Sentences with phrase «of human folly»

The War Lovers (Little, Brown), Evan Thomas» provocatively titled, satirical look at three colorful individuals who became prime movers in the birth of American imperialism, is a page - turning biographical account of human folly at its most...

The War Lovers (Little, Brown), Evan Thomas» provocatively titled, satirical look at three colorful individuals who became prime movers in the birth of American imperialism, is a page - turning biographical account of human folly at its most... more

Given these historical errors and oversights in both our biblical interpretation and our artistic engagement, we must support efforts to study and present a true, uncompromising picture of both the glory of God's creation and the depths of human folly.

Whether the innocent suffer because of natural disasters (like earthquakes) or because the consequences of human folly and injustice (like wars and revolutions) do not fall only on the guilty, the burden of suffering is so heavy that praising God seems not only out of the question but also a violation of our moral sense.

The NDC can not afford the cost of any human folly that has the potential of keeping the Party in perpetual opposition.

While the doc flounders as a coherent story of human folly, it's a cheeky travelmercial guaranteed to get the curious to make the road trip to this near - abandoned resort.

That said, There Will Be Blood is riveting, and rollicking - a delirious exploration of human folly, of zealotry for fossil fuels and zealotry in the name of a god.

But Mendes's production and Russell Beale's performance sharpen our understanding of Shakespeare's analysis of human folly and the primacy of contradictory feeling over calm rationality.

As Sidney Offit concludes, «Few writers in the history of literature have achieved such a fusion of the human comedy with the tragedies of human folly in their fiction.»

In its vision of human folly, and its gritty, sympathetic portraits of men and women desperate for an end to their loneliness, whether in sex or death or by the grace of God, this is a story like nothing in our literature.

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.»

I look towards ruins and antiquity to contemplate and highlight the fall of empire, the fleeting nature of human folly, the futile striving towards platonic forms and the implicit mystery of antiquity.

Past work has focused on the adventures of birds as symbols of human folly.

Taking his title from Goya's monumental series of etchings filled with images of human folly, vice and absurdity, Restrepo's Los Caprichos cover much the same territory in contemporary terms.

In contrast to historical painters who romanticized and fetishized the female body, Brown sometimes truncates the nude figure, rendering it with vigorous brushstrokes and intense hues to express the energy of bodies in motion and the capriciousness of human folly, which she considers one of the «big subjects» in art.

Neuman's whimsical and surrealist conceptions portray a colorful examination of human folly.

Truly «drawn» worlds, Bontecou's drawings take us into unsettling realms of human folly and the frailty of the natural world.