Sentences with phrase «shadow world of»

In Scorcher, Clive Hamilton reveals a shadow world of lobbyists and -LSB-...]
Bresson's celebrated French art film borrows from Dostoyevsky to tell the story of an alienated young Parisian pickpocket (Martin LaSalle) who enters a shadow world of crime, punishment and strange redemption.
In this eye - popping montage of archival and news footage and interviews, Johan Grimonprez exposes the shadow world of the global arms trade, where corruption, lies, and greed drive covert relationships between politicians, industry executives, military and intelligence officials, and arms dealers.
Aligning itself with a CIA official (Jessica Chastain) whose decade - long pursuit of bin Laden calls on vast reserves of courage and resolve, Zero Dark Thirty goes deep into the shadow world of «enhanced interrogation» and black sites, details the many leads and red herrings that finally brought investigators to a compound in Abbottabad, and executes the raid itself with stomach - turning verisimilitude.
- and uses it as an entry point into the shadow world of illegal immigrants struggling to survive in London.
As he struggles to unearth the origins of the program, he embarks on a hallucinatory journey into a shadow world of right - wing conspiracies, sadomasochistic sex games, and bodily transformation.
For decades now physicists have contemplated the idea of an entire shadow world of elementary particles, called supersymmetry.
In his imagination he created a shadow world of gods and goddesses, fairies and goblins.
It made some effort to bring derivatives out of the shadow world of unregulated trading.
These paintings from the mid-1950s to mid-1960s come across like the missing link between Matisse's flattened - out forms and the sharp - edged shadow worlds of Edward Hopper.

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But I think it's time for Canada to step out of the shadows and into the light on the world stage.
She appears to have intentionally created a highly secretive organization that operated in the shadows of the tech world for roughly 10 years.
Cook, a tentative speaker who had toiled in the shadow of Jobs for years, has grown into a confident world leader and global ambassador for Apple.
His curiosity guided his behavior: da Vinci also made list after list of objects in the world he wanted to explore, from the edges of shadows to the jaws of crocodiles.
There is also a view that the exchange rate arrangements that exist in the present context — the substantial share of the world economy that shadows the dollar — should increase our confidence that this pattern of imbalances could be financed without stress for some time.
I truly feel that the cryptocurrency world is finally coming out of shadows and ever so slowly into the mainstream.
Learn how the successors of some of the world's famous family businesses stepped out of the shadows.
But they still have to convince the rest of the world that reforms at home are real, not ephemeral, and that structural problems, such as China's shadow banking, will not reach proportions critical enough to impact other sectors of the economy.
Instead, in exchange for increased «privacy,» perhaps the Legislative Council should work to increase transparency of the Hong Kong corporate world and remove the cloak that is casting a dark shadow over corporate governance and civil liberties in this unique place.
The Third World War has clearly already begun, as it is a war being waged by the global shadow banking system against all of humanity.
What Fermi wrought in physics, and what Watson and Crick made possible in the new genetics, are accomplishments that most serious people recognize as having potential shadow - sides: nuclear warfare, in the one case; a brave new world of manufactured and stunted humanity in the other.
Yet that metaphor of the mirror is too Platonic, because God's epiphany in the world is not through mere surface shadows, but is in the coming to be, development, and passing away to make room for novelty of primary natural units, each of which truly exists and acts in its own right and according to its own nature and structure for its time, and interacts with other units in a process of mutual actualization and eventual replacement.
Shifting reflections, quiet shadows, moving streams and passing clouds appear as timeless markers of a transient world caught between the infinite and finite, the personal and the universal....
Maybe the dissonance will help Americans to understand that they are part of a larger and often shadowed world history.
It was someone I once helped who put a bible under my seat and God who removed everything of this world leaving me in the shadow of death that allowed me to see.
The bottom line is that atheists who site science as the only real truth can still not prove beyond a shadow of a doubt how this world was created.
The space program and the stunning pictures of earth, at first grainy black - and - white shadows of the great shapes familiar from maps, gave further impetus to the idea of convergence, of one world.
