Sentences with phrase «only escape from them»

In «Starting A Firm May Be the Only Escape from Biglaw Culture,» Carolyn Elefant comments on an article in which the author «uses the large law firm as an example of a corporate culture which lacks the ability to tolerate accomodation of family life» and tucks her own advice into the post, too.

She said of that time, «When I was 12 in 1942, one could only escape from human cruelty inside oneself (into a world of dreams, imaginings)».

Describing them not as a playful diversion but a contagious affliction, Kusama's world was plagued by an obsessive imagination, and she found making art to be her only escape from her omnipresent visions.

And I'd love to give you a report on the bonus «survival» mode — which apparently involves beating up wave after wave of bad guys — but when I tried starting it up I was greeted with a black screen, my only escape from which was to quit the game.

They are often a dog's only escape from a puppy mill, shelter or pound.

Even laboring women, according to Mrs. Putnam, had found not only an escape from the nursery but a kind of psychological salvation in the broadened outlook of the world of work.

Her only escape from the arrangement is to find another husband quick, so she concocts a desperate plan and agrees to become a mail order bride.

Going to school, she reasoned, was her only escape from poverty.

Their only escape from nihilism is work, cops and robbers alike.

As horrifying acts begin to unfold the criminals soon realize that all is not as it seems in the house, and when strangers from the local town show up the tables are turned, and everyone realizes that death may be the only escape from The House Of The Witchdoctor.

The only escape from life that Ashlyn has is swimming and hanging out with Tatiana.

Some days, the jogging stroller and a 7 - mile run was my only escape from a grumpy toddler who wanted nothing but to whine all morning.

«The only escape from the polarity of egoism and altruism,» he says, «lies in the selflessness experienced by those who lose themselves in their work, in the effort to master a craft or a body of knowledge, or in the acceptance of a formidable challenge that calls on all their resources.»

The only escape from this conclusion seems to be in terms of a basically transcendental God.

It is the devil's lie that the only escape from the tension is through yielding.

He would have to recognize that in sentimentality there is not only an escape from boredom but the divorce of feeling from responsibility that serves him by making no end of trouble for humans.

Activism is not only an escape from deeper realities but an attitude which puts more faith in the endeavours of men than in the movement of the Spirit.

Edwards warns that the only escape from this punishment is through Jesus» work on the cross, though it ends on this note: «The wrath of Almighty God is now undoubtedly hanging over a great part of this congregation.»

The only escape from mystical indeterminacy is into a determinacy brutally disenchanted.

Now, with Defiance, director Edward Zwick, is upping the ante further by recounting the heroic exploits of a courageous band of guerillas who not only escaped from the ghettos of Poland but subsequently staged daring raids back into Nazi - occupied territory to rescue other imperiled Jews.

Not exact matches

One can only assume that Priebe took inspiration from James Bond, who used a laser watch in 1995's GoldenEye to dramatically escape a train car that was about explode.

It will be the only animated kids» film out The Weinstein Company's kid flick «Escape From Planet Earth» will be heading out of the box - office top ten this week during its sixth week in theaters.

His extraordinary family, rather than being a loving haven within which he could grow to maturity, had somehow come to resemble a kind of debtor's prison from which he could escape only by the most strenuous effort.

If you aren't already happy, then money can only provide a temporary escape from you inner well - being.

So there's no risk of putting up money only to have the printed version of Escape From Jesus Island never happen.

Only last month, a leak from the Keystone Pipeline, not far from the Standing Rock reservation in South Dakota, saw a reported 210,000 gallons escape into the surrounding land.

They remind us not only that our way of life was wrong but that we were powerless to escape it, and therefore needed to be rescued from it — in other words, that we needed a savior.

I was Melville's Ishmael, the wanderer who began at the New York docks and became my instant high school companion, with his words from Job: «And I only am escaped alone to tell thee.»

He knew that to escape this cage would not only implicate a psychic break from himself but a critical break from all others.

One need only recall Erich Fromm's Escape from Freedom to be reminded that an authoritarian religious or political system may be attractive to neurotic people and yet not be psychologically constructive.

But how could he miss seeing that, in saying this, he was entering into the vicious circle that «just war» theologians were caught in and have never escaped from; they have emitted only platitudes and empty phrases.

