Sentences with phrase «afflict human civilization»

Together, these paintings attest to Golub's incisive perspective on the catastrophes than afflict human civilization and his critique of brutality and belligerent masculinity.

Together, these objects not only attest to Golub's incisive perspective on the catastrophes that afflict human civilization but also demonstrate his sustained critique of brutality and belligerent masculinity.

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Moreover, we are sometimes afflicted with a sense of impending crisis, lending force to Niebuhr's observation that «one of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentiously, compounds its partial and universal values most convincingly, and claims immortality for its finite existence at the very moment when the decay which leads to death has already begun.»