Sentences with phrase «seek escape from it»

Many times addictions can result from a genetic predisposition or other conditions, such as depression, that lead you to seek an escape from reality.

They can seek an escape from the marketplace of art and its dozens of niche markets.

Within these brilliant, often bizarre short stories, 20 - something blue - collar boys seek escape from their stagnant lives by turning to an unnamed foreign war.

When he kidnaps the teenaged Casey (The Witch «s Anya Taylor - Joy) and her two friends (Haley Lu Richardson, Jessica Suva), the girls are faced with constantly changing identities as they desperately seek an escape from their disorienting confines.

Young people seek an escape from the mundane in the colorful, irrepressible, and musical atmosphere of a dance club.

During dry summers, the ocean must beckon youth that seek an escape from the town of 55,000, known for its garlic, wineries and a few fleeting exits on Route 101.

This happens because individual ambition leads men and women to seek escape from their misery and improve their lot the quick way.

They seek escape from daily life in a virtual - reality universe where players race to find a hidden secret.

Work that issues from devotion is no longer a slave's burden, and play is no longer the pseudo liberty of one who seeks escape from himself and his condition.

It is wrong to fall into a state of «work - fanaticism,» finding no satisfactions through other channels and seeking escape from an inner vacuum through feverish activity.

very articulate elizabeth but islam is not a lovely, peaceful religion seeking escape from religious persecution.

In the five short days since the new West Chicago Park District pool opened, the daily announcement already has become a routine for thousands seeking escape from a heat wave that has pushed temperatures into the mid-90s.

«Getting close to nature» or going «back to the land» will generally not be good for the environment, however psychologically fulfilling these objectives may be to individuals seeking escape from industrial living.

Synopsis: Seeking an escape from poverty, sibling Texas farmers (Matthew McConaughey, Skeet Ulrich, Ethan Hawke) gain notoriety as daring 1920s bank robbers.

Seeking escape from his stalled relationship and unhappy place in the world, a recently pink - slipped music teacher sets out to hike Kentucky's Sheltowee Trace Trail.

Milner, seeking an escape from his debt, accepts an offer of $ 50,000 to retire to a luxurious hotel in Mexico on the condition he never return to the United States.

A bored suburban housewife, seeking escape from her life, suffers amnesia after an accident, wakes up, and is mistaken for a free - spirited New York City drifter named Susan.

Seeking an escape from the stress of her life, Mira Sorvino retreats to an isolated lakeside cabin that turns out to be haunted by a ghost who develops an affection for her and must protect her from a darker presence lurking nearby.

Others sought an escape from the limitations imposed on Korean women in traditional Confucian households.

Seeking escape from the gloomy lake - effect winters for which Central New York is famous, she followed the lure of warmer weather and left New York for a job in Alexandria, Virginia.

The drugs had me pinned between an exhausted indifference to whatever may have been crawling through the holes in walls and window screens, and a lurid imagining of too - many - legged tarantulas seeking escape from the rain under the worn mattress of my bed.

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«Described as simply the world's best island, Bali a resort destination that appeals to many seeking an escape from the world and we are proud to unveil a resort that will, once again, raise the bar for hospitality in the region and contribute to the growth of tourism in Indonesia,» added Humler.

Historically, the Dutch colonists sought escape from the coastal heat in Munduk, and remnants of colonial architecture are dotted here and there.

At first thought, there seems inherent risk in putting on an exhibition about the occult, since the term seeks escape from view: the «occult,» after all, consists of hidden knowledge and practices, reserved only for the initiated, allowing comprehension and manipulation of the cosmos and the self.

Seeking an escape from the meticulously regulated construction of perspective when working on the Butterfly paintings, Grotjahn began making playful masks from the cardboard waste of supply boxes and beer cartons around his studio.

If you're someone seeking escape from outside noise or distractions, then yes.

If you are considering having an affair it is likely that you are seeking an escape from an unhappy marriage.

The services they provide to women and children seeking an escape from violence are critical and we feel honored to help in any way we can.»

Not exact matches

Tammany Hall and the various machines that ran Chicago politics come to mind here, But in those days, you could escape from New York and Chicago, seeking greater opportunities and less dependence outside the city limits.

Like the weary sailor, the refugee from wreck and storm, who escapes half «dead, and then, in terror, shudders with dread at the very mention of the name of the «sea»; who swears he'll never sail again, who raves he'll stay home, even on the calmest days, but then, in time, forgets his fearful ways, and seeks, again, his fortune above the waves; I, too, have barely escaped the storms that revolve around you, my love, traveling far away, vowing to avoid another catastrophe, but I can't; the thought of you breaks my resolve, and so, I return to where, on that fateful day, Inearly drowned in your tempestuous sea.

