Sentences with phrase «at the horrors of»

We tremble with fear at the horror of the Nazi occupation and swell with compassion for those who were forced to hide or flee.

p - z, since you are referencing the Christian book of nasty, AKA the bible, let's take a closer look at the horrors of that book, in both OT and NT:

We know more today, and maybe events like this ask us to take some new best guesses: have a little faith in a creature that is omniscient, omnipresent, and all powerful — that maybe we are looking at the wrong thing if we are looking at the horror of the Aurora massacre.

«Today, I am aghast at the horror of recent events and feel it a duty to speak out,» he said in a London newspaper.

Alarmed at the horrors of violence and threat to human life, the Church began to focus its attention on human beings.

Even if you don't drink the good stuff, which I gasp at the horror of that nonsense, perhaps you still like the espresso flavor and in that case you will fall head over heels in LOVE with this Coffee Granola Recipe.

Tuts of jolly disapproval resounded at this horror of toffishness, and we were then ready to hop over the street up to our next destination, the Lanes.

Lacking that, all it is is just another attempt at horror of the most cheesy variety, filling a void where The Exorcist ended and The Shining began.

This War of Mine is an often harrowing look at the horrors of war from the point of view of a group of survivors.

They were the big tough guys who threw the paint on the floor and ripped it apart and were flexing their muscles and screaming in agony at the horror of life: «I yearn, I bleed.»

Not exact matches

Users on Twitter expressed anger and disbelief at the poll, suggesting it was making light of the horror of the Holocaust and an act of trolling.

Such are the everyday horrors lurking at SadDeskLunch.com, a Tumblr blog dedicated to unflinchingly documenting in photos the pathos of the millions of white - collar workers who eat lunch while sitting at their desks.

The collapse of Toys» R'Us triggered a 13 % drop in sales and a $ 603 million net loss at Mattel in the third quarter, a horror story that wiped 27 % off the toymaker's shares.

One that, in this particular case, is sweet music to the ears to those, like me, who shudder in horror at the idea of one extra moment of cleaning in their lives.

But horror at the public castigation of our fellow humans, some of whom have fallen with little or no apparent vetting of the allegations against them.

Since he took over as worldwide managing director in July, he's launched a dozen internal initiatives, ranging from cost - cutting measures (at a firm notorious for not taking its own efficiency medicine) to a new focus on marketing (a word that, by Barton's own account, draws gasps of horror at McKinsey).

Most of the time these regulations are just background noise, but at the heart of most passenger horror stories lies some rule that transformed an ordinary service interaction into something more akin to a police stop.

But, she added, «as soon as I heard about this, I knew I was going to go because of my level of horror at the way folks are talking about women's issues postelection.»

The book is beating out New England Patriots» quarterback Tom Brady's «The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime of Sustained Peak Performance,» which comes in at No. 2, as well as two novels from 1986: Margaret Atwood's dystopian classic, «The Handmaid's Tale,» and Stephen King's horror classic, «It: A Novel.»

Some of us have the selling ability, and some of us recoil in horror at the thought of pushing someone to buy our product or service.

Named for Halloween, Carbone's favorite holiday, the company scares the bejesus out of willing customers at interactive events, including the Haunted Hayride (a tractor - drawn trek through the abandoned Griffith Park Zoo) and Ghost Ship (which sails out on short horror cruises).

Meanwhile, the hazards of global warming predicted by science came at us like zombies in a horror movie.

Mr. Trump, who has often struggled to express empathy in the face of tragedy, appeared moved by the personal stories, even as he asked repeatedly whether anyone in the ornate room at the White House knew how such horrors could be prevented.

The carnage at Stoneman Douglas High School shared all of the horror of America's worst mass shootings.

every death is a horror, but if you look at a real catastrophe like Katrina and you look at the tremendous hundreds and hundreds of people that died and what happened here with a storm that was just totally over-bearing.

But if you look at the bible and how christians use it by picking out what parts they agree with and dismissing the horror of it as «cultural of the times» it says to me that their sense of right and wrong is more evolved than the book they claim is the final authority of right and wrong.

At the World Government Summit in Dubai, in February, Musk again cued the scary organ music, evoking the plots of classic horror stories when he noted that «sometimes what will happen is a scientist will get so engrossed in their work that they don't really realize the ramifications of what they're doing.»

None of the victims said they were actually hypnotised but they froze in surprise and horror at what the respected church leader was doing, the jury heard.

If you look at the King catalog very few of his books are actually horror.

