Sentences with phrase «human foibles»

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.

'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.

What we had in common was the city of Chicago, a certain bookishness, an amusement at human foibles, our own included, and a set of standards and values bred by the Depression and World War II that seemed to be on their way out.»

Who's to complain, just because he often buries his unique take on human foibles underneath quirky caricatures in wigs and eyeliner or a handlebar moustache?

As congregations take the measure of carefully chosen market niches and strive to spin effective recruitment strategies, they must also claim their own cultural contexts, complete with human foibles and nuances.

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

Cohen writes that Harkness» «newer work dispenses with the assured absurdist humor of her trademark strategy and puts her in uncharted water in which human foible takes over from inhuman gesture.

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

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.

Some record human foibles, others tragedy.

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

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.

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.

While the film explores ideas of science versus religion, male versus female, intellect versus emotion, white versus black, Zobel's real interest — as he showed with brilliantly frustrating results in his previous effort, Compliance — is to examine human foibles, resilience, and self - destructive tendencies.

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

Bauman's a bit of an asshole, even before the incident, and the film is unafraid to show real human foibles at play.

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.

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.

Joel Greenblatt, I think you're on to something; a system that reduces to the minimum human foibles.

Duplicity is after all a quintessential human foible.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

In these writings, the mysterious and fearful gods were transformed into idealized persons, not without their all - too - human foibles, but just for that reason understandable and freed from dread.

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

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.

Carried on the changing tides of popular opinion, Man, despite being hampered by the human foible of revenge, is no longer the protagonist facing off against the enormous forces of nature.

McElwee remains a sympathetic observer of human foibles, especially in the case of old flames, though he stirs together fewer essayistic elements than in such earlier films as Time Indefinite (93) or even Bright Leaves (03), without quite the same success rate at taking apart and reexamining platitudes.

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

The relevance and excellence of the director's work may not be universally agreed upon, but it would be rather difficult not to notice the skill and care with which he brings witty depictions of human foibles to the big screen.

Although she did all she was capable of, she was never able to have compassion for the human foibles of Benita and Ania.

A good writer strives to make her characters complex and flawed and susceptible to all human foibles, and that's what makes them real.

Other authors have paid tribute on Twitter, with Ian Rankin tweeting: «Maeve Binchy was a gregarious, larger than life, ebullient recorder of human foibles and wonderment.»

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

Sakurai's script, impeccably translated, seizes on the all - too - human foibles and flaws of the pantheon and plays them up to fantastic effect — whether it's Viridi awkwardly admitting that she thinks the boy angel destroying her forces is «cute», or Hades making snide asides just to get a rise out of Pit — the characters are all wonderfully built and their voice actors give top - notch performances.

Fisher's sculpture»... captures the enduring truth of our human foibles, in a delightfully honest and sometimes humorous demonstration,» writes gallery director Laura Grenning.

Van Velde, who was a close friend of Samuel Beckett, was well known for uttering terse aphorisms about art - making and human foibles.