Sentences with phrase «by disillusionment»

Bound by a shared destiny, a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy - genius inventor jaded by disillusionment embark on a danger - filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective memory as «Tomorrowland.»

Bound by a shared destiny, former boy - genius Frank (Clooney), jaded by disillusionment, and Casey (Britt Robertson), a bright, optimistic -LSB-...]

The tactic, helped by disillusionment on Iraq, worked.

Here's Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice explaining to me on CapTon last night that her failure to vote until she was in her 30s was caused by a disillusionment that she experienced after spending the formative years of her professional life as a prosecutor and seeing people frustrated and failed by the system.

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His reasons for turning his back on America are still debated by historians, but the accepted reasons include money, disillusionment, and personal vendettas against the Continental Congress.

The Hype Cycle graphic has been used by Gartner since 1995 to highlight the common pattern of over enthusiasm, disillusionment and eventual realism that accompany each new technology and innovation.

German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer acknowledged this reality in Life Together: Just as surely as God desires to lead us to a knowledge of genuine Christian fellowship, so surely must we be overwhelmed by a great disillusionment with others, with Christians in general, and, if we are fortunate, with ourselves.

Among this group, top reasons for leaving were working conditions (for example staffing levels and workload), cited by 44 per cent, a change in personal circumstances (such as ill health), cited by 28 per cent and disillusionment with the quality of care provided to patients, cited by 27 per cent.

By the end of his Anglican curacy, disillusionment with the liberal, almost secularist, approach which he had found in some of his fellow churchmen, niggling doubts about the validity of Anglican orders and the dawning realisation that the C of E was attempting the impossible by trying to serve both God and State, had convinced Father Ed that he was in the wrong ChurcBy the end of his Anglican curacy, disillusionment with the liberal, almost secularist, approach which he had found in some of his fellow churchmen, niggling doubts about the validity of Anglican orders and the dawning realisation that the C of E was attempting the impossible by trying to serve both God and State, had convinced Father Ed that he was in the wrong Churcby trying to serve both God and State, had convinced Father Ed that he was in the wrong Church.

Your disillusionment with the Church may seem like a petty wound to nurse right now, with Latino children getting taunted by their classmates, Muslim communities facing religious persecution, and black families grappling with a world in which white nationalism has been validated and emboldened, but grief is grief.

The melancholy shade of his father's closely held sin, the breaking of his engagement with Regina Olsen, the public ridicule to which his sensitive nature was exposed by the public attack of the modish Copenhagen journal Corsair, the disillusionment with Bishop Mynster and the church in his closing years, all bore in upon him.

When rudely awakened by the experience of ideals betrayed, we, in our disillusionment, may mistake ourselves for fallen angels or even beasts.

Just as God desires to lead us to a knowledge or genuine Christian fellowship, so surely must we be overwhelmed by a great disillusionment with others, with Christians in general, and if we are fortunate, with ourselves.

The narrative suffers from occasional longueurs, but Englert conveys the feel of the everyday commitments and uncertainties, inspirations and disillusionments, that mark the way to a goal that is little understood by most Americans, including most Catholics, today.

«In the Great War we see heroism and cruelty standing side by side, we see cynical disillusionment and moral determination intertwining and we see hope and despair in equal measure and on every side.

He notes that the subsequent years have brought disillusionment and deep uncertainty, but ends on the note that Christians once so inspired by the teachings of such as Dietrich Bonhoeffer will surely play a constructive role when the former East Germany finds its future.

After a long period in which the need of many for a sense of life's meaning seemed to be supplied by the progress of civilization or by the realization of national destiny, disillusionment with the half - gods has made itself felt.

While Tertullian's disillusionment could be due to the rapid decline of Christian community life, which he traces back to moral laxity in the sphere of sexual behaviour, the decline, as he understood it, could also be due to a tension in the life of the community provoked by a more and more hierarchical understanding and ordering of life, which neglects the horizontal relationships, affecting the very texture of Christian communities.

Only a God who suffered with the victims of the war could speak to the disillusionments created by the war.

Clearly, one should be extremely cautious when seized by the feeling that one is moving with the logic of history» a Hegelian indulgence that almost invariably ends with a great disillusionment.

It may be that we are too dull and businesslike today, but at least we are safe from the kind of disillusionment that occurred so disastrously before, when romantic idealism was followed by general cynicism.

Because of their increasing disillusionment with Wilson's leadership, the editors were not crushed by the results of the 1920 election.

Conventional wisdom finds the beginnings of the cynical dismissal of politics in Watergate; however, the disillusionment caused by the Watergate incident did not create this anti-political stance.

Moreover, along with this experience of inwardness in his own religious life went his disillusionment over the external reform imposed by royal authority in the reign of Josiah.

A few of the obvious drives that pack us off, daily or weekly or episodically or, for some, in hope, permanently, are fear or even terror in the particular given set of circumstances; the sheer discouragement and exhaustion of facing questions without answer; profound disillusionment — it takes many forms — with the pertinent, prevailing system or systems; deep and bitter contempt for one's own society, bred of the abysmal failure to attain in consistent practice even a semblance of the justice professed and acclaimed; despair — so it was with the college generation of the late sixties — over the formidable obduracy of a political establishment in going its merciless way quite apparently deaf to the cries of anguish of its empathetic and real victims, victims by the tens of millions here and around the world.

Church history is of course full of just such idealistic new starts and, not infrequently, some degree of disillusionment followed by routine performance without much zest or imagination.

Influenced by a Romantic disillusionment and the writings of Bruno Latour and Philippe Descola on anthropocene, Loseground is the first track of the upcoming album Natureisdead.

