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In this novel Atwood does not abandon biblical history to those who have muted female testimony; instead, she imaginatively writes this testimony back into cultural contexts that would destroy it utterly and that fail to do so, even as she reveals the violence in any amputations of human stories and the historical vulnerability of all speech and silence.

And how can the predatory abuse of human power in prisons against the most vulnerable in their midst be turned so as to allow willed spiritual vulnerability to be empowered by grace?

Sidney Hook captures this sense of the vulnerability of the human condition when he defines pragmatism as «the theory and practice of enlarging human freedom in a precarious and tragic world by the arts of intelligent social control it may not be [a] lost [cause] if we can summon the courage and intelligence to support our faith in freedom...» (CAP 193).

As Reynolds writes, «Neediness, vulnerability, or lack of ability is not a flaw detracting from an otherwise pure and complete human nature.

As such, it has all the power of a human drama, where the weakness and vulnerability of Christ do not compromise his divinity, but serve rather to accentuate the staggering generosity of his self - sacrifice.

I have been fortunate to bear witness to extraordinary moments of strength, vulnerability, and resilience and each women with whom I work helps enrich my philosophy as a doula and expand my knowledge around healing, medicine, and human connection.

Growing human vulnerability (due to growing numbers of people living in exposed and marginal areas or due to the development of more high - value property in high - risk zones) is increasing the risk, while human endeavours (such as by local governments) try to mitigate possible effects.

Our data here, combined with over a dozen physiological and behavioral human studies that begin to point to the prenatal period as a BPA window of vulnerability, suggest that pregnant mothers limit exposure to plastics and receipts.

What human intrigue there is finds itself secured by consistently inspired performances, the highlights of which include the dashing, then - up - and - coming Jude Law as Lord Alfred «Bosie» Douglas, - a man who must choose between embracing his lover and escaping the tragic fate of this lover - and, of course, leading man Stephen Fry, whose capturing of Oscar Wilde's classic charisma, broken by a profound vulnerability which Fry captures through striking dramatic layers, molds a leading man more consistently engrossing than the film itself.

It's difficult to imagine a better Tony Blair than Sheen, who actually manages to give the man a vulnerability and humor that makes him more human, as he matures from uncertain political player to assured, savvy tactician in the matter of one short week.

As with Skyfall, much of Spectre is given over to character moments — it's important to director Sam Mendes that Bond be shown as human, and shown to have vulnerabilities as well as strengthAs with Skyfall, much of Spectre is given over to character moments — it's important to director Sam Mendes that Bond be shown as human, and shown to have vulnerabilities as well as strengthas human, and shown to have vulnerabilities as well as strengthas well as strengthas strengths.

An actor who wears her vulnerability in her every expression, she gives great depth to this character on the precipice of adulthood, learning, as she must, that to prosper in her world you need to rid yourself of human emotions and replace them with acceptably false facsimiles.

The LDCF plays a key role in addressing urgent and immediate adaptation needs of least developed countries, focusing on reducing the vulnerability of sectors and resources that are central to human and national development, such as water, agriculture and food security; and infrastructure, as identified and prioritized in their National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs).

In her best - selling story collection, Birds of America («[it] will stand by itself as one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love and vulnerability» — James McManus, front page of The New York Times Book Review), Lorrie Moore wrote about the disconnect between men and women, about the precariousness of women on the edge, and about loneliness and loss.

Inside, readers will discover first - hand insights from experts who share their successes as well as their failures in their attempts to identify and measure human vulnerabilities across the life course.

Instead, her strange forms, which depict things such as spiders, architectural forms such as houses and cages, and the human body, explored themes of loneliness, conflict, frustration, vulnerability, sexual desire, and love.

As a revisionist study of post-World War II art, the exhibition offers a rejoinder to the modernist orthodoxies of the mid-to-late 20th century by contending that paint's material properties make it well suited to convey metaphors of human vulnerability.

In both videos, as speakers engage with technical processes and bureaucratic systems, human vulnerability is gently drawn out, suffusing the works with an atmosphere of existential comedy, wrought from a present governed by opaque systems of control.

Themes include the use of language as material, the vulnerability of the human body, and the ability of artworks to shape - shift.

The traps are harnessed within themselves as objects, until human intervention turns them into questions for the audience about their own vulnerability and fragility.

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.

«His art... is about the human condition, which is why the images or scenes depicted are not specific to China, nor especially to the era... and individual experience in this rapidly modernising society acts as a backdrop to Jia Aili's awareness of human frailty, vulnerability, and the need to be mindful of one's surroundings.»

«Dating from the 1970s to the present, the works on view focus on the use of language as a material in art, the vulnerability of the human body, and the ability of artworks to shape - shift, taking on the character of architecture, décor, or found objects,» according to the press release.

These depictions of solitude give way in the 1980s to figures barely recognizable as human, but whose raw vulnerability is instantly legible as Lassnig's.

Concerned with what she calls «poetics of vulnerability» throughout her career, Siopis's recent works pioneered glue and ink medium; they reflect on how accentuating painting process as human openness to non-human material, can be a model to think through larger power relations.

Works on view by Asante — once described by Maya Angelou as «visualizing the truth about the vulnerability and power of the human being» — serve as contemplations on African American experience, visualized in color monotypes that appropriate vintage photographs.

Using everyday objects, such as iron wire, rocks, newspapers, she puts together fragile assemblages, mirroring the vulnerability of human action onto objects.

