Sentences with phrase «moral anguish»

There's moral anguish and some genuinley distressing decisions to make.

Fassbender has relatively few lines but his face is a landscape of seething moral anguish and guilt.

As one who has seen both versions of Dying, I can report that in neither edit is Schrader's latest a masterpiece, while in both it is an efficient and mostly effective B - grade thriller rooted in a distinctly Schraderian sense of guilt and moral anguish, and featuring a very fine performance by Cage.

Of course, not all people feel the same sort of moral anguish.

** In discussing abortion I will not address instances where most people, however they might ultimately decide the issue, would feel genuine moral anguish, cases, for example, where it is known that the child will be born with severe deformities.

If tomorrow we heard (what of course we will not hear) that real peace had come to Southeast Asia, that a new government had emerged representing all the people, that the United States was prepared to give billions through international channels to rebuild what our tens of billions have destroyed — if we heard all that, I would rejoice because of the relief from moral anguish I would feel privately and inwardly, and because of the renewed possibility of pride in being an American.

I prefer to hope that our moral anguish will prompt us to coordinate our scientific knowledge with moral wisdom, so that the present crisis can be truly a crisis in a biblical sense — a transformation which brings new faithfulness to God and a derivative humanism.

Not exact matches

These days, however, many religious and moral traditionalists in America can easily relate to the young Madison's anguished plea for pity and prayer — or at the very least for a revival of liberty of conscience.

We re-discover the meaning of heroism and friendship as we see the two hobbits clawing their way up Mount Doom; we see again the endless evil of greed and egotism in Gollum, stunted and ingrown out of moral shape by years of lust for the ring; we recognize again the essential anguish of seeing beautiful and frail things - innocence, early love, children — passing away as we read of the Lady Galadriel and the elves making the inevitable journey to the West.

In our own day, inspired by centuries of moral fiction and visual mythos, novelists and rock composers have made her Jesus» faithful Greek or Eurasian prostitute, anguished because he won't love her and she doesn't know how to love him; earthy, beautiful, the saintly hooker who spices the story of the Galilean on his way to Superstardom.

What we have not yet fully grasped is that this very fact — our own participation in the anguished quest for moral authenticity — constitutes the apologetic necessity without which we could not begin to reach out to others.

The book of Job is an anguished consideration of how one might reconcile religious faith with moral outrage, and Job's wife had reason for telling her husband to curse God and die.

when asked why no other atheists condemned stone's p r n ographic, vi lent suggestions, the remaining moral atheists were so distressed, they simply couldn't find any thing suitable to convey their deepest anguish and displeasure.

As he describes one German or Austrian layman after another capitulating to the Third Reich, and even wayward Churchmen bending their knee to Hitler and his henchmen, we feel his anguish and moral indignation.

He has no need to seek it in anguish, to invent it... to shoulder the responsibilities of the moral choice he has made.

Against this widely prevailing understanding of the «creation faith» we suspect that in Yahwistic circles the very term «creation» may have been a dirty word and that the development and discussion of Israel's creation faith was suppressed as part of the long, anguished struggle against religious syncretism and the loss of the distinctly moral - ethical - historical character of the Yahweh faith.

There were many times when the Israelite was deeply conscious of the moral problems, the frustrations, and the anguish in which his human mortal lot involved him.

• Perhaps Mandelson's cry of anguish expresses his fear that if Miliband is right on this then New Labour's backside - licking of big corporations might eventually come to be viewed as most people now view its insistence that Britain be involved in Iraq — a moral outrage and a gross disservice to the British people that New Labour were elected to serve.

Though more conflicted about their killing spree, Lila too has her moral compass broken by anguish that affects her far more than she had realized was possible.

It's a character driven study that doesn't necessarily rely on plot as much as it does on a single character's mental anguish, as his ethical and philosophical morals are threatened by the lures of capitalism.

The text gives a summary of Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel «Crime and Punishment» that explores the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in Saint Petersburg who formulates a plan to kill an old pawnbroker.