Sentences with phrase «than the tragedy of»

Cloistered in red or blue communities and steeped in tell - me - what - I - want - to - hear media coverage, both sides have duped themselves into believing that our current crisis stems from a failure of the political class — «the swamp» — rather than the tragedy of a divided nation.

Not exact matches

The tragedy of the recent Subway kerfuffle, in which a photo of an Australian diner's shorter - than - promised sandwich sparked a class - action lawsuit in New Jersey, is that it could besmirch the good name of sandwich merchants everywhere.

The point, said Musk, is to prepare now rather than lapse into the human habit of being reactive and waiting until a tragedy occurs before forming a regulatory body.

The best leaders know that actions speak louder than words — an adage recently exemplified by Papa John's founder John Schnatter, who responded with a touching gesture when tragedy struck one of the pizza chain's employees.

But uncertainty lays fertile ground for the seeds of desperation, and the Times newsroom has repeatedly found itself a struggling protagonist in the more than decade - long tragedy of American newspapers.

But don't imagine for a moment that current valuation extremes will end in something other than tragedy unless investors shift back from risk - aversion to a fresh round of speculation (which we would infer from market internals).

More than 40 schools in Philadelphia and South Jersey have students planning to walk out of class Wednesday to protest mass shootings like the Parkland, Fla., tragedy.

Recalling an in - depth conversation more than a dozen years ago with John Mearsheimer, the author of The Tragedy of Great Power Politics, He Yafei says, «In the beginning if you pin each

Grief is the appropriate response in times of tragedy, though some expressions are more appropriate than others.

That horrific tragedy brought tears to my eyes... Other than this, all I can say to the Jewish Community in Borough Park (Brooklyn), NY is L'Shanah Tovah, although, I realize I am a couple of weeks early.

The tragedy is compounded, moreover, on the reading that I have proposed, by the irony of the fact that in material theological terms the Luther of 1519 arguably did greater justice to the core convictions of the catholic tradition than did the Luther of 1517.

The salvation of a single soul, he says, is worth more than all the poetry, drama and tragedy ever written.

nothing makes the atheist more ticked off more than when you bring up GOD... God gets all the blame for all the tragedy in the world... If there wasnt a god in the first place, humans would not know tragedy or injustice when we see it... it would be a non-issue to us... survival of the fittest would not permit the emotions of love, compassion, empathy... Darwininian theory could not allow any of those and many other of the best of people's capacity for caring to surface... You cant explain it away by synapse or neurons... without a Supreme Being, there would be no sense of justice or injustice, we would not call it anything because there is no Ultimate Moral Standard to compare it.

Accidents and tragedy will be a part of modern society regardless... we see it far more often on the highway than we do in the home from accidental shooting and I am not talking about the criminal activity of drinking and driving.

The kingdom which is not of this world is a more dangerous peril to the kingdoms of the world than any competing worldly kingdom [Beyond Tragedy, Scribner's, 1937, pp. 284 - 5].

Corrections please,,, My say as a human to human, from brother to a brother derived from our father and mother Adam & Eve, kindly ask your American Nation to unite all races and faiths under one ceiling and not to Crash down otherwise it will go back to pieces and fragments of pieces, we are here with you on the Ship, Ark still can feel and suffer the results of the vibrations that has reached us since the 9/11 tragedy and the following Global Economy Crash and we do not want those any more as much as you do but nothing we ordinary ones can do other than be heard complaining and that what we are doing here right now where I am to Remind out of but have no Control Over.?!

The tragedy is that, even with the best of intentions, our egoistic narcissism (falling excessively in love with ourselves rather than a Divine [or even a human] Other blinds us to justice which is the minimum requirement for love.

Edwin Muir, a poet from the Orkney Islands spoke of the tragedy of there being nothing more than words in the Calvinist form of Christianity with which he was familiar:

They're a resilient community, but they're facing so much right now that I think it's really important now more than ever to know that Christians around the world are standing with them in this hour of horror and of tragedy.

The editors of TNR declare that «the scandal of the Romanian intellectual Mircea Eliade's past is greater than Paul de Man's, and helps explain the tragedy of his homeland.»

The fact that you define this as a tragedy rather than emphasize the criminal aspects of the circumstances convinces me that you come from a place of grace, not law.

Nor should we fail to acknowledge the tragedy and injustice when priests who have been faithful for many years are subjected to public disgrace by the exposure of, or even no more than the unverified accusation of, a wayward act twenty or thirty years ago.

The prophets from Amos on are forced to reinterpret the meaning of the present in terms of an immediate future to be charged with tragedy — but a tragedy no less the result of divine action than the great formative event of redemption from Egypt.

