Sentences with phrase «sees as a tragedy»

The study of Jewish history has moved from beyond the periphery to the very center and, indeed, being inevitably seen as a tragedy leading to a unique catastrophe, has some claims to being more widely discussed today than almost any other aspect of modern European history.

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Indeed, some see such a tragedy as preventable with more legislation that regulates gun ownership.

She has seen first - hand how the arts and music have helped her children heal from this tragedy and is committed to make sure the foundation provides this help for as many families as possible.

«We see these laws as a way for law enforcement and families to intervene before these mass tragedies occur,» said Elizabeth Avore, the legal and policy director at Everytown for Gun Safety.

@CP: before the age of 24 I buried my Mom and 2 children... tragedy didn't make me believe then and it certainly won't make me believe now... if anything those tragedies made me question what kind of an evil monster god really is if he allows 3 innocent people to die horrible deaths (my Mom was an avid believer and went to her grave believing she was going to be with god... it was a comfort for her and eased her mind... I just don't see it as a necessity)

But, as a person who tries to depend on reason and community harmony, I don't see a problem with it being there, as long as we can have a mosque in the neighborhood, a star of David, and whatever else represents people who lost their lives in this national tragedy.

what is very interesting to me tonite is the folks who are positive there is no god... what is equally interesting is the snarling that appears whenever one does not «toe» the atheist line of no god... It has been said over and over here, «there is no proof of your God» ad nauseum I might add... OK... please, I am asking you in the nicest possible way... explain to me, without a Designed, where the universe and all it entails, first got its source... I really would like to know... from everything I see, I see beauty, design, tragedy, poetry, poverty, etc.... How did we begin to name or classify any of this... what intelligence gave us our intelligence... I have yet to see an anwer posited as to how it all came about, absent a Designer... I will wait for an answer... How did it ALL get here, and explain the precision and engineering of it all — right down to the last jot of DNA.

Peace «keeps vivid the sensitiveness to the tragedy; and it sees the tragedy as a living agent persuading the world to aim at fineness beyond the faded level of surrounding fact.

To be freed from the power of sin is to come to see the world as it really is, with all its glory and tragedy, all its potential and limitations — that is, to see it in and under God.

Tragedy for Buber, as we have seen, is the conflict between two men through the fact that each of them is as he is.

@mennoknight, not to be seen as piling on, I didn't read all the responses I admit, but the story of Jesus, if written by the Greeks, would have been a comedy or a tragedy, depending on who wrote it.

as we can see from some comments, some people weren't even aware of this tragedy.

I knew my friends were as rocked by the tragedy as everyone else, so I was dumbfounded when I saw no movement on their parts to join efforts to bring justice for Sean Bell.

As Christian documents so well, God's initial conformal feelings are perfect, re-enacting the same feeling with all of the intimacy and poignancy that the creature felt, without any loss or distortion.16 Here God is completely vulnerable, completely open to all the evil and the tragedy that the world has seen.

It keeps vivid the sensitiveness to the tragedy; and it sees the tragedy as a living agent persuading the world to aim at fineness beyond the faded level of surrounding fact.

In particular, he kept seeing the baffling personal injustice involved when «the wicked doth compass about the righteous,» and, even when he thought of the nation's collective problem, his solution was not so much to blame present social tragedy on antecedent social sin as to believe that justice, now denied, would come in time — «Though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not delay.»

Never have I seen such a strange tragedy as Jean Racine's Phèdre (1677), performed by a French troupe in 1975 for an American audience.

The national conversation tends to skip over how much this demographic — who came of age with mass tragedies like the Columbine shooting and 9/11 — want a candidate who conveys a sense of protection in what they see as an «increasingly dangerous world.»

It is fear, it is torture, it is the impact on the family, it is the loss of work and income, it is the tragedy that affects children when they see the violence used in taking their father away and demolishing him as a person, it is the amazing deterioration of life's possibilities, it is losing one's dreams to become a professional and independent person or becoming someone who could participate more actively in democracy.»

Kerrin now sees her father more as a human tragedy than as a cruel person.

One can understand the depth and complexity of alcoholism, and therefore its prevention, by seeing it as a «tragic response to areas of tragedy in our culture.»

I see this happen a lot in the church when Black women suffer tragedies such as financial struggle, a terminal or fatal illness, and the death of a child or spouse.

He saw form as the tragedy of spirit.5 We need not take this as a universal principle, but we can recognize its element of validity.

I don't want to go into politics as this is a football forum, In the past we have seen plenty of tragedies inside football stadiums, especially in England, where hundreds of fan's lost their lifes and there was no postponement to the league back then.

As we pointed out above, ~ 99.98 % of families will not see any harm from bed - sharing... the ~ 0.02 % will experience untold grief and tragedy.

It is just a tragedy and I see needless suffering from these mommies as if they have a personal failure because everything went wrong when they were told everything would go right, that it is natural etcetera and the reality is we have 22 % of women who either have primary lactation failure and / or delayed lacto genesis too.

The rest of the nation can watch as Mr Cuomo is voted out, and loses his governorship, and the elitist will see what happens to politicians when they exploit a tragedy, and pass a law that, criminalize, harass, and target lawful citizens that have done nothing wrong..

