Sentences with phrase «illusion of power»

I also understand, and as a psychotherapist be empathetic, to how scary it can be when you are fearful of losing your position or the illusion of power and control.

I think it gives him the illusion of power - power he clearly doesn't actually have.

I do not think this was a mere illusion of power, though the editors were not past being blind to limits of their threatened world.

Since then, Yanagawa has played with the illusions of power that we ascribe to masculinity and reworked them into punk - ish and elegant garments.

Not exact matches

Author and film producer Eric Schlosser, writing in his book «Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety», captures the raw power of the blast through the perspective of scientist Bernard O'Keefe:

His conversion on the road to Damascus is a fundamental description of how worldly knowledge and power are illusions that often enable us to persecute the Church but that, by grace ones vision may be put right.

Yet this is to overestimate the power of an ideological illusion to reshape the world in its own image.

By the illusion of critical power that turns us from the source of truth, or by the eternal partner to whom we must open our hearing to find our way?

Here we see John Paul's sense of the importance of culture as the interpretive key to history and the exposure of what Weigel calls the Jacobin and Marxist fallacies» the illusions that history is driven by a quest for power and that history is the «exhaust fumes of impersonal economic forces.»

But whatever the language, it sprang from the conviction that the only genuine hope, the only hope really worth hoping for, the only hope worth believing, the only hope which was not an illusion, was a hope grounded in God, the God whom we Christians know through the life and the mighty victory of Jesus Christ over the power of death.

Already I have accustomed myself to recognize beneath the inertness of the morsel of bread a consuming power which, as the greatest Doctors of your Church have said, far from being absorbed into me, absorbs me into itself Help me now to overcome that remaining illusion which would make me think of you as touching me only in a limited and momentary way.

Is a third possibility a real one, some way of acknowledging the power and value of «fairy» that is not simply to accept either the domestic illusion or the larger and more dreadful nihilistic fantasy?

As the big lie grows that nuclear war can be won, the illusion grows that the ability to destroy other nations with nuclear weapons is the supreme exemplification of unilateral power in human affairs.

Now, when we see an illusion we know that there is a human - made solution and, while we may applaud the showmanship of the magician, we are never fooled into thinking that only one person has the power to do it.

As it strips political leaders and activists of vanity and illusion, it should also free them to wield power under God and in the service of God's creatures.

The communities that produced the NT were marginal to the power of the Roman empire and harbored no illusions about transforming it.

In his Attack upon «Christendom» Soren Kierkegaard suggested that «the illusion of a Christian nation is due... to the power which number exercises over the imagination... It is said, that [an innkeeper] sold his beer by the bottle for a cent less than he paid for it; and when a certain man said to him, «How does that balance the account?

Thus Niebuhr turned to the pretensions of virtue, wisdom, and power in American life in order to confront America with its ironies and free it of its illusions in the conduct of foreign policy.

The most valuable texts are those which look for the «undiscovered country» and have no illusions about the contingency of earthly life and power.

Persons are emancipated from illusion, prejudice, and irrational passion and given power for productive achievement only as they recognize and accept their role in the creation of their world and the truth that expresses it.

Thus understood, the doctrine of radical evil can furnish a receptive structure for new figures of alienation besides the speculative illusion or even the desire for consolation — of alienation in the cultural powers, such as the church and the state; it is indeed at the heart of these powers that a falsified expression of the synthesis can take place; when Kant speaks of «servile faith,» of «false cult,» of a «false Church,» he completes at the same time his theory of radical evil.

The «postulate» of freedom must henceforth cross through, not only the might of knowing, with its crisis of the transcendental illusion, but also the night of power, with its crisis of radical evil.

Because our sense of God is usually overlaid with some aspect of those powers that we attempt to please in our ordinary heroics, we may acknowledge that there is a good deal of illusion in concrete theistic religion.

But concurrently in nuce and eventually massively, centrist, elitist, great - power competitors competitiors to people - power arose and flourished in various forms: robber - baron enterprises grew into modern corporations, a federal government that had discovered how to fight a civil war soon found new fields for the exercise of authority and control Concentrations of power in the political and economic spheres began to deprive the people of genuine political participation while keeping them in the illusion that they still possessed it.

If any of us ever had illusions that a reformist posture was sufficient, either from a theological perspective or as social policy, the intractability of governmental and economic systems, the growth of massive and seemingly uncontrollable systems of surveillance, military power, and mass culture increasingly narrow the scope of our options to those of resistance and withdrawal.

