Sentences with phrase «absurdity which»

This latter supposition is an absurdity which could never have entered anyone's head; for one who is born could scarcely have conceived the notion.

«Why have Faulkner and so many other writers chosen this particular absurdity which is so unnovelistic and so untrue?»

Here we move into simple absurdity which is all the more baffling because of the nondualistic quality of Buddhist language.

There is a sort of weird absurdity which dictates that the realities of human sexuality, and the transmission of life itself, must be subjected to a current ideology.

For centuries religion has declared innumerable absurdities which the sciences have ultimately proven to be demonstrably wrong.

Drawing from the art - historical lineage of cubism, cartoons, figurative painting and gestural abstraction, and appropriating subjects from mythology, advertising, print culture and consumerism, Comic Future is as much about the breakdown of the human condition as it is about the absurdities which define the perils of human evolution.

Not exact matches

Ratings Agencies Would Also Have To Fortify The Decision... Which They Would... Due to Tremendous Political Pressure... Despite The Absurdity Of The Idea.

The rest of the propaganda and rhetoric connected to the 2016 election, which was elevated to previously unforeseen levels of absurdity, was little more than unholy entertainment that served to agitate the masses.

But at the same time, he says, «To live without music would be a torment to me, an absurdity,» which a true - believing Gnostic could take as a sign that the Demiurge still has him in thrall.

What immediately struck me was the absurdity of the terminology and proposals in the paper — terms such as «heteronormativity» and «heterosexism», which I'd never encountered before.

This philosophy sees life as a meaningless absurdity, a succession of moments of decision into which no hope enters to provide expectations of a better tomorrow.

Perhaps this idea is ambiguous, perhaps there is a sense in which God should be conceived as perfect, another sense in which perfection can not apply to God, because (it may be) this sense involves an absurdity or, in other words, is really nonsense.

Precisely that portion of Ezekiel which she can not immediately imagine for herself — it can not be consigned to something like a prairie fire — is that which breaks into her consciousness and offers her new ways to apprehend her loneliness — and to apprehend both the absurdity and undeniability of her felt connection to John Ames.

Moreover, if all the formal possibilities are not controlled, we not only run the risk of fallaciously inferring the truth of one view from the difficulties of some only of its possible rivals, hut also we run the risk of trying to answer a perhaps meaningless question, namely, Which of two falsehoods (or absurdities) is more false?

Yeah right, keep apologizing for absurdities and trying to make sense of things for which no sense can be made.

There is perhaps a perspective on the universe that we do not ourselves have, but which would be able to unify into an aesthetic whole even those contradictions and absurdities that we deem most insurmountable.

I am pointing out the absurdity of your position, which credits your imaginary buddy with a few particular behaviors, but who ignores things he really should be helping with.

The central chapter on the Second Premise (K 65 - 140) contains: (i) a refutation of the attempted application of Cantor's transfinite mathematics to the domain of extramental reality, (ii) two philosophical arguments which attempt to show the conceptual absurdity of the notion of an infinite past of finite actualities, and (iii) two arguments from physics (concerning Big Bang and Thermodynamic theory, respectively) which attempt to show that probably the natural universe had an absolute beginning a finite time ago.

As believers in the literal truth of Genesis, creationists attack any discipline which, in its discovery of truth, exposes the absurdity of the biblical mythology.

It seems the height of absurdity to base one's votes on which god a candidate chooses to believe in.

Despite the chaos and absurdity into which the story has fallen in fiction, we all try to make sense of our lives by seeing them as stories.

And not only this, but that they have recognized that the very thing which was leading me to despair — the meaningless absurdity of life — is the only incontestable knowledge accessible to man.»

What I found was that there is some serious immorality and absurdity at the heart of Christianity which made it impossible for me to believe it any more.

They are attacking the grab bag of evils and absurdities associated with that amorphous reality called religion, which is an easy thing to do.

These are only the beginning of the absurdities into which the view thrusts us....

This act of a freedom that denies God is thus the absolute contradiction, in which God is affirmed and denied simultaneously, and this ultimate absurdity is at the same time made relative in the temporal sphere, because it is necessarily objectivated and mediated in the finite material of our life.

It may be able to avoid the absurdities in which it now ends up.

