Sentences with phrase «human frailty»

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

Its most interesting moments are mired in human frailty — in sex, death, betrayal, jealousy, and intoxication.

It is an intimate exhibition and the scale of some of the smaller rooms is intended to mimic the scale of his studio... This is a living exhibition; Freud's paintings allow us to see the real people behind the paint with human frailty at its most magnified.

The Knowledge of human nature played by the authors of wisdom tradition in India, the shrewd advice they give, and the censures they pass on human frailties — often in pointed, vigourous, and epigrammatic language — attest an amount of wisdom which, it had been exhibited in practice, must have raised the Indians to a high position among the nations of the earth.

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.

For all the CGI light shows and magical whizbangery the movies have delivered over the years, the series is finally about human frailty in the face of organized darkness.

Aacid14 — you know a lot of traditional publishing is geared around some fairly nasty manipulation of natural human frailties, targeting people who are often frail and insecure, especially about their writing.

Co-starring Matt Damon, Mark Ruffalo, and Matthew Broderick, Margaret is an engrossing character study with so much insight into human frailty that it's actually quite disturbing.

It is to recognize and appreciate human frailty, including your own.

The work seeks to create an intersection of the somatic and the conceptual where human frailty isn't merely theory but a potential and immediate danger.

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

The British artist worked as a hospital orderly in Bristol as well as serving on the Salonika front, and it is his attention to details — especially those of everyday life and those of common human frailty — that makes these works as affecting today as the decade they were painted.

It confronts human frailty directly and, like Picasso, portrays the passion of human existence without the least trace of prudery.

Architecture and its ordered, ordering imperative is consistently pitted against human frailty and our irrational impulses.

Widowed young, her compulsion is to create work that explores human frailty and the resultant cycle of loss.

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

To be blunt, it's really about the exploitation of the (financially) stupid... And stupidity's an enduring human frailty to bet on, despite the frequent & pointless efforts of politicians to legislate it away.

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.

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.

Culture changes, technology advances, but intellectual errors and human frailty remain constant.

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

Yet any realistic account should recognize these problems of human frailty arising in the personal dimension of the job, rather than portray the common idealized version of the life of the scientist.

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

Then both the world and all time around them are swallowed up; through the transitory human frailty shines the eternal, before which all humanity and human accomplishments are futile.

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.

Monday's YouGov for the Standard will determine london media momentum in the run up to Thursday... Livingstone all over the media doing his Hillary tearful human frailty act... We are starting from a huge huge base in the locals, most of which take place in labour heartlands... And we always **** up bye - elections.

His passion, dedication, and human frailty really got to me.

The audience beholds Mary's breakdown mid-way through the film, but it would be tough to argue that it's not properly representative of very genuine human frailty.

They both straddle the fine line between human frailty and internal strength, often with the help of the other.

He said he hopes this leads to more movies that «examine human frailty with some comedic elements.»

When people talk about a movie being depressing, whether in a context either admiring or dismissive, they're almost always talking about and assessing the dramatic heft of a down - tempo narrative film — how a writer, director and actors worked in concert to shine a light on various human frailties, turmoils and difficulties, and in doing so impacted a viewer's mood in a manner that lingered with them long after the theater lights came up.

Meirelles endlessly tries to convey cinematically the experience of blindness and while in several of these instances this pays off there is a tipping point where I felt the director was far too concerned with embodying the sensory experience and far less concerned with studying human frailty.

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.

Essentially, we're talking about exploiting stupidity — which I think you'll agree is an abiding human frailty.

«Businesses aren't being attacked by computers, but by people attempting to exploit human frailty as much as technical vulnerability.

And that's a shame, because MOH leaves so many possibilities unexplored: the strategic improv required when intel fails to match reality on the ground; the tension between «liberator» and «occupier»; the distinctive personalities of soldiers who make mistakes, experience fear, and exhibit human frailty; the reality that non-combatants and displaced civilians are ever - present factors in Afghanistan, despite their complete absence in this game.

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.

Zeng lived next to the hospital and would recall in his early paintings, scenes of doctors and fearful patients in emergency rooms, and the proximity between humans and flesh to underscore human frailty.

issues of sexual communication, dysfunction + human frailty are imbedded in her work; themes which are explored + executed with such truthfulness + raw honesty.

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.

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.

The self - destructing work by the French - Algerian artist Kader Attia, titled «Flying Rats» and highlighting human frailty, was first exhibited at the Biennale de Lyon in 2005 and was inspired by a childhood memory.

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