Sentences with phrase «immolation of»

MarieE, I worked in Wall St. industries in the 1980's and 1990's, and watched the rise and immolation of Enron up very close.

And then there was the «Prague Spring» of 1968, and the self - immolation of Jan Polak.

With humor and cynicism, Lamdark's conceptual disco mocks the Chinese cultural invasion of Tibet, while graphically commenting on the tragic self - immolation of Tibetan monks in response to their oppression.

At the other end, a print from the late Malcolm Browne's 1963 sequence «Self - Immolation of Buddhist Monk Thich Quãng Ðuc» is an image painful to see and unbearable to contemplate.

Nominees include the above mentioned surprising slump in indie sales, the not surprising shrinking revenues at the major publishing houses, the also not surprising continued self immolation of Barnes & Noble, and my winner... The impressive (and frightening) maturation of Amazon as a media conglomerate.

The tired device of slow motion for recording a death, on the other hand, is used well and sparingly, and is particularly effective in the immolation of Bigelow and Lorrie.

Anyone who witnessed Franco's immolation of «The Sound and the Fury» may arch an eyebrow).

Among the more extreme cases of mind control is the self - immolation of the Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc in 1963 to protest the repressive regime in South Vietnam.

Her hold on the establishment has only been strengthened by the self - immolation of Anthony Weiner, who was in a strong position to contend in 2013 and who was popular among real - estate types because, in Tighe's words, «He seemed like one of the guys.

The self - immolation of Zac Goldsmith's political career will in time be a footnote to the uncontrolled wildfire of 2016.

William Carey, for instance, braved personal danger to express his resistance to the Hindu practice of sati (the immolation of widows at the funeral pyres of their husbands) at the very places in which these were being carried out.

As he finds the self - oblation and self - immolation of Christ in the Mass, he knows that «in the likeness of Christ, he has to give himself, body and soul, to be «bread broken for you» in the ministry of Christ.»

Are these paintings possibly pictorial immolations of content?

Not exact matches

Since then, there has been a wave of self - immolations in Algeria, Egypt, Pakistan, Punjab and elsewhere, by people who feel that they have no voice to counter what they have alternatively described as «injustice, oppression and lack of equality,» or «poverty, corruption and unemployment.»

In my post, I wrote of an «epidemic of self - immolations,» noting that from mid-March to mid-July 2011 more than 40 Tibetans had set themselves on fire to protest the Chinese occupation of Tibet.

Self - immolation began as a form of protest among Tibetans in China in February 2009, when a young monk set himself ablaze.

(CNN)- China Daily, an English - language newspaper and a mouthpiece of the Chinese government, last week published an article called «Western Voices Question Tibetan Self - Immolation Acts.»

Today, Tibet is witnessing an epidemic of self - immolations.

Sacrifice doesn't necessarily involve the killing of a victim - the technical term for that is «immolation».

Therefore, Christ's sacrifice is also one of immolation, of pain, suffering and death.

CNN: My Take: Dalai Lama should condemn Tibetan self - immolations Stephen Prothero, a Boston University religion scholar and author of «The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation,» explains why he believes the Dalai Lama should abandon his position of neutrality on the «epidemic of self - immolations» going on in Tibet.

It was known to the FBI that David Koresh was religiously committed and fully capable of fulfilling an apocalyptic vision of self - immolation.

Self - immolation is becoming an increasingly common form of protest for Tibetans who want genuine autonomy from China and accuse Beijing of repression.

When fulsome credits are attributed to the transcendent, my mind goes to a newspaper item describing a young student's self - immolation, According to the report, she set herself on fire to experience death and the world of spirits beyond — i.e., the transcendent.

Read the full story about the history of self - immolation, from 4th century Chinese Buddhism to North Africa today

Religion News Service: Tibetans have «sacred duty» to support self - immolations As the 18th congress of China's Communist Party began in Beijing this week, six more Tibetans set themselves on fire as Tibetan leaders say they are powerless to stop a growing wave of self - immolations.

Nevertheless, besides the issue of natural justice, I think that desire is defined as something that is considered to have a so - called positive outcome, so I would think that on a personal level self - immolation has no personal desire (unless «fame» and / or desire to die are there) and it is surely painful to the person self - immolating (unlike e.g. self - explosion), and the thing being probably considered by individual persons as social sacrifice.

