Sentences with phrase «frank recognition»

Austrian film - maker Michael Haneke has often been open to the charge of obscurity, ambivalence and obliquity, but no one has ever accused him of suggesting that life is other than a vale of tears best endured by honesty, love, unremitting work and a frank recognition of its essentially tragic nature.

I applaud the Governor's plan and his frank recognition and discussion of the problems we all face.

And again, through the work of other scholars like Bultmann and Buri, with their frank recognition of the mythological element in the biblical story, we have come to see that the affirmations of Scripture have their abiding significance, not in spite of, but precisely because of their being stated in language which can only be described as highly metaphorical.

Occasionally Barr mentions a scholar who breaks out of fundamentalism into a genuinely critical stance (though usually extremely conservative)-- but only to call into question the honesty of such shifts without frank recognition of the break and even apology to critics whose work had been dismissed and motives impugned.

Much of the difference lay in a newly frank recognition of just how bad things have become.