Sentences with phrase «ugly realities of»

Not without its faults and moments of creaky pretension, Blue Valentine manages at the end to provoke a real, resonant response to what it means to lose love to the ugly realities of living.

Season 2 follows the women of GLOW as they become local celebrities, confronting the good, the bad, and the ugly realities of their newfound fame.

In Drive, Only God Forgives, and The Neon Demon, his exacting, tightly realized compositions are often so exhaustingly detailed on the surface as to suggest the shallowness and ugly realities of his subjects in the imagery alone — the underworld, the fashion world, the drug trade, and other such dubious enterprises.

This book forces us to confront the uncomfortable, often ugly realities of human nature, but Bloom uses a conversational style and deeply personal examples to make it more palatable.

The birth of the Web gave political purists a high podium to speak from, and online political activists are particularly intolerant of the ugly realities of the daily work of politics.

Plus there's the question of how to motivate those folks whose enthusiasm has hasn't survived the ugly realities of governing and the long years of the Great Recession and slow recovery.

This early insight into the ugly realities of an industrial society, particularly the exploitation of men by other men and the church's placid indifference, was to change his pastoral ministry.

His answers on this appeared to intentionally misconstrue what was being asked — presumably in a bid to mask the ugly reality of the true scope and depth of the surveillance apparatus he commands.

To do so is to gloss over the ugly reality of slavery — then and now — which, as we will see, actually takes away from the power of these passages.

After confronting the ugly reality of martyrdom, he undergoes a moment of deep spiritual purification, asking himself, «What you've been wanting, it's not real, secret martyrdom; it's a death for glory's sake, isn't it?

My objective was to demonstrate why violence is not the appropriate response to legal abortions, in spite of the ugly reality of what takes place in an abortion — and in spite of the fact that the Church and society as a whole would approve of necessary violence to save the lives of toddlers facing death at the hands of a murderous assailant.

In difficult times as it is and with ugly reality of funding the party in Opposition about to sink in, he should be congratulated and not attacked.

In light of his censure and the ugly reality of his years - long pattern of sexual harassment, predation and intimidation of female staffers, Assemblyman Vito Lopez must not seek resignation and resign from the State Assembly without delay.

She had no idea that she was different when she started kindergarten, but was quickly confronted with the ugly reality of bullying.

As in «The New World,» that endless possibility soon crashes into the ugly reality of human nature.

Although Draw Your Weapons deeply addresses the controversy of protest and the ugly reality of torture and imprisonment, it reads quickly, giving a compellingly detailed, yet artfully poetic perspective on humans» response to violence.

They may seem to know what they're doing, but behind the friendly façade of pet stores often lies the ugly reality of these puppy mills.

Because of this, N - S approximations which are perfectly adequate for modeling an airplane wing fail miserably when confronted with the ugly reality of climate.

But they were content to let the situation drift without resolution, rather than have to confront the ugly reality of the circumstances.

It reveals the ugly reality of «recruiters,» firms which apparently exist as walls between prospective employers and prospective employees, to protect the former from discrimination claims by the «wrong» types of applicants, to ensure the employer's «culture» is protected from those who «don't fit.»

He captures dining rooms, game rooms and other sites of happy gatherings, as well as slave cabins that remind us of the uglier realities of America's past.

Not exact matches

But the reality is an ugly one, and even — and especially if — it complicates the picture some progressives have drawn of Israel as the evil oppressor, we should not ignore the truth.

But it's done so by romanticizing one of the world's ugliest realities.

I am a Christian because Christianity gives me the language to lament and to doubt, «to confess the ugly realities» as Austin said — from the violence I observe in the world and in my heart to «to the sin of white America» which Emily Scott described as the attempt «to still the voice of a whole people and keep them from singing.»

On this week when our newspapers reveal the ugly reality that evil and good grow alongside one another — in the world and even in our own hearts — the parable of the wheat and the weeds seems especially weighty.

The first treatise demonstrates some of the quirkiness of which Tertullian is only too capable (he defends the reality of Christ's humanity to the point of asserting that the Lord was ugly!)

nonetheless, in my current thinking, the reality is that churches are run based on the uglier motives disguised as products, propositions, and purposes, and with the makeup of the scriptures applied on top of it all.

