Sentences with phrase «human frailties»

While many of us did not experience that deep connection and secure attachment earlier in our lives due to caretakers who were not optimally available to us because of their own unmet needs, preoccupations and human frailties.

Resisting human frailties, on the other hand, leads to self - loathing and anxiety.»

The magistrates in the examples above expose human frailties (in the form of confusion and hearing difficulties) and, in the second example, identify a shared difficulty with the defendant.

Kitcher's studies, from what I've read of them, look into the basic practices that lead scientists to form consensus views of the world that are manifestly correct in their essentials, despite (or sometimes because of) the human frailties and failings of the scientists themselves.

* Whilst modern automatic weather stations - introduced from around 1980 - have removed many of the human frailties, and its instrumentation has the potential to be generally accurate, to this day problems arise with inappropriate siting, some examples of which can be seen in this site.

Out here, we know an awful lot about building organisations to solve problems and (as far as possible) to reduce the effect of human frailties on the results.

The most perplexing problem going forward is how modern technologies intersect with ancient human frailties and what this portends.

Now of course we understood that scientists were indeed human and subject to all human frailties but we had confidence that SCIENCE and more importantly Scientists had set up a filtering process a Scientific Ethos of sorts to limit those human flaws.

Your reason for «interest» seem to be shifting to apologizing for the human frailties of hard pressed climatologists.

It's tragic that such human frailties are allowed to determine the future of the planet.

Scientists are trained to ignore human frailties, to go logical.

Bradford's handling of her chosen subject matter deflates the heroic and grand tragic associations this subject typically conjures, suggesting instead the human frailties, struggles and joys of our everyday human existence.

Hugo Crosthwaite's newest exhibition is powerful and evocative, but more importantly, perhaps, it speaks to our human frailties, specifically, the ways in which we process...

Tam Van Tran's newest exhibition «Exodus» at Susanne Vielmetter represents a meditation on duality wherein forces in nature collide with our own human frailties.

Buttonwood says: Computers may not have the human frailties (like an aversion to taking losses)-LSB-...]

Sometimes delicate and reflective, other times smoldering with hurt and disappointment, Laux's work exposes human frailties with a keen eye.

Working with skilled doc writer Mark Monroe (The Cove / Chasing Ice), Ryan is not only able to convey the enormity of the challenge, but also the universal themes and human frailties that follow each climber.

Villainy comes in the caped form of Australian actor Ben Mendelsohn, whose seething callousness and desperate lust for power make him a truly malevolent figure (though his human frailties are exposed in one memorable encounter with a certain Imperial Lord).

Elba and Costner breathed life into their characters displaying them as smart and tough, but their human frailties and emotions were present throughout the film.

Though this is a drama first and foremost, true to form he blends in liberal doses of humour (both visual gags and subtle, character - based material), showing the very human frailties of the lead characters but never ridiculing them.

If the idea was to portray them as basically good, with human frailties, insufficient depth was given along these lines, too.

Robots are resistant to these human frailties, which is why they're perfect for scrutinizing the patch of Arkansas swamp where an ivory - billed woodpecker — a bird scientists thought had been extinct for decades — may have been spotted in 2005.

Unencumbered by human frailties, Curiosity — like the rovers Spirit and Opportunity, which survived on the Red Planet years longer than expected — will be free to hunt for E.T. «If we find evidence for life on Mars, boy, are we just gonna go wild with speculation about how common it is in the universe,» says Lou Friedman, a former scientist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena and cofounder, with Carl Sagan, of the Planetary Society.

She has an academician's love of theory, an innovator's urge to experiment and a psychologist's desire to shore up human frailties.

Alas, human frailties like emotions and disappointment at the prospect of another scramble to the fourth position must take something out of our gunners taking to the pitch.

Players are human beings and not machines... they can't perform precisely each time... the are subject to human frailties.

Too much with us sometimes, as the glare of publicity reveals more human frailties than media hype can cover up.

It abounds in «quotable quotes,» with many a sly dig at such human frailties as laziness, gossip and argumentativeness, and not a little humor.

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.

We must understand that pastors are not mystical beings that are exempt from human frailties.

But the final clincher was all the human frailties that your god has: jealous, vindictive, genocidal, oppressive, sacrificial, petty,...

However, they were each going through seasons in their lives where their human frailties were obvious.

Yet there is also something positive about this invitation to readers to appreciate the human frailties of clerical detectives.

We tend, quite properly, to relativize human frailties in terms of a social and psychological situationalism.

Since atheists and agnostics are just as prone to human frailties as the religious, I don't doubt that there * are * evil people who are athiests... but facts and numbers show that these «evil atheists» are a bunch of pikers compared to the violence and viciousness of those who promote hatred and violence in the name of their God.

Nevertheless, as speakers, we can take advantage of this human frailty.

«It is a human frailty which we all possess in some degree that becomes the investor's and speculator's greatest enemy and will eventually, if not safeguarded, bring about his downfall.

The essence of all religions is to be good and do good but sometimes people get carried away by human frailty that results in undesirable actions.

In addition to painting an engaging picture of the saint who, in all his human frailty, followed Christ's example and died a martyr to charity, De Volder systematically addresses the debates over Damien's life and spirit.

Total surrender to a God who loves us will result in our being lifted up and rescued from that nothingness simply because he loves us beyond anything we can imagine, BUT, we do have to test that fact, in our human frailty.

For Jesus, human frailty and weakness must be excised, not adjusted to.

Both in the secular world and in the church, our characteristic approach to human frailty is not chastisement and dire threats, but understanding; not calling people to repent their sins, but teaching people the gentle arts of self - acceptance; not an ethic of cross-bearing, but an ethic based on the value of self - actualization.

He opens our eyes to things that we, in our human frailty, didn't think were possible.

I can not imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own - a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty.

One day it occurred to me that that is why Jesus died for me; to cleanse me of my faults and to bear the burden of my human frailty.

At all times human frailty and sin make the ministry whose business it is to point to the highest reality and the profoundest faith a morally perilous vocation.

As the author notes in the beginning, this volume is not intended as a homily, but rather as a companion; and like a trusted companion, it does not simply conduct a one - sided soliloquy over history and texts, but behaves dynamically: telling stories, empathizing with human frailty, and anticipating questions.

This seems to be a human frailty and we atheists are not immune.

Books like Bunyan's autobiographical Grace Abounding or Augustine's Confessions are full of reversals, which indeed provide evidence of human frailty and thus bolster the narrative.

«I can not imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own — a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty.