Poor music aims only to sell, good music achieves its aim to be highly listenable, but great music excels at communicating the human condition. |
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Heroic deeds reinforce the bonds of the human condition in ways that resist the forces of terror and evil. |
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But you're not going to be reading this book for any perspicacious insight into the human condition. |
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Perhaps so, but the great attraction of sport is that, still in 2001, it holds a mirror to the human condition in all its strength and frailty. |
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Peter expected high standards, but his sometimes austere manner veiled a deep concern for people and an insight into the human condition. |
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How do we come to grips with our profound ability to shape and reshape the world and the human condition? |
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Is the response to the extreme cruelty of tyrants the defining moment of the human condition? |
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Many social scientists recoil from the idea that though particular wars may be avoided, war is endemic in the human condition. |
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Work kept the wolf from the door, but it also improved the human condition because it contributed to the greater good. |
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Within the human condition, unlike the scientific world, anything is frighteningly possible. |
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He knows our human condition, our weakness and frailty, even better than we do. |
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His anatomy of the human condition, however, is not the political and moral cul-de-sac it purports to be. |
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Some risks are the inevitable concomitants of the human condition, such as age, illness, and injury. |
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It may be convenient, it may be expedient, but it is not the human condition to be without beliefs. |
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We believe that artists are somehow vouchsafed the ability to tap into a greater knowledge of the human condition and impart this to us. |
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Often the very simple, traditional clown portraits of the piteousness of the human condition didn't feel deep and subtle. |
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Literature provides insights into the human condition in a way that no political treatise can match. |
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The result is a repertoire of heart-wrenching, soul-searching works that communicate the ecstasy and agony of the human condition. |
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With its piercing insights into the human condition, Ecstasy is an actor's paradise. |
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In this way they are constant and pervasive, endemic to the human condition. |
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The chanciness of anyone's coming-to-be is part of the human condition, like mortality. |
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To force everyone into being one way is not respecting the complexities of the human condition. |
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This is an exaggeration, but it may not be a gross exaggeration, so far as general observations about the human condition are concerned. |
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Psychology addresses this situation by attempting to address the human condition. |
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Artists through the ages have formed questions, comments and concerns about the human condition. |
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And it's not quite the penetrating insight into the human condition it thinks it is, either. |
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These are just a few examples of the rich additions that behavioral primatology can make to understanding the human condition. |
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Psychologically perceptive and metaphysically curious, both men had a keen eye for understanding and decoding the human condition. |
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Alleged experts on the human condition voiced concern that the recipients would be somehow damaged. |
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It is thus a Janus-faced entity, a paradoxical phenomenon that reflects the paradoxical nature of the human condition. |
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Dumb, cloddish things are announced grandly, as though they were meaningful observations about the human condition. |
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We Tories have taste, sophistication and a profound understanding of the human condition. |
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He saw radical skepticism as a necessary consequence of the misery of the human condition. |
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To experience wants, desires, and preferences is a normal part of the human condition. |
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I believe evil to be a human construct, an idea we have created in order to describe certain aspects of the human condition. |
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Tragic, because unknowingness is the human condition, and, in the end, there's no getting around it. |
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Our own historical moment offers any number of cases where the product of history is universalized as the human condition. |
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Secondly, Ryder recurrently nailed the more pained aspects of the human condition with laser-like insight. |
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If there is angst, it is a human condition rather than a disorder specific to the urban, displaced elite. |
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The campaign for animal rights reflects a growing pessimism about the human condition. |
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It has been characteristic of the French tradition of moralists that they are observers, reporting elegantly on the perennial human condition. |
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But contradiction is no doubt an inseparable part of the human condition, and that suffices as a source of miraculousness. |
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We are not speaking, as the existentialists would have it, of dangers and dilemmas that are immanent in the very nature of the human condition. |
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The second question is whether this aid bettered the human condition? |
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Transcendental concepts like Buddhahood and nirvana may well represent our ultimate goal, but we will never become a Buddha by ignoring our immediate human condition. |
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Kennedy seems to be suggesting that not only is the lack of a unified self a human condition, but it is also a subaltern condition, aggravated by racial animosity. |
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If they are historically informed, language sceptics may claim that this process of extinction is nothing new, perhaps inseparable from the human condition. |
