Sentences with phrase «does human foibles»
Its conclusion has less to do with the drug trade than it does human foibles.
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A true nailbiter, The China Syndrome is a potent harbinger of the potential devastation that can be wrought when humans attempt to harness an energy source they don't fully understand, an energy that can leave no leeway for such human foibles as avarice and sloth.
Slow and mournful, it does not seem to have much in common with the work of other directors who emerged during the decade, especially vivid stylists with urban preoccupations like Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Brian De Palma, Paul Schrader, and William Friedkin, or a caustic observer of human foibles like Robert Altman.
The movie doesn't find an interesting foothold until around its halfway point, and up until then, the script covers territory well laid by countless other movies involving famous geniuses, their eccentric ways, and a person who attempts to see through all of the foibles to find the human being within.
Yet even idyllic looking locations don't always protect people from intruding human foibles.
Their comedy works because the Farrellys have not only a keen eye for but also a deep sympathy with human foible; when Jack Black's Hal in Shallow Hal scolds his overweight girlfriend's father for denigrating her looks, we get the gag that in Hal's eyes, she's Gwyneth Paltrow, and we likewise understand that many of this fat girl's self - esteem issues probably do have something to do with the amount of support she's getting from the people closest to her.
His point: good science that does not fall prey to pseudoscience NEEDS its heretics to keep it honest, and in order to not succumb to the universal human foible of confirmation bias.
We do need some humility and to acknowledge that on becoming a lawyer, we do not transcend human fallibility and foibles, and that we do not always deserve the deference and respect we sometimes receive for our station.