Sentences with phrase «monumental human suffering»

«We know the monumental human suffering that takes place, and the question is how we morally, ethically reconcile that,» she says.

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Not only its aesthetic value, which is apparent in the power of its expression, in the depth of its sensitivity, and in its monumental structure; but also its content — the bold and colossal struggle with the ancient, and at the same time always new, human problem of the meaning of suffering — all this puts the work, in its universal significance, in a class with Dante's Divine Comedy and Goethe's Faust.8