its perplexities; to a sense of contrition about the common human frailties and foibles which lie at the foundation of... our vanities; and to a sense of gratitude for the divine mercies which are promised to those who humble themselves.

THE NEW GIRLFRIEND (François Ozon, France, 2014, 107 minutes) Ozon's fairy tale about gender roles, gay identity, cross-dressing, love and repression is deliciously fluid, filled with tenderness toward human sexual foibles, laced with Hitchcockian edginess about the danger of coloring outside the lines.

But Lars and the Real Girl isn't about so much about the exploration of human foibles as it is about Dude's in love with a plastic vagina!

Taking the good for granted and moaning and groaning about the bad is without a doubt, our biggest human foible.

Given human nature over that hundred plus years of records, it is highly likely that all the foibles and faults of those thousands of observers and their measuring equipment will through sheer numbers and bulk have about evened out to a neutral point around which the real actual temperature will be centered.