Sentences with phrase «many despairing»

After all, targeted harassment is usually a means of asserting control and defending status on the part of the harasser, to leave victims «afraid, despairing, utterly alone, and complicit,» as Catharine A. MacKinnon wrote in her 1979 book «Sexual Harassment of Working Women: A Case of Sex Discrimination.»

By the late 1970s, of course, development economists were despairing over the seeming intractability of backwardness.

With even more coming into effect from Google on June 1, 2018, many ICOs have been left despairing.

Even borrowers whom you would expect to be experts, like the Department of Education lawyer who sent me a despairing note this weekend about her own encounters with FedLoan, have trouble getting a firm grip on their loan status.

David Bazan, the lead singer and creative force behind the band, has recently teamed up with friend and fellow musician T.W. Walsh to release yet another despairing and disturbing album that through all of its disquieting elements delivers its own feeling of hope.

If she is representative of young American women's culture these days, I am despairing for our society.

It is increasingly common for friends and family to support — and even to attend — the suicides of their ill, disabled, or despairing loved ones.

It is the absence of relational communion whose summit is Eucharistic Communion, a descent into the despairing punishments of nothingness.

MAYBE, Rob, just maybe atheists get tired of being called hopeless, soulless, sinners, immoral, lost, unloved, heathens, satan, mindless, aimless, doomed, unspiritual, lowlifes, despairing, unhappy, unchosen and treated like lepers.

The problem, of course, is that any solution the disoriented and despairing choose in times of crisis will be to some extent an extremist simplification relative to the bewildering abundance of life in which they must find their reorientation.

Not a medium, but have experienced this despairing grief when i was still an unbeliever.

At the end of the 19th century Jesus was Adolph von Harnack's teacher of «the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of mankind»; in the early years of the 20th century Albert Schweitzer's despairing Messiah; in the «30s, Rudolf Bultmann's preacher of obedience.

So you're saying you know what a «despairing grief that unbelievers without hope experience.»

He had a broken body, a despairing mind, and a lonely soul.

We can trust that even in this violent, unjust and despairing world, God's word of hope is true, and we will sing it «from generation to generation.»

Yet I was taught an empathy of depression and fearfulness, of bondage and despairing.

We can trust that even in this violent, unjust and despairing world, God's word of hope is true.

In the terms with which Oelschlaeger views us, we might be despairing of our poor embodiment of our own values if it were not that apart from those values and their implementation there is no hope for the Earth.

After several moments, though, he sighed yet again, as if despairing of my capacities, then turned and leapt down to the floor.

While poor people do have their moments of escape from the reality of being poor, their escape pattern usually turns toward the continuous attempt to break out of the trap of despairing poverty.

(One particularly despairing sequence centers on four young boys who look to be around 11, sitting together on a sofa, smoking dope.)

and of the lost condition of man, who seeks a way out of his complex of «despairing power» — what is really new is that Christians today find this prideful attitude excellent and consonant with the dignity of man.

Only our most over-zealous preached it but it was an unwritten expectation running through a lot of our theology: don't give in to the darkness, don't name it, don't give it power, don't acknowledge it, don't confess it, don't be sad, don't be mad, don't be despairing.

(Biblical) Theology is what makes the difference between this being irrevocably despairing, and honey to the lips.

Surely the Christian — and only the Christian — should be able to exercise this clarity of vision and thought because the Revelation has to some degree given him an understanding of the world, and also because, terrible as the reality may be, he can accept it without despairing, for he has hope in Jesus Christ.

This faith helps us to carry on, without despairing and trying to make up for the greyness of our present world by escaping into the idolatry of superficial pleasures.

Recent happenings in the United States, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Japan, and all over the world make us anxious and despairing.

Confident liberals and despairing conservatives are making the same bet.

Despairing of the fulfillment of the promise, Abraham and Sarah attempt to actualize the promise themselves through Sarah's maid, Hagar (16:2 ff.)

This unlovely portrait is not wholly wrong, but it is, in its despairing one «sidedness, wholly inadequate as a basis for analysis.

Preaching on these texts demands explicit attention to mental illness and suicide and, even more important, to the proclamation of God's love for the ill and despairing and of God's command that we extend this love.

This dual Christian note of repentance and hope it is the primary task of a chastened liberalism to bring to a sinful and despairing world.

The person described as the «heathen» in Christian Discourses is now the despairing individual:

I grant that the Cuban Missile Crisis made the temptation of this sort of despairing anger more difficult to resist.

In intellectual matters, religious faith means devotion to truth, keeping inquiry open, foregoing the demand for absolute certitude yet not despairing of progress, striving for universality, publicity, and objectivity in knowledge, and being thankfully obedient to the disciplines of reason and of empirical evidence.

If it does not stay at that point, merely marking time, and if on the other hand there does not occur a radical change in the despairer so that he gets on the right path to faith, then such despair will either potentiate itself to a higher form and continue to be introversion, or it breaks through to the outside and demolishes the outward disguise under which the despairing man has been living in his incognito.

Humanly speaking his destruction is the most certain of all things — and the despair in his soul fights desperately to get leave to despair, to get, if you will, repose for despair, the consent of his whole personality to despair, so that he would curse nothing and nobody more fiercely than him who attempted (Or it may be the attempt) to prevent him from despairing, as the poet's poet so capitally, so incomparably expresses it in Richard II, Act 3, Scene Z:

A young man suffering from AIDS, who at first had a completely negative and despairing approach to the onset of his disease, was greatly helped by Victor Frankl's account of how prisoners in concentration camps who could find some sort of hope survived, when others succumbed to the terrors around them.

Then comes defiance, which really is despair by the aid of the eternal, the despairing abuse of the eternal in the self to the point of being despairingly determined to be oneself.

The despairing man who is unconscious of being in despair is, in comparison with him who is conscious of it, merely a negative step further from the truth and from salvation.

Therewith the whole point of view is inverted, he becomes now more clearly conscious of his despair, recognizing that he is in despair about the eternal, he despairs over himself that he could be weak enough to ascribe to the earthly such great importance, which now becomes his despairing expression for the fact that he has lost the eternal and himself.

All this hoping and all this despairing is not yet the true hope and the true despair.

This hiddenness is precisely something spiritual and is one of the safety - devices for assuring oneself of having as it were behind reality an enclosure, a world for itself locking all else out, a world where the despairing self is employed as tirelessly as Tantalus in willing to be itself.

Most frequently, no doubt, the condition of the despairing man, though characterized by multiform nuances, is that of a half obscurity about his own condition.

I am relatively discouraged (although not despairing) about exactly how to take the next two steps: the development of a model for a Christian systematic theology that will be in continuity with, but also a genuine development upon, the earlier model for a revisionist fundamental theology; and the development of a model for a public Christian praxis (or practical theology) which will be in continuity with, but also a genuine development upon, both «fundamental» and «systematic» concerns.

In this respect despair is unlike bodily sickness; for not to be sick can not possibly mean to be sick; but not to be despairing may mean precisely to be despairing.

Hence the self in its despairing effort to will to be itself labors itself into the direct opposite, it becomes really no self.

This means we must not despair over despairing about our sins, nor must we abandon faith and instead substitute indifference.

So the despairing self is constantly building nothing but castles in the air, it fights only in the air.

By unconsciousness the despairing man is in a way secured (but to his own destruction) against becoming aware — that is, he is securely in the power of despair.