Sentences with phrase «human ambition»

His paintings explore the shadow side of human ambition.
She underscored how human ambition is bound by biology — and by society's sense of right and wrong.
VATICAN CITY — For four long days, several dozen physical, environmental and social scientists hunkered here with theologians, philosophers, economists and a poverty campaigner to explore ways to balance human ambitions with the planet's limits.
Dot Earth, launched eight years and 2,700 posts ago, explores efforts to balance human ambitions with the planet's limits.
For Calvin, God places individuals where He wants them to be, which explains Calvin's criticism of human ambition as an unwillingness to accept the sphere of action God has allocated to us.
Nor is human ambition satiated by the subjection of the earth.
Of particular interest to Vaillant are stories that explore collisions between human ambition and the natural world.
Intermittent renewable energies like wind, Heidegger and his anti-humanist, anti-nuclear followers argued, were the key to restraining human ambition.
The idea of nature as a storehouse to feed human needs and treasure trove to feed human ambitions was a pillar of western civilization.
The featured works examine how human ambition and imagination physically manifest in the highly complex constructions that shape the world in which we live.
There should be no human ambition involved.
In words that no doubt represented the attitudes of most of the inventors of the technologies described in the following pages, one inventor of prosthetic limbs bluntly stated «the bent of human ambition is for the acquisition of money instead of a few plaudits from the world.»
Dream is a birthplace of human ambition or desire.
Her novel Wickett's Remedy grew out of her fascination with the 1918 influenza epidemic and explores the nature of human ambition and the frailty of individual and collective memory.
Scenes of vast urban construction convey the pinnacle of human ambition and ingenuity, as well as the negative effects of overdevelopment of the land.
As part of a group exhibition «Art in Art» at the MOCAK, Shahar Marcus will be showing «Leap of Faith» which criticizes certain characteristics imbedded in humans: fear of failure, of social criticism and human ambition to obtain glory at all cost.
Move over Turbine Hall, hallowed pantheon of contemporary art, shelter to the stranger reaches of human ambition, protector of eccentric vision.
These carefully rendered images of scientists, technology, and astronauts in space suits suggests that human ambition and innovation can be both ascendant and ominous.
These carefully rendered images of scientists, fighter jets, and astronauts in space suits suggests that human ambition and innovation can be both ascendant and ominous.
His monumental, layered works often painted after black and white photographs explore the shadow side of human ambition and investigate the line where ethical and aesthetical values cross.
And the Anthropocene is strewn with many more accidental byproducts of human ambition and ingenuity, as we've changed the chemistry of the global ocean and atmosphere.
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