Sentences with phrase «grasp of the human condition»

In fourteen sweeping and sublime stories, five of which have been published in The New Yorker, the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize - winning author of The Known World shows that his grasp of the human condition is firmer than ever Returning to the city that inspired his first prizewinning book, Lost in the City, Jones has filled this new collection with people who call Washington, D.C., home.

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These it takes as the conditions for nurturing «qualities of mind and character» (ICC 25) that have enabled and should again serve to enable «generations of men and women to grasp a vision of the good life, a life of responsible citizenship and human decency» (ICC 6).

From within our human history God's vision of cosmic destiny can be grasped only through the relatively limited and time - conditioned stories of promise that serve as the foundation of our biblical tradition.

As Jesus» will was always centred on the Father and his mind was not clouded by the attractions of sin, he was able to grasp the true tragedy of our human condition in a way that only great saints have understood.

We live in a time in which there are many different realms of hermeneutical discourse isolated from each other, a «conflict of interpretations» of human expression no one of which can grasp the human condition as a whole.

It is perfectly true that there is a divine simplicity about Christ's teaching which is more readily grasped by the uncomplicated than by those whose minds have become so «cultured,» «conditioned» and «educated» that they are blind to the prime conditions of human life upon this planet.

I am nowadays more convinced than I formerly was by the arguments of the «obligate terrestrial school»; for example Latimer (1991) lists quite a number of features of the lower limb that resemble the human condition and no other, such as that the hallux (big toe) of A. afarensis is not abductable as would be required for grasping.

Actor Taylor Sheridan certainly came bolting out of the gate as a screenwriter, with his scripts for 2015's Sicario and last year's Hell or High Water displaying a firm grasp of pulp storytelling dynamics and an eagerness to explore the darker aspects of the human condition.

While I understood Ha's work on an intuitive level at the time of the exhibition, it was not until my visit to the artist's studio in the winter of 2008 that I began to fully grasp the depth of his earlier burlap and barbed - wire paintings, not only as signs of military repression made evident during the late 1970s, but also as spiritual works focused on transformation and resistance that could be read as icons of the human condition.

Honesty, expressionism and catharsis can be read from Joseph's impulsive and intuitive mark making, which strive to grasp a comprehension of the human condition.

Honesty, expressionism and possibly exorcism can be read from Loughborough's impulsive and intuitive rapid - fire mark making, which strive to grasp a comprehension of the human condition.