Sentences with phrase «struggling against the sea»

Not exact matches

Although both «lungs» of the Church of the Christ have experienced the tuberculosis of iconoclasm (indeed, the very term «iconoclasm» comes from the struggle of the Greek Church against the attempts of a Greek emperor to ban icons), the Greek version of iconoclasm was much influenced not only by imperial fiat but also by the surrounding sea of Muslim culture, whereas the iconoclasm of Western Puritanism was born out of Calvin's reliance on Old Testament Law.

Lonergan uses a brilliant and unconventional structure to dole out these fragments of the past in a way that feels almost poetic, like the waves of the sea splashing up against the present day as Lee struggles to face all of these old memories and suffers the guilt and self - destructive anger that he's tried so hard to bury inside by running away all these years.

Weary, almost apologetic, our man speaks of struggle, of trying and failing against an unforgiving sea.

The horror of Sherman's diabolical «March to the Sea» through Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina, seen not just through soldiers» eyes, but through the eyes of average humans struggling through the conflagration — slaves, prostitutes, homeless children, half - mad widows — their personal tragedies silhouetted against the fires and destruction of entire cities.

«We announce to the public that as the Green Party we take up the legal struggle for the Black Sea against planned hydro - electric power plants, unauthorized roads, dams, gold mines and stone quarries.»