Sentences with phrase «fragility as»

Sabin's well - honed technique and use of symbolic imagery explores themes of fecundity and fragility as well as strength and protection and emulation of the sublime.

Across Wysing's gallery and a screening room, works take sensitivity and fragility as a starting point and look for strength in numbers and strength in networks.

Hepler values embarrassment, uncertainty, blunder, and fragility as active agents in her studio process.

Underpinning the project is the idea of fragility as strength; Fragile is also the name of Tillmans's band, with whom he made a self - directed visual album in 2016 to accompany their EP That's Desire / Here We Are that features the transgender model Hari Nef and others dancing to its soundtrack against colored backgrounds.

Dustin Hoffman brings empathy and fragility as Izzy, and Scott Speedman is bright as Boogie.

With this documentary Rivers allows a lot of access into her private life, revealing both her strength as a performer and her fragility as a person.

Tilda Swinton is as good in showing fragility as strength, in a role where she hardly speaks.

Not exact matches

I've had a lot of time since then to grieve and reflect on the beauty as well as the fragility of life.

Moreover, it is now doubtful whether the efficient market hypothesis makes any kind of sense. Indeed, a great many economists and bankers have discovered Minskyâ $ ™ s views on financial fragility and his financial instability hypothesis, according to which banks and financial markets can not be left to themselves: we need regulations even though regulating markets may not succeed in avoiding another crisis once the memory of the current crisis has faded away.As told to me by a law student recently hired by Blackrock, the largest asset manager in the world, with assets totalling more than 3,500 billion dollars â $ «thatâ $ ™ s one and a half times larger than UBS and twice as large as PIMCO â $ «many asset managers are now turning away from hiring neoclassical economists and actually prefer hiring engineers, sociologists and even philosophers.

Correlation risk: «The concept of diversification is the foundation of modern portfolio theory... The financial engineer... reduces the risk of a portfolio by combining anti-correlated assets... All modern portfolio theory does is transfer price risk into hidden short correlation risk... Many popular institutional investment strategies derive excess returns via implicit leveraged short correlation trades with hidden fragility... Correlation risk can be isolated and actively traded via options as source of excess returns.

Contrary to the popular portrayal of torture as «medieval,» it was the early - modern monarchies that inaugurated «the golden age of judicial torture,» along with offering spectacular public executions that reflected the fragility of the new state's monopoly on violence.

Alternative: We need to take care to name both the tragedy and the resilience in any situation — the fragility of a local person, as well as their assets and skills.

He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.

As we near the close of the twentieth century we have become increasingly conscious of the fragility of our world.

As pastors, letting ourselves off the hook by appealing to our sympathy for people's fragility and limits robs us of some of our most rewarding opportunities to confirm our ministry in a church that really looks like a church rather than a social club.

As noted earlier, in our modern, pluralistic society there is a fragility of meaning.

If there is one area in which the children as a group do seem to differ somewhat, in emotional reactions, from the children that I meet in wealthier communities — and even here I would be very cautious not to overstate this — it is in their sensitivity to other children's moments of anxiety and their acute awareness of emotional fragility and of the tipping point between exhilaration and depression.

As we descended to Bright Angel Creek near the Colorado, I was suddenly confronted with the fact of the brevity and fragility of human life — my own and that of those I love.

Now, a Medicare card carrier, I'm just as concerned about the fragility of the republic and the rule of law.

I identify five voices in this debate that I take to be the most completely developed and importantly contrasting «positions» in the conversation: Edward Farley's Theologia: The Fragmentation and Unity of Theological Education and his The Fragility of Knowledge: Theological Education in the Church and the University; 2 the Mud Flower Collective's God s Fierce Whimsy; 3 Joseph C. Hough, Jr., and John B. Cobb, Jr.'s Christian Identity and Theological Education; 4 Max L. Stackhouse's Apologia: Contextualization, Globalization, and Mission in Theological Education; 5 and Charles M. Wood's Vision and Discernment.6 Although each of these voices makes important claims in its own right, which I hope to summarize as briefly as clarity and fairness permit, what is most important, I think, is the largely implicit interplay among them of contrasting insights and themes.

Even as we applaud it, we recognize its fragility.

What we have seen in the funeral of John Paul II and the election of Benedict XVI is the possibility of loving the faith as a human gift that is received, and in that very reception acknowledging its contingency and fragility.

The themes of the fragility of life and love and the reality of violent death and evil coalesce in The Skull Beneath the Skin (1982) in which Cordelia Gray reappears as the protagonist.

It's as if people are not «all in» since they know that the relationship is so tenuous, because they know fragility on which the community is based.

I list such scenarios only as illustrations of what I see as the fundamental fragility of the present global system.

O'Hara uses both incongruity and slapstick in the above line to help us see the shortness and fragility of life, as well as the absurd things we do and say to avoid being reminded of them.

