Sentences with phrase «dread of mortality»

The modernist program is essentially motivated by contemporary culture's fixation with the new, a dread of mortality, and rampant egotism.

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

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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.

«We are calling for the generic manufacture and widespread availability of the drug flucytosine, and plan large - scale programmes of implementation with partner countries and international agencies that could result in the mortality from this dreaded infection being halved.

According to the latest review, the total sum of evidence suggests that mortality from all causes put together, and many of our dreaded diseases — heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes — is significantly lower in those eating plant - based.

If «Area X» drips with dread — and mostly the sort of dread that comes with change and mortality — it also shimmers with mystery and awe.