Sentences with phrase «viewed as a tragedy»

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Take a look at the website: exmormon.org and you will get a totally different view of the tragedy of Mormonism, as told by those that managed to escape the cult.

History is indeed a moral order, in which judgements of the living God take effect; but this view can not be fully verified upon the plane of history as we know it, since there is an irreducible element of tragedy in human affairs.

Wiesel, for whom memory seems to be the closest thing to the image of God in human beings, and who views memory as the central transmitter of ethical and moral insights, depicts the tragedy of Elhanan's increasing disability with enormous understanding and sympathy.

For his view of tragedy as the result of the inevitable gap between the ideal and the actual in human conduct could also be applied indiscriminately to other situations.

Because neither brother defines «tragedy» carefully, each fails to distinguish between a tragic moral situation and a view of life itself as tragic.

It is not unfair to claim that all of continental European Jewish history is viewed by David Vital as an unfolding tragedy moving inevitably, like some Greek drama, toward genocide, with only Zionism, among the many political movements to find support among the Jews, having the prescience to foresee, however dimly, the catastrophe ahead.

Humans rising up to comfort one another in the wake of a tragedy is a beautiful thing and I view it as slightly insulting to have someone label it with a ridiculous label like «god».

Whenever he did get to play that first year, which was not often, he viewed his every error and out as a tragedy.

Marcus is not outwardly political, but as a personality beloved by all cultures in South Carolina his views strike a chord, especially in the wake of tragedy.

Viewed from the perspective of the three main protagonists, Cameron, Gove and Johnson, Brexit has variously been presented as a Greek tragedy or a spat between Oxford alumni [1].

Most seemed to view the situation as a tragedy.

There are no absolute values in the whole blind tragedy of mechanistic Nature — nothing is either good or bad except as judged from an absurdly limited point of view.

While Thomas W. Kiennast's black - and - white cinematography is quite beautiful to behold (Gröning's film certainly features some excellent cinematographic moments as well), Atef's film never manages to convey why we should care, today, about this brief moment in Schneider's well - documented life, including her never - ending struggle with the German press, her inability to escape the role of Sissi that made her instantly famous as a teenager, and the various tragedies that befell her, including the suicide of her ex - husband.7 The film is not a biopic per se (and Atef declared that she did not intend to make one): thus, audiences who are not already familiar with Schneider certainly will not come away from viewing the film with much of a sense of her life's story); yet, given it is not a biopic, one wonders what the film is, or what it tries to accomplish.

As pouty, abused, tyrannized and ultimately devious temptress Vicki, she gives us raw sexuality and a glimpse of tragedy: a view of the dark side of the tracks that's pure noir, pure Grahame.

Moors, a commercial and music video veteran, takes a psychosexual view of the tragedies, depicting John Allen Muhammed (Isaiah Washington) as a virile man who observes women as subjects to be conquered, fools to be shown a light that only he can comprehend, despite his abstract teachings to the young teenager he's taken under the fold.

It's a document about the trauma glimpsed by a person in war, a brief but haunting view of tragedy, made up of footage Hetherington shot while traveling around the world as a war reporter and photojournalist.

As the tragedy is now viewed through the rearview mirror, it's all about the child and his self - centered preoccupation with young adulthood.

- Booklist «Told from the point of view of more than a half - dozen characters, the vignettes that make up the narrative are generally powerful in isolation, but as a whole fail to develop into anything more than a series of snapshots of a family touched by time and tragedy.»

The growing movement to address animal welfare in areas of chronic poverty reminds us that many people no longer view homeless animals as a tragedy they must simply ignore.

He chose subject matter that addressed current events directly, offering his view on widely publicized tragedies such as the mass suicides at Jonestown, the O. J. Simpson trial, the Gulf War, as wells as more personal injustices such as homosexual discrimination during the HIV / AIDS epidemic.

He chose subject matter that addressed current events directly, offering his view on widely publicized tragedies such as the

Given how such imagery has become so commonplace, I found myself wondering this week whether such views of Earth have retained the ability to inspire and meaningfully engage people back on the surface with the reality that all of our triumphs and tragedies, dreams and defeats are limited to a tiny «pale blue dot,» as Carl Sagan so eloquently put things two decades ago (it was this phrase that inspired the name of this blog back in 2007).

Some people in the coal industry view the shuttering of a sexagenarian power plant as a tragedy.

Policy - makers should not succumb to what the Governor of the Bank of England referred to as the «tragedy of horizons» by viewing these risks as too long - term to be addressed by the capital markets.

They too want to prevent mass shootings, but view banning guns as an infringement on the Second Amendment rights of law abiding citizens that ultimately will not prevent these tragedies.