Sentences with phrase «personal frailty»

Instead it shows the gulf between musical genius and personal frailty, bitterly exacerbated by the circumstances of being black in America, a story told with a simmering undercurrent of anger and sadness.

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The lesson of Job is that it is the lot of man to know God, even if learning God's greatness entails personal suffering as we learn our frailty.

Less activity leads to a higher risk of falls and fractures, accidental deaths, osteoporosis, frailty, mobility issues, and loss of independence and personal autonomy.

- The Independent on Sunday (UK) «Thoughtful, meticulously written, and slow burning... A story that is a warning of the dangers of mass surveillance, but also a meditation on the frailty of individual identity when it is shaken by personal and social breakdown, and by the dislocation of expatriate life.»

Winter Journal is far more than a simple collection of lists, however; the memoir is strongest and most emotionally compelling when the reader can see Auster arriving at moments of revelation, such as the realization that his moments of periodic physical frailty coincide closely with episodes of emotional intensity, personal crisis, and loss.

Drawing inspiration from the symbolic status of society's others — such as prisoners, orphans and the disabled — Peggy Wauters employs a personal interpretation of codes and conventions that signify human frailty and folly.

Christos Pantieras is an Ottawa - based artist who explores the frailty of personal connections through installation, sculpture, photography, and mixed media.

Madani's oeuvre confronts human frailty and the great communal and personal challenges of our own era.