Sentences with phrase «tortured by doubt»

Yet we also see that she's tortured by doubt and this vulnerability means that she's the most thinking, feeling thing about a film that deliberately and provocatively teeters on the brink of parody.

«Kent is neither a model prisoner nor a player tortured by doubt,» says TV analyst Chris Marlowe, captain of the 1984 U.S. Olympic volleyball team.

bob, I, too, was tortured by doubts of my salvation for many, many years.

Not exact matches

I don't know what sorts of «punishment» God might have in store for people after death, but again, using Jesus as the guiding principle, I highly doubt that God is going to torture people for all eternity by burning them in fire.

Ethically, we are in an age in which there is grave doubt among theologians, philosophers, jurists and social scientists as to whether any universal principles exist which can be reliably known and used by the international community to define torture or terrorism as fundamentally wrong.

Yet, according to Böhm, whoever was able to follow Buber was freed by his point of view from torturing doubts and inspired to more intensive work.

And the promised eternal torture by a «loving» god for minor sins or doubt of a short mortal life.

As Brown's aged, long - estranged mama, Davis — with the aid of terrific star Chadwick Boseman and some pretty expert makeup artists whose numbers Clint Eastwood should find immediately — manages to reinvigorate a set - up familiar from any number of tortured artist - biopics (i.e. absentee parent comes groveling years later to abandoned child - turned - superstar at the peak of his fame) with the same smart, electrifying clarity of character and tender yet tough - minded emotionalism that should be long - recognizable by now to anyone who has seen Doubt or Antwone Fisher or Solaris or Won't Back Down, or else Fences, King Hedley II, or Seven Guitars on Broadway, or, more likely, witnessed Davis» extraordinary, one - woman rescue job on Taylor's The Help.

The plot moves deftly between preparations for the Earth launch, Data's assimilation tortures on the Borg ship, and a fight against a Borg landing party on the Enterprise, which Picard personally directs, overruling doubts expressed by his second - in - command, William Riker (Jonathan Frakes) and their own assimilated Klingon, Worf (Michael Dorn).

Just in case you doubt the assertion above about the torture that is implicit in «training» a large, intelligent, free - roaming mammal, revisit this post by Pace students: «How Does a 170 - Pound Man Control a 4 - Ton Elephant?