Sentences with phrase «human frailties like»

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.

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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.
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.
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.
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.
It will, like Gen. MacArthur, return, because being humans subject to the frailties and vagaries of the body, we will always be concerned with health.
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.
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.
Buttonwood says: Computers may not have the human frailties (like an aversion to taking losses)-LSB-...]
They're massive, physical beings, but there's a frailty and delicacy of the legs — much like the human soul.»
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.
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