However, perhaps most significantly and particularly since the Jesus of St John's Gospel is often portrayed as a strong figure who carries his own cross, from the beginning of the Gospel to its end, Vanier dwells on the vulnerability, fragility, tenderness and absolute love of Jesus.

This event serves as a stern reminder of the fragility of our life and the importance of valuing each other while it lasts.

I am thinking here of such works as Eric Havelock's Preface to Plato, Martha Nussbaum's The Fragility of Goodness, Peter Berkowitz's Nietzsche: The Ethics of an Immoralist, or for that matter Bryan Magee's own monograph on Scho penhauer.

It's a landscape out of Ecclesiastes, in a sense, defined by its «essential fragility, its constant, unstoppable movement toward death,» as King puts it — a landscape where time is a thief and death is a mystery and where the hope of a resurrection is weaker than the fear of the dark.

In advance of Italy's glorious evisceration (made so by its beauty, paradoxical fragility and near forgivingness) of Germany, Why Always Me described football simply as «a job» and likened the scoring of goals to the successful delivery of post.

As a result, Di Matteo not only needs to rebuild the club in terms of personnel, but he also has to get rid of a mental weakness that they have and a fragility in their mentality and general play.

As it stands, this squad is fairly well positioned to compete for the Wenger Cup and make a deep run in the Europa, if and only if we play first stringers in Europe and use the bench for the League and FA Cups... that being said, and based on the fragility of the manager and the team in recent campaigns, it's more likely that Wenger will focus on a top 4 finish and the FA Cup... while the reasons for such an approach may appear logical, it would confirm a rather disturbing trend and appear counter intuitive for any team which claims to have higher aspirations... I feel that Wenger simply can't afford to put all his eggs in the Europa basket because if he fails the potential backlash could cripple any top 4 chances due to the aforementioned fragile psyche that tends to rear it's ugly head like our own personal groundhog day each and every February... furthermore, can you even imagine Wenger bringing in the necessary recruits to adequately supply top quality lineups in a Thursday / Sunday dominated schedule; based on everything I've seen in recent years, I can't see that happening... in fact, mark my words, it's more likely that we see Lacazette playing out wide in Alexis's position with Giroud at striker, than we see Wenger make the necessary moves to right this ship... god, I hope I'm wrong but is it really that far - fetched considering what we've witnessed for past several years

None of Obiang, Kouyate or Noble is good enough on their own and Kouyate seems to have a remit to get forward as much as possible increasing the fragility.

Any realistic solution to the fragility and ineffectiveness of the Noble — Kouyate central midfield partnership seems as unlikely as finding a simple answer to the frictionless Irish border conundrum.

The fragility of the MCL33 was clear to see in winter testing and the problems continued as the 2018 season got underway.

To sum it all up, Arsenal not only have issues in the attacking third but have shown their fragility in defense as well that could cost them dear.

I think Flanno's defensive skills are slightly better at the moment but he's fragilities get shaded more because he doesn't attack as much as Alberto does.

As Martin Skrtel exploited familiar fragility in the Arsenal defence to head Liverpool's late equaliser on Sunday, you had to wonder whether it would all have been rather different if Laurent Koscielny was on the pitch.

My sense is that even our players recognise this collective fragility and once the first goal goes in then, as far as they are concerned, it is just of case of how many will follow — as if it is a fate that no - one has the wit or strength to resist.

That was their fourth draw in a row, their fifth of the season, and yet the irony is a point away at Blackburn Rovers this weekend would probably be deemed a worthy result by the fans, especially as Sunderland's away fragilities are well documented; with the Wearside club having yet to register an away win this season and only managed a meagre two all of last term.

City have been an unpredictable sort on the road so far, winning just one of their opening three away fixtures in the league: Tottenham Hotspur (0 - 0), Sunderland (1 - 0L) and Wigan Athletic (0 - 2W), while they were dumped out of the League Cup by West Brom at The Hawthorns last month, so there are still some fragilities that need to be ironed out by manager Roberto Mancini although the team have collectively dusted themselves off admirably and will stretch their unbeaten run to five games so long as they get a result away at Blackpool, who have yet to win a home fixture in the league up till now.

According to Antonio Conte, one of the main fragilities of his team is involving how they are managed as the Italian manager said that its difficult for them to adapt to certain kinds of situations in matches.

For all I know «broken» means the child feels the existential sorrow radiating from the food that they can only articulate through weeping over its brokeness as they reflect upon their own fragility.

As a further twist a lot a lot of Conservative MPs and newspapers contemplating joyfully the fragility of the Chancellor often criticise Osborne for not cutting spending more quickly.

For many years the higher fragility of polymers as compared to small molecules has been well documented.

Conclusions: Here we report on variants in NBAS, as a cause of bone fragility in humans, and expand the phenotypic spectrum associated with NBAS.

She stands as a symbol of nature's fragility and what has been lost.

Brittleness is often seen as a sign of fragility.

But scary as it might be to contemplate life's fragility, it's important to come to terms with it so that we notice our bodies» signals — both on and off the marble throne.