Sentences with phrase «desperate search for meaning»

Environmentalism, whether it is setting fire to laboratories (so much for science then) or campaigning for laws to restrict human freedom, is a desperate search for meaning, in the same way that setting fire to things is a desperate attempt to assert control over a confusing world.

He differed from them in that his paintings were introspective, enigmatic, often brooding and vaguely disturbing meditations on the contemporary world and our desperate search for meaning.

Disillusioned by the failures of the past and the overwhelming complexities of the present, they possess an interiority that reflects a desperate search for meaning.

Kunzru's lively, hugely ambitious novel explores humans» desperate search for meaning — whether it be through drugs, religion, computer programming, or UFOs — within the chaos of life, both modern and ancient.

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Without the passion of society for meaning, the search for significance becomes a desperate private quest.

Of course, that also meant that Madrid went searching for a goal of their own, desperate to restore their three - goal aggregate lead, meaning that the game went wide open in a hurry, with a flurry of scoring chances at both ends of the pitch.

But their prominence at sites where nerve cells are damaged by the disease means they deserve careful scrutiny in the desperate search for ways to arrest the most salient cause of dementia.