Sentences with phrase «fueled by the conviction»

In contrast to the late modern sensibility, however, this criticism is fueled by the conviction that religion is of utmost importance and that it needs to be liberated from the shackles in which it is now bound.

But we create justice not with the ideas in our minds; we create justice when the ideas in our minds are fueled by the conviction in our hearts.

Not exact matches

The process worked incrementally and backward, not toward faith but away from nihilism, fueled by the rising conviction that the conclusion I had drawn long ago was wrong.

There was a gratifying determination about our play in those last twenty minutes, perhaps fuelled by an understandable conviction that this really wasn't a game we deserved to lose.

«Given the three - year media drumbeat calling for the Skeloses» conviction and swift imprisonment, a drumbeat fueled by government misconduct, it is extremely doubtful that a New York jury will be able to perform this task with an open mind,» the court documents charge.

Hopper is compared rather unfavorably to his contemporary George Bellows, «a magnificent, generous talent, fuelled by political conviction... the dour, hard bitten Republican Edward Hopper was Bellows» opposite.»

My inspiration has been my conviction that modern painting is fueled by the combination of tradition and the realities of modern life.

«So the project ran an experiment to see if by focusing on thrift, patriotism, spiritual conviction and economic prosperity, it could rally residents of six Kansas towns to take meaningful steps to conserve energy and consider renewable fuels.

His intensely dogmatic climate writing and rage for justice stems in part from his religious beliefs about nature, and his personal conviction that American «hyper - individualism» and consumerism corrupt both the environment and humanity, exemplified by fossil fuels, industrial civilization and free market capitalism.

Driving his work are two main convictions: 1) Our current environmental problems — climate change, biodiversity losses, peak fossil fuels, natural resource over consumption — are but symptoms of the greater problem of fetishizing material economic growth; and 2) only by first changing our minds, recognized the literal and metaphorical interconnected nature of all life, will we make the lasting external changes required to create an ecologically sustainable civilization.