Sentences with phrase «constricted lives»

But for the most part, the author admits the evils embedded in Greek civilization, among which one can easily name the constricted life of most women, the demagoguery of so many politicians, and worst of all the degradation of the slave's life (he quotes the medical writer Galen who once saw an owner poke his slave's eye out with a reed pen).

«Mommy» Shot in a rare 1:1 (square) ratio, Xavier Dolan «s mother - son drama reflects through its constrained frame the constricted life of a working - class matriarch (Anne Dorval) as she attempts to keep her violent and emotionally volatile teenage son (Antoine - Olivier Pilon) from being institutionalized again.

The energy of your interaction as a yoked together twosome can constrict your life, demoralize you, and provoke frustration and resentment instead of love and joy.

Not exact matches

The twins live a constricted existence in protective custody, and Zambada continues to molder in jail in rural Michigan, five hours from Chicago.

How narrow the gate and constricted the road that leads to life.

What is wrong with living this life without being constricted by the thought of what happens when you take your exit?

Even in its constricting format, however, each item encourages the member to construct a small story of his or her life, imagining the tension created by a particular crisis and then resolving it by subsequent explanation chosen from among the several alternatives.

They can live with some safety and even comfort as long as they stay within their defenses, but this position constricts their mobility and freedom severely.

My heart had become constricted under the pressure of conformity to life's demands and the expectations of others.

Abraham Moles, director of the Social Psychology Institute at Strasbourg, points out that while TV has been a cultural life buoy for farmers, lonely people, and the culturally and the socially impoverished in France, it has at the same time been a pressure toward the banal and the constricting for those already experiencing a communication - rich life.

Rather, how do we silence people, limit their influence, constrict their involvement, prevent their movement, manage their actions, and control their lives?

We construct a faith life that constricts God and our true identity.

In groups this truth becomes experiential as the painful dying of life - constricting defenses and patterns of relating precedes rebirth to more intimate, vital relationships.

The problem with ego defenses is that they often function in compulsive, life - constricting ways, long after the original threat is gone, rather than being temporary defenses when self - esteem is too threatened.

This fact also makes it possible for psychotherapy to facilitate growth by enabling people to change the causes of their life - constricting feelings, thoughts, beliefs, and behavior.

(I do not speak here about Jews in the South, who lived perpetually between the hammer and the anvil and who must have been so constricted by the experience that to this day not a single serious Jewish novelist has risen from that literature - soaked land to tell us about it.)

And perhaps worst of all, the media constrict our experience and substitute media world for real world so that we become less and less able to make the fine value judgments that living in such a complex world requires.

Uber has gone on the offensive over the legislation, challenging de Blasio to a live stream debate, sending mailers to the districts of council members who support the plan, hosting rallies and adding a «de Blasio feature to its e-hail app that shows a 25 minute wait time for a vehicle that the company says will occur if they are constricted from growing.

They tested the system on cell cultures, and then in live mice with breast cancer and mice with constricted arteries in their legs.

Read on to learn more about the lives of Mexican gray wolves, their tragic history and near - extinction, their role as a top - of - the - food - chain carnivore and their present constricted range.

I felt constricted, and wed to the past, which left me unable to move freely in my life.

Instead of allowing them to be a tool to improve our lives, we implement them as a constricting, judgment - filled achievement.

In some cases their past life of holy orders was too constricting, so these folks may not belong to any one particular faith in this lifetime, instead activating their seeker archetype and exploring many faiths.

I live in New England, and my mother is a thermostat natzi, so covering up my legs is essential... and leggings have plenty of give so I won't feel constricted after a big meal.

STD dating site — an illness can not constrict the zeal to live Why should socializing become limited if you are suffering from STD?

As the movie continues, and certain events that came to define America and its character — particularly the Civil War — touch the lives of the Dickinsons, and we hear more of Emily's work in voiceover, the movie's style becomes less constricted, more fluid, but still retains an unearthly quality.

His camera is blank - eyed, capturing life as it moves backward and forward in these constricted spaces.

Much like its frazzled protagonist, «6 Balloons» has a strong sense of direction, but the film is too constricted to let go, embrace the detours, and allow life to takes it course.

Their lives are stable enough, if a little constricted: Vittorio Storaro, the legendary Italian cinematographer who filmed The Last Emperor, floods their living quarters with a harsh orange hue that suggests low - level panic.

Maud's life was constricted, but her gaze was expansive.

She wants to escape from her depressing, constricting home life.

The beauty in this collection is that we meet Jim Gavin's characters not when their lives are opening up (which of course makes for a nice, if easy, story), but when they're constricting, winnowing down into themselves to find their core, however meager yet unmistakably their own that core turns out to be.

Two women, both constricted by the drudgery of their lives, discover a surprising outlet in the underground world of bare - knuckle fighting.

The social reverberations from most murders are so constricted and short - lived that they alter comparatively few lives or institutions.

What I did know was that they are the best at life reinsurance, and that it is a constricted field with one big (in coverage written) damaged competitor, Scottish Re.

Live prey is quickly seized and constricted, or pressed up until the walls of the enclosure until subdued.

They walk through some of the benefits of playing cooperative with a friend via Xbox Live, including the wise decision allowing players to wander away from one another rather than be constricted on the same screen.

For the living, personal considerations explode and drift to every feeling, while public regulations constrict and sentimentalise this unique and ordinary change.

His forms, generic signifiers of humanness, are constricted by urban life, decimated by poverty, destroyed by war, and trapped by global capitalism.

Yet, Diebenkorn's abstract paintings of the early 1950s, which are named after the university towns in which he lived and taught, remain somewhat crabbed and constricted, as if they developed with one eye focused on the canvas and the other regularly glancing at reproductions of New York School paintings gleaned from magazines.

I happen to love a bath and couldn't live without one, but consider showers in the tub to be dangerous and constricted.

Clients» lives may be constricted by self - defeating behaviors, or they may feel stuck in unsatisfying relationship patterns.