Sentences with phrase «emotional force in»

«They are the most powerful emotional force in American politics,» said Bruce Buchanan, a professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin, «but they're disorganized and have no long - term strategy.»

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Those most at risk in our province are our youth aged 16 to 24 who have fled physical, emotional and / or sexual abuse; those who have been forced from their homes; and those who have aged out of foster care.
Below the conscious stream there is a great mysterious area, now called the subconscious, where, at differing levels, there move emotional forces set in operation by past experiences.
Both are irrational... religion, which is force fed to Americans from childhood, creates the mental / emotional conditions for other irrationalities like fear and hatred of people who are different in some way.
Force, in any of its various forms, is decidedly anti-social, for Whitehead.7 Thus rooted in human emotional and instinctive experience, human social relations are not principally rational or artificially instituted, but instead are founded on natural feelings of accommodation and mutual beneficence.
But this generalization is true only when paternal engagement, emotional expressiveness, warmth and praise are figured into the equation, Conservative Protestant men have a way to go in demonstrating fairness with their wives, who increasingly choose to be in the paid work force.
The selectiveness of individual experience is moral so far as it conforms to the balance of importance disclosed in the rational vision; arid conversely the conversion of the intellectual insight into an emotional force corrects the sensitive experience in the direction of morality.
The tragedy sliced to the heart of Laramie with no less emotional force than the gay - bashing murder of Wyoming freshman Matthew Shepard in 1998.
Harrington, a journalism professor at Illinois, has written a passionate argument that hunting can be a powerful, uplifting force in men's lives, even for him, an unapologetically sensitive 21st - century guy who has emotional rap sessions with his son that end in hugs and I - love - yous.
The same scenario has now played itself out in this case of Szczsney getting forced out of Arsenal by Le Prof, for emotional reason maybe?
And, in fact, one of the chief insights that the neurobiological research provides is that the behavior of young people, especially young people who have experienced significant adversity, is often under the sway of emotional and psychological and hormonal forces within them that are far from rational.
When parents experience their first born, there is so much going on in terms of emotional and physical health, not to mention fatigue, and when the nurses stand over your wife forcing the child's face into her breast you just assume nature will take it's course.
We can force external obedience temporarily, but only by constantly escalating the threats, emotional manipulations, and punishments which accomplish nothing in the long run and do far greater damage than they are worth.
Given that babies vary in their psychological and emotional needs, it seems plausible that at least some babies will suffer problems if forced to follow a solitary sleep regimen.
The CDD also advised that the security forces should be proactive in curtailing the excesses of the group but warned that excessive force should not be deployed in case of any skirmishes arising during the election, adding that the Operation Python Dance 11 has elicited so much pain and emotional anguish within the South East Region.
The requirement under current law to determine who is at fault for causing the divorce has significant financial and emotional costs, and unnecessarily forces couples in deteriorating relationships to rehash the bitter, painful and embarrassing reasons for divorce.
I know that those who carelessly condemn him in public, clandestinely go back to heal wounds knowing what the man represents, his affability, readiness to listen and reluctance to get emotional easily no wonder after years of intense condemnation, Prof Martey openly praised him for his humility and assured him of his constant prayers to succeed.In our bid to get our parties to office, we must also consider the safety of our nation and the cohesion we've enjoyed so far.I don't think the Npp in its current state can manage its internal issues if elected into office let alone manage the nation.Our democracy shouldn't be toyed with in the name of political extremism and unworkable promises.We don't need a leader who will establish himself by intimidation and force, who will choose henchmen around himself, create secret police and abandoned all pretence of consulting the wishes of the masses but will only expect regimented YES from us on all national issues like we seeing in the Npp today.
The 2004 University of California, Berkeley, Graduate Student Mental Health Survey, from the Berkeley Graduate and Professional Schools Mental Health Task Force, concluded: «Almost half of all graduate students participating in this survey reported an emotional or stress - related problem that significantly affected their well - being and / or academic performance in the last twelve months.»
But war is rarely so simple, and distance does nothing to numb the emotional impact of taking a life, said Slim (who is referred to here by his Air Force call sign in order to protect his identity).
Half the respondents were asked to check off whether the emotional or sexual aspect of infidelity was the most upsetting to them in four different infidelity scenarios — a so - called «forced choice» paradigm.
For universities, faculty scientists now are only a means to the end of increasing their profits (see: «Money now is Everything in Scientific Research at Universities»); the science faculty presently is forced to spend too much time and emotional energy on trying to acquire more research grant awards, instead of actually doing experiments to produce more new results.
My experience with anxiety has been one of extreme emotional ups and downs, but sometimes the most painful experiences in life are the ones that force...
While, individually, we have responsibility to improve our own wellness, most people are significantly influenced by social forces in the form of fitness trends, advertisements, food costs and availability and, of particular concern, physical, biochemical and mental - emotional stress brought on by life in modern society — life increasingly characterized by existence in Max Weber's steel shell.
In many cases, it also is caused by underlying emotional forces.
And as if some unseen cosmic force foresaw this emotional roller coaster ride I'd be taking today, I started showing symptoms of an oncoming bout of the flu, and so, I made myself a batch of this VEGAN Broth, the very last food I cooked and shot in the apartment before boxing up all my gear and props.
Feminine: «I commit to giving my radiant life force and my emotional sensitivity in this relationship so that my partner may fully open to God.»
To the people saying the story sucks, it doesn't at all and even gets strongly emotional when you are forced to do something terribly heart breaking late in the game, now that is a gripping and sad emotional moment granted it doesn't last long enough but it is better story and more emotional than anything in halo or gears and that is one scene on a handheld!
