Sentences with phrase «human foibles as»

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!

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.

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

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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.

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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.

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.

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.

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

The human - machine interface is marginally improved, especially switchgear tactility, and there are certainly none of the chassis foibles that characterised the first MP4 - 12C and, to a lesser degree, the 650S — the sensation that there was occasionally diagonal pitching and that the car wasn't quite as firmly tied down as it could be.

Meanwhile, the wry and acerbic Nathan has undertaken something he calls The Book of Human Folly, in which he proposes «to set down in the simplest, clearest language possible an account of every blunder, every pratfall, every embarrassment, every idiocy, every foible, and every inane act I had committed during my long and checkered career as a man.»

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.