Sentences with phrase «great humanists»

Tsai is one of Taiwan's finest, and one of the great humanists in modern cinema, and hopefully his appearance on the Lido this year will see him back on top.

We in Kenya are praying daily for this great humanist compassionate.humble.caring.humanist.

He's one of the great humanist filmmakers.

Jean Renoir, the great humanist of cinema, cowrote and directed this superlative WWI story about two French aviators who are captured by a German captain (Erich von Stroheim, perfectly cast as a mannerly despot) and shuttled between prisons.

Following the disastrous knock - on effects when a middle - class couple, who still love each other deeply, but are cripplingly divided on the future (Simin sees no future in the restrictive nation, Nader has to stay to care for his Alzheimers afflicted father), seek a divorce, it displays Asghar Farhadi as one of the great humanist filmmakers working today; he has empathy for everyone the camera points its lens at, from the couple's daughter to the brutish husband of their new employee, even as they do terrible things.

Peck said Baldwin was «the perfect image of a great humanist.»

DePalma takes this great humanist image and uses it to make a hero of said murderous government agents.

She saw in Broodthaers a «great humanist with an extraordinary poetic reach, an exceptional avant - garde mind and great wit,» as she said in a recent conversation.

Not exact matches

Where is this great pantheon of atheistic humanists?

Louis Bouyer, himself one of the great Christian humanists of our own age, wrote in 1959 a book about Erasmus and his times that remains as good an introduction to later Christian humanism as any I know; another good introduction is the book by Henri de Lubac about the times of Pico della Mirandola.

There never was a time in History that atheists exist, only in this present stage of our intellectual developement that they deny His exisrence, but it can be easily explained that they are just part of the dialectical process of having to have two opposing arguments or forces to arrive to the truth, The opposing forces today are the theists or religious believers of all religions and the other are the atheists who denies religion, The reslultant truth in the future will be Panthrotheism, the belief that we are all one with the whole universe with God, and that we Had all to unite to prepare for human survival that will subject us humans in the future.Aided by the the enlightend consevationist, environmentalists, humanists and all of the concerned activists, we will develop a kind of universal harmony and awareness that we are all guided towards love and concern for all of our specie.The great concern of the whole conscious and caring world to the natural disaster in the Phillipines,, the most theist country now is a positive sign towards this religious direction.Panthrotheism means we will be One with God.

This must be why Mies van der Rohe, a great modernist humanist, was taken with the book.

But there was nothing great about our lives — nothing that took us outside of our secular humanist worldview that told us that science and logical reasoning would teach us the meaning of life.

I personally think that general human progress is the greatest of humanist delusions.

It should be abundantly clear that agnostics, atheitsts, humanists, etc. derive great great meaning from life by knowing that death is final.

As Randall Stewart pointed out nearly half a century ago, Hawthorne's lifelong literary models and companions were the great Puritan moralist - seers Spenser, Milton, and Bunyan, and of the eighteenth - century writers, the great Augustan Christian humanists, especially Dr. Johnson, whose boyhood home in Lichfield Hawthorne visited on what must be called a pilgrimage of veneration.

In 2002, at the 50th anniversary of the World Humanist Congress in Amsterdam, the gathered participants signed a declaration affirming «the worth, dignity and autonomy of the individual and the right of every human being to the greatest possible freedom compatible with the rights of others».

Calvin's efforts to restore access to the sources of true and edifying knowledge, and to build up piety by means of those sources, were shared by other biblical humanists such as the classics scholar Guillaume Budé of France and the great Dutch humanist Erasmus.

Erasmus (c. 1466 — 1536) spent the first 30 years of his life in the schools of the Brethren of the Common Life before becoming the greatest of the humanist scholars.

But just as the Constantinian Church preserved and transformed the best of the dying civilization of classical antiquity, and planted the seeds of what became the great urban culture of the high Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance, so a post-Constantinian and ecumenical Church might preserve and transform the best features of the corrupted civilization of modernity in service to the next great culture of humanist sacramental urbanism.

