Sentences with phrase «willful self»

Combining elements of science fiction, hip - hop culture and comic - book graphics, each figure is at once politically charged, physically grounded and fantastic — a blend of willful self - determination and culturally conditioned myth.

Jeff talks of settling down with Ann, but there's a stilted dispassion in his voice, not a result of bad acting but several layers of buried truth, a willful self - repression in action as he looks to emulate what normal people do.

That willful self - deception is beautifully summed up by a single sequence in which Harley, in rare voiceover narration, sighs about the worlds Ilya opened up for her, and about how there was «an elegance» to him, while the pictures tell the story of two lank - haired dullards stealing bottles of 5 - Hour Energy from drugstores to fence to kiosk vendors.

Here we look at the factors that could doom humanity: natural disasters, human - triggered cataclysms, willful self - destruction, and greater forces directed against us.

[9] Rather than being willful self - assertion, his gift of self needs to be «disinterested,» i.e. not self - centred, but for the sake of the other who was willed by the Creator «for his / her own sake», and who has a destiny in God.

The philosopher who claims to transcend personal concerns and so to live entirely beyond hope and fear and love is finally sustained through proud self - deception, by an illusory self - sufficiency that really depends on willful self - forgetfulness.

There was some orneriness, cantankerousness and sometimes willful self - blinding in Morrison, whom a few of those who contribute to the magazine, I among them, remember at least dimly.

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Even worse, if the IRS determines your misclassification was «willful,» you could owe the IRS the full amount of income tax that should have been withheld (with an adjustment if the employee has paid or pays part of the tax), the full amount of both the employer's and employee's share of FICA taxes (possibly with an offset if the employee paid self - employment taxes), plus interest and penalties.

Dissent that is truly conscientious, and not self - serving or willful, is, even when wrongheaded, a rare and valuable commodity in a culture as decadent as ours.

But then I have to examine my own heart and confess that when I look to myself and not to Christ, when willful sin begins to harden me because I have let it in, I too can begin to fall into legalistic, self justifying modes of thought and behavior.

(It does not seem to me that it takes courage to rebel, only a kind of willful need to self - destruct.)

Well I would say that being wilburw7 seems to avoid the tough questions and recycles his self - validating answers like a wind - up toy on other ones indicates willful ignorance.

Those that he describes as «wise» are men / women captured by the hypostatization of the immanent pole of the tension of existence, who, because of the willful and prideful self - alienation (allotriosis) exist outside this reveled knowledge and consequently are unidentifiable as God's creations, that is they exist in a state of sin.

Not drunkenness, adultery, or theft, but self - love, self - righteousness, self - seeking, the will to power and prestige, unkindness, anger and vindictiveness, irresponsibility, complacency before the suffering of the world, willful narrowing of vision to the interests of one's own family, community, race, or nation are among the major sins of most people.

Despite Eckhart's emphasis on detachment from the self and the will, his account of the soul's pursuit of God makes the soul seem decidedly willful and forceful — it's the soul that compels God, that calls the shots, that conquers.

At the human level, there is what we style «sin» — willful choice, with its consequences, of that which is self - centered, regardless of other occasions, content to remain stuck in the present without concern for future possibilities — and this is an obstacle which is like an algebraic surd.

the power to give, the power to love, the paradoxical power of «weakness»... God's power is thus much greater than the compelling force of a tyrant who makes others submit against their will... his power is sufficient to transform a willful person from self - centeredness to love, without destroying or even violating the tender plant of freedom.61

The premise of God is so self evidently foolish, that it takes utter stupidity or a willful lapse of critical thinking to accept.

In a society hungry for ever more affluence, where resources will seem permanently scarce, the decision not to abort might in time seem a willful act of self - indulgence whose costs should be borne only by the self - indulgent woman herself.

Though these children might appear willful, they are actually overpoweringly self - conscious and experience it as an inability to speak.

The younger girls are willful and athletic, a disparity that demonstrates a drastic drop in self - esteem among girls after puberty and a generally accepted stereotype that doing something «like a girl» is negative.

At the film festival: Bruce LaBruce's subversive masterpiece, Gerontophilia, a lovely rom - com in which everybody fucks one another across all age and gender borders — desire shall bind us together; Juno Mak's Rigor Mortis, a touching albeit grim look at loss and damnation in the form of a Chinese hopping - vampire movie, with many a nod to the subgenre's clichés and conventions; Jealousy, Philippe Garrel's latest tale of love ground down by the mill of daily life, raw and naked even by his ascetic standards; Hayao Miyazaki's troublesome The Wind Rises, which frames the story of a fighter - plane designer as a grand romance of struggle and failure, with animation's supreme living master contemplating the price mankind can sometimes pay in the name of one dreamer's self - fulfillment, and the willful blindness and egocentricity it takes to realize one's vision; and finally to Yorgos Lanthimos's Necktie and Athina Rachel Tsangari's 24 Frames Per Century, their contributions to the Venice 70: Future Reloaded omnibus, not to mention the untitled pieces by Jean - Marie Straub, Monte Hellman, Amit Dutta, and Haile Gerima.

While sometimes willful and defiant and sometimes passive to the point of self - extinction (Socrates did not protest his punishment), the heroes of civil disobedience believed in the need to obey a higher authority and to be cleansed of self - interestedness.

Example: Instead of seeing a student's rude outburst as a sign of willful disrespect, I might instead understand it as a marker of a missing emotional self - regulation skill.

But I think some Industry mags and Big 6 publishers are demonstrating a willful ignorance of what's really going on in self publishing.

The Lakeland is cheerful and energetic, but like any self - respecting terrier, he can be willful and determined.

The willful ignorance — whether motivated by (short - term) self - interest, cupidity, or sheer crankery can be quite breathtaking (not to mention provocative.)

«The patterns of outrageous personal abuse, willful ignorance, self - centeredness, and immature bluster» sounds a lot like Michael Mann.

The patterns of outrageous personal abuse, willful ignorance, self - centeredness, and immature bluster that are so commonly associated to climate - change denialism are entirely similar to the patterns of outrageous personal abuse, willful ignorance, self - centeredness, and immature bluster that are all - too - familiar to families who grapple with alcohol abuse.

The accused can not rely on a mistaken belief that arose because of his or her self - induced intoxication or out of reckless or willful blindness.