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A converse prize for the most catastrophic failure to use force, leading to the greatest net detriment to the human condition, would also be interesting. |
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The reason for the veil is the spiritual darkness of the human condition. |
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I don't think of myself as a psychiatric case but I had to feel that Spider was provoking me to consider existential matters of the human condition. |
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It begins with a deep and empathic understanding of the human condition. |
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Maitland sets out from a place of loving concern, full of tenderness for the human condition and hope that we might fulfill our best destinies. |
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But the only indisputable truth about the human condition, say hope's defenders, is that we can suffer, and that we shall die. |
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The human condition itself, it seems, is by definition betwixt and between. |
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What a fatalistic comment, and what resignation, what contempt for the human condition! |
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Beyond your own inner being, you also address the human condition and question the end of the world. |
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If applied linguists were to take these accounts more seriously, applied linguistics might contribute more directly to improving the human condition. |
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The initial reflection is that despite the passage of time, the human condition is unvarying. |
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Science is beginning to understand what is going on in our genes, he asserts, and few things about the human condition will ever be the same again. |
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All creativity rests on this profound wealth, which is the distinctive feature of the human condition. |
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In this sense, it is not only the most fundamental rights that are being denied, but the entire human condition which is brazenly offended. |
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Jason believes that interaction is an important part of the human condition. |
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The great monuments and cities bear undying witness to that which only the human condition is capable of creating. |
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As these values are based on the fundamental dignity inherent in the human condition, we profess the freedom, equality and unity of all peoples. |
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He swam against this tide and throughout his life remained dedicated to the study of the fundamentals of the human condition. |
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Its actions are then less driven by selfish desires and reveal a deep sensibility that seeks to take action to improve the human condition. |
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Do you consider your work on the human condition to have an element of the Sacred Arts about it? |
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Family physicians understand and appreciate the human condition, especially the nature of suffering and patients' response to illness. |
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Research subjects contribute enormously to the progress and promise of research in advancing the human condition. |
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Dependency and the need for care are fundamental to our human condition and what it means to be in a family. |
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In other words, agriculture impacts first and foremost the human condition. |
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For me, the circus is a way to express, in an extraordinary way, the ordinary aspects of the human condition, thanks to artists' techniques. |
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The human condition is poorly represented by such monochromic shades. |
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He is equally critical of the rationalist, Cartesian accounts of humanity, as well as the more empirical and behaviouristic attempts to designate the human condition. |
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Animals in agony or danger are used by Martin Wittfooth, often to hint at the future of the human condition. |
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Williams took up painting full time only in the 1980s, after years of making sculptural reliefs that presented more generalized, symbolic statements about the human condition. |
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We are in this transitional, liminal phase, of waiting to see what are the appropriate questions to be asking about human possibility and about the human condition. |
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He was a Rosicrucian, a brotherhood combining elements of mystical beliefs with an optimism about the ability of science to improve the human condition. |
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Insanity and evil represent eternal and inevitable elements of the human condition. |
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The work is the definition of honest, trusting its material and endlessly accurate in its sense of the human condition without succumbing to bitterness or the maudlin. |
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Though all his films are in Bengali or Hindi, their subtly observed study of multitudinous shades of the human condition ranks them as universal in their appeal and acclaim. |
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She presides over her uptown domain with benignity, unpredictable wit, two-fisted pugnaciousness, and a remarkable insight into the human condition. |
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The idle pleasure of the shepherd and shepherdess would have reminded seventeenth-century viewers of the human condition in an uncultivated environment. |
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Best Boy is one of those rarities, a true-life documentary that transcends its basic subject matter and premise to say something universal about the human condition. |
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On the contrary, Bacon's view of the hopelessness of the human condition precluded the aspiration to anything as uncomplicatedly elevated or ennobling as grandeur. |
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Perhaps I could add some philosophical musings about the human condition. |
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Instead of the usual two hour mental pacifier, can a DVD serve higher purposes such as education, thought, and examination of the human condition? |
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However, most of his Lieder evoke his deep, inner sentiments: the ache of unrequited love, the loneliness of the human condition, the inescapable finality of life, but also the comfort offered by nature. |
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Schiffman soft-pedalled the aggression in Brahms' Fourth Symphony and emphasised its angst-ridden acceptance of the human condition. |
