Sentences with phrase «folly in times past»

God has overlooked our folly in times past but now calls on us to repent.

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With the nine oil paintings and three works on paper that comprise the exhibition, Miller continues to explore the narrative potential of the animal world by revisiting many of the themes that she has surveyed in her work for the past thirty years, including the relationship between predator and prey, the effect of changing habitats upon both flora and fauna, the folly of our human sense of control over nature, and the passage of time.

That the politburo - style committees favored in foreign lands let people settle in flood plains without paying for what they use, in effect subsidizing folly, while all they do about it is build the same dams and reservoirs that have failed time and again in the past, just tells us how weak the communist way of thinking is.