Sentences with phrase «human indignity»

A Salt Lake City native, once a student at the San Francisco Art Institute, McCarthy has made his name with performances - and their residue of destroyed sets and soiled costumes and props - that make burlesque of perversions he sees underlying everyday society, and of human indignity generally.

Often lured by middlemen (or drugged, beaten, and otherwise coerced), donors end up with a few hundred to a few thousand dollars and a scar at the waist that has become an emblem of exploitation and human indignity.

This piece of human indignity uses news - media will mouth unchristian hate that slash the political and moral fabric of our society only to get some media attention and keep his creepy - preach business profitable.

If death is the ultimate loss of control, and if that is the ultimate human indignity inconsistent with life as autonomous self - possession, then there is no reason to ban or even disapprove of suicide for any mortal, rational, human being.

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His appeal to the dignity of humanity, the toleration of differing ideas, and emotivism finds a needed alternative in James Rogers» response from a Christianity that observes how sin perpetuates «the indignity of the human person.»

This indignity, which has been termed gnosticism, has expressed itself in human history in two major campaigns against the human body.

On assumption into office in January 2009, Barrack Obama vowed to close down Guamtanamo as an indignity and an affront to the human rights beliefs and principles of the United States

And while Hannah's traumas are authentically dramatized, she's forced to endure so many indignities that, in total, she occasionally comes across as a symbolic vessel for an important message, rather than a flesh - and - blood human being.

Morgan Freeman's mollycoddled and on meds, suffering the indignity of being infantlised by an idiot son, Kevin Kline's got a great wife but a boring life and is subsequently sexually dysfunctional and depressed, Robert De Niro's a widower whose only human contact is a soup making neighbour, while Michael Douglas, in a set up that must have presented the actor with the greatest challenge of his career, plays a rich old pervert who's eschewed commitment most of his adult life but is now about to settle for a woman less than half his age.

There's no interest in shielding the viewer from the many indignities and outrages of America's greatest disgrace, from the monstrous — that unforgettable flogging sequence, which made me feel physically sick, something that I'm probably not alone in — to the, well, more quietly monstrous — Benedict Cumberbatch «s character, who's as kind to Solomon as he could be, given that he doesn't consider him to be a human being.

Such is the nearly undeniable power of Amour, in which Haneke trains his merciless rigor — leavened, for perhaps the first time ever, with deeply felt tenderness and compassion — on the most universally heartbreaking aspect of the human condition: old age and its myriad indignities.

Despite the enormous progress towards achieving this ambitious project, the indignity of poverty still violates human rights of a lot of people on a daily basis.

Fransella's character goes through a series of indignities inflicted on him by some extremely active humans cavorting around in the nude.

These more contemplative sequences — accompanied by a free - floating voiceover and new musical score — are punctuated by explosively violent chunks of internet footage, at once comical and wince - inducing, featuring bone - crunching indignities visited on the human body.

It will certainly subject human beings to greater indignities and inflict greater damage on the natural world, it will probably lead to greater social disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased physical suffering — even in «advanced» countries.

and are always better than your Equals we are all human we all make mistakes we all do what we can to gain power over others some more subtly but with you.you seem to like to outstate you indignity about us we have opinion and the freedom of speech allows us to do that but we have to accept the aftermath of what we say.

Keywords: Criminal Law, First Degree Murder, Indignity to a Human Body, Criminal Code, s 684 (1), Appointment of Counsel