Sentences with phrase «whole human scene»

My own response is to urge first a broad and humane introduction to the whole human scene, accommodated of course to the capacity of the student to grasp it.

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The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

There is no need to elaborate here the various features of the human scene, such as war, race - riots, family friction, crime, drugs and all the rest, which make it eminently clear that the world of men as a whole stands in need of renewal.

But, as we should by now expect, the vitality inherent in the Gospel found expression in ways which, if mankind be viewed as a whole, made Christ more influential in the human scene than He or any other born of woman had ever been.

With the bright laughter of the Gulling Scene, or with the destruction of a human being, and his dark oath, «I'll be revenged on the whole pack of you»?

What a strange pulsation there is to human life: as night comes on, active scenes are in a few hours deserted; not a soul is in sight except the occasional watchman or late reveller, and whole cities lie silent — cities of the dead, it might well seem, except that with the turn of the earth and the dawn of new day they revive to another brief and hectic activity.

The dialogue as a whole is very cheesy, to the point of being comedic in some scenes and the fact that the robots have different human accents is ridiculous.

Like the humor, the pace is gentle, but the film as a whole is well - divided between present - day antics, an extended (and somewhat wondrous) time travel sequence, and then the bulk of the action in colonial times, with a dextrous action scene that resolves the differences between the turkeys and their would - be human overlords.

It's a surrealist's wet dream: greeted by a vast desert populated by all manner of unusual and often gratingly out - of - place objects, the whole scene is reminiscent of a depository for ruined human structures.

This one scene and my particular approach basically hooked me on to Adam Jensen as a character, and on Human Revolution as a whole.

And that whole scene can, in turn, trace its lineage back across thousands of years of human ingenuity and the search for shelter.