Sentences with phrase «of abject fear»

Or, put another way, if teachers were generating high test score gains from their students by creating a climate of abject fear in their classrooms, their observation scores should be low and that information is useful.

It creates feelings of awe in the hearts of loyal subjects and thus supports the «godness» of God, but these feelings are balanced by others of abject fear and humiliation: in this picture, God can be God only if we are nothing.

Not exact matches

Repudiating the fear and dread inspired in men by Satan and his churches — an Angst deriving from an abject and selfish terror of death (38:38)-- Milton's purpose is to teach men to despise death and to move forward:

I have NO such fears and have challenged your god many times to come and face me man to god however your god cowers in abject terror at the prospect of facing me he is a craven coward.

We shouldn't be surprised that masses of incensed residents of black Ferguson marching peacefully through their own streets in protest of sub-human treatment would trigger abject fear in the hearts of Ferguson's nearly all white police department.

Thus, to Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939), a founder of psychoanalysis, God is the projection into supposed reality of human fears, neuroses and abject needs.

Traveling to Japan in search of their mentor (Liam Neeson), who is rumored to have disavowed Christianity and taken a Japanese wife, Rodrigues and his fellow Jesuit Father Garrpe (Adam Driver) are confronted with abject poverty and an oppressive government that condemns Christians to live in fear — desperate circumstances the fathers believe can be improved only by faith in God.

Every one of these kids lives in abject fear of the man, averting their eyes when he walks into the room.

Some of the things they turned out to be hiding were psychological, like Renata's abject fear of failure.

Johnson steers clear of abject terror by weaving a thread of humor throughout, while Mead's black - and - white illustrations ramp up each tale's tension and fear factor to levels of delightful squirming.

On these farms, dogs live in abject squalor, their daily lives full of fear, boredom, hunger and disease.

The stealth genre has long been plagued by the enveloping darkness of abject failure, an impending sense of fear that everything you have worked so hard to accomplish is but hair's breadth away from collapsing...

His works navigate minefields of desire, fear, regression and the abject in everyday life, often by creating a hybrid of high and low art.

, Fear of a Queer Planet (University of Minnesota Press), pp.230 - 238 Paul Gilroy, «Climbing the Racial Mountain: a Conversation with Isaac Julien», in Small Acts: Thoughts on the Politics of Black Cultures (Serpent's Tail), pp. 166 - 172 Craig Houser, «I Abject», in Craig Houser, Leslie C. Jones, and Simon Taylor (eds.)