Those dance scenes have an expressive power, an emotional charge and a kinetic energy that's mostly absent elsewhere in Jose Padilha's superfluous retread of the daring 1976 raid by Israeli counterterrorist forces to rescue 102 hostages from a hijacked Air France flight out of Tel Aviv.
There are plenty of talented components to this cast, and most every one of them has his or her time to shine, even such much too briefly present forces as episodes 1's Martin Sheen - who nails both Irish - American accent and depth of the good - hearted slaver who comes to find flaws in the traditions he has had to follow - and episode 3's Richard Jenkin, who effectively despicable in his audacious portrayal of a despicable radical racist who is as willing to die as he is to kill to preserve his questionable sense of order - and plenty of other people in between, from the compelling Dennis Haysbert to the charming Danny Glover, so you know that it's saying something to proclaim that leading lady Halle Berry is this series» strongest performance, delivering on powerful layers and emotional range in her engrossing portrayal of a mulatto who is trapped in society by her mixed race, and will face many unbearable hardships that will test her innocence and humanity.
But the picture's emotional force is intense and relentless enough to overpower its missteps in our memory.
But that's not entirely true: Although the story of a young veterinary student who undergoes a terrible transformation after being forced to eat meat in a hazing ritual doesn't shy away from showing the act of cannibalism itself, its intensity is as much emotional as it is visceral.
Garfield's underplaying gives us just enough to fill in the emotional blanks, drawing us in deeper by forcing us to use our imaginations.
almost as a side - scrolling video game moving at a wagon's pace, Loktev forces us to slow down and pay heed to subtle shifts both in the landscape the couple traverses and in the emotional distances between Nica, Alex, and their eventual guide Dato (Bidzina Gujabidze) at any given point.
McQueen keeps his distance; his matter - of - fact depiction forces the audience to supply, and simmer in, its own emotional reaction.
However, I felt in this film we really got an honest emotional look into the child that it seems is forced into this life of darkness.
The restoration of Lili's guile — as in the U.S. theatrical cut (hereafter TC), she's introduced mischievously pulling down a milkmaid's clothesline, but here she goes a step farther in stealing biscuits from the woman and telling Jack she baked them herself — places the DC in an emotional context removed from that of its forebear: we see her as more susceptible to the forces of evil.
Those who don't know much about Snowden's story may still find this movie enlightening, but it never achieves the emotional force that Poitras achieved in her film with the real Snowden front and center.
I also felt that the musical score was somewhat forced for the purpose of provoking on the emotional level and was only there to make up for the lack of it in the film, it did seem quite unnecessary in parts where I thought silence could have worked better, but thats not to say of course that it was brilliant to listen too, and the changes were spot on to suit the changes determined in the film but for a simplistic kind of story it seemed excessive.
Hutton's character is made a distraction for the most part by his function as catalyst and counterpoint for Babs's emotional growth (he's the egghead alternative to her philandering jock choice) and by his wardrobe and facial hair changes; in short, he's Jenny from Forrest Gump, the one genuinely involved force in the film, punished by a marriage to a brassy grad student (Patricia Clarkson)... and yet he's not the star.
But the result is a film that, for all its emotional power, is strangely disengaged from the cultural and systemic forces that led to police brutality in 1967 and continue to do so today.
Filmmaker Peter Nicks, director of the documentary «The Force,» participates in a Sundance panel on emotional content in nonfiction films Monday, January 23, 2017.
You'll get caught up in laughing at the put - upon stork being bitten, bashed, and spiked by his well - meaning friend's creations, but when the dramatic tipping point comes, with its gale - force emotional kicker, you'll realise that Partly Cloudy was actually talking about something much more, all along.
A refreshingly exhilarating, emotional and ultimately uplifting examination of youngsters forging an unbreakable bond in the face of a malignant force far beyond their control.
Some entries in the largely undistinguished dysfunctional - family - holiday - film subgenre — The Family Stone (also with Keaton) and Jodie Foster's Home for the Holidays, to name two — are watchable despite their forced zaniness and predictable emotional beats; the spectacle of attractive stars packed into the frame to act out universal problems (meddling parents, sibling rivalries, unfulfilled romantic and professional lives) has its charms and comforts.
Her Captain Phasma has even less lines in «The Last Jedi» than in «The Force Awakens», and it's baffling why an actress of her physical and emotional calibre is relegated to fight scenes in a bulky metal suit with her face covered.
Light Sleeper (1992) In Light Sleeper, one of Schrader's very best «man in a room» films, Willem Dafoe gives an emotional tour de force performance as John LeTour, a world - weary New York drug dealer who spends his nights making deliveries to his high - end clients and journaling in his notebooIn Light Sleeper, one of Schrader's very best «man in a room» films, Willem Dafoe gives an emotional tour de force performance as John LeTour, a world - weary New York drug dealer who spends his nights making deliveries to his high - end clients and journaling in his notebooin a room» films, Willem Dafoe gives an emotional tour de force performance as John LeTour, a world - weary New York drug dealer who spends his nights making deliveries to his high - end clients and journaling in his notebooin his notebook.
The movie crackles with an emotional energy, and cackles with a rueful laughter, that have been missing from his recent films, but which return in full force now that Baumbach has again taken up his theme of children being twisted into odd shapes by a parent's monstrous self - regard.
It's a nice tease for the emotional force of the film, but it also suggests a distinct problem in terms of award: How do you pick just one of these actors to receive praise for a film that deserves quite a bit more of that very thing?
By playing with the spectator's expectations of catharsis, it forces them to respond both emotionally and intellectually and to take a more ethical position in relation to the film by rationally contemplating their emotional response.
I'm guessing that in the film's longer version, the love story feels less forced — maybe even not at all — and the intended emotional connection between the lovers and between them and the audience registers more strongly.
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