Sentences with phrase «ordinary human man»

Kruskal says of his younger colleague, He's just an ordinary human man, you understand, and he has his foibles, no doubt, but he awes me.

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It aims to lift up in witness a recognition that while the war and events leading up to it clearly revealed the worst of human potential, among some ordinary people it also brought forth the very best of which men and women are capable.

In such circumstances, ordinary men became great men, all the while remaining manifestly human, with the many shortcomings such a condition implies.

To regard the ordinary embodied experience of men and women as theologically significant in a positive way is to receive all these images of physical delight, of beauty and ecstasy, of human growth and nurture, of the contact between human persons that the touching of bodies can make possible.

No ordinary human teaching can lay claim to a man's whole life.

wants to kill all the human and they never win as from the beginnin» until the end only the ordinary men as well as their families and they be called the Lamb of God» s children will carry on.

The real hero of our time is the nonhero, the common man, the little Charlie Chaplin, the Dustin Hoffman, who may be buffeted and bewildered and often caught in the struggle between Eagles and Serpents, Seagulls and Frogs, but who somehow through it all manages to remain relatively sane, simple, ordinary and human.

While the former aims at the restoration of «true man,» «original man,» the goal of the latter was the transcendence of the human condition, the acquisition of some degree of freedom from the needs or laws that determine ordinary human life by assimilation to a radically different state of being [The Heating Journey (Pantheon, 1973) p. 17].

I believe that what Tillich was attempting to say in his own particular idiom (based as it was on a combination of existentialist analysis of human sensibility and the philosophical outlook found in German idealist thought) can be put in another fashion — and one which in my judgment speaks more directly to the ordinary man or woman.

But religious love is only man's natural emotion of love directed to a religious object; religious fear is only the ordinary fear of commerce, so to speak, the common quaking of the human breast, in so far as the notion of divine retribution may arouse it; religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge; only this time it comes over us at the thought of our supernatural relations; and similarly of all the various sentiments which may be called into play in the lives of religious persons.

As a matter of fact, he had not said anything of the kind, but evidently the word «resurrection» conjured up in the minds of the men the stained glass windows in their parish churches back at home, where, in flagrant contradiction to St. Paul (1 Cor 15:36: «Thou fool»), the resurrection of the dead is depicted in ordinary human and terrestrial categories.

Through the vicissitudes of human history it has encouraged ordinary men and women to become heroic followers of Christ when love might otherwise have died down in prevailing culture.

«People will be pointing out the contrast between a man who can persuade floating voters, ordinary human beings, that the Conservative brand isn't toxic and a man who can't - ie the prime minister.

He thought he was nothing more than an ordinary man, but discovers that he is in fact a man with super human abilities, a superhero if you will.

The Zookeeper's Wife is a powerful, emotional fact - based drama about both the depth of human suffering experienced during World War II and the remarkable courage and strength of character that ordinary women and men demonstrated when their friends» and neighbors» lives were in danger.

• The Publishers Weekly review begins, «haracteristic elements of Boyle's fiction — ecology, technology, human nature, obsession, men and women disconnecting, the ordinary intermingled with the bizarre — are evident throughout his latest collection.»

«haracteristic elements of Boyle's fiction — ecology, technology, human nature, obsession, men and women disconnecting, the ordinary intermingled with the bizarre — are evident throughout his latest collection.»