While evocatively dystopic, her paintings also subtly empower their vulnerable subjects, advocating a humanist art for an age in which individual experience seems
threatened by forces beyond our control.
Darrow was an agnostic determinist - the play's suggestion that Drummond may be «more religious» than Brady is another fabrication - who believed that human beings are
driven by forces beyond their control.
As a governor who labored hard to persuade voters to vote for you and you got elected, your tenure was cut
short by forces beyond your control and not democratic process and so drawing from your own life experience, I am sure APC will play its role of protecting democracy.»
The complex and tragic story of a brutish man being
manipulated by forces beyond his control (including a deliciously wicked Vanessa Redgrave (Atonement) as his mother, Volumnia) for the sake of power and honour.
In And West Is West, Ron Childress has crafted a powerful, politically charged, and terrifyingly real scenario that takes readers into the lives of characters living in different worlds yet bound
together by forces beyond their control.
There have been suggestions in recent years that the whole notion of meaningful citizen participation in lawmaking has fallen out of fashion — that no matter how hard you try, or how sincere your efforts, the legislative outcome is
predetermined by forces beyond your control.
On the occasion of her 2016 — 17 show at MoMA PS1, curator Peter Eleey wrote: Drawing inspiration from the distorted bodies that litter the histories of modern painting, Braunig adapts these legacies to the discomforts and instabilities of contemporary life... While evocatively dystopic, her paintings also subtly empower their vulnerable subjects, advocating a humanist art for an age in which individual experience seems
threatened by forces beyond our control.
That said, many feel that the comfortable life that was theirs has been denied to
them by forces beyond their control.