Sentences with phrase «haunted human»

The phrase «junk DNA» has haunted human genetics ever since.

I hope it will help to reconcile the deep distrust, envy and suspicion of each other which haunts the human race.

According to the museum, Bhabha's haunting human figures hover between figuration and abstraction, monumentality and entropy.

For all the objects, the absence of the figure is palpable, yet each still - life insists on a haunting human presence and the viewer as witness.

Irony then wound through the»90s and into the 21st Century with relative ease, making «post» — postmodern, post-postmodern, post-feminist, post-colonial — and «meta» catch phrases for anyone who wanted to sound coolly intellectual (though, to be fair, the desire to flaunt jaded braininess has haunted humans for centuries).

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Other people may have the question haunt them and wonder: «Gee, maybe there is one purpose, one Meaning, one goal for all life — or at least for humans — and I guess I am suppose to find it.»

It has been an attempt to suggest that the Western novel is haunted by the story of Jesus, in the sense that like the hiddenness of God in that human life, the image of human life in the Western novel is one in which human beings grapple with the transcendent through the inexorable limitations of historical existence.

I saw things in Racine years ago that continue to haunt me, for they were outrageous, and showed that many people in our democracy are viewed and treated as less than human.

Yet humans think they are so special they get to keep on keepin on in some form, which they do if they understood that form is dust and not some disembodied soul haunting the earth.

However, haunted not only by his Manichean past but, soon, by Pelagian boasts of human moral competence, Augustine was never able to shake his anxieties about freedom.

The haunting rhythms and shadowy shapes of the eternal disturb the banalities of the temporal, and no properly conscious human being comes out of a cathedral or ancient parish church the same as he or she went in.

The image of the «singularity,» the point at which artificial and human intelligence merge, haunts our cultural imagination.

The possibility that our civilization and perhaps even the human race itself might be destroyed in atomic warfare has but given new intensity to the problem which has always haunted man the creature.3

Hawthorne was obsessed with the human past, collective and familial, haunted by its virtues and its vices, its glories and degradations.

They admirably avoid the fundamental question that haunts Christian theology: if God who wills to be involved has created a world in which not even he can act in perfect blamelessness, how can God avoid the accusation of guilt — ultimate, primordial culpability for human suffering; culpability for that which we experience as evil?

But the history of science — by far the most successful claim to knowledge accessible to humans — teaches that the most we can hope for is successive improvement in our understanding, learning from our mistakes, an asymptotic approach to the Universe, but with the proviso that absolute certainty will always elude us» - Carl Sagan (from «The Demon - Haunted World»)

As he writes in an excerpt from a memoir recently published in The New Yorker, he began to be haunted by the thought of «the ancientness of the Mass — that it and its antecedents very likely go farther back into the human past than any other existing ceremony....

We lack definition of ourselves, which is an incredibly haunting feature of human life.

Meanwhile, purification efforts to clean up polluted rivers, lakes, streams, and wells can not meet the world's growing water needs, and water shortages are already causing human and ecological suffering on a haunting scale.

2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson This haunting sci - fi epic expertly crafts a future in which humans have spread across the solar system.

Eventually, given the probable intellectual capability of early humans, it is likely that they would have wondered about their status in the universe, something akin to the «where from» and «where to» questions that still haunt us today.

Recently, researchers concluded that a huge eagle that once haunted New Zealand's forests was a fierce predator that may have hunted humans.

But the tale of Peking Man has haunted generations of Chinese researchers, who have struggled to understand its relationship to modern humans.

Author of books: Atmospheres of Mars and Venus (1961, nonfiction) Planets (1966, nonfiction, with Jonathan Norton Leonard) Intelligent Life in the Universe (1966, nonfiction, with Iosif S. Shklovskii) Planetary Exploration (1970, nonfiction) Planetary Atmospheres (1971, nonfiction, with Tobias C. Owen and Harlan J. Smith) U.F.O.'s: A Scientific Debate (1972, with Thornton Page) The Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective (1973, nonfiction) Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence (1973, nonfiction) The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence (1977, nonfiction) Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record (1978, nonfiction) Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science (1979, nonfiction) Cosmos (1980, nonfiction) Comet (1985, nonfiction, with Ann Druyan) Contact (1985, novel) Nuclear Winter (1985, nonfiction) A Path where No Man Thought: Nuclear Winter and the End of the Arms Race (1990, nonfiction, with Richard P. Turco) The Demon - Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1996, essays) Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are (1992, nonfiction, with Ann Druyan) Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994, essays) Billions and Billions (1996, essays) The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006, nonfiction, posthumous, with Ann Druyan)

a nationwide index of haunted places, brief descriptions of ghostly places The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS)- Michigan Department of Health and Human Services

What seems like a half - mad, half - obsessive outdoor odyssey sweeps you into a haunting tale of human survival.

