Sentences with phrase «follies which»

The two - tine Tony winner appeared most recently in A Little Night Music and now she is back heading the cast of Follies which officially opens on Monday, September 12, 2011 at the Marquis Theatre.

God is real and the only way to experience his presence is by suppressing the human follies which this article so blatantly manifest.

That is the basic folly which underlies IMF austerity plans and neoliberal Chicago planning generally.

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But, to refrain from passing from one figure to another, I will raise this question, which I often consider in my own heart: why is it that folly holds us with such an insistent grasp?

Veteran broadcaster and ordained priest, Patrick is also an author whose book, The Gospel of Folly, explores the connections which bring hope to a stressed society and confused Church.

Instead, it is the height of abandonment of Christianity, a true folly, a deception which seeks to suck the souls of every person by using evil to tempt them into this mentality.

If Tocqueville called us practical Cartesians, there's a manner in which we're practical Hobbesians about the folly of felicity — and this despite our recognition that, in the land of equal freedom, the pursuit of happiness is the only game in town.

And first they are to be admonished, (whom folly has so made subject to their carnal eyes, as that, whatsoever they see not through them, they think not that they are to believe,) how many things they not only believe but also know, which can not be seen by such eyes.

It is not just an increase in sense (sheer folly makes perfect sense, which is part of its attraction); it is entering into the presence of Being itself.

True wisdom is true honor, and will gain a man a reputation, which is like a box of precious ointment, pleasing and very valuable... the reputation that is got with difficulty, and by a great deal of wisdom, may be easily lost, and by a little folly.

Ignored completely is the Lutheran and Augustinian doctrine of the bondage of the will which sees with stark clarity the folly of our claims of free agency.

What they most desperately needed was a third option — an alternative to submission or rebellion, both of which they wisely understood to be acts of folly.

I think of the book of Hebrews, where the author is intent to show that Jesus Christ is far superior to anything which was offered under the Mosaic Law, and after we have Jesus, to go back to such things is sheer folly.

The setting of the empiric story shows an often anomalous world in which signs of the sacred are belied by their link to folly and injustice.

Empirically oriented literature, says Frye, «takes for granted a world which is full of anomalies, injustices, follies and crimes, and yet is permanent and undisplaceable.

Its utterances will necessarily either be in danger of being contradicted by obstinate «old believers» (such as happened also in Montanism, Novatianism, Donatism down reactionary Jansenism and Integralism) or of being falsified by a mentality which betrays the spirit of Christ, the folly of the cross and the courage to contradict a world lying in the Evil One by cheap «adaptation».

And should she be so foolish as to desire for herself only that which is earthly or even foolish enough to desire as well to draw you down to the earthly: yet a woman's folly shall certainly not be able to change the law of eternity.

Runciman's History resembles the medieval chronicles on which it is based, using narratives of events and depictions of individuals to draw moral as well as historical lessons: «by the inexorable laws of history, the whole world pays for the crimes and follies of each of its citizens.»

In their seemingly clever device of moving to the center» which meant in practice disavowing a fundamental critique of American capitalism's deficiencies» the Clintonite Democrats were guilty of the «purest folly.»

That which may be wisdom when spoken by an old man about past events may be folly in the mouth of a youth or of a grown man when spoken of the present.

Henry never lost faith in man's enduring capacity for greatness — even as long experience compelled him to acknowledge, which was not quite the same thing as excusing, man's enduring capacity for folly.

We can put aside the struldbrugs in Gulliver's Travels, who had lived for hundreds of years and «who had not only all the follies and infirmities of other old men, but many more, which arose from the dreadful prospect of never dying.»

And something of the same sort applies in the case of Deianira in the Trachiniae; it is her tenderness towards her formidable husband, and her compassion for Tole, which tempt her into ultimately destructive folly.

Issue after issue, Charlie Hebdo mocks, not vice and folly (which are fair game), but many people's most deeply held and cherished beliefs, including their religious convictions.

The desire to re-image redemption may seem the height of folly or, worse, arrogance — folly when one considers the extent to which we have been shaped by patriarchal Christianity and arrogance when one considers the profound healing that both women and men have experienced by embracing Christian truths.

