Sentences with phrase «human foible»

This outlandish threat punishes the children for a human foible.

His point: good science that does not fall prey to pseudoscience NEEDS its heretics to keep it honest, and in order to not succumb to the universal human foible of confirmation bias.

Taking the good for granted and moaning and groaning about the bad is without a doubt, our biggest human foible.

Their comedy works because the Farrellys have not only a keen eye for but also a deep sympathy with human foible; when Jack Black's Hal in Shallow Hal scolds his overweight girlfriend's father for denigrating her looks, we get the gag that in Hal's eyes, she's Gwyneth Paltrow, and we likewise understand that many of this fat girl's self - esteem issues probably do have something to do with the amount of support she's getting from the people closest to her.

Rather, the plot is more of a study on the human foible of indecisiveness.

Each of these people has a very human foible, which the actors keep authentic.

The Facegoogs of the world hold us captive, exploiting our human foibles to draw us into their digital nets.

Central bankers, being human, suffer from similar human foibles.

In «The Christmas Oratorio» his comic witnesses of the Nativity train attention on our common human foibles and show that the general drudgery and pettiness of our lives may contain an underlying dimension of significance and worth.

As long as we live with human beings, we will always have to deal with all those annoying little human foibles we all carry around with us.

It's quite a test for our young republic as we grapple with a much closer up view of human foibles than was ever available before, thanks to social media and the ever powerful electronic communicative forces that have shrunk the news cycles to minutes and have allowed for, and disposed of surprises, instantly.

In the end, the history of zoology reveals as much about our human foibles as about the animals we study.

Some record human foibles, others tragedy.

They have human foibles, human nerves, entirely human characteristics.

We all have human foibles & faults so stay open to all personalities, looks, backgrounds and interests.

A true nailbiter, The China Syndrome is a potent harbinger of the potential devastation that can be wrought when humans attempt to harness an energy source they don't fully understand, an energy that can leave no leeway for such human foibles as avarice and sloth.

Slow and mournful, it does not seem to have much in common with the work of other directors who emerged during the decade, especially vivid stylists with urban preoccupations like Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Brian De Palma, Paul Schrader, and William Friedkin, or a caustic observer of human foibles like Robert Altman.

Mighty Aphrodite's affectionate Greek chorus is the obvious point of analogy, and so we expect another heavy, forgiving sigh about human foibles, this time in the eternal city, as per Allen's European funding.

Even when reaching for the operatic, he keeps the focus on small human foibles: a cellphone going off at a funeral; a car parked who knows where; a teenager (Lucas Hedges, in what should be a star - making breakout turn) whose mourning process is no more preoccupying than his desperate attempts to get some alone time with his girlfriend.

Yet even idyllic looking locations don't always protect people from intruding human foibles.

But Lars and the Real Girl isn't about so much about the exploration of human foibles as it is about Dude's in love with a plastic vagina!

Iannucci remains a master of finding humor in the bleakest scenarios imaginable, exposing the petty human foibles behind history's greatest horrors.

Its conclusion has less to do with the drug trade than it does human foibles.

Considered China's first philosopher of morality, he was disturbed by human foibles and wanted to raise the standard of human behavior.

A beautiful, subtle exploration of loss and recovery, pierced throughout with Anne Tyler's humor, wisdom, and always penetrating look at human foibles.

Goha, a character in Middle Eastern folklore, imparts wisdom, tricks fools, and exposes human foibles in fifteen amusing stories.

If... you are looking for a large dose of truth with some all too human foibles and faults and long nights of coffee drenched brains and frequent trips to the bathroom then this book is for you.

The value of living with an animal is obvious to anyone who owns a pet: a reason to get up in the morning, acceptance of any and all human foibles, a need to be needed, a source of exercise — all contribute to mental and physical well - being.

Most dogs will forgive our human foibles when it comes to canine manners.

Companies are really loving toys - to - life (and DLC in games like Theatrhythm) because it's a sneaky way to basically charge devoted fans two or three times the amount of money for the same software via a combination of unneccessary content gating and taking advantage of human foibles such as our instinctive urge to collect and our response to perceived scarcity.

He mentions separating the science from the scientists and their human foibles such as ego and bias.

The processes and procedures of science are intended to blunt the effects of these human foibles, but they can never totally eradicate them.

the usual human foibles.

People often forget that scientists are people and have the same pressures on them and the same kind of human foibles.

Not exact matches

This industry is not immune from the foibles of greed and human psychology.

And it's his willingness to get stuck into experiences and closely observe the world, his fellow humans, and his own foibles that populates and animates his stories.

the possibility and necessity of living in a dimension of meaning in which the urgencies of the struggle are subordinated to a sense of awe before the vastness of the historical drama in which we are jointly involved; to a sense of modesty about the virtue, wisdom, and power available to us for the resolution of its perplexities; to a sense of contrition about the common human frailties and foibles which lie at the foundation of... our vanities; and to a sense of gratitude for the divine mercies which are promised to those who humble themselves.

This lets the alcoholic know that the minister has problems, is aware of his fallibility, and is speaking as one who shares the foibles and limitations of the rest of the human race.

Humor, funny, ha ha... satire uses both in reference to every day human weaknesses and foibles to make us THINK or simply to share the experience of being human!

But according to Martin Sheen, who played the president, the character was drawn largely from Bill Clinton: «He's bright, astute and filled with all the negative foibles that make him very human,» Sheen once told the Radio Times.

Some of our strangest foibles still defy explanation, but it is becoming clear that behaviours and attributes that sometimes seem frivolous often go to the heart of what it means to be human

Even when you think you've considered every condition that a piece of software will encounter, the rebellious nature of reality (including the foibles of human users) will come up with something to violate your assumptions.

Kruskal says of his younger colleague, He's just an ordinary human man, you understand, and he has his foibles, no doubt, but he awes me.

Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a This hit comedy chronicles the foibles of disgruntled office workers — led by deluded boss Michael Scott — at the Dunder Mifflin paper company.

Few would begrudge Woody Allen his status as one of cinema's pre-eminent chroniclers of the follies and foibles of the human heart.

Great pains were no doubt exerted to make these entities as grotesque and nightmare - inducing as possible, yet, there is still some humor in their interaction with humans as well as their own foibles and relationships with each other.

The movie doesn't find an interesting foothold until around its halfway point, and up until then, the script covers territory well laid by countless other movies involving famous geniuses, their eccentric ways, and a person who attempts to see through all of the foibles to find the human being within.

An ensemble of characters popping in and out despite focusing more attention on the characters of Sarah and Brad, it's one of the more in - depth studies of human behavior and their foibles in a gated community.

THE NEW GIRLFRIEND (François Ozon, France, 2014, 107 minutes) Ozon's fairy tale about gender roles, gay identity, cross-dressing, love and repression is deliciously fluid, filled with tenderness toward human sexual foibles, laced with Hitchcockian edginess about the danger of coloring outside the lines.

The final moments shift between humour and shock, as the indifference of nature to the foibles of human behaviour is laid bare.