Sentences with phrase «brutish life»
They have underestimated the basically cyclical structure of nature, so why should people model their short, brutish lives against long - term effects?
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There, the cantankerous and often brutish physician bulldozed through social niceties and conventional wisdom, ignoring professional criticism and even the pain and suffering of young children to help develop a successful treatment that eventually saved thousands of lives.
Because Lewis has kept the action in this novel on the supernatural level, in the nontemporal, a-historical Eden, he can affirm life here; but the contrast between Malacandra and earth is such that human life is seen as brutal and brutish.
In Thomas Hobbes» famous formulation, life was «nasty, brutish, and short.»
Recognizing the fragility of a condition in which life is «nasty, brutish, and short,» they employ their rational self - interest to sacrifice most of their natural rights in order to secure the protection and security of a sovereign.
If one wanted to defend Thomas Hobbes» description of human life as «nasty, brutish, and short,» he could use these studies as case material.
A world in which each of us is permitted to judge guilt and execute punishment, in which revenge and blood feuds are permitted, is likely to be the one Hobbes described» in which the life of man is «solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.»
Without some political power controlling us, life would be «solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.»
As Thomas Hobbs observed, life in the state of nature is «solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.»
John G. Paton, for example, in the New Hebrides, among brutish Melanesian cannibals, preserves a charmed life by dint of it.
The Braves» three - headed relief monster — two parts lefty, one part Rookie of the Year front - runner, 100 % filthy — has made life historically brutish and short for hitters.
The spoilt brats argument has become old and tired... Life is nasty brutish and short just want our team to be winners once in a while... and no I don't count fa cup as sufficient and certainly not carling
«The life of man [by nature is] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short -LSB-...] The condition of Man is a condition of war against every one»
Governance Watch has taken notice of the discussion in the midst of the general Ghanaian public, and wish to add its voice to calls on the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Danquah Akufo - Addo, to step his foot on the group and deal with the brutish behavior of groups of individuals who have assumed responsibility on matters of security, visiting mayhem and terror on the lives of innocent Ghanaians.
Life has become nasty, brutish, and short under the Buhari administration.»
For years scientists have pointed fingers at him as the living example of testosterone's brutish, self - centered, antisocial expression.
So the lives of at least the surviving hunter - gatherers aren't nasty and brutish, even though farmes have pushed them into some of the world's worst real estate.
He was inspired by Dian Fossey, who dissipated the myth of the brutish gorilla in the 1970s by observing tender, complex social behavior while living among them.
Life in the intertidal zone can be nasty, brutish, and short.
But then how can one reconcile animal rights with the need to conserve whole ecosystems (which may mean culling) and in addi - tion, realising that, even if we don't interfere with a species, the lives of wild animals are often «nasty, brutish and short»?
There's the adage that life is nasty, brutish and short.
Michelle and Eggsy (Taron Egerton) are now living with some brutish, Cockney cad (Geoff Bell) in government housing.
City of God's harrowing depiction of daily violence in the favelas exemplifies in shocking detail the Hobbesian view of life as «nasty, brutish, and short,» but the film never casts judgment.
But life has not been kind to Randy as the life of a pro wrestler is nasty, brutish, and short.
Sent into exile 12 years earlier when her ambitious brother Antonio (Chris Cooper) usurped her kingdom to become the Duke of Milan, Prospera and her daughter Miranda (Felicity Jones) have lived on an enchanted island ever since, served by two slaves: the brutish Caliban (Djimon Hounsou) and his opposite number, the romantic wind sprite Ariel (Ben Whishaw).
Other standout turns from the more experienced portion of the cast come from Bruce Campbell (the Evil Dead trilogy) as the realistic brutish gym teacher, Dave Foley («NewsRadio», A Bug's Life) as the peppy sidekick teacher Mr. Boy, Lynda Carter («Wonder Woman») as Principal Powers, and Cloris Leachman as the goofy Nurse Spex.
She goes to live in Sussex on Cold Comfort Farm, where her depressive cousin Judith Starkadder (Eileen Atkins) lives a miserable life with her crotchety preacher husband Amos (Ian McKellen) and their two sons, crude but handsome Seth (Rufus Sewell) and crude but brutish Reuben (Ivan Kaye).
Life is harsh and brutish, especially for those who are sick or disabled.
I very much agree with Hobbes point of view as far as self interest of the individual is concern, i also agree with his view of human life as as being short, hash and brutish.
Even the slightest infraction landed you in the Korean gulag, where life was at best nasty, brutish and short.
The lives of outdoor cats, including feral cats, were not «nasty, brutish, and short» at all.
«Nasty, brutish and short» is how Ken Midkiff, author of The Meat You Eat, describes the life of the animals who give up their hides.
«Their lives are nasty, brutish, and short.»
In the frontier, life is varied, sometimes brutish and short, but never dull.
There's a DayZ short film out now, and it's a pointed reminder that life in the game is, as Hobbes once wrote, «nasty, brutish, and...
With deadpan drollery, LaDuke raced through a gamut of concerns, from abject life to brutish death, presenting images of paintings that veered from the photorealistic to the abstract and of extraordinarily painstaking, lifelike sculptures.
Pain and suffering has been hugely reduced wherever modern medicine is available and it is no longer necessary to accept that human life is «nasty, brutish and short».
The following as been excerpted from Twilight of Abundance: Why Life in the 21st Century will be Nasty, Brutish, and Short by David Archibald:
They have forced over a third of the worlds population to live a life that is unnecessarily short and brutish.
New Book by David Archibald: «The Twilight of Abundance» — Warns of Global Cooling — «Why Life in the 21st Century Will Be Nasty, Brutish, and Short»
I really don't believe Eli or anybody else wants to prosecute the «companies» that provide products and services to keep Eli and everyone he knows alive past an average (short and brutish) life expectancy of some 30 years.
We are about to squander «financial and human resources», causing «inaction on real world problems like clean water», etc. and end up with the world's poor condemned to «truly brutish and short lives with no way to -LSB-...] stop or reverse their suffering.»
Life was, as they say, nasty, brutish, and short.
Like me I'd think he'd give environmental activists like Greenpeace very little credit for improving our environment, and technology / industry plenty for changing our lives from short / brutish / nasty to something much better.
My question for readers is, should we, as a profession, care that life at large firms resembles that of pre-civilized man described by Hobbes: nasty, brutish and short?
In the words of Thomas Hobbes, life was «nasty, brutish and short.»
They have also learned that (1) a life without at least a little «unproductive,» leisure time is brutish and maybe even uncivilized, and (2) it's silly to criticize how others choose to use their leisure time — or even how they choose to stay competent in their chosen career.
It's a shorthand language that keeps corporate life from being solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.