Sentences with phrase «with vacuities»

Their bones were light and hollow, filled with vacuities to help them fly, so they tend to crush easily and break into pieces.

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But the excesses of the Romantics have led to the moral and intellectual vacuity of the hippy / new age culture with its acceptance of drug taking and general flight from reality.

Karl Rahner, in Encounter with Silence, reports a sense of vacuity experienced at times by every believer:

A further reason for exploring this subject is to relieve the vacuity present in connection with the words spoken on innumerable occasions, «Thy kingdom come,» and «thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory.»

They are guardians of the world of commerce, where everything is valued only as it might be bought or sold, where all giving and receiving are governed by the satanic law that each must try to take more than he gives, where everything is plunged into the abysmal shadow of that insatiable Typhon called America — that gaslit desert of barbarism, with its infantile, gigantic, exuberant vulgarity, its monstrously guileless delight in affluence, its omnivorous vacuity...» He ceased speaking suddenly, looking all at once abashed.

That some universe exists clashes only with God existing alone (supposing this conceivable) or with sheer vacuity.

To the man who is faced with the emptiness, the vacuity, and the terror of our time, Gnosticism must present the supreme temptation.

With anti-Fulani hysteria flaring, Ayo Fayose, the majestic master of vacuity and merry poster - boy of gubernatorial vacuum, has come up with a winWith anti-Fulani hysteria flaring, Ayo Fayose, the majestic master of vacuity and merry poster - boy of gubernatorial vacuum, has come up with a winwith a winner!

Set mostly in Mark's ornate, marbled estate — with golden gilded furnishings that wouldn't be out of place in the White House given the current occupant's gaudy taste — «Thoroughbreds» draws a parallel between the vast empty rooms and its teen protagonists» vacuity.

A few years» experience with these programs generated a vigorous public reaction, mainly from middle - class parents anxious about the intellectual vacuity of the new programs and the implications for the future of their children.

Filled with their musical composition, they can claim to achieve the knowledge: Two cosmonauts in the Odyssey of the Space of the Buddhist Vacuity.

The latter's focus on collectible knick - knacks emblazoned with pseudo-portraits of forgotten heroes, dead leaders, and unnameable generic persons, offers another designation of absence, here in terms of image vacuity and identity dissociation.

In the painting from which this exhibition takes its title, Viel Raum für allerlei Glück (Plenty of Room for All Sorts of Happiness), for instance, the vast expanse of clear blue sky — evoked with a transparency Büttner might not have envisioned in the «80s — suggests the vacuity of the happy life of the vacationing family who appear as tiny (but overweight) figures frolicking in the sea below.

This leads to a third answer, which is that a preoccupation with who - is - funded - by - whom epitomises the vacuity of contemporary politics.