Sentences with phrase «of human foibles»

People often forget that scientists are people and have the same pressures on them and the same kind of human foibles.

The processes and procedures of science are intended to blunt the effects of these human foibles, but they can never totally eradicate them.

Companies are really loving toys - to - life (and DLC in games like Theatrhythm) because it's a sneaky way to basically charge devoted fans two or three times the amount of money for the same software via a combination of unneccessary content gating and taking advantage of human foibles such as our instinctive urge to collect and our response to perceived scarcity.

But Lars and the Real Girl isn't about so much about the exploration of human foibles as it is about Dude's in love with a plastic vagina!

Slow and mournful, it does not seem to have much in common with the work of other directors who emerged during the decade, especially vivid stylists with urban preoccupations like Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Brian De Palma, Paul Schrader, and William Friedkin, or a caustic observer of human foibles like Robert Altman.

It's quite a test for our young republic as we grapple with a much closer up view of human foibles than was ever available before, thanks to social media and the ever powerful electronic communicative forces that have shrunk the news cycles to minutes and have allowed for, and disposed of surprises, instantly.

Not exact matches

The Facegoogs of the world hold us captive, exploiting our human foibles to draw us into their digital nets.

This industry is not immune from the foibles of greed and human psychology.

In «The Christmas Oratorio» his comic witnesses of the Nativity train attention on our common human foibles and show that the general drudgery and pettiness of our lives may contain an underlying dimension of significance and worth.

the possibility and necessity of living in a dimension of meaning in which the urgencies of the struggle are subordinated to a sense of awe before the vastness of the historical drama in which we are jointly involved; to a sense of modesty about the virtue, wisdom, and power available to us for the resolution of its perplexities; to a sense of contrition about the common human frailties and foibles which lie at the foundation of... our vanities; and to a sense of gratitude for the divine mercies which are promised to those who humble themselves.

This lets the alcoholic know that the minister has problems, is aware of his fallibility, and is speaking as one who shares the foibles and limitations of the rest of the human race.

Humor, funny, ha ha... satire uses both in reference to every day human weaknesses and foibles to make us THINK or simply to share the experience of being human!

In the end, the history of zoology reveals as much about our human foibles as about the animals we study.

Some of our strangest foibles still defy explanation, but it is becoming clear that behaviours and attributes that sometimes seem frivolous often go to the heart of what it means to be human

Even when you think you've considered every condition that a piece of software will encounter, the rebellious nature of reality (including the foibles of human users) will come up with something to violate your assumptions.

Kruskal says of his younger colleague, He's just an ordinary human man, you understand, and he has his foibles, no doubt, but he awes me.

Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a This hit comedy chronicles the foibles of disgruntled office workers — led by deluded boss Michael Scott — at the Dunder Mifflin paper company.

Each of these people has a very human foible, which the actors keep authentic.

A true nailbiter, The China Syndrome is a potent harbinger of the potential devastation that can be wrought when humans attempt to harness an energy source they don't fully understand, an energy that can leave no leeway for such human foibles as avarice and sloth.

Few would begrudge Woody Allen his status as one of cinema's pre-eminent chroniclers of the follies and foibles of the human heart.

Mighty Aphrodite's affectionate Greek chorus is the obvious point of analogy, and so we expect another heavy, forgiving sigh about human foibles, this time in the eternal city, as per Allen's European funding.

The movie doesn't find an interesting foothold until around its halfway point, and up until then, the script covers territory well laid by countless other movies involving famous geniuses, their eccentric ways, and a person who attempts to see through all of the foibles to find the human being within.

An ensemble of characters popping in and out despite focusing more attention on the characters of Sarah and Brad, it's one of the more in - depth studies of human behavior and their foibles in a gated community.

THE NEW GIRLFRIEND (François Ozon, France, 2014, 107 minutes) Ozon's fairy tale about gender roles, gay identity, cross-dressing, love and repression is deliciously fluid, filled with tenderness toward human sexual foibles, laced with Hitchcockian edginess about the danger of coloring outside the lines.

Rather, the plot is more of a study on the human foible of indecisiveness.

Iannucci remains a master of finding humor in the bleakest scenarios imaginable, exposing the petty human foibles behind history's greatest horrors.

The final moments shift between humour and shock, as the indifference of nature to the foibles of human behaviour is laid bare.

Their comedy works because the Farrellys have not only a keen eye for but also a deep sympathy with human foible; when Jack Black's Hal in Shallow Hal scolds his overweight girlfriend's father for denigrating her looks, we get the gag that in Hal's eyes, she's Gwyneth Paltrow, and we likewise understand that many of this fat girl's self - esteem issues probably do have something to do with the amount of support she's getting from the people closest to her.

The human - machine interface is marginally improved, especially switchgear tactility, and there are certainly none of the chassis foibles that characterised the first MP4 - 12C and, to a lesser degree, the 650S — the sensation that there was occasionally diagonal pitching and that the car wasn't quite as firmly tied down as it could be.

Considered China's first philosopher of morality, he was disturbed by human foibles and wanted to raise the standard of human behavior.

But it's a jungle out there, and Squirrel spares neither personality foible nor distasteful aspect of human nature or the animal kingdom (a parasite that prefers hippopotamus anuses comes to mind).

A beautiful, subtle exploration of loss and recovery, pierced throughout with Anne Tyler's humor, wisdom, and always penetrating look at human foibles.

If... you are looking for a large dose of truth with some all too human foibles and faults and long nights of coffee drenched brains and frequent trips to the bathroom then this book is for you.

Meanwhile, the wry and acerbic Nathan has undertaken something he calls The Book of Human Folly, in which he proposes «to set down in the simplest, clearest language possible an account of every blunder, every pratfall, every embarrassment, every idiocy, every foible, and every inane act I had committed during my long and checkered career as a man.»

There are no real surprises, but the archival milieu and the foibles of the characters are intriguing, and it's refreshing to encounter an FBI man who is human, competent, and essential to the plot.

Revealing her innate understanding of the human condition, Williams ensures many of mankind's less attractive qualities and foibles jostle for space alongside our more noble traits — the pride, arrogance and recklessness of the men aboard ship are juxtaposed with acts of astonishing bravery, empathy, loyalty, friendship and love.

But like any good personal financial blogger plagued with the foibles of human emotion, I wanted to get the best price possible.

The value of living with an animal is obvious to anyone who owns a pet: a reason to get up in the morning, acceptance of any and all human foibles, a need to be needed, a source of exercise — all contribute to mental and physical well - being.

Using handwritten text, drawings, photographs, and her keen eye for the foibles that make us human, Chast addresses the realities of what it is to get old in America today — and what it is to have aging parents today — with tenderness and candor, and a good dose of her characteristic wit.

Renowned for her interest in animals, zoology and our perceptions of nature, the artist uses her invented creatures to explore human emotions, foibles and world - views.

He believed that by pointing out the inequities, horrors, and foibles of human behavior he might somehow cause people to consider the consequences of their actions and ultimately, change.

Given human nature over that hundred plus years of records, it is highly likely that all the foibles and faults of those thousands of observers and their measuring equipment will through sheer numbers and bulk have about evened out to a neutral point around which the real actual temperature will be centered.

His point: good science that does not fall prey to pseudoscience NEEDS its heretics to keep it honest, and in order to not succumb to the universal human foible of confirmation bias.