Sentences with phrase «about the human condition»

For most adults, marriage teaches a deep truth about the human condition: I do not live for myself.

The characters certainly react, but the reactions reveal more about the human condition in general than they do about any one, specific fictional person.

What does it ultimately say about the human condition?

This subject matter — painted big and painted simple, or so they claimed — was as much about the human condition as any figurative self - portrait.

The artists use different working methods to raise questions about the human condition in contemporary society.

Changes in elements such as setting, character and plot resulted in the transformation of a limited, bitter satire into a larger, poetic statement about the human condition.

The essays are remarkable expressions of intellectual clarity, literary grace, and real wisdom about the human condition.

Although these changes are far less striking than those in young brains, the potential has inspired a burst of optimism about the human condition and launched a new era of neuroscience.

Although the great thinkers write these books, at the end they are no wiser about the human condition than the ordinary man.

What does the female particularly express about our human condition?

We've learned a lot about the human condition in the past few hundred years — namely how pain can turn to hatred.

Their various cases for experimental approaches to new energy sources reveal a fundamental optimism about the human condition, whereby every new existential threat is an opportunity in the making.

It's as if filmmakers think that these movies say something about the human condition and that by having two lovers unite in happiness at the end they will give us an understanding about love.

After winning the Artes Mundi prize for «work that stimulates thinking about the human condition» in 2010, Israeli filmmaker and artist Yael Bartana presented her latest project at the 2011 Venice Biennale — the first non-Polish artist to represent Poland at the major international art exhibition... And Europe Will Be Stunned, her film trilogy made between 2007 and 2011, will be on view for the first time in Canada in the AGO's Lind Gallery from Jan. 25 to April 1, 2012.

While much of Lent's writing is rich with insights about the human condition, those who prefer a more fast - paced read may find this detailed examination of daily living less than a page - turner.

thanks for the empty threats, billy boy the bully, but you don't «know» any more about the human condition after death than anyone else on the planet.

The installations speak as much about conditions in post-Stalinist Russia as they do about the human condition universally.

We are fragile, helpless and destined to die: Michal Rovner, a pioneering Israeli artist, addresses these ingrained truths about the human condition through photography, film, installation and video.

Indeed, these mega-rich buyers don't necessarily view these pieces as evocative works of art that stir emotions and say something essential about the human condition.

In her stunning debut, Sachdeva expertly blends genres to arrive at far deeper and more profound observations about the human condition.

The way that Judaism and Christianity can jointly proclaim certain normative truths about the human condition without lapsing into the surrender demanded by proselytism, syncretism, or secularism is to affirm what Jewish tradition and Christian tradition have taught about general revelation.

Is it little wonder that the response in U.S. churches to global suffering is superficial when the theological tradition of those churches has emphasized human incapacity to do anything about the human condition?

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If we hope to make games that are truly socially responsible and offer players the satisfaction of more deeply resonant messages about the human condition we must start not by looking at the feature set, but by looking to our creators.

Docs / ology promotes documentary films that authentically and thoughtfully explore the truth about the human condition with excellence, artistry and substance.

At times it's strikingly perceptive about the human condition and has beautiful tender moments that are moving, but sinks in the slime at times from its grim tale and that studio boss Darryl F. Zanuck interfered by re-writing a Hollywood happy ending with

Their installations speak as much about conditions in post-Stalinist Russia as they do about the human condition universally.

A kind of anti-Nicholas Sparks movie, in which good intentions unintentionally expose cracks in a union, Marc Forster's superficially trippy Thailand - set movie — peppered as it is with amorphous waves of shapes and colors meant to evoke the point of view of the sight - impaired — never plays like something that had to be made about the human condition.

Gary, if you read it once more, you will find that I am asking very general questions and making points about the human condition.

Even if you didn't, I wonder if, after these last few years, your path has broaden (especially after leaving the church), from being reactive to the church to now also discussing non-church paths, other faiths and sometimes to even doing illustrations about the human condition without referral to religion.

One of its key tenets is that the modern era reveals something new about the human condition that requires the Church and doctrine to change in fundamental ways.

Spirituality helps people deal with what is painful and unproductive about the human condition, without making them irresponsible or stupid.

When my new acquaintance discovered that I was a theologian and that I was particularly interested in studying how Romanesque art and architecture illustrated the Augustinian - Anselmian character of the faith of the early Middle Ages — with its profound pessimism about the human condition apart from grace — the conversation sent him into a mood of self - reproach and even to consideration of abandoning his dissertation topic.

The history of the twentieth century confirms Plato's judgment and suggests a possible source of information for making Hartshorne's philosophy more realistic about the human condition.

Niebuhr was not so much against shaping human desire as he was for recognizing the limitations of such an approach and the naivety about the human condition he found in Protestant liberalism.

Evil is not the last word about the human condition, and an awareness of the pervasiveness of evil is not the place to start thinking about freedom, or indeed about political life in general.

The 1982 science fiction classic «Blade Runner» pulses with dystopian ponderings about the human condition — plus it's highly quotable.

Schaeffer's voice represents the Average Joe in a bar who thinks he has all the answers about the human condition but has nothing interesting to say.

Garland's film owes a lot more to an older movie, though: Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 Russian masterpiece Stalker, also about a group of people who set out on an expedition toward the center of an alien region, where their internal struggles manifest as part of a grand metaphor about the human condition.

Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet, the beloved collection of poetic essays about the human condition, receives an animated treatment in the appropriately titled Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet.

At first glance, «Living Out Loud» is a brash and sassy comedy about the human condition.

Ingmar Bergman («Autumn Sonata» / «Wild Strawberries» / «Fanny and Alexander») directs a darkly perceptive psychological drama about the human condition that exposes a dysfunctional family and its many unpleasant secrets.

«All I Want,» not to be confused with the recent Sharon Stone rom - com «All I Wish,» is a breezy, largely likable ensemble dramedy that, unfortunately, has little of consequence to impart about the human condition, seemingly the film's raison d'être.