Sentences with phrase «flagellation as»

In lay religiosity, confraternities dedicated to flagellation as the ultimate expression of Christian devotion excluded women.

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The first is Caravaggio's «The Flagellation of the Christ» and shows a chilling and private event; we are the only witnesses to the three men, half hidden by darkness, who force the Lord against a pillar, grabbing His hair and kicking Him as they prepare to beat Him, the cruelty in their faces contrasting with His own quiet dignity.

It took years and the near - breakup of the band before they learned that «self - righteousness, self - flagellation» could be as dangerous as sex and drugs.

This constant self flagellation not only produces self loathing... but contempt for others as well.

Florida 26, Tennessee 20 (Sept. 16): Feleipe Franks's Hail Mary seemed to have an insurmountable clubhouse lead as the season's biggest heartbreaker, from the improbable arc of the deep ball that fell into Tyrie Cleveland's cradled arms behind Tennessee's shorthanded secondary to the self - flagellation defensive coordinator Bob Shoop subjected himself to in front of the media the next week.

While pushing for more recognition and value of domestic work in our policies, Valenti illuminates how envisioning parenthood as a «job» breeds more perfectionism and self - flagellation among women.

And Haneke, as ever, tucks his usual tricks in the margins: an uncanny dream sequence provides an excuse for his trademark shock - horror; a last - act gesture of violence dresses the nihilism of The Piano Teacher's self - flagellation up as something superficially humane; and, to quote Fernando F. Croce, his style is «so not - a-hair-out-of-place suffocating that even a lost pigeon's flapping wings [seem] too immaculately choreographed.»

She joins a convent just as the Vatican II releases «reforms» that will modernize the church with Sunday mass in English and make self - flagellation a thing of the past.

The male - centric romantic comedy premise is standard stuff, as we've seen the jilted boyfriend go through bouts of self - flagellation too many times to count in the genre.

The cast is blue ribbon â $» Allison Janney, Ciarà ¡ n Hinds, Shirley Henderson, Michael Kenneth Williams, Michael Lerner, Ally Sheedy, Charlotte Rampling and a very sharp Paul (Pee - wee Herman) Reubens â $» and Solondz» talent for depth - bomb comedy, the sort of delayed revelation that comes as a muffled detonation after you'd stopped listening for one, saves the enterprise from terminal self - flagellation.

The war hero fights as a form of self - flagellation, though he ends up ultimately inflicting his pain on everyone else and keeping it nestled within.

-- Ignore the Problem: As tempting as self - flagellation is, why indulge in such a pointless exercisAs tempting as self - flagellation is, why indulge in such a pointless exercisas self - flagellation is, why indulge in such a pointless exercise?

Choice Provisions was co-founded by industry lifers Mike Roush and Alex Neuse in 2008 with the famous last words of «Running a video game studio can't be THAT hard...» So, as they longed for greater creative freedom, they tore off their corporate shackles in favor of the self - flagellation of trying to do everything on their own.

But with «St. Sebastian,» a blank - slate approach was unexpectedly easy, primarily because, for all the image's familiarity, I realized how different the painting looked, or rather felt, in the flesh... It's the painting's endearingly strange comedy — especially the bottom half of the body, which seems to flap away (and bring to mind the flagellation of St. Bartholomew)-- that rescues it from post-adolescent self - pity and actually, in an odd way, ennobles it, as if invested with an amused stoicism.»

Like perhaps everyone but the state of Florida, it was using the millennium as the occasion for self - examination — or maybe self - flagellation.

As a geologist, I am highly frustrated by the asymmetry of research effort concentrated not only on the rather abstract notion of global average temperature almost to the exclusion of the other important climatic variables, but further obsessive and myopic self - flagellation over the human influence on trace CO2 levels.

This lead, frankly, to a discussion of shame and self - flagellation from those who identified as privileged — the majority of us — and segued into a discussion of the dynamics of privilege, identity, equity, and systemic racism.