Sentences with phrase «uncontrollable forces»

Men have from time immemorial experienced wonder, mystery, awe, and dread in the face of the inexplicable and uncontrollable forces of nature and of their own inner nature, and have hypostatized these experiences in the gods.

As the famed art critic Clark Mills wrote in 1957, West's painting communicates «an immediate sense of the presence of vast and perhaps uncontrollable forces in motion about us.»

Stop tolerating law societies» treatment of the problem as though it were due to uncontrollable forces like the weather, or an unavoidable economic downturn.

Critic Clark Mills commented about her art: «It communicates to the viewer an immediate sense of the presence of vast and perhaps uncontrollable forces in motion about us.

The church, feeling threatened by uncontrollable forces, responded with increasing defensiveness, but the dike had broken and no one could hold back the tide.

His ethereal drawings, created through uncontrollable forces, are paradoxical objects: they ask us to consider our own mortality while denying the presence of a human hand.

My sculpture is both a physical and conceptual structure through which I can attempt to address uncontrollable forces, a space to address the chaos, where I can see the subtle poetry of my life with more clarity.

Know Who's in Control Many uncontrollable forces can influence a business: market conditions, changing demographics, local and national regulations, even the weather.

When excess and abstention dominate our thinking, we eliminate the possibility of moderation and not only deny certain pleasures of life but surrender our freedom of thought to what seem to be the impersonal and uncontrollable forces of nature that cause disease.

Many see science and technology as oppressive and uncontrollable forces in our society.

Until recent times human beings were forced to live a precarious existence in the face of the largely unpredictable and uncontrollable forces of nature.

Then, too, there are unforeseen, uncontrollable forces, such as the rumor in one elementary school that there were bugs in tuna fish; thereafter some children refused to take tuna sandwiches for lunch.

Almost certainly not; they most likely recommended toothpaste or warned about the unstoppable, uncontrollable force of teenage hormones.

In tacky neons and elemental waves, the world around Frankie moves with an uncontrollable force like the one inside him — it's both fundamentally appealing and terrifying, a way of burrowing into his headspace that feels physical for the viewer.

The women are abused by a band of white fur - trappers, and it signals the way violence has become an uncontrollable force ravaging all sides, leaving a trail of destruction that might never be undone.

There are shots and scenes here that overwhelm with a sense of the kinetic, uncontrollable force of nature, as the stern section of a massive oil tanker, which has been ripped in two by the waves and a storm, is tossed around like a child's toy in a bathtub.

The title references the uncontrollable forces that buffet a person's life, as well as the literal gusts that are a constant presence in the film: blowing grass, pushing clouds, bending trees and feeding the monstrous fire that devours Tokyo following an earthquake in Jiro's student days.

So it makes sense that Rana Dasgupta would set his new novel here: Solo is the story of a 100 - year - old Bulgarian man, who happens to be an amateur chemist with an ad hoc lab in his apartment, reflecting on his life as it was shaped by the huge, transformative, uncontrollable forces of history.

Being a man who has always lived very close to the sea I have always admired and loved it but I am also very conscious that i have a very healthy sense of its danger and power and uncontrollable force.

Faced with these uncontrollable forces, gardens like Wave Hill become sanctuaries.

For Paintings With and Without Bingo and Ozymandias, executed en plein air on the site of a ruined neoclassical building during a sojourn in Florida, Schnabel used old tarpaulins, sailcloth, and rolls of velvet as grounds on which to render reflections of his immediate surroundings subject to uncontrollable forces, from tropical storms to his dog Bingo's seemingly random but deliberate paw prints.

Conceived for locations where it rains often, Mir addresses city - dwellers» relationship to the uncontrollable force of weather.

The circling foliage and thick, gestural brushstrokes of Laboureur dans un champ reflect the uncontrollable forces that were beginning to ravage the artist's mind at the time.

«Schnabel used old tarpaulins, sailcloth, and rolls of velvet as grounds on which to render reflections of his immediate surroundings subject to uncontrollable forces, from tropical storms to his dog Bingo's seemingly random but deliberate paw prints,» according to the exhibition release.

Complex, uncontrollable forces are at work, evoking feelings of being caught between rationality and chaos.

Friedrich believed the artist must match natural observation with introspective scrutiny, rejected overreaching portrayals of nature in its «totality,» and presaged our 21st century understanding that human emotion and action are indivisible from the uncontrollable forces of nature.

«The darker undertones point to the invisible and uncontrollable forces and noise in our everyday lives and in the environment as a whole.»

Pagan emptiness and Western fears of the uncontrollable forces of nature had contributed to hysteric and extreme claims about global warming.