Sentences with phrase «weight upon their heads»

If a man in despair is as he thinks conscious of his despair, does not talk about it meaninglessly as of something which befell him (pretty much as when a man who suffers from vertigo talks with nervous self - deception about a weight upon his head or about its being like something falling upon him, etc., this weight and this pressure being in fact not something external but an inverse reflection from an inward experience), and if by himself and by himself only he would abolish the despair, then by all the labor he expends he is only laboring himself deeper into a deeper despair.

He and his colleagues almost succeed in overcoming the «White Man's Burden» weight upon their heads through their fine and nuanced performances.

Not exact matches

Rather than you controlling the quantity that they are given depending upon their age and weight, your baby may begin to show you that they are «full» — usually by turning their head away from the bottle or your breast.