Sentences with phrase «human anguish»

Nier puts us in a crumbling world, plagued by human anguish and inhabited by dark creatures, and forces us to fight our way through using magic and brute force.

Yet, despite the latter's ostensible grit, both specialised in human anguish prettily presented for your viewing pleasure; Hooper's unapologetically indulgent, highly embellished approach isn't to everyone's taste but you've got to admire his bravado.

Cooper and his director of photography Masanobu Takayanagi (who also worked on the filmmaker's last two movies) paint a visually striking but harsh and brutal portrait of the scenery here, placing an emphasis on long shots of desolate landscapes and closeups of human anguish in order to create the film's dismal mood.

And the prophet's sure hope of Israel's re-creation, of her restoration again to life and meaning, is climaxed in the stirring description of the overthrow of Gog — Babylon no doubt for Ezekiel, but certainly in subsequent centuries again and again the oppressor, the most conspicuous contemporary source of injustice and brutality and all human anguish, whose overthrow must precede the reign of God in history, the establishment of his just rule among men.

Today's gospel so perfectly captures the profoundly human anguish of our Lord, his sense of abandonment, of being bereft.

Not exact matches

I wouldn't call Spenser a greater poet, but he saw the human condition and our often - anguished journey toward God in a richer, more humane way than Milton did, who at the end of the day was more interested in ideas than people.

Reviewing a book titled The Son of Man written by François Mauriac (a French Roman Catholic who wrote about the problems of good and evil in human nature and in the world), Flannery O'Connor writes: He proposes in the place of that anguish that Gide called the Catholic's «cramp....

And if we are to live now, we can not escape the anguish of the human condition; if we are to live here, we can not flee this condition by a leap of faith.9

And this is exactly what could best relieve that tension between light and darkness, exaltation and anguish, into which a renewed awareness of our human species has plunged us.

I do not believe there is any theme more central to Lewis's vision of human life in relation to God, and I think there are very few indeed who have managed as well as he to invoke simultaneously in readers both an appreciation for and delight in our created life, and a sense of the pain and anguish that come when that life is fully redirected to the One from whom it comes.

The French dramatic theorist Antonin Artaud, in speaking about the French classical theater, which had become formal and aloof from the issues of human hope, wrote, «In the anguished, catastrophic period in which we live, we feel an urgent need for a theater in which events do not exceed, where resonance is deep within us, dominating the instability of the times.»

As in Pilgrim, Dillard's desire for intense experience, her very openness to moths or scorched gods, has made her vulnerable to Julie's anguish and to all human suffering:

It may not be an exaggeration to say that the anguish of shame is the main problem each human being has to face.

Weak human nature will not let us believe in the promises of God with a confidence that purges from the soul the anguish of fear and unbelief, the Anfechtungen... Therefore, in Luther's discovery of justification the Christian was liberated from the self - imposed requirement to present a perfect mental attitude to God, to confuse belief with knowledge, faith with the direct intuition of an observed world.

We need to feel that Jesus shares in our human condition - in its fragility and its mental anguish.

When Jesus represented Abraham in Paradise saying to Dives in torment, «Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and Lazarus in like manner evil things: but now here he is comforted, and thou art in anguish,» (Luke 16:25)-- as though such reversal of circumstance, issuing in a permanently divided humanity, some in bliss and some in torture, would be an ethically adequate ending to the human story — he spoke in the traditional manner of Judaism, but the modern conscience remains unconvinced.

Tennyson's anguished lines from In Memoriam express the human longing for permanence in the face of perishing, and it is to such suffering as is expressed here that the religious perspectives of various peoples have been addressed:

In the moment of every human cry of anguish, in every human response to abuse, God remembers his Covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and his Covenant in Jesus Christ.

The crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ had made it abundantly clear that God will not accept human sin as humanity's answer to the anguish that creation experiences on its way to God's ultimate goal.

There were many times when the Israelite was deeply conscious of the moral problems, the frustrations, and the anguish in which his human mortal lot involved him.

The contractions, the pain, the anguish, the possible complications or the lifetime of being responsible for another human?

Some believe that it these experiences of profound human bonding that, despite the acute anguishes of war, makes some veterans long to return to war.

Martin Freeman, thankfully opting for his regular accent, is excellent as the human timebomb, especially so when the clock ticks closer and closer to game over, showing the anguish of a father who would do anything to protect his daughter without losing himself.

There's real pain, anguish and defeat in that moment, and a kind of real, messy human drama that too infrequently breaks through this movie's earnest, activist surface.

Whilst at times difficult to watch, Grave of the Fireflies is more than a film, it's a masterpiece of human endeavour, and the hand drawn tragedy echoes every cry of anguish that has sounded throughout the centuries, ever since we first learnt to kill our own kind.

His early bronze sculptures of anguished human figures incorporated impressions made by machines as well as found objects, synthesizing them to evoke new associations.

The works in this exhibition celebrated the Olympic spirit by highlighting the universal human emotions of love, anguish, awe, triumph, and joy.

Within the pursuit of artisan craftmanship, Derek's figures are captured in moments of contemplation, anguish and the search for meaning and comprehension of being human during challenging times.

Bacon's figures can be described as distorted, fleshy masses in anguish; these shocking and unsettling images are his representation of the evils and the devastation of the human condition.

His early practice of making bronze sculptures representing anguished figures eventually evolved into a process of making geometric human forms by piecing together aluminum and brass casting molds.

Experiencing mental anguish and emotional pain is part of being human, severe distress can be so debilitating and long - standing that it impairs daily life.