Sentences with phrase «moral uncertainty»

Reflecting the chaos, turmoil, suffering, and moral uncertainties of the mid-twentieth century, the series is a testament to the timeless and transcendent aspects of the human condition, such as the co-existence of joy and pain, of hope and suffering, and of life and death.

With her recent work, Bigelow has refashioned cinematic experiences we take for granted by endowing them with moral uncertainty.

Dorothy Barresi's «What We Did While We Made More Guns» examines Americans» anxieties and moral uncertainties in poems on international torture, war and police brutality.

While the Heisenberg principle gets us closer to the real nature of physical things, moral uncertainty is confusing and debilitating.

Contemporary erotic etiquette, even among the young, has so drained physical love of its enticingly forbidden and urgent quality, and so dispelled its atmosphere of rapturous risk, moral uncertainty, tantalizing mystery, and irresistible yearning, that the actual quantum of pleasure in the transaction is often, one imagines, diminished to a very transitory set of neural agitations.

For those who still cling to their now fully discredited religious reservations Obama assures them that he offers this dismissal of their views as a «person of faith»; likewise, for those who still insist there is any moral uncertainty, he comforts them with the simplistic platitude that the only relevant moral imperative is our «work to ease human suffering».

The film devolves into the cozily predictable world of TV legal dramas, abandoning the moral uncertainty of its opening scenes...

From that point on, the film devolves into the cozily predictable world of TV legal dramas, abandoning the moral uncertainty of its opening scenes for the benefit of a villain so comically over-the-top in his evil, he might as well be theatrically twirling a mustache and tying a damsel in distress to train tracks.

That, certainly, is the mainstream Jewish view to this day; however, Oz's implication that his mother's foreboding and dread — even before the 1948 war gets under way, and in stark contrast to his father's bullish espousal of nationalist sentiment — is a prefiguring of Israel's future of violence, splintering and moral uncertainty: Faina herself uses the word «abyss».

Combining open world design with a strong story, and allowing you to colour in the patches of moral uncertainty with red or blue is something inFamous has long stood for, embodying the grand question of what would an ordinary person do if they developed superpowers?

Lost In The City, with humour and pathos, reminds us of the alienation that can be felt in the heart of a busy city as well as obliquely commenting on the moral uncertainty of the financial district.

The grimness, the despair, the moral uncertainty that I assumed Sander would be recording in a nation with 1m new orphans and 600,000 new widows are surprisingly slow to show themselves.

Then in 1944 Newman returned to painting - after first destroying most of his previous work - and over the next 5 years evolved his signature style of Colour Field Painting: a style in line with his view that, in an age of moral uncertainty and physical insecurity, the only rightful subject matter for an artist was the «sublime».