There is the conception of religion as access and approach to God, in which a man enters out of the shadows into the light, out of the passing things of time into eternity, out of the world into the presence of God.
God's wilderness wanderers find themselves outgunned and outmanned, standing in the shadow of the ancient world's superpowers.
The martyrs, along with the saints, then provide models of what it means to live in the shadow of the world to come.
This self love is sin.God never forced chaos on us.we gave in to satan's lies about evil being an inherent necessity.Jesus said he was the way, the truth and life.He was the life (love) that everyone craves for, he is the truth which meant that his love was our only need and he exposed the lies of satan that we could attain bliss on subordinating people to our cravings.Sinning people don't accept a God who requires us to renounce ourselves because they are not convinced of God's love being enough for them and they are afraid to destroy their identity and live for the Glory of God.So, upon death, these souls realize that the physical world was just a shadow of God's love (the nature, food etc) and their own lies (violence, self love etc) and realize that love is their only need.They pursue it from other soul beings but are hurt that there's only hate and self love.They are afraid to approach the light because they don't want to renounce their identity as they have not recognized God's love before.
May the prayers and example of John Henry Newman help us strive manfully to love and serve Christ in the world, and may they lead us all» Catholic and Protestant alike» out of the shadows and ever more into the One who is the truth itself.
Plato warned us long ago that we were living, as it were, in a puddle, or on the margins of the real world, or even trapped in a cave watching a shadow - play.
«Building an Islamic Center in the shadow of the World Trade Center will cause some victims more pain - unnecessarily - and that is not right,» said the organization in a statement.
Beyond this shadow - line is the world of fact, not potentiality, a world of obligations and unavoidable responsibilities.
Now that the gloomy shadow of the earth Longing to view Orion's drizzling look, Leaps from the antarctic world unto the sky, And dims the welkin with her pitchy breath, Faustus, begin thine incantations, And try if devils will obey thy hest, Seeing thou hast pray'd and sacrific'd to them.
In our judgment, building an Islamic Center in the shadow of the World Trade Center will cause some victims more pain — unnecessarily — and that is not right.
«In our judgment, building an Islamic Center in the shadow of the World Trade Center will cause some victims more pain - unnecessarily - and that is not right,» the statement continued.
It is the dwelling place of the absolute perfection of things, and it's the shadows of those things that make up our world, and give hint to those perfect forms.
The pessimistic attitude of the Semitic mind toward the world as a fleeting shadow, the notion that it has value only as a place in which man prepares himself for a more permanent life, led to the conception that God is the absolute sovereign power which rules all things, including man and his actions.
«111 In it he observes that the basic claim of secular man is the refusal «to consent to that traditional interpretation of the world as a shadow - screen of unreality, masking or concealing the eternal which is the only true reality.
That God's providential will for the world is not transparent but hidden from human sight requires that we walk by faith, that we struggle through the valley of doubt as well as the shadow of death.
In this sense, man's culture is a sort of shadow - world which he has constructed and used as his way of coping with others of his own kind and with his physical environment.
This shadow world «works» pragmatically to take advantage of the physical environment, as when the steam engine or the atom bomb was developed.
For this shadow world imperfectly reflects the real world, and as it has been monopolized by the white western world in recent centuries, it mirrors the aggressiveness of that culture.
But the fact that man's culture j ~ a shadow world tends to be lost sight of when a technology becomes as all - embracing as will be that of a globally organized mankind.
Meaning is of a higher order than security, and the courageous of this world will attempt to live in the very shadow of ultimate meaning.
This passion for rationality pervades our shadow - world in the functional world - village, and we in the so - celled advanced areas presume that we have a monopoly of rational wisdom which must be trained or educated into all mankind.
In a world of uncertainty and anxiety, a world in which we live in the shadow of the mushroom cloud, in this world our natural inclination is to gather security to ourselves, to hang on to what we've got, and to ask, «What's in it for me?»
Seekers of truth, It must be understood and accepted that the things in this world are created to shadow or illustrate the things that are unseen (Rom.
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