Sentences with phrase «dehumanized by»

Baseball player character study «The Phenom» very rarely takes place on the field, but within the tormented silence of a young athlete who has been dehumanized by his father into a pitching machine.

Even so, the research could still have important implications for the study of the psychology behind murder and genocide of humans who fall into outgroups because of their race, religion or other characteristics, since those individuals tend to be dehumanized by those who would do them harm, Lifshin said.

Such marriages are found in all segments of our society but may be more common among minority cultures where men are almost as dehumanized by the white male dominant culture as are women.

Atheists do not feel insulted or dehumanized by «creationists» you idiot!

Responding to Garrett Hardin's «lifeboat ethics,» for instance, such people would say it is better to take everyone on board and to let the boat sink rather than for those in the lifeboat to dehumanize themselves by keeping others out.

Not exact matches

To have someone clearly see me and ignore my «hello» and walk on by is the most dehumanizing experience.

Companies run the risk of dehumanizing the customer service process by relying too heavily on automation or canned digital responses.

I'm no longer shredded from the exhausting and dehumanizing process of trying to get from one place to another by air travel, and I'm getting all my work done at the same time.

however, * by * his own Church's standards, it would have ultimately been dehumanizing for her if she received communion on false pretenses.

There are borderline sexual assault scenarios that are viewed as standard procedure by much of the PUA crowd — this is clearly not the place to argue that but I feel it'd be wrong not to point out my disagreement with that point — but above and beyond all that are incredibly dehumanizing assumptions about both men and women that underly the process.

Why am I locked in a dark cellar surrounded by things that degrade and dehumanize me?

Those Christians killing natives and mistreating them did so in part BECAUSE they were told it was okay by their pastors and priests, they were directly dehumanized from the pulpits that allowed their members to go about their murder and mistreatment without guilt or punishment.

This system was overthrown by the industrial revolution which, in its ruthless hunt for money and machine, dehumanized people into robots and automations and created filthy slums, destroying the pastoral poetry of the countryside and substituting, in pitiless ubiquity, grimy, heartless stys for sub-human habitation.

When maximum production and continually increasing economic growth, measured by income and expenditure figures, are taken as the measures of social well - being, then occupations and the educational preparation for them are dehumanized and made narrowly vocational; and persons are degraded into interchangeable parts in a giant social machine designed for generating and gratifying acquisitive hungers.

You feel insulted and «dehumanized» when creationists say that people were created in the image and likeness of God, but you have no problem with the evolutionist claim that we all evolved from slime by a cosmic accident.

Before I enumerate them let me make it clear that today I despise the practice of dehumanizing an individual or group of people by labeling them....

By the power of God's loving generosity, the devil will be stripped of his power to dehumanize us, control us, manipulate us, etc..

There is the deep and widespread oppression of women, along with the elderly and children dependent upon women, in all patriarchical societies around the globe whereby women and their dependents are dehumanized and depersonalized by the androcentric fears and aggressions of males (sexism).

Pro-choice advocates have trained their focus on the rights of the mother, and attempted to sidestep the rights of the unborn child by using dehumanizing terms that at least downplay the child's personhood.

In short, the classical contexts of Christian theologies and theoria historically witnessed the recurrent betrayals of the Cross by the sword, Christianity by Christendom, as colonizations brought new peoples and lands into the orbit of the dehumanizing power games of Europe's so - called Christian cultures and nations.

If the Christian continues to believe in the gracious and providential love of God after Auschwitz, then not only is he once more denying the humanity of the Jew, but he is also inevitably denying the pain of all humanity, refusing the authentic or ultimate reality of a pain that can not be relieved or assuaged by a dehistorized or dehumanized God.

All over the world there are people who can not stand by and see others exploited and dehumanized, they themselves would never sit quietly under indignities, there are persons who have courage to call for justice and to deal justly with those they encounter, they are a sign of hope.

Instead of teaching their own positive convictions, which can help overcome a dehumanizing orthodoxy and so transform the life of the church, these schools seem to think that they will transform society and church by offering this or that course in urban studies, by relocating the setting of education to the places «where people live,» and by increased field experiences.

So when we debate an «issue» and forget that it is backed by people — imperfect, wounded, beloved people on both sides — we dehumanize each other.

a That the planetary collectivization which confronts us is a crude phenomenon of mechanization or senescence which will end by dehumanizing us;

It is true, of course, that the ultimate aim is human liberation, not merely women's liberation; men are trapped in dehumanizing expectations and stereotypes and are diminished by the roles they fill.

Often in the course of the civil rights struggle, one found oneself stopped short by the stone wall of a dehumanizing system embedded in unyielding laws.

