Sentences with phrase «of human failure»

To die a «meaningless» death is recognized as the worst of human failures.

Looking at this incredible exhibit, the realities of human failure overwhelm me and I know that these faces, these lives are but a grain of sand in a desert of despair.

The two previous films he directed, You Can Count on Me and Margaret, are masterful portraits of human failure and weakness.

Do I argue for God out of desperation, out of the profound experience of human failure and brokenness?

On numerous occasions the Roman Catholic philosopher Yves Simon spoke of the need in our modern world to maintain both the Augustinian and Thomistic streams of the common tradition in the midst of a society that sees in authority only a sign of human failure.

Plato's account of the slavish / tyrannical soul - type cultivated in the population by a tyrant would suggest that a darker vision of human failure than Hobbes» nightmare is possible: perpetual tyranny, with only dynasty changes possible for a population utterly debased in soul.

Her question — why — is also in a sense God's question because God is once again forced to deal with the result of a complex, interwoven history of human failure and sin.

Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure.

If CCM is nothing more than a marketing tool for Christianity, then it will never allow for the full cultural expressions of human failure that true artistry demands.

For as much as Soderbergh's Solaris was a wonderfully intimate update of Tarkovsky's canonical vision, The Good German attests that any act of critical mimic experimentation (Gus Van Sant's Psycho, for instance) requires the same core of human failure and desire, lest it come off as just so much masturbation and self - congratulation.

For some, instead of global warming's being proof of human failure, engineering the climate would represent the triumph of human ingenuity.

Was it the result of human failure to do good works or the sign of God's secret predestination decree?

Pride, envy, greed, wrath, lust, gluttony, and sloth: It might sound like just one more episode of The Real Housewives of New Jersey, but this enduring formulation of the worst of human failures has inspired great art for thousands of years.

A biting portrait of human failures and social horrors, that does its biting with big robot teeth and hatchet blades.