Sentences with phrase «irrepressible nature»

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The encyclical discusses in some detail the tragically unsatisfactory ways in which the world has tried to satisfy the irrepressible hope that belongs to being human, citing Francis Bacon's proposed conquest of nature and Karl Marx's utopian goal of the kingdom of freedom.

This not only helps to explain religion's primordial, irrepressible, widespread, and seemingly inextinguishable character in the human experience, it also suggests that the skeptical Enlightenment, secular humanist, and New Atheist visions for a totally secular human world are simply not realistic — they are cutting against a very strong grain in the nature of reality's structure and so will fail to achieve their purpose.

One keeps at this in the confidence that there is such an irrepressible thing as human nature, and people may at some point be shamed into not denying — maybe even admitting — the obvious.

It is the irrepressible presence of dualism that allows us to think that our mental activity is not really a part of or continuous with nature.

In prose that leaps from the page, Jamison probes the neurochemistry of exuberance, an emotion that bonds young animals together and that fueled the work of such folk as President Theodore Roosevelt, whose irrepressible love of nature led him to found many of America's national parks.

KW: You strike me as an irrepressible artist who's always inclined to be faithful to her true nature.

The «Fluidic Sculpture» exterior of the Santa Fe crossover family invokes the impression of irrepressible motion through a new design concept called Storm Edge, which captures the strong and dynamic images created by nature during the formation of a storm.

At once improvisational and carefully carpentered, these paintings explode toward the eye, like nature on first sight, at it's most welcoming and irrepressible.»

These paintings, gravid with energy and irrepressible drive, manifest a kind of Kantian sublime: they allow us to observe from afar a force of nature that would surely engulf us were we near enough.

Improvised yet carefully constructed, her paintings explode toward the eye, like nature on first sight, at its most welcoming and irrepressible.