Sentences with phrase «ultimate act of»

To buy and sell property freely is the ultimate act of free people.

An affair is the ultimate act of betrayal — surely there must have been something lacking in the relationship to get to that point, and now one spouse has broken the marriage vows.

An affair is the ultimate act of betrayal — surely...

Preserving a building is the ultimate act of recycling.

Had the Modern come to an end, too, in a the ultimate act of denial?

When a pet is critically ill or injured, or their quality of life is greatly diminished by old age, euthanasia is the ultimate act of selfless love.

It is an ultimate act of showing submission for your pup to engage in these kinds of behavior.

That is the ultimate act of kindness.

I believe obedience training is the ultimate act of caring a person can give to a dog.

Done well, fiction is limitless in potential, essential for the human condition, and the ultimate act of testimony.

Even managing to avoid all these glitches, there's still a chance the mission will hang on its final loading screen, perhaps Naughty Bear's ultimate act of naughtiness in which you're never quite sure if it's going to count your score.

One in which dominance and submission goes beyond sexual intercourse but determines the day to day relationship, that spans from work decisions to the ultimate act of violence that Harlow carries out persuaded by Joe.

It tries to ask if death is the ultimate act of love and whether a psychotic killing spree can free our lifeless but dutiful hero to find enlightenment.

Premiering to rave reviews at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, THE KINGS OF SUMMER is a unique coming - of - age comedy about three teenage friends — Joe (Nick Robinson), Patrick (Gabriel Basso) and the eccentric and unpredictable Biaggio (Moises Arias)-- who, in the ultimate act of independence, decide to spend their summer building a house in the woods and living off the land.

And in what might be the ultimate act of documentary reflection, every seven years since 1964, the subjects of Michael Apted and Paul Almond's 56 UP reconvene on screen for a cinematic update on their lives, revealing heartrending relatability and unfathomable events that turn up as life unceasingly marches on.

by Walter Chaw Brutally overwritten, smug, and self - indulgent to no discernible point, Jason Reitman's disappointing Juno is an unfortunate attempt to marry Judd Apatow's sleazy morality plays with a Kevin Smith pop - cultural gabber — the result being a ventriloquism tract in which virgin screenwriter (formerly blogger) Diablo Cody crams so many unlikely gluts of verbiage into so many sterile, undeveloped characters that the whole production is the ultimate act of masturbatory puppetry.

Remember giving others the opportunity to live on after you leave this world is the ultimate act of selfless love.

For myself, my body — and if you have a family and you're the one doing the food preparation, this is the ultimate act of love.

And if you're cooking for your family that's the ultimate act of love too.

Making a commitment to ourselves to move our bodies as a way to power through moments of life is the ultimate act of self - care and self - empowerment.

So in recent years psychologists and others have been reconsidering basic beliefs about why people carry out the ultimate act of self - destruction.

An act of supposed disloyalty to his brother becomes transformed in his mind into the ultimate act of tribute to his father.

That led rebel Mark Pritchard to counter by claiming that the «ultimate act of self - indulgence» would be to ignore the will of the British people, who he said were angered by rising EU spending.

Making a baby is the ultimate act of love.

It is the ultimate act of unconditional love.

So tired of the superior mother complex of some mothers who think Breastfeeding is the ultimate act of sacrifice.

Many will believe Roy Hodgson's switch to Anfield in the summer was the ultimate act of betrayal, while those with no association with Fulham will be firmly of the opinion that the 63 - year old made one of the smartest career choices of his life, by leaving a club which he somehow squeezed more pulp out of than seemingly possible to join a club far superior in every which way.

In what is perhaps the ultimate act of identification between dog and master, the dog had saved its master's life.

For me, the ultimate act of self - care has been infusing my life with the people and materials that nourish and sustain me — and that don't feel like unwelcome obligations.

It's pretty much the ultimate act of self love to start the day (along with some exercise, a big glass of water and a steaming hot cup of coffee, of course).

It shifts the moral burden away from us, first by denying us a choice, and then by distancing us from the ultimate act of service that brings practice to compassion.

This is the ultimate act of rebellion and estrangement in which all the controls of creation and existence are unhesitatingly assumed by the creature.

In a world where struggle for survival at the expense of others is the law, He showed that death for others is the ultimate act of love.

Here is the ultimate act of hospitality; that Jesus would be displaced from the presence of God so that we could be welcomed into it.

To believe in god is to assume godlike intellectual powers, in and of itself the ultimate act of conceit.

To deny God is to assume godlike intellectual powers, in and of itself the ultimate act of conceit.

The dying on the Cross was the ultimate Act of Obedience by Jesus to the Father.

If the answer is yes, then I must say in firm admonition that you have completely and utterly dismissed God's ultimate act of love and dismissed it for some eartly mush that ends at the persona last breath.

It is the ultimate act of reinvention.

Jewish teachers saw rain as one of God's ultimate acts of blessing.

Not exact matches

With all JOBS Act regulations now in effect, the ultimate question is whether we're on track to realize the hopes and dreams of real estate crowdfunding, and what the future holds.

Its ultimate Report, released in January 1912, concluded: The provision of law under which the Government acts as custodian of its own funds results in irregular withdrawals of money from circulation and bank reserves in periods of excessive Government revenues, and in the return of these funds into circulation only in periods of deficient revenues.

Whereas Leclerc argued that the ultimate constituents of material reality are mini-substances which act on each other reciprocally and by their interaction co-constitute the new reality of a compound substance (NPE, 309 - 10), Ford argues that such natural compounds are instead to be understood as «single strands of personally ordered actual occasions, potentially divisible into structured societies but not actually so divided» (109).

If religious belief is attained when reason makes a «total response of the total being to what is apprehended as the ultimate reality,» such that in this act reason is reborn, then it follows that those who totally accept a given world - view as ultimate, whether it be theistic or non-theistic, naturalistic or supernaturalistic, immanentist or transcendentalist, as normative for their entire lives and as the supreme value in their hierarchy of values, and hence not taken as a means but as an end, belong to the religious dimension.

My ultimate standard of moral judgment is found when I face the questions: Does this act bring life or does it bring death to the persons involved?

It is the vivid arena of decision and act, carrying the risks and burden of their ultimate meaning.

Here in the core of the I is a center from which choice springs, from which responsibility for one's acts springs, from which the ultimate sense of uneasiness and weariness with anything that is short of the highest of all in reality ultimately issues, from which remorse and repentance arises.

The ultimate failure of social responsibility is not to believe in our power and not to act on our freedom.

Even where we act in our innermost being, claiming the ultimate freedom of committing ourselves we act always within a preexisting sphere.

Israel's persistent, obstinate hope in the ultimate fulfillment of the promise is itself an act of faith, made defiantly in the face of her own repeated abandonment of faith.