Sentences with phrase «live in a frenzied»

We live in a frenzied culture.

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He believed that the «frenzy» of modern life was stressing us out, creating an almost structural unhappiness in North American society.

People who find themselves in a spending frenzy have difficulty getting ahead in life, let alone getting rich.

But what I'm really drawn to in this frenzy of life is Matthew 11:28 - 30 where Jesus says to the burdened masses:

I've asked myself many times: is there in the world any despair that would overcome this frenzied and, perhaps, indecent thirst for life in me, and I've come to the conclusion that, perhaps, there isn't....

If there is, then perhaps fundamental desire to live and enjoy life may function to moderate the nationalistic frenzies, the absurd struggles for power, the long ingrained historical hatreds, and the blind ideological fanaticisms that now stand in the way of creative, effective responses to the present crisis.

A man who brutally murdered his wife in a frenzied knife attack after church, stabbing her in the eye, heart and slashing her throat, has been jailed for life.

Many factors in our society militate against depth relationships — the frenzied pace of our lives; the frantic pressures to get ahead which encourage using rather than relating to people; the constant mobility of many families which contributes to a rootlessness and noninvolvement in community life; the anonymity of megalopolis where people do not know the names of even those in adjoining apartments.

I know that this season can sometimes become too commercial with what's going on around us but we have to remember that in the midst of our busy lives and the gift buying frenzy, there is a bigger reason why we celebrate the occasion.

Both pitchers are remarkably poised given their youth, not to mention the usual linguistic and cultural pitfalls of living in a foreign country and the frenzied rooting interest from their homelands.

It's easy to get lost in a place like D.C.. There's so much to do, but the frenzied pace of living can leave parents feeling haggard.

So, in the frenzy that is the holidays, parents need to realize what's really important and plan and organize their lives so that they have the emotional resources available for their children.

Check out some of the smartest, hippest, chicest mommy bloggers in and around D.C.. It's easy to get lost in a place like D.C.. There's so much to do, but the frenzied pace of living can leave parents feeling haggard.

We asked several mom bloggers who specialize in saving money, living simply, and not buying in to the parenting frenzy du jour how they rein in spending during the back - to - school season in late summer, as well as the window right after winter break.

But I've been in training for this kind of hell - bent epic of hedonism, social frenzy and barbeque for, oh, my entire adult life (sorry mom), and I expect to return alive, if not entirely intact.

The Deputy Minister for Trade and Industry, Murtala Mohammed, addressing the frenzy crowd, argued that electorates in the Walewale Constituency are not interested in economic figures but will vote based on the life changing moments.

In 1903 French scientist René Blondlot added to the frenzy with his announcement of N - rays, a strangely democratic form of radiation emitted by wood, iron, living organisms — just about anything at all.

What sometimes gets lost in this life - extending frenzy is what science actually tells us about healthy aging.

That was often the case in the emergency room, which was starting to feel more like a frenzied factory than a place for saving lives.

Scientists are keeping a close watch on variables that might affect life in the open ocean, including depleted oxygen levels caused by a feeding frenzy from oil - and gas - eating microbes, and the unknown effects of dispersants, which break the oil into droplets but may keep it suspended in the water.

But turning the laser on caused them to suddenly launch frenzied attacks on almost anything in their path: live crickets, fake insects or even sticks and bottle caps.

An annual, three - week frenzy of non-stop sexual activity without eating is connected to shorter lives and degraded bodies in male garter snakes, a University of Sydney - led study has shown.

The creation of this new frenzy is surprising, considering that the search for extant life on Mars in particular seems to be low on NASA's list of priorities.

«These galaxies entered a feeding frenzy that would quickly exhaust the food supply in the following hundreds of million years and lead to the new galaxy's slow starvation for the rest of its life,» said lead author Hai Fu, a UC Irvine postdoctoral scholar.

How do I bring the joy back into this planning - stage for such a momentous, albeit frenzied, time in my life?

Two summers ago there was fashion frenzy for floral trousers, at least in the city where I live, and wherever I turned, I almost always spotted some florals walking down the street.

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I know living in New York, it must be very easy to get caught up in all of the Fashion Week frenzy.

On the eve of their open house, the Brooklyn Bridge is rumored to be under a terrorist attack, sending the media into a frenzy and people's attitudes about living in New York.

When Ben Affleck's directorial debut GONE BABY GONE was released, the real life tragedy of Madeline McCann was at the peak of a media frenzy, and it was practically impossible to view that film outside of the cultural context in which it fell.

