Sentences with phrase «human toil»

The Sunday Review section contains a portfolio of extraordinary images by Sebastião Salgado, a photojournalist whose camera has for 40 years focused on human suffering and its sources [and human toil].

But then I have worked for oil cos, and appreciate the human toil that goes into filling Snookie's tank.

Already common in security systems and tollbooths, radio - frequency identification tags and readers stand poised to take over many processes now accomplished by human toil

The means by which we produce such abundance are good: Who would argue against making human toil easier by means of machines?

Not exact matches

Everything in human life is subject to change, to qualification, to loss: «What profit have we from all the toil which we toil at under the sun?»

Lift up your head, Jerusalem, and see the immense multitude of those who build and those who seek; see all those who toil in laboratories, in studios, in factories, in the deserts and in the vast crucible of human society.

And then, by an act which will summarise the toil of centuries, by this act (finally and for the first time completely human) justice will ensue and all things be renewed.

The road led Adam and Eve from a fairy tale existence into the world of real life, where they had to toil hard just to exist, watch one of their sons murder his brother, and experience the terrible pain of what it means to be human.

The problem with Skimpolism is that it ignores, and refuses to acknowledge, the sources and causes of its own good fortune: the enormous human enterprise of toil, commerce, and distribution, the attendant fatigue, risk, worry, and vexation, the requisite virtues of foresight, prudence, honesty, and diligence — all of which are necessary for something as ordinary as a peach or a glove to end up in Skimpole's dining room.

They are strands that derive especially from family, civic, and religious bonds, and they are fundamental to a Christian understanding of the human person: marriage, generation, honest toil, and the service of eternity in humble self - offering.

(1) There is the (partial) estrangement of humankind from the world (or nature), evidenced by (a) enmity between serpent and woman; (b) partial alienation of man from the earth, upon which he must now toil for his food; and (c) pain of childbirth, implying conflict even within the (female) human body.

Sabbath keeping bears a longing that all human beings will have good work, as well as a longing that no one will be required to toil without respite.

Hale also argued that language should be seen as «the product of human intellectual toil» rather than something that evolves unaided.

Most focused on mechanizing processes that previously required backbreaking toil or the fine work of human hands.

He gives this mousy little clerk the hapless expression and submissive body language of the resigned patsy in a bleak human comedy, happy to toiling in the backrooms of city hall until he's hauled out to record an official meeting.

But the more our daily toil and struggle in the sloughs of ordinary human existence and human suffering increased, and the more our journey within in the fearful paradoxicality of everyday life contrasted with the neat and seemless principles of neoliberal logic of privatization, the more rational Marxism sounded to me.

But when he shared the similarities between Van Gogh and Still when it came to portraying the toil of human workers he had moved me from skeptic to believer.

Looking at the roots of human existence, and the fruits of our toil with the land, Jackie Nickerson captured agrarian laborers in Malawi, Kenya, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe — where 70 percent of the population on the African continent works in agriculture.

Their work depicts the human experience of toil and triumph through paintings that can be described all at once as lame, beautiful, emotional and thoughtful.

It is about listening and talking, about toil and play, but above all these texts also reflect the uncertainty of human existence as played out in language or within power relations.

That seems to be our human nature and why so few of us remain as farmers: optomistic about the future; going about the present as if our toil really does matter.

But I guess when you are married to George Clooney, attended Oxford, clerked for a Supreme Court Justice, and fight for human rights on an international level, you can't help but turn your nose at those of us who toil in traffic court.