Sentences with phrase «who humanizes»

Curtis Sittenfeld has established a reputation as a sharp chronicler of the modern age who humanizes her subjects even as she skewers them.

Hardcover, 223 pages Expected publication: April 24th 2018 by Random House Curtis Sittenfeld has established a reputation as a sharp chronicler of the modern age who humanizes her subjects even as she skewers them.

His superiors send him off to solve a crime in the country after he's pummeled one suspect too many, where he meets a blind girl (Ida Lupino, who may have directed some of the film while Ray was ill) who humanizes him.

Not exact matches

For instance, companies must be prepared to deal with employees and applicants who withhold trust, create initiatives to humanize their brands and connect with communities (such as being ever - vigilant for comments, attempts to engage and to participate in interactions where appropriate).

Melania Trump, the presumptive nominee's wife and Monday's headliner, delivered a lot of boilerplate about Donald's greatness but none of the humanizing anecdotes that typically distinguish a speech from the person who knows the candidate best.

I write about ways to humanize business, and am always intrigued and inspired when I meet someone who is doing just that, in their own unique way.

The characters help humanize the Avenger, who, beforehand, was just a male version of Katniss Everdeen to those unfamiliar with comics.

Finally, we wanted to humanize these students, who are often the brightest minds and best leaders in the organizations where they work.

Stone Fish, who has visited the country twice on organized tours, added that «Visiting North Korea is a rare opportunity for Americans to humanize North Koreans,» beyond the national stereotype of a «cartoonishly evil leader, nuclear weapons, and rows upon rows of goosestepping soldiers.»

If the West is to recover from the crisis of civilizational morale in which it has been immolating itself, it is Christ who will help humanize the earthly city through the agency of the City of God, present in an anticipatory way in the counterculture that is the Church.

There is one main reason why: America is very powerful, and it is hard to imagine that the American public will elect a president who does not genuinely believe in the humanizing potential of democracy.

Christian women of a reformist orientation — who regard themselves as feminists and yet claim the Christian tradition as bearer of a liberating truth, capable of reform in a more humanizing direction — find themselves addressing sisters who share some fundamental positions but who reject some that are to the reformers at least of equal importance.

The novel's greatest service to our current conversation is its ability to humanize Muhammad to millions of people who may know little or nothing about him.

But the modern Christian who sees time as creative, positive and humanizing finds the dialectic of withdrawal from time quite absurd, to say the least.

(I am indebted for this story to Dorothee Sölle, who included it in her lecture, «The Role of Political Theology in Relation to the Liberation of Men,» one of the plenary addresses at the conference on Religion and the Humanizing of Man, Sept. 1 - 5, 1972, Los Angeles.)

The personalized and «humanized» stories — where we learned that Mitt helped out individuals with children who died and were sick and all that sort of stuff — was enough, despite my cynical resistance, to elicit a moist and salty discharge from the tear ducts near my eyes.

At the same time, it means proclaiming that God commits to the poor, the downtrodden, the unfree, and that service in today «s world requires whatever is necessary to help humanize those who are denied a full human life.

After religious pluralism and ecological issue have been recognized as realities of the present, the ecumenical movement has widened their internal and external dialogues to include adherents of both ideological and religious faiths who have provided their insights to the churches in clarifying their contribution to humanizing modernity.

The standards of humanizing versus dehumanizing sexuality can be applied equally to all, with proper nuancing for those who have chosen to bear and raise children and those who have not.

Sometimes I'm the opposite of a writer, who tries to humanize them.

These texts help humanize teenagers who are suffering from mental illnesses, Anderson says.

Humanizing people who are different than us is one of the most effective ways to stop viewing them as so weird or scary.

I tried to outline both the structure and the functional significance of emotions, notably their humanizing influence for us as persons who have the capacity to live quality lives with others.

In a city full of policy wonks and experts, we need to respect how Kony 2012 humanized the issue's problem, with a simple target: a person who is clearly bad.

Antoinette «Mama» D'Amato, the mother of Republican former U.S. Sen. Al D'Amato who helped humanize her son in a political ad, has died, a spokesman for the family said.

Calling it «a blight on the community,» Washington said the statue honors «somebody who represents hatred, who stands for opposition to women, who did not care to humanize people who deserve to be humanized.»