Reuters: Dalai Lama presses China to investigate Tibetan self - immolations Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Tuesday urged Japanese parliamentarians to visit Tibet, and for China to investigate the dozens of self - immolations by Tibetans.

«We have made so many appeals (to stop self - immolations), but they are still doing it,» said Sangay, the political successor of the Dalai Lama, as the number of self - immolations by monks, nuns and others swelled to 68 since March 2011.

But in the annals of this sort of charity we find fantastic excesses of devotion recorded which are only explicable by the frenzy of self - immolation simultaneously aroused.

New versions of his self - immolation and his audience - challenging, and more typically, new formulas for the theater of regularizing such, became stock features of Rock.

Together they perfectly captured the feminine art of vocal self - immolation, and they were destined to burn out in their own distinct ways, one by what she gave and the other by what she withheld.

«I thought the most appropriate first guest would be the gentleman who got me my last job,» cracked Paterson, making not the first joke about Spitzer's immolation in the wake of a prostitution scandal.

Within a day of Bouazizi's immolation, they were already organizing around a common Twitter hashtag.

And if not their self - respect, then their self - interest, because any hopes of re-election will be squashed between the threat of deselection and the charge of guilt - by - association, as soon as the Conservatives have had enough of watching Labour's self - immolation and step up their own campaign.

At that time, Southwest States were battling with the high rate of immolation while some Southeast people considered having baby factory as a profitable business and majority of Ijaw youths as at then seeing kidnapping and oil theft as sources of income.

Stating that those who seek to diminish Aregbesola's achievements are only a self - immolation mission, the Bureau said PDP's inability to comprehend the Aregbesola program of changing the fortune of education in the state could only help to sink the party into its abyss of extinction.

No doubt the realistic depiction of murder in Seven are unsettling, to say the least — only a viewing of Ken Russell's The Devils (1971) with its portrayal of Inquistional torture and immolation in excruciating detail affected my gastrointestinal system as adversely.

The unkillable mercenary's sardonic self - immolation is thus clarified as a display of grief, albeit one that simplifies his punkish gesture.

This time, the story of the notorious punk band's self - immolation is told in relatively orthodox documentary style, pockmarked with film clips of the economic unrest that lit the punk fuse in England.

The rest of the cast gamely tries to keep up with this immolation and rebirth, but most fall short.

The picture is about the noxious half - life and death of grief, its ending as suggestive of rebirth as it is of self - immolation — marking the belief that the process is one best defined by ambiguity.

Has Michael's paraplegic ex-wife, Catherine (Shari Shattuck, her voice overdubbed), glimpsed in startling flashbacks to her self - immolation, returned from the grave in a fit of jealousy?

Inside the Lighthouse, Lena finds a confounding video account of Kane's apparent self - immolation and the emergence of an unscathed doppelgänger facing him.

With undeveloped action sequences, slotted caricatures of Asian mobsters, and a tiresome and predictable Liotta further driving nails into its coffin, Revolver is a spectacular, gaudy trainwreck that serves as a punctuation mark on one of the goriest career immolations in recent memory.

Soon Caroline happens upon a bunch of mutilated baby dolls and mirrors (see also: Walter Salles's similar - in - so - many - other - ways - too Dark Water), learns the story of how an old black servant couple (Mama Cecille (Jeryl Prescott) and Papa Justify (Ronald McCall)-RRB- were lynched and set on fire for teaching their white master's children the dark arts, and then discovers that Papa Justify, before his untimely immolation, had figured out the secret to eternal life by «borrowing» years from other people.

He understands Dickinson as an artist in a constant state of immolation.

It is a if Stillman came out of retirement as an act self - immolation.

The chameleon Rango (voice of Johnny Depp), who takes on the moniker after noticing a «Made in Durango» etching on a glass full of what can only be dubbed firewater (making for an extended bit of unintentional immolation for the cigar - smoker sitting next to him), finds his own sanctuary from birds of prey, unforgiving sunlight, and the seemingly rambling words of the Spirit of the West from an armadillo (voice of Alfred Molina) who's half - flattened from speeding traffic.

If the standards survive immolation on the altar of politics, they could face the slower death of bad implementation.