Nowadays many creators have been seduced into the space of otherness and the abject, as a banner we can lift the embodiments of delusion of Goya in his Black Paintings and The Disasters of War, or visit the work of David Cronenberg in The Fly, Tod Browings with Freaks, the otherness worked by Lynch, Bacon's deformed faces, the sexual exaltation in Picasso and Kubin, Barney's beautiful Chimeras, the twisted bodies of John Currin, or the «Frankensteinian» exercises of Cindy Sherman, they like many other artists, have used this place as a sign of vulnerability of the predatory condition, of the primary lethal and self - destructive impulses of human beings.

This volume provides an overview of the artist's work of the last 10 years, with commentary on Taylor - Wood's exploration of such themes as the inner psyche, vulnerability — both emotional and physical — suspended states of being and the aspiration to transcend human limits.

Using self - imposed limitations and systems, he exposes the body's vulnerability, as well as the human potential for violence and our need to communicate.

Lindsay Hall's interdisciplinary practice sources an eclectic range of materials including silicone, textiles, clay, spray paint, and glitter to create colorfully titillating pieces that engage the notions of pleasure, beauty, and the perverse as they relate to the body, sexuality, and the intimacies and vulnerabilities of human interaction.

As I explained earlier this week, questions related to any impact of human - driven global warming on tornadoes, while important, have almost no bearing on the challenge of reducing human vulnerability to these killer storms.

Before interpreting the upward trend in the occurrence of weather - related disasters as «completely unprecedented» and «due to global warming», one has to take into account the complexities of disaster occurrence, human vulnerabilities and statistical reporting and registering.

Impacts from recent climate - related extremes, such as heat waves, droughts, floods, cyclones, and wildfires, reveal significant vulnerability and exposure of some ecosystems and many human systems to current climate variability (very high confidence).

This is what counts as progress in the two - decadelong slow slog toward finding a common (but differentiated) worldwide path toward limiting emissions of greenhouse gases and limiting vulnerability to the impacts of human - driven climate change.

The inclusion of climate variability and change in understanding human vulnerability and adaptation is being increasingly explored at household and community levels, as well as though regional agro-climatological studies in Africa (e.g., Verhagen et al., 2001).

Attainment of the Millennium Development Goals, particularly the first goal of eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, in the face of climate change will therefore require science that specifically considers food insecurity as an integral element of human vulnerability within the context of complex social, economic, political and biophysical systems, and that is able to offer usable findings for decision - makers at all scales.

One of the problems with the EPA's Endangerment TSD is the nearly complete disregard of observed trends in a wide array of measures which by and large show that despite decades of increasing anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions the U.S. population does not seem to have been adversely affected by any vulnerabilities, risks, and impacts that may have arisen (to the extent that any at all have actually occurred as the result of any human - induced climate changes).

... incomplete and misleading because it 1) omits any mention of several of the most important aspects of the potential relationships between hurricanes and global warming, including rainfall, sea level, and storm surge; 2) leaves the impression that there is no significant connection between recent climate change caused by human activities and hurricane characteristics and impacts; and 3) does not take full account of the significance of recently identified trends and variations in tropical storms in causing impacts as compared to increasing societal vulnerability.

A better understanding of ocean climate and ecosystems, as well as human impacts and vulnerabilities, requires the coordination of a continuous and long - term system of ocean observations.

In some cases, special consideration will be given to the cross-regional group of Least Developed Countries (LDCs), as defined by the United Nations, which includes 33 countries in SSA, 5 in SAS, 8 in PAS, and one each in LAM and MNA, and which are characterized by low incomes, low human assets, and high economic vulnerability.

Impacts from recent climate - related extremes, such as heat waves, droughts, floods, cyclones, and wildfires, reveal significant vulnerability and exposure of some ecosystems and many human systems to current climate variability (very high confidence)-LSB-...] Risks are amplified for those lacking essential infrastructure and services or living in poor - quality housing and exposed areas

We also need to call on local officials to do some intense creative thinking focused on freeing up resources being spent on maladaptive programs (i.e. those that increase GHG emissions and / or threaten human vulnerability to climate change impacts) for worthy causes such as those being presented by ICLEI USA through Climate Communities.

For landfalling storms, the damage from winds and flooding, as well as storm surges, are especially of concern, but often depend more on human factors, including whether people place themselves in harm's way, their vulnerability and their resilience through such things as building codes.

While ice extent may indeed be «out of our control», (as if it was ever in our control) the issue for humans is not controlling the weather, but controlling our vulnerability to it.

This highlights the vulnerability of many agricultural systems and associated human vulnerability to future climatic changes, as necessary adjustments to farming practices (e.g., using more tolerant crop varieties, irrigation, etc.) are likely to be costly and some of the most extreme reductions in plant growing days are expected in tropical countries with limited economic capacity (Figs 2 and 5).

Human vulnerability is quantified as the combined effect of dependency, exposure, and adaptability, which are displayed along a red - green - blue gradient (colors in the triangle correspond to colors in the map).

Factors such as lack of awareness of human rights laws, age, recent immigration, uncertain employment, reliance on tips, low rates of unionization, and the prevalence of sexual harassment and sex discrimination in the restaurant industry can increase worker vulnerability.

The Court elided the idea of the rationale for extending human rights protection to those groups identified by the prohibited grounds (which, as we have just seen and as the Court itself noted, is the idea of their vulnerability in virtue of the group characteristic) with the idea of the various contexts in which the Code seeks to protect those so identified as vulnerable, e.g. housing, service provision and employment.

Thus, for instance, it is primary legislation for Human Rights Act - related purposes, but (in effect) secondary legislation so far as its vulnerability to the use of delegated powers outwith the Bill is concerned.