«Engagement humanizes science and reinforces the value of science in our public policy,» said Myhre, who recently testified before the Washington State House Environmental Committee on the importance of science informed targets for greenhouse gases.

«We found — counterintuitively — that blocking this immune response against the virus had beneficial effects in lowering the amounts of virus and increasing the ability of the immune response to clear out the virus,» said Kitchen, who is also director of the UCLA Humanized Mouse Core Laboratory.

In Janik's study, the two clinical studies of relapsed - HL consecutive patients who were studied between April 2003 and October 2007 (n = 30); between November 2009 and June 2014 (n = 16) used daclizumab, a humanized anti-Tac, i.e. anti-CD25.

Xolair (Omalizumab)-- a humanized monoclonal antibody has had good results with chronic urticaria patients who did not respond to other treatments

«Rebel» is honest enough about its hero's flaws (including a passing nod to Salinger's attraction to very young women), and Hoult works hard to humanize a man who became a cultural statue over years of reclusiveness.

It helps that the treasure and comic genius that is Allison Janney creates one of the greatest on - screen mother roles in history, while Robbie humanizes someone who, for many, is a monster.

Humanizing Lennon to those who might find the man a bit inaccessible, and adding the word «courage» to his long list of positive attributes.

If the goal of the Darwin's great - great - grandson, Randal Keynes, the author of Annie's Box, along with the writers and director of «Creation» was to humanize Darwin and bury the iconic image of the stoic bearded man who walked with a cane and was slightly hunched over in his later years, then they brilliantly accomplished what they set out to do.

Both Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga build upon their efforts to humanize Ed and Lorraine for audiences who may have thought of them as frauds, and there are two particularly touching moments involving these two that stood out among the scares to continue to make us care about their marital and spiritual journeys.

Ironically, the film's least effective element is its effort not to do so, by way of a minor Mexican «bad guy» who's rather studiously humanized over the course of the movie.

Dredd is solid action fare which is a lot closer to its source than the Stallone film was, presenting a fantasy world that might border on fascist but for the humanizing presence of Anderson, who lets one member of Ma Ma's gang go free on the grounds that he's a victim, not a criminal.

It's Eddie who provides exposition, in a misguided attempt by the filmmakers to humanize the demons.

If McDormand humanizes the film, it's Lynch who helps humanize her.

The talented rapper - turned - actor achieves no mean feat in fully humanizing a fatally - flawed figure who could've easily come off as a one - dimensional monster instead of a charmer.

Madoff (Robert De Niro) is humanized in this context, since he's portrayed as a clueless sociopath who does not understand the extent of the damage he's caused, and only superficially empathizes with people he thinks he cares about.

It humanizes Kenny, too, in the arrival of an even creepier older brother (Brett DelBuono) who uses the same language Kenny has used in humiliating Owen — the same tactics, too, in identifying the character as a representative of an Old Testament kind of retribution.

Both films, though unrelated, manage in their own ways to humanize a person who up to now was simply known for how she died.

A Yahoo! News commenter might then object that the film humanizes Oscar at the cost of looking into the mindset of the police officer who shot him.

Like Jerry Maguire, it's a morality play about a cocky young man humanized by failure who becomes a success as a human being only after failing spectacularly in business.

Some may complain that Fruitvale Station takes a one - sided approach to the incident, as the film leaves little room for humanizing the police officers (a menacing performance by Kevin Durand as a rather boisterous cop who may have played a hand in Oscar's death could only serve to enhance any of those protestations).

«McDonagh painstakingly humanizes a character who we find has unapologetically tortured a black man in police custody... and then Three Billboards seems to ask audiences to forgive and forget wrongs like police violence, domestic abuse, and sexual assault without demonstrating a full understanding of the centuries - long toll these crimes have taken on victims in real life,» April Wolfe wrote at the Village Voice.

Nevertheless, Rogen and Byrne have great chemistry, and his charm even helps humanize the atrociously bad Efron, who hasn't gotten any better since That Awkward Moment.

For one, it's absolutely part of the same problem it pretends to be above: humanizing a man who tells us all we need to know about him every time he speaks or tweets (freely, rather than reading from a speech).

As she's pursued by the threatening yet slow - moving creature, who relentlessly trails her close behind, the film becomes something of a character study of victims, both monster and human — a zombie humanized with a happy past, and a woman desensitized by a more troubled one.