Sentences with phrase «meaninglessness which»

The rise in narcotics addiction in recent years, particularly among young people, is in large measure a result of the prevalent decay of purpose, the loss of stable values, and the feelings of personal estrangement, loneliness, hopelessness, and meaninglessness which characterize the present age.

When he tries to do so, he is both resisted by the outward barriers to his asserted sovereignty and beset within by the sense of meaninglessness which comes from having no correspondence with the health - giving laws of life.

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In the contemporary world it is impossible to ignore the epidemic of meaninglessness, which produces many of the psychological, psychosomatic, behavioral, and relational problems of those who come seeking help.

We might also note that Nietzsche's higher or Dionysian vision of Eternal Recurrence — which he judged to be the ultimate expression of Yes - saying or total affirmation — can be reached only by passing through a full and total realization of the meaninglessness and chaos of the world or reality as such.

Because theological truth and therefore theological language belong to the eschatological dimension, linguistic analysis as now understood and practiced which deals with empirical and historical truths can not decide on the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of theological language.

(4) The QuestforMeaning: Paul Tillich insisted that the basic anxiety by which modern Western humanity is afflicted is the anxiety of meaninglessness and despair.

In some respects, then, death becomes the ultimate enemy, «the last enemy to be abolished», 14 in that it becomes for man the symbol of all which threatens his life with defeat and meaninglessness.

As in Lycaonia and at Athens, the Christian missionary has first of all to convince his hearers of the meaninglessness and futility of idolatry, idolatry which meant not only the actual worship of images of the gods but also the whole range of pagan religion.

And there is a kind of cosmic loneliness which makes one feel so lost before the indifference of the universe and the meaninglessness of life that one finds no home for his soul.

If we discount appeals that had relevance only when considering the claim that Premise X is meaningless or the claim that Premise X is logically false (i.e., Griffin's appeal to the meaninglessness of «X is a powerless actuality» in the first case and to «the definition of «actual being» in the second case), Griffin's text provides nothing in the way of support for the assertion that the metaphysical principle upon which he is relying is correct.

A theology that is open to the future must first exist in the present, not a present which is an extension of the past, but a present which is a culmination of the past, and hence for us a present which is a moment of vacuity and meaninglessness.

The failure of science and technology to bestow values on the facts with which they deal contributes to a world - wide malaise or sense of meaninglessness.

I realized that I envied the popular Catholic mass because that liturgy, for many, expressed the mystery which makes sense out of life always threatened by meaninglessness.

But get past the meaninglessness of the proposals and they highlight a very worrying psychological trend, which has afflicted many leading Brexiters in Westminster and Fleet Street.

Rotherham observes that there are some broadly supported provisions in the administration's waiver package, such as getting rid of NCLB's «highly qualified teacher rules,» which many states «have gamed... to the point of meaninglessness.»

With his choice of the exhibition title, Kiefer dedicates the installation to the French writer Louis - Ferdinand Céline's book «Voyage au bout de la nuit» («Journey to the End of the Night») from 1932, which describes the demise of European humanism in the trenches of World War I. Famous for its gallows humour and world - weary misanthropy, the book is a darkly humorous and grotesque description of the meaninglessness and evil of war.

These artists explore a great many ways of making art, but what characterizes their production is the utmost importance they lend to sensibility and feeling, pushing often even towards the edge of meaninglessness, which is one of the most precious assets we can cultivate in a culture that tends to package any and all activities into sensational or publicizeable instant explanations.

But some of us feel that art that flirts with the very edge of meaninglessness is an invaluable asset of resistance in this society, which hides its disarray behind surreptitious proofs and verifications.Kahn works a canvas with the relentlessness of the rising tide.

A new group of paintings will be presented in the main gallery, all of which revolve around ideas of meaninglessness and the absurd.

But some of us feel that art that flirts with the very edge of meaninglessness is an invaluable asset of resistance in this society, which hides its disarray behind surreptitious proofs and verifications.

The lemon — once a symbol of both luxury and mortality, of artistic ability and earthly decay, of the sheer might of ever - expanding empires and the ultimate meaninglessness of possessions — it contained all the conflicting dynamics which gave still life paintings their appeal; acting as «vanitas», seducing the senses while reminding the viewer of the transient nature of life.

By their expressive autism, Ireland's pieces often disclose less about themselves than about the condition in which they exist: a cultural field so charged with expectation and reference that everything seems possible in it except meaninglessness, true absurdity.

The second problem is that this only looks at 10 years of data, which isn't even as much as the 12 years that Dr. Curry used despite admitting the statistical meaninglessness of such noisy data over such a short time period.

In scientific terms — by which I mean testable hypotheses — the Drake equation is really meaninglessness.