Sentences with phrase «inevitable destruction»

In the face of the almost inevitable destruction to which greatness of human self - assertion was seen to lead, there was a second ideal.

Focusing more on the psychological than the physical toll of trench warfare, this harrowing drama from director Saul Dibb (The Duchess) takes place along the front lines in France during World War I. That's where a company of British troops — including an ill - tempered officer (Sam Claflin) and a wide - eyed newcomer (Asa Butterfield)-- has rotated into position, hoping to avoid inevitable destruction should the Germans decide to attack.

At the cinema, the feverish proliferation of various states of emergency across our screens are relayed through narratives which acknowledge inevitable destruction, but posit a next step: consider the escapism of Christopher Nolan's Interstellar (2014) in which the solution to ecological disaster is to escape the planet altogether.

For all the various reasons that we have reached this point — carbon - based economies, deforestation, energy - intensive agricultural and meat industries, SRM / SAG, continuous wars — we have now incurred our own inevitable destruction.

I shall point to nemesis, to inevitable destruction.

We could illustrate from stories like Walker Percy's Love in the Ruins that are apocalyptic in the narrow sense; these would raise the question, as old as Hebrew prophecy, of the paradoxical tension between threat of inevitable destruction and summons to new, creative action.

«Furthermore, we are extremely concerned that the inevitable destruction of email records under your 90 - day automatic deletion policy directly undermines other public accountability laws like the False Claims Act.»

That may well be a defensible position, but if so, it challenges the principle that the inevitable destruction of human embryos should be avoided at all costs, no matter what the potential benefits.

Already mourning their inevitable destruction.)

Prices won't drop until there are enough digital readers to compensate for the inevitable destruction of the traditional retail supply chain, and there won't be enough digital readers until the price drops.

The entire trilogy was sprinkled with strong hints about Rufus» inevitable destruction, playing on the idea that fate can't be derailed, a theme which Doomsday picks up on and runs with.

It is a reflection on transience, a balancing act between progress and regrowth, and a reminder to find beauty in decay and inevitable destruction.

The forms his works take tend towards the fantastical; he builds up complex characters who occupy unfamiliar mythological narratives, all the while alluding to the inevitable destruction and decay of all biological matter.

In addition, of course, the needs and demands of the national population for drawing benefit from the international economy have stimulated careless entrepreneurship, such as the production of lumber with the inevitable destruction of the national forest preserves with the use of simple and cheap chain saws.