Sentences with phrase «serious subjects on»

OUT: Taboo subjects IN: Healthy debate Until recent years, discussing serious subjects on a date was considered to be a serious taboo, but these days, if you tend to stick to small talk on a first date then it's unlikely you'll form that deep connection that great relationships are built on.

Lobster is a very serious subject on the East Coast!

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Not every faculty member at Stanford is ploughing through a weighty tome on a serious subject this holiday season.

Rand had some serious blind spots on this subject, to put it mildly.

Indeed, the former Tory MP Louise Mensch wrote on this subject: «I'm a divorced (and remarried) Catholic and I'm sure it would be a mortal sin for me to take communion... nobody in a state of serious sin... is able to receive Christ worthily.

The post «war «taboo» on serious discussion of the Holocaust was not broken by the 1967 Arab «Israeli war, as he repeatedly asserts, but by the Eichmann Trial of 1960 «62, as every serious account of this subject notes.

You decry the lack of unity among Christians on this subject, but how can there be unity if there is not serious dialogue between opposing sides?

The absence of serious moral debate leaves conservative and even reactionary moral forces as the only voice on the subject of homosexuality.

And people joke about the police - magistrate more than they joke about the Pope, not because the police - magistrate is a more frivolous subject, but, on the contrary, because the police - magistrate is a more serious subject than the Pope.

A critic once remonstrated with me saying, with an air of indignant reasonableness, «If you must make jokes, at least you need not make them on such serious subjects.»

The Vatican's Exorcists: Driving Out the Devil in the 21st Century by Tracy Wilkinson Grand Central, 208 pages, $ 22.99 A pop treatment of a serious subject, focusing on the rise in the number of Italians seeking exorcism.

His teachings on the subject combined the spiritual athleticism of William Law's Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, the Moravian emphasis on felt assurance of salvation (which Wesley extended to include sanctification), and the Puritan insistence onminute examination of conscience coupled with sanctified action in all spheres of life.

I should be the last to assume that I have said everything that might be or ought to be said on the subject, and I am very conscious of serious omissions as well as of many shortcomings.

Serious discussion on the unity and mission was started in the ecumenical movement with the declaration drawn up by the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches at its meeting in Rolle, Switzerland in 1951.23 One of the main subjects on the agenda of the Committee was: The Missionary and Ecumenical Calling of the Church.

It is a matter of serious consequence for theologians when a film based on religious subject matter is made, because more people will be likely to view that film than have read the New Testament in all history.

Interesting (non) comments on a very serious subject.

The fact that a research university necessarily sets aside any subject's claim to rest on revealed principles that can not themselves be the subject of critical inquiry poses no serious problem because, Schleiermacher argues on philosophical grounds, religions like Christianity do not rest on principles in the first place, revealed or otherwise.

Few scientists have sufficient courage and public concern to write a serious book to a popular audience on such an expansive range of subjects.

For a Whiteheadian, any new sensibility that ignores the moral claims made on us by the reality of other subjects will entail serious loss.

The question is a serious one, and it requires me to go beyond my 1970 thoughts on the subject.

only top club on planet subject to this kind of logic... the ostrich needs to get his head out of the f ****** sand and start looking at what we need to be serious challengers this year... clocks tcking

Finally, and to be serious, if this is the best this author can think of for a subject to write about he must have too much time on his hands.

«While I am persuaded that there was nothing more going on here than some verbal jockeying between two friendly rivals,» he said, «it is my responsibility to make it plain to Messrs. Barkley and Jackson and everyone else in the NBA that on the subject of gambling, even the slightest appearance of impropriety is a serious matter.»

Remember Resource who made the post to which you rudely wrote STFU, which is an uneducated, juvenile and foolish comment on a serious subject, was correct in his analysis.

Surely she cant be serious about Fast Food, Drugs, Drinking, and Backing so much into bags??? I so loved reading your thoughts on the subject.

If that's true, there's serious cause for concern: as recounted in a recent Washington Post op - ed on the subject, there's been a five-fold increase in the per - capita production of food dyes over the past 50 years.

He pointed out we are yet to see the new wave of students graduate with higher debt levels than ever and there are still «serious questions» over how increased costs are impacting on the subjects chosen by students.

