Sentences with phrase «despairing ones»

This unlovely portrait is not wholly wrong, but it is, in its despairing one «sidedness, wholly inadequate as a basis for analysis.

It's a more diffuse film, and a more despairing one, although there are flashes of gallows humour to lighten the pileup of downers.

But if it's a demanding film, in the end it isn't a despairing one.

Not exact matches

It is increasingly common for friends and family to support — and even to attend — the suicides of their ill, disabled, or despairing loved ones.

(One particularly despairing sequence centers on four young boys who look to be around 11, sitting together on a sofa, smoking dope.)

This hiddenness is precisely something spiritual and is one of the safety - devices for assuring oneself of having as it were behind reality an enclosure, a world for itself locking all else out, a world where the despairing self is employed as tirelessly as Tantalus in willing to be itself.

Like the fire which Prometheus stole from the gods, so does this mean to steal from God the thought which is seriousness, that God is regarding one, instead of which the despairing self is content with regarding itself, and by that it is supposed to bestow upon its undertakings infinite interest and importance, whereas it is precisely this which makes them mere experiments.

Despairing narrowness consists in the lack of primitiveness, or of the fact one has deprived oneself of one's primitiveness; it consists in having emasculated oneself, in a spiritual sense.

And if the suffering and despairing Jesus on the cross is accepted in one's heart and soul as a virtuous human being» if we can still, staring into our own abyss, wistfully hope to have his fortitude and compassion despite our enduring weaknesses» then is salvation really that far off?

A technique for testing the relevance and empathic qualities of one's preaching is to listen to a tape of last Sunday's sermon while imagining that one is a despairing person with whom one has counseled recently.

The church was one of the few institutions in the South to which the defeated and despairing people could turn in an effort to recoup some sense of purpose and hope.

Religion either presents a a too negative, despairing and hopeless belief in human nature, or a too optimistic, positive and rosy one.

Despairing over one's sin is the expression for the fact that sin has become or would become consistent in itself.

We believe in heaven, it seems, because we can not bear not to, because we are either too optimistic or too despairing to deny ourselves the consolation of looking forward to a blissful reunion with the loved ones we have lost.

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Sin is despair, the potentiation of this is the new sin of despairing over one's sin.

As one who ascends in a balloon rises by casting weights from him, so does the despairing man sink by casting from him the good (for the weight of the good is uplift), he sinks, doubtless he thinks he is rising — he does indeed become lighter.

In real life the sin of despairing of the forgiveness of sins is generally misunderstood, especially now that they have done away with the ethical, so that one seldom or never hears a sound ethical word.

Four times last season it could muster only one touchdown per game, and Bill Miller, the incumbent quarterback, had moments of despairing inconsistency.

Unfortunately our Gunners are all exotic extremes — brilliant in one turn, hilarious in another and despairing still in another.

One coach, quittingafter a couple of years of despairing effort, explained that too many of theplayers owned convertibles and that there were too many distractions in the Bayarea.

Luis Hernandez played in one of his patented long throws, and it wreaked the havoc expected: Defender Hans Vanaken headed the ball across his own goal before a despairing Ludovic Butelle could get his hands to it.

You don't need to meet one of those desperate, despairing dads, making a defiant protest dressed in a pound - shop comic - book hero outfit, to know that when it comes to divorce, dads often get a bum deal.

And that aversion to objective truth is eating away at the left as well, with a whole generation now convinced of the despairing nihilism of Michel Foucault's philosophy — basically that our only truths are personal ones dependent on our place in time and power structures.

Last October, after a fit of angst about the Port Authority's planning processes — a fit that featured one board member despairing, «We don't know what we're doing» — the board authorized an international design competition for a new bus terminal west of the existing one on Manhattan's West Side.

I try on 10 diferent pairs, I'm lucky if I find one that fits (and right now I'm looking at summer hiking pants and despairing...)

They even get despairing and always think there is no one can accept their large size.

And one more thought: perhaps the cynical, despairing total opposite of The Insider is the Steven Soderbergh movie, The Informant!

I love the way Blame captures the kaleidoscopic emotional experience of being a teenage girl, one moment ecstatic and exuberant, the next dreamy and dark, the next angry and despairing.

One of them is an incisive, sober, sometimes despairing arthouse drama about the exhaustion of grappling with corporate sexism.

This no - nonsense approach yields a glorious film full of revelations — all of them light and many of them playful, but not one of them despairing, for all the grief they depict.

Yet her wilfully public suicide in some way feels like a defiant act, one of staggering, despairing rage.

Rather, it's a deeply despairing portrait of realpolitik, demonstrating how difficult it can be to do the right thing even when one is wholeheartedly committed to truth, justice, and accountability.

The film necessarily presents a despairing view of America as its 20th - century glory days recede into the distance, but Schrader isn't one to shirk away from some form of hope for his isolated priest.

As a despairing political allegory about crime and punishment (and how the latter doesn't always go with the former), Sisters is weirdly profound; as an exercise in thriller mechanics, it's limber and energizing, wrapping itself around a wonderfully stupid plot about separated Siamese twins (both played by Margot Kidder, one of whom is, naturally, a psycho killer).

On one side, the Irish woman who had discovered the body was blubbering and wailing prayers unfamiliar (because they were Catholic) and unintelligible (because she was blubbering) that prickled the hair in Kurtz's ear; on the other side was her soundless and despairing niece.

Once you've surmounted that hurdle, you need to ask whether you want a home tablet, or one to use as you exhale a despairing sigh on the way to work, trapped within a crowd of similarly - miserable morning commuters.

In the dying flames of World War II, a despairing Hitler unleashes one final, unholy gamble — a legion of undead super soldiers that threatens to overwhelm the whole of Europe.

Yeah, it's more despairing than the other Prime trilogy games, but I find it so atmospheric and tense that it's the one I revisit most often.

Still filthy, still repulsive, and still one of the most moving works of contemporary art, Tracey Emin's My Bed, 1998 gave us a delicious glimpse into the lifestyle of a despairing 35 - year old artist.

When asked about global trends and human prospects, I used to call myself a «despairing optimist,» taking that term from the work of one of my heroes, René Dubos.

T - shirts show three fishermen despairing over their catch of one lone fish, while four sated whales swim offshore.

Volt Aire, Interesting point and one that you may want to make to George Monbiot over at the Guardian (suitably phrased so as not to be moderated: o) he seems mighty despairing today and together with a copy of the book by Camus that I am currently reading it might provide him with some consolation; o)

Many people can not believe that it is possible to confront important decisions together, when one or both spouses are feeling in some measure angry, hurt, despairing, exploited, rejected, overwhelmed and afraid of becoming entangled in the same dynamics that have brought them to divorce.