In summary, the virtues of organized religions include but are by no means limited to the following: they give their adherents something solid against which to rebel; they allow one to see farther by standing on the shoulders of giants; they insist on the primacy of lived experience; they work against illusion and historical insularity; they point to the power of the collective and the merits of deep diversity; and they are capable of the kind of mobilization that can transform the world.

Whilst I am in optimistic mood, I suppose I should be grateful that he has not yet got the hang of spitting out the various lurid - coloured medicines I coax down his throat from time to time and that he is still labouring under the illusion that I am some minor deity with the power to make all things right.

Under the rule of bad, crafty, proud, and idolatrous kings (Joash, Jeroboam, Menahem), Israel will for a period recover its glory, supremacy, and political liberty, and will live in the illusion of its own power and reconstituted glory until the final collapse and deportation.

They recognize the power in myth and the mythic power of this set of «illusions of innocence.»

This may be the ideal for some, but one can not count on it working out that way, primarily because of the presence of various political ideologies which, as I've described in Political Visions and Illusions, tend to take on an idolatrous character and, like all idols, are unwilling to share power with others.

In particular, the realization that, truly to be love, God's power is one that surrenders the illusion of invulnerability and control remains a key component in any theology of a God of empowering love.

It may not look like it, and the illusion depends on it looking otherwise, but when most of the power is in the hands which do not have intricate dependence on the leader, then those behind the leader are the ones wielding the power.

Look at the expanse of the Federal government beyond the confines of the Constitution, how it inserts itself into matters beyond its powers, and people accept it because «general welfare,» an illusion of security, or personal gain.

You have an illusion of sovereignty but you don't have power, you don't have control, you can't get things done.

In one of the core texts that many modern stage magicians read while in training, Professor Hoffmann's Modern Magic, the wand is described as an ideal prop for distracting the eyes, for granting an excuse to close the hand and hide something within it, and to provide the illusion of having real magical power.

Neuroscientists led by Virginie van Wassenhove of the California Institute of Technology found that a visual time - stretching illusion could alter volunteers» perception of audio stimuli, whereas an audio illusion had no such power over visual perception.

For each dimension of power they tested, the research team adopted specific tasks from previously established research, for example a die - rolling task to measure illusion of control, an item categorization task to measure abstraction, and a decision - making scenario to measure moving first.

Then, in a series of experiments, the researchers looked at how the highest and lowest rated power songs affected both people's sense of power and three previously identified psychological and behavioral consequences of power: the tendency to see the forest instead of the trees (thought abstraction), perceived control over social events (illusion of control), and the desire to move first in competitive interactions.

Dark energy's power, the insurgents claim, is a mere illusion created by the machinery of the standard model itself.

The Universal Self and the individual self; Illusion and ignorance; the powers of Maya and Her qualities.

I've used this magic belt (really just a regular shirt belt that's elastic instead of leather) on numerous occasions to rein in a dress or to give an illusion of a slimmer waist but here, with this devilish white shirt, I look like a Power Ranger (yes, that comparison came from my husband too... sigh).

Although you don't have a waist, it is possible to create a waist through the power of optical illusion dressing.

As a woman who stands only 4» 11, I have been told to avoid most trends and to use the power of optical illusion to appear taller.

But the nation preserves its power by presenting itself to the world as a secretive and remote land of poor pastoralists — an illusion that becomes increasingly difficult to keep.

Is the problem that contemporary «independent filmmakers» have particularly weak powers of resistance or is it that their «independence» was always something of an illusion?

Not to be outdone, the 3DS received its own mini-conferences separate from the Wii U re-reveal, where Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate, Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion, Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance, and Paper Mario: Sticker Star were all showcased.

In «Disney Epic Mickey: Power Of Illusion,» gamers will play as Mickey Mouse as he infiltrates the Castle of Illusion on a quest to put an end to the evil witch Mizrabel's.Of Illusion,» gamers will play as Mickey Mouse as he infiltrates the Castle of Illusion on a quest to put an end to the evil witch Mizrabel's.of Illusion on a quest to put an end to the evil witch Mizrabel's...

Dominik's film is concerned about the allure and illusion of myth, and the power it has to make people adjust their own moral grade.

Refuting Noël Carroll's statement that the semiotic theory of illusion overestimates the power of representations, Wheatley follows the arguments of Baudry, Richard Allen's projective illusionism and Gregory Currie's impersonal imagining to argue that, while watching a film, the spectator is unaware of their actual relationship between the cinematic apparatus and their position as a viewer unless the film forces them to be aware of it.

A selection of engaging classroom resources including: - 2 minute timer - 5 minute timer - Name spin - randomly selects a student in the class to participate - brain gym power of activities to get student brains working ahead of a lesson - optical illusion starters to get the brain woken up