Sentences with phrase «in face of death»

Future research should consider whether similarity in perceptions of mothers» favoritism and disfavoritism play a greater role when all members of the sibship experience the same major life event, such as in the face of the death of a parent.

The man who became a child in the face of death.

They gave Krasner her first experience of continuing in the face of death.

Each sculpture on view in this retrospective — the artist's first in the United States — suggests an internal composure, calm, balance, and utter maturity, sometimes bravery, in the face of death, homicide, and genocide.

As one last puzzle, one could call Johns's repetition a dogged determination in the face of death, Freud's «repetition compulsion,» the fate of art, or sheer joy.

The change may reflect a physical weakness that demanded simpler means, an urgency in the face of death, or an awareness once again of the art around him.

He may smooth bodies out a bit in the face of death, as Andro Wekua, Maurizio Cattelan, or Mark Manders.

«A poetic, emotionally intense story of love in the face of death, blended beautifully into a point - and - click adventure game» ~ Jessica Conditt, joystiq.com

Mahmoud knows he will «never forget that feeling of paralyzing terror, of powerlessness» in the face of death and humiliation as he bravely soldiers on to Europe.

This book gives voice to their stories, to their ability to survive in the face of death, to their humanity to one another and to those they seek to serve.

After much thinking and encountering the Art in the Face of Death activity on the USC Shoah Foundation's IWitness website, I decided on a culminating activity that tasked students to produce art pieces that we would share with the community.

The Art in the Face of Death activity features survivors sharing artwork and poetry they created in response to their experiences during the Holocaust.

Heineman follows them through their terrifying and awe - inspiring stand in the face of death threats and murder.

Just how alive Batty is in the face of death, the bliss of feeling rain on his face, even if he is not «real», is the most affecting element of the film.

Still, dark despair does not always equal profundity, and the film, though effective in certain scenes, managed to leave me cold in the face of death.

Through this extraordinary journey the film shares a story of love in the face of death.

It's in this hand - off from one tone to another where Macdonald fumbles the ball, as he hasn't given us enough of an emotional connection between the characters in order to feel for their plight, or even care about Daisy's newfound romance, before they're all thrust into danger and having to propel themselves forward out of a sense of love that we feel is shallow and, in a real world sense, would likely have been forgotten in the face of the death and destruction that surrounds them.

Watney often laughs in the face of death, because, really, what other choice does he have?

To me it was less of a survival story and more an exploration of the male spirit in the face of death.

The film follows Marina Vidal, a trans woman who not only loses her partner but is also forced to confront the scrutiny and suspicion of his family in the face of his death.

Two great films about the search for meaning in the face of death.

Surviving officers of the Titanic recalled ship's doctor John Edward Simpson as perfectly calm in the face of death, even giving his pocket flashlight to one of the lifeboat captains.

In a scene where Julius Levinson (Judd Hirsch) must outrun an alien induced tsunami in a tiny boat, he doesn't proclaim the mysteries of life in the face of death, instead, he yells, «holy Moses!»

There's an election coming up, and he's about to star on the National Theatre stage in «Everyman», a fifteenth - century morality play about man's powerlessness in the face of death.

Kelly eventually leads these characters toward the inevitable, and the frankness with which he handles scenes involving end - of - life decisions, fear in the face of death, and the desire to find meaning in any of this mess is admirable.

The world is filled with men who bring a terrible attitude to their dating life due to small negative relationship experiences from their past — negative relationship experiences that appear childish in the face of the death of a lover.

J. Wickwire and D. Bullitt, Addicted to danger: A memoir about affirming life in the face of death (Pocket Books, New York, 1998)

In 2016, she was awarded the prestigious John Maddox Prize for her pursuit of sound science in the face of death threats, lawsuits and personal attacks stemming from her work as an expert witness in prosecutions resting on false memories.

In the face of death, Christ goes on sustaining our lives and all life.

We perform our «heroics» for them so that we might gain their approval and a sense of our own significance in the face of death and finitude.

Faith may be experienced as an ability to trust life in the face of death, to see pain and evil and yet to affirm life and wonder.

The existentialists make an ethical obligation of the notion that death is all and that «living in the face of death means living such fashion that life can be broken off at any moment and not be rendered meaningless by such an accident,» to quote Glenn Gray's «The Problem of Death in Modern Philosophy» (in The Modern Vision of Death, edited by Nathan A. Scott, Jr. [John Knox, 1967)-RRB-.

For Chagall, images of hope tinged with despair, of joyous celebration in the face of death, remained in the foreground of his essentially Jewish religious imagination.

The reason for Socrates's serenity in the face of death, Cullmann proposes, is the Greek belief in the immortality of the soul.

Yet, in the face of death - dealing stones he clings to Jesus, the Living Stone, who has already passed through death and has taught him the way.

His cartoon characters are mortal beings who need truth in the face of death and eternity, not just affirmation and self - actualization on their way to their «best life now.»

Indeed, in the face of death we realize the limits of the philosphical life.

In Luke 12:50 it is completely impossible to explain away the «distress» in the face of death, and also in view of the fact that Jesus is abandoned by God on the Cross [Mark 15:34], it is not possible to explain the Gethsemane scene except through this distress at the prospect of being abandoned by God, an abandonment which will be the work of Death, God's great enemy.)

Thus, according to the Epistle to the Hebrews, Jesus wept and cried in the face of death.

How is theism proved true by the fact that a non-believer relinquished his objection in the face of death and torture?

He is afraid in the face of death itself.

Among the several blessings of my work as a funeral director is that I have seen the power of such faith in the face of death.

«51 In consequence, therefore, of all these principles, one can not detect in Hartshorne's doctrine of man even the faintest traces of despair of life's ultimate meaning, fear or perplexity in the face of death, moral vertigo, or denigration of the enduring value of our transient earthly life.

The death of Jesus is portrayed in Christian faith and hope as an act of life, as an affirmation of life in the face of death, and the cross of Jesus are symbols not of death, but of an unquenchable and invincible life that this world can neither give nor take away from us.

There is the last question of the Christian's relation to the things loved in this life, and the nature of his hope in the face of death.

They do indeed struggle with Satan, their accuser, but they conquer him «by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they did not cling to life even in the face of death» (12:11).

True hope looks at the cross, in the face of death, in Christ's conquering of death, and becomes the food for the journey.

Who is «God» in the event of hope in the face of death?

If the Psalms are to serve as a text that discloses a creative way of being in the face of death, it is important for a reader to remember how close death was to everyone in the original context of the book.

This strange freedom that comes to those who, in the face of death, say «Here I stand» is the freedom to live free from fear.