Sentences with phrase «feature of human nature»

It is a curious feature of human nature that we regard familiar and predictable practices with fond affection and unfamiliar practices with suspicion and fear.

Faith is not a universal feature of human nature.

Faith presupposes a context of certain practices and even bodily transformation» for our flesh is redeemed by Christ's own flesh» and can not be considered a general feature of human nature that finds diverse expression in all the great religious traditions.

Stated differently, certain features of human nature will surface and seek expression and satisfaction whatever the cultural setting or era.

Not exact matches

So to summarize the salient features of the preceding views of nature and human nature: One would place man above and outside nature; the second would make man subservient to nature, and ideally (for some) remove man from nature; and the third would place man entirely within nature, insisting also that nature is all there is.

Nevertheless, because the tendencies normally direct the capacities in certain directions, when we speak about human nature we are pointing to a certain grain in the expressed features, abilities, tendencies, and operations of persons.

To a Christian, these claimed motivations have one common feature, disrespect for the centrality of morality in human nature.

example: what logical function would a certain feature of the human body serve in the grand scale of nature?

The distinctive features of Antiochenes were in their interpretation of the scriptures, in their Christology and in their reflections on human nature.

Its principal features are: a three - storied universe consisting of heaven, earth, and underworld; the intervention of natural and supernatural powers in human life; the dominion of evil spirits and Satan over that life and also over the external realm of nature; the imminent end in time of this present world - æon.

One letter - writer responded to several of the series features with these words: «Taken all together, these articles demonstrate the tremendously complex nature of human sexuality.

We shall examine also the nature of human consciousness and moral values in order to determine if they have any unique characteristics that could assist us in distinguishing between causal and contingent features of an evolving biological or social system.

«Human nature» is simply a description, a name (hence «nominalism») we give to our experience of common features among human beHuman nature» is simply a description, a name (hence «nominalism») we give to our experience of common features among human behuman beings.

In this nonlinear telling of those travels, Glassley ponders the nature of perception and the human mind, describes the dramatic physical features of Greenland's makeup and recounts the thrilling adventures of his extended visits there: «Wandering alone in that infinite, ancient wilderness... that, to me, was heaven.»

In 2011, another Nature paper featuring Dr Katerina Douka of the Oxford team obtained some very early dates (around 45,000 years old) for the so - called «transitional» Uluzzian stone - tool industry of Italy and identified teeth remains in the site of the Grotta del Cavallo, Apulia, as those of anatomically modern humans.

The gecko is one of nature's best climbers, thanks to millions of microscopic hairs, with features about 20 to 30 times smaller than a human hair, that allow it to climb on virtually any surface.

As we look around the world, there is hardly a place where humans have not «overpowered nature,» if I take that phrase to mean affecting the large - scale features of our natural environment.

She is the co-author of one of two papers featured on the cover of the June 8 issue of Nature: «Human origins: Moroccan remains push back date for the emergence of Homo sapiens.»

The new SpikerBox features an «Interspecies Plant - Plant - Communicator» which demonstrates the ubiquitous nature of electrical signaling seen in humans, insects, and plants.

By 2001, the five growers who had been sued went to the U.S. Federal District Court of Maryland with the defense that questioned: «Can a plant long well known in nature and cultivated and eaten by humans for decades, be patented merely on the basis of recent realization that the plant has always had some heretofore unknown but naturally occurring beneficial feature?»

Written by Being John Malkovich scribe Charlie Kaufman, Human Nature was the feature debut from acclaimed music - video director Michel Gondry and featured Arquette as a woman cursed with a coat of fur covering her body.As the decade progressed, audiences could see Arquette in projects ranging from the star - studded documentary Searching for Debra Winger to the sleeper family film Holes.

Though directors Chin and E. Chai Vaserhelyi take breaks to interview the wives, the documentarians want as many of the eighty - nine minutes taken up with close - ups of the climb, and in a feature that could snatch a nomination for cinematography, Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk capture the rain and sleet and pour down on the group as though Mother Nature is determined to keep the summit of Meru pristine, untouched by human hands.

«The Witch» may sound like a generic horror flick that's opening too late or too early for Halloween, but this phenomenal debut feature by Robert Eggers has a singular style and tone, and its horror flows from the deepest wellsprings of human nature.

On Thursday, event attendees Human Nature shared never - before - seen footage featuring the likes of Delta, Olivia Newton - John, Margot Robbie and John Travolta singing «I Still Call Australia Home.»

Michel Gondry Indie Work: A music video veteran of the 1990s and early 00s, with key work for Bjork, Daft Punk and Radiohead, among others, French helmer Michel Gondry ventured into features with 2001's «Human Nature,» a one - time Steven Soderbergh project penned by Charlie Kaufman.

We are ruining America, notes dour New York Times columnist David Brooks, suddenly and considerably alarmed by a standard feature of American life, if not human nature — the tendency of the privileged and powerful to guard jealously every advantage they have been handed or earned.

