Sentences with phrase «dominated by a desire»

The works of the learned modern theologians since Schleiermacher contain ever changing presentations of the Christian religion which are dominated by the desire to do justice to historical and contemporaneous Christian experience as well as to all phases of modem knowledge.

Our private and public choices may become dominated by the desire to preserve a way of life, a pattern of social relationships and even religious rites that we find comfortable.

I have come full circle in a way and finished this part of my life, which is dominated by the desires and emotions I had in my teenage years.

Therefore, any accusations of this being a series dominated by a desire to grab cash are difficult to sustain given the six - year gap between core releases.

Not exact matches

But he said most of Trump's policy decisions have been «asinine,» and he suspected this one was driven by the president's personal desire to dominate.

I resist your attempt to control and I push back and challenge you to consider what it is that is driving you to be a pastor — is it out of desire to dominate others and make the weak, or is it a calling from God that you are being equipped by God for, not trusting in your understanding, but in submission to God and in him directing your steps (no need to answer).

Let others, fulfilling a function more august than mine, proclaim your splendours as pure Spirit; as for me, dominated as I am by a vocation which springs from the inmost fibres of my being, I have no desire, I have no ability, to proclaim anything except the innumerable prolongations of your incarnate Being in the world of matter; I can preach only the mystery of your flesh, you the Soul shining forth though all that surrounds us.

The desired goal should not be to substitute a church dominated by male and female clergy for one dominated by male clergy.

The bible says as well that you can work for God as a «slave» or be a «slave» to you Desires, or a «slave of this world dominated by satan... You choose!

The educator who tries to dominate or enjoy his pupils «stifles the growth of his blessing,» and it is the same with the doctor and the psychotherapist: «As soon as the helper is touched by the desire, in however subtle a form, to dominate or to enjoy his patient, or to treat the latter's wish to be dominated or enjoyed by him as other than a wrong condition needing to be cured, the danger of falsification arises, beside which all quackery appears peripheral.»

Our anxiety might be between emotional drives and repressive norms, between different drives trying to dominate our personality, between our hope to achieve in our studies or profession and a lack of confidence in ourselves between the desire to be accepted by others and the experience of being rejected, between our real selves and the image of ourselves we try to give others or between our sense of loneliness and the need for friendship.

At times we allow our lives to be dominated by one or more of these other desires.

And if this is so, reason can not be seen as a means of passively entertaining an antecedent order; rather, it must be seen as rationalization, the production of order, and as control, the maintenance of order» (UP 106; cf. El 44 - 46).2 Thus he agrees with those philosophers who see a link between our desire to achieve a rational understanding of nature and our drive to control or dominate nature by means of technology.

I would not for a minute wish to deny that we are too often motivated by an obsessive desire for power and control, and dominated by a narrow and calculating rationality which can not even acknowledge the deeper values of human life and experience, and that such attitudes may contribute to the coming of one form or another of global catastrophe.

There is an alternative mode of cognition that instead of being dominated by the impulse to control is a product of a desire to surrender to the possible mysteriousness of reality.

Or perhaps the change may need to take place within ourselves, lest our intercession unconsciously take the form of an attempt to dominate the will of another by our desires.

But their lives often remain dominated by «desires of the flesh.»

they literally desire to be eternally dominated by an unjust, megalomaniacal, vain, jealous, homicidal, infanticidal, intolerant, bigoted, hate filled, imaginary man who lives in the sky.

The headlines before Monday have been dominated by one man, Carlos Tevez, and his desire to leave Manchester at the earliest departure point.

... Delight in smooth - sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, desire for popularity and electoral success irrespective of the vital interests of the State, genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation, obvious lack of intellectual vigour in both leaders of the British Coalition Government, marked ignorance of Europe and aversion from its problems in Mr. Baldwin, the strong and violent pacifism which at this time dominated the Labour - Socialist Party, the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality, the failure and worse than failure of Mr. Lloyd George, the erstwhile great war - time leader, to address himself to the continuity of his work, the whole supported by overwhelming majorities in both Houses of Parliament: all these constituted a picture of British fatuity and fecklessness which, though devoid of guile, was not devoid of guilt, and, though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries which, even so far as they have unfolded, are already beyond comparison in human experience.

Founded to represent the material interests of the majority at a time when politics was entirely dominated by a wealthy minority, it's still the party best placed to deliver the future most voters desire.

«Downstate has dominated Upstate for decades and Upstate has no future in a state controlled by New York City's needs and desires.»

His longstanding interest in nutrition, medicine, and health, topics he has spent a significant amount of time reading up on, was spurred by his desire to enhance his athletic performance and physique and overcome various health problems that had come to dominate many aspects of his life.

It is the filmmaking that delights, and not the tired reveal that some men long to be dominated by a beautiful woman, nor Vanda's unconvincing feminist update — that such a woman will oblige if only to prove that the desire for submission belongs to the man himself rather than to the woman's insatiable quest for power and revenge.

A Wakandan hardened by his upbringing in Oakland, California, an extensive stint in the military, and his desire for vengeance, he seeks to usurp the new ruler and use the technological advancements of the country to trigger black uprisings against white - dominated governments around the world.

That desire — to create a safe space for civil discussion — is a common concern for educators in a period dominated by social media echo chambers, protests over policing, and growing distrust of government among both young people and adults.

The «information workers» dominating today's workforce are motivated by a sense of purpose, desire to make a difference, and fulfilling their passion.

Why, an American might ask, are Koreans so dominated by familial desires, whereas a Korean might ask with equal bewilderment how an American could justify fulfilling a personal dream, even if it meant flouting parental wishes.

And as a result, it should be no surprise that as BRK grew, given Buffett's desire for owning as much of great businesses as he could, that BRK became a conglomerate, albeit one dominated by its leading insurance businesses.

To look over Paula Rego's body of work is to look over the landscape of women's experience: desire, abortion, rape, female circumcision, childbirth, family relationships, dominating and being dominated by men; her masculine female figures are sometimes lonely, but usually fierce and often bent on revenge.

But when it comes to non-normative sexuality, how can we know what we desire when we live in a culture dominated by the heterosexual male viewpoint?

Lorenzo Sanjuan, in his first solo exhibition in New York, in the heart of Brooklyn, offers us a sample of his creative world, chaired by the same spirit that dominates these pages: the desire for the creativity and profound conviction that the creation and art can change the world.

Together, the paintings depict a make believe world dominated by terror management theory and symbolic totems that represent our collective desire to be optimistic and innocent in tumultuous times.

«Magical Thinking» explores the supernatural powers and forces which are assigned to many things seen as symbols dominated by the belief that one's own thoughts, wishes or desires can influence the external world.

Working at a time dominated by conceptual and activist practices, Greene affirmed and interrogated the queer experience and homoerotic desire through painting.

It is likely that social psychology has always had a more cognitive than general psychology approach, as it traditionally discussed internal mental states such as beliefs and desires when mainstream psychology was dominated by behaviorism.

Studies have repeatedly found that bullies are characterized by a lack of empathy towards their victims [15, 16, 17], a desire to look «cool» and powerful [18], a need for dominating others [19, 20, 21], and dangerous and reckless behavior [22].