Sentences with phrase «on human frailties»

Artistically, this scathing assault on human frailty couldn't be more accomplished.

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It's that focus on human frailty that makes Age of Ultron such a comedown from the first Avengers film — albeit a necessary one

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Both in the secular world and in the church, our characteristic approach to human frailty is not chastisement and dire threats, but understanding; not calling people to repent their sins, but teaching people the gentle arts of self - acceptance; not an ethic of cross-bearing, but an ethic based on the value of self - actualization.

God doesn't create us in sin; He creates us in the curse, that is, frail and human and (in Pauline terms) «of the flesh» (cf. Rom 7 - 8) but we then act on this frailty and break God's holy law, which, once again, renders us sinful.

It is marked on its negative side by the rejection not only of the symbols of the creation, the fall and the salvation of men, but also of the belief in human dependence and limitation, in human wickedness and frailty, in divine forgiveness through the suffering of the innocent.

Obviously, neither serious Judaism nor real Christianity can cohere with a sense of life that has banished all need for prayer, humility, and submission — three things that depend precisely on the recognition of human frailty and finitude.

Unencumbered by human frailties, Curiosity — like the rovers Spirit and Opportunity, which survived on the Red Planet years longer than expected — will be free to hunt for E.T. «If we find evidence for life on Mars, boy, are we just gonna go wild with speculation about how common it is in the universe,» says Lou Friedman, a former scientist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena and cofounder, with Carl Sagan, of the Planetary Society.

Fritz Lang's 1921 silent Weimar masterpiece Der Müde Tod («Destiny») was also re-released, exploring love, death and human frailty a century ago, grand themes which still preoccupy the filmmakers on my list today.

On one hand there are the hysterical gags, a particularly compassionate representation of human frailty, a refreshing take on female bonding and one of the few genuinely affecting romantic comedy plots in years between Wiig and the adorable Irish Chris O'Dowd (The IT Crowd) that will have viewers swooninOn one hand there are the hysterical gags, a particularly compassionate representation of human frailty, a refreshing take on female bonding and one of the few genuinely affecting romantic comedy plots in years between Wiig and the adorable Irish Chris O'Dowd (The IT Crowd) that will have viewers swooninon female bonding and one of the few genuinely affecting romantic comedy plots in years between Wiig and the adorable Irish Chris O'Dowd (The IT Crowd) that will have viewers swooning.

Perhaps the most precious gift bestowed on the movies by Kurosawa, however, is his profound humanism — his understanding of human frailty, his compassion for that frailty.

Tam Van Tran's newest exhibition «Exodus» at Susanne Vielmetter represents a meditation on duality wherein forces in nature collide with our own human frailties.

Sahib's artistic practice spans sculpture, painting, works on paper and performance, where he evokes the frailty of the human body though minimalist, or non-figurative techniques.

Copublished with the Austellungskunsthalle zeitgenossiche Kunst Munster on the occasion of a ten - year survey of Pylypchuk's work, this book provides a comprehensive look at an artist who movingly summons the frailty of human existence.

She homes in on the dancer's performance anxiety but also captures the audience as they react to the human frailty on display before them.

Fascinated by man's creativity in the face of inevitable death, the art he collects is to do with human frailty and finality, and focuses on the human body.

Out here, we know an awful lot about building organisations to solve problems and (as far as possible) to reduce the effect of human frailties on the results.

Resisting human frailties, on the other hand, leads to self - loathing and anxiety.»