Sentences with phrase «than tragedy in»

Gustavsson's return is one that finds something other than tragedy in Orpheus» story: a profusion of painted surfaces, with no beginning or no end, In No Particular Order witnesses the radical freedom that stems from the refusal to heed the injunctions central to contemporary culture: do not touch, do not spend, do not turn around.

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.

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.

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).

A student who says she reported warning signs about the suspect in the Parkland school tragedy more than a year before last week's mass shooting said her friendship with him quickly turned to fear in the years leading up to... Read More

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.

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It's one poll, but for a gun - control movement anxious to turn the tragedy in Parkland, Fla., into action to prevent further bloodshed, it suggests the political backdrop is more favorable than at any point in the past decade.

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.

All human beings face contradictions and sharp differences within their souls, but few have the conflicts in their souls put on display as a national tragedy no less than a personal contradiction.

When, some years ago, I studied Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy, I had something other than literary style or ethical enlightenment in mind.

Life itself passes judgment daily on the notion that anyone is in charge, that good deeds and righteous living provide exemption from mindless tragedy, or that the meek will inherit anything other than a crushing debt and a dead planet.

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 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.

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.

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:

You're going to deal with tragedy in a way that is more hopeful than if you're just business partners doing stuff together.»

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 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.

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.

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.

And when you are facing a tragedy, when a catastrophe strikes in your life, it is much more comforting to know that Jesus is God, than just some prophet.

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).

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

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.

For courage can not reside in a man's passive, pessimistic submission to reality as it is — in a world of possibility and tragedy — any more than it resides in the dogmatic absolutist's applause for that reality as allegedly containing «the Good.»

In the narratives of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the chosen ones are not natural heroes, stronger or more eminent than others, like the heroes of myth or tragedy.

But this is little more than a scratch on the surface of the great evil to which people are capable, and I believe that it is these sorts of public tragedies that keep our eyes averted from the truly horrific crimes that are being committed every day in the basements and back alleys of our own cities.

After the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School, more than 4,000 pastors signed on to a letter initiated by 12 clergy in Newtown calling for commonsense solutions to reduce gun violence.

As Catholics, we know instinctively that maternal mortality is a tragedy and that abortion is not the answer, but I believe that we are under an obligation to turn that knowledge into action and offer hope to mothers around the world who face the prospect of giving birth in fear and trembling rather than with joy.

It is a tragedy that so many of our leaders today (and all of those ignorant fools who elect them on the basis of their religious beliefs) are guided by their brainwashed, dogmatic belief in what amounts to no more than a very elaborate story of Santa Claus.

Over the long haul, studies suggest it's better for our well - being to make meaning of our tragedies than to remain in a permanent state of quest.

In fact, a more historically accurate dramatization of the Scopes Trial than Inherit the Wind might have been far richer and more interestingand might also have given its audiences a genuine dramatic tragedy to watch.

In sufficient number of causes to make us humble, we discover good points in the cause which time has erased, just as one often learns more from the slain hero of a tragedy than from some brassy Fortinbras who comes in at the end to announce the victory and proclaim the future disposition of affairIn sufficient number of causes to make us humble, we discover good points in the cause which time has erased, just as one often learns more from the slain hero of a tragedy than from some brassy Fortinbras who comes in at the end to announce the victory and proclaim the future disposition of affairin the cause which time has erased, just as one often learns more from the slain hero of a tragedy than from some brassy Fortinbras who comes in at the end to announce the victory and proclaim the future disposition of affairin at the end to announce the victory and proclaim the future disposition of affairs.

But some of the parents, survivors and others affected by the tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School were more interested in firm action to prevent future assaults than a presidential visit.

With so much tragedy striking our world lately I have felt more compelled than ever to discover and cherish the joy in my life and I derive an incredible amount of joy from cooking.

Of note he has started to make space in the midfield by asking Campbell to find a new team, another player who is far better than the english core, but will not be given the time to grow, as the likes of Ramsay, Wilshere, Walcott and Chamberlain,, even to the detriment of the team position in the league, such a tragedy

More to them, even, than a team that has played bravely and well through a tragedy, proving in the first quarter of this season that last year's trip to the Stanley Cup finals was not just a whale of a fluke.

The tragedy sliced to the heart of Laramie with no less emotional force than the gay - bashing murder of Wyoming freshman Matthew Shepard in 1998.

Or are the children better off here, deep in play, than at home, watching the endless stream of televised tragedy, observing worry and fatigue and tears etched on our faces?

Tragedy and triumph have been shared over more than thirty years, cementing Kenny Dalglish's place in the hearts of everyone who lives in the city.

Less than two weeks after the the tragedy, United played their first game, with blanks where the names of the players should have been in the matchday programme.

And unfortunately, such tragedies are on the rise: In 2010, more than 600 infants died because they accidentally suffocated or strangled in bed, and the rate has more than doubled since 200In 2010, more than 600 infants died because they accidentally suffocated or strangled in bed, and the rate has more than doubled since 200in bed, and the rate has more than doubled since 2000.