Sentences with phrase «of inflicting pain»

Taking each of the tetrad in turn, narcissism is associated with feelings of superiority and ego - inflation; psychopathy is linked to impulsivity and callousness; Machiavellianism is associated with manipulation and exploitation of others; and sadism is defined as the enjoyment of inflicting pain on others.

The backdrops to your bone - shattering fights are varied and interesting, giving you something to look while your opponent juggles you in the air in an attempt to find even more interesting and inventive ways of inflicting pain upon you.

The repercussions of inflicting pain upon your pet could either result in the canine deciding that humans are alarming due to being hurt every time he / she tries to greet one, or your pet may determine that you are frightening since you abuse them every time they try to welcome people.

It is Japan's way of inflicting pain and suffering upon America; retribution for the many wrongs committed by America.

While Clarke's character treats the married couple who are his tenants (Mary J. Blige, Rob Morgan) as if they are indentured servants, his reprehensible Klansman Pappy (Jonathan Banks) thinks nothing of inflicting pain upon their returning World War II hero son (Jason Mitchell) who refuses to kowtow to white folks.

The pleasure of inflicting pain: Retaliatory aggression arises from a neural imbalance toward reward.

After about 30 seconds of serious thought, I couldn't think of any good reason to do the circ — and the thought of inflicting pain on a new born, who's just had all kinds of other stuff done to him, didn't really appeal to me.

When we dissassociate from emotions or act as if what happened is normal and even «necessary» without really getting in touch with the hurt or anger or sadness, we run the risk of inflicting pain on others.

Not exact matches

It is a question of whether it is right to inflict short - term pain to reduce the risk of longer - term devastation.

Moreover, they note, Xi knows he has a host of measures at his disposal for inflicting substantial economic and political pain on Trump.

The pain trade is the market's uncanny ability to inflict the most amount of pain to traders when the market gets volatile.

Only emergency support from the ECB is keeping the banks afloat and saving Greece from a chaotic euro exit that would inflict more pain on its people and gravely damage the currency, the strongest symbol of the EU's drive for an «ever closer union» on a continent once ravaged by two world wars.

Their appearance is a clear sign of Kazakhstani discontent with the Eurasian Economic Union, a Russia - led trade group that was supposed to promote mutual growth but which critics say has so far only inflicted economic pain on Astana.

But he has nothing to say about the pain he inflicts on the producers of jobs that could help those who are unemployed and want to work.»

It is a strategy rooted in both economics (oversupply forces high - cost producers out of business and preserves Saudi's market share) and geopolitics (low prices inflict immense pain on petro - state adversaries like Russia and Iran).

Even a thousand years of pain is more than any human being could inflict.

♦ Johns Hopkins administrators responded with the usual «I hear your pain» concessions to the HRC's faux anguish over the harms inflicted by a dry report on the current state of the science on matters of sexual orientation and gender — but they stopped short of disavowal.

The gambling jobs, taxes and recreational values provided by the industry can not compensate for the social pain — in the form of bankruptcies, white - collar crime, divorce, a compromised political process, an increase in alcoholism — it inflicts.

I just don't see that Jesus reveals this kind of God, a God that is vindictive toward His enemies, who inflicts pain and punishment on people because they go against His will.

Maybe it is splitting hairs, but for me, the concept of punishment seems to imply the inflicting of pain upon someone else for something bad they did to you.

Mr Lawrence, who speaks to young people to spell out the dire consequences of carrying a weapon, said: «Right now with the violence, and the knife crime violence, it is even more urgent now that I talk to these youngsters and explain to them the pain and the suffering they inflict on families.

He wanted to show us that God's role in those violent religious texts is not in the inflicting of pain and suffering of others, but in receiving and suffering that pain along with us.

The abortion of a quickened fetus inflicts more pain and destroys more value than an earlier abortion.

There was the Superior Court judge in Ontario who ruled that Ottawa had «failed in their duty of care to indigenous peoples» in one case pertaining to the Sixties Scoop which hardly seems sufficient language for the intergenerational pain that was inflicted but I'm glad for it.

