Sentences with phrase «oppressive world»

That's where comfort games come in; games that envelop you with comforting sounds, colors, characters, and stress - free objectives, embracing you with a warm fire - like glow that melts away at the cold, dark, oppressive world that constantly attacks you at all hours of the day.

Take aim with the inventive Address Disruptor to corrupt and «glitch» the world around you, allowing you to bend the usually oppressive world of Sudra to your will.

With that said the developers have still done oppressive world - building.

We can infer from an opening title card that it is the couple's resourcefulness and determination that has enabled the family to navigate a strange and oppressive world for at least three months.

He sets the stage for Mayhem by showing us how the oppressive world of big business runs, piece by piece, and sets about dismantling it using tropes from scary movies, video games, kung fu films and workplace sitcoms.

It is a symptom of Marvel's oppressive world - building that so much of the film's run time is devoted to new characters like the twins, or Vision (Paul Bettany, actually having a face on screen for the first time in the franchise), or Ulysses Klaw (Andy Serkis, a villain for a movie that will not see the light of day for three more years), squeezing the interstitial moments down to little more than an afterthought.

The audio track of the game, like the graphics and animation, succeeds in creating an oppressive world, mysterious and completely original.

Howard's «Solo» follows a young Han Solo (Alden Ehrenreich), who wants to find a way that he and his true love, Qi «ra (Emilia Clarke), can get their own ship and escape an oppressive world.

I might even find myself fighting suspicions that this was a function of the, er, non-Hollywood-traditional gender of said protagonist, except that Katniss is probably the most plausible hero — yes, she's definitely still a hero — that could come out of this oppressive world.

Liberationists initially took it as just one more instance of comfortable members of the white male establishment indulging their intellectual interests in a profoundly oppressive world.

Duffy makes a point of reminding us that he is a «cradle» Catholic, raised in what many consider the narrow, provincial, and oppressive world of Irish Catholicism, where the phrase «God is love» was «thumped into you with a stick and the penny catechism.»

Not exact matches

The Profit's Marcus Lemonis travels to Cuba at a time of historic change, and profiles a new breed of business owners determined to succeed under one of the most oppressive regimes in the world.

In today's fast - changing business world it is more important than ever that employees work in environments that are mentally and physically stimulating, or at least not oppressive.

Sadly we must note that there seems to be an oppressive and murderous element at work in the world.

The website suggests that «ethical oil» is a «fair trade» alternative to «conflict oil» exploited in some of our world's more politically oppressive and environmentally reckless countries.

What is more unfortunate is that contemporary bishops, who have been exposed to and educated in the modern world and its global challenges — at least by comparison with their predecessors, who were restricted by the «iron curtain» or oppressive xenophobia — appear less interested in transcending any prejudice and parochialism.

You mean the guy rotting in the ground who was used by his brother to found a world - wide religion, which eventually overtook the oppressive Roman empire?

While God lived, the oppressive machinery of society stood in the way of the production and release of my curative to a needy world.

The effort to rid the world of Jews, he concludes, was also an effort to free man from oppressive biblical prohibitions, so as «to have men's secret lusts dance unrestrainedly under the open sky.»

Millions of Christians have been in the same place for 2,000 years all over the world... not just in oppressive regimes, but in Christian cultures as well.

Whitehead thus wants to secure for temporal creatures a new measure of autonomy, freedom, and self - sufficiency, and at the same time relieve God of the function wrongly imputed to God, of being an oppressive ruler of the world who governs with force and not with the attractive power of love.31

If Christians could come to see that we can not understand the saving work of God within us, the incarnation of God in the world, the presence of the Holy Spirit, or the character of the Christian life apart from a doctrine of mutual indwelling that is irreconcilable with atomistic individualism and all its works, we could have powerful leverage to liberate us from oppressive canalizations of thought and practice.

Today around the world, the Church is alive and flourishing in places like North Korea, Sudan, Pakistan, Eritrea, Nigeria, Vietnam, Kenya, India, Ethiopia, China and more — despite restrictive and even oppressive violent government policies and practices against Christians.

He notes, for example, that the «festival or sacred period often serves quite consciously to generate distance from the oppressive monotony of the workaday world, and through special presentations and rites to create the energy to experience a «different» world, and possibly even to effect a thorough transformation of the burdensome circumstances of life.»

World government could easily become a threat to freedom and justice if power were concentrated in the hands of oppressive leadership.

