Sentences with phrase «human frailties as»

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

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.

Second, that much human frailty as well as human genius went into its making, with some of the most skilled writers of all time, yet men like ourselves, among its creators.

Even if your super-generalized and haughty accusation was true, the point would be moot because the vast majority of «newbie Realtors» (as you've acknowledged, frequently) fail, but you are attempting to characterize a human frailty as an industry flaw — when there isn't even any empirical evidence that refutes the benefit of a:» commissioned sales culture!

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

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 questionAs 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 questionas 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 questionas 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.

At best it has been regarded as a reluctant concession to human sin and frailty, a painful reminder of our failure to fulfill the exalted standards which God holds for marriage.

How long can a society remain free when the lives of entire classes of human beings are, because of age or frailty, deemed by law to be Lebensunwertes Leben, just as they once were so deemed because of race or creed?

Some see Jesus as a very good man who preached love but had no supernatural origin, or as a man who understood human frailty and psychology and hence was able to free others of psychosomatic blindness, etc..

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

Love, grief, and the frailty of the human condition are all brought to the fore as Gemma Will and Paul are caught up in a descent into violence, both psychological and ultimately physical.

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

A Bigger Splash may appear to some as shallow, vulgar, slow or vapid, all descriptions I have heard, but a closer examination and a willingness to look beyond the surface rewards with an intriguing examination of human beings and life, reflecting our frailties, regrets, joys and triumphs.

As Enid, Birch gives a performance of fearless, peerless candour; despite her unflagging bitterness towards anything phoney (which makes Enid, like Holden Caulfield before her, a bit of a phoney herself), Birch shows the character compassion, charging every angry barb with human frailty.

Effectively remaking his earlier 1940s - set romp The Rocketeer, Joe Johnston directs Captain America not as a brooding exploration of human frailty, as today's superhero movies tend to be, but as a ripping yarn, one which has its share of funny lines, but without any irony to undermine the Boy's Own heroics.

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.

Wes Anderson «s «Moonrise Kingdom» seems like an odd choice to open the 65th Cannes Film Festival, with its deadpan Americanism, retro - set timeline and movie - star cast; at the same time, Anderson is clearly influenced by the New Wave, both cinematically and personally, he's a distinctive authorial voice as a director (which is the essence of auteur theory) and while his films are defined by near - silent moments of comedy and human frailty, there's also something mournful and wounded about them.

German director Maren Ade reveals herself as someone with profound insight into the arcane specifics of human frailty, and what she's doing here is far too complex to be encapsulated with a lone descriptor.

James Caan appears late in the game as a President incapable of pronouncing «nuclear,» but the thrust of the picture is documenting human frailty and celebrating the value of grace when the easy road is paved with rancour and snark.

This is accentuated by the different heights of the pillars, as though they represent different stages in life and — by way of their imperfect stacking and fissured forms — evoking human frailty.

She homes in on the dancer's performance anxiety but also captures the audience as they react to the human frailty on display before them.

We bemoan the inherent frailties of the human body even as we attempt to look beyond them.

«My work deals with the amalgam of race, power, gendering, ambition, human frailty, murky politics, and the other complex combinations that we so often treat as separate entities.»

Drawing inspiration from the symbolic status of society's others — such as prisoners, orphans and the disabled — Peggy Wauters employs a personal interpretation of codes and conventions that signify human frailty and folly.

Works like I'm Having A Nervous Breakdown, are the strongest in the show where the artist uses animals as a kind of stand - in, a foil as it were for human frailty and suffering.

Her knowing optimism and acceptance of human frailty infused that exhibition, as it had so many earlier projects and ones left unfinished at her death.

«His art... is about the human condition, which is why the images or scenes depicted are not specific to China, nor especially to the era... and individual experience in this rapidly modernising society acts as a backdrop to Jia Aili's awareness of human frailty, vulnerability, and the need to be mindful of one's surroundings.»

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.

Americans are vulnerable to forced career and job changes — this is the nature of our economy and our physical and mental frailty as human beings.