Sentences with phrase «affront to common»

Performance Ann Dowd, Compliance The real - life story that inspired Compliance is so certifiably insane, such an apparent affront to common sense, that dramatizing it presented a Herculean challenge.

The idea is so seductive that it has been a mainstay of science fiction since the early days of Star Trek and Doctor Who, but it also seems an affront to common sense.

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As Christian Myth, without affronting our common sense, it can signify and help us to grasp these important truths.

In fact, we might do better to point to the unknowability of God by using concepts that do not affront our common sense — and there are certainly enough unknowables (not lust unknowns, but unknowables) in the universe to do this.

We enthusiastically affirm that the good of the African peoples is an indispensable condition for achieving the universal common good, but we acknowledge that the life conditions under which many Africans live remain intolerable, an affront to the dignity of all humankind.