Sentences with phrase «estrangement with»

But although the initiative aimed to close the gap between the Facebook chief and the masses, it seems it has made Zuckerberg's estrangement with normality even more apparent — and the internet was quick to take the piss out of the billionaire.

«Assuming no estrangement with the children, it may be best to leave the residue of a will equally,» Cardy says.

He wanted to be good to his brother, but his parents look at him with such disappointment, eventually causing self - imposed estrangement with his family to become a nobody, an amoral repo man (the mirror opposite of Santa — he takes gifts away) in Chicago.

His story continued about keeping the abuse contained, turning to drugs and alcohol to try coping with his pain, how it resulted in a failed marriage and continued estrangement with a daughter.

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Through this attitude, according to Schweitzer, humanity seeks to become united with the Cosmic Will, and thus strives to overcome the estrangement (Selbstentzweiung) which mysteriously and painfully exists between the blind, groping, truculent forms of energy in the world at large and the purposive, morally concerned form, or will - to - love, which humanity discovers in itself.

This estrangement of persons with AIDS has been compared to that suffered by lepers.

Rejecting the estrangement from self and other women enforced by the patriarchal agenda, gynaffectionate women are dis - covering themselves in and with one another.

The preceding chapters are replete with examples of our estrangement in the world of today.

So too God participates in the joy of the individual whose estrangement is converted to at - one - ment with God.

The struggle with the feeling of estrangement from oneself may be experienced as an identity crisis.

The ultimate deprivation and oppression is estrangement from the God who pleads with us through this invitation of Jesus.

He'd smile at them across that distance, and the smile was sad and hard, and it meant estrangement, even when he was with them.

If I can never adequately state the significance of my relationships with those whom I love in this world, or give a neat description of how I can overcome the alienation and estrangement of myself from another, or describe with any fullness what it means to be accepted by another and loved in spite of my deficiencies and my self - centeredness, I can never state in other than symbolic idiom the opening of further human possibilities with the overcoming of human deficiencies in my relationship with God — a relationship that has been broken by my willfulness and sin.

That is what is behind the sense of alienation and estrangement, along with the feeling of unacceptability, about which Tillich wrote.

The opposite of estrangement and alienation is at - onement, which is a oneness with self, with one's neighbors, with nature and with God (see also Chapter 6).

As long as one's size and sense of worth are measured by the strength of one's capacity to influence others (and this influence always takes the form of shaping the other in our image), as long as power is associated with the sense of initiative and aggressiveness, and passivity is indicative of weakness or a corresponding lack of power, then the natural and inevitable inequalities among individuals and groups are the means whereby the estrangements in life become wider and deeper.

Though we are all acquainted with suffering and feelings of self - estrangement, our ordinary objective ways of articulating them make it easier to suppress than to express the experience.

But «reconciliation» is a heart word, with the pain of estrangement and the joy of return written all over it.

He defines the Gospel as «a great movement from lower to higher, going through estrangement and crises, but also through atonement and salvation, and so directed towards its ultimate goal, a Glorified Humanity in full communion with God, of which goal the Risen Christ is the guarantee and first fruits».

In the process of that widening estrangement, Christianity has lost its understanding of the Jewishness of Jesus; has lost touch with the culture out of which the message of Jesus was spoken, thus bringing a Gentile definition to Jewish words; and has lost its sense of the immediacy of God's working through scandalous particulars in human history in order to affirm the universal goodness of his creation.

It comes from the discovery that God stands by us, in spite of our estrangement from him, that he remains with us in our need, at cost to himself.

He learns, through the revealing conversation with God, that his choice for humanization, wisdom, knowledge of good and bad, or autonomy really means at the same time also estrangement from the world, self - division, division of labor, toil, fearful knowledge of death, and the institution of inequality, rule, and subservience.

«When the sense of estrangement,» he writes, «fencing man about in a narrowly limited ego, breaks down, the individual finds himself «at one with all creation.»

Such alienation or estrangement brings about a sense of human frustration, sometimes felt very keenly but more often and with most of us in something like Thoreau's «quiet desperation,» known at moments when we can not sleep or when we are not happy about what we have been doing or thinking.