The vision of Southern California terrain Barfod molds in Salton Sea seems strangely undead and haunting even at its most jubilant moments, creating a chilling sense of something epic and part - human.

The questions this documentary raises, in between all the human stories and history it teaches, will definitely haunt you as the credits roll.

In his 2014 speculative thriller «Ex Machina,» writer - director Alex Garland created a haunting, stylishly atmospheric meditation on what it means to be human, building a credible world just this shy of the future in which humanoid robots moved, loved and deceived with all the nuance and subterfuge of their flesh - and - bone counterparts.

Inspired by the frightening true - life tale of a family that moved into a converted funeral home and subsequently fell under supernatural attack, director Peter Cornwell's The Haunting in Connecticut follows the quest of a desperate mother to free her family from the grip of an evil beyond human comprehension.

This haunting adaptation of Stephen King's novel is an atmospheric whodunit that's part mystery and part human drama.

No, the characters of The Haunting display no human behavioral traits whatsoever.

Part Deer Hunter, part Winter's Bone, Scott Cooper's new film casts a haunted image of ugliness scarring natural beauty, whether it's the steel town petering out and leaving a rusted carcass in a Pennsylvania valley, or the human nastiness up in the hills on the Jersey border.

Featuring a haunting lead performance from Casey Affleck, Ben's hitherto less celebrated younger brother, Manchester By The Sea is a powerful exploration of bereavement's effect on the human psyche.

A diabolical human as seen in «12 Years a Slave» is apples and oranges compared to his haunting work as a sex addict in «Shame,» both directed by Oscar - winner Steve McQueen.

He took the strident figure in Chris Kyle's own memoir and made him more fully human, reconciling the steely, lethal sniper with the haunted man who couldn't reconnect with his family.

This ultimately comes back to haunt him as he is unable to kill a human critter that his father catches in a trap for stealing their corn.

The brilliant Charlie Kaufman makes a very welcome return to our screens, co-directing his own script with Duke Johnson, in this haunting and humorous stop - motion treatise on human relationships.

It's a haunting scene, which really delves into the darkest recesses of the human psyche.

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Especially haunting are the visions Caesar has of Koba (Toby Kebbell), his now - deceased adversary from Dawn, who reappears to taunt Caesar that he was right all along about the worthlessness of humans.

This haunting tale of the terrible cost of human immortality has already been optioned for film by Lionsgate!

Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti achieved international fame in the 1950s and 60s, mainly thanks to his haunting, distended sculptures of stick - like humans that seemed to echo the horrors of the Nazi death camps.

Irish Film Board backs project about humans who are cured of zombie virus, but haunted by their actions

The great Helen Mirren plays Sarah Winchester who lived in an ever - expanding creepy mansion that she was convinced was haunted by the ghosts of the humans retired by her dead husband's firearms.

His memories are haunted by tragedy and he finds regular human interaction troublesome.

by Walter Chaw A work of holy madness about acts of holy madness, Aguirre, The Wrath of God is a transcendent, haunting film that defies description and captures, somehow, what it means to be human in all the venal, small, sometimes grand things that being human implies.

It's Spider, but it's at once more and less expressionistic than David Cronenberg's film — and while the long, quiet, empty reaches of living in the giant abandoned warehouse of a mind in flux is a constant melancholy the two films share, there is something in Stroszek, crystallized in the haunting image of a premature baby pawing at its bedding, that does more to traumatize the human condition.

That movie, which won the festival's jury prize and went on to earn an Oscar nomination for its screenplay, was a surreal and haunting satire of monogamous love — governed by a rigid speculative premise but also open, in its way, to the rich and startlingly funny possibilities of human experience.

Richard Boone is the standout as a hearty bear of an intelligence veteran who mentors O'Neal in the insidious games played in the name of counter-intelligence, and George Sanders (first seen in drag playing piano in a gay lounge), Nigel Green (a pimp in Mexico), Dean Jagger (hiding out a country vicar) and Max Von Sydow (as a deadly Soviet assassin who, haunted by his past, may be the most human figure in the bunch) fill out the deadly rogues gallery.