Sentences with phrase «actual human beings rather»

When a film like Prince appears out of nowhere, with its pseudo-incendiary electronic score and sophisticated examination of revenge, it revives hope for a pop - art cinema that's not only capable of balancing enraged critique with playful, irreverent aesthetics, but also treats its characters like actual human beings rather than pawns on a chess board.

Not exact matches

In human history, the actual living out of marriage as a lifelong union has been the exception rather than rule.

An inevitable temptation of Christian theology, and particularly so in our own time, has been to think that the idea or symbol of an actual end of the world was no part of the original proclamation of Jesus, and rather derived either from the apocalyptic religious world that so dominated Jesus» disciples or from the all - too - human or fleshy component of their minds and hearts, which was impervious to the higher call of the Spirit.

When human beings are looking to each other as models of being, the pathway of life is a treadmill or squirrel cage rather than an actual road.

That is, when men had learned to understand God as a person and his will as a body of moral teaching, they continued to recognize his supreme importance for human life, but his actual present effectiveness became a matter of belief rather than of immediate apprehension.

According to the Christian faith, God's involvement in human existence is not in terms of abstract truths and generalized principles, but is rather a matter of interactive sanctification of the actual context in which humans live.

This trust in life and the actual experiences which it entails are part of human existence that can be far better explained, as Birch and Cobb affirm, by an ecological model rather than an older mechanical one.

If we were to reconceptualize conscious agents such as human beings so that, at least in this one regard, they were more like God, then we would have an entire class of actual entities which did not immediately reach complete actuality Rather they would continue to concrescence while prehending, and being prehended by; many other actual entities.

So while it is all well and good to imagine that each of us has managers, exiles, and firefighters struggling to get along within ourselves, the transfer of those metaphors back again to the actual human population from which the metaphorical functions were borrowed in the first place only distorts reality rather than helping to explain it.

It rather appears to be the degree to which, in and through the experiences to which these statements point, there is effected an actual deepening and widening of spiritual insight into the nature of ultimate reality, of human existence and of the destiny of man.

I suppose one must commend a man who had no access to any actual scientific information for trying to gauge the age of the earth, but at the same time it's rather foolish for modern humans to cling to a number created with no basis in reality.

On Whitehead's view, the human body is a macrocosmic nexus of microcosmic actual identities, but — and this is the crucial point over against the mechanist view — these actual entities are interdependent rather than independent.

Regardless of the fact that some of the health problems for actual human use are not proven conclusively yet, I don't know about you, but I'd rather protect myself and my family and steer clear of these possibly dangerous artificial chemicals.

There's no wishful thinking here, nor any allegiance to fad diets which are based on perceived morality rather than actual human physiology.

Some Marvel movies, particularly early on, feel like they were constructed by Marvel Studios going down a list of important bullet points from the comics rather than being a personal work directed by an actual human, but the company does seem good at recognizing the benefit of allowing a filmmaker to put their stamp...

Parents should be aware that there are a few other scary scenes — hunters shoot Elliott several times (with tranquilizer darts rather than actual bullets, thankfully... but still), Elliott gets sick and is captured, and then later many of the humans are endangered in several different ways — but I can't stress enough how sweet and pure and joyful this movie is overall.

But that's less of a problem when we come to realize this isn't a character - driven piece, that Lockhart is really just a plot device rather than an actual human being for whom we're supposed to feel something — perhaps pity.

The handling of the BDSM sex play is dreadfully cliched in terms of structure (3 heated romps and a final dramatic one); however, the actual presentation of the «love scenes» recalls the style of director Adrian Lyne (Unfaithful, Nine 1/2 Weeks), favoring artsy close - ups of human form, curve and the intimate sensations of touch, feel and response, rather than the raw carnality seen in something like Basic Instinct (my generation's landmark erotic thriller movie).

This impassioned fourth geek article, which is actually rather nerdy, meanders (a) musingly around a (human) writer's actual paragraph attempts at...

I understand that you need to fly the frickin» plane and all, but we would feel a little better about things if we saw an actual human being in the cockpit rather than some incomprehensible voice when we get to cruising altitude.

Players feel that Rockstar is too focused on gimmicky or themed items, rather than letting people dress like actual human beings.

Mystery Dungeon is an interesting spin - off in that it has you play as an actual Pokémon rather than any kind of human character.

DAGW «consensus» believers apparently do not like your analyses, because they are based on actual observations of past climate trends rather than on model predictions of future climate changes, which myopically fixate on the human - induced aspect only.

This is probably why some people have to argue (so they can argue in good conscience I imagine) that there is an actual possibility that prior to a child actually being born, a woman might have been gestating something other than a human being, say like a cat or a whale or a Tyrannosaurus rex or some other such thing and thus it's always a «miracle» when a child is actually born rather than a larvae like in the movie The Fly.

What you are citing does not sound like an actual agreement / contract, but rather than a human - readable explanation gone wrong.

The only solution is to use SpaceX and Boeing's test flights as actual flights, in which we carry humans to and from the ISS, rather than as the test flights they were originally designed to be.

Or rather, it's powered by actual humans much more than it is by software.

Would you rather navigate a maze of «press 1 for...» and «tell us how we can help you...», or would you rather be connected to an actual human being?