Sentences with phrase «human folly in»

As Sidney Offit concludes, «Few writers in the history of literature have achieved such a fusion of the human comedy with the tragedies of human folly in their fiction.»

Indeed, the rehabilitation of our water bodies can not happen with a denial of science that portrays the toll of global warming on our oceans due to excessive carbon dioxide emissions and human folly in overexploitation, unregulated and destructive fishing, marine pollution and habitat destruction.

Not exact matches

Given these historical errors and oversights in both our biblical interpretation and our artistic engagement, we must support efforts to study and present a true, uncompromising picture of both the glory of God's creation and the depths of human folly.

Therefore much mystery to be had and it being folly to think of one perspective in human rational terms as being superior to the other.

We, the privileged of earth, have appropriated and exploited the earth and all that is in it, the world and those who dwell therein; we have founded our folly now even upon the seas; and we have established the ineradicable marks of our vandalism over the virginal, variegated, speechless faces of the earth and, by the billion, on the innocent and until now largely submissive faces of the human family.

And we remain on the earth, unchanged: human folly and tragedy remain what they have always been — but with the gnawing of love, the leaven concealed in the dough (but it has not yet risen), the seed hidden in the ground (but it has not sprung up), and the salt put in the soup (but it has not dissolved).

We have become aware of ecological damage and the disintegration caused in an obvious manner by human folly, human greed, and human heedlessness.

Surely, God is displeased by man's sinfulness, weeps over human folly and cruelty, and suffers with mankind in its manifold agonies.

In modern forms it grants that through human sin and folly life may indeed end on this planet — a possibility that has become the more acute through the unleashing of nuclear energy and the advance of ecological destruction.

She continues to act in various ways, but always wisely and well, making creative use of human folly and wickedness in ways that bring good out of evil.

That the narrowness of the «lower experience» has been often considered the meaning of happiness by common sense while security and order in life are extolled as virtue is itself a tragic testimony to the folly of human timidity, as analyzed below.

As time goes buy the kind defenders of free will over their rejection to «dead» here and colossians 2:13 tend to resort to a familiar defense, that of labeling it a Calvinist viewpoint and that its almost a cultist view point to hold.Very sad yet very much the defense of many christians.Dead may i suggest is dead, the inability to respond, does not mean that prior to being saved one could not read scripture but because of this spiritual deadness its not profitabel / meaningful - we just can not continue to revise the meaning of dead to fit a view point - because natural man has not been born again this deadness (spiritually) shows itself as «none seek after God», in this condition they are» slaves to sin» and the spiritual things of God (the bible) is «folly / foolishness» even the gospel is judged by natural man as «folly / foolishness «(1 cor.1: 18) Please stop with this weak / common defense called Calvinism - many believers are truly turned off by such a defense.We must not forget the man's «free will» is what took the whole human race down in the garden; i would hope we can rise above our love affair with the human will.

(d) Nevertheless, nature is not to be evaluated simply in terms of human needs and interests; to think that it is, is simply a mark of folly.

Rowling deals with human sin in a realistic and very modern fashion: even figures of great authority commit sins and must learn wisdom in the wake of youthful folly.

There are frequent references in Moral Sentiments to a «divine Being», «the great Director of the universe», «the all-wise Author of Nature» to obey whose will is considered as the first rule of duty of human beings; even their vices and follies fitted into the grand design of the Author of Nature whose hand always brought about a cosmic harmony.

I personally find myself caught in this crisis, facing it honestly and knowing that God is faithful and will not abandon us even when human folly becomes frenetic.

The NDC can not afford the cost of any human folly that has the potential of keeping the Party in perpetual opposition.

That said, There Will Be Blood is riveting, and rollicking - a delirious exploration of human folly, of zealotry for fossil fuels and zealotry in the name of a god.

While everyone is caught up in passionately loving someone who loves somebody else, a story unfolds about art, fame, parents, children and human folly.

The Swedish director of Force Majeure and The Square, starring Elisabeth Moss and Dominic West, on the folly of screen violence and finding drama in the oddities of human behaviour

Holed up in a highly secured farmhouse, he watches constant news feeds of natural destruction, man - made disasters and human follies.

He is still awed by «icebergs, whales, the sea and ships, circumpolar currents, geologic time, the origins and evolutionary histories of life forms, the quirks of birds, birders and explorers, antifreeze in fish blood, the blue in ice, human folly, the ozone hole...

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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.»

Secrets, Stories and Scandals of Ten Welsh Follies contains the stories behind ten weird and wonderful Welsh buildings.If you enjoy unusual tales, quirky human history and delight in the ridiculous and the vain you will enjoy this book.

The tendency of humans to avoid the obvious in their financial follies is well documented.

And so, those of us who believe in the human - animal bond, who see the folly of our ways - we humans who think we rule the world!

Wagnerians have several chances to see this 16 - hour tale of feats and follies both human and divine in Otto Schenk's masterly staging of the Ring Cycle.

The backstory elements like a huge disaster caused by human folly or two factions marooned in space by the Kessler Syndrome are there to create tension and justify the player being and fighting in near - Earth space.

With the nine oil paintings and three works on paper that comprise the exhibition, Miller continues to explore the narrative potential of the animal world by revisiting many of the themes that she has surveyed in her work for the past thirty years, including the relationship between predator and prey, the effect of changing habitats upon both flora and fauna, the folly of our human sense of control over nature, and the passage of time.

Hares, cats and owls laugh at our follies: in Harrison's imagined world, animals «take on human qualities to mock our existence, whilst we destroy our own habitat, regardless.

Taking his title from Goya's monumental series of etchings filled with images of human folly, vice and absurdity, Restrepo's Los Caprichos cover much the same territory in contemporary terms.

Birds perch amongst the scenes as if to expose the folly of humans (typically men), as in Five Men and a Parrot (1997) and Young Man Standing on the Fountain (1988).

It actually does require some kind of a model - not necessarily a computer model, but a model nonetheless - to jump from «X is unprecedented in Y years and due to recent human activity» to «this is folly».

Signs of status in fashion have always evolved; it's about time that wearing dead animals for the sake of glamour was relegated to the history books under the vast «human folly» section.

Stuck in their place without voice or arms, they are helplessly subjected to human folly — the poor things.

Evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers has some interesting ideas about this in his book «Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self - Deception in Human Life».