Not only is the mutable world separated from its divine principle — the One — by intervals of emanation that descend in ever greater alienation from their source, but because the highest truth is the secret identity between the human mind and the One, the labor of philosophy is one of escape: all multiplicity, change, particularity, every feature of the living world, is not only accidental to this formless identity, but a kind of falsehood, and to recover the truth that dwells within, one must detach oneself from what lies without, including the sundry incidentals of one's individual existence; truth is oblivion of the flesh, a pure nothingness, to attain which one must sacrifice the world.

For the subject concerned will always be part of my experience, from which I can not escape and for which I am intellectually responsible to myself as well as to others, which only I can turn into the law of my life.

My only quibble with the article is that the proportion of mathematicians I know who view their field as «an escape from religious questions» is vanishingly small.

Even if they attempt to explain away «No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven nor the Son, but only the Father» (Mark 13:32), they can not explain away that most every Christian, theologian, scholar, and prophet from the first Century until the Nineteenth Century all believed that the church would go through the Great Tribulation and not escape through some secret rapture that would leave the world paralyzed.

The Eastern Orthodox delegation asked to be excused from voting on the other reports; but they heartily supported this one, which affirmed that the message of the church to the world must always remain the gospel of Jesus Christ — the gift of a new word from God to this old world of sin and death, being the prophetic call to sinful men to turn to God as the only way by which humanity can escape from those class and race hatreds which devastate society, and fulfill humanity's longing for intellectual sincerity, social justice and spiritual inspiration.

The philosophy of absolute idealism, so vigorously represented both in Scotland and America to - day, has to struggle with this difficulty quite as much as scholastic theism struggled in its time; and although it would be premature to say that there is no speculative issue whatever from the puzzle, it is perfectly fair to say that there is no clear or easy - issue, and that the only obvious escape from paradox here is to cut loose from the monistic assumption altogether, and to allow the world to have existed from its origin in pluralistic form, as an aggregate or collection of higher and lower things and principles, rather than an absolutely unitary fact.

Communism, like nationalism, actually affords only a temporary escape from the basic spiritual predicament.

Nationalism, communism, and fascism are not the only ways in which men attempt to escape from freedom and to regain security and purpose in living.

Only with much difficulty can we escape from spatialization (and Bishop John A. T. Robinson was right when he said that it was ridiculous to talk about the God who is «up there» somewhere above us.

In highschool I was acosted by a priest from whose intentions I only barely escaped.

We all need to break free from the sins that hold us back, not only so that we can escape judgment at the Bema, but also so that we can be used by God here and now while on this earth and experience all that God has for us.

What you are actually looking at is the only thing on earth and in history that perfectly fits the picture of a broad road that leads to destruction while selling an «assurance of escape from hell aka salvation.»

And if there are some scientific geniuses who can give the greatest service to society by giving attention only to their work, they should do even this as an expression of, not an escape from, responsibility.

Surely this flight may not really be caused by sober objectivity, and a man may even pretend to venerate the incomprehensible silence while his whole attitude actually remains an escape and he only wants a superficial and guilt - ridden well - being in order to escape from the claim of the incomprehensible.

I can see only one way of escape from this state of uncertainty which threatens to paralyze all positive action: we must rise above the storm, the chaos of surface detail, and from a higher vantage - point look for the outline of some great and significant phenomenon.

Joseph not only acknowledges his fatherhood by naming the boy; he assumes the responsibility of his safety by taking mother and infant to Egypt in order to escape from the murderous designs of Herod the Great and subsequently by moving his family to Nazareth in order to avoid the jeopardy of living under the rule of Archelaus.

This requires what Paul Tillich calls «deliteralization» — in other words, moving beyond the symbolic stories (such as the creation myth and Jonah) to discover the glowing, self - authenticating truths - for - living which are visible only when one escapes from wooden literalism.

It only ever «works» when the outcome was going to occur anyway, like a cancer going into remission, a person recovering from a serious, but curable illness, or a person below the 90th floor of the North Tower escaping the 9 - 11 disaster.

Indeed, how can we even contemplate escaping from a tide that is not only planetary but cosmic in its dimensions?