, with its real - life portrayal of the fanaticism that has overtaken a small town in their high school football frenzy, I would have thought that many of the cult - like activities that go on in Friday Night Lights were overstated by quite a bit.

It was a pretty down - to - earth move for someone who had incited a near - media frenzy as «the next big thing» and appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine, but it was becoming clear that McConaughey — who was living in a trailer park in Malibu — was a breed apart from the usual self - absorbed young stars.

Mistress America's generic context as screwball comedy frames Brooke's quarter - life crisis, and Tracy's coming of age, in a manner of unexpected honesty: behind the frenzied dialogue, so keenly written by Gerwig and Noah Baumbach, is the destruction of ambition and the construction of a self.

Frenzy Last Tango In Paris Superfly Pink Floyd: Live At Pompeii The Ruling Class Roma The Candidate The Chinese Connection Jeremiah Johnson Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex, But Were Afraid To Ask The Poseidon Adventure Chloe In The Afternoon Blacula Lady Sings The Blues The King Of Marvin Gardens The Canterbury Tales Boxcar Bertha The Cowboys Joe Kidd The Life And Times Of Judge Roy Bean Deep Throat What's Up Doc?

Lessons in Daily Living Skills include: What is patience, Why we become impatient, Why practice patience, 5 physical reasons we become impatient, My Triggers, Why and so for my triggers, How not to feed the frenzy, 10 Tools to becoming patient 1) Count to 10, 2) Take a breath 3) Take a time - out 4) Act out 5) Know your priorities 6) Just wait 7) Visualize 8) Practice gratitude 9) Laugh and Love 10) Think before you speak.

Lightman, author of Einstein's Dreams (1993), perfectly captures the frenzy of our electronic era in this breakneck yet poignantly beautiful tale of one man's short - circuiting under the relentless pace and pressure of life in the age of information overload, a predicament contrasted, thanks to an Internet college course, with the story of Socrates.

More and more people are tired of the fast - paced, frenzied «information age» and are interested in higher - quality lives — lives in which they have more time for themselves and their relationships, more energy to invest in their emotional, physical, and spiritual well - being.

In the aftermath, a media frenzy begins to unravel Nina's life.

Two recent articles in the New York Times caught my attention — not just because they highlight the frenzy of vitriol that so often explodes on social media but also because they point to a disturbing «faceless mob» mentality permeating our digital lives.

I have spent much of my professional life in places like Piranha Frenzy, so it's a reflection of a world that I know very well.

House (pictured below right) sparked a media frenzy; cue television coverage of its unveiling and the man who had lived in the house denouncing the sculpture as «a waste of money... just a load of concrete.»

Through its frenzy of screens and motion wherein activities, both endearing and peculiar, take place, we see that at its core Yang's work relates to the confusion produced by changes in life, society and traditions that are inherent to all places in the world, and therefore do not necessarily need to be contextualized by the drastic shifts taking place today in China in order to impact viewers in meaningful ways.

Cheery and optimistic, the still life of books in Dutch, French, and English that he enjoyed reading, as well as an arrangement of fresh grapes, lemons, pears, and apples, belies the artist's frenzied bohemian period spent smoking, drinking, and gadding about.

In the fast - paced frenzy that drives our contemporary societies, where thoughts and impulses are beamed by way of artificial satellites and express the paramount need to scroll through the snippets of information that make up the latest trends, the current post-digital, new - media generation is faced with the unprecedented shift from direct life experience to an artificial way of connecting / disconnecting with the natural / analogical world.

Many earlier works display posed women, while later in life, his non-illustrative ideas and images explode in a frenzy of activity.

From the seas of north Wales, where he kayaks among feeding frenzies of dolphins and seabirds, to the forests of Eastern Europe, where lynx stalk and packs of wolves roam, George Monbiot shows how rewilding could repair the living planet, creating ecosystems in post-industrial nations as profuse and captivating as any around the world.

Still, even though some of the problems Pope Francis raises may be more amenable to technical remedies than he seems to believe, there are no technical remedies for other, deeper problems that worry him — such as the frenzied consumerism and complacent greed of those living in the world's richest countries, who too often seem too indifferent to the plight of the world's poorest.

My only reservation was that a more valuable survey would be one of the members of the legal research community who have lived through a frenzy of frequently meaningless branding changes that have occurred in recent years.

Its use to legally control family life through care orders will no doubt spark a feeding frenzy of judgmental paternalism in respect to some children, but others will have their details electronically shielded if considered to be at risk — presumably the children of ContactPoint users in fear of reprisals from parents.