Sentences with phrase «most dehumanizing»

The most pernicious quality of Alzheimer's, Gillies suggests, is that the loss of memory is, in effect, the loss of one's self, and Alzheimer's, because it robs us of our intrinsic self - knowledge, our ability to connect with others, and our capacity for self - expression, is perhaps the most terrible and most dehumanizing illness.

To have someone clearly see me and ignore my «hello» and walk on by is the most dehumanizing experience.

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Anyone who looks with sensitivity at the suffering of the poor and powerless, suffering that most of us do not deliberately intend, has a sense that some kind of cunning evil that is too strong for us and dehumanizes us has captured and controls the systems and structures in which we live.

We know that television entertains us, a companion ever ready with the escape and fantasy we sometimes need, but also that it cultivates a mean world full of violence, that its values and stories demean and dehumanize us, and that its religious impact is the very antithesis of the Christian faith in which most people in our society profess to believe.

Behavioral modification programs using aversive therapy have conditioned some homosexuals against attraction to their own sex, but most frequently they have been unable to replace that with attraction to the opposite sex, a dehumanizing result.

Remember that one of the most powerful things that the Interhamwe did in the lead - up to the Rwandan genocide was to use propaganda (for example, via the Milles Collines radio station) to insult them, degrade them, accuse them of crimes they had not committed, and generally, to blame everything on them and dehumanize them in the process.

Written by prison system therapist Jonathan Asser, STARRED UP is a merciless, uncompromising portrayal of a dehumanizing life behind bars, and the most accomplished film of David Mackenzie's career; as father and son, Mendelsohn and O'Connell give extraordinary performances, charting a path that resembles Greek tragedy.

Ken Loach's latest, the winner of this year's Palme d'Or at Cannes, is one of the most important films of 2016; there couldn't be a more timely moment for a film about the value of citizenship, and to issue a protest against the increasingly powerful dehumanizing forces of what you might call «client culture,» the corporate logic that reduces human lives to economic statistics or blips on screens.

Most of those still residing were women, victims of gross ill - treatment and brutal and dehumanizing rape They had lost their husbands, sons, brothers and fathers to the Bosnian Serbs relentless pursuit of a «Greater Serbia.»

And most monstrous of all, in Maggy's eyes; the evil that justifies torture by dehumanizing the victims.»