Sentences with phrase «face with his mortality»

What shook his foundations was suddenly coming face - to - face with his mortality, or at least...

When Breath Becomes Air is written by Paul Kalanithi, who died while working on this book, and his words address the relationships between doctor and patient, living and surviving, and what life really means when faced with mortality.

Her range and nuance are really something, whether it's playing the love - torn ingenue, the regretful divorcee faced with the mortality of a past love, or the mother who is ultimately childless in everything but name.

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He had been self - reliant and fearless, he says, but after coming face to face with his own mortality, he realized he needed to do a better job of protecting his money and his family.

When faced with our own mortality, when the undeniable finality of death is understood to be real and true, God, such as he is, disappears.

Living with AIDS and realistically facing my mortality, but living.

Thus for each of us, the exacting and inescapable question, which must be faced and answered, is the question of our total mortal life as we are now living it, a question which arises from our mortality with the responsibility which that entails, which puts itself to us in the form of our measuring up to the possibility of becoming authentically ourselves, and which issues in our realization (not so much in thought as in deeply felt experience as existing men) of blessedness, as we know ourselves becoming what we truly are, or in destruction or damnation, as we know ourselves both frustrated men and failures in our human fulfillment.

As Catholics, we know instinctively that maternal mortality is a tragedy and that abortion is not the answer, but I believe that we are under an obligation to turn that knowledge into action and offer hope to mothers around the world who face the prospect of giving birth in fear and trembling rather than with joy.

Faced with his own mortality at 69, that is how he responded.

I thought of how, when faced with our own mortality, we finally understand the clichéd phrase of «what really matters» — often too late.

With no ultrasounds and no prenatal or postnatal care, infant mortality in the 1800s was high and mothers also faced serious complications during pregnancy, childbirth and recovery that could prove fatal.

His juxtaposition of insights from his favorite professor — a witty and grounded Jesuit priest facing his own mortality — with magician David Copperfield's ruthless quest for the fountain of youth leaves little doubt where Gollner stands on the issue, but it may make some Immortalists rethink their priorities.

New research finds that we tend to care more about the success of future generations when we are faced with our own mortality.

However, afterlife beliefs helped to preserve hope, even among those with low esteem who experience hopelessness when faced with the prospect of their own mortality.

Commercial bee colonies, faced with massive mortality rates, are not faring so well these days, and unmanaged hives like this one could be their salvation.

The effect of risk of mortality on the foraging behaviour of animals faced with time - and digestive - capacity restraints.

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Synopsis: Faced with their own mortality, an improbable group of mostly HIV - positive young men and women broke the mold as radical warriors taking on Washing... [MORE]

Whilst Boyle has crafted a visceral film resplendent with raw energy and even humour, it is Franco that compels with his multi-faceted performance of an adventurer forced to reconcile his lifestyle choices with his future as he faces his mortality — and my goodness, what a performance it is.

Who: Robert Redford What: After a collision with a shipping container at sea, a resourceful sailor finds himself, despite all efforts to the contrary, staring his mortality in the face.

«Hide Your Smiling Faces «Synopsis: Two adolescent brothers grapple with life, displacement and mortality over the course of one summer when their parents move the family away and a local boy mysteriously dies.

Unfortunately, Darkest Hour can't avoid comparisons with The Crown, where John Lithgow's Churchill reluctantly confronts mortality, and faces questions regarding own leadership.

This year's list includes two families, the Sung family from Steve James» Abacus: Small Enough to Jail and the Rainey family from Jonathan Olshefski's Quest; five people whose films bear their name, Dina Buno, Jim Carrey, Jane Goodall, Dolores Huerta and Bobbi Jene Smith; and three filmmakers who appear in their own films, wrestling with disease, murder and mortality, Jennifer Brea (Unrest), Yance Ford (Strong Island) and Agnès Varda (Faces Places).

Meanwhile, as he faces his own mortality Randy makes attempts at love with a stripper, Cassidy (Marisa Tomei), and making up with his daughter Stephanie (Evan Rachel Wood).

Agnès Varda & JR, France, 2016, 89m The 88 - year - old Agnès Varda teamed up with the 33 - year - old visual artist JR for this tour of rural France that follows in the footsteps of Varda's groundbreaking documentary The Gleaners and I (NYFF 2000) in its celebration of artisanal production, workers» solidarity, and the photographic arts in the face of mortality.

When faced with their own mortality, will they turn on each other to survive?

During his visit, for the first time in his life, Wolverine becomes vulnerable both physically and emotionally; now facing his own mortality he'll have to do battle with Japanese Yakuza, Ninja, as well as his own personal demons.

Darkest Hour can't avoid comparisons with The Crown, where John Lithgow's Churchill reluctantly confronts mortality, and faces questions regarding own leadership.

Beth tries to face mortality with as much courage as she can summon.

How do you to salvage whatever you can of yourself when faced with your own mortality?

Health issues are a major concern with Teacups: the mother faces a great risk during pregnancy because she's too small to give birth naturally, resulting in a high mortality rate.

He is a man faced with his own mortality (his body is rapidly declining due to his imperfect fusion with Jenova), and as he realizes his impending doom, Genesis coaxes his war brothers Sephiroth and Angeal into joining his path of destruction (though Sephiroth doesn't snap until much, much later).

In the earliest period, from 1980 to late 1982, Basquiat used painterly gestures on canvas, often depicting skeletal figures and mask - like faces that expressed his obsession with mortality.

Hirst, who is regarded as a founder of the 1990s YBA (Young British Artist) movement, has spent much of his career forcing Contemporary Art lovers to come «face to face» with their own mortality.

When faced with impossible questions, the notion of mortality or dire situations, many people turn to unconventional means or practices for answers, respite or foresight.

Talking to Hambling surrounded by the paintings of the recently deceased Hodgkin was a profoundly moving experience as I had just come hot foot from Hambling's latest exhibition, Edge at Marlborough Fine Arts, which deals face on with motifs of mortality.

It's not exactly dinner talk but at one point or another, you will be faced with the issue of your own mortality.

Most people are reminded about their mortality when faced with this decision.

However, most existing permanent life insurance was issued under «old» mortality tables with a maximum age of 100 (or even age 96), which means most permanent life insurance owners still have to contend with the possibility that they can actually outlive their life insurance... and face the tax consequences that come with it!

Today buying life insurance has been reduced to almost an afterthought because most of us are uncomfortable with facing our own mortality.

The report profiles Australia's young Indigenous population and the disproportionate disadvantages they face in areas such as employment, housing, education, health, mortality, and contact with the criminal justice system.

Our peers, too, begin to pass into the next world and we come face - to - face with our own mortality.

A paper recently published in PLOS ONE examines the association between maternal height and cesarean section as well as maternal height and neonatal mortality in 34 sub-Saharan African countries, a region facing numerous maternal and neonatal health challenges along with the smallest gains — even losses — in average adult height during the last century... read more

Jonna has worked therapeutically with adults facing issues of trauma, loss and bereavement, depression, life transitions, eating disorders, abuse, panic attacks and anxiety, living and coping with illness, and facing mortality.