Niebuhr was well aware of the logical absurdity of this paradox; still he clung to it as an attempt to bring out a distinction of which language is not fully capable.

First, that the Son has come, which is Christmas; second, that he said «Father» in the abyss of absurdity, which is Good Friday; then, that he arrived at God the Father with the whole reality of his being, that is Easter; and finally, that he gave us the courage of his heart to repeat «Father» after him, which is Pentecost.

An opinion that would have been considered a self - evident absurdity and only laughed at a decade or two ago is now taken seriously because it can be exchanged for a high price in outrage» outrage both from those who agree and those who disagree» which is the media's coin of the realm.

The final chapter, on the diction of Mark and Paul, substantiates what has been the reader's growing conviction all along, namely that the hypothesis of Pauline influence upon the Gospel of Mark is a perfect mare's nest of absurdities, of which exegesis of the New Testament and historical research into Christian origins had better be completely rid at once.

He had to deny that he had wax candles burning before the altar in Littlemore Chapel, (which Anthony Russell repeated in his Clerical Profession in 1980) and that «he bowed to the Holy Elements in the Service... before Consecration» (which Newman pointed out was an absurdity since then it was «mere bread and wine»).

Or, one might say, it is the will to shatter the false scandal constituted by the absurdity of the mythological representation of the world by a modern man and to make apparent the true scandal, the folly of God in Jesus Christ, which is a scandal for all men in all times.

That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.

«Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange belief that it is the word of God has stood, and there remains nothing of Genesis but an anonymous book of stories, fables, and traditionary or invented absurdities, or of downright lies.»

This shows the absurdity of your worldview in which you use logic to debate mine but can't justify it in yours.

Lanier sees with devastating clarity the ghastly absurdity of the unmoved mover being taken as the model of deity in a religion of which the principle of principles is love (deus est cantas).

The damned ticker flows undammed, 24/7, on sports news channels, and it won't be long before these channels reach the screen - obliterating absurdity of the Bloomberg Financial Network, on which information boxes and tickers leave little room for the traditional TV picture.

The current Dear Abby does not have children, which might be why the absurdity of a suggestion that all playdates happen at the letter - writer's house did not immediately occur to her.

Beyond the absurdity of trying to write a contract which could serve as an algorithm for making arbitrary presidential decisions, the US constitution states that officers of the US can be impeached only for «high crimes and misdemeanors».

Any test case against a CBD seller would draw attention to both the absurdity of a law which even the department who wrote it and are tasked with enforcing it don't understand, and the truly arbitrary nature of our drug law enforcement.

It has come to our notice through VRA that Ameri served the Government with a notice of default which was also ignored with absurdity and the default continues.

As the pair walked down the corridor of Buckingham Palace, the monarch glanced at him slightly, in a moment of subtle humour which recognised the absurdity of the image and riffed on the way she is viewed by the public.

«Once again this highlights the need for real ethics reforms, something the Senate Democrats have been calling on for years, and really shows the absurdity that there has been no talk in this budget process of cleaning up Albany and passing the strong ethics reforms,» said Mike Murphy, a spokesman for the Senate Democratic Conference, a 23 - member group which is in the minority.

After all, as Isaac Newton pointed out in his Principia, the notion «that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophic matters a competent faculty of thinking could ever fall into it.»

I also love how critics seem to think that they can speak for moviegoers by saying things like David Goyer who seems to hate moviegoers more than he hates critics» or «greater «inescapable» scenarios which works itself to absurdity until the audience, not the villain, is beaten into submission.»

It's to distract you, perhaps, from the litany of howlingly funny absurdities that start piling up in the film's second half, each of which on its own should have stopped the plot in its tracks and when, taken together, constitute a Three Stooges routine of cascading damage to cinematic integrity (not that this is something that concerns Bay).

In either a stunningly brave or misguided act of meta - absurdity, «Real Steel,» which is about a boy, his dad and the robot that changes their lives, actually feels as if it were made inside the mind of a kid obsessed with robots.

All anybody's expecting is rapid - fire absurdities and Three Stooges violence, which Killam serves up aplenty.

The film, also written by Blair, manages an impressive balancing act in term of its tricky, quicksilver tone, which constantly oscillates between foreboding, menacing, hilarity and absurdity without ever feeling incongruous.