Sentences with phrase «threatened by chaos»

Several other conditions besides mobility seem also to be required, like the presence of a charismatic leader who defines reality for those whose world is threatened by chaos.

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The Catholic philosopher Alice von Hildebrand suggests that «when piety dies out in women, society is threatened in its very fabric; for a woman's relationship to the sacred keeps the Church and society on an even keel, and when this link is severed, both are threatened by total moral chaos.»

Violent portrayals include a man being smashed by a vehicle, zombies attacking others, utter chaos in the streets, looting and characters threatening others with guns.

He had a very good reason; in Cronenberg's unforgettable medical drama «Dead Ringers» (1988), he gave a stunning performance, or a pair of stunning performances, as the peculiar but prodigious twin gynecologists who are threatened by real emotions and then plunged into the self - destructive chaos where the only exit for them may be becoming one again, as they were conceived at first in their mother's womb.

in the adventure films it is a threat held at bay by the values of the group (self - respect, loyalty, spontaneous affection and sharing); in the comedies what is threatened (the established social order) is not valued, and the eruption of chaos becomes liberating and positive.

The director of the UN Environment Programme's New York office warned that «coastal flooding and crop failures» would «create an exodus of «eco-refuges,» threatening political chaos» if global warming wasn't reversed by the year 2000.

The children are co-parented by responsible adults, unlike the chaos and life - threatening conditions of The Family Court System.