Four elegies were produced for him by his friend the celebrated German humanist, Helius Eobanus Hessus: Magna piis pro te Germania stabit in armis (Great Germany), piously armed, will stand by you.

And they knew Aleander well; he was a humanist of sorts himself, had learnt Greek and had actually been working at the great publishing establishment of the printer Aldus in Venice in 1508 when Erasmus had stayed there, Later graduating to the Rectorship of Paris University, he had turned to diplomacy and the papal service.

We lost also one the last great Christian humanists.

If that view were not bizarre enough, Fish quotes another liberal who holds that Milton is not only the apostle of unrestrained freedom but is also «above all, a Humanist» the greatest representative in England of that movement which had abandoned the dogmatism of the Middle Ages and was seeking for a natural or empirical basis for its beliefs.»

Following extensive campaigning by Humanists UK and its supporters for greater action against illegal, unregistered schools, the Government has finally indicated that it will look to close the legal loopholes that allow them to continue operating.

One of these was a Florentine humanist for whom the Roman republic's class - driven political strife was central to its success while the other, a soldier married into the pre-Independence colonial elite, could not think of «the rapid succession of revolutions» in such «petty» republics without «horror and disgust», and so was glad that the «science of politics» had received the «great improvement» which enabled it to go beyond the tools available in antiquity [1].

It's great to be at today's rally representing the British Humanist Association, and it's fantastic that the event has got such a good turnout.

BHA Chief Executive Andrew Copson commented, «Paul was a great example of a politician and a campaigner inspired by the humanist perspective to make the world a better place.

Humanists UK regained charitable status to great financial advantage.

The British Humanist Association (BHA), which campaigns for an end to religious discrimination in school admissions, says the move could lead to the «greatest growth in religious segregation in the history of English schools».

It's not a great film by any means, but humanist director Robert Benton (Nobody's Fool) and veteran screenwriter Nicholas Meyer (Time After Time, certain Star Trek films) manage to keep it alive and moving.

The great Jean - Pierre Leaud is at his comi - tragic best in this humanist portrait of a dying monarch.

All up a great, absorbing, vintage adventure let down a little by the usual Spielbergian humanist schmaltz.

In my opinion, the main highlight is Andrew Garfield, perhaps our greatest working humanist actor.

It's like a negative image of the famous humanist speech at the conclusion of Charlie Chaplin's «The Great Dictator.»

And the film itself is as great as you might imagine: a gripping, deeply moving examination of one person caught up in an unfair system and trying to quell demons exterior and interior to fix it, which works equally well as a humanist portrait, as social commentary and even as political allegory.

Humanist at heart — he is a graduate in European Humanities and Bachelor of Arts in History — and a great lover of reading, López ran his own bookshop in Madrid for several years, a job that he made compatible with positions in the business world.

He was a great teacher, a humanist in a way.

In Dwellers on the Threshold, DeVincentis draws on myths emerging from her subconscious and upon art and literature from both east and west to create an open - ended humanist narrative, (less a formal or structured narrative than that of the Pre-Raphaelites); one which contains multiple readings, and which questions individual and collective morality in our time of great unease and dislocation.

There is something great about the way he responds to humanist concerns with abstraction.

Chris Hitchens was really at heart one us he was a humanist always forward looking optomistic loved the triump of the human spirit (not a miserbalist control freaking climate alarmist) But mainly he loved all things Ameican (ecept the Clintons) He was this famous scruffy agnostic rather right centred carrassmatic interlectual a great writer and thinker (unlike his his great sibling interlectual rival his brother Peter without the scruffy or the agnostic) Peter and Chris were exactly like that other great brotherly partnership Niles and Frazer Underneath all that interlectual pomposity there was some mad vibe going on between them Imagine them smashing each other with sherry glasses over a discussion about Europe or something

«The greatest hope for the Earth lies in religionists and scientists uniting to awaken the world to its near fatal predicament and then leading mankind out of the bewildering maze of international crises into the future Utopia of humanist hope.»