Sentences with phrase «in abnegation»

The implication is that womanhood, or the soul of all our humanity, will be redeemed not in self - assertion but in abnegation and subordination.

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Successfully responding to these maddening critiques takes time and energy that could be better spent on, well, anything else, and in many cases, not a little self - abnegation.

This is at best misleading: Writing in the cultural context of the liberal West, Soloveitchik often devoted more words to emphasizing the necessity of humility and surrender for a genuine religious life, but he had no more esteem for a purely submissive religious posture than for an exclusively assertive one — a point made clear by his frequent condemnations of mystical self - abnegation.

As long as we cling to our own categories we can not hear the voices of our tradition that speak about the importance of poverty and silence, that talk about the benefits of unjust suffering, that understand self - knowledge in terms of internal bondage, that depict human struggle in terms of solitude and self - abnegation, that speak of freedom in terms of self - denial and asceticism, and that perceive wisdom in terms of detachment and transcendence.

What Mark did, apparently, was select out from the body of Jesus» sayings those which emphasized the prospect of suffering and persecution in the «last days,» and the requirement of abnegation and renunciation on the part of his followers.

It seems impossible for contemporary people to imagine anyone finding true fulfillment in a life of abnegation.

Especially the theme of God's word and promise, but also those of exodus, redemption, covenant, justice, wisdom, of the Logos made flesh, of the Spirit poured out on the face of creation, of the compassion, paternity and maternity of God, and especially the Trinitarian character of God — all of the indispensable elements in a Christian theology — communicate their depth only when they are united with the theme of divine self - abnegation which, at least to Christian faith, comes to its most explicit expression in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus?

[20] The individual Christian ideally should find in the humble service of the deacon — especially in his role in the celebration of the Mass — an example of self - abnegation and the virtue - filled life.

It censured libertinism and cruelty, and upheld the freedom to practice the good, chastity, virginity, innocence, conjugal fidelity, love of enemies, charity, abnegation, goodness toward the weak, and dignity for all human beings, created in the image and likeness of God.

Martine, Filippa, and their congregation live in service and humble self - abnegation.

His assignment at this church — which seems to do more business in tourist trinkets than souls — is equal parts penance and abnegation.

The action once again takes place in a community that is divided into five factions defined by personality traits, with Abnegation left much depleted after an attempted genocide in the first outing.

The final moment, with the illusionist's self - abnegation, wreaks of over-sentimentality, and while I might attempt to identify with it, I do so in only most maudlin way.

In case you're new to the series, or have just plain forgotten, «Insurgent» is set inside a future post-apocalypse Chicago, where a new society has been formed by using personality traits to divide individuals into factions named Abnegation, Amity, Candor, Dauntless and Erudite.

A quick Divergent refresher course - in the trilogy of YA books by Veronica Roth, and in the film franchise based on same, what's left of society is divided into five factions: Abnegation (the selfless), Amity (the peaceful), Candor (the honest), Dauntless (the brave), and Erudite (the intelligent).

In case you're unfamiliar with the franchise's basic premise, the post-apocalyptic sci - fi is set amidst the crumbling ruins of a walled - in Chicago where what's left of humanity has been strictly divided into five factions based on personality types, namely, Abnegation (the selfless); Amity (the peaceful); Candor (the honest); Dauntless (the brave); and Erudite (the intelligentIn case you're unfamiliar with the franchise's basic premise, the post-apocalyptic sci - fi is set amidst the crumbling ruins of a walled - in Chicago where what's left of humanity has been strictly divided into five factions based on personality types, namely, Abnegation (the selfless); Amity (the peaceful); Candor (the honest); Dauntless (the brave); and Erudite (the intelligentin Chicago where what's left of humanity has been strictly divided into five factions based on personality types, namely, Abnegation (the selfless); Amity (the peaceful); Candor (the honest); Dauntless (the brave); and Erudite (the intelligent).

There's a seduction / rape in the picture that spools out slippery like a biblical allegory, climaxing with a message of self - abnegation written on a bathroom window and a realization by our antihero that he's doomed to learn something from the destruction of every single thing in his life that's pure, of everything that comes with the potential for a future.

