Sentences with phrase «moral awakening»

To achieve moral awakening required a force outside the human race.

Men are monsters, albeit ones with the potential for redemption, in this measured, mechanical portrait of Joseph, whose slow moral awakening comes via an unlikely relationship with thrift - store proprietor Hannah (Olivia Colman), whom Joseph — after attacking a gang of young bar patrons — ruthlessly berates during their opening meeting, condemning her (without any justification) for being a content middle - class idiot whose barren womb is a source of shame.

Every action has a reaction, a unintended consequence, however benevolent the motivation, however great the spiritual or moral awakening of the giver.

In the end it does not really matter whether Heidegger's late philosophy was a mad labor of craven self - exculpation, or the fruit of genuine moral awakening, or a bit of both.

Philip Baker Hall's grizzled Donny is good without quite conveying his final moral awakening but Mark Webber's Bobby has the right tremulous desire to please and Kevin Rigdon's set is an amazing collection of American bric - a-brac including, significantly, portraits of Lincoln and JFK.

He doesn't have a real moral awakening until a critical scene in The Counterfeiters where a Nazi officer pisses all over him both literally and figuratively — and to his great credit, Markovics doesn't oversell the obvious transition.

So late is the hour and so deep the malaise that any moral awakening at all is likely to take Lance's violent expression.

Near the end of This Hemisphere of Liberty, Michael Novak calls for a moral awakening to quench the spiritual thirst that underlies the present global democratic revolution.

The text is employed to speak of national «revival,» defined in terms of renewed civil religion and moral awakening.

Oren Moverman's Rampart is a conversion melodrama manqué, which means the moral awakening comes too late to do anyone onscreen any good.

Yousef's story, which he retells in the doc «The Green Prince,» is one of unimaginable courage and moral awakening: He began to turn against his compatriots when he saw them torturing and killing other Palestinians in prison, on a false suspicion of snitching.

The part was allegedly written for Tom Hanks, but it's impossible to imagine anyone except Cruise; his yuppie charisma is perfect for the role from the start, keeping Maguire from feeling like too much of a dick, and you buy every second of his moral awakening.

They continue, «We need a moral awakening and we need it now, in order to offer personalized education to each student.»

It was impossible to expect a moral awakening from humankind itself, just like it was impossible to expect humans to lift off the earth by pulling up on their own hair.