Sentences with phrase «emptied life of all meaning»

The darkness and desolation of Good Friday and the miserable Sabbath which followed it had emptied life of all meaning for them.

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At the time of the exile, some people believed that life in Jerusalem had been trivialized and emptied of meaning.

It is clear that most of you have not experienced the pain and tragedy of life, and until you do, your songs are empty and void of meaning.

Corporate life loses its vigor and appeal, traditional symbols are emptied of their meaning, and confusion and anxiety arrest social advance and condemn the culture to stagnation and decay.

Following Jesus means subverting every claim to truth, authority, and consolation that could interfere with a life of self - emptying agape.

In the case of the brother who committed suicide, it might mean that his experience of life and of himself turned out to be so empty, so undesirable, so negative that very little can be gleaned from it to offer as a stimulus or as new possibilities for others.

Revolutionary changes in life as a whole empty older symbols of their meaning, and men are ready then to respond to new symbols or new forms of old symbols that speak to the new situation.

The evangelist pulls meanings out of words like rabbits from a silk hat: born from above may mean born again; the wind that blows where it wills may just be the Spirit wafting through the empty regions of our lives.

It was rather that, whether you take the empty tomb story literally or as a mythical description of what we mean by the Resurrection (namely that the living presence of the crucified Christ is present with us now), the idea is better forgotten, or rather is better not entertained at all, that the Resurrection is parallel to the raising of Lazarus from the grave in the Fourth Gospel.

The quest for inclusiveness in moral education can be pursued only by emptying lived morality of its particularity — those «thick» normative meanings whose seriousness and authority are embedded within the social organization of distinct communities and the collective rituals and narratives that give them continuity over time.

Klemke, I think, is an adequate representative of those who argue for the meaningfulness of the individual's life even though the universe may be empty of meaning itself.

It takes courage and empathy to find your own meaning and purpose in a world that seems quite empty and cold when you let go of belief in gods, but many of us eventually feel freer, lighter, and find more potential in our godless lives.

By this, I don't mean «failed scientists who couldn't think of anything else to do with their sad, empty lives», but staff who have changed direction in their careers through choice or necessity, e.g., they still have mortgages to pay and kids to raise.

But the crazy thing about empty space, weighing something --[well,] there are many crazy things — it produces a gravitational repulsion, rather than the attractions so the expansion of the universe is speeding up; but this stuff is so mysterious and inexplicable — completely inexplicable right now — that many physicists have been driven wild and mad and have changed what we might mean by fundamental physics by suggesting, for example, that the fundamental concepts in nature are not really fundamental at all, they are accidental; they are an environmental accident; that the are many universes and we just happen to live in the one that has the values it does because if you changed it a little bit then we wouldn't be living.

The original 2001 film wasn't particularly scary either, but it did succeed in delivering some interesting social commentary on the nature of electronic means of communication, and how it is separating us from actual human contact, leaving those who succumb to it as empty shells who sit in lonely rooms with nothing much to live for.

Reworking James Thurber's 1939 short story into a wake - up call for middle - aged white men to stop dreaming and start living, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is weakly life - affirming, the kind of empty - headed cinematic platitude that mistakes irresponsibility for adventure and accomplishment for meanLife of Walter Mitty is weakly life - affirming, the kind of empty - headed cinematic platitude that mistakes irresponsibility for adventure and accomplishment for meanlife - affirming, the kind of empty - headed cinematic platitude that mistakes irresponsibility for adventure and accomplishment for meaning.

The lives of the children of such parents, he writes, «are empty, devoid of meaning.»

Efficient conversion means you live off cash while you pull money out of the IRA and into the Roth at a rate that virtually empties the IRA before RMD hits at age 70.5.

Vacant means that you're not living there and it's substantially empty of personal property necessary for normal use.

Their lives must be as empty of real meaning, as their practices.

An application of the PP in the sense I meant it would say that you can never blow up any building because you can never be absolutely certain that it is empty, and the price of a life is infinite.

Just because you're an empty nester doesn't necessarily mean that you no longer need the protection of a life insurance policy.