Sentences with phrase «of human longing»

Le Brun's move away from the wholly abstract to a representational account of the more ineffable aspects of human longing, nostalgia or pain is symptomatic of an increasing plurality of approach in the last years of the century.

See, in Denim Dress, how the tranquil American iconography of girl - sprawled - out - in - field jumps the frame when you realise the girl is a boy; and in Junction 2015, how the mythic forms and long shadows of the American west are worked into surreal compositions that speak as poignantly of human longing as has any sculpture or painting.

In disclosing undreamed - of possibilities for us, revelation seeks to expose the very core of human longing as well.

And if the desire for a final justice is part of our human longing, so too is that longing for something more, whatever it might be, that Kass and the Western tradition have long sought.

The desire to know the truth is for many the most intense and irrepressible of all human longings.

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These findings — though not unique among the countries surveyed by Pew — could raise potential human rights alarm bells as both countries begin the long process of rebuilding their systems of jurisprudence in the wake of the U.S. exit.

NEW YORK — Facebook doesn't think hookups are meaningful and doesn't want you to date your friends — but it's known for a long time that its vast map of human connections could help people find long - term partners.

It turns out that these long - lived fishes, who are our ancient evolutionary cousins, share the core of an adaptive immune system with human beings.

Face - to - face communication happens to be not only essential for human happiness but also could be the missing link to some of the most powerful, long - term health benefits.

«And you wonder where he gets all of the time and energy and discipline to do it because human nature says that after you've been good at something for a very long time, you typically either get distracted or your intensity or focus wanes.

A joint statement from the National Academy of Sciences and Royal Society in Britain said «human - induced increases in CO2 (carbon dioxide) concentrations have been the dominant influence on the long - term global surface temperature increase.»

«The issue is not that middle - class workers are doomed by automation and technology, but instead that human capital investment must be at the heart of any long - term strategy for producing skills that are complemented by rather than substituted for by technological change.»

For business leaders, increasingly this means balancing two very different perspectives: shareholders who expect executives to deliver better short - term financial performance and stakeholders who want more attention paid to the longer - term human and environmental consequences of business.

«It gives us a much longer sweep of human history to examine.»

On human time scales, that's a long time,» Duncan Brown, an astronomer at Syracuse University who's a member of the LIGO research collaboration, previously told Business Insider.

As Roberts, Seldon, and Roberts indicated in Human Resources Management, «the quality of employees and their development through training and education are major factors in determining long - term profitability of a small business» ¦.

«We wanted to see if workers would use these devices over a long period of time, and we found the design of the device is critically important,» says Lucas Carr, assistant professor of health and human physiology at the University of Iowa.

That might seem like a huge stroke of luck for any company, but Johansson signed on after controversially severing her ties as an ambassador with human rights and aid organization Oxfam, which has long opposed Israeli settlement in the West Bank.

BELARUS: The EU has long had difficult relations with Belarus, one of Moscow's closest allies, and has sanctions in place because of human - rights abuses and treatment of political opponents.

For instance, recent research on the sleep habits of hunter gatherer bands living much like our long - ago ancestors did found modern humans actually don't get much less sleep than our tribal forebears.

Debbie Cook, the former mayor of Huntington Beach, California, was one of the first investors: «I thought, How can I invest in something that will actually be an asset for as long as humans exist and grow their own food?»

It's about celebrating each step toward the ultimate human longing for an enhanced and enriched enterprise of life.

But killing off their few fellow human inhabitants may not be the right answer for the characters in the long run in a world full of the undead.

The loss of human life and destruction of property lingered on minds across the world, but a decade - long effort to lure innovative technology firms to the South American country was also at stake.

Not only does this suggest modern humans might have been stepping tentatively into Europe and getting friendly with Neanderthals long before the wave of migration that led to today's population, it shows Neanderthals were more diverse than we thought.

Guantanamo has been criticized by human rights groups, with some of its prisoners held for a decade or longer without being charged or given a trial.

In fact, 70 percent of people turning 65 years old can expect to need some type of long - term care, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The company has moved from research on rats to the cusp of human trials in less than five years at a cost of less than $ 5 million, a process that can often take twice that long and cost many times more.

In fact, 7 in 10 Americans over 65 will need long - term care at some point, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

But they have yet to design a heart, atomic or not, that works long - term within the confines of the human body and doesn't require external drivers or batteries.

On a long instant message rant to his VP of human resources, Oracle EVP Keith Block vented about everything from the company's products to his boss, then Oracle co-president Mark Hurd.

«Our standard account of monetary history is precisely backwards,» he argues — humans were using credit systems long before the first coin was minted.

Writer Gillian Terzis explains that, «Humans have long entertained the possibility of communing with the machines, exploring them as servants, or using them for sexual gratification.

Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

With the incorporation of artificial intelligence (AI), bots are no longer one dimensional search tools, they are dynamic machines that can query information, learn your behaviors, anticipate problems, and organize tasks for their human counterparts.

But organizers of the International Summit on Human Gene Editing said editing genes in human embryos was permissible for research purposes, so long as the modified cells would not be implanted to establish a pregnHuman Gene Editing said editing genes in human embryos was permissible for research purposes, so long as the modified cells would not be implanted to establish a pregnhuman embryos was permissible for research purposes, so long as the modified cells would not be implanted to establish a pregnancy.

It no longer is, even for capital - intensive companies, for all of us the scarce resource is human capital.

I could list all the documented cases of Mugabe's genocidal acts, but that would take too long and its all easy enough to find on the reputable websites managed by the major international human rights groups.

Pinker's extensively researched thesis is that global violence has decreased throughout human history, as wrong as that may feel given the 24 - hour news cycle that came into being not long after two world wars and matured during an age of regular terrorist attacks and mass shootings.

It's another quirk of human nature to add to the long list of our mental oddities and biases, but at least this one is useful.

To ignore this advice and plunk ourselves down longer and more often than the human body was designed for is to tempt both a host of unpleasant health effects and early death.

Months - long testing of the system began in November at the energy department's Nevada National Security Site, with an eye toward providing energy for future human and robotic missions in space and on the surface of Mars, the moon or other solar system destinations.

It takes over the «long, tedious and manual» process of human workers searching the craft's surface (known as the envelope) for miniscule punctures.

With his record running times, Bolt stretched the limits of human achievement, sending physicists scrambling to explain what made him so special ---- in essence, his longer, stronger legs create more ground force to propel him forward ---- and ponder the possibility of anyone on the planet ever running faster.

Many robotics and AI experts aren't too concerned with the long term, believing that machines will ultimately elevate the type of work that humans do.

It's a strategy AT&T used to great effect in the 1970s to sell long - distance telephony — «Reach out and touch someone» — and again in the 1990s with a series of spots about distant spouses and overworked moms to sell human connection in the nascent digital age.

To have the prison alone, with no human contact for long periods of time.

Not long ago, researchers at the University of Manitoba's Human - Computer Interaction Lab conducted a study in which participants were asked to do 80 minutes of painfully dull drudge work under the supervision of a human, or that of a computer namedHuman - Computer Interaction Lab conducted a study in which participants were asked to do 80 minutes of painfully dull drudge work under the supervision of a human, or that of a computer namedhuman, or that of a computer named Nao.

When I used to do a lot of recruiting we used to call it «hanging yourself» because people who talk for long periods of time without seeking feedback are generally not self - aware or good at human interaction.

Socially speaking, it is much more efficient and sophisticated in the long run to understand the intricacies of human behavior than to demand one's way.