Sentences with phrase «own hollowness»

But the decline of marriage, rising drug addiction, suicide, and a general pessimism about the future indicate that there's a hollowness at the center of today's secular establishment.

I mean, let's consider the hollowness of the statement «God is existence.»

shows the hollowness of your argument.

We forget that «the Word became flesh and dwelt among us» — down here, not in sugarcoated pretending, but in the ache, the hollowness, the loneliness.

(CNN)- This week, Barak Barfi, the spokesman for slain American journalist Steven Sotloff's family, joined many Muslims in exposing the hypocrisy and hollowness of groups like ISIS.

Old cultural traditions have been obliterated by communism; Christianity provides a compelling and compassionate alternative to the hollowness of the regime's materialism; and unlike Europe, which has largely rejected its Christian heritage in a decades - long spasm of anti-clericalism, «Christianity» in China rings up «modern» and «humane,» rather than «pre-modern» and «inhumane.»

That hollowness we sometimes feel is not a sign of something gone wrong.

He indeed knows the depth of sin and deceit in the heart of man, and the hollowness of easy belief.

Therefore I do not by any means intend to dispose of the Socratic definition on the ground that one can not stop with it but, having the Christian definition in mente [in mind], I would make use of it to bring the other out sharply (just because the Socratic definition is so genuinely Greek), so that here as always the hollowness of every other definition which is not in the strictest sense Christian (that is, of every partial definition) may become manifest.

Furthermore, many proponents argue that transcendence issues in beneficial consequences: it leads to creativity, to a sense of the hollowness and flatness of daily life as one sees beyond it, to an opening of perceptions and sensitivity to the normally unseen «realities» beyond the trivialities of worldly existence.

It continues to shake the foundations of all moral systems invented by men, it relativizes all social hierarchies, and, in the final analysis, it shows up the hollowness of all humanly constructed orders.

It lays bare the hollowness of every quest for earthly power, prosperity, and triumph.

The very hollowness of man's center, however, God meant for himself.

When God the eternal Spirit fills man's central hollowness, on the contrary, man accepts himself, finds true community, and lives in peace and power with God.

The hollowness of this appeal to eros seems to be related to a failure to make more explicit the tragic character of human existence.

Use it more and keep on seeing if that helps your own hollowness.

I've felt the hollowness of a life without hope.

Clay is fashioned into vessels; but it is on their empty hollowness, that their use depends.

Toasting the pumpkin seeds transforms them into light and airy tidbits with a hollowness in the middle like they've been «popped».

When the batter's folded correctly, my macarons turned out dense and chewy in the center without any hollowness.

The hollowness of this attitude is epitomized by the constant moan about why we did not buy Jackson Martinez.

Still, it brought home the hollowness of much of our scripted political speech, since those candidates who could break through the rhetoric and speak with a human voice really stood out.

When Fossella declined to run for re-election, the hollowness of the organization itself was exposed.

Mitchell has done an unintentional service in unmasking the hollowness of the «We are all in this together» mantra.

«We need to keep the best of New Labour and ditch some of the hollowness of it, it looked hollow and rootless at times.»

There's hollowness to their time together, a revelatory sadness hiding beneath the façade of sacred places and objects that hold no spiritual value over them.

Walter Hill, who also directed the first film, surely recognizes the hollowness of what he's doing here.

Hollowness, now, self - indulgence, a sort of gloating emotional ugliness — those are faults.

What is perhaps missing from American Smart Cinema is a critical appreciation for the hollowness of this search for authenticity at an industrial level.

Empire's one and only problem remains the ethical hollowness of its characters — even the «good» ones are prone to cruelty.

The incessant rumbling and flashing that accompanies virtually every other scene underscores the hollowness of a story that in the decades since the original «Omen» has had any freshness trampled out of it by a rampaging army of Freddies, Jasons and Michael Myerses, not to mention assorted «Omen» and «Exorcist» sequels and knockoffs.

But Velvet Goldmine distances itself just enough to reveal the hollowness of such a flippant worldview.

They use everyday indignities as the kindling for bonfires of discharged aggravation, in which the swift breakdown of protocol and etiquette points to a greater hollowness at the heart of modern society.

Submergence's globetrotting only succeeds at exposing the hollowness of the characters at the film's center.

Flitting from one sly comic digression to the next, the director conducts a broadly satirical investigation of both the modern art world and the troubled conscience of 21st - century Europe, indicting the hollowness lurking beneath its ostensibly progressive, humanist values.

As a result, we never really give a damn about their livelihood or purpose, resulting in the final confrontation between Frost and Blade resounding from the hollowness caused by a lack of creative process that dressed everyone up, but gave them nowhere meaningful to go.

DD 3.0 audio decorates A Farewell to Arms, showing some fairly impressive channel separation but exhibiting a noticeable hollowness in its many distended dialogue sequences.

Hollowness results, and a crucial piece of the movie - musical illusion goes missing.

Nihilism, cynicism, misanthropy, condescension, misandry, shallowness, and hollowness.

He's not stealing scenes like Loki, but instead showing this relatable hollowness with his half - hearted conformity.

Adding to the torture: Periodically, a microphone problem will result in a sudden hollowness and / or sharp increase in volume that is sure to set teeth on edge.

This is a movie that deliberately highlights the hollowness of its glitz and the brutality of its concept.

The film bravely prods in directions rarely explored by anyone, looking at the hollowness of the sex addict, while laudably refusing to give a simple explanation for his actions.

Weitz and his brother, with an assist from Nick Hornby, directed a terrific manhood movie, About a Boy, and, more recently, he's written those pointed plays about the dangers of success and the hollowness of fame that successful people like to write.

Because of the hollowness of it all the ending loses any power.

When Christian is mugged in broad daylight and traces his stolen phone and wallet to an apartment building in a rough neighborhood, he undertakes a reckless course of action that lays bare the hollowness beneath his enlightened liberal veneer.

But both of them, in the end, feel like lavish exercises in concealing a central hollowness.

It is the clean hollowness of hunger, a lightness that seems blown through by the wind, the way an empty pipe is blown, to make it whistle.

Actions speak louder than words, and when it comes to educational expectations, legislative inaction betrays the hollowness of politicians» words.

A lot of attention rightly has been given to this week's electoral results from Wisconsin — and to a lesser extent, San Diego and San Jose — which show some real hollowness in government union political strength.