This very rarity brings out an aspect of the estrangement between the Church and modern science which is not properly dealt with by Professor Barr.

Contributing to his estrangement from Wagner was the Master's continual insinuation that, with corrupt friends such as Rée, Nietzsche must be homosexual.

But at first glance it seems inconceivable that those who profess faith in one God or one divine essence can combine with it a spirit of mutual estrangement and hostility.

It has also been dealing with human issues, such as estrangement and oppression and the hope for reconciliation and liberation.

A period of estrangement from biblical religion in favor of alternative perspectives eventually led me back to a positive interest in Christianity and then to a clarified identification with it.

In any case, agencies having contact with children generally do not enquire about the father's PR status, and will usually only do so where there is evidence of substantial conflict with or estrangement from the mother, or major child welfare concerns regarding the father's care of the child.

In addition, estrangement from adult children usually means a loss of contact with grandchildren as well.

Energetic and dynamic nannies understandably have pull with a baby, and if a nanny or au pair is the significant bonding adult in a young baby's life, estrangement to mom can and does happen.

In some cases, they might side with one parent against the other parent, which can cause alienation or even estrangement.

And the 2020 scenario all but vanished this year with Cuomo's estrangement from his party's left - of - center «progressive wing,» as demonstrated by his inability in September to win little more than 60 percent of the vote against virtually unknown challengers in his own Democratic primary.

After all, in the past, estrangement from family or friends, along with the corresponding exile away from the campfire or town gates, meant literally getting thrown to the wolves.

Lincoln must also deal with his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln (portrayed by Sally Field), as she struggles with the deaths of several of their sons, and the estrangement he faces with his college - age son Robert (played by Joseph Gordon - Levitt), who returns home from Harvard to join the Union army.

«First, I want us to be brothers again,» Francis states, implying the shared estrangement is something that can be fixed with words rather than actions.

Like Milo, Maggie is impulsive and self - destructive, and serially cheats on Lance, just as Milo makes bad choices, one of them being his teen aged affair with a high school teacher, an event that was hushed up, and provoked the family estrangement.

It's largely been downhill since then with a series of well - documented estrangements and problems.

Some of the dramatizations are a bit sub-Errol Morris for my taste, but the archival footage of the brothers» time in the spotlight contrasted with Wardle's contemporary footage of their subsequent estrangement has emotional weight.

Tim Mooney (Ansel Elgort), supposedly a star of the football team, has quit the sport — to the estrangement of his father Kent (Dean Norris)-- and somehow finds time when he's not playing video games to mumble his way into a chaste romance with Brandy (Kaitlyn Dever).

Krisha, a strong directorial debut, creates an audio - visual language of social anxiety, boldly capturing the feelings of estrangement experienced by the title character (Krisha Fairchild) as she attempts to reconnect with the family she abandoned.

What happens there — in the name of «brotherhood,» and with the supposed goal of forging a scholar and a gentleman from the raw materials of boyhood — involves torturous late - night hazing, heartbreaking estrangement from his brother, and, finally, the death of a fellow pledge.

It opens as a single mother (Kathryn Hahn) reconnects with her parents on Facebook after 15 years estrangement.

Sure enough, tensions explode in the form of Carolina (Juno Temple), Humpty's curvy grown - up daughter who, after years of estrangement, swirls back into the household with plenty of her own drama.

Wracked with guilt over the disagreements that led to the ill - fated estrangement and frustrated by the doctors who tell him there's no hope for his son, Henry heads to the library's microfilm archives to conduct his own research.

At the end of the season, she had a surprise reconciliation with her husband after a season - long estrangement.

Bob has an argument with his son Robby (Max Minghella) over college and Bob's estrangement from his wife.

Yet these elements — sisterly estrangement, parental insecurity and the social rehabilitation of a chronic introvert among them — have been assembled here with such authorial dexterity, emotional immediacy and narrative audacity that the resulting film feels at once inventive and essential.

When I published a piece earlier this year about the tense estrangement between conservative education reformers and the movement's increasingly dominant social justice wing, it did not sit well with members of the latter group, including Rhames, who penned a response on Education Post titled, «An Open Letter to White Conservative Education Reformers.»