Sentences with phrase «about human frailty»

For all the CGI light shows and magical whizbangery the movies have delivered over the years, the series is finally about human frailty in the face of organized darkness.

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«It is a human frailty which we all possess in some degree that becomes the investor's and speculator's greatest enemy and will eventually, if not safeguarded, bring about his downfall.

Yet there is also something positive about this invitation to readers to appreciate the human frailties of clerical detectives.

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.

This may be true with some people about some things, but overall, the Bible has grown organically, is very close to human experiences of people over centuries and millennia, speaks the truth about our frailty, draws characters that are complex, raw, and authentic, warts and all.

Söhngen attempted to do justice to Barth's insight about the frailty of human knowledge of God by placing the question of natural knowledge of God within a uniquely Christological context.

Unencumbered by human frailties, Curiosity — like the rovers Spirit and Opportunity, which survived on the Red Planet years longer than expected — will be free to hunt for E.T. «If we find evidence for life on Mars, boy, are we just gonna go wild with speculation about how common it is in the universe,» says Lou Friedman, a former scientist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena and cofounder, with Carl Sagan, of the Planetary Society.

Long before Star Trek, and truth be told, actually better made than ALL of them, comes this opportunity to cinematically philosophize about the frailty of the human condition while wearing color coordinated jumpsuits, holding a ray gun in one hand and some scientist's half - naked daughter in the other, while backed by weird electronic noise (naturally)- or Manifest Destiny in Deep Space.

Its post-apocalyptic setting creates a playground for a finely tuned thriller about the paradoxical frailty and resilience of the human heart.

His best films of the 1930s, the most fruitful era of his career, are dark - toned works about human disillusionment and frailty.

Wes Anderson «s «Moonrise Kingdom» seems like an odd choice to open the 65th Cannes Film Festival, with its deadpan Americanism, retro - set timeline and movie - star cast; at the same time, Anderson is clearly influenced by the New Wave, both cinematically and personally, he's a distinctive authorial voice as a director (which is the essence of auteur theory) and while his films are defined by near - silent moments of comedy and human frailty, there's also something mournful and wounded about them.

There's a lot in the interactions between them about human arrogance and frailty and ultimately obsolescence, but mostly it's about David being the Vampire Willow to Walter's regular Willow during that one Buffy episode.

«His art... is about the human condition, which is why the images or scenes depicted are not specific to China, nor especially to the era... and individual experience in this rapidly modernising society acts as a backdrop to Jia Aili's awareness of human frailty, vulnerability, and the need to be mindful of one's surroundings.»

Out here, we know an awful lot about building organisations to solve problems and (as far as possible) to reduce the effect of human frailties on the results.