But unless we have to a far greater degree than at present the ordering of society on the basis of the supreme worth of every human being, we shall have repeated outbursts of world tragedy.

The tragedy of human behavior is that so long as we seek to build ourselves up, to overcome our deficiencies, we in fact only spin webs around ourselves, isolate ourselves more deeply than ever from one another, and reveal our desperate need for the love of God.

My say as a human to human, from brother to a brother derived from our father and mother Adam & Eve, kindly ask your American Nation to unite all races and faiths under one ceiling and not to Crash down otherwise it will go back to pieces and fragments of pieces, we are here with you on the Ship, Ark still can feel and suffer the results of the vibrations that has reached us since the 9/11 tragedy and the following Global Economy Crash and we do not want those any more as much as you do but nothing we ordinary ones can do other than be heard complaining and that what we are doing here right now where I am to Remind out of but have no Control Over.?!

The LDS church has more than apologized and even erected a monument to the victims of that tragedy.

People would rather equate tragedy to the plan of an invisible deity rather than saying her first husband was careless with their son and selfish with his marriage.

As for shaving one's head, that is not much different from styling one's hair — not quite in the same league as a surgical procedure, but, yes, wanting to improve one's appearance, as long as it does not become an obsession [I am thinking of the heart - wrenching tragedy of Michael Jackson], is no more culpable than wanting to improve one's mind or any other natural attribute.

The book marks his movement politically toward pragmatic liberalism of the Franklin D. Roosevelt types and philosophically toward irony rather than tragedy in his philosophy of history.

The story of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus tells us that the tragedy of suffering, dying and death, can not, and will not be stronger than God's love.

Without such norms, the result is tragedy rather than the enhancement of human life.

I do not practice any religion and I think what he is doing is a beautiful gesture and I am sure is appreciated more than words can express by the victims of these and any other tragedies.

His life is more than a mythical event; it is a human life which ended in the tragedy of crucifixion.

Maybe we need (this is very tentative) to alert ourselves more than we do to the tragic elements lying just beneath the surface of the parabolic, and even to receive what is offered to us as tragedy as parable, at least in an extended use of that already comprehensive concept.

One of the tragedies of mainline churches that lost so many members in the 1970s was that their leadership was better equipped to offer them computer - produced documentation of their decline than to help find meaning in the changing story of each community.

Where I live now, people signal — that is, use the tragedies as an occasion to display their rectitude and concern (okay, there's more than a bit of this in prayer requests as well).

What a tragedy it is when we collectively dismiss the goals and aspirations of the entrepreneur, the artist, the writer, the thinker, because their world is more self - consuming than the simple bureaucratic policy wonk would have us believe.

It is a curious fact that while the general culture of contemporary theologians is still markedly literary, rather than scientific, they seem to forget the many lessons concerning the human situation to be learnt from tragedy, whether ancient or modern.

The study of Jewish history has moved from beyond the periphery to the very center and, indeed, being inevitably seen as a tragedy leading to a unique catastrophe, has some claims to being more widely discussed today than almost any other aspect of modern European history.

The false and misleading statement that «Hitler's Reich was no more than a paradigm instance of a broader and deeper continent «wide phenomenon» flows from the author's treatment of the late 1930s as the climax of a Greek tragedy.

Jews would regard the destruction of the state of Israel as virtually equivalent to their own destruction — a tragedy of even vaster proportions than the Holocaust.

Guys, this tragedy is more than the loosing the lives of 6 Americans.

It is not to say that God can not bring some good out of tragedy but that is very different than being the author or even an endorser of such pain and suffering.

The Friar upbraids him for his adolescent hot blood and sternly admonishes him, using words whose message scarcely means much more than «haste makes waste» but whose musical phrasing immediately awakens the audience to the real meaning of the couple's tragedy:

We may, by such reasoning, justify our use of any means to achieve what we think are good ends on the assumption that — since history is a perennial tragedy, and collective actions are always on a lower ethical level than individual actions — we are not obligated to strive for the highest ideals possible, or to present an alternative to the usual way of the world.

What is deeply troubling about tragedy is that it involves more than our individual will to action, or our intellects; it involves character flaws so grave that they permeate the actions of complete families and whole communities.

In this story we have the making of a tragedy, and tragedy is closer to the truth of the gospel than any morality play.

listening, watching, shaking my head with more tears of grief than joy (some of that are my own tragedies).

I wouldn't want a leader to be standing up there who hasn't reached a place of finding faith in a God who is bigger than this particular tragedy.