Cox's images are seemingly straightforward, but they offer a subtle glimpse
into human tendencies that often go unnoticed and without judgment or editorial comment.
Like Cone, he is addressing the racist structures of society, expanding upon Cone's work by delving
into the human tendency to universalize one's own experience.
Not exact matches
Once they do mount, another quirk of
human nature comes
into play — one that Baruch alluded to: the
tendency for stubbornness to give way to panic, leading investors to dump their holdings at a bottom.
Personally, I believe
humans»
tendency to gossip can be transformed
into better communication all around.
Rakoff also called Americans «highly moralistic» which gives them a
tendency to take pleasure in high sentences that «fail to take
into account the
human being».
Humans have a
tendency to place particular events
into mental compartments and the difference between these compartments sometimes impacts our behavior more than the events themselves.
Let us admit this frankly, once and for all: what most discredits faith in progress in the eyes of men today, over and above its reticences and its helplessness in meeting the cry of the «last days of the
human species», is the unfortunate
tendency still shown by its adepts to distort
into pitiful millenarianisms all that is most valid and most noble in our now permanently awakened expectation of the future appearance of some form of «ultra-humanity».
I believe that you are correct in supposing that Reformed Evangelical [Calvinism] Churches have a greater
tendency to fall
into authoritarian abuse; but a lot depends on the leadership and «old boy network» loyalties can trump accountability concerns in any
human, not just ecclesiastical, institution.
In taking this sixth step, Christians affirm that the «
tendency toward the
human and the humane (toward «Christ») in the ultimate nature of things» which has existed since the beginning of time «has become evident and clear only now in the new order of relationships just coming
into view» in the Christian community To be sure, «any community which becomes a vehicle in history of more profoundly humane patterns of life» can be a part of this new order, but the events around Jesus have at least a kind of priority as its first clear manifestation.
There are four types of evil of which the modern age is particularly aware: the loneliness of modern man before an unfriendly universe and before men whom he associates with but does not meet; the increasing
tendency for scientific instruments and techniques to outrun man's ability to integrate those techniques
into his life in some meaningful and constructive way; the inner duality of which modern man has become aware through the writings of Dostoievsky and Freud and the development of psychoanalysis; and the deliberate and large - scale degradation of
human life within the totalitarian state.
The
tendency of
human nature, intensified by our commercial activity, is to make the life a whirlpool — a great maelstrom which draws everything
into itself.
The Army accused the conventional Churches of a
tendency to lapse
into social clubs that were not really concerned with the total welfare of their fellow
human beings.
He ultimately argues that there was an original act of violence which ultimately led to the possibility of the destruction of all people in the community, and so to avoid the ever - increasing cycles of violence, the community selected a ritual victim (a
human or an animal) that would both carry the guilt of the community as well as the violent
tendencies into death, thus satisfying the demands for revenge and the blood lust that comes with it.
Part of me wants to dismiss the phenomenon as little more than the
human tendency to project our image upon God and read
into things.
The
tendency there has been in Christian thought, from quite near the beginning, to depreciate the true humanity of Jesus and to turn him
into a divine being, appearing temporarily in the form of man, fails to do justice to the magnificence, indeed the perfection, of that portrayal of love in the
human scene.
Tracer's work «highlights how narrowly we view normal infant development,» she remarks, «and calls
into question the
tendency to judge all
human infants on the basis of Western infants.»
Marketers are pragmatic: they tap
into the idea that
humans have an evolved
tendency to react with disquiet when people look too different, and will only use an image if they think enough people will respond positively.
But programming Tell Me Dave to understand even one kind of order is tricky:
humans have an annoying
tendency to ask for the same thing in a variety of different ways, or to combine several discrete steps
into one short command.
Other factors, such as concern for reputation and the benefits of reciprocal friendships, could have consolidated these altruistic
tendencies into the prosociality we see in
humans today.
One study presented in the journal — from a group led by Patrick Singleton, PhD, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Chicago Medicine — shows how opioids already present in the body can enhance the malignant
tendencies of
human lung cancer cells transplanted
into mice, even without the addition of morphine.
There can be a
tendency for battles to break down
into a button mashing festival, but it rarely helps, especially against the toughest
human and AI opponents.
The Monster is indeed about a creepy monster, despite the
tendency for movies like this to trick you
into thinking «the monster» is just some deranged
human living in the woods.
High - profile murders like Ramsey's often provoke gawking, callous media treatment, turning us all
into rubberneckers, but Casting JonBenet vigorously works against that
tendency, fascinated by our psychological need to judge other people's lives, but also deeply mournful, even respectful, of the very
human reasons why we do so.
The good news is that teachers who fight the natural
human tendency to respond to stress by retreating from action and relationships can do a lot to keep stress from building
into burnout.
I agree that we, as
humans, have a natural
tendency to fit people
into boxes in an attempt to order our personal worlds.
Behavioral explanations focus on investors» cognitive biases, and the
human tendency to use simple rules of thumb to make quick intuitive decisions, with individuals» collective decision - making mistakes translating
into security price distortions.
Despite its intimidating stature and protective
tendencies, look
into those big, droopy brown eyes and you'll see the Kangal for what it truly is: a gentle giant with an undying love and loyalty for its
human (s).
Mostly, training pet dogs is teaching them to it
into this complex
human society of which a lot of dog's breeding and natural behavioural
tendencies hasn't prepared them very well for anyway.
This legibility points to our cultural
tendency to transform
human physicality
into semiotic indicator, to understand bodies as reflections of character.
However, comparison of the amount of carbon dioxide put
into the atmosphere by
humans in recent years with many scenarios of future emissions, including the limits required to hold climate change below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), shows that there is not yet any
tendency to approach the desired targets.