Sentences with phrase «rather than a tragedy»

Cloistered in red or blue communities and steeped in tell - me - what - I - want - to - hear media coverage, both sides have duped themselves into believing that our current crisis stems from a failure of the political class — «the swamp» — rather than the tragedy of a divided nation.

The book marks his movement politically toward pragmatic liberalism of the Franklin D. Roosevelt types and philosophically toward irony rather than tragedy in his philosophy of history.

Fortunately, the result of the mishap was an adventure, rather than a tragedy.

Ideally this leads to a harmony with nature and conservation — rather than a tragedy — of the commons.

Not exact matches

The point, said Musk, is to prepare now rather than lapse into the human habit of being reactive and waiting until a tragedy occurs before forming a regulatory body.

The tragedy is that, even with the best of intentions, our egoistic narcissism (falling excessively in love with ourselves rather than a Divine [or even a human] Other blinds us to justice which is the minimum requirement for love.

The fact that you define this as a tragedy rather than emphasize the criminal aspects of the circumstances convinces me that you come from a place of grace, not law.

People would rather equate tragedy to the plan of an invisible deity rather than saying her first husband was careless with their son and selfish with his marriage.

Without such norms, the result is tragedy rather than the enhancement of human life.

It is a curious fact that while the general culture of contemporary theologians is still markedly literary, rather than scientific, they seem to forget the many lessons concerning the human situation to be learnt from tragedy, whether ancient or modern.

As Catholics, we know instinctively that maternal mortality is a tragedy and that abortion is not the answer, but I believe that we are under an obligation to turn that knowledge into action and offer hope to mothers around the world who face the prospect of giving birth in fear and trembling rather than with joy.

The biggest tragedy of Labour's tuition fees is that they were introduced without any mechanism to make sure they produced a better deal for students, rather than leaking out into things like the unreformed pensions of baby - boomer academics.

«All wings of the Labour party which support the notion of the Labour party as a party aspiring to govern, rather than as a fringe protest movement agree on the tragedy of the Labour party's current position.

«The governor's sense that the tragedies of Newtown, Aurora, Virginia Tech et cetera will continue unless we find a way to make the issue crime control rather than gun control — namely, keeping the weapons that kill savagely in large numbers out of of the hands of criminals and the mentally deranged,» Gyory said.

Preventing a tragedy is understandable and good, but we have to do this in ways that are sensible rather than just reactionary,» says Kupchik, an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware, Newark, who is leading a study of discipline in American public high schools.

This allows us to absorb this one aspect of a humongous tragedy, rather than being bombarded by too much information in a movie whose reach exceeds its grasp.

After «Amores Perros» (2000) and «21 Grams» (2003), it shows his mastery of the form, and it surprises us by offering human insight rather than obligatory tragedy.

The greater tragedy is the involvement of talents like Stanton and Michael Chabon in a project this carefully deboned and filleted, featuring a sensitive, New Age hero who'd be wearing a scrunchie to keep his hair out of his stubbled face at the centre of any cosmology seminar — the Han Solo who shoots back rather than the one who shot first.

(6) Pam Cook, however, believes that the film is a tragedy that mourns rather than celebrates the loss of masculinity.

This Daisy is indecisive rather than «careless,» a co-victim in the story's central tragedy rather than its principal architect, a smash - ee rather than smasher.

Rather than focus on the lowest point in Lee's life — the tragedy that drove him from the film's titular town and estranged him from his wife Randi (Michelle Williams)-- Lonergan moves back through time freely, showing specific moments in Lee's past, even as he struggles with a new challenge: being a surrogate father to the now - teenaged Patrick after Joe dies.

There are countless tales to relate from this tragedy, and rather than focus on several in the schlocky manner of a»70s disaster flick, director Juan Antonio Bayona elected to center on the true - life story of María Belón and Enrique Alvarez, a Spanish couple on holiday with their three boys in Thailand when the tsunami hits.

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In that film, as in Tragedy Girls, the emphasis is placed on the concept rather than the act itself, and how murderers integrate into the functioning machinery of society at a given moment in time.

As for the story, itself, it careens too wildly between hilarity and genuine tragedy to entirely gel, and often forces characters to behave as per the screenplay's requirements, rather than as they might were they genuine people.

The tragedy of all of this is that Pipkin Middle School remains the norm rather than the exception nationally.

Following the 2000 tragedy at Stainforth Beck in North Yorkshire, the decision of the HSE to prosecute Leeds Education as the employer rather than the teachers concerned, illustrates the likelihood to prosecute at employer level where good management practice is not in place.

Rather than let her personal tragedy manifest as hatred toward her son's killer, she instead started a movement, called Choose Love.

Bill Mitchell, DVM said, «There is a serious need to prevent the tragedies rather than responding to each one after the fact.»

What at first appears as the aftermath of a tragedy is actually a wedding photo — tears of joy rather than tears of pain.

For people in less advanced countries with poor infrastructure, I wonder there is nothing we can do rather than donation after tragedy?

The comments seem to be a venue for people to vent their pre-existing hatred and animosity — whether towards Bush, the US or... rather than dealing with the tragedy and suffering and what can be done now.

These tragedies are normal when — as much of the environmental movement prefers — human beings, bearing the imago Dei, live, and are treated, as if they were mere animals, which need to submit to nature rather than exercising the dominium God gave them in the beginning (Genesis 1:28).

Now this may seem odd as a foundational belief — «public goods» are rather universally understood in economics, and the «tragedy of the commons» and related game - theory discussions of, for example, the archetypal «Prisoner's Dilemma», show quite clearly that there are situations where cooperative action produces a better outcome for all than seeking individual selfish advantage.

The tragedy is that many politicians and special interests have dug in, rejecting a clear and well - founded consensus in science and continue whistling in the dark, rather than acting to mitigate the risks of climate change.

An early payoff of the savvy reinvestment of fossil - fuel profits in public disinformation, was to persuade receptive US voters that AGW is a partisan «environmental» issue, rather than an economic Tragedy of the climate Commons; IOW, a looming diseconomy affecting literally everyone on Earth one way or another.

Instead, most questions (and, frankly, accompanying interviews and news reports) on Schiavo read like what they are: vehicles designed to leverage one family's tragedy for advertising ratings and eyeballs, rather than an opportunity to initiate a thoughtful and important conversation — national and individual.

Yet — whites, who largely gave Bush both of his election victories — seem more comfortable saying that their leader is, alas, pathetic on mass tragedies, so pathetic that he appointed a former lawyer for an equestrian society as head of FEMA — rather than labeling him racist.

It rose in the circuitous and unexpected manner of a viral video, rather than one that had been calculated to game YouTube's algorithms by seizing on interest in breaking news or tragedy — it had no catchy headline, no recognizable personality, no vast theorizing.

I've had much more success when I work to inspire change in the real estate industry rather than preach my personal tragedy to scare people.