But because man has risen to the spiritual level where he has become aware of his creatureliness and knows he must die (and so far as we know he is unique in this respect), he has also rebelled against this prospect and sought to escape from it.

«A higher religion imposes a conflict, a division, torment and struggle within the individual... we escape from this strain by attempting to revert to an identity of religion and culture which prevailed at a more primitive stage; as when we indulge in alcohol as an anodyne, we consciously seek unconsciousness» (Notes, p. 68) Typically, Eliot did not attempt to lessen the strain; rather, he saw the church as the «salt of the earth,» affecting society at its deepest levels.

This is nevertheless a meaningless affirmation if it is not cognizant of the fact that family life is under assault, that as a result many people feel alienated from their families and have never found viable substitutes, that their experience within our technological society has left them feeling a profound sense of dissatisfaction with themselves from which they urgently seek escape through drugs, sex, or recreation.

But there is another kind of meditation which seeks mainly to «escape» from the world, which offers quicker and easier blessings.

... one can change human institutions, but not man; whatever the general effort of a society to render citizens equal and alike, the particular pride of individuals will always seek to escape the [common] level... In aristocracies, men are separated from one another by high, immovable barriers, in democracies, they are divided by a multitude of small, almost invisible threads that are broken every minute and are constantly changed from place to place.

From Plato onwards, philosophers have sought to escape from the anxiety of personal freedom by searching for certainty and objectivity in a supra - human realm, whether it be that of unchanging Platonic Forms, or in the inexorable unfolding of some grand historical design, or in an eternal life with an omniscient, loving, supreme BeFrom Plato onwards, philosophers have sought to escape from the anxiety of personal freedom by searching for certainty and objectivity in a supra - human realm, whether it be that of unchanging Platonic Forms, or in the inexorable unfolding of some grand historical design, or in an eternal life with an omniscient, loving, supreme Befrom the anxiety of personal freedom by searching for certainty and objectivity in a supra - human realm, whether it be that of unchanging Platonic Forms, or in the inexorable unfolding of some grand historical design, or in an eternal life with an omniscient, loving, supreme Being.

, then instead of trying to escape from that position by resolving it one way or another, why should we not seek the positive and beneficial implications of just such a position?

A common Jewish view is that Christians seek to escape from this dilemma by spiritualizing redemption.

Justification by faith in the realm of justice means that we will not regard the pressures and counterpressures, the tensions, the overt and covert conflicts by which justice is achieved and maintained as normative in the absolute sense; but neither will we ease our conscience by seeking to escape from involvement in them.

In fact, Russell thinks that the death of Whitehead's younger son, Eric, in air combat in 1918, significantly shifted his views: «The pain of this loss had a great deal to do with turning his thoughts, to philosophy and with causing him to seek ways of escaping from belief in a merely mechanistic universe.»

It is generally assumed that the pastor will not turn away from human need or seek to escape it.

The distant God is at the same time the God near at hand, Whose reality is not to be grasped when a man seeks to escape from his own concrete existence, but precisely when he holds it fast.

He viewed Christianity as a form of teleological and ethical monotheism, in contrast with those Eastern religions which view existence as a cycle of rebirths from which the individual seeks escape.

We have set prayer in the context of the Christian faith that God is Love as revealed in Jesus Christ; and we have sought to take account of modern knowledge of the world so that prayer does not seem an unreal escape from the facts that we all know about that world.

Don't you realize that this will be an» intolerable burden from which most people will seek an escape?

We can reject and resist the tide, seeking by every means to slow it down and even to escape individually (at the risk of perishing in stoical isolation) from what looks like a rush to the abyss; or we can yield to it and actively contribute to what we accept as a liberating and life - giving movement.

It saw the publication of Reinhold Niebuhr's Moral Man and Immoral Society, which contains basic diagnoses of tendencies in human history that are still true: One can not escape from sin by refusing to relate oneself to movements that seek to develop the power of self - defense among the powerless.

So the founders of the nation were wrong to seek a different life and escape from the combined churchstate of England?

A mountain god of war and storm they left behind, to believe at last in a universal Spirit, everywhere available to the seeking soul, the one God of all mankind, who asks for his service only justice, mercy, and humility, and from whose presence there is no escape: