Sentences with phrase «in gratuitousness»

An exercise in gratuitousness that's fitful by design, Paul Schrader's Dog Eat Dog avoids any relationship between character psychology and visual style; they jab against each other, angrily vying for attention, as a nihilistic commentary on crime movies and genre stories.

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In Chapter Three he proposes the theme of «gratuitousness» as fundamental to man's life and self - conscious knowing, and so to the just balance of market and state.

At the very moment of giving [we] find ourselves expressing gratitude for something new and better that [we] have been given... Whether this gratuitousness is explicitly referred back to God or remains unidentified, it is clear that in aiding the poor one receives back from them meaning for one's life.13

(p. 591) But his most serious charge is that the consequence of Whitehead's adherence to these two positions is a deep - seated arbitrariness in his system, that some of the characteristic features of his doctrine are without adequate foundation, that his insistence on them must in the end be convicted of gratuitousness.

«When both the logic of the market and the logic of the State come to an agreement that each will continue to exercise a monopoly over its respective area of influence, in the long term much is lost: solidarity in relations between citizens, participation and adherence, actions of gratuitousness, all of which stand in contrast with giving in order to acquire (the logic of exchange) and giving through duty (the logic of public obligation, imposed by State law).

In order to defeat underdevelopment, action is required not only on improving exchange - based transactions and implanting public welfare structures, but above all on gradually increasing openness, in a world context, to forms of economic activity marked by quotas of gratuitousness and communioIn order to defeat underdevelopment, action is required not only on improving exchange - based transactions and implanting public welfare structures, but above all on gradually increasing openness, in a world context, to forms of economic activity marked by quotas of gratuitousness and communioin a world context, to forms of economic activity marked by quotas of gratuitousness and communion.

Even though Job himself recognizes God as «all - powerful» (42:2), God's «power is limited by human freedom... God's love, like all true love, operates in a world not of cause and effect but of freedom and gratuitousness.»

This logic of gratuitousness, learnt in infancy and adolescence, is then lived out in every area of life... once it has been assimilated it can be applied to the most complex areas of political and economic life... It is here that the lay faithful are called to give generously of the formation they have received, guided by the principles of the Church's Social Doctrine, for the sake of authentic secularism, social justice, the defence of life and of the family, freedom of religion and education.

Hasker's real position, in other words, seems to be that although at one level the prima facie evils of this world are gratuitous evils, they at another level are not, because their very gratuitousness is intended by God to evoke our moral efforts to overcome them.

We want, for example, to emphasise the gratuitousness of grace in contrast to natural moral obligation.

Rather than the gleeful gratuitousness that Tarantino employed in Django Unchained, there is reason to this assault on our senses, as McQueen's sequences present a subtle range of emotional responses to such cruelty and injustice, in both black and white characters.

For example, the stunningly offbeat lyricism of the shot in The Conformist where the main character and his mother lean into a wind that drives a sea of autumn leaves about their ankles has now been partially saved from the gratuitousness that seemed so apparent in 1971.

A day of drone warfare fought, the service men and women leave the base and go home to BBQ with their family and drink beer in the nearby Las Vegas suburb, a pebble - lawned stretch of cookie cutter banality not far away from the dazzling gratuitousness of The Strip.

This is however not for their gratuitousness, but for what they represent — a film unafraid to dissect a national psyche in such a way that the villain of the film becomes the setting itself.

He said that people need more «gratuitousness» in a world «where it seems that if you don't pay you can't live,» and where «the person, the man and woman that God created to be the center of the world and the center of the economy, are instead driven out and we have at the center a god, the god of money.»