Sentences with phrase «fragile moment in»

«If the cable is true, more than just doing business with an indicted war criminal, Lloyd's could be in some sense contributing to instability and mistrust in Sudan at the most fragile moment in its history,» warned Palmer.

It will also not escape unnoticed that this trial conveniently helped the US and UK achieve an important geopolitical goal: the removal of Charles Taylor from West African soil at a fragile moment in Liberia's post-conflict recovery in 2006.

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The conservative wing of the church is itself a fragile coalition, including those who lean in a catholic direction, those who are card - carrying charismatics, those inclined in an Anabaptist direction, and those who are really pragmatists at heart but for the moment lean to conservatism out of convenience and traditional piety.

But I do want to take the work of my hands right now, today, whether it's a book I'm writing or a floor I'm sweeping or a phone call I'm making or a meal I'm cooking and I want to hold it all in my hand, in my spirit with a breath of prayer and intention, like we are all a fragile universe needing love in this moment.

But, agreeing with Jeremy, not everyone can afford this risk, because safety is just so critical in some cases, and some people are too fragile at the moment to endure more hurt.

We stared at the coconut shell on the floor for a moment or two, in disbelief that the coconut was so fragile.

Overall, I've always been intrigued by the idea of a Wilshere — Ramsey central midfield but in reality, it will be impossible to implement at this moment as the team around them is completely fragile and they just don't have the correct mentality or skill set to become good in those roles at the highest level.

In short, what if Trump is exactly as he appears: a hopeless narcissist with the attention span of a fruit fly, unable to maintain consistent beliefs or commitments from moment to moment, acting on base instinct, entirely situationally, to bolster his terrifyingly fragile ego.

Change of government Most worryingly for Brown, 58 per cent of voters believe it is time for a change in government, whilst only 36 per cent believe the economy is too fragile at the moment to have a change now.

But they came at a particularly fragile moment for the local GOP, and all but broke its hold on power in November.

In the meantime, researchers worry that the Sundarbans, already a fragile and struggling ecosystem, is facing a critical moment.

And so I think Lucas was right to focus in on this moment in which the evidence suggests he actually really did constantly stick this - what he called a bodkin - in his eye because he wanted to know not just something about theories of light but also something fundamentally about how fragile we are as sensing and thinking beings.

They are faced with more trouble than any child can be expected to bear, and the fragile but resourceful Mister nevertheless finds strength in an idea from a movie, that he can be an unstoppable force against seemingly unmovable obstacles if he believes in the success... There are plenty of sad and disturbing moments in this movie, but all of them managed to become inspirational and uplifting, because the director offered a glimpse of hope in the continuously degrading American society, especially for the poor.

But the horror of this scene reveals what is only the final tragedy in a long line of smaller ones — tiny, crushing moments of male condescension and mockery that inflict spiritual damage on an already - fragile woman.

Sometimes deeply personal and often at least as dramatic as they are funny, they don't belong in the same box as CBS's The Big Bang Theory or HBO's Veep, whose laugh - out - loud moments aren't nearly as fragile.

But she invests the role with a fragile intensity as if she is experiencing a bad dream, and has one wonderful moment when her eyes gaze adoringly at her young son who has been strategically placed in the courtroom,» wrote Michael Billington in a review in the Guardian.

All of the moment's red - carpet kings are present: Emma Stone in a red delicacy from Maria Grazzia Chiuri's debut Dior collection; Lupita Nyong» o in a storm cloud of sequins and tulle by Alexander McQueen; Amy Adams in pale pink Haider Ackerman peplos; Natalie Portman in a Dior Haute Couture; Ruth Negga glitters in a gold sequin Michael Kors Collection; Dakota Fanning in riotous layers of Carolina Herrera beige tulle, romantically cinched with a black ribbon; Elle Fanning in another of Chiuri's Dior fragile but feminine gowns, with delicate gold sunrays of beading; Aja Naomie King in a peony Oscar de la Renta, worthy of a John Singer Sargeant closeup; Dakota Johnson, one of Alessandro Michele's most effective homegirls, in fussy Gucci ruffles; Greta Gerwig in Marchesa spangles and lame; and Janelle Monae in a very glitzy Louis Vuitton gown with stately batwings.

Its bloody expensive and does not deliver as promised (re; AW WSJ etc) amounting to nothing more than an overpriced partial lease only like with Time Shares you don't have anything in your possession for daily use when you want it and in the end you're out every dime you've put in with nothing to show for it other than a few moments of ephemeral pleasures and the temporal boosting of your fragile consumption dependent ego.

It's possible that I was portraying some other living thing and that I am remembering it as an amoeba now only because I felt so small in that moment, so translucent and fragile.

The couple's fragile love somehow blooms in this arid place, and for the moment, it seems enough.

But Mengestu is less interested in photographing a particular historical moment than he is fascinated by the dangers each setting imposes upon his vulnerable protagonists and their fragile relationships.»

Artwork for Bedrooms draws a parallel narrative from the same moment of young artists who were similarly invested in «poor» materials, but who put them to work in more abstract, fragile, or conceptual ways.

In the video installation Fragile Moments, paired projections create shifting juxtapositions in black and white, generating an intimate lookbook for this artist of a new centurIn the video installation Fragile Moments, paired projections create shifting juxtapositions in black and white, generating an intimate lookbook for this artist of a new centurin black and white, generating an intimate lookbook for this artist of a new century.

Artwork for Bedrooms draws a new and parallel narrative of the same moment of young artists who were similarly invested in «poor» materials, but who put them to work in more abstract, fragile, or conceptual ways.

Fractured Figure projects our millennial moment as one of fragile bodies pitched against a restless, dysphasic backdrop, in which terrorism and global warming impinge as daily realities.

In a work like «The Studio III» (1989), we do not read gesture or action as definitive expressive moments, but instead follow their complex accumulation into a tentative and fragile totality — with an emergent sense of structure.

These hard - won jewels are unapologetically what they are — a spark of bliss or a moment of strife brought forth lovingly, and like us, distilled in the embrace of a fragile frame.

The exhibition Alexander Calder & Fischli / Weiss at Fondation Beyeler focuses on the fleeting, precarious and exhilarating moment of fragile balance as expressed through the works of Calder and Fischli / Weiss in the early - and late - twentieth century, respectively.

No, we do indeed live in a special moment wherein the world's best oil company has broadly displayed aggressive ineptitude in a fragile, pristine environment, has dumped oil heedlessly across Africa, and has covered up the shortcomings of its own safety procedures.

But for the moment, twin trends are exacerbating the threat: the urban rush in developing countries, in which millions of poor people are settling on fragile slopes and floodplains, and rising odds of rain falling in dangerous downpours in a warming world.

In those fragile moments, they traded 77 short text messages, which they later shared with CNN.