Sentences with phrase «human tragedy like»

Like the best scenes in Wes Craven's Last House on the Left or all of Tobe Hooper's original The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Manson Family places horror in our face in a way a glib depiction of human tragedy like Pearl Harbor does not.

I think it is time to put aside fairy tales when dealing with real human tragedies like this.

The logic goes that if companies are putting the proper processes in place across their businesses and supply chains and responding to minor infringements as they happen, then shocking human tragedies like Rana Plaza should be avoided.

Not exact matches

But, you can't have it both ways, attributing all things bad to «darkness» or «human nature» but crediting some hokey sky - fairy with the «good,» like heroic acts floowing a tragedy.

Like many great thinkers, he grappled with the absurdity and tragedy that are a part of the human situation.

Humans rising up to comfort one another in the wake of a tragedy is a beautiful thing and I view it as slightly insulting to have someone label it with a ridiculous label like «god».

not really making the news, the atmosphere on last wednesday was really strange, silent, step by step to normal football, but you can't throw away your thoughts immediately, I just got a glimpse of Enkes personality during a film of him shown before the match, I can't realize how hard it must be for his wife to lose him, tomorrow the players of Germans first Bundesliga will wear a black ribbon again, but I think it won't affect the atmosphere like it has with the national team despite of Hannover of course, people will be enthousiastic again, but there is the idea of an «Enke donation» which I like, will keep his name alive, will take some positive emotions on this tragedy and a kind of appeal for everyone to reflect the important things of life and control your own behaviour, I hope so at least, and I hope his wife will cope with that situation, and again: it was really hard for the German nationl team to play under these circumstances, to lose someone close in this way is hard to deal with, on the other hand it causes a close solidarity feeling I think, but of course the world will not change, things are returning to the old soon, but nonetheless for me this tragedy is a kind of human wake - up call, at least a call and then you continue

The tragedy of all this is that Hilary Clinton, for all her mistakes... understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country might have been, if we could have kept it out of the hands of greedy little hustlers like Rump.

He also says it looks like IS is playing a bigger part in Syria, where the situation is «extremely dangerous» and a «human tragedy».

Complex Tears: Why Humans Like to Cry: Tragedy, Evolution, and the Brain by Michael Trimble Oxford University Press, 2012 ($ 29.95)

In Why Humans Like to Cry, Michael Trimble argues that tears of sadness provide a type of joy, that may have co-evolved with tragedy

A lurid enigma, erotic noir as tragedy, Bastards is a film that burrows into genre like a parasite, while probing the darkest alcoves of the human heart.

After tragedy strikes, he soon winds up on an epic journey, a vision quest without the fire, accompanied by a human boy he calls Spot (Jack Bright) who scurries around on all fours and howls like a wolf.

Parents shouldn't have to bury their children... but it's when tragedies like the one the Snyder family faced last March do we realize the extent of what it means to humans more -LSB-...]

Their insistence on «denying the deniers the right to deny» uses fear mongering like the Golden Toad's extinction and every human tragedy to promote an intellectual tyranny.

Nowadays, in the aftermath of every weather - related disaster, proponents of restricting fossil fuel use in the name of halting climate change are quick to place the blame for the tragedy on human - caused climate change (i.e., industrialized nations like the U.S.).

In The Checklist Manifesto, Atul Gawande explains that complicated processes like surgery, where human error can lead to tragedy, require checklists.