Sentences with phrase «physical facts of death»

Not exact matches

The fact that forms of life can succeed or fail (in the performance of a skill, in the discovery of a suitable environment, in reproducing, in warding off death, injury, etc.) places them at a different level of being from purely physical processes to which the terms success and failure are inapplicable.

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But if by «the fact of the resurrection» one means not the physical resurrection of the man Jesus but the resurgence of the power of God in Jesus even when evil and death had seemingly triumphed, then this «fact» is not necessarily determinative in regard to the difficulties mentioned even though it is a «fact» of tremendous importance.

That Anne's mental and physical degradation unfurls with the severity of serious horror was perhaps a sly aesthetic decision, but it also feels intensely, in fact almost perversely, overdetermined; one can never shake the feeling that by magnifying death's ugliest qualities from a «measured» emotional remove, Amour is simply following the path of least resistance to achieving its desired visceral effect.

Haneke's camera is scrupulously avoidant of anything remotely approaching exploitation or cruelty, but it doesn't flinch for a moment from the harsh physical and emotional realities of the dreadful situation, its confusion and loss and humiliation; that kind of unremitting honesty, however — that kind of acknowledgment of the painful, irremediable fact of death — makes for the most stirring, principled, and meaningful illustration possible of the truest meaning of love, the kind that goes much deeper and wider, and endures longer, than romance or joy or even togetherness.

Most of all, though, there is the fact that Jeffrey Tambor, with whom he starred in Armando Iannucci's satire, The Death of Stalin, is among the ever - growing list of men who now stand accused of sexual misconduct (Tambor, who has denied any wrongdoing, left the award - winning TV series Transparent last November, following allegations of inappropriate language and physical contact).

Whether or not the death of the physical bookstore is imminent, the fact remains that at present, a big chunk of book sales occurs offline.

This particular entry doesn't quite fall into that trap — it at least throws in the title and iconic status of «The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living», but the fact that it doesn't give any real information just made me think of all the times that I have seen pictures that are never referenced in the text.