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In this Melnyczukian scheme of history, evil and suffering are not pecul iar to Ukrainians but part of the human condition. |
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The CAB's Violence Code stipulates that, while broadcasters cannot exaggerate or exploit situations of aggression, conflict or confrontation, they must also be careful not to sanitize the 'reality of the human condition. |
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Great sport performances enrich and expand our humanity, pushing beyond the every day, to open new horizons and new ways of experiencing the human condition. |
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Unhappiness is part of the human condition. |
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From the point of view of ontology and the human condition, these are important facts in understanding why we want the new reproductive technologies sector to be legislated and what kind of legislation we want. |
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Art has led the way in seeing mental illness not as alien or contemptible but part of the human condition – even as a positive and useful experience. |
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If the current trends maintain themselves, a great majority of the 53 countries of the continent will find themselves in a state of prostration that is incompatible with the most basic standards of the human condition. |
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In continuing the series Davies chose to keep Torchwood more focused on the human condition than its science fiction backdrop. |
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Theatre of the absurd denies rationality, and embraces the inevitability of falling into the abyss of the human condition. |
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The very choice of words used to define or describe a particular behaviour or human condition is often influenced by sociocultural considerations and may be based on ethical and moral judgments. |
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Without becoming unduly pessimistic about the human condition, Europe must be less ingenuous in the face of the dangers that will arise in the future. |
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One might say, categorically, that the risks will always be too great to justify intervention, and certainly so against conditions that have long been thought part of the human condition, such as memory loss with age. |
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Are you endlessly fascinated by the human condition or disturbed by it? |
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The story is a romantic tale of love interrupted, the isolation that is an inherent part of the human condition, and, ultimately, the importance of the seemingly smaller moments in life. |
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She understands the messiness of the human condition and captures it in scintillating prose and apt metaphor. |
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Any country that has signed major international treaties dealing with the human condition, human rights and economic, social and cultural rights has an obligation to report. |
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One of Canada's outstanding visual artists, Betty Goodwin communicates an incisive vision of the human condition in her drawings, etchings, sculptures, mixed media and installations. |
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Men expect from the various religions answers to the unsolved riddles of the human condition, which today, even as in former times, deeply stir the hearts of men: What is man? |
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God took on flesh and assumed the messiness of the human condition in Jesus and left a Spirit who apparently blows in and out of our lives at will. |
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Ours is a peaceful society that preserves human dignity and advances the human condition in harmony with the global community and the natural environment in which we live. |
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A working definition of traditional historical knowledge might be that it is knowledge and beliefs that provide an accounting, explanation or representation of the human past or human condition. |
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Kierkegaard's stress on the forlornness of the human condition, as well as on the absence of certainty concerning the possibility of salvation, made him an important forerunner of 20th-century existentialism. |
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This prize shows the European Parliament's recognition of my people's courage in fighting for a free homeland where freedom of thought is guaranteed as a right that is inherent to the human condition. |
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What is clear, despite our differences, is that the doctrine of justification underscores the unmerited salvation, restoration and healing of the human condition. |
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I am interested in invoking questions on the human condition because there is a tendency in our lives today to resign ourselves to an inauthentic life experience that is pressurised by the social determinism of our times. |
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Nations and cultures throughout the world have contributed over the millennia to the advance of scientific knowledge and its application to improve the human condition. |
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The weighty epigraph signals an engagingly unconventional thriller, full of ruminations on the human condition. Bill Wyeth is a property lawyer with a top Manhattan firm. |
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The artist, Sara Riaz in her own personal statement said, I am inspired by nature and the human condition, working mainly in oil and gesso. |
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William Arnall and others defended Walpole from the charge of evil political corruption by arguing that corruption is the universal human condition. |
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Youth dies. Life hurts. Love warms. Understanding heals. The wounds and balms of the human condition are so commonplace that men eventually experience them without noticing. |
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With Gardens, Robert Pogue Harrison graces readers with a thoughtful, wide-ranging examination of the many ways gardens emblematize the human condition. |
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Philosophical debates have arisen over the use of technology, with disagreements over whether technology improves the human condition or worsens it. |
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It is this transformative aspect Weil will seek to bring forward in her analysis of the human condition from the point of view of eating as sacrifice and sacralization. |
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A keen observer of the human condition, ben Sira wrote in order to help his contemporaries maintain their faith and traditions in ever-changing times. |
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Best known for her found object media sculptures that reflect the past and memory, Kokin addresses various aspects of the human condition and longing for days gone by. |
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