Sentences with phrase «great human drama»

From one of Israel's most acclaimed writers comes a novel of extraordinary power about family life — the greatest human drama — and the cost of war.

Not exact matches

It is a drama that unfolds in several contexts at once: within the historical context of a «great cloud of witnesses», that is, in relationship to all of those who speak (and have spoken) as «Christian preachers»; within the context of the speaker's own human existence in relation to other statements of faith collected as «Christian theology» within the time and space set aside for the performance of Christian liturgy.

But with this important exception, the Bible contains reflections of every human interest — not only religion, but also history, philosophy, poetry, drama, great addresses, stories, letters, law - making, the struggles of war, the pursuits of peace.

That imagination — fired, at least during the great middle years, by intense moral and religious perception — made Greene's fiction the best - realized portrayal in its time of the drama of the human soul.

The Cambridge historian, H. Butterfield, has said of the Old Testament «Altogether we have here the greatest and most deliberate attempts ever made to wrestle with destiny and interpret history and discover meaning in the human drama; above all to grapple with the moral difficulties that history presents to the religious mind.»

Such an encounter, he shows, is «the plot of some of the greatest stories and dramas that the human imagination has conceived».

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«Ran» is a heroic saga of human destiny, a war movie with some of the greatest battle scenes in the history of the cinema, a costume drama of the utmost magnificence — and a crackling good samurai movie chock full of swordplay and palace intrigue.

Director Gareth Edwards delivers some great money shots by the end, but it's a long, mostly dull slog to get there, relying more on the one - dimensional human drama and generic MUTOs to drive the action.

Brit - grit: where the pints are cloudy, ceramic stained and even the most bare bones of human moments are wrung dry for the greatest amount of drama.

A new trailer has arrived online for AMC and Channel 4's upcoming sci - fi drama series Humans, which is written by Sam Vincent and Jonathan Brackley (Spooks, Spooks: The Greater Good) and based on the Swedish TV series Real Humans.

Combining the human drama of Isaac's Storm with the sweep of The American People in the Great Depression, The Worst Hard Time is a lasting and important work of American history.

Most important, however, neither The Great American Dust Bowl nor Drowned City ever lose sight of the human drama, or the effect that historical events have had on real people.

All the special qualities that Robert K. Massie brought to Nicholas and Alexandra and Peter the Great are present here: historical accuracy, depth of understanding, felicity of style, mastery of detail, ability to shatter myth, and a rare genius for finding and expressing the human drama in extraordinary lives.

Of course (assuming you're still with me), you'll also realize great drama & poetry might ultimately offer a far better distillation of insights into human nature.

If you combine a journalist's fear of offering a personal opinion with her even greater fear of boring the reader, the result can be legal writing that is too constrained, while at the same time fixates on the details of the human drama at the expense of explaining the legal dispute.

It's worth pointing out here, though, that without this very human, built - in variety of perceptions we would have no great art, music, drama, or even cosmology to excite, awaken, inform, and inspire people.