Or, one might say, it is the will to shatter the false scandal constituted by the absurdity of the mythological representation of the world by a modern man and to make apparent the true scandal, the folly of God in Jesus Christ, which is a scandal for all men in all times.

It is in this sense that myth is an additional scandal, added to the true scandal, which is the «folly of the Cross.»

120 «It is the risk and folly of the power of love to create that over which it has only relative control,» thus disclosing «the nonabsolute power of God.»

Beyond that our main concern must be to see that man, whose folly drove him from the Garden of Eden, does not commit the blasphemous act of destroying, whether in fear or in anger or in greed, the great and lovely world in which, even in his fallen state, he has been permitted by the grace of God to live.

He calls folly a sociological problem, called forth by violent displays of power which deprive men of their judgment.

So far, his sermons of denunciation were only common form, whereas in his In Praise of Folly (1511) Erasmus had given public vent to a violent sarcasm, which some people had found offensive, denouncing the warlike Pope Julius II and referring in his correspondence to «the monopoly of the Roman High Priest».

Again, no need to interpret it, it's plain as day to God's people and second and most importantly, which you won't hear another word from me after this... Proverbs 26:4 «Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.»

As with Erasmus's In Praise of Folly or Pascal's Provinical Letters, the best satire is that which fits into a larger moral vision.

There are obviously legs in the rumour that he really doesn't want to go to Manure, so it would seem that Wenger could negotiate a good deal for him as well, which ever way you look at it, it would be folly to think that Coq could go an entire season with no injury whatsoever.

but what most fans do nt understand is behind the scenes a lot of moves go on which they do nt know about... its only what, they want fans to see they dish out... hence the folly of such accusations, because ive also managed celebrities before..

The owners have been slow to acknowledge obvious mistakes in previously discussed realignment plans, such as the geographic folly of putting the expansion Tampa Bay Devil Rays in the American League West and the scheduling nightmare of creating two 15 - team leagues, which would have effectively required interleague play every day of the season.

After all, lightning rarely strikes twice, as the old saying goes, and Leeds are a glaringly obvious cautionary tale illustrating that fallen giants can endure protracted exiles from the top flight due to precisely the combination of on - field failure and off - field folly and mismanagement for which our club has become renowned.

But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.

Having realized his folly in sponsoring the suspension of his perceived internal nemeses which is now taking a toll on his bid to ascend to the highest office of the land, the 2016 flag bearer of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo is said to be stoking confusion in the Paul Afoko camp.

NYS Democratic Party Executive Committee Chair June O'Neil admits her party has had its share of follies the past few years, which is why, she says, the convention in Rye Brook is a good opportunity for the party to «renew its vows.»

«We can take back the billions we give to the EU, the money which is squandered on grand parliamentary buildings and bureaucratic follies, and invest it in science and technology, schools and apprenticeships.

Despite pressure from the Working Families Party — which de Blasio helped form in 1998 — the Brennan Center and others, Albany has refused to follow the city's folly.

Dow also pointed to activities taken by officials at Folly Beach, South Carolina, an island which has faced erosion due to changing sea levels.

Sheldrake's basic folly, argues Wolpert, is that he is pushing the notion of morphic resonance at precisely the time when strictly biochemical analysis of cell structure and organization is close to providing a comprehensive explanation for morphogenesis, the process by which living creatures acquire their shapes.

This is a costly folly and one for which I myself have paid heavily.

RUBIK»S FOLLY Rubik's Cube is a three - dimensional puzzle in which the player rotates the tiled faces of a cube until each face shows the same color on all nine tiles.

Took an Uber to Folly Beach which ended up being the cutest town.

This couture - centric storytelling echoes last year's «Marie Antoinette,» in which director Sofia Coppola reduced the French Revolution to a backdrop for the wig - and - powder follies of a youthful Marie and Louis XVI.

The film is intended as an ambivalent character study with a fairly unremarkable narrative that addresses the deep folly of desperate actions which, from certain angles, may appear entirely logical.

Couple Shandling's inner philosophy with the themes of The Larry Sanders Show — which doted on the follies of egomaniacs and as Apatow says «was about people who loved each other, but show business got in the way» — and one wonders how Shandling's $ 100M lawsuit with late manager and friend Brad Grey rattled his world.