Sentences with phrase «of agony as»

It inspires homesickness, chauvinism, braggadocio, tears (of agony as well as longing), dozens of tumultuous cook - offs each year, and more philosophizing than Marcel Proust's madeleines.»

Looking down at himself, Plutt let out a scream of agony as his underlings hurriedly fell back.

An accident comes with a whole set of agonies as personal injuries and arguments.

Not exact matches

As a business owner or a manager, you've gone through the agony of selecting an accounting, customer relationship, management, order entry or some other type of software for your company.

Some shots also showed the brutality of the movie, including one of men in agony as they hung on crosses.

In the coming weeks, millions of college freshmen will know the joy of acceptance and the agony of money anxiety as they figure out whether they and their parents can afford the college of their choice.

It is, as you can see, a representation of Our Lord wearing what looks like a pashmina, or maybe a camel's - hair hand - me - down from His cousin John the Baptist, and is entitled «The Agony in the Wilderness.»

As for the nails in the hands, that was done simply to increase the agony of the condemned.

Even in Hades he tries to use Lazarus (whose name he now remembers) as his lackey to «dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am in agony in these flames.»

It is a vicious circle and Satan delights in it as it doesn't reflect well on them and it of course makes you a ball of agony and self - recrimination.

As never before in the history of the Christian consciousness, the modern Jew has appeared and has been real as the suffering servant, the broken one in whose agony the world can behold and know the pain of humanitAs never before in the history of the Christian consciousness, the modern Jew has appeared and has been real as the suffering servant, the broken one in whose agony the world can behold and know the pain of humanitas the suffering servant, the broken one in whose agony the world can behold and know the pain of humanity.

The story is one of mounting personal agony for the two fathers, Kumalo and the elder Jarvis, as in different ways they search for their sons, Kumalo for the release of Absalom from the murder charge or at least the boy's repentance for his act, and Jarvis for the significance of his son's life which was devoted to the improvement of the lot of the blacks in South Africa.

They often speak as if bravely weathering the agony of dialectical conflict were the sole end and purpose of true religious experience, with harmony and simplicity left to the spiritual amateur and featherweight.

After the horrors of mass genocide in this century, it is hard to speak of Jesus» agony as uniquely awful, horrible as it was.

The Mother, the Child, and the bare manger: the lowly man, homeless and self - forgetful, with his message of peace, love and sympathy: the suffering, the agony, the tender words as life ebbed, the final despair: and the whole with the authority of supreme victory.»

CE further «The Mother, the Child, and the bare manger; the lowly man, homeless and self - forgetful, with his message of peace, love, and sympathy the suffering the agony, the tender words as life ebbed, the final despair and the whole with the authority of supreme victory.»

Their spirit is crying in pain and agony because of what has happened, so it's just a deeply devastating situation, and as you can imagine, they are really concerned about bringing their families to church.

In effect, Jesus on the cross experiences the agony of being temporarily forsaken by the Father, while the Father in the same moment experiences the anguish of being separated from his Son, hence of losing his own identity as Father.

They concern life as a whole, in all its many aspects of weal and woe, chance and destiny, success and failure, triumph and tragedy, agony and glory, hope and despair.

But some Bunyan, writing Pilgrim's Progress in a prison where it was so damp that, as he cried, «The moss did verily grow upon mine eyebrows»; some Kernahan, born without arms and legs, but by sheer grit fighting his way up until he sat in the House of Commons; some Henry M. Stanley, born in a workhouse and buried in Westminster Abbey; some Dante, his Beatrice dead, he himself an exile from the city of his love, distilling all his agony into a song that became the «voice of ten silent centuries», or some more obscure and humble life close at hand where handicaps have been mastered, griefs have been built into character, disappointments have been turned into trellises, not left a bare, unsightly thing — such incarnations of fortitude and faith have infectious power.

As our phones splinter our attention and the infotainment machine shortens the time between impulse and satisfaction, we are delivered from the old agonies of patience — wherein attention and desire stretch to receive gifts that we didn't know we wanted.

When a child or adolescent has chronic agonies of shyness, these feelings should not be taken as «just a phase.»

Where is the «loving kindness» to the families of sick children who are suffering untold agonies as they watch their children die.

The grief may be taken as a mark of his true humanity, as a kind of agony in the presence of death (like the synoptic accounts of Jesus» Gethsemane prayer).

Did anyone in all history suffer alone as did Jesus; deserted by all friends and relatives, disowned by his followers, in agony in the garden of Gethsemane?

