Sentences with phrase «agonizing death of»

With the slow and agonizing death of print magazines over the past 20 years, fewer literary magazines, short fiction's traditional home, exist anymore.

I made Pastor Ryan's Monkey Bread not long ago and added some vanilla and almost died a slow, agonizing death of happiness.

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For years, I watched in horror as most of the most remarkable, honest, hard working, compassionate, productive, contributing & patriotic; people one could ever hope to know in life & have the privilege of calling friends; die a slow, agonizing, disfiguring & vastly premature death, amidst the muted joy & exaltation of conservative religious groups & individuals.

Hence the joy of the martyrs: hence the serenity of an agonizing but saintly death - bed.

They believe not because the priest or minister told them to have faith but rather because it helped their elderly grandmother avoid a long and agonizing death by taking her to heaven at the age of 51.

But to the young widow with children to raise alone, to the man dying an agonizing and untimely death from cancer, to the person full of life and hope who is incapacitated by multiple sclerosis, or to the child who has to start his or her life with an uncorrectable birth defect, the average isn't what matters.

Also re prayer, think of all the millions of people who have prayed to have their sick relatives cures of horrid diseases (diseases that your nasty sky fairy would have created, according to your folklore), only to have them die agonizing deaths anyway.

And though in the Fourth Gospel the notes of agonizing struggle, or even of ordinary human weakness and suffering, are muted, if not hushed, and the death is, as Vincent Taylor says, «no longer a (Greek word) but a shining stairway by which the Son of God ascends to his Father,» (The Atonement in New Testament Teaching, p. 215.

It is that crucial motif in Christianity that theologians have called the kenosis, the humiliation of God: The same God who has all power, who created this world and all possible worlds, has taken upon himself the form and the fate of an ordinary man, and indeed a man who suffered the most agonizing afflictions of betrayal, torture, despair, and death.

As the institutional church continues to suffer a slow and agonizing death, this is the sort of rhetoric we can expect to hear more of from those whose income and notoriety depend upon the institutional church.

But consider the price at which that comfort is purchased: it requires us to believe in and love a God whose good ends will be realized not only in spite of» but entirely by way of» every cruelty, every fortuitous misery, every catastrophe, every betrayal, every sin the world has ever known; it requires us to believe in the eternal spiritual necessity of a child dying an agonizing death from diphtheria, of a young mother ravaged by cancer, of tens of thousands of Asians swallowed in an instant by the sea, of millions murdered in death camps and gulags and forced famines.

Reinhardt warns, «They are not free, however, to force their views, their religious convictions, or their philosophies on all the other members of a democratic society, and to compel those whose values differ with theirs to die painful, protracted, and agonizing deaths.»

It was not a symbol, but a concrete means of cruel and agonizing death.

It would be one thing to say, «it's ok, I'd rather die an agonizing death with an undelivered fetus after 72 hours of labour than have a c - section and a live baby so why don't you just prescribe me some morphine so I can go home and gather my family» which would be bizarre but at least demonstrate understanding of the consequences.

If that child knows that her mother died an agonizing, preventable death because of one stupid choice, her regret, like Harry's, will know no bounds.

Her partner left two of their infants alone in the tree and jumped down to apparently comfort her, until she died an agonizing death a couple of hours later.

While a soupçon of naturally occurring asphalt on a sidewalk or in a wine cellar is annoying, the substance meant slow, agonizing death for millions of Ice Age creatures.

But even now, a Huntington's diagnosis means the agonizing loss of one's faculties and eventual death.

It's not every director who can show three kids (including an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes) perforated by bullets without so much as flinching, but that's Cooper's M.O., refined over the three films since his relatively marshmallowy «Crazy Heart»: As in «Black Mass» before this, violence packs more punch if depicted matter - of - factly, which somehow registers as «realistic» these days (although one suspects that it would be far more horrifying if his victims suffered slow, agonizing deaths after being shot).

And last is Chile's A Fantastic Woman, which follows a trans woman in the agonizing aftermath of her lover's sudden death, showing us all the ways, subtle and otherwise, that she is marginalized and tormented.

For all its willingness to risk audience discomfort by immersing the viewer in the slow, agonizing buildup to the titular event, Cristi Puiu's justly lauded 2005 film The Death of Mr. Lazarescu was painstakingly precise in the specifics of its details and never less than fully legible.

From his agonizing bout with spina bifida to his unfaithful marriage to his spiraling addiction to drugs and alcohol, Abraham covers the singer's darkest days, which culminated with his death at the early age of 29 in 1953.

Most likely she will become seriously ill and die an agonizing death — neither of which necessarily need occur if she can receive effective medical treatment and management.

There's Willard Russell, tormented veteran of the carnage in the South Pacific, who can't save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from an agonizing death by cancer no matter how much sacrificial blood he pours on his «prayer log.»

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The problem is that there are so many breeding indiscriminately that we have millions sitting in shelters waiting to die a slow, agonizing death, including thousands of purebred dogs who are victims of the breeding industry, which produces many more dogs than there are owners willing to pay high prices for a dog.

In America, most of those puppies have no hope of a loving home but rather, will most likely end up in a metal box gasping for their last breath as they feel life drain from their body in a slow and agonizing death.

Thousands of dogs die an agonizing death this way each year.

Finding hemangiosarcoma saves a lot of agonizing over possible causes of the death of a friend.

That alone was pretty damn agonizing, but the fact that death brings you back to the start of the scene, where you still have to make it through the random hard part was part of the cause for a lot of rage quitting (but I'll talk more about that in a bit).

You know, all that critical agonizing over formalism and mere illusion, the linear and the painterly, or the death of Modernism and the death of irony.

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