The tragedy of Ukraine is that there is a fundamental vacuousness in its dominant political discourse about «joining Europe», and a mismatch between the aspirations of its society, especially its younger generations, for a better life (which is seen as synonymous with a «European choice») and the capacity of the Ukrainian state and the EU to deliver.

The reality on the ground is that Boko Haram menace is not only seen as Borno's «wahala «but a tragedy that affects Nigeria and its neighbours.

«Too often, we are able to see the warning signs that an individual close to us poses a risk of serious harm, but lack a mechanism to prevent unthinkable tragedies such as interpersonal gun violence or suicide,» said Brooklyn Assembly member Jo Anne Simon who sponsored the bill.

«We need to start seeing this not only as a collection of individual tragedies but also as the major public health problem of our age.

IDS - who quit as Work and Pensions Secretary last year - said the Grenfell tragedy, which saw at least 80 people burned to death, should lead to an end in the construction of high - rise flats.

As reported by USA today in this story, it's sad to see that yet another tragedy was linked back to a connection made at an online dating site.

It could also qualify as a dark comedy or a merry tragedy, depending on how you see things.

Yet this frustratingly oblique approach to tragedy seems to be the point, as Lanthimos is letting us see what happens when all reason is tossed out the window, leaving nothing but absurdly ferocious emotion in its place.

I like focused biopics that don't feel they need to go from cradle to grave, but the focus here gives the film a bit of unearned hero worship, as we see LBJ hold the country together after tragedy and fight for civil rights against caricaturish opponents.

That would be all well and good within the confines of a made - for - TV drama, but Perelman sees this story more as a somber thriller, ditching the humanistic elements for some hyperbolic confrontations that escalate feverishly until only tragedy can result.

This is a smart, effective film, a comedy in many ways even though it's bookended with reasons for Ben to see it as a potential tragedy.

Some will see it as trying to hastily profit off of tragedy, an argument you can not easily shoot down.

When the townspeople see their tragedy enacted in front of them, it's as if they've just seen it on the news or read it in the newspaper; it reinforces the events and makes them more real.

The film suggests that Johnson was animated by a desire not to be seen as an «accidental president» who inherited the office thanks to tragedy.

I really think few have had the potential to create as high a plane of filmmaking as Mann, and it's a tragedy to see him not use his full abilities.

It's a film our critic describes as «emotionally devastating,» and it's hard to see how any documentary that takes such an unflinching and deeply - felt look at the aftermath of such an epochal tragedy as the school shootings in Newtown Connecticut could not be — especially as the film focuses not on the killer or on the politics of the event, but simply on the children, in particular on three of the victims, and their families trying to cope in the wake of an incomprehensible loss.

Eric, played brilliantly by Michael Urie, spends the play ostensibly trying to find a roommate in the days following the attack, but as each prospective roommate inspects the apartment, the film becomes a cross-section of New York's reaction to the tragedy, and Eric's best friend, Josie, becomes the voice of reason as she helplessly tries to make Eric see that he's not as calm as he thinks he is.

WA's first movie out of the gate was a largely successful attempt to produce a straight comedy (though perfume of melancholic tragedy seen in his later films are certainly present) first made headlines as a mis - marketed box office bomb, the pundits pointing and laughing as this purported Reservoir Dogs knock - off plummeted into obscurity.

America's obsession with the Kennedy's has inspired countless books, movies and TV specials depicting the family's triumphs, tragedies, and scandals, but few have solely focused on Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis or as most refer to her, «Jackie O.» One of the most beloved first ladies was often overshadowed by her husband and his brothers, however, in the new drama, Jackie, the famous first lady takes center stage, and we see the rise and tragic ending of the Kennedy White House through her eyes and words.

by Walter Chaw Alan Parker likes to use his platform as a film director to preach about all manner of society's more obvious ails, reserving the bulk of his ham - fisted proselytizing for the problems he himself identifies as endemic to the United States: hedonism and drug abuse (The Wall, Midnight Express); the price of a culture of fame (The Wall, Fame); the price of Vietnam and our broken social services system (Birdy); the rampant Yankee tragedy of divorce (Shoot the Moon); racism (Mississippi Burning, Come See the Paradise); our love / hate / fear relationship with food (The Road to Wellville); and, most recently (and egregiously), the death penalty (The Life of David Gale).

By the end of the film, we see both characters as gods, both as monsters, and the great talent of Bill Condon is in knowing when to push the esthetic toward humorous self - parody and when to bend it toward tragedy.

Stephen Strange has an ego, and is the best neurosurgeon the world has ever seen, but unlike Tony Stark, he is unable to create a solution to his own tragedy, but instead must rely on the help of others, humbling him as he learns of the existence of magics and the multiverse when arriving at Kathmandu upon his first encounter with The Ancient One, a celtic eternal lord of magic played admirably by Tilda Swinton in a highly contentious role previously made as a racial stereotype.

Horror filmmakers have often used tragedy to open the door to the supernatural, but Aster's is one of the most propulsive I've ever seen — it's not a long hallway to horror as much as it is a chute that opens up under your feet, dropping you into Hell.