Sentences with phrase «face of reality»

The Energy Bill has seemed a strong effort in the face of political realities, even if inadequate in face of the reality what require, but it fell viction to a reckless minority who are wedded to a fossil - fuel, polluting path that further weakens America with each passing day.

Ellen Phelan demystifies 19th - century landscape painting, not so much by deconstructing the myths that sustain it as by demonstrating anew how the impulse to record nature is inextricably bound up with the need to project personal states of mind onto the objective face of reality.

You will inevitably face all of these realities in one form or another, but today we turn our attention toward the most exciting, most hopeful, and most dangerous phase: the Honeymoon Period.

The unstated reason for policy intransigence in the face of reality is that much of the Greek sovereign debt was owed to important financial institutions, including major banks.

To advocate such a position would be to fly in the face of the realities of the most fundamental aspects of the human condition — the fact that we humans as homo sapiens are a creature that lives and breathes and has its being within the processual setting of a communicative community.2

I'd rather be sober and (relatively) unhappy in the face of reality, living my life in this natural world, than to lie to myself and live in a fantasy world.

I believe my task as a theologian is to theologize responsibly, not for the marginalized or the «convertible,» but rather for those who, like me, want to know «what time it is» and, in the face of that reality, how we can live most faithfully.

And, if the truth be told, there are some theologians who, in the face of the reality of suffering, would just rather do theology for its own sake.

Glad that it helps you but it's a symptom of a weak and desperate mind to spit in the face of reality and reason.

But this idea could not be upheld in the face of the realities of life.

Against the doctrinaire and cerebral approach which others maintain, into the face of reality, Gabriel offers the values of a highland villager» (La rebelión contra el indigenismo y la afirmación del pueblo in el mundo de José María Arguedas, p. 232)

The ideology calls for a movement to win the world and all is subservient to that ideology no matter how much it flies in the face of reality — of factuality.

Reading those scriptures is attune to reading Grimms Fairy Tales... completely meaningless in the face of the reality of her passing or in reality for that matter.

the religious business has always been in the selling of lies and false hope... more and more people are relizing this with examples like this coming to hit them in the face of reality..

In the face of a reality that matters deeply to us, and with full recognition of its horrible moral evil, we find ourselves impotent, and we can not even take satisfaction in the purity of our own motives and acts.

It's so true I've found that everything I just knew I would do or be, was morphed in the face of reality.

Pushing exclusive breastfeeding in the face of these realities puts newborns at risk for feeding related complications ranging from hyperbilirubinemia, hypoglycemia to acute dehydration, and even death.

«Likewise, his continued argument that the bill is unconstitutional flies in the face of reality.»

«Coming as it does, against the background of the widely acclaimed electoral reforms undertaken by the Jonathan Administration, the claim by Prof. Achebe clearly flies in the face of the reality of Nigeria's current political situation.

Just like biodegradeable spoons, their policies often crumble in the face of reality and leave behind a big mess.

Lydia Parnes, acting director of the FTC's bureau of consumer protection says, The defendant's claims fly in the face of reality.

Lydia Parnes, acting director of the FTC bureau of consumer protection says, the defendant claims fly in the face of reality.

Begun as a project to investigate her own family background, «Stories We Tell» blossoms into a riveting portrait of a family still carrying secrets, heartache and accepted truths that sometimes fly in the face of reality.

She's been moved from foster home to foster home over the years, and her eternal optimism flies in the face of reality, but things look up when she bumps into a very important man.

In the face of this reality, educators put up a valiant fight, and some succeed.

But its rigid stance on charters flies in the face of reality.

Birnbach wrote The Official Preppy Handbook 30 years ago, and now True Prep is a guidebook for prepsters not sure what to do «in the face of reality TV, Facebook and the Martha Stewart and Bernie Madoff scandals,» writes BookPage contributor Linda Castellitto.

Now she and designer extraordinaire Chip Kidd have issued True Prep: It's a Whole New Old World, a guidebook for prepsters not sure what Muffy would do in the face of reality TV, Facebook and the Martha Stewart and Bernie Madoff scandals, to name just a few.

Deborah, sales may very well be down at Bell Bridge / Belle Books, but your bizarre claim that sales are «down everywhere» flies in the face of reality.

But that flies in the face of reality.

The interplay between the representational imagery and the vibrating blanket of dots creates energetic compositions, engaging the viewer with an active visual experience and inviting them to question the face of reality.

Several pieces by the artist Trixia Lara combine the mournful and celebratory tones of other works in the exhibition with a marked defiance in the face of the reality of gendered violence.

Might as well choose to have some hope in the face of the reality of uncertainty: despair is not adaptive.

As someone who has actually removed plastic bags from the bodies of endangered animals, I can tell you that the rhetoric of the plastics industry falls apart in the face of reality,» says Dr. Wallace J. Nichols, research associate at the California Academy of Sciences «A 2009 report showed that almost half of the remaining leatherback turtles carry plastic in them, the most common item being plastic bags.

In the face of this reality, what does genuine economic progress look like?

A good write - up of the economic challenges facing cellulosic biofuels can be found here, and the numbers in the nearby chart are the modern - day equivalent of the waves lapping at King Canute's feet — proof that a government order is meaningless if it flies in the face of reality.

Increasingly losing the battle for public opinion as UN «climate» theories self - destruct in the face of reality, the man - made global - warming theorists are quickly revealing their true colors.

It simply flies in the face of reality to hold that AC - Treuhand pursued the same objective as the chemical companies.

In the face of this reality, common reasons expressed for not belonging to professional associations or financially supporting members of their team to do so include «I don't have the budget,» «I don't have the time» or «I am too busy.»

In the face of this reality, a number of scholars — including Semple and Engstrom — suggest that regulators should require lawyers to disclose objective information about fees and certain case outcomes which could then, in turn, be made available to the public.

Adaptation in the face of reality completes the plan.»

No amount of goofy CREAcrat ads will ever convince some TV watching consumer with a bad attitude toward Realtors that image erasing contrived bull shit creations designed to be funny will ever change the face of reality vis a vis the seriousness of being fraudulently / negligently mislead by some bohunk «Licensed» Realtor who belongs somewhere else selling snake oil in the Arctic to stiff spirits of the dead during an Aurora Borealis show.