Sentences with phrase «on a knife edge between»

For Karl Barth man always appears to remain on the knife edge between the love of God and the abyss of damnation.24 Reinhold Niebuhr holds that we are redeemed from sin in principle, but whether we are redeemed in fact is not made clear.25 Christ, he says, is our hope, not our possession.26 And again he suggests that only in the moment of prayer can man really love God and his neighbor with the love which Christ has shown to us.27 Emil Brunner comes closer to positive affirmation of the new life of the man to whom the love of God has come with power.

With the dazzlingly cataclysmic sunsets and portentous musical soundtrack nearby bleeding into her performance, this improbable political commentator takes on a phantasmagoric presence: a talking head belonging to a world on a knife edge between utopia and dystopia.

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Clinging to the vanishing symbols of a now fallen Christendom, they stand on the «knife - edge» between Angst and faith.

Bake 35 to 40 minutes or until knife inserted halfway between center and edge comes out clean (chips sprinkled on top will make this difficult - they melt.)

A recent poll suggested that the battle for the North Devon seat was on a knife edge, between Mr Heaton - Jones and long - standing Lib Dem Sir Nick Harvey.

A recent poll suggested that the battle for the North Devon seat was on a knife edge, between Mr Heaton - Jones and long - standing Lib Dem Sir Nick Harvey (pictured)

As the English physicist Arthur Eddington pointed out, such a universe was balanced on a knife - edge between runaway expansion and runaway contraction.

It turns out that the struggle between these two was balanced on a knife - edge.

And risk: the film, and her performance, glide on the knife - edge between satire and sympathy, often dazzling with their footwork.

I'd never truly considered just how many similarities there are between Monster Hunter and Dark Souls, but the deliberate dance of hunter and prey remain forever poised on a knife edge.

No comic filmmaker in America today works so hard to stay on the knife's edge between humor and pathos or is so eager to challenge his viewers emotionally.

Larry Bamburg's BurlsHoovesandShells on an Acrylic Rake features a stack of burls taken from redwood, maple, oak and other species of trees that exist on a knife - edge: the gap between failure and success, as with life, is determined by the eternal battle between will and chance.

It is a work that encapsulates his multicultural practice, balanced on the knife's edge between those essential yet polarised elements of human experience: the sacred and the profane.