Sentences with phrase «of the sexual nature of»

Something about this film feels very clunky, as it moves into its second half it drops much of the sexual nature of its interesting but flawed opening and focuses instead on the actual nature of this heist, using a non-linear sequence that, whilst amusing enough, tends to sap almost all of the tension by virtue of its retrospective nature.

Revocation is now statutorily mandated for any physician who engages in touching of a sexual nature of a patient's breasts, as the Appellant did to four of his patients.»

It is best not to ask questions about the specifics of the sexual nature of the affair.

Not exact matches

And of all the odd behaviours that take place in the workplace, something of a private and sexual nature certainly isn't the oddest or most disruptive.

«He is an artist who has been known for his sexually explicit work so many of his professional interactions with subjects were sexual and explicit in nature but all of the subjects of his work participated consensually.»

Legal precedent, meanwhile, tends to define sexual harassment as occurring either when a supervisor requests sex in exchange for a subordinate being promoted or not being fired, or when an employee is subject to behavior of a sexual nature that's so pervasive it creates a hostile work environment.

Businesses that present live performances of an indecent sexual nature or derive directly or indirectly more than 2.5 percent of gross revenue through the sale of products or services, or the presentation of any depictions or displays, of an indecnt sexual nature

Life: A story Oct. 12 about allegations of sexual harassment and abuse against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein mischaracterized the nature of discussions around Louis C.K.'s behavior toward women.

But one of them is not that the surrounding culture gets to decide the nature of human personhood and identity, nor the bounds of acceptable sexual expression.

and, «The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like.

It is not the nature of this activity as gay that has been the problem, but rather the nature of it as sexual...

Nor do we have a right to alter so significantly the sexual ecology of our own species that God has inscribed within our nature.

In his patronizing dismissal of abstinence programs, Saletan speaks of «mating» ¯ meaning sexual intimacy ¯ as an unstoppable force of nature.

In truth, the factors that motivated the successes of these horror - subgenre entries into the marketplace could be applied to another dominant form of visual entertainment focused on suspense, moodiness, thinly veiled sexual references, and the darkest side of human nature; I'm speaking, of course, of the soap opera.

Indeed, this Enlightenment view of nature and human nature is foundational for the industrial west (and now for everything from the global economy to the sexual revolution), in which the over-riding objective is, in the words of C. S. Lewis, «to subdue reality to the wishes of [human beings].»

This human covenant, in its fidelity and indissoluble bonding, fulfils every natural and complementary quality between the sexual natures of the spouses, as John Paul II has brought out for us.

An investigation that began after the crisis over sexual abuse of children in the Boston Archdiocese fully emerged in 2002 has pored over records dating back more than 60 years, with subsequent decisions on who to name based on the nature of the accusations and other factors, according to O'Malley.

It would appear that sexual orientation is biological in nature, determined by a complex interplay of genetic factors and the early uterine environment.

In this context he defines the sin of contraception as to «subordinate the primary purpose potential of the sexual function and organs to secondary purposes of the sexual act, this subordinationunderstood of a physical ordering of nature»; «the primary end intrinsic to the physical nature of the act [may not be] subordinated to other purposes».

This is something built into the nature of the act and built into the nature of the sexual organs.

Sexual relationships between a husband and a wife can participate in the meaning of communion that reaches the edges of holiness and has something of the nature of a sacrament about it.

The point is that the moral issue in sexual life is not the consequence of an externally imposed law, but the nature of personal existence.

Similarly, while there may be some value in the refusal to take a moral stance on homosexuality — in order to focus squarely on the nature of marriage rather than on same - sex relationships — I am less than persuaded by the authors» moral judgment that people's sexual relationships are a private issue.

That old nature is driven by desires, some of them sexual, that are connected to self - serving ends.

In short, a strong case can be made for saying that, as both the common good of society and the particular good of citizens is now threatened by political voluntarism, so also both the common and particular good of lovers (and families) is threatened by the voluntaristic and limited nature of the promises and undertakings that typically characterize the new reformers» account of sexual relations.

When we lack the ability to control our own desires, especially ones of a sexual nature, we not only damage our credibility, we reinforce the belief that our age prevents us from being ready to lead in the Kingdom of God.

