Sentences with phrase «by human frailty»

The essence of all religions is to be good and do good but sometimes people get carried away by human frailty that results in undesirable actions.

Unencumbered by human frailties, Curiosity — like the rovers Spirit and Opportunity, which survived on the Red Planet years longer than expected — will be free to hunt for E.T. «If we find evidence for life on Mars, boy, are we just gonna go wild with speculation about how common it is in the universe,» says Lou Friedman, a former scientist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena and cofounder, with Carl Sagan, of the Planetary Society.

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It is marked on its negative side by the rejection not only of the symbols of the creation, the fall and the salvation of men, but also of the belief in human dependence and limitation, in human wickedness and frailty, in divine forgiveness through the suffering of the innocent.

How long can a society remain free when the lives of entire classes of human beings are, because of age or frailty, deemed by law to be Lebensunwertes Leben, just as they once were so deemed because of race or creed?

Though composed of both human and divine elements, its nature is not abridged by the frailties of those forgiven sinners who compose its membership.

Söhngen attempted to do justice to Barth's insight about the frailty of human knowledge of God by placing the question of natural knowledge of God within a uniquely Christological context.

Long before Star Trek, and truth be told, actually better made than ALL of them, comes this opportunity to cinematically philosophize about the frailty of the human condition while wearing color coordinated jumpsuits, holding a ray gun in one hand and some scientist's half - naked daughter in the other, while backed by weird electronic noise (naturally)- or Manifest Destiny in Deep Space.

Rather, it speaks to the frailties of ordinary human beings riven by competing desires and convictions, giving us an ending that is unexpected, moving and powerful.

But most important, in its early episodes — I've only seen the first four — Hawley's Fargo has managed the tricky tonal balancing act set out by the original film: the black humor (occasionally quite funny), the bursts of sudden savagery, the moments of human frailty and genuine sadness.

Wes Anderson «s «Moonrise Kingdom» seems like an odd choice to open the 65th Cannes Film Festival, with its deadpan Americanism, retro - set timeline and movie - star cast; at the same time, Anderson is clearly influenced by the New Wave, both cinematically and personally, he's a distinctive authorial voice as a director (which is the essence of auteur theory) and while his films are defined by near - silent moments of comedy and human frailty, there's also something mournful and wounded about them.

Perhaps the most precious gift bestowed on the movies by Kurosawa, however, is his profound humanism — his understanding of human frailty, his compassion for that frailty.

This is accentuated by the different heights of the pillars, as though they represent different stages in life and — by way of their imperfect stacking and fissured forms — evoking human frailty.

The self - destructing work by the French - Algerian artist Kader Attia, titled «Flying Rats» and highlighting human frailty, was first exhibited at the Biennale de Lyon in 2005 and was inspired by a childhood memory.

Fascinated by man's creativity in the face of inevitable death, the art he collects is to do with human frailty and finality, and focuses on the human body.