I mean, Stephen Colbert did a segment on a section of published fanfiction that features human on velociraptor action of the sexual nature.

(Tangent: The vast majority of paranormal romances feature a paranormal hero and a human heroine, so their covers highlight the hero with a bare torso shot and a hint of their paranormal nature, sometimes with a woman wrapped around him.

Human nature, and perhaps the fact that the preponderance of people involved in dog breeding are female, has probably lead to the reduced size, larger eyes and shorter, blockier muzzles seen in several breeds today that did not exhibit these features a few decades past.

It is represented by a combination of five qualities: 1) natural; 2) solitude or a primitive and unconfined type of recreation; 3) undeveloped; 4) untrammeled nature (essentially free from the actions of modern human control or manipulation); and 5) ecological, geological, or other features of scientific, educational, scenic, or historical value.

The announcement trailer for Far Cry 5 was very calm and peaceful, a soothing voice takes us over the many features of Montana, the tranquil towns, calming nature and the emphasis on simple, human life was something which set apart the previous Far Cry game trailers from the rest.

The exhibition features recent videos by acclaimed international artists who use their work to explore the spectacle of nature and the sense of cosmic stupor that captures humans when faced with the sublime vastness of our planet.

The works of John Miller, Paul McCarthy or Sherrie Levine resonate with the paintings of Josh Smith and David Ostrowski or the photographs of Roe Ethridge and Nathan Hylden, which, while prompting a reflection on vanity, feature a plasticity indicative of this ambivalence between the will to exist, the desire to please and a necessary derision of the fleeting nature of success and human existence.

Beneath the Surface features Sui Park and D.C. - based Nara Park, two remarkable women artists whose deceptively life - like organic and physical installations bend our perceptions of nature, reality, and human beingsâ $ ™ place in an increasingly superficial world.

Anya Rubin «Has Human Nature Evolved» Artwork Featured at The Untitled Space ONE YEAR OF RESISTANCE exhibit, January 2018

Through her exploration of the human inclination to decorate, embellish, and adorn our surroundings, Harvey has created an immersive installation featuring large - scale works that apply ornamentation to scenes from both city life and nature.

Her work is featured in group shows ONE YEAR OF RESISTANCE, SHE INSPIRES, UPRISE / ANGRY WOMEN, «The «F» Word: Feminism in Art» A Group Show of 20 Female Artists, and Human / Nature curated by Indira CesarinOF RESISTANCE, SHE INSPIRES, UPRISE / ANGRY WOMEN, «The «F» Word: Feminism in Art» A Group Show of 20 Female Artists, and Human / Nature curated by Indira Cesarinof 20 Female Artists, and Human / Nature curated by Indira Cesarine.

Part of Gallery Weekend, Dittrich & Schlechtriem's Andreas Greiner solo show in Mitte features an exploration of how humans have manipulated nature through genetic engineering, this multidisciplinary exhibition features new photographs, sculptures, and a sound installation in collaboration with Tyler Friedman.

While early landscapists such as J. M. W. Turner, depicted the power of raw, unrestricted nature to overwhelm humanity, the artists featured in Landscapes after Ruskin are working in a climate of heightened anxiety, technological advancement, frequent natural disasters, and increasing human populations.

Work presented in the exhibition specifically addresses human migration and nationalism in the Mediterranean area, investigating the dual nature of this geographic feature to the extent that it connects and separates, acting as both a junction as well as a barrier between the Global North and South.

His site - specific installation at New York's New Museum of Contemporary Art in 2001 — 2003, which consisted of miniaturized layers of rock, soil, and plants, and his recent show at Margo Leavin Gallery in Los Angeles, which featured paintings of a postapocalyptic animal uprising, attested to the artist's misgivings about the advances of human society at the expense of nature.

Held over Memorial Day Weekend, the installation featured a scaffolding - type structure sited inside the nature reserve to encourage examining the fragility of the native ecosystem and the human role on the planet.

Focusing on the grotesque in contemporary art, the artists featured in this exhibit reveal essential aspects of human nature that are at once comical and profound, playful and monstrous.

I was somewhat involuntarily thrust into the center of the public debate over climate change at this very time, when the «Hockey Stick» temperature reconstruction I co-authored, depicting the unprecedented nature of modern warming in at least the past millennium, developed into an icon in the debate over human - caused climate change [particularly when it was featured in the Summary for Policy Makers (SPM) of the Third Assessment Report of the IPCC in 2001].

My reference to 20 years as a bencher was simply to illustrate that I have seen a generational shift in attitudes caused by nothing other than a narrowing of the career - long practice environment of a certain type of bencher (I do not fault them for their human nature)-- similar to the generational shift that I confidently predict will happen to lawyers whose practice environment would feature behemoth, non-lawyer owners.