Sentences with phrase «human passions»

With heartfelt kindness and down - to - earth usefulness, this book shows how to bring together lofty spiritual wisdom and juicy human passions.

For instance, the Derby, while one of the oldest consecutively running sports events in history, is a relatively recent incarnation of the enduring human passion for riding fast horses in competition.

«We have no government armed in power capable of contending in human passions unbridled by morality and religion... Our Consti - tution was made only for a moral and religious people.

To me there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form — and the local human passions and conditions and standards — are depicted as native to other worlds or other universes.

Still, though, such a person might be suspected of being almost asexual, lacking a central human passion or power.

Since the Pharisees were the only «sinners» who really seemed to piss Jesus off, I would speculate that reaction may be a normal human passion under such circumstances.

«Chasing Ice»: Science, spectacle and human passion mix in this stunningly cinematic portrait as National Geographic photographer James Balog captures time - lapse photography of glaciers over several years, providing tangible visual evidence of climate change.

Dark Souls makes you lose a lot, and the joy of winning from thereon is sheer brutal human passion.

For Rodin, at the dawn of modern art, their sins become heroic as human passion throbs with pathos.

As many midcentury artists abandoned figurative work, they embraced the long artistic tradition of looking to primitive myths and archaic art for inspiration, using mythology as both a reference to and an expression of primal human passion.

«Surfrider Foundation emerged from a simple human passion for what makes our ocean environments simultaneously, mighty and fragile,» said Laura Michalchyshyn, GM of Planet Green.

All that is needed is some talent, a certain dose of falsehood, and a little acquaintance with human passions.

Catholicism stresses the «like» of any comparison (human passion is like divine passion), while Protestantism, when it is willing to use metaphors (and it must if it is to talk about God at all), stresses the unlike.»

A still young American republic strained outward in what seemed a limitless possibility of expansion driven by almost every human passion imaginable - ambition, greed, patriotism, desperation, curiosity, and a simple desire to better one's lot.

At the fancy wedding, Paul, the young pastor, apparently found the words he needed to express his human passion and he did so in a way which frightened those who keep desire at arm's length.

I don't blame God for the follies of man, how could I (there is no God to blame, although it would be easier if we had something other than human passions to blame for human misery).

They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.

Moverman has previously described the material as an «extraordinarily provocative, conscience - bending ride that takes on culturally relevant issues and turns them into an intricate menu of human passions and primal fears.»

It was in Kabuki that Shinoda «found that violence is at the root of all human passion, the fundamental enthusiasm of the human being.»

A straight - ahead story of human passion — desire, conviction, and the guilt of a survivor — struggling for order within the frayed justice of the Middle East conflict.

Full of human passion and the spellbinding truth of history, The Last Full Measure is the fitting capstone to a magnificent literary trilogy.

Rejecting the cinematic conventions of personality - driven characters and narrative - driven time, Kiss forces a cold, anthropological contemplation of this classic expression of human passion, questioning what it means truly to make contact.

Eight years ago I founded Integrated Wilderness Systems as a platform for research around the intersections of Science, Art, and Human Passion

Video artist Bill Viola spent two years in the late»90s participating in a Getty Research Institute project on representations of human passions.

Her latest research focus on how subjectivity and the human passion exist within this merge.

A powerful white beast serves in each case as the focus for human passions and obsessions, but Pollock's readiness to change the name of the painting indicates that he intended his titles to be loosely evocative and not descriptive.