In this kind of theodicy Gethesemane, the cross, and the resurrection are important foci for understanding the depths of God's love, who, in creating an unimaginatively complex matrix of matter eventuating finally in persons able to choose to go against God's intentions, nonetheless grieves for and suffers with this beloved creation, both in the pain its natural course brings all its creatures and in the evil that its human creatures inflict upon it.

This cruelty is compounded in light of the responsible deity having infinite alternatives which would not have involved inflicting severe terror, suffering and pain upon children and infants.

Memory, often a comfort, can just as often inflict pain by reminding us of what we have lost or have failed to do.

I was thinking of how much pain is inflicted on a human body by burning, and wondering if a loving god would really allow that to happen to anyone, regardless of what they had done on earth.

Whatever may be believed about divine judgment — and some things need to be believed about it — it can hardly be thought that the God of Jesus inflicts pain maliciously.

We observe that evil has no boundaries — the very existence of torture, and the fact that human rights organisations believe that over 80 % of the world's governments practice some form of it, shows that humans are not just content to be a little bit evil, but are most willing to be CREATIVELY evil, concocting new ways to inflict pain and suffering onto others.

Thus, a religion is not built on a system of logic, but is built on a system of hope — the hope of avoiding divinely inflicted pain and / or the hope of gaining divinely given blessing / closeness (for traditional American Christianity)[or the hope of avoiding bringing shame to the family and / or the hope of basking in the applause of the family unit (for forms of Islam)-RSB-.

Because animals can suffer, we have ethical obligations not to inflict upon them more pain, relative to their capacities for sentience, than we would inflict on creatures of our own kind, relative to our capacities.

History clearly shows how the pilgrims couldn't paddle across the Atlantic fast enough to inflict their pain and misery to all those who disputed their righteous ways and once stepping foot upon the north continent, the sword of Christianity was sharp and swift.

Thank you for all of the insight you have revealed through your post and the really pain inflicting conversation it spurred.

Freud came upon the «death instinct,» which helped to explain the attraction of danger, as well as some of the internal dynamics of repression and self - inflicted pain.

A few Christians, for the sake of the spirit, have inflicted pain on their bodies.

Catholics are in a good position to identify with this sort of pain inflicted upon Muslims.

Despite the pain that the churches in Ukraine have inflicted on each other, they must avoid the temptations of zero - sum - game ecclesiastical competition.

These demons, which seem to have a fondness for entering the human body through domestic abuse during childhood, inflict the type of pain in the head that drives people to cut themselves with stones or razor blades in order to bring some temporary relief.

Beyond the problem of racism, we must see the pain that injustice inflicts.

It begins in the very beginning, when God sets out to inflict pain on Eve because she ate the wrong piece of fruit (Genesis 3:16).

The traditional way of reading Genesis 3:16 has God inflicting pain on Eve and all her daughters because Eve ate fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.

Persons of mature faith have certitude, the conviction that God is Good and Loving even when circumstances inflict pain and suffering.

I've been told that this must be something temporary, and when I get over the pain inflicted by the last group of «God - hands», I'll once again welcome the opportunity to be a part of a local church.

Remembered all that interesting pain That we inflicted, others laid on us, The rage for justice, sacred and profane, The healing torment of the blasphemous --

All of the dreadful religious wars and persecutions of human history were carried out by zealots like you, smiling as they inflict the pain of separation.

This question of your can be answered by saying that it is up to you to live 100 years of self inflicted pain or live 100 years of understanding and avoid self inflicted pain that the 90 % are doing to themselves and others.

Jesus spoke of love, so Christians always go to the old testament when they are looking to inflict pain and punishment.

These people seem to think that pain inflicted on someone is perfectly fine as long as it is done from a perspective of love.

In the ethical version of the argument from cruelty, animal activists argue that humans have no more right to inflict suffering or pain on a sentient being, such as a raccoon, than they would have a right to inflict pain on a mentally retarded child.