Sentences with phrase «essential humanity»

Some things, we think, are simply beyond such questioning, and the person who does not see things that way is lacking in essential humanity.

Instead, the presence of these camels in the story highlights, in a very clear way, the essential humanity of the biblical writers: like the best authors, they simply wrote about what they knew.

It is here that we see, as Nathan Scott once wrote, «a richly particularized and wonderfully eccentric human being living out his life — a little hobo whose every gesture somehow manages to redeem the human image... Here is the real human thing itself — clothed not in the unearthly magnificence of tragic heroism, but in the awkward innocence of essential humanity» (The Broken Center, by Nathan Scott, Jr..

As in The Merchant of Venice, religious issues complicate considerations of race and ethnicity, but Shakespeare's drama again leaves an attentive audience or reader with a powerful realization of the essential humanity of the racial «other.»

The existentialist movement inaugurated by Kierkegaard has become philosophically creative as it has described man's loss of his essential humanity.

Men can be analyzed and managed as natural objects, but only at the cost of their essential humanity.

Communism in Russia's captive nations was yet another Potemkin village, and the people now coming out from behind the collapsing stagecraft appear to be relatively undamaged in their essential humanity.

But this much we can say with confidence: at every point of suffering and wrong, in every situation where man is being divested of his essential humanity, the judgment and the grace of God is operative through some human agency.

The call for Globalisation for the Common Good is an appeal to our essential humanity.

But in reading Randolph Loney's stories of his friends on Georgia's death row we are forced to acknowledge a simple truth: those whom we have condemned to die are not «aliens,» but individuals who, in their essential humanity, are connected to all of us.

I believe we have given up so much of our essential humanity for the seeming security of civilization, and it saddens me.

The essential humanity of the characters shines through, giving face and form to a subculture the movies have largely neglected.

To deny any group of people their essential humanity has repercussions not just for the victims of oppression, but also for the perpetrators.

It's a surprisingly mature big - screen turn from a guy who cut his teeth on deadpan TV comedy, and it lends an essential humanity to a one - joke character that badly needed to develop in three dimensions.

The Special Olympics movement — a name chosen with extraordinary care and insight to minimize stigma — has shown that it is both necessary and possible to reaffirm the essential humanity that comes with birth and is not lost when reasons of biology, accident, or otherwise make one's developmental trajectory «atypical.»

- Kirkus «Her writing is assured, energetic, and adroitly plotted, sweeping the reader along through an engrossing narrative that endears readers to the Plumb family for their essential humanity.»

Our focus is on atmosphere, mood, and the essential humanity of our characters.

Her essential humanity, however, and the peacefulness of the scene stand out beautifully.

All four films enact these conflicts and tensions in the symbolic terms of very high art, and in ways that, beyond their contemporary topicality, touch our essential humanity.

The goal of the project was to adjust the language and reading of the flood of images from Israel and the West Bank, to find the space between journalism and art, and to use artists to create a «parole poétique» — one that emphasized the essential humanity underlining the thorny conflict.

Pauline Chernichaw, in both her gritty street photography and in her paintings, communicates the essential humanity of her subjects.

It is commonplace to talk about abstract work as coolly elegant, but this is work that has to be described as warmly elegant for its essential humanity and joy in the world.

He retained an essential humanity and groundedness, always solicitous and warm, and professional and polite in all his communications.

In The Kiss (1907, Hamburgerkunsthalle, Hamburg) and Sleeping Muse (1910, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), Brancusi reduces natural forms to their ultimate basics, without losing their essential humanity.