Such extremes of disillusionment are unusual even by Westminster standards, where many MPs can find themselves passively accepting their roles or simply looking elsewhere — perhaps towards serving their constituency, or by playing a longer game to pursue promotion to the corridors of power.

His departure has already been described by UKIP as a sign of MPs» disillusionment with Corbyn's leadership of the party.

The text of the press conference jointly signed by Sheikh Usman Abubakar Babantine and Imam Musa Tanimu, Chairman and Assistant Secretary respectively said, «The discernible sense of disillusionment of the masses was clearly seen during the just concluded intra party local government primary elections in many states in the country which resulted into rioting, use of weapons, massive killings and vandalism, «This shows that we are still lacking qualitative and responsible political leadership.

There was a period in 2014 when disillusionment with austerity, the possibility of Scottish independence, and a firmer push against nuclearism by the Liberal Democrats in coalition and Labour under Ed Miliband could have aligned to shift the debate, but that moment has passed — at least for now.

RBL said it was motivated to act by a growing sense of disillusionment among both service personnel and veterans about their treatment by the state.

Teachout, a new resident of the sprawling 11 - county district who has Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders» support, has been endorsed by The New York Times, which calls her the better candidate for this era of gridlock and disillusionment.

And in a third sign of growing disillusionment with Cuomo by Democrats and others on the political left, Working Families Party activists, furious over Cuomo's alliance with Senate Republicans, are threatening to back someone other than the governor in the November election, a move that would aid GOP gubernatorial contender Rob Astorino, sources said.

Bowin said that she was part of a wave of progressives, including third party and unaffiliated voters, who found renewed enthusiasm for the Democratic Party after years of disillusionment with the centrist policies embodied by Clinton.

Specifically, she was thinking about Gartner's hype cycle, a glib model cooked up by an IT research firm, in which every new technology ascends a «peak of inflated expectations,» sinks into a «trough of disillusionment,» then climbs the «slope of enlightenment» to reach a «plateau of productivity.»

(Olive, Blu - ray, DVD)(1950), directed by Cy Enfield, is one of the great lynch mob movies ever made and one of the most caustic social commentaries of anxiety and fear, set in the disillusionment of the American Dream in the post-war years and dosed with sociopathic anger.

«VOICES» IN TIME Terence Davies interviewed by Harlan Kennedy The past is tense in Terence Davies» Distant Voices, Still Lives — an elegy to family rapt with emotion and disillusionment at finding Life ain't like the Movies.

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Among the other fiction films to look for in theaters or on VOD: John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, in which Brendan Gleeson gives a beautifully modulated performance as a dedicated priest who is no match for the disillusionment of his parishioners and the rage of another inhabitant of his Irish seaside village, determined to take revenge against the priesthood for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child; the desultory God Help the Girl, the debut feature by Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian), all the more charming for its refusal to sell its musical numbers; Tim Sutton's delicate, impressionistic Memphis, a blues tone poem that trails contemporary recording artist Willis Earl Beal, playing a character close to himself who's looking for inspiration in a legendary city that's as much mirage as actuality; and two horror films, Jennifer Kent's uncanny, driving psychodrama The Babadook, with a remarkable performance by child actor Noah Wiseman, and Ana Lily Amirpour's less sustained A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which nonetheless generates some powerful political metaphors.

Film noir: A motion picture with an often grim urban setting, photographed in somber tones and permeated by a feeling of disillusionment, pessimism and despair.

Screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick labor to awkwardly fold in source material mythology, as it relates to both a mission by Jinx (Elodie Yung) and Snake Eyes (Ray Park) and Storm Shadow's disillusionment with Cobra, but this chiefly results in a lot of clunky, hilarious scenes in which the RZA shows up as Blind Master, and butchers a bunch of already gracelessly expository dialogue.

Like most Oliver Stone pictures, it's a parable of disillusionment, with Edward Snowden taking his place along Born On The Fourth Of July's Ron Kovic and JFK's Jim Garrison as men who love their country so much they risk everything by speaking out to try and save it from itself.

Really «The Woodsman» is Bacon's film, but he is more than ably assisted by his co-stars, most notably by Sedgwick who epitomises resilience, by Bratt playing a character every bit as ambiguous as Walter himself, by Mos Def who elevates a stock cop rôle to new levels of melancholic disillusionment, and by Pilkes, whose nuanced turn in the film's most difficult scenes makes her a real talent to watch.

It's British class warfare and disillusionment at its finest, crafted by an inspired filmmaker in his prime, Lindsay Anderson (If...).

Each day is haunted by disappointment, disillusionment and desperation.

The giddiness, the letdown, the disillusionment and the eventual embrace of reality are all so brilliantly executed by Fernando that it is hard to believe this is her debut novel.

In his weekly «The Backpacker» column, Ben Groundwater of The Sydney Morning Herald's recently wrote about his disillusionment at being owned by his things.

By the seventeenth - century, ruled by King Louis XIV France had become a European superpower but a subsequent financial crisis and disillusionment with the monarchy sparked the French Revolution in 178By the seventeenth - century, ruled by King Louis XIV France had become a European superpower but a subsequent financial crisis and disillusionment with the monarchy sparked the French Revolution in 178by King Louis XIV France had become a European superpower but a subsequent financial crisis and disillusionment with the monarchy sparked the French Revolution in 1789.

Surrealism, characterized by a profound disillusionment with the western emphasis on logic and reason, was heavily influenced by Freud's psychoanalytical theories of the instinctual drives and the unconscious.