Sentences with phrase «as escaping from»

Countless experiments have been planned over a cuppa, and a quick break in the tea - room is the ideal place to mull over tricky problems (as well as escaping from the sight of that experiment which has just failed for the fourth time).

Others said they used their military service as an escape from pressures to conform within their communities.

The age - long and still influential Christian doctrine of bodily resurrection thus goes back to primitive Hebrew behaviorism, which always conceived soul as a function of the material organism and never, like Greek philosophy, conceived immortality as escape from the imprisoning flesh.

He here offers a persuasive practical, as well as unabashedly moral, argument that personal merit and competition are in the short and long term interests of minorities, drawing on his own rise from poverty, which he describes as an escape from «the liberal plantation.»

Markos argues that this Christian humanist vision that God's revelation answers our highest aspirations has suffered since the Puritans portrayed heaven as an escape from earth rather than as the redemption of creation.

It is the protest against the misuse of sacred forms as escape from the real issues.

Answer, as an escape from a childhood trauma they aren't cognizant of.

Twain's Satan, in fact, sees the sadism of the Old Testament God as an escape from a universe that would otherwise have bored Him with its unrelieved sweetness and light.

And it understands this promise not as an escape from the present but as new possibility for the present.

As were the émigrés, so to speak, from Protestantism and Catholicism who sought out Orthodoxy as an escape from history.

But without the knowledge that God can use even their troubles to transform lives and bring restoration, redemption, healing, and hope, many people allow their troubles to get the best of them, and they turn to drugs, alcohol, entertainment, sex, or even death as an escape from their troubles.

Consumers only need to pay an additional dollar or two on a baked good treat and they are using such opportunity as an escape from the gloom, she said.

Alexis Arguello once considered suicide as an escape from the contradictions and ambiguities that filled a rich life with betrayal and despair

Regardless of whether you're enjoying Thanksgiving Day football with friends and family or using it as an escape from those very same people, we've got you covered with everything that you need to know.

We were built as an escape from the modern day — a unique living history museum where the west was build right before your eyes.

It's a cruel thing to do to children, not to mention the moms and dads who see charters as escapes from the traditional public schools that are failing most of the city's other schoolchildren.

Health workers give polio drops to children by the roadside in Monguno as they escape from inaccessible areas.

Other chapters tackle the metaphysics of music, brain and body, the enigma of communication (songs) without words, music as an escape from reality, and several other broad topics.

«Factors such as escape from natural enemies including herbivores, predators, pathogens or parasites were thought to explain how species become invasive,» says Colautti, an NSERC Banting Postdoctoral Fellow with the UBC Department of Botany, who started the research in 2007 as a PhD student at the University of Toronto.

Known as a «test divertor unit (TDU) scraper element,» the component intercepts some of the heat flowing towards the divertor — a part of the machine that collects heat and particles as they escape from the plasma before they hit the stellarator wall or degrade the plasma's performance.

The water maze takes advantage of this preference to train animals to use a small platform as an escape from a pool of water.

Over a decade ago, I got into yoga as an escape from the stressful corporate job I was working at the time.

It's not a dress as much as an escape from everyday life.

But frankly, I started my blog as an escape from work since it was creative endeavor that I could completely control as I would not be subject to others edits and thoughts.

It's a pity, but it is often hard to find out what they are all about because the long distance relationship often serves for some as an escape from the everyday.

Funny, exhausting, polemical and poetic, it is a joyous assertion of Gomes» belief that storytelling serves as an escape from reality, and a way to confront and transcend even the most difficult of times.

Jean's laconic if purposeful manner as Julian makes him a charismatic oasis of cool in a world which is basically violent, frenzied, shouty and sweary: There's little depth of characterization, when everyone's simply seeking to gratify their urge for money, sex, drugs or or all three, as an escape from the tedium and the horror.

It is one of Allen's deepest reflections on the seventh art and its function as an escape from our harsh reality.

It begins with Deadpool jumping through a taxi window as he escapes from a crowd of enemies, before he returns to fiancée Vanessa's apartment.

The Insidious Logic of «Stick to Sports» — Paul Ringel breaks down the 150 - year - old marketing strategy, which casts professional athletics as an escape from, rather than a part of, American corporate culture.

While some films void of color such as Escape From Tomorrow and Computer Chess did not make our list, a film set in the black void of space did (Gravity).

But in a moment of betrayal, the pirates did what pirates do; they take Captain Phillips hostage as they escape from the newly armed crew in a lifeboat that's on the ship.

It's more sexually explicit than the AMC series, but the sex serves the story, which explores how the secret perversions of a murdered 1950s TV star haunt his son, a WWII veteran who uses alcohol as an escape from his PTSD.

In addition to serving as an alternative to studio fare, SPC is positioning the feature as an escape from the onslaught of negative news.

Fredric March, who had worked with Cukor on The Royal Family, was cast as the distressed husband, who takes to drinking as an escape from his frivolous and insensitive wife.

There is much to love in Woody Allen's Wonder Wheel, from the breathtaking costumes and cinematography, to the nostalgia of Coney Island and 1950s New York, to Allen's recurring and relentless appreciation of movies as an escape from real...

The film is also imbued with a sense of sadness, loss, and a dominant desire to suppress those feelings in any way possible — even if it means clinging to paranoid delusions as an escape from reality.

Some use it as an escape from their bleak lives, while others are attempting to solve the mysteries of the 3 keys.

Developed by actor Jamie Bell, Violet is a shy teenager living in the Isle of Wight who dreams of pop stardom as an escape from her small town and shattered family life.

It's a cruel thing to do to children, not to mention the moms and dads who see charters as escapes from the traditional public schools that are failing most of the city's other schoolchildren.

Furthermore, their single - scroll design allows for more efficient collection of exhaust as it escapes from within the cylinders.

Beryl had some of the same attractions to Kenya, but Karen was attracted to Africa as an escape from a suffocating society in Denmark.

She writes as an escape from sports equipment, football on TV, and dog hair.

She used books and music as an escape from boredom.

- Competitions thread of the week: 2 tickets to see The Cure at Hyde Park - Old - Style board thread of the week: Old - Style as an escape from the world?

I would never consider suicide as an escape from the loans, that seems a little ridiculous to me.

I've always used food as an escape from my feelings or I eat unconsciously when I'm stressed.

However, for the vagabond, it is not as an escape from anything.

Come to Ras Al Khaimah as an escape from the bustle of Dubai, but stay for the cultural wonders and beautiful landscapes.

With every modern amenity and facility you can desire, including the award - winning Banyan Tree Spa and 24 - hour business centre, the resort is a hushed sanctuary offering you the gift of rejuvenation even as you escape from the bustle of fast - paced city living.