Sentences with phrase «as an assault upon»

And that anger is intensified by my realization that despite all reasoning to the contrary, I can not but perceive these questions as an assault upon my person.

Not exact matches

As Fiorenza has observed, «Paul's advice to remain free from the marriage bond was a frontal assault upon the institutions of existing law and the general cultural ethos, especially since it was given to a people who lived in the urban centres of the Roman Empire.»

The reasons Melville should have hated New York have led many readers to imagine that he did in fact undertake an assault upon urban life in his land - based novels, Pierre (1852) and Israel Potter (1855), and such stories as «Bartleby, the Scrivener» (1853).

As such, it was not simply a prohibition of foreign cults, but a call to arms, an assault upon the antique order of the heavens — a declaration of war upon the gods.

And yet, Hamann's critique of Kant, for all that it is written as a kind of burlesque, is far more original and startling — and a far more penetrating assault upon modernity — than is Kierkegaard's critique of Hegel (despite the latter's satiric excellence).

While they welcome the assault upon an authoritarian church and the rejection of sacraments efficacious in and of themselves, they have resisted the Reformation logic as applied to doctrine and to the Bible.

Quite aside from hard - to - measure traumas such as the drawn - out anticipation of an impending catastrophe, the incarceration itself, the dehumanization, the sustained fear of death, I could point to some very tangible assaults upon my health in the concentration camp.

Despite cataclysmic assaults upon democratic ideals from both the right and the left, the ideal of democracy persists, indeed flourishes, not only in Western Europe and North America but — even if only as an ideal — throughout much of the less - developed world.

Always, however, resentment is a flight from life, an evasion of the human condition, an assault upon all life and movement as the way to the dissolution of pain.

The statues, which looked upon a visually stunning region of central Afghanistan for about 1,500 years, have been gone for 10 years, victims of the Taliban, who destroyed them as part of its campaign to destroy pre-Islamic artifacts considered an assault on the faith.

So it is that a recovery of the original way of Jesus can occur only by way of an absolute assault upon all established or manifest Christianity, as most purely occurs in Blake and Nietzsche.

Upon being shouldered aside by an opposing center — say, a 340 - pound behemoth clad in purple and gold — he will lurch backward as if propelled by the thrust of a jet engine and either land in a heap at the baseline or somehow, visibly shaken, remain vertical, a stalwart soldier determined not to leave his post no matter how barbarous the assault.

The scenes set on Themyscira, including a sensational German assault put down by an army of determined Amazons, are magnificent, and for as brief as they sadly are the imprint they leave upon the picture can not be undervalued.

You have multiple avenues of attacking these enemies, too, as your characters can choose to attack solo or with a united assault (a special ability that draws upon a combination of skills from each character that deals massive damage).

Upon landing I was immediately overwhelmed by the ecstatic colors, sounds, and foreign smells of the sprawling metropolis, which presented themselves as an unrelenting assault on the senses.

An assault can be defined as the threat to use unlawful force to inflict bodily injury upon another.

California sex crimes fall under its Penal Code 243.4 PC where sexual battery is known as sexual assault with heavy punishments upon conviction.

Of course, such judges almost invariably accompany dicta touching upon the possibility of judicial disobedience to constitutionally suspect legislation with lavishly extravagant examples such as a full - frontal assault upon the basic tenets of democracy or the evisceration of the courts» powers of judicial review.

Chair of the Family Law Bar Association, Lucy Theis QC, accused the LSC of putting increasing pressure on the family law system: «It should come as no surprise that the LSC hasn't got the courage publicly to announce this latest assault on legal aid... The expertise of the barristers who practise in this area of the law is relied upon by both the litigants and the judges.

Dr. Wyatt is frequently called upon for grief counseling after traumatic events (such as a work - related death, robbery or assault at work or school, reductions in force / lay - offs and other trauma situations that are unique to a particular industry or profession.