Sentences with phrase «dread of death»

But Milton had no dread of death.

Sexual passion is, for Updike, our chief means of silencing the dread of death.

This natural dread of death, therefore, has not disappeared.

Not exact matches

Last month we reached the tragic, and long - dreaded, moment in the history of self - driving cars: the death of an individual who didn't opt into using self - driving technology.

Koba the Dread (2002) is a meditation on the massive cruelties of Stalin, with a particular emphasis on the question of whether we can wrap our minds around the enormity of millions and millions of deaths.

Certainly death is now seen as something which lls us with dread (together with the expectation of «bodily pains») rather than, as it was meant to be, the gateway to eternal life.

Repudiating the fear and dread inspired in men by Satan and his churches — an Angst deriving from an abject and selfish terror of death (38:38)-- Milton's purpose is to teach men to despise death and to move forward:

Bultmann seized what he could use of these ideas: the anxiety produced by the existential question; the dread produced by the answer of death to all; the attempted flight into worldly business, social status and ephemera; the rare courage to begin an existence which would be authentic because open - eyed.

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«Again and again the Yes must be spoken to him... to liberate him from the dread of abandonment, which is a foretaste of death.»

It can be strong as death, because it is stronger than solitude, because it... throws a bridge from self being to self - being across the abyss of dread of the universe.

In this task I will draw on The Concept of Anxiety [Dread], Philosophical Fragments, and The Sickness Unto Death.

In his Second Inaugural, little more than a month before his death, Lincoln reminded the nation of the dread warning given to those who had oppressed the innocent and defenseless: Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.

The easy dismissal of death, or the assertion that «for those who believe, there is no death», is taken to be, what it often is, an easy evasion of the dread reality itself — escapism, childish refusal to face facts, and above all (in our special interest) unwillingness to accept our human mortality.

This stage of that life - death cycle can last weeks, months or years and is the most dreaded of human experiences.

Those who were fortunate in seeing him during those eighteen months when he and death sat face to face — who dreaded their first visits and came out gladly inspired with a new faith in the nobility and courage to which rare men can attain — these know that the ugliness and cruelty of death were defeated.

Their pagan dread of mortality issues in an equally pagan desire for earthly life to continue beyond death.

Yet the «good news» of the death of God can liberate us from our dread of an alien beyond, releasing us from all attachment to an opposing other, and freeing us for a total participation in the actuality of the immediate moment.

The section then affirms the Word - word conquest of hunger and thirst and war - although in human existence these continue to be the most prevalent and dreaded agents of death.

One of the ways in which the dread fact of death has been made less important, for a great many people at any rate, has been by talk about «life after death».

Alex was an extraordinary child, aware of the nature of her dread disease and the imminence of death, yet bright and lively and a joy to those who knew her.

Despite the minimal amount of text, the book does manage to convey a real sense of the passage of time, as well as a sense of dread over the near - inevitability of his death.

A dread infant killer is easily prevented by a simple injection, so easily that homebirth midwives have no idea that the risk of death is very real and still exists.

We also have tendencies to conform our opinions to those of the groups we identify with, to fear man - made risks more than we fear natural ones, and to believe that events causing dread — the technical term for risks that could result in particularly painful or gruesome deaths, like plane crashes and radiation burns — are inherently more risky than other events.

Routine clinical use of his vaccine forestalled the paralysis and death brought by the dreaded illness

Preeclampsia, the leading cause of death in pregnant women, is a medical mystery and a disorder that every obstetrician dreads.

The dread of infection, the horrible deaths of their patients and colleagues.

Fear of death is a fundamental part of the human experience — we dread the possibility of pain and suffering and we worry that we'll face the end alone.

Or perhaps you even bought a deck yourself and just knew that with practice, this would be the key to unlocking what karma had in store for you, only to spend hours staring at pictures of medieval men clasping coins and Knights on horseback or the dreaded Death card — what good could possibly come of that card, anyway?

We'd known how bad eggs were for people with diabetes (doubling their risk of death), but it wasn't until «Egg Consumption and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in Men and Women» — another Harvard study — that we learned how much eating eggs increases our risk of getting the dreaded disease in the first place.

Fake my death, become the Dread Pirate Roberts, and amass the fortune needed to rescue the love of my life?

The thought of me standing in an ice chamber at -80 degrees C for three minutes fills me with dread and the possibility of death.

With the help of Casey (Patricia Arquette), a female cop out for revenge for her own brother's death, they help bring down the dreaded «boys for good.

Gareth Edwards (Godzilla, Monsters) is directing Rogue One, which tells the story of resistance fighters who have united to steal plans to the dreaded Death Star.

Rogue One tells the story of resistance fighters who have united to steal plans to the dreaded Death Star.

I've been dreading writing about the death of Philip Seymour Hoffman all day — not because I couldn't figure out what to say, but because words seem so insufficient at a time like this, even ones that are heartfelt and well - intentioned.

Kramer's screenplay reveals facets of a genuinely important personal experience with real horror, and Murphy's film captures a suffocating dread at the sudden merging of sex and death at a cruel moment in history — complete with a climactic romantic gesture that finally, heartbreakingly, insists love matters most.

You'll never see me bothering with embracing memories of yesteryear with a backward compatible Xbox 360 game that was played to death the first time round, and spending time checking out the video game glories of even further back with the OG Xbox titles that can now be played on Xbox One just fills me with dread.

The movie starts with the actual cameraphone footage of Grant's shooting, so the sense of dread builds throughout the film: as we watch Grant go throughout his day — play with his young daughter, celebrate his mother's birthday, revisit his time in jail, interact with strangers — we know that this day is his last, and so his death comes as a particularly emotional gut punch.

Produced by Entertainment Factory's Rick Finkelstein and Steven Chase, Death House is directed by B Harrison Smith (Camp Dread, Zombie Killers: Elephant's Graveyard, 6 Degrees of Hell, The Fields).

With this script co-written by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, Krasinski has created this obstacle course of silence, with dread that can consume your imagination, as it slams against the anxiety that something might happen to the protagonists in a world where sound equals death.

That and my failing health, advanced age, poor eyesight, lackluster prospects and creeping dread of imminent death.

Windows users dread the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD), which signifies a major operating system crash requiring a reboot of the computer.

To prevent further deaths, possibly including his own, Junior must confront his dread of Christmas - both present and past.

Now, I understand, having researched this a lot, having coached clients for 15 years or so, many people are deep in debt because of circumstances in their lives, what I call the dreaded Ds: downsizing, a death in the family of the main breadwinner, divorce, disability or disease.

Animal shelters dread it: the death of a single kitten in a litter from feline infectious peritonitis (FIP).

In an interview with Edge Online, Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg claims that those dark days of hardware failure, specifically the dreaded «Red Ring of Death,» are a thing of the past.

On top of all that, you carry the dreaded Brothers in Arms pistol, which seems to mark each of its owners for death.

Striding through the icy tunnels of Hoth as Darth Vader, cutting down rebel scum with ease; battling the Imperial forces on the forest moon of Endor as Luke Skywalker while the Empire's dreaded AT - AT stomps ever closer to victory; watching as a X-Wing comes screaming downwards for a perfect strafing run on an AT - ST; feeling a chill run down my spin as a team - mate is suddenly yanked up into the air and choked to death, the sure sign that I'm seconds away from death as Darth Vader himself comes into view; defending an AT - AT as nothing more than a Stormtrooper, witnessing raging battle on both land in the sky.

So I guess we can add death to the list of injuries and property damage related to the dread Wii remote slip.