Sentences with phrase «narrow visions of»

We know that parents and kids face peer pressure to conform to traditional and narrow visions of success — especially academic success.

When we experience the mysterious abyss of an indefinitely open future, this mysterium tremendum which is in fact the gift of a self - renouncing deity, we are tempted and usually succumb to the tendency to cauterize it with our own narrow visions of the future or of the end of history.

Billy Graham, pastor to presidents, promulgated a form of public religion that differs from that of Jerry FaIwell and Tim LaHaye, whose narrow vision of a Christian America, suggests Meacham, has engendered much ideological conflict.

Palmer wanted to narrow the vision of philosophy as an academic discipline and was the architect of the department that hired Josiah Royce.

However, our over-reliance, I would say singular reliance, on this narrow vision of success has placed enormous stress on students and parents.

That all occurs off - screen, perhaps because it doesn't fit into the very narrow vision of the film.

Such a narrow vision of the family is frustrating to watch for many reasons — fake news jokes, jokes about his taxes, and his obsession with New York are dropped in as though they've never been mocked before — but most of all because given the genre, this cartoon should be a lot more adventurous.

The National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) has criticised the introduction of the English Baccalaureate (EBacc), claiming it offers a «narrow vision of academic excellence».

Don't assume that you know what constitutes a «high quality education,» don't aim a narrow vision of quality at a single type of community, allow the interplay of different choice programs to flourish.

This is more than just a narrow vision of the role of families as merely being able to move their kids out of failure mills and dropout factories.

This narrow vision of education is squeezing play - based learning out of the curriculum, despite the fact that children are still in their early years of development.

The original documentary chronicled the lives of overworked, high - achieving U.S. students who, Abeles says, are stuck in «an education culture gone crazy with competition, and a society so obsessed with one narrow vision of success that it's making our children sick.»

Judge Moukawsher set forth a very narrow vision of what is needed in public schools in order to provide an adequate education; a vision that contradicted precedent across the United States and precedent from the Connecticut Supreme Court itself.

The Ballad of Black Tom is a glorious answer to Lovecraft's narrow vision of humanity and a sorrowful, terrifying read that's well worth the tears.

Those that do, like Madden or Call of Duty, aspire to such a narrow vision of what realism means that a degree of exclusion is understandable.

Not exact matches

When I became president of West Elm, the company had a narrow design vision.

-- Still, same story persists about earnings growth and economic backdrop (problem is that no one knows how to model in impact of tariffs)- many are still afflicted with confirmation bias and narrow vision

«After nearly 50 years of success for Title X, the Trump administration is trying to undermine it by shifting to a narrow and ideological vision of how people should live their lives,» said Clare Coleman, CEO of the national family planning association.

The absence of a constitutional right, and thus of a judicial remedy, does not dictate a narrow or limited vision of a moral society.

Only such communities can embody for the broader culture the large, capacious vision of the good made possible by moral restraint and traditional ways of life — the vast and beautiful «yes» for the sake of which an occasional narrow or stern «no» is required.

With the ferocity of an Old Testament prophet, Powers indicts our blindness and selfishness, a grotesque narrowing of vision; one of his principal characters learns early on that «human wisdom counts less than the shimmer of birches in a breeze.»

I am also deeply grateful to no longer have my vision narrow to a pinpoint in the throes of menstrual cramps or bleed out of my vagina more days of the month than not.

But if, in changing (as we must to stay well), we do not hold stubbornly to the roots of this idealism, we will be sucked into a funnel through which our theological vision will narrow and, in time, become rigid and false.

Such narrow vision does not take in the broad view, the single cause of all of these disorders — humankind's propensity to dominate.

It forms them into people of narrow vision and diminished humanity.

Not drunkenness, adultery, or theft, but self - love, self - righteousness, self - seeking, the will to power and prestige, unkindness, anger and vindictiveness, irresponsibility, complacency before the suffering of the world, willful narrowing of vision to the interests of one's own family, community, race, or nation are among the major sins of most people.

