Sentences with phrase «uncontrollable forces of»

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.

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

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.

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.

Karl Rahner, for example, states: «The leisure of the Muse is free fall, the unplanned and unpredictable, confident surrender to the uncontrollable forces of existence, waiting for the irruption of the incalculable gift, the reception of grace, the aimless but meaningless hour» (Theological Investigations, trans.

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

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.

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

Not exact matches

You can hear life, forced into a slow - down; life less - deliberate; life lived as it was for centuries, before the busy inventiveness of the last five decades: life acquiescent to uncontrollable nature, and hunkered - down.

Team rugby is the killer here due to the uncontrollable, technical nature of the sessions and the high force and speed involved.

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.

Alan Beattie defines the «false economy» of his title as the belief that «our economic future is predestined and that we are helplessly borne along by huge, uncontrollable, impersonal forces.»

There is a powerful force in this spunky teenager and he must learn to conquer it and overcome his own uncontrollable spirit and emotions while battling an array of villains and completing near - impossible missions.

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.

A photograph of John Coltrane in the exhibition acts as a stark reminder that even white American modernism was inspired by African American music — Jackson Pollock was inspired by jazz music to splatter paint for the first time, with each mark left on the canvas being representative of an uncontrollable and immediate force.

Experience how artists have intentionally embraced the unpredictable and uncontrollable, from chance procedures to political risk; from the power of natural forces to the culture of risk management.

«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.

Men in the Cities have this sense of unseen force, of an uncontrollable power imposing itself.

The natural landscape is the product of uncontrollable, often aggressive, forces.

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.

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.

Constructing large anthropomorphic forms of steel, wire, sewer pipes, plaster, cement, and wood, his installations depict the resurrection of technological uncontrollable and destructive force.

So the average person then concludes quite rightly, that the problem is nobody's problem, meaning that it is an act of God like the weather, and earthquakes, floods, volcanoes, tsunamis, and the uncontrollable economic forces that make legal fees too high for the majority of population and law society control.

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