Sentences with phrase «vicissitudes of living in»

As I watch my little girl navigate the vicissitudes of life in general and childhood in particular, I'm struck by one recurring thought: you couldn't pay me a million dollars to be a kid again.

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By offering a flat wage, you'll be providing a more stable standard of living for your servers, and they'll no longer be susceptible to the vicissitudes of restaurant work, where a slow night can leave them with little in their pockets.

Doubtless this pleasant young man soon found someone unacquainted with Joseph Smith's Testimony, that ubiquitous missionary tract which contains the official account of the prophet's visions and his discovery of the ancient record chronicling the lives and times, vicissitudes and final destruction of a Hebraic people whose patriarch immigrated to America with his family in 600 BC.

Those, on the other hand, who say that they are in despair are generally such as have a nature so much more profound that they must become conscious of themselves as spirit, or such as by the hard vicissitudes of life and its dreadful decisions have been helped to become conscious of themselves as spirit — either one or the other, for rare is the man who truly is free from despair.

Zarathustra looks forward to the time when men themselves will be godlike, blissfully innocent in the creative sport of becoming existence, freely marching to their own individual wills, seeking a community based on individual differences, and enjoying the vicissitudes and machinations of human life, including the spirit of gravity, in good cheer (TSZ 215).

Although sanctification in the life of communities and social institutions is not so clearly defined an experience as it is in the individual, Niebuhr said that old forms and structures of life may be renewed rather than destroyed by the vicissitudes of history.

In response to the day - to - day vicissitudes of life it can be unrealistic, callous, and contrived.

To certain huckstering kinds of consideration he thanked God he was forever inaccessible, and if in life's vicissitudes he should become destitute through their lack, he was glad to think that with his sheer valor he was all the freer to work out his salvation.

While many of the questions we have been dealing with so far occur when we experience suffering, confusion, despair or simply the unexpected vicissitudes of life, this question can arise, and probably most often does, in the midst of life's ordinary routine.

Israel characteristically looked for a future Day of the Lord, but Isaiah may have had the discernment to recognize that a Day of the Lord may have occurred in the events surrounding Sennacherib's attempted invasion of Judah in 701 B.C. 15 But it is difficult to discern the decisive action of God in the vicissitudes of this life.

Then through all of the vicissitudes of actual life in the ancient Near East, God made himself a people from those forebears — delivering them from slavery in Egypt, protecting them against their enemies, leading them through the terrors of the wilderness, entering into covenant with them, giving them his guiding presence in the covenant law, bringing them into a land flowing with milk and honey, giving them a Davidic king to be their protector of justice in peace and in war, and finally taking up his own dwelling in their temple on the Mount of Zion.

Whether offering her take on a social controversy, teaching about the lives of the saints, interviewing Orthodox monks, or discussing the vicissitudes of transitioning from a once radical feminist to a now devout priest's wife, Matthewes - Green's podcast is a gentle and loving presence in the contemporary dissonance of strident discourse.

The emergence of industrial civilization, in other words, called forth a federal apparatus sufficient to the need to regulate the private sector in the public interest, to provide macroeconomic stability amidst the uncertainties of the business cycle, and to offer the nation's citizens welfare and security programs appropriate to the vicissitudes of modern life.

The longing to withdraw from, escape, or transcend the vicissitudes of political life in favor of a more perfect world permeates Western culture from ancient times to our own, though the responses to it have taken many forms.

In fact, small bits of manageable stress in the presence of a caring adult help to «inoculate» a toddler for some of life's vicissitudes and realitieIn fact, small bits of manageable stress in the presence of a caring adult help to «inoculate» a toddler for some of life's vicissitudes and realitiein the presence of a caring adult help to «inoculate» a toddler for some of life's vicissitudes and realities.

People who can cope with the vicissitudes of life, people who see failures and disappointment in perspective, people who believe they can weather a storm, are generally optimistic, resilient and adventurous people.

Today we live in a world in which the vicissitudes of economic life are profoundly effecting the ways in which we work, play and relate to others.

Although seabirds are adapted for the vicissitudes of life — forage fish numbers have large natural fluctuations — seabirds populations may decline when fishing depresses levels for many years in a row.

The nine - year gap between films allows Linklater and his leads, with whom he collaborates closely on the scripts, to zero in on crucial milestones in the lives of Céline (Julie Delpy) and Jesse (Ethan Hawke): the first flush of true connection in Before Sunrise, reunion after long separation in Before Sunset, the vicissitudes of aging and domestic discord in Before Midnight.

As a warning to animal lovers, the title character sometimes has more in common with a tube of meat meant to be gnashed by life's vicissitudes.

The stories in Dogwalker are narrated with surreal tranquility, with a pronounced lack of amazement at life's vicissitudes and an affable acceptance of its strangest circumstances.

Winthrop's brilliance is in her ability to expose Isabelle's emotions and thoughts; we see a pre-adolescent fighting to understand the vicissitudes of modern life.

The book is certainly full of people who feel beaten up in one way or another — disappointed, out of luck, gypped of what they once expected and still feel they deserve — but these hardships aren't the work of particular enemies so much as life's vicissitudes.

As abstraction sustains the artist, the artist revivifies abstraction, measuring it against the vicissitudes of daily life and the contingencies of professional practice, in ways unexpectedly sincere and mysteriously personal.

In Friedrichsplatz, Argentinean artist Marta Minujin has recreated a life - sized Parthenon out of banned books, while in the city's former underground train station Nikhil Chopra's film and painted panorama records the vicissitudes of his recent overland odyssey from Athens (where Documenta had another incarnation earlier this year) to KasseIn Friedrichsplatz, Argentinean artist Marta Minujin has recreated a life - sized Parthenon out of banned books, while in the city's former underground train station Nikhil Chopra's film and painted panorama records the vicissitudes of his recent overland odyssey from Athens (where Documenta had another incarnation earlier this year) to Kassein the city's former underground train station Nikhil Chopra's film and painted panorama records the vicissitudes of his recent overland odyssey from Athens (where Documenta had another incarnation earlier this year) to Kassel.

The most basic benefit of being in a relationship is the confidence you derive from having a teammate you can rely on to help with the vicissitudes of life.