Sentences with phrase «suffering at the mercy»

Why would he deliberately want to keep his children ignorant and subservient and suffering at the mercy of cruel and power - hungry church elite?

Shame is the prison guard that keeps us locked in a secret hell, suffering at the mercy of all our other negative emotions.

The Story of a Great Man and a Great Father who Suffered at the Mercy of an Alienating Parent ← PREVIOUS

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Your god has no mercy or kindness, we are all just a soap - opera for his entertainment and he seems to relish ignorance and suffering like the producers over at MTV.

Some of the specific stimuli of my sober reflections have been the histories of the fiendishly diverse injustices, cruelties, tyrannies and butcheries human beings have inflicted on one another — in particular the long, appalling story of Jewish suffering at the hands of Christian Europe with its insane climax under the Nazis; Camus's searing reflections on our blood - soaked century; accounts of the horrors of plagues and epidemics at whose complete mercy human beings for so long existed; and insights of depth psychology into the character and influence of the unconscious, childhood and repression in our behavior.

Restore our judges as at the first, And our counsellors as at the beginning; Remove from us grief and suffering; Reign thou over us, 0 Lord, Thou alone, in lovingkindness and tender mercy, And justify us in judgement.

Indeed, he creates a virtual phantasmagoria of suffering from actual instances of human barbarity that he has read about in Russian newspapers: Turkish soldiers cutting babies from their mother's wombs and throwing them in the air in order to impale them on their bayonets; enlightened parents stuffing their five - year - old daughter's mouth with excrement and locking her in a freezing privy all night for having wet the bed, while they themselves sleep soundly; Genevan Christians teaching a naive peasant to bless the good God even as the poor dolt is beheaded for thefts and murders that his ostensibly Christian society caused him to commit; a Russian general, offended at an eight - year - old boy for accidentally hurting the paw of the officer's dog, inciting his wolfhounds to tear the child to pieces; a lady and gentleman flogging their eight - year - old daughter with a birch - rod until she collapses while crying for mercy, «Papa, papa, dear papa.»

The longer we tolerate his foolish authoritarian behaviour, the longer we fans will suffer and continue to be at his mercies.

But the death suffered by sheep at the mercy of predators is not exactly pretty.

Living at the mercy of world markets As a result, every time there is a price spike in the global commodities marketplace, Africans suffer disproportionately compared to citizens on other continents.

If providers are burned out, sick, disillusioned, suffering from relationship dysfunctions, at the mercy of addictive behaviors, or out of touch with their true purpose, it's hard to overcome the victim mentality that plagues people inside our health care system right now.

For the show, Birte Kleemann, Director at The Pace Gallery, selected works that examine the treatment of Mercy as represented from devotional paintings to the use of the artist's body as a metaphor for the suffering of humankind in contemporary works.

Usually, the helpless bicyclist is at the mercy of the vehicle and suffers serious injury or death.