Sentences with phrase «life weariness»

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After all, in describing the satisfaction work in one's calling brings, Calvin writes, «Each man will bear and swallow the discomforts, vexations, weariness, and anxieties in his way of life, when he has been persuaded that the burden was laid upon him by God.»

NCAR scientists, many of whom live in those neighborhoods, viewed the situation yesterday and today with a combination of weariness and confusion.

His hapless holyman, refusing to let his apparently inevitable demise dent his unerring duty to the compassionate life, recalls the unsmiling melancholy and grizzled world - weariness of Robert Mitchum in The Friends of Eddie Coyle.

There is more of a sociological study than an emphasis on events and Burgess conveys very well the weariness of people who have lived with conflict all their lives.

No longer sustained by the violence of his passions, He feels all the monotony of his way of living, and his heart becomes the prey of Ennui and weariness.

Ever since the days of Kandinsky, the spiritual in art has been a subject of interest to abstract artists — to all those who seek a path beyond the physical — those who, in the words of Yeats, «live for the moment when vision comes to our weariness like a terrible lightning.»

In a wonderful dramatic twist Chaucer's rioters stumble upon an old man who cherishes Death to escape the weariness of a long life.

The evidence is clear that persons are being exempted from criminal law protections in these jurisdictions based on «psychological suffering» arising from «weariness with living» «refusing to impose one's deterioration on others», [62] feelings of anger and distress which are «normal» for those who «incur or [are] diagnosed with incurable impairment or terminal illness», [63] «negative images of disability and dying» which are pervasive in our society, [64] and the difficulty of distinguishing psychological suffering from depression.