Sentences with phrase «privation of»

The effects of global severe privation of cognitive competence: extension and longitudinal follow - up

Informed by his interest in Zen philosophy as much as by the privation of post-war Spain, Tàpies deliberately chose commonplace materials to infuse with new significance, invoking a transformative alchemy that prefigured the Italian movement of Arte Povera.

Harrigan's ace in the hole is broken, conflicted Deke, Pike's former partner, enlisted to hunt his friend down or return to the tortures and privation of Yuma prison, from which Harrigan has sprung him.

In a society that has vast wealth sufficient to eliminate the suffering and privation of the poor, allowing people who were lucky enough to be born rich to have vast wealth while redistributing none of this unearned societal wealth to those who profoundly need it, is inherently unethical and unjust.

According to John, the evil from which Christ saves his people is not so much sin as it is an inner darkness of man's unregenerate nature, a profound privation of true light, true knowledge, and true life.

Christian thought has traditionally, of necessity, defined evil as a privation of the good, possessing no essence or nature of its own, a purely parasitic corruption of reality; hence it can have no positive role to play in God's determination of Himself or purpose for His creatures (even if by economy God can bring good from evil); it can in no way supply any imagined deficiency in God's or creation's goodness.

For in any tense, if the latter assertion is true, then there still is the problem of having to assume that the privation of the property of whiteness is itself an existing fact which corresponds to a true denial.

However, this is not to admit pessimism or despair, because evil has no real substance; it is simply a privation of good.

Biel had accepted Peter Lombard's view that original sin involved a fundamentally disordered desire instead of the definition held by St. Augustine, St. Anselm and St. Thomas Aquinas that original sin is rooted in privation of grace, and does not fundamentallycorrupt our nature.

This is due to the Roman interpretation of sin «as the privation of an original perfection, rather than as a positive corruption.

Evil is not a positive reality, but a lack of some good quality that should be present, rather as blindness is not something positive, but the privation of the power of sight.

Most theologians would say there may be an infinite of joy (Hindu ananda) but not of suffering (which could perhaps be merely the privation of being.

By Emptiness they do not mean an underlying One into which selves are absorbed; nor do they mean a sheer privation of being.

Evil consists in that part of the good that is left out; hence we call evil the privation of a due good.

To have no god but the God of Christ, after all, means today that we must endure the lenten privations of what is most certainly a dark age, and strive to resist the bland solace, inane charms, brute viciousness, and dazed passivity of post-Christian culture — all of which are so tempting precisely because they enjoin us to believe in and adore ourselves.

Shadows are privations of light; they are real things, but dependent on the bodies that cast the shadows.

Now the gift was to be given, though it became clear to Paul from the daily privations of his missions and the stirrings of his inner spirit that suffering and abuse awaited him in the holy city.

It was for other people to suffer the privations of the system if it kept one's own ideological house of cards intact.

After theirjourney into the mine, Onstott and his colleagues appear relieved to beout of the mine, far from the privations of the deep.

The privations of World War II was another stumbling block, when breeding almost ceased in England.

The relationship between drawing and sculpture is particularly interesting in contemporary art practice; Antony Gormley is one of the most eloquent artists when it comes to articulating ideas that pertain to individual perception, collective needs, intellectual processes, or the applications and development of a visual language to assuage the spiritual or emotional privations of the modern world.

His designs convey a vigour, dynamism and sense of humour that, at the outset of Games's career, stood in stark contrast to the privations of austerity Britain.

Perhaps because of the extreme privations of his personal life, it is his Impressionist paintings above all others, that capture the serenity of the countryside.

The Greenhouse Development Rights (GDRs) framework is a Equity Reference Framework that is designed to support an emergency global climate mobilization while, at the same time, preserving the rights of all people to reach a dignified level of sustainable human development free of the privations of poverty.

Not exact matches

People who have suffered great privation might be excused for a certain grasping acquisitiveness born of a fear of want.

Simultaneous taking» is a privation, a lack of genuine self giving.