The vision of Christianity to which it calls people is by and large a narrow view of the way things used to be.

Habermas takes a critical view of all these movements because he regards their own theoretical vision as being too narrow.

All of those years of hearing sermon after sermon, youth camp after Bible study, about doing BIG things for a BIG God with BIG visions and BIG plans left us with crazy - high expectations on ourselves coupled with a narrow understanding of following Jesus.

By adopting a purely reactionary stance against the idealism of Hegel (and the philosophical tradition in general) Nietzsche ends up providing us with a vision of nature and the world which is overly narrow in scope.

But when my desire fastens on anything less than God, it immediately becomes destructive, for that is where desire turns into covetousness, and covetousness will rob my life of its potential because it will narrow my vision, depress my limits, bring me to the edge of death, violate my purpose in creation, and starve my life to death.

We often try to exclude the contrast that makes for wider vision, (Today such exclusiveness may take the form of a refusal to encounter the challenging plurality of religions, thus narrowing our understanding of revelation and forfeiting opportunities for a widening of our notion of the mystery of God.)

By giving Adenauer's party and its allies a narrow majority, the voters ratified his vision of Germany's future, one that drew deeply from Christian, and especially Catholic, thought about the challenges facing modern society.

Only by getting outside of ourselves and our narrow consumerist vision can we discover the world of good that is ours.

Or, as Whitehead himself put it in another context, «The folly of intelligent people, clear - headed and narrow - visioned, has precipitated many catastrophes» (AI 60).

Her vision of the world is so narrow.

It makes me very sad that Christians and churches that welcome the perspectives and the gifts offered by other faiths, and by people of no acknowledged faith... and those who recognize, acknowledge and journey through their doubts, questions, etc. are too often pushed (and allow themselves, ourselves) to be pushed to the extreme fringes and accept our voicelessness within a context where faiths and faith groups are often identified by the narrowest, most exclusive vision.

But when the vision of a God who surpasses Job's narrow expectation of justice appears «out of the whirlwind,» Job has to press his hands to his lips in a gesture of silence before the incomprehensible.

just sayin» only «knows» god and the bible through the incredibly narrow vision he pulls out of his a.ss.

In the young Marx there was a double vision of the nature of alienation,... Marxist thought developed along one narrow road of economic conceptions of property and exploitation, while the other road, which might have led to new, humanistic concepts of work and labor, was left unexplored.2

Theologically educated persons can help the mental health movement avoid narrow vision - limiting definitions of mental health.

The obstacles that the new proposals face are depicted as the expression of narrow vision and corrupt self - interest on the part of small groups who are willing to risk the wellbeing of the whole for the sake of retaining the unjust advantages they now enjoy.

His vision of the reign of God was broader than the narrow nationalism of the zealots; it included much more than expelling the Romans and reforming the Temple elites.

Muentzer reminds that the world is often intolerant of those whose vision will stay fixed within narrow confines.

The narrow, modular system takes product in bulk such as pouches and singulates them ahead of vision - guided robotic operations downstream.

And that's the kind of narrow vision that leads to fans voting Nelson Cruz over Alex Rodriguez.

Board of AFC (60 % — it is there lack of vision and narrow focus on profit and not footballing success for the club that holds us back and therefore are the biggest problem for our great club)

Amidst the darkness of limited vision, of generalized and undisputed expectations, of a narrow view of success, of unbridled competition, of uncritical thinking and unacknowledged feeling, let the shamash, the small candle of strength illuminate, for both students and those who love them, deeper desires.

Southern women, in particular, fell victim to that society's narrow - minded vision of a woman's place in the world, and were burdened with fighting gender - based stereotypes for decades.

Eurocentric visions dominate current discourses (as I have similarly argued in an introduction to a recent special issue that I collaboratively edited, see Vollmer et al. 2015), and this narrow sight reduces the understanding of migration as phenomenon and the intricate processes which are part of it.