Sentences with phrase «fragility of life in»

Yet, in the end, there's a precious lesson here in the midst of all this imaginative imagery: these paper works will eventually fade and decay, pointing to the mortality and fragility of life in all its short - lived wonder.

They contribute an important perspective on the work, given the fragility of life in their region,» said Ai Weiwei.

«One of the first thoughts that comes to mind is that glaciers are melting... Reanimation involves the fragility of life in a rapidly changing situation.»

«One of the first thoughts that comes to mind is that glaciers are melting... Reanimation involves the fragility of life in a rapidly changing...

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When we pledge our faithfulness to another on our wedding day, we're mocking the changeableness of life, saying that we trust in the covenant of marriage to transcend the weakness of our flesh, the fickleness of our passions, and the fragility of our egos.

We crash through life like bulls in a china shop, often paying no attention to the fragility of the things around us.

Recognizing the fragility of a condition in which life is «nasty, brutish, and short,» they employ their rational self - interest to sacrifice most of their natural rights in order to secure the protection and security of a sovereign.

In his own life he knew the fragility of decency, too easily lost, and he rose to the defense of an imperfect but stolid Middle America.

Well before the cloudburst of the first atomic bomb, long before a perceived «ecological crisis,» Maritain perceived the fragility of life on earth — not only in his personal mortality, nor even in the fragility of planet earth.

In the quiet times, sometimes on a run and mostly behind closed doors I'm floored by the beauty and fragility of life and faith.

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.

Vanier, the founder and inspirer of L'Arche communities, where people with and without intellectual disabilities share daily life together, is particularly interested in relationships, human vulnerability and fragility.

he is strengthened in facing the fragility and brevity of his life on this planet.

a truth fully appreciated in many historic segments of Christianity that have chosen to live with the fragility of this truth, rather than with the certainty — and presumed finality — of magisterial truth.

We may love Lana Turner, but what we love with greater affection is our own lives, and the line makes us laugh (if we have a sense of humor) because we see ourselves in the speaker's absurd attempt to disassociate himself from Turner's fragility.

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.

Parenting is living in a constant state of delusion, somehow tending to the minutia of daily life and not thinking about the fragility of our children's lives.

We wanted to understand the key drivers of this fragility, and our research revealed that more often than not, it was rooted in the four Cs: cost of living, cars, credit and childcare.

To me that argues for heightened attention to the other aspects of action and concert in political life, in which people who take such risks experience not just fragility but great joy, and not just a sense of precarity but a broadened sense of community and togetherness, not just martyrdom but also transformation.

Charlie's intense personal reminder of the contingencies and fragilities of life found echoes in his research, culminating in his powerful 1995 book Corals in Space and Time.

«The kakapo encapsulates the fragility of life that evolved in a bubble — in this case, the bubble is New Zealand... but that bubble burst and New Zealand is full of predatory mammals, but the kakapo hasn't evolved a fear response.

Fragility fractures are not just costly to healthcare systems, they also result in pain, disability, loss of quality of life, and — especially for elderly hip fracture sufferers — an increased risk of premature death.

When there is HGH deficiency, some of the symptoms will include fatigue, loss of muscle mass, fragility, increase in body fat, decreased sex drive, and a lower life expectancy.

Willow and Jaxon taught me to appreciate the fragility of life, realize the importance of living in the moment and cherish the gift of unconditional love.

Their deaths gave me a vivid lesson in the fragility of life.

Take, for instance, the scene in which the team leader, Avner (Eric Bana), waits to switch off a hotel room light fused to a detonator — an act whose simplicity underscores the fragility of life and the detachment necessary in taking it.

, Farhadi takes a test of morality in a seeming mundane life to call attention to the great fragility of human bonds, both interpersonal and social.