The order, which went into effect on Jan. 5, is meant to ensure that homeless individuals are directed to shelter when subjected to weather that can cause hypothermia, serious injury and death, according to a release from Cuomo's office.

The guide provides information on how best to approach the subject of mental health, and what can be done practically in more serious situations.

It tests readers» commitment to the subject - those who are serious about entering the profession will read on, others will be turned off by reading about the long hours and restrictions on partisan comment.

«The government must conduct a serious review of its stance on modern languages in the key stage four curriculum and examine how it should be promoting these subjects rather than presiding their decline,» he said.

Under the new legislation, which Mayor Bill de Blasio has said he supports, the city will honor immigration waivers if the federal government requests them with a judge's warrant — and even then, only if the subject of the warrant was convicted within the last five years of a violent or serious crime, or is a possible match on the terrorism watch list.

The Senate again on the 26th of April 2018 wrote the Inspector - General of Police re-inviting him to appear before the Senate in person on the 2nd of May, 2018 but this time around the IGP was on official assignment to Birnin - Gwari Area of Kaduna State in company of the General Officer Commanding, One Division, Nigerian Army Kaduna, Major General Mohammed Mohammed to attend to some very serious security matters of National Importance, but he promptly delegated the Deputy Inspector - General of Police, Research and Planning, Assistant Inspectors General of Police and Commissioners of Police to represent him and brief the Senate on the same subject matter, the Senate again refused to accord them audience insisting that the Inspector - General of Police must appear in person.

Ever since Stanley Miller inaugurated the era of serious research in the origin of life, chemists have been at the forefront of answering the question at the crux of the matter: how did the simple, primordial molecules on an early Earth self - assemble to form self - replicating, robust chemical structures subject to Darwinian natural selection?

However, the «grey literature» has no place in a work that purports to be a serious text book on the subject of climate change.

But while bioterror is being addressed in mainstream science, policy recommendations focused on DIYbio are rarely the subject of serious consideration.

On the whole, the MOST scientifically literate and numerate subjects were slightly LESS likely, not more, to see climate change as a serious threat than the LEAST scientifically literate and numerate ones.

And while we're on the subject of reproductive health, one of the most serious health outcomes for women exposed to ED's is increased infertility.

It's nice of you to touch on serious subjects too, I think it's important.

I want to emphasize that what I am writing about today is a very serious subject that really impacts me and as far as I can tell, several husbands on a daily basis.

I am very independant.I'm not looking to b taken care of.I have a sense of humor am open and honest.I can carry on an in depth intellegent conversation for hours.however I do have a serious side.espically when it comes to the subject of respect.I respect ppl and I expect respect in return.I will...

On this site you will find humorists, stand - up comics, entertainers, cartoonists and writers of serious subject matter — all who believe in the power of humor.

It's an approachable film that handles a serious topic deftly and offers a fresh take on a familiar subject.

Overall Red Christmas provides much more in the way of balanced perspective and nuance than many a serious drama on the subject.

Then, as told partly in flashback as Arthur (Harrelson) is being interviewed by a court - appointed psychiatrist (the underrated Sandra Oh), the safe distance that gives the audience derails the pace and the film becomes more serious than it ought to, no matter the subject matter and this results in it becoming every «realistic» work that looks down on the idea of either a superhero or the genre.

His stern presence acts as a reminder that, despite the many moments of black humour on display, the subject broached is a serious one.

Cancer is a touchy subject to tackle on film, and there are a few very appropriately serious scenes that deal with the challenges and frustrations of the disease.

I'm not somebody who feels there is any subject too raw, sensitive, or serious for popular entertainment (I can honestly say that I feel A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child largely informed my attitude towards abortion), and Earthquake effectively places the Katrina conflict in an artistic context, stressing, in its underhanded way, the power of community in bringing the best out of people following a catastrophe.

His film being MOLIERE, the subject of comedy as a serious business naturally came up when we talked on July 10, 2007, but it was his lively musings on what makes a good script, how to imitate a horse, as well as his citation of Joseph Campbell that made this one of the more erudite, as well as entertaining, interviews I've ever conducted.

Teen girls have made terrific subjects for movies lately (I'm thinking of The Edge of Seventeen, The Diary of a Teenage Girl, and Eighth Grade, which premiered at Sundance in January), but there's still a persistent bias against the idea that serious filmmaking would center on teen girls.