Sentences with phrase «failure of nerve»

I venture to say that the social failure of nerve set in just after the Civil War.

At least, it is in a mood of anguish that I shall try to point to a few failures of nerve — some of them my own — in the crisis of our day.

As I reflect upon it, it seems clear to me that it is basically untenable and that our loss of it is not the consequence of some recent failure of nerve caused by Hitler or the atom bomb.

Did not Gilbert Murray, for example, speak of the «widespread failure of nerve» that occurred following the demise of the autonomous Greek city - states in the midst of the conquests of Philip and then Alexander the Great?

It implies a kind of errand - boy failure of nerve, whereas in fact there is probably as much courage in the ministry today as at any time in Christian history.

I think Cobb is right to sense in the oldline a torpor, a certain failure of nerve, although it is very difficult to sharpen that perception into an argument without undue idealization of the past.

There, Saladin's brilliant maneuvers and Richard's sudden failure of nerve turned the tide.

Before going to New York I thought this was a collective failure of nerve, subsequently I realized it was simply a cultural difference.

The women copped out, and to justify their cop - out they availed themselves of the «feminine mystique,» which is nothing more than a cultural rationalization for a social failure of nerve.

What Arendt may have failed to appreciate was the enormity and the gravity of the situation, that she as well as others see as a failure of nerve and verve alike and to take appropriate measures and safeguards.

Marx's view of religion as a failure of nerve, a rationalization of misery and injustice and a projection onto an otherworldly future of that which ought to be realized here, would seem in this hymn to find quintessential expression.

(Wiebe's term for this misfortune, borrowed from classicist Gilbert Murray, is «the failure of nerve» in the academic study of religion.)

Though Wiebe offers what he calls «case studies» in the failure of nerve, he mainly examines developments in the American Academy of Religion and at his own University of Toronto.

Could the real story be found not in any «failure of nerve,» but in the rise of a largely consistent intellectual tradition?

The Tie That Binds Whatever were the problems with «theologizing» the American experiment, the near disappearance of that tradition may reflect a failure of nerve and imagination, a loss of confidence in providential purpose, a refusal to accept the responsibility that attends the reality of Christian America.

The author's thesis that while the ministry (circa 1969) was suffering from much criticism and a resulting «failure of nerve,» this ferment need not damage the essential soundness of the vocation and its practitione

When psychiatric illness grips its victims in behavior that isolates them and frightens those around them, we compound the misery by treating it like a failure of nerve or a character flaw.

I certainly admire greatly what he did — except for his failure of nerve at the end.

The negative verdict on the historicity of the empty tomb has been reached by scholars not because «they are suffering from a failure of nerve and of imagination», believing that «they must not introduce any supernatural agent into the setting of the burial of Jesus».2 This judgment may have been true of some, and particularly those who were already hostile critics of Christianity.

While the psychological responses of men — «failure of nerve» and «future shock» — in our day and in previous eras in the face of rapid change may be similar, there are a number of converging factors which, when taken together, add up to an objectively novel state of affairs in history.

But to give up the opportunity to be a part of the principal cultivator of society's values and attitudes, choosing instead to live on society's fringe, is a failure of nerve, a failure to be relevant.

Analytic philosophers, whether theist or atheist, assume that theistic belief has a core that is propositional and rationally assessable — that it is a failure of nerve to insist otherwise.

But «only when Edwin Hubble later showed him the empirical evidence that the universe was expanding did Einstein realize his failure of nerve.

When in his disguise as an intransigent truth - teller he identifies this yearning as nothing more than a failure of nerve, he is not only being quite honest but is saying what he must if he is to keep up his own nerve in the touchiest of situations.

Seeming success at being nervy leads to a nervy response — and both because of a failure of nerve.

I submit that the feminine mystique is paralleled by a ministerial mystique, a cultural image of the minister and the church which serves to blur our perception of reality and to rationalize individual and social failure of nerve.

It marks the moment Labour started to recover from the failure of nerve it experienced under Tony Blair.

But the real innovation is in the new framework we're creating — tackling the three failures that have held back the development of our infrastructure: failure of vision; failure of financing, and failure of nerve.

David Cameron and Ed Miliband are so alike in their failure of nerve, says Martin Kettle in The Guardian

But there was a time when space travel kindled grandiose visions in scientists» minds, when rockets were as tall as skyscrapers and an unmanned mission seemed a failure of nerve.

It comes across instead as a failure of nerve.

It feels like a failure of nerve: a trite way of summing up the themes without saying anything of consequence.

I'd knock The Drop up half a letter grade were it not for its truly ruinous final scene — a last beat that stinks of studio interference, or at least of a failure of nerve on the part of the filmmakers.

That failure of nerve is a shame, because in all the swooning close - ups of the Casters» spinning records during their early domestic reverie, and in all the eerie tableaux of Will 2.0 hovering over his wife's bed, smiling placidly on several reflective screens as he remotely measures her blood pressure, one senses that Pfister would rather be making his own modest riff on David Cronenberg's romantic melodrama The Fly.

Because there is a failure of these nerves to innervate the muscles of the arytenoid cartilages, they fail to open properly.

Just when Park was abandoning abstract painting, the California School of Fine Arts, where he taught, hired Clyfford Still, the rising abstractionist, an imperious proselytizer who viewed Park as a figurative apostate who suffered from «a failure of nerve.»

Law firms, when faced with the opportunity to be creative and innovative, tend to experience a failure of nerve and default to whatever other firms are doing.

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