That we are not yet living within the crudely totalitarian and oppressive atmosphere of Orwell's world, but are aware of some subtle signs that we may be moving in its direction, makes it vital that we reflect on the meaning of Barmen, in order to learn to speak and act while there is still time.

But in times of sickness the world of It overpowers the man who has come to terms with it, and causality becomes «an oppressive, stifling fate.»

Once again Islam is proven to be the most intolerant, oppressive, and violent religion in the world.

With Benedict, the preferred narrative was «Reactionary pope won't change his outdated, irrelevant, oppressive Church,» with Francis it's «Great new guy brings the Church into step with the modern world, relaxes rules.»

In a world where Reichian quackery rules, we do not debate the limits of modesty for the simple reason that the very concept of modesty itself is illegitimate, a fundamentally oppressive notion.

The desire to leave somewhere else is insufficient in as much as a myriad of other nations will take refugees from oppressive regimes the world over.

By similar action, peoples throughout the world struggle to attain their goals in societies dominated by oppressive political and economic systems.

As essayist Katha Pollitt points out, the tendency to ascribe «particular virtues — compassion, patience, common sense, nonviolence — to mothers» is an overdone, and in some ways oppressive, cliché; telling yourself that toilet training a string of two - year - olds is good for your soul may keep you away from other worlds.

And again he was transferred to his former artificial world of phantoms of some sort of greatness, and again (as a horse walking about a slanting treadmill imagines it is doing something for itself), he began to obediently fulfill that cruel, oppressive, and inhuman role which had been assigned to him....

Both kinds of critics argue that in comparison with the scandal of world hunger, with human rights violations and the plight of political prisoners, with oppressive regimes of the right or left, the real or imagined oppression of white, middle - class American women seems a secondary, even trivial, concern.

Against the institution's detractors» from Marx to radical feminists to Michel Foucault's theories about oppressive «disciplining» mechanisms» the family provides the modern world with a zone of freedom joined to responsibility in a way that no other institution does or could.

What, for each, is the relation between freedom in Christ and freedom from the oppressive powers of the world?

«It characterizes the option between two different «trajectories» that are present in the history of the people of God, and it is in this history that it affirms and makes explicit the meaning of its vocation in the world».31 Latin America is a continent where the state is very oppressive and the economy is controlled by transnational companies with the result that economic benefits are concentrated in the hands of a small community.

Throughout the history of the world there have been peoples suffering terribly under oppressive rule and inhumane social systems.

They have inspired powerful movements of social protest (like Hebrew prophetism in monarchical Israel, or the bhakti movements in medieval India) which have attacked both the oppressive rigidity of the religious systems themselves, as well as of the unjust socio - economic and political structures of the societies in which these religions flourished» (Voices from the Third World, p. 153)

The world Orient has a very oppressive, racist, and bloody history and is one that is no longer used due to it's derogatory and painful connotations.

Britain is set to reintroduce «internal exile», a hallmark of the world's most oppressive regimes, in the wake of the increased security threat from terrorism — despite parliamentarians» deep discomfort about the move.

«The typical governance model in synthetic worlds consists of isolated moments of oppressive tyranny embedded in widespread anarchy,» writes economist Edward Castronova in his book Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games (University of Chicago Press, worlds consists of isolated moments of oppressive tyranny embedded in widespread anarchy,» writes economist Edward Castronova in his book Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games (University of Chicago Press, Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games (University of Chicago Press, 2005).

1998 Joel L. Lebowitz, for his tireless devotion to the rights of scientists in oppressive regimes throughout the world and his extraordinary creativity in finding ways to help these scientists survive their ordeals.

My heart goes out to its citizens who live as virtual prisoners and slaves under the most oppressive regime in the world.

That said, the movie came with a good array of other hues — especially in the Grandmaster's world — so the orange / teal wasn't oppressive.

Basically the overarching story is fairly bare, and exists purely to allow Qohen to explore questions of philosophy and hope in a world of oppressive technology.

The section's lone masterpiece was Big Big World, Reha Erdem's dreamy tale of an escape from lives oppressive into a forest full of wonder and menace, winner of the Special Jury Prize.

The exploration of James Franco's contributions to the cinematic world continues, with the oppressive summer heat kicking in with full effect.

But Nicolas Winding Refn's divisive fashion - industry fever dream sounds great, too, and in a really unexpected way: Cocooning its characters in oppressive silence, the film throws a deathly hush over Los Angeles — the polar opposite, in a way, of La La Land's world of sound.