Sentences with phrase «whose sad lives»

It is the discipline of a church willing to be somewhat tentative in its hope, to see faith as a now - but - not - yet sort of thing, the discipline of keeping close to those whose sad lives challenge our facile assertions of deliverance.

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As a pastor, the saddest thing for me to do is to talk with people whose lives are in shambles and tell them there is nothing they can do.

One danger to the Christian revolt is that it will enter into alliance with forces whose aims and strategies are so foreign to its own that when the common Victory is won — if won it can be — the revolutionary church will be left with the sad reflection that it supplied the «Fourteen Points» which gave specious sanctity to an outrageous peace and that its fruits of victory are an external prosperity based on rotting foundations and debts which it can not collect without destroying its own life.

Contemporary writers often reflect this sad reality, and it is helpful to point to (and to publish) the writers who grapple courageously with this dilemma, writers whose imaginations collide with the grim implications of life in a culture which has forgotten the future.

i feel so very sad for people whose lives have no meaning without their delusional constructs of imaginary men in the sky.

The Mütter Museum of medical anomalies at the venerable College of Physicians of Philadelphia is well supplied with helpful staff and airy colonnades, but what it could really use is a little stack of printed leaflets explaining to the modern visitor how he or she is supposed to feel about all this, or at least what to make of it: the uprooted genitalia and beach - ball tumors, the skeleton of the man whose muscle has turned to bone, the woman so fat that after death her body transformed itself into soap, the embryos in jars whose peeling labels break the sad but unsurprising news that not having a skull, or a brain, or a stomach, or any skin, is a state of affairs «incompatible with life.»

Highlights include Rachel Dratch, who's always great playing a sad sack, and here is no exception; Kate McKinnon as the crazy - eyed half of a flannel - clad lesbian power couple; and Maya Rudolph as Kate's high - school enemy, whose life is as sad as everyone hopes their teenage nemesis» life will be.

The Happy Sad (Unrated) Bifurcated Brooklyn drama about two young couples, one, black and gay (Leroy McClain and Charlie Barnett), the other, white and heterosexual (Cameron Scoggins and Sorel Carradine), whose lives serendipitously intertwine as they explore their sexual identity.

In fact, he scores yet another bullseye by telling the real - life story of Margaret Keane, the woman whose paintings of sad, big - eyed children baffled America in the -LSB-...]

The musical selections range from hyperkinetic rap to somber selections by Seal, Chaka Khan and Marc Dorsey (whose «People in Search of a Life» makes the film's opening montage of crime scene photos one of the saddest credit sequences of all time).

Bella (Kristen Stewart) is still living at home with her divorced dad (Billy Burke), a cop whose disciplinary policy involves declaring her grounded for the rest of her life and then disappearing so she can jump from cliffs, haunt menacing forests, and fly to Italy so the movie can evoke the sad final death scene from — why, hold on, it's Romeo and Juliet!

A sad and beautiful book, sometimes touched with magic and mysticism, it is a must - read for anyone interested in the history of the slave trade and the people whose lives were altered by the global fight for power, wealth and, ultimately, survival.

It sounds hard to say a dog should have been euthanized, but when the alternative is a) prolonging the dog's extreme, crippling fearful life where it can never truly enjoy itself or relax, and b) saddling a well - meaning, loving family with a dog whose behaviors are so deeply abnormal that the family can never enjoy their pet fully and may even end up thinking dogs are just sad, painful responsibilities — well, I think the latter is worse.

Ruth, we began as a rescue but when we encountered a very sad situation with a critically ill dog whose owner was living at poverty level and could not afford to care for her we began to see a whole different way of rescue.

Remembering Lisa de Kooning — The NYT's Sunday Styles section has a long and moving piece on the by turns sad, hard, blessed, and exuberant life of Willem de Kooning's daughter, whose death in St. John is still being investigated as a possible homicide (pending forensic - testing reports).

But somehow the work of her life partner Mario, whose artistic greatness shined brightly (and to which she subjugated herself) has fallen into a kind of sad obscurity.

This sad state of affairs is solely due to the father, who has gone to considerable lengths to undermine the smooth working of this arrangement, and whose hatred of the mother has poisoned any chance of stress - free time sharing of the children's lives.