Sentences with phrase «sense of guilt which»

Another point of vulnerability in the system is the industry «s own defensiveness and sense of guilt which sometimes is expressed in management «s desire to produce a few quality programs even at the expense of achieving maximum profits, in order to project a «quality» or public - service image to the populace.

Even the sacraments of the church have provided occasions of humor, muffled, of course, by a sense of guilt which failed to see that only the true and meaningful can provide the leverage necessary for laughter.

Not exact matches

From a theological standpoint, it is the pervasive sense of gift which permeates both grief and guilt and opens the triad of grief, guilt, gift to a glimpse of the womb - love of God.

On the other hand, many adult Christians not only tolerate but participate with no sense of guilt in practices of race discrimination which, if Jesus was right, must surely be wrong.

Another complication of not waiting, is that it can cause a sense of guilt to become linked to being sexual together, which can get you off to a bad start, bringing a shadow into your married sexual relationship.

While this change may be viewed as moral progress, it is probably due, in part, to the evaporation of the sense of sin, guilt, and retributive justice, all of which are essential to biblical religion and Catholic faith.

It is an age which accepts a corporate sense of responsibility: the guilt (or the merit — see the story of Abraham's intercession for Sodom and Gomorrah in ch.

It is on the one hand necessary to maintain a searching sense of guilt — which psychologists often decry — and on the other, to keep this sense of guilt from getting out of bonds — which religionists have often overlooked.

Whether in a sense of guilt and inner unrest which drives many to psychiatrists or in the perhaps more terrible lethargy that drugs conscience to insensibility, punishment for unrepented sin is an inescapable fact of life.

On the other hand, he said that the message of Billy Graham, despite its simple pietism and obscurantist framework of «The Bible says...,» has «preserved something of the biblical sense of a divine judgment and mercy before which all human strivings and ambitions are convicted of guilt and reduced to their proper proportions.

Men and women through the ages have also spoken of a reorientation of one's life in which, at least partially, anxiety and internal conflict can be replaced by an inner unity and sense of direction; self - defensiveness and pretense by the ability to look at oneself honestly; self - centeredness and alienation from other people by a new capacity for genuine concern; and guilt and insecurity by a sense of God's forgiveness and acceptance.

The use of this penal and sacrificial imagery reflects the early church's profound sense of guilt, and its knowledge, which seemed to have come to it by way of the spectacle of Christ's sufferings, that the forgiveness which it now enjoyed, although given freely had not been given lightly.

Shame implies the peculiarly human concern with self - perfection, guilt the sense of personal responsibility, whereas awe recognizes powers not under human control and beyond human comprehension, before which we feel shamefully small.

Is it the modern religious Christian's inability to speak about a God who is actually present in the world which is the ground of his refusal to share a uniquely modern sense of guilt?

Earlier I spoke of an extended sense of responsibility and guilt which might be applicable to changes in personal identity.

Attempting to find support among parents who do not share the same approach to child - raising is like comparing apples to oranges, and the advice you receive is likely to deepen the sense of doubt being felt, and therefore create guilt — not to mention conflict with your personal values system, which creates its own set of uncomfortable emotions.

Thirdly: If a book doesn't acknowledge point number two then it is likely to be causing guilt or shame to be felt by those who don't agree with the experiences of the author and is therefore one which I would see as causing readers to lose their own sense of self.

But what if taking a «wrong» turn fills you with a sense of guilt and regret, which prevents you from being able to move on?

Now, a lot of the performances don't help a sense of melodrama, for a number of supporting performances fall flat, but the leads nevertheless deliver as best they can, whether it be Victor Mature as a struggling, but wise slave who holds passion and fury over the demise of a great man, or leading man Richard Burton as a militant man of admiration, love, and guilt, which Burton sells through an impassioned and layered performance.

But the temporarily pluralized title made some sense: As in last year's Prisoners, which similarly treated hoary genre material with poker - faced seriousness, there's a sense that all of the characters are trapped — by their guilt, by their grief, by their obsessions.

Maybe not the freshest idea in the world, but the participating artists felt genuine pain at the destruction of their works (which included a preponderance of sad - eyed kitty cats and doggies, natch), while my own refusal to save the life of a threatened work filled me with a real, albeit fleeting, sense of guilt.

The artist revealed to The Guardian that when he would go to work, he would feel a sense of guilt at the size of his own studio (which employs hundreds of people) churning out his art: «That's why I used to lay on these huge parties.

Although blaming the other person temporarily gives you respite from your own guilt, sadness, or sense of deficiency, batting this deficiency over to the other side is only going to lead to more distress in your partner, which is no overall gain for the relationship.

Depressive symptoms are a state in which the mood is suppressed, causing sadness, melancholy, asthenia, deteriorated understanding, decreased concentration, sense of guilt, and physical symptoms including loss of appetite, insomnia, and headache.