Sentences with phrase «genuine act»

What you are, teaches your children far more than what you say, so if you want your children to be kindhearted... You too must be kindhearted and perform genuine acts of kindness on a consistent basis.

Lear reads Plato's dialogues as attempts to explain, by the articulation of a psychology, how irony is possible: «why it is that we are creatures who, for the most part, do not grasp the real situation we are in; and how it is that on occasion an individual is able to break free of appearances and engage in genuine acts of pretense - transcending aspiring.»

The wisdom of the Church teaches that our bodies are made for the worship of God and for genuine acts of spiritual love.

Eva, the only group member with genuine acting ability and common sense, is fed up with the pretense of this twisted underworld and dreams of leaving town with her five - year - old son, Augie.

In Dressed to Kill, Michael Caine, the sexy, badass man's man from Get Carter and Alfie, plays a psychotic psychiatrist struggling with gender identity, while Angie Dickinson (and her body double), a star known for sexual allure rather than genuine acting prowess, wryly plays a middle - aged housewife bored with her life, who goes cruising in an art museum and ends up with a stranger going down on her in a taxi cab before getting sliced to ribbons.

BIRDMAN also contains unsubtle undertones regarding film criticism (and in particular critics), the fortunes of genuine acting talent, self - obsession and a very accurate back - stage look at the world of theatre as it almost veers between documentary and fiction but at the end of the day, it's very much a movie.

«Everyone recognizes that there are genuine acts of mercy for animals that are suffering, and that it is the right and kind thing to do, but to conflate that with this idea that you have to warehouse them or you're justifying warehousing because you support no - kill is a false choice — it's not one or the other.

It provides the element of self - determination or freedom without which there is no genuine act.

He is there at the white man's church either to make his way up in the world or else to perform a genuine act of penance.

The man kneels before the teacher, a genuine act of reverence, showing that he is in earnest and not trying to trap Jesus with his question.

All the people of faith - christians, muslims, hindus and others are touched by this genuine act of humility, love and compassion.

News - Atheists fail to appreciate a genuine act of kindness, humility and love.

The pope has won my heart through this genuine act of humility.

The purpose was to make giving a genuine act of Christian devotion.

delivering a genuine acting performance again as Whitey Bulger in Black Mass..

Works of this sort lack the dialectical tension of a genuine act, associated with risk and will.