Sentences with phrase «as despairing»

Rift deepens between Scottish artists and Creative Scotland, as despairing open letter is published

This has been interpreted as a despairing comment on art's impact, but in the years before its appearance at Tate Britain it seemed more plausible that Creed was making a plea for economy in art.

Well, not «fine,» exactly: he feels as despairing and sceptical and faithless as he usually does, but that's clearly where he's comfortable, and where his creative faculties thrive most actively.

As a despairing political allegory about crime and punishment (and how the latter doesn't always go with the former), Sisters is weirdly profound; as an exercise in thriller mechanics, it's limber and energizing, wrapping itself around a wonderfully stupid plot about separated Siamese twins (both played by Margot Kidder, one of whom is, naturally, a psycho killer).

Sidney Lumet's Network (1976) with Peter Finch as a despairing newsman was a critical look at TV news, while Sydney Pollack's Absence of Malice (1981) told about an over-earnest journalist (Sally Field) and a wrongly - implicated defendant (Paul Newman).

Raoul Peck's Oscar - nominated documentary on race in America is as despairing as it is inspiring.

If you're going to dating site over 50 and decided it would be described as a despairing task, you will find so - called «leftovers» then think again.

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After all, targeted harassment is usually a means of asserting control and defending status on the part of the harasser, to leave victims «afraid, despairing, utterly alone, and complicit,» as Catharine A. MacKinnon wrote in her 1979 book «Sexual Harassment of Working Women: A Case of Sex Discrimination.»

After several moments, though, he sighed yet again, as if despairing of my capacities, then turned and leapt down to the floor.

Surely the Christian — and only the Christian — should be able to exercise this clarity of vision and thought because the Revelation has to some degree given him an understanding of the world, and also because, terrible as the reality may be, he can accept it without despairing, for he has hope in Jesus Christ.

This unlovely portrait is not wholly wrong, but it is, in its despairing one «sidedness, wholly inadequate as a basis for analysis.

The person described as the «heathen» in Christian Discourses is now the despairing individual:

Humanly speaking his destruction is the most certain of all things — and the despair in his soul fights desperately to get leave to despair, to get, if you will, repose for despair, the consent of his whole personality to despair, so that he would curse nothing and nobody more fiercely than him who attempted (Or it may be the attempt) to prevent him from despairing, as the poet's poet so capitally, so incomparably expresses it in Richard II, Act 3, Scene Z:

This hiddenness is precisely something spiritual and is one of the safety - devices for assuring oneself of having as it were behind reality an enclosure, a world for itself locking all else out, a world where the despairing self is employed as tirelessly as Tantalus in willing to be itself.

And if he does not essentially develop with the years, nor yet sink into sheer triviality, that is to say, if he remains pretty much a young man, a youth, although he is mature, a father and gray - haired, retaining therefore something of the good traits of youth, then indeed he will be exposed also to the possibility of despairing as a youth over the earthly or over something earthly.

The loss of the earthly as such is not the cause of despair, and yet it is of this he speaks, and he calls it despairing.

And if the suffering and despairing Jesus on the cross is accepted in one's heart and soul as a virtuous human being» if we can still, staring into our own abyss, wistfully hope to have his fortitude and compassion despite our enduring weaknesses» then is salvation really that far off?

The Apocalypse, said Jerome, has «as many mysteries as words» (Letters 53:9) A despairing scholar said that the study of the Revelation either finds a man mad or leaves him so.

To develop this sense of «belonging» will be a way in which, here and now, life can become meaningful; for in the little cells of Christian faith and love which are our parishes as they ought to be, hope is implanted m men's hearts that lifts them above, and yet sends them back into, the community life of which they are also a part, knowing that they have passed from death into life, because they love the brethren and are therefore empowered to bring a stream of fresh, courageous, loving life to a sadly disillusioned and despairing world.

A man has sinned, so he can bear the punishment for it without despairing; but without blame to be singled out as a sacrifice to pity, as a sweet - smelling savor in its nostrils, that he can not put up with.

St. Augustine's enduring conception of the two cities here receives contemporary development and application as outstanding authors, most of whom are also First Things contributors, address economics, the academy, natural law, politics, and marriage: Robert Jenson on the Church's responsibility, Robert Louis Wilken on what Augustine really meant, Carl Braaten on natural law, George Weigel on not despairing about the ambiguity of politics, Robert Benne on Christian engagement in economic enterprise, and Gilbert Meilaender on the virtue of marriage.

When he was depressed and despairing he said that a word from «Pomeranus or Philip or indeed my Katie» would bring him round: «I was comforted as I realised that God was saying this through a brother who was speaking it from duty or from love.»

Without this faith, as distinguished scientist - humanists like J. Bronowski and Michael Polanyi have pointed out, science is nowhere and Macbeth's despairing statement is hard to improve on.

