Sentences with phrase «jolted out of our complacency»

Yet some of these may have to occur before we are jolted out of our complacency.

These shock - and - awe tactics might touch on the sublime at a level that uses spectacle to jolt us out of our complacency with images.

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been jolted out of that spiritual complacency which makes most of us unworthy even of damnation.

Now if we turn from the life of Christ to our ordinary experience of people, most of us would probably agree that there are certain types of men and women who need to be shocked or jolted out of their self - love and complacency before they can begin to see and appreciate what we and constructive love is trying to do.

It must jolt the party's leaders and foot - soldiers out of any complacency that may be afflicting them.

In Toni Erdmann, the German - Austrian movie nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, a desperate and lonely father tries to jolt his careerist daughter out of what he sees as her soul - destroying complacency.

but the menacing nature of this joke jolted me out of my half - interested complacency.

Matisse could suggest a whole room with nothing more than a plane of pure red paint — and now here was another way of doing something similar, of jolting the viewer out of complacency and facing up to the trickery of art and vision.

Jeff VanderMeer discusses how writing fiction about environmental crises may jolt readers out of complacency.