Food blogs are perhaps spaces that should be free of ugly realities; dedicated only to idle chatter and kitchen high jinks.

If the City game as Wenger said shows we can beat anyone than we will soon find out when we play Spurs and an injury - ravaged Man U, both disciplined teams, that of course assumes reality doesn't show its ugly face against Leicester tonight.

Thank you Gabrielle for illustrating the ugly reality behind the carefully curated images of homebirth.

One of the reasons I inspire such a visceral reaction from homebirth advocates it that I pull back the curtain on such carefully curated set - pieces and expose the ugly reality behind them.

However, they are responsible for learning about the reality of empire and rejecting its ugly aspects as incompatible with their values today.

As ugly as the redistricting process can be, this is one year in which the reality of democracy meshes with its rhetoric — an individual voter / donor / activist CAN make a difference, and one with the potential to echo through the halls of power for at least a decade to come.

I also know that my role as publisher of an alternative weekly is not to ensure that everyone only reads what makes them happy and comfortable but to be an open window to view the reality of our community and the people in it, both the beautiful and the ugly.

With the crew safely returned to the UK, Mr Blair turned his attention to the UK's relationship with Iran and back to the «sober and ugly reality» of terrorism.

«like we earlier noted, Fulani herdsmen are no longer a distant story in our council but an ugly reality going by the recent invasion of farm Lands of the people of Umuehie village, Ngor Autonomous community by them and consequent destruction of farmlands and crops worth millions of Naira.»

Canada originated the system of admitting immigrants based on skill levels rather than on employment promises, but it will drop this approach in 2014 because of what Maclean's magazine calls the «ugly reality facing so many» of the skilled immigrants in the country: great difficulty finding work and low earnings when they do.

haha that reminds me of the Seinfield episoide where they say the baby is «breathtaking» but in all reality its an «ugly baby» Yes I say a good pluck woudl «nt hurt LOL J / K

Coming soon... Roadtrip Reality: The good, bad and the ugly of the American road trip.

There is a lot of ugly crying happening on reality tv.

The «good, the bad and the ugly» isn't just the name of a famous Clint Eastwood movie it's also the reality of online dating!

The most awkward video yet of Donald Trump and Melania has emerged tv; reality tv; Sophie Monk on awkward kissing, bad flirting and dating «ugly» guys.

Into this season of the Serious Movie, when every other film seems to speak to the troubled times in which we actually live, the fact - based, yet farcical «The Disaster Artist» blows like a fresh breeze, throwing open a window through which we may escape, briefly, from ugly reality.

But even Dench, while adeptly highlighting the vulnerabilities of age and the loneliness of power, can't distract from the soft treatment, which leaves little room for the harsh realities of prejudice; in reality, this was a far more painful and ugly chapter than ever suggested here.

The LA Unified School Board convened at 10 a.m. and didn't adjourn until more than 12 hours later yesterday, in a series of meetings that ran the gamut from moving forward on finding a new superintendent, to confronting ugly budget realities to diving into the minutiae of charter school applications.

I'm a lifelong fan of almost every one of Porsche's sports cars, but no matter how much I studied this car's lines — in pictures and in person — prior to driving it, I couldn't get past the basic reality that it's ugly.

Tale of Tales» Blog Archive» Good games, bad games, ugly games Some really, really interesting comments on this subject - reality is ugly.

I was prepared to recommend against lowering 3D resolution because of how blocky and ugly the game looked, but in reality, I forgot all about it once I started tracking another player until we faced off.

Her online artist statement doesn't try to aestheticise this ugly reality but on the contrary includes Lock The Gate's web site which states: «The residents of the Bylong Valley, like communities all around NSW, want action to protect land and water resources from coal mining.

«Each human being has the eternal duty of transforming what is hard and brutal into a subtle and tender offering, what is crude into refinement, what is ugly into beauty, ignorance into knowledge, confrontation into collaboration, thereby rediscovering the child's dream of a creative reality incessantly renewed by death, the servant of life, and by life, the servant of love.»