Sentences with phrase «nasty brutish»
The spoilt brats argument has become old and tired... Life is nasty brutish and short just want our team to be winners once in a while... and no I don't count fa cup as sufficient and certainly not carling
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The genteel Senate forces a Hobbesian choice, nasty and brutish: to get the stimulus to the people who need it most requires diluting it for families who also need it, while bestowing cash on those who plainly don't.
Part of the signal to cut and run from commodities is provided by various neo-Hobbesians (the natural state of mankind is «solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short») who argue that the world has reached a «Malthusian breakpoint.»
As if never in the past have people been nasty, mean and brutish.
In Thomas Hobbes» famous formulation, life was «nasty, brutish, and short.»
The Coens» True Grit makes some necessary room for the heroism the west really did call forth, but is otherwise all about revealing the «nasty and brutish» features of the truly wild west.»
Recognizing the fragility of a condition in which life is «nasty, brutish, and short,» they employ their rational self - interest to sacrifice most of their natural rights in order to secure the protection and security of a sovereign.
Any «culture that tells us our worth can be measured by our economic output» is narrow, stupid, and empty (if not «nasty, brutish, and short»).
If one wanted to defend Thomas Hobbes» description of human life as «nasty, brutish, and short,» he could use these studies as case material.
A world in which each of us is permitted to judge guilt and execute punishment, in which revenge and blood feuds are permitted, is likely to be the one Hobbes described» in which the life of man is «solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.»
Without some political power controlling us, life would be «solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.»
As Thomas Hobbs observed, life in the state of nature is «solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.»
Online politics has turned nasty, vicious, ugly, brutish AND short... just the way we like it.
Reform the world of work which is becoming increasingly nasty, brutish and short.
«There has been a collision of a large amount of immigration from eastern Europe and a UK labour market that is frankly too often nasty, brutish and short - term,» he said.
«The life of man [by nature is] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short -LSB-...] The condition of Man is a condition of war against every one»
It is arguably more democratic but for my money the Gillard - Rudd death match contained all the essential characteristics of a good leadership contest: it was nasty, brutish and short.»
Life has become nasty, brutish, and short under the Buhari administration.»
So the lives of at least the surviving hunter - gatherers aren't nasty and brutish, even though farmes have pushed them into some of the world's worst real estate.
Timurlengia would have been a nasty critter, but nowhere near the brutish size of T. rex.
Life in the intertidal zone can be nasty, brutish, and short.
But then how can one reconcile animal rights with the need to conserve whole ecosystems (which may mean culling) and in addi - tion, realising that, even if we don't interfere with a species, the lives of wild animals are often «nasty, brutish and short»?
There's the adage that life is nasty, brutish and short.
City of God's harrowing depiction of daily violence in the favelas exemplifies in shocking detail the Hobbesian view of life as «nasty, brutish, and short,» but the film never casts judgment.
But life has not been kind to Randy as the life of a pro wrestler is nasty, brutish, and short.
Ridley Scott ensemble thriller is nasty, brutish and short or mysterious, upsetting and alluring
But for this wide - screen event he's chosen an uncompromisingly nasty, brutish story even by his standards: a bloody tale of America reckoning with itself that takes place almost entirely in a large room in post-Civil War Wyoming while a blizzard rages outside.
Though none are painted in as broad a stroke as the nasty, brutish Greeks, who play a role that wouldn't be so out of place in 300.
McDonagh, known for such operatically profane, extravagantly brutal exercises as «In Bruges» and «Seven Psychopaths,» doesn't stint on his signature flourishes: «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» is as dark as they come, a pitch - black, often laceratingly funny look at human nature at its most nasty, brutish and dimwitted.
Their message, to the extent that they have one: the world is a nasty and brutish place, and you can depend only on yourself.
At a time when the careers of big - city superintendents are often nasty, brutish, and short, Richard C. Wallace Jr.'s experience is a notable exception.
Jarvis sees human nature as «mean, nasty, brutish, selfish, and capable of great cruelty and meanness.
Even the slightest infraction landed you in the Korean gulag, where life was at best nasty, brutish and short.
The lives of outdoor cats, including feral cats, were not «nasty, brutish, and short» at all.
«Nasty, brutish and short» is how Ken Midkiff, author of The Meat You Eat, describes the life of the animals who give up their hides.
«Their lives are nasty, brutish, and short.»
The brutish punching is seemingly intact, watching the new E3 trailer, and Batman seems a bit nastier than he is in the other games, perhaps representing Wayne's untamed, youthful lust for revenge (via punching).
Nasty, brutish and short, Ryse: Son of Rome has emerged from a seven - year development hell as a visually resplendent, preternaturally dumb action game that exhibits a galling, monotonous bloodlust.
There's a DayZ short film out now, and it's a pointed reminder that life in the game is, as Hobbes once wrote, «nasty, brutish, and...
Pain and suffering has been hugely reduced wherever modern medicine is available and it is no longer necessary to accept that human life is «nasty, brutish and short».
The following as been excerpted from Twilight of Abundance: Why Life in the 21st Century will be Nasty, Brutish, and Short by David Archibald:
New Book by David Archibald: «The Twilight of Abundance» — Warns of Global Cooling — «Why Life in the 21st Century Will Be Nasty, Brutish, and Short»
Life was, as they say, nasty, brutish, and short.
Like me I'd think he'd give environmental activists like Greenpeace very little credit for improving our environment, and technology / industry plenty for changing our lives from short / brutish / nasty to something much better.
Thomas Hobbes» conception of the original condition of mankind: nasty, brutish and short.
My question for readers is, should we, as a profession, care that life at large firms resembles that of pre-civilized man described by Hobbes: nasty, brutish and short?
In the words of Thomas Hobbes, life was «nasty, brutish and short.»
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It's a shorthand language that keeps corporate life from being solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
Commission of Audit: a recipe for a poorer, nastier and more brutish Australia Ben Eltham http://t.co/Rp3AVksgb1 via @guardian #auspol