I would suggest that neither naive liberalism (as it existed in the late 1800s) nor despairing dispensationalism prepared their offspring well for the twentieth century.

Now he has indeed become king, and yet, by despairing over his sin, and about the reality of repentance, about grace, he has also lost himself, be can not even maintain himself in his own eyes, and he is precisely as far from being able to enjoy his own self in ambition as he is from grasping grace.

As one who ascends in a balloon rises by casting weights from him, so does the despairing man sink by casting from him the good (for the weight of the good is uplift), he sinks, doubtless he thinks he is rising — he does indeed become lighter.

Trailing 2 - 1, the youngster floated a long ball into the opposition box as the Canadians pressed forward only for his punt to bounce over despairing dive of England's Jordan Pickford.

Clearly bookmakers are of the same opinion as me, that Blackburn have shown some encouraging signs of mounting a recovery whereas Wigan cut a despairing figure and are generally a team to avoid at all costs right now.

I have never felt so angry and despairing after any game of football as I feel today!

Also, if you are despairing over lots of different bottles and your breastfed baby is turning their nose up to them all, give the Lansinoh Momma bottle a try, it really is as close to real deal as you can get it.

I was very bummed about that, but remembering to let everything go as it goes saved me from despairing.

And that aversion to objective truth is eating away at the left as well, with a whole generation now convinced of the despairing nihilism of Michel Foucault's philosophy — basically that our only truths are personal ones dependent on our place in time and power structures.

As a strong supporter of the first decade of the last Labour government I am not crowing about being right about Ed Miliband; I'm angry and despairing and frightened of the consequences of his disastrous leadership.

NY TIMES - Apr 14 - Chinese men increasingly find themselves lovelorn and despairing as a growing number of women hold out for a mate with a deed.

It's not so much a crossover as a mosaic, and it sets out — among other impossible tasks — to shuffle the colourful, light - hearted hijinks of James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy films and Taika Waititi's Thor: Ragnarok with the angstier, despairing, politicised tone of the Russo brothers» Captain America sequels, while at the same time reconciling the science - fictional and magical worlds of Iron Man, Black Panther, the Hulk and Dr Strange.

Having directed heavy and despairing dramas of note such as Crazy Heart and Out of the Furnace, he crafted a well - written script into a well - formed crime drama that competes with the best of its kind.

It is almost as if the man who made a tv show about nothing but incessant talking wanted to make a bee movie with the same premise, but test screenings left the audience so despairing that scenes featuring Barry trying to stay alive within the machinery of a car or negotiating the impossibly complicated honey factory equipment had to be inserted to keep the children docile.

Of the good cast, Elisabeth Shue is a standout as Riggs» wealthy, despairing wife, lock - jawed with good breeding.

If Denis Villeneuve's Sicario offers a slick, thrilling look at the bleak and despairing world of the War on Drugs, then Matthew Heineman's Cartel Land can act as the gritty, real - world side of the same coin.

The film necessarily presents a despairing view of America as its 20th - century glory days recede into the distance, but Schrader isn't one to shirk away from some form of hope for his isolated priest.

It would have been enough if Crowe and his screenwriters, Andrew Knight and Andrew Anastasios, had simply dramatized the doggedness of a despairing father as he attempts to «divine» his sons» remains.

The story is about their relationship — how a washed - up old comedian takes a despairing young performer under his wing and gives her the confidence to become a great artist, even as his own career fades into irrelevance.

Admittedly, there is a level of predictability to the plotting, as it's clear that the idealized Baxter will have an easy time wooing the despairing wife away from the macho, egotistical husband, played well by Aiello.

It's almost unheard of for a Marvel movie to get a screenplay nomination (though «Black Panther» may manage it next year), and it's a tribute to the risks Scott Frank, James Mangold and Michael Green took in bringing this brooding, melancholy, almost despairing «X-Men» movie as close to authentic drama as they could.

Steve Carell is properly forlorn and despairing as an insurance salesman named Dodge, whose wife flees him on the night they hear the definitive word that a large asteroid will crash on Earth in three weeks, ending life as we know it.

Just as Nettie is despairing about not having any means of transport, a lost horse appears in her driv...

Once you've surmounted that hurdle, you need to ask whether you want a home tablet, or one to use as you exhale a despairing sigh on the way to work, trapped within a crowd of similarly - miserable morning commuters.

Most books on the economic crisis focus on the dominoes falling — it is amazing and despairing to watch the disaster unfold, as the leverage in the system is finally revealed to be unsustainable.

I keep reading advice like this and I'm now quite despairing as I don't think I'm going to keep my dog due to disobedience and it being «my fault» despite trying absolutely everything.

Horii has also commented on his love of the branching storyline and generational aspect of DQV (the first 16 - bit installment), as well as the epic hunt to recover the lost Sankara stones to save a despairing Indian village in DQVI.