Their futuristic city - state nestled in the ruins of Chicago has been torn apart by internal strife, with the «Abnegation» faction (selfless people — i.e. pushovers) destroyed and the «Dauntless» faction (brave people — i.e. idiots and assholes) fractured.

In order to effectively run its insular society, the government has chosen to divide its citizens into what they naturally do best: the meek who look out for the well - being of others are in the ruling faction of Abnegation, the happy / friendly people are in the agricultural community of Amity, those who speak the truth work within the law as Candor, those who seek adventure and thrills enforce those laws and protect the community as Dauntless, and the highly intelligent folks serve the city as EruditIn order to effectively run its insular society, the government has chosen to divide its citizens into what they naturally do best: the meek who look out for the well - being of others are in the ruling faction of Abnegation, the happy / friendly people are in the agricultural community of Amity, those who speak the truth work within the law as Candor, those who seek adventure and thrills enforce those laws and protect the community as Dauntless, and the highly intelligent folks serve the city as Eruditin the ruling faction of Abnegation, the happy / friendly people are in the agricultural community of Amity, those who speak the truth work within the law as Candor, those who seek adventure and thrills enforce those laws and protect the community as Dauntless, and the highly intelligent folks serve the city as Eruditin the agricultural community of Amity, those who speak the truth work within the law as Candor, those who seek adventure and thrills enforce those laws and protect the community as Dauntless, and the highly intelligent folks serve the city as Erudite.

Based in a worn - down Chicago (somehow the last place on Earth), a «utopian» society is divided into five separate factions: Abnegation, for the selfless; Amity, for the peaceful; Candor, for the honest; Dauntless, for the brave; and Erudite, for the knowledgeable.

Beatrice Prior (Shailene Woodley) is a member of the selfless Abnegation faction, but she faces a big decision in the next few days.

Whiplash subscribes to the notion that artistic greatness requires monastic self - abnegation — a canard that's ruined many young men's lives and gets taken out behind the woodshed in next week's Listen Up Philip.

It is at its heart self - abnegation — an indictment of playing to fandom from a filmmaker who hasn't met a pander he couldn't indulge, whether it be giving Philip K. Dick a happy ending or over-explaining the horrors of war / slavery / the Holocaust in condescending monologues.

Moreover, nowhere do the inherent tensions of progressivism, between the twin impulses of self - expression and self - abnegation, surface more clearly than in the case of critical pedagogy, which can be viewed as an offshoot of constructivism, which in turn is an offshoot of postmodernism.

Han's treatments of submission and subversion find form in the parable, as the housewife's self - abnegation turns increasingly severe and surreal.

This show feels religious in that self - abnegation way.

Perhaps it was a lesson in self - abnegation, or self - destruction, in giving up the ego.

We're tough around here, and we can take it if someone's talking behind our backs: Hilton Kramer, testy art critic for the New York Observer, came to San Francisco on «other business,» he writes, but managed to stop in at the Museum of Modern Art, where he glanced at the Gerhard Richter show (which he'd «already suffered through at MoMA in New York») and looked both at the permanent collection (early Matisses «remain, in my opinion, SFMOMA's principal aesthetic asset») and the Ellsworth Kelly exhibition («What could be more personal than the persistent, unvarying project of self - abnegation on a monumental scale that we observe in his own most ambitious abstractions?»

These abstract painters had arrived at the unknown somewhat in the spirit of abnegation, but they conferred on their renunciation of the past, positive values of freedom and spontaneity.

HMRC's failure to use a more secure method to transport the information (it was not even sent by means of registered delivery); its failure to ensure that the information was encrypted (the CDs were only password protected); and its failure to ensure that there were controls in place to prevent a relatively junior official from accessing and copying the entire database seem almost inevitably to point to a complete abnegation by HMRC of its obligations under the seventh data protection principle.

Let me try to make up for this by recommending a book to put in the Christmas stocking of the administrative lawyer in your life: Law's Abnegation by Adrian Vermeule.