For Milosz this was not an insight arrived at late in life; the Treatise presents us with the mature version of what we already saw in the poetry he was writing during the darkest period of the Second World War: «Gentle verses written in the midst of horror declare themselves for life.»

30:55 Senior editor Mark Bauerlein observes the one - year anniversary of the Halloween horror show at Yale, when students lost their minds over culturally insensitive costumes.

To put a monument which will remind surviving victims of the ones who perpetrated the horror is insensitive at best.

In other words with all the things going on in the world this long winded ambiguous rant about the religious beliefs of a horror writer whose name I've barely heard mentioned in the last decade is being presented as the most important information people need to know at this particular time.

Also France, both in Rwanda and at the UN, exploited the horror for purposes of petty geopolitical advantage.

Rather than trying to attach the recent rise of the horror genre to September 11, 2001, your article ought to have looked at April 20, 1999, the day of the Columbine High School shooting.

Didion shudders at the thought of moccasins in southern waterways, but horror of snakes (especially rattlesnakes) is a recurring theme in her California books.

Bin Laden's actions have resulted in vaporizing thousands of Americans at ground zero, beheadings, cruel acts of torture, and the horrors of war.

That is the climactic recognition of T. S. Eliot's Thomas Becket at the edge of martyrdom, who in horror steps back from the most subtle treason to the soul, that is, doing «the right thing for the wrong reason.»

But all varieties of horror flick are easily identifiable at this point, whether they're spooky, low - budget films (numerous); viscera - stained slasher movies (more numerous); quick - cut zombie flicks (even more numerous); macabre sci - fi, floating - in - space efforts (somewhat less numerous than they should be); sexualized vampiric tales (I trip over one of these whenever I get the newspaper); films of the more critically favored retro - mashup variety (Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Death Proof plus Planet Terror feature Grindhouse); or foreign entries of the psychological horror variety (the works of Dario Argento, of course; Alexandre Aja's films, which have their defenders; and Juan Antonio Bayona's El Orfanato, which only someone who truly dislikes cinema can dismiss).

As a recovering christian, 5 years clean and open minded, the truth definitely did set me free - it set me free of the horrors and fear that come with christianity; it allowed me to look at things from all sides (putting the shoe on the other foot so to speak); it allowed me to love more freely and be a better person.

Like the part about women - blaming and shaming combined with the pastor digging up offenses from the past, referencing an emotional distance he feels from us as we leave, citing his own pastoral involvement and authority in the decisions of our lives up to this point, threatening to talk to the pastor of the church we're visiting to share his «concerns,» and suggesting that I'm just a weak mess of emotions and that's why I can't handle the life - sucking horror that has become sundays at this church.

The very appetite proceeding from labor and peace of mind is gone: we eat just enough to keep us alive: our sleep is disturbed by the most frightful dreams; sometimes I start awake, as if the great hour of danger was come; at other times the howling of our dogs seems to announce the arrival of the enemy: we leap out of bed and run to arms; my poor wife with panting bosom and silent tears takes leave of me, as if we were to see each other no more; she snatches the youngest children from their beds, who, suddenly awakened, increase with their innocent questions the horror of the dreadful moment.

-- This institution will make every effort to battle such reprehensible fundamentalist violence to ensure that such horrors are not repeated anywhere (even if that means Muslims volunteering — NOT protesting — to be ethnically profiled, as terrible as that would normally be in times of peace, at airports, to help catch the murderers).

However, not even the hoariest neoorthodox recalcitrant would wish to debunk the re-emergent optimism at the price of re-enacting the horrors of our century.

And when he stood silent in Yad Vashem» whose plain and stark memorialization of the horrors that befell the Jewish people at the hands of the Nazis positively begs for silence» he left a drop of the kind of healing balm on the hearts of Jews that the Church had never before found the means (assuming the desire) to do.

Is it possible for a film to capture the horror of the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church while at the same time presenting a case for the necessity of the institutional priesthood?

While the country reels in horror at the lack of moral backbone from the power elite at PSU — putting their «image» above the safety of young boys — the pastor of this church allows himself to be pushed into an act of moral (and Christian) cowardice by the sinners in his midst.

It is said that he read this sermon dispassionately, in a monotone voice, which only heightened the sense of shock and horror at the God he was portraying.

Rather he centers his attention on the manner in which the project residents, in the face of these horrors, nonetheless managed to make do, to «work with others, sometimes productively and at other times conflictually, to improve their living environment.»

After the Cuban missile crisis, the point at which the world came close to a nuclear exchange, the doctrine was that the horror of nuclear war was the best guarantee that there would be no nuclear war.