Sentences with phrase «with painful blows»

On a path littered with painful blows and booby traps, she finds a calm place in Handel's Ombra mai fu.

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Hasker's third proposition is that for the problem of divine non-intervention to be a real problem, «we must be able to identify specific kinds of cases in which God morally ought to intervene but does not» Many critics of (traditional) theism probably already have a more or less vague list of such cases, which might include genocidal events, such as the Nazi holocaust and the Rwandan massacre; wars; large - scale natural disasters; conditions of chronic poverty, in which millions of children die from starvation or are permanently stunted because of inadequate protein; the sexual molestation of children, which often leaves them psychologically scarred for the rest of their lives; death preceded by long, painful illnesses, such as cancer or AIDS, or by mind - destroying conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease; and the kinds of events described by Dostoyevski, such as the soldier using his pistol to get a mother's baby to giggle with delight and then blowing its brains out.
In Part 1 of our video interview, Haggis speaks with us about the nature of love, his love for flawed characters, the selfishness of artists, the painful process of writing the script, the influence of Blow - Up, and more.
The news was a painful blow to the oldest high school in a district with a proud history that includes graduating a future president, Harry S. Truman.
Once engaged, gripping dogs almost never react as normal dogs do to commands or painful blows to the head or body with sticks or baseball bats.
Illness or other challenges besetting a child, job loss or any other blow to people's financial security, falling victim to a crime, deployment to and return from active military service, illness or disability of a parent — these and other thunderstorms that inundate people with worry and woe can not help but set off the cycle of anxiety and painful interactions described here as a cycle.
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