Sentences with phrase «weariness with»

He rode to victory with Brian Mulroney, beneficiary of the public's wrath at Pierre Trudeau's national energy policy and overall weariness with that aging flower child's ego and economics.

The evidence is clear that persons are being exempted from criminal law protections in these jurisdictions based on «psychological suffering» arising from «weariness with living» «refusing to impose one's deterioration on others», [62] feelings of anger and distress which are «normal» for those who «incur or [are] diagnosed with incurable impairment or terminal illness», [63] «negative images of disability and dying» which are pervasive in our society, [64] and the difficulty of distinguishing psychological suffering from depression.

Higher education has taken K - 12's place in the hierarchy of federal policy issues — due both to weariness with what well - intended federal efforts have wrought in K - 12 and to public concerns about tuition prices and student debt.

More than weariness with a cluster of tropes, this year's femme take - over signals a global shift in assumed aesthetic core values.

The same can be said, but to a greater degree, about Montenegro (who has been named Best Actress of the year by both the National Board of Review and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association); she rightfully sees Dora's bitter anger as less a weariness with the world than with herself, a desperate, self - destructive mechanism to keep the world even more distant than it already is.

Few actors can do soul - sick weariness with the force of Bale, who honed his familiarity with it in three unconventional Batman movies.

The clearest measure of a nascent weariness with online dating may be the expansion of defiantly offline dating services, some of them set up to cater to frustrated refugees from the Web.

There is a deep sense of weariness with Cuomo, a feeling of anger, even betrayal.

«A couple more derailments, or just overall weariness with traveling on the trains, could derail his political prospects,» Carroll said.

To this can perhaps be added a vague national weariness with certain of the now - waning personalities of the pyrite generation, and of course the naturally cautious, careful nature of Hodgson himself, a man who, if passed a tub and asked to give it a thump, would carefully examine it from all angles, smile wistfully, then pop it in his bag to hold tomorrow's sandwiches.

Weariness with religious strife was reflected by changes to the intellectual and spiritual climate.

It is this weariness with well - doing that finally puts a permanent cloud cover over discipleship.

More's activism grew out of her increasing weariness with literary stardom and with the London scene altogether.

The Democratic recovery of dominance in the U.S. Congress may have been made possible by popular weariness with the Iraq War, but it is clear that the real power lies in the hands, not of the populist anti-war movement, but of those who are angry with Bush for setting back the American imperialist program.

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.

By Kaz Janowski, editor at SciDev.net I have become aware of a growing weariness with the pessimistic narratives around climate change, migration and other global environmental issues and events.

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So he put aside the task of reading his letters and turned again with weariness and resignation to the task thrust upon him.

To see him process down the aisle, his face racked with weariness, was too much for me.

He remembered the weariness of comparing the lovely smile of his newborn daughter with the prospect of someone killing her.

O'Donovan attributes it in part to a century of world - weariness and a loss of nerve, an impatience with incremental justice and compromise.

Is not it a maimed happiness — care and weariness, weariness and care, with the baseless expectation, the strange cozenage of a brighter to - morrow?

Here, O my Lord, I see thee face to face; Here faith would touch and handle things unseen; Here grasp with firmer hand the eternal grace, And all my weariness upon thee lean.8

Not long afterwards, two Christian mommy - bloggers posted the article on The Mommy Revolution, resulting in scores of other Christian mothers chiming in with their own stories of frustration and weariness at the daily burdens of motherhood.

Would that these were translated into each and every language so that they might be read and understood not only by Scots and Irishmen, but also by Turks and Saracens... Would that the farmer might sing snatches of Scripture at his plough, that the weaver might hum phrases of Scripture to the tune of his shuttle, that the traveler might lighten with stories from Scripture the weariness of his journey.1

If one questions these assumptions, the listener's eyes glaze over with weariness.

But these final years were to last nearly a decade and were again crammed with activity even though undertaken in the face of great weariness and ill - health.

Weariness may have been a factor in the Tar Heels» undoing, theirfront line playing with only a few seconds» rest and Guard Jimmy Black being onthe floor all but one minute.

TH11atl, You are clearly a real Arsenal fan, writing such obvious truths, which actually made me laugh out loud — with their acute accuracy and world weariness.

But the southern club showed signs of weariness before the international break, following consecutive losses to Manchester City in the Champions League with a scoreless draw at Chievo Verona.

Today I went down the path of mentally wondering if I could remove feelings of weariness that arise if I experimented with parenting like a Dad for a day.

NCAR scientists, many of whom live in those neighborhoods, viewed the situation yesterday and today with a combination of weariness and confusion.

Here's where the evolutionary biologists, with Bogartesque weariness, pull out the great clichés of their field.

In Metz, Blocker can empathize with the weariness of a man for whom the violence must eventually end, a man who has begun to see the endless violence for what it truly is, utterly pointless.

It's awesome seeing him go toe to toe with Marvin, who brings a great sense of weariness and experience to the role of A No. 1.

With equal doses of hilarity and world - weariness, the film seems to reinvigorate the oft - depicted arc of adolescence on screen, where status and popularity seem broadly detached from economic reality.

Thewlis voices Michael with weariness and despair until the character encounters Lisa.

Action movies moved to the urban jungle, embracing the cynicism and corruption with a tired weariness in films such as Serpico.

Rickman plays the Sun King with a guarded, tender world - weariness, and he shares the movie's strongest scene with Winslet.

The weariness of the set - up is borne out by the feckless, by - the - book direction, which can't invest a single scene with any originality or energy.

His world weariness and fealty to the job is right up there with Robert Mitchum or Walter Matthau on their best days.

And the better I understand Billy Wilder, his weariness and acerbic sense of humour, the more I feel comfortable saying, with that complicated mix of affection and fair warning that I think indicates his work as well, that his movies are assholes and mean it.

Significantly, the character initially introduced as Blume — played by Bill Murray at his most inspired, with a characteristic mix of quizzical distraction and terminal world - weariness — eventually becomes known to us as Herman, and even Max's father, played with amiable sweetness by Seymour Cassel, finally registers as just plain Bert.

Franchise newcomer Julianne Moore's President Coin is austere with just a touch of weariness.

Eastwood handles the material with reserve and a strong dose of self - deprecation; Red's moments of grizzled weariness create nice harmony with Sally's perky intelligence.

Less impressive is an overly bug - eyed Emily Watson as Dolarhyde's blind love interest Reba and the too - young Norton — as ragged and tired as he looks, there's a certain world - weariness that can only come with age — but they get the job done.

Josh Brolin plays the famed comic book villain with the ruthless authority and weariness of a stern general, who's prepared to make the sacrifices for the continued existence of the entire cosmos.

Director Oliver Laxe shoots their marathon of a million steps with rigour, reflecting weariness not indulgence.

Brian Dennehy brings a moving world - weariness to the aged, infirm Sorin, while Mare Winningham's Polina, yet another character in love with someone she can not have, crafts a poignant portrait of quiet desperation.

Theron, who previously worked with Cody and Reitman on Young Adult, embodies every ounce of Marlo's weariness (and her quippy attitude).

Gleeson is the film's anchor, and his performance is one of weariness and frustration at constant battle with conviction and integrity.