Such a violation of human ecology must be analyzed with regard to the domination of Korea by foreign powers and the divide - and - conquer strategies that continue to dehumanize the victimized people of the third world.

We must stop the dehumanizing of the Palestinians by the Jews and the American press.

It is the practical atheism of the West, exposed by Marx, that dehumanizes humankind.

They have led Korea toward an almost absolute submission to domination by the superpowers, a dehumanizing and degrading submission that has resulted in depressive frustration and neurotic inferiority complexes.

Salvation comes therefore through revolutionary action by the dehumanized victims of this process who rediscover in the solidarity of their total deprivation, the true humanity which will finally triumph.

That's what true Christianity is: overcoming by the grace of God, not laying down and allowing satan to make mockery and spectacle out of us, so he can boast himself before God how he has accomplished to degrade and dehumanize those which He loves and has created in His own image.

The «Cosmic Designer» has impressed modernity as a notoriously vague, suffocating and even dehumanizing ideal promulgated by a dying religiosity.

Right — if we have self awareness, we can detect any dehumanizing that we are taking part in of ourselves and by implication others.

The dehumanizing deeds, if they are done, will not be done by obviously evil men and women.

Since the launch of ECT two decades ago, authentic Christian witness has become more — not less — difficult in a world marked by secularism, terrorism, and the dehumanizing forces in our contemporary cultures of death.

Hanan pointed to the many civilian deaths that resulted from the bombings in Iraq and said that, «this theme dehumanizes the victims in Iraq by trivializing their deaths.»

Given that Tony Avella invested his time in writing a letter back in November, 2006 that questions the many nebulous and dehumanizing practices that continue to flourish in the present day at the New York City DOI and MTA Office of the Inspector General (who, collectively have misbehaved like unresponsive tyrants with no agency from above to challenge their utter dysfunction), I have long ago lost my illusion with honest, ethical leadership that stands by their constituency until a matter is thoroughly resolved.

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a socialite, Mike Eze - Nwalie Nwogu popularly known as «Pretty Mike» for dehumanizing young girls by turning them into human puppies with chains round their necks.

Written by prison system therapist Jonathan Asser, STARRED UP is a merciless, uncompromising portrayal of a dehumanizing life behind bars, and the most accomplished film of David Mackenzie's career; as father and son, Mendelsohn and O'Connell give extraordinary performances, charting a path that resembles Greek tragedy.

By not giving the Counselor a name, audiences understand his identity is connected through his job and that it will lead to his dehumanizing transformation at the end of the film.

The film critic David Ehrlich has tweeted that the film feels like it wasn't even made by humans, and I'd go further, to say that the movie dehumanizes its leading woman and attempts, disconcertingly, to dehumanize its audience.

Boy and the World by Hope Madden Often a joyous riot of colors and sounds, and just as often a somber and spare smattering of dehumanizing imagery, Boy and the... read more →

Loosely based on the graphic novel by Mark Millar and J.G. Jones, Wanted opens with a setup straight out of a Charles Atlas ad: Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy) is a skinny accounts manager at a dehumanizing firm who is bullied by his fat, repellent boss and cuckolded by his presumed best friend.

It's not hard to give her some leeway early on (she is, after all, a grieving mother haunted by her own actions just before her daughter's horrific murder and left in a state of emotional and legal limbo by the lack of progress on the case), but by the end it's hard not to be sick and tired of the manner in which she constantly uses that as an excuse to dehumanize everyone around her, whether it be her surviving teenage son (Lucas Hedges), a local with an inexplicable crush on her (Peter Dinklage), or the aforementioned Sheriff Bill Willoughby (Woody Harrelson), who isn't so much a bad man as he is a complacent one.

Ape Sodom is at least anchored by the glimmer of an ideology around the dehumanizing impact of capitalism, as our hero (director McCabe - Lokos) accepts a large sum of money to do disgusting, horrific things for disgusting, horrific people before being run over and left for dead.

The constant harassment the Somalis students had to endure, in some cases being called «mbuzi» (goat) by immigration or policemen officers during interrogation, is dehumanizing.

And for the students who identify with targeted groups, it can be «dehumanizing not to have their experiences addressed in schools and by their teachers who they spend so much time with,» says former teacher and school administrator Aaliyah El - Amin, now a lecturer and researcher on educational justice at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

PURE has played a major role in changing the discussion about charter schools by exposing the dehumanizing and pricey discipline policies used by the Noble Charter Network, the misleading «100 % college - going» claim of Urban Prep charter schools, and the questionable financial practices of the UNO charter network.