In 1999, we are no longer reduced to «guessing» whether he was inspired or speaking only as a man: • adultery has lost its moral significance and become commonplace; • chastity has become a symbol of unhealthy development; • contraception in expectation of fornication is taught to children in the schools; • respect between the sexes has been replaced by mutual exploitation and / or competition; • marriage has lost its sacramental nature and its enduring promise; • statistically, divorce is common, teenage pregnancy is widespread, single parent and serially parented families increase, sexual disease is epidemic, intercourse is recreational, abortion is ubiquitous.

Thus both history and the very nature of the sexual question have guaranteed that the church will be more involved in this area than in most other areas of human life.

Within the jail these prisoners would experience brutalizing violence, often of a sexual nature, and a high incidence of accompanying despair, mental illness, degradation and further criminalization.

The sexual revolution was a decisive shift, perhaps even of human nature itself: we can fairly precisely date the arrival of the pill with this shift.

It would appear that sexual orientation is biological in nature, determined by a complex interplay of genetic factors and the early ut - erine environment.

If media violence, especially when that violence is in its nature sexual, in fact does threaten the quality of American life, then how do the creative and managerial people in television feel about the use of violence in their productions?

They are fully aware that no one can have sexual intercourse outside of a committed monogomous relationship, that being marriage, and not endure sufferings of a physical, emotional or spiritual nature.

Contrary to the Congregations» claims that the recidivist nature of sexual offending was not understood, it is clear from the documented cases that they were aware of the propensity of abusers to re-abuse.

But, as I say, much more needs to be included about the nature of the human body and the reasons why the marital context is the morallycorrect context within which sexual intimacy is expressed.

And there needs to be a clearer integration of the Catholic understanding about the nature of the human being, about our sexual nature, about what a human being is for.

Less persuasive, to me at least, is the claim that this probably continued until 1931, the year in which Lewis converted to Christianity (and would now think a relation with a married woman to be wrong) Wilson's way of making this point is, however, an instance of a very undesirable trait in his writing: the tendency to assert indirectly and to be glib while seeming to eschew it: «It would be far too glib to suggest that he consciously made the second change, to adopt Christianity, merely to give himself an excuse to abandon sexual relations with Mrs. Moore, whatever the nature of those relations had been.»

Their liberalism moves very swiftly from sexual ethics to sacramental theology, and thence to other foundational issues — the nature of the priesthood, the authority of the Bible, the very identity of Jesus Christ.

Though I am skeptical that sexual orientation is genetic, it certainly can emerge as «second nature»: a pattern of desire, circumstance and culture that is virtually ineradicable.

In The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order, Francis Fukuyama says our society went seriously out of whack in the 1960s, chiefly because of the change in sexual roles and in employment patterns forced by the rise of the information revolution.

With respect to the problem of power in relation to human sexual differentiation, I am not concerned to defend either traditional or modern versions of the roles of men and women, or to deny or affirm their distinctive natures, regardless of whether these differences are understood to be inherent or culturally derived.

I agree that sin is sin — whether it be stealing or of a sexual nature.

As Yehezkel Kaufmann, one of the twentieth century's great scholars of the Hebrew Bible, explained in his magisterial book The Religion of Israel (1960), in mythological religion «the gods are subject by their nature to sexual needs.

The impact of a biomedical revolution raises new issues about sexual practices, the nature of conception and childbearing, and the meaning of marriage and parenthood.

5:19 — then read, no, I will write what it says, then you check it out:» The acts of sinful nature are obvious; sexual immorality... I warn your as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.»

Ever since the quarrel over artificial birth control in the 1960s, wayward Catholic theologians have led the way in dismissing Catholic sexual morality as mere «physicalism», this [dismissal] being an attitude which ignores the dual character of human nature as a union of body and soul.

Somewhat logically, given the wording and nature of the Bill, this guidance contains elements for Key Stage 2 (age 7 - 11) which are in serious tension with Catholic teaching (e.g. teaching this age group about sexual intercourse, contraception and homosexuality), and for Key Stage 3 (age 11 - 14) which directly contradict it.

Moving across the species boundary, then, it is worth noting that many human societies permit the taking of many wives, most of them encouraging this practice by law and custom (see Stephen Clark, The Nature of the Beast, OUP 1982, pp. 77f and «Sexual Ontology and Group Marriage», Philosophy 58, 1983, pp. 215 227).

Where the positive nature of sexual desire is denied, so is the destructive potential of suppressed desire.

There is a lack of awareness, if not outright denial, among Protestants about the positive nature of sexual desire.