To cite a more contested passage, her image in Revelation 12:17 as a woman clothed with the sun with a crown of stars in the agony of giving birth to a son who will rule the nations is, at the very least, impressive.

It would spare him, as well as Mary and her parents, a lot of agony.

I myself have seen monks with open mouths, not so much singing, as doing ludicrous feats of breathing, as that they looked as if they were in their last agony or lost in rapture.

God is not to be perceived as an abstract remote deity insensitive to the deepest religious feelings which grow out of experiences of pain, suffering, death, and human agony.

As a matter of fact, the existence of God gives Ivan far more agony than his nonexistence ever could.

Rounds out and counters our hearts & flowers sense of «grace» As Neils Bohr says, the opposite of a profound truth is another profound truth: agony and ecstasy — Siamese Twins though we want to send one of them to the cellar.

Finally, in the criminal's chest» crushed as though piled under heavy stones» his heart bursts and he dies in one last moment of agony.

But while his solution — recovering a notion of death as natural — could alleviate the agony of particular dying individuals and their caregivers, I am not convinced this will effectively ameliorate those conditions that impel public opinion toward the «potentially disastrous» outcomes of euthanasia and assisted suicide.

This is the cinematic version of Aronofsky dragging a dog tied to the bumper of a car just to listen to it cry out in agony as it dies.

We can make Christ» s agony in the garden, or his submission to divine will on the cross, as the hallmark and pattern of achieved human freedom rather than its supercession.

The climax comes in the agony of his decision as to whether he can presume to do this.

But there can be no doubt as to what elements in the record have evoked a response from all that is best in human nature: the mother, the Child, and the bare manger: the lowly man, homeless and self - forgetful, with his message of peace, love, and sympathy: the suffering, the agony, the tender words as life ebbed, the final despair: and the whole with the authority of supreme victory.

Now in summer, when it was hot, and he was very tired and ill from his journeyings, or when he held the office of lecturer, he would sometimes, as he lay thus in bonds, and oppressed with toil, and tormented also by noxious insects, cry aloud and give way to fretfulness, and twist round and round in agony, as a worm does when run through with a pointed needle.

After I sat down, being all in confusion, like a drowning man that was just giving up to sink, and almost in an agony, I turned very suddenly round in my chair, and seeing part of an old Bible lying in one of the chairs, I caught hold of it in great haste; and opening it without any premeditation, cast my eyes on the 38th Psalm, which was the first time I ever saw the word of God: it took hold of me with such power that it seemed to go through my whole soul, so that it seemed as if God was praying in, with, and for me.

The mother, the Child, and the bare manger: the lowly man, homeless and self - forgetful, with his message of peace, love, and sympathy: the suffering, the agony, the tender words as life ebbed, the final despair: and the whole with the authority of supreme victory.

When the writer of Romans 8 speaks of the whole of creation groaning and suffering in travail as in the agony of childbirth, he adds that God is not simply watching from afar as a producer of a play might watch the performance from the wings.

In spite of the unquestionable fact that saints of the once - born type exist, that there may be a gradual growth in holiness without a cataclysm; in spite of the obvious leakage (as one may say) of much mere natural goodness into the scheme of salvation; revivalism has always assumed that only its own type of religious experience can be perfect; you must first be nailed on the cross of natural despair and agony, and then in the twinkling of an eye be miraculously released.

She admits that the sort of things most likely to be important to Christians, such as Jesus» agony in the garden and his «demeanor» during the crucifixion, are not likely to be substantiated by historical means.

As I contemplate the church today, I would judge it to be an institution in very serious trouble; every mainline denomination is faced with the same agonies of declining membership.

Calvin thus perceived in the crucifixion not only the price of redemption, but also the archetype of faith as he understood it: seeing God even in the midst of agonies of body and soul, when every natural feeling cries out that God must be against me.

Could we think of them as birth pangs, agonies heralding a new life?

The section of Les fleurs du mal titled «Révolte» opens with a sad mockery of Christ, who was so credulous as to think his Father suffered with him in his agony.

As another writer has said, if we were in extreme agony of soul should we pray, «I beseech Thee, O Distant God of Unfathomable Glory» or should we pray, «Lord — HELP!

In the midst of their agony, Latimer called out, «Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man; we shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England as I trust shall never be put out.»

Even as a young man you feel this but, as you grow older and see more and more of what Keats called «the giant agony of the world,» you will feel ever more deeply the seeming contradiction between Christian faith and the hideous, tragic evil on this earth.