Sentences with phrase «human pathos»

It is here that the full human pathos of those dark days hits home.

Students of human pathos may one day cherish the 16 - minute recording of me, with my 100 percent positive - feedback rating as an eBay purchaser, failing to make renowned physicist Steven Weinberg, who won a Nobel for unifying electromagnetism with the so - called weak force, admit that he can't explain how a magnet holds a dry - cleaning ticket to the door of a refrigerator.

But when the divine Logos was made flesh (egeneto sarx, John 1:14), he embraced the full range of human pathos and human discourse: Jesus wept, and Jesus preached.

Not exact matches

«Tomes of studies show human beings typically make decisions based on emotions first (Pathos); then, we look for the facts and figures to justify it (Logos).

This is because the sufferer in and through his or her pain - pathos knows that God participates in human pain.

In so far as Marx is seeking to bring the idea of «real distress» (as understood by religion) into relation with their human condition of distress (as understood by human beings) so as to transform the human condition, his critique of religion reveals an existential pathos», and it is religiously edifying.

From another angle, you could see pathos in him, heroism in his struggle, in his willingness to risk...» That project, of exploring the spirit and limits of being human, is, of course, a deeply characteristic quality of Western literature and philosophy, from St. Augustine to Thomas Merton, from Meister Eckhart to William James and Albert Camus.

Max Lemer has described love as «whatever breaks and bridges the terrible pathos of separateness of human beings from each other.»

From that incident, Havel crafts a reflection on the human condition and the pathos and empathy of soul with soul.

But above all we find meaning speaking to us in the pathos of our human loving — and I have said pathos because I intend here combined joy and sadness, the awareness of another with whom we would unite our lives yet the equal awareness that the other, even when he also would unite his life with ours, remains «the other» whom we must reverence for himself.

Liturgy, after all, celebrates the heart of human life, and even the young quickly learn that this heart is a strange mixture of suffering and struggle, accomplishment and joy, bondage and liberation, beauty and pathos, meaning and emptiness.

The primitive human being that looks at us through the display expresses a wordless pathos, a victimized and yet mighty force in the human experience.

A rather insultingly negligent dismissal of the one character with any real human emotional pathos — a film - saving Jennifer Lawrence (Winter's Bone)-- only adds to the infuriating nature of the film.

These days, every Arnold Schwarzenegger performance is a battle between the present and the past: To watch the Austrian muscleman play his advancing years for comedy (the Expendables series) or pathos (the recent Maggie) is to see a once - herculean action star acknowledge that he's not the perfect human specimen he...

Ines» struggle with the functions of being a corporate human is potent pathos, resulting in a breakdown that then offers up what is the film's greatest executed sequence, one involving a lot of non-sexual nudity and a folkloric Bulgarian character.

Underneath the digital fur and digital roars, Dan Stevens as the Beast, the transformed prince working on a rose - petaled deadline to become human again, locates some moments of pathos that stick.

WHY: Writer / director Mike Birbiglia excels at telling human stories that combine humor and pathos with an unfiltered authenticity you don't normally see in mainstream comedies.

I have always loved the short - story genre because good writers like Alice Munro, Raymond Carver, and William Trevor illustrate the complexities, contradictions, and pathos of human relationships with poignant dialogue.

«If you think, why did God create the world, how does he love the world, what in the world, if you imagine him through the lens of Christ, what in the world breaks his heart, it seems to me it's the irreducible beauty and pathos of human beings and their capacity for love and their capacity for loyalty and all the rest that is simply beautiful, even though in many forms it is in error, it is possibly destructive, and so on....

The result is a video game that has you exploring the PATHOS - II base as you question exactly what has happened in the time you've been in a coma and why are all of the facility's robots speaking as if they think they're human?

The human condition in all its pathos, misery and beauty — youth and maturity, love, loss and lust, intimacy, shame, guilt, grief, crisis and death — is the driving force of her art, which is tantamount to a visible manifestation of different existential states.

«Despite this, many of them radiate a very human, personal quality, and they have a pathos or an energy that transcends the technical or automatic character of the medium.

Fashioned from bronze, fibreglass, aluminium and wood, his bulbous animal - human hybrids might be uncannily reminiscent of jovial cartoon personalities, but they tend to stand alone in poses of slightly disorientating pathos.

Similarly as Paul Thek (1933 - 1988), David Wojnarowicz (1954 - 1992) and Félix González - Torres (1957 - 1996), Blanchon sought relevance beyond the poetics of queer culture, and the vulnerability, pathos, and humor of his oeuvre will resonate with anyone who has felt the fragility of being human.

He is best known for his laughter - inducing works that consider the dichotomies of humor and pathos within the human condition.

His scenes depict the drama and pathos inherent in human struggles.

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

Yet his is not emptiness refined into chic minimalism, but instead a sparseness that commands the space and speaks with dystopian pathos about the human condition in our present moment.

In Foreclosed, Alison Elizabeth Taylor turns to architecture and interior space to reveal the pathos of lives dispossessed by the recent economic disaster and to explore the human impact of the short - sighted policies and greed that triggered millions of foreclosures.

Kelley works with apparently discarded household items to examine the feelings of pathos and nostalgia and the psychological links between humans and their possessions.

Humour, sadness, elation, depression; pathos, ebullience, turbulence; love, hate, attraction, revulsion; pointing, pushing, pulling, cavorting; turning, tossing, tumbling, twisting; rock and roll, victory and defeat; all the elements, in fact, of intense human interaction and drama that were once the province of figurative art, particularly figurative painting — where they formed the pretext upon which was built a profound diversity of imaginative visual constructs — are seemingly no longer at the behest of figurative art, which languishes in states of mock - academia or faux - avant - gardism, by turns bathetic, mundane or grotesque... all that human content is now, surprisingly but necessarily, the prerogative of the abstract artist.

Sometimes troubling as well as engaging and entertaining these new works are representative of Oursler's fascination with the human psyche and pathos.