Sentences with word «alas»

But alas, the two problems — those of the contemporary religious culture that says that is mean - spirited and those who love power and bullying who say, that man can never be a part of us again.

Jesus Christ and His Father will that none should perish but alas some will because they have free choice and they will choose to remain defiant and humanistic.

There are some grounds, alas, for thinking that American society is becoming less open and that its power is in decline.

But alas, this is your journey.

Alas, the movie completely squanders Rachel McAdams, a sin for which there can be no forgiveness.

I wish I could be as blissfully ignorant as you, but alas, I have the capcity for rational thought so there comes a time when I have to admit that I don't know what the truth is.

Alas, in many places this movement is hardly to be discerned.

«We, alas, had some real experience of what a paedophile could be: a master was relieved of this post and replaced without police involvement when one of us went with his parents to tell the dean what was happening,» they said.

And, alas, anti-Jewish attitudes — often expressed in horrible language — were by no means unknown in Catholic publications and in Catholic organisations and preachers in the 1930s, and not only in Germany.

Sister Andrea: Alas, there are many, but three loom largest, I think.

I had one ticket for a matinee of Wicked (alas, the brand - new Hamilton tickets were way above my pay grade) but I had a few hours before curtain so eventually I walked my way to and through Central Park, heading for the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

It was, I believe, Dr. Johnson who told an author that his work was both good and original — but that, alas, what was good was not original and what was original was not good.

Writes Amos, «Alas for those who lie on beds of ivory, and lounge on their couches, and eat lambs from the flock, and calves from the stall... Therefore they shall now be the first to go into exile, and the revelry of the loungers shall pass away.»

Alas, there are....

The traditional Hindu caste system was the most perfect form of ascribed ranking: An individual's place in the social hierarchy was fixed at birth and, at least in principle, remained immutable throughout his life (at any rate, in this life» the Hindu idea that social mobility could occur in future incarnations is, alas, beyond the scope of sociology).

Alas, it seems that the name is taken.

Here, alas, Gawande deeply disappoints.

Then there is a period in their lives (alas, their best period) when they begin after all to take the inward direction.

In this transition Christianity makes its start; by proceeding along this path it proves that sin lies in the will, thus attaining the concept of defiance; and then, in order to make the end thoroughly fast, it adjoins to this the dogma of original sin — for, alas, the secret of Speculation's success in comprehending is just this, of sewing without making the end fast and without knotting the thread, and therefore it can marvelously keep on sewing, i.e. keep on pulling the end through.

But I can't escape the feeling that in the church, the national flag betrays again the ambiguity and tragedy of contemporary biblical faith, rooted in revolutionary messianic hope but, alas, comfortably accommodated to the self - seeking ways of an inevitably corrupted temporal state.

I recall a wedding I attended many years ago, in which the ceremony, dictated by centuries of careful thought and adjustment — a «form» — was going very nicely; but then, alas, the presiding member of the clergy took it upon himself to step outside of the rules and add something of his own.

Alas, even Christian circles are not immune to odd currents of pseudo-spirituality which are products of the general air of psycobabble.

Even if she continues to love in turn, his follow - up song, alas, might have lyrics like these from She & Him's» Thieves.»

At that same moment, alas, matters become more tentative.

And, alas, the fate of this word in Christendom is like a motto for Christianity as a whole.

But alas, it doesn't seem like it's going to work out.

«Alas, sir», said Rutherford, «I had thought that one so wise and venerable of aspect would have given a better answer.

In different ways, Jesus and Paul are heralding the inbreaking of God's rule on earth, the fulfillment of all our hopes and prayers when we pray — alas, sometimes mindlessly — that God's kingdom come on earth and God's will be done on earth (in Washington, D.C., Afghanistan and Iraq, in affluent suburbs and in blighted inner cities).

35 It happened, when he saw her, that he tore his clothes, and said, «Alas, my daughter!

No one in their right mind can claim that they show an equivalent measure of patience and grace to their fellow man as they do for themselves; alas not even church goers.

The young generations should heed such words but alas, the unlearned frivolities of it all!

For, alas, the good must be done at once — at once, the moment it is known (and hence the transition goes so easily in the pure ideality where everything is «at once»), but the strength of the lower nature consists in dragging a thing out.

And neither did the other MSM outlets, nor, alas, our president, try to get the necessary «let's wait for....

But alas I ask, where was I incorrect.

Alas, the burden of learning history!

NAH: «Alas, you've failed at reading comprehension again.»

Alas, many of those who would style themselves devout Christians are in fact believers in the Manichean rejection of the world as not only temporal and in the obvious sense ephemeral but also as evil and without spiritual worth.

Alas, sometimes it seems that intellect just gets in the way of unconditional love and compassion.

Alas, it is horrible to see a man rush toward his own destruction.

If you, my listener, should see such a man, although it is unlikely, for without a doubt weakness and mediocrity are the more common, if you should meet him in what he himself would call a weak moment, but which, alas, you would have to call a better moment; if you should meet him when he had found no rest in the desert, when the giddiness passes away for a moment and he feels an agonizing longing for the Good; if you should meet him when, shaken in his innermost being, and not without sadness, he was thinking of that man of single purpose who even in all his frailty still wills the Good: then you would discover that he had two wills, and you would discover his painful double - mindedness.

There is, alas, no real wrestling with any conceptual integration of divine love and power here.

Your bread - N - butter fascination with numbers is truly a daunting conditioning, but,,, alas; many folks never seem to give you any credit for your numbered fascinations.

«Alas, alas for you, Lawyers and pharisees Hypocrites that you are Searching for souls and fools to forsake them You travel the land you scour the sea (and any breathing man will do..

Alas, the burden of studying history!

Alas, you're trying to create an objective morality from subjective principles.

Alas, even Jeebus won't be able to help him there.

I wonder how the results would have differed if the atheist followed had been Matthieu Ricard, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, and the Dalai Lama (I'd include Bertrand Russell to broaden the sample, but, alas, he no longer tweets).

Alas, liberals have no, well, I don't want my post filtered.

This little catalogue, alas, is far from exhaustive.

(I once tried to explain this to Pope St. John Paul II — without success, alas.)