Sentences with phrase «on meaninglessness»

Woody Allen on the meaninglessness of everything; The greatness of «Walk Hard»; Dean Cundey on «The Thing»; R.I.P. B.B. King; Literature should be «triggering.»

A lot of movies pontificate on the meaninglessness of revenge without much conviction, reveling in vigilantes acting as our proxies for the indulgence of our worst instincts before paying lip service to law and order.

Not exact matches

Because theological truth and therefore theological language belong to the eschatological dimension, linguistic analysis as now understood and practiced which deals with empirical and historical truths can not decide on the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of theological language.

On the human side, it is the always potential and often the actually realized sense of dependence upon the divine reality that sustains and (as traditional language would phrase it) «saves» such existence from triviality, meaninglessness, and extinction.

The sense of meaninglessness of life felt in the rich North too, may be mainly due to unemployment, inadequate housing, breakup of family life, drugs, wasteful consumerism... in spite of social welfare measures, or because of long term dependence on them.

In what way does the death of Jesus on the cross answer man's cry to be delivered from meaninglessness and despair?

Meaninglessness threatens us on every side.

Whereas other techniques, like those of science and engineering, can remove more mundane obstacles, religions attend to the most irremovable limits on life: fate, guilt, meaninglessness, and death.

The failure of science and technology to bestow values on the facts with which they deal contributes to a world - wide malaise or sense of meaninglessness.

Give him a good father and mother, a devoted wife, some fine children and real friends, and see how long he will go on thinking as he did about life's meaninglessness.

We may congratulate ourselves on our achievement, but we have been rather slow in recognizing that in solving the information problem, we created a new problem never experienced before: information glut, incoherence, and meaninglessness.

Rather, he's a special connection that might steer a life on course, refuting Ellen's sense of her own meaninglessness.

But, hey, you're all intelligent, sophisticated people (I take much for granted), so use this time just to ponder the meaninglessness of nothing and why Ally McBeal is still on the air.

It'd be trivial to the point of meaninglessness to just print the Spiegel jpgs on canvas, or to order them up from Chinese paint mills.

Todd Bura's drawings - an outrigger to his fine solo show across town at Triple Base - similarly poise a formal architecture on the edge of meaninglessness.

Confusion and division over «global warming» often grows out of the meaninglessness of the phrase on its own.

Existential therapy focuses on the development of a patient / client's self - awareness by looking deeply into the issues of our aloneness, meaninglessness, and mortality.