A resource that provides a context for students to examine the fragility of democracy and connect history to events in contemporary life

If you haven't read anything by British author David Almond, here — in the words of reviewers who covered his first novel, Skellig, winner of the Carnegie Medal and Whitbread Children's Novel of the Year Award as well as a Printz Honor — are some of the themes you're missing: «the transforming power of caring and love» (Publishers Weekly); «worlds enlarging and the hope of scattering death» (NY Times Book Review); «loneliness, friendship and grace» (ALA; Printz Award Selection Committee); «the fearful, wonderful fragility of life» (author Richard Peck); «essential goodness, faith, truth, and love» (author Karen Cushman); and «miraculous happenings» (The ALAN Review).

Her work is further enhanced by a sense of slight uneasiness about the fragility of life, suggested by butterflies caught in a spider's web or animals lying quietly in flowers of tender hue.

Whether portraying modern couples sitting in a park (Gay Liberation, 1980), or a biblical family's unfolding drama (Abraham's Farewell to Ishmael, 1987), George Segal's life - size human figures express the fragility of the human condition.

Geddes» work generates a tension between man - made environments in flux and the fragility of living bodies.

In On Reflection Gersht examines the subjective and immutable power of photography, the fragility and transience of life, and the fluid relationship between creation and destruction.

The delicacy of the animal's position — limbs outstretched, head slightly tilted — speaks of the underlying fragility of life and, in Hirst's words, the age - old paradox «of trying so hard to do something that you destroy the thing that you're trying to preserve» (D. Hirst, quoted in D. Hirst and G. Burn, On the Way to Work, London, 2001, p. 219).

Though formally rigorous and disciplined, Whiteread's casts have a haunting and heartbreaking quality rooted in narratives marked by the fragility of life.

Nancy Cohen is interested in the juxtaposition of fragility and strength, both in our personal lives and the environment.

Focusing on the moments that make up the fabric of family life, the artist specifically explores in her work motherhood; the journey of growing up and developing self - awareness; and the fragility of childhood and life in general.

By attempting to understand characteristics of different life systems and their associations with our own entity as my subject matter, I intend to introduce new visual dialogue and meanings for ephemera in life to define conflict associated with contradictions inherent in nature and society, such as physical fragility and danger, ephemeral and perpetual, creation and extinction.

Matt Johnson takes forms like crumpled cardboard boxes, shards of cut drywall, a discarded cup, pizza box, and rolls of blue painter's tape, things that live in the place between utility and refuse, and shows their incidental elegance by persevering their fragility and transience through replication as sculptures.

While investigating the confrontation of this delicate transparent medium with the dynamic nature of today's contemporary living, we will also negotiate ways to convey the fragility, vulnerability and apprehension that exist in the incontestable «reality» of our time.

As with all works in Sticks and Stones, Bucak reminds us of the fragility, but also of the resilience of life.

My Last Day at Seventeen is a series by American photographer Doug DuBois that documents the lives of teenagers coming of age in Ireland, capturing and exploring the promise and adventure of childhood with a focus on its fragility and inevitable loss.

We are living at a critical moment in time, with major political, economic and ecological shifts and crisis, and The Human Flock shines a light on the fragility of humankind and the planet.

The prints also depict serene landscapes that are abruptly disrupted by a trapped seal bound by wire, which is heightened by Flaherty's use of thick thread and the piercing of the paper causing the viewer to realize the fragility of life and the fallacies in human nature that come with even more devastating repercussions.

Deborah Baldizar's «Night Swimming» March 23 - April 15, 2014 Challenging the fragility of paper, Deborah Baldizar's cast paper figures range in size from miniature to larger than life.

While Sultan's still lifes depict and strengthen fragile and ephemeral objects, the Disaster Paintings often illustrate robust, man - made structures, such as industrial plants and train cars, that exhibit a level of fragility in their propensity to be unhinged by catastrophic events.

Interested in the juxtaposition of fragility and strength — evident in our personal lives and the broader environment.

The jazz pianist will perform live, accompanying Jonas, other performers featured in Venice, and re-edited video footage from the artist's pavilion installation that is evocative of the fragility of nature in a rapidly changing situation.

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Vasilis Papageorgiou (b. 1991) is an artist and co-founder of Enterprise Projects, living in Athens, and currently working on the ideas of subculture, materiality, fragility, and every - day life.