The tribal massacres and mass starvation in Africa bring to mind vast scenes of brutality and inhuman privation which, even in the most devastating past, no kindly eye had seen, no compassionate heart conceived, no pathetic tongue could adequately tell.

September 11, 2001, I was reminded, demonstrated the truth of this, surely; and those of us who teach undergraduates must be aware that, for all the cultural privations they suffer, they are often decent and admirable.

Love then, between a man and a woman, is a mimetic phenomenon in that it reflects God's reconciliation to man and nature; «For love does not exist where two beings are in need of each other but where each could exist independently, such as in the case with God who is already in and of Himself - suapte natura - the being God (der Seyende): here then each could be for itself without considering it an act of privation to be for itself, even though it will not want to...»

Since sensitive persons are most likely to suffer from spiritual privation, a society's state of mental health is also an index of its spiritual well - being.

Eventually, he came to reject the four causes of Aristotle, particularly final causes, and his three principles of matter, form, and privation - all foundational elements of Scholastic thought.

There are saints who have literally fed on the negative principle, on humiliation and privation, and the thought of suffering and death, — their souls growing in happiness just in proportion as their outward state grew more intolerable.

His death on November 11, 1947, at the age of sixty - four, was undoubtedly hastened by the illness and privations caused by the war.

But this reconciliation never seems forced or cheaply won, because the truth of the bromides «evil is a privation» and «God draws good out of evil» are enacted, not pronounced.

Everyone knows that evil is a real force in the world and cuts a hole in the fabric of Being; but that gash in Being is also what makes evil, in the metaphysical sense, a non «entity, a gap, a privation.

By remaining faithful he would prove false Satan's claim, recorded in the case of Job, that under privation, suffering, and test, God's servants would deny Him.

The social unrest and economic privation that spilled out in protests in February 2014 were met by Venezuela's leaders with redoubled proclamations of Chavista messianism.

If those elements of the population for whom crime is an acceptable alternative grow to any sizable percentage because of economic privation or because of prejudice, or if these alienated groups are prevented from finding a way to work within the system, then the whole society will be reduced very quickly to choosing between living in a police state or living in anarchy.

(John 3:3 [see also marginal translation]-RRB- A divine initiative from above regenerates the man so that he passes from a state of unspiritual darkness, illusion, and privation into the higher realm of being, concerning which John uses three major words — light, life, and love.

«The simple logic of [the biblical] «breasts that do not give suck» [considered as a privation] can only be escaped by the most elaborate forms of cultural learning.

This limitation is not a privation, but a gift that allows for the discovery of the love that springs from wonder in the face of difference.

Pentecostalism is efficient in supporting individuals in situations of extreme privation or family crisis.

I want to be a credit to my profession, but not if it means enduring this kind of inhuman privation.

Critics such as Rutter have also accused Bowlby of not distinguishing between deprivation and privation — the complete lack of an attachment bond, rather than its loss.

From his survey of research on privation, Rutter proposed that it is likely to lead initially to clinging, dependent behavior, attention - seeking and indiscriminate friendliness, then as the child matures, an inability to keep rules, form lasting relationships, or feel guilt.

Inexorably prisoners are taken from similar places, geographically, culturally and economically and their experience of violence, of absence from parenthood, and of economic privation swiftly contribute to growing structures of nested criminality, resistent to incremental policy solutions and easily feared and reviled by those more fortunately placed.

Poverty atlases that map the extent of privation have existed for decades as a means to alert urban leaders to areas lacking basic services, such as water, electricity and sanitation.

Whatever privation was noted — no spare parts for trains, unsafe conditions in coal mines, empty shelves in shops — they would simply say: «Yes, the Gang of Four... but they're gone now.»

From Castillion and Schumpeter to Casson many characteristics have been brought together, which can be classified into the generic terms of «ability» (e.g., intelligence, intuition, persistence) and «ambition» (e.g., enthusiasm, thinking of investments, willingness, and readiness for privation).

He was also born into a society whose privations suppressed many of the great scientific minds of the period.