Sentence examples for blind forces from inspiring English sources

Those upheavals, in turn, aren't simply the product of blind forces, like hurricanes and earthquakes.

The quality of progress results not merely from the blind forces of economic competition but from the free play of mind.

Holloway is that rare kind of liberal, one conscious of the blind forces that limit our freedom and secretly mould our destiny.

What Marx's ideas have suggested above all else in a positive way is the possibility of a society directed not by blind forces of competition and struggle among economic elements but instead by directed planning.

He wrote recently: "During the first 10 years of my detention I felt I was part of that same tragedy by which many throughout history have been oppressed by blind forces from which there is no escape.

But, as the pope says, "our freedom fades when it is handed over to the blind forces of the unconscious, of immediate needs, of self-interest and of violence".

Evolution is a blind force incapable of conferring a moral imprimatur on human behaviour.

This is a clangorous album in every way, full of brick-dense synths and abusive drums, and it often succeeds by blind force.

I eventually enrolled in two land-grant universities where I had many friends, very little money and what Pavlov called "the blind force of the subcortex".

But the frontal lobes also exert an inhibiting or constraining influence on what Pavlov called "the blind force of the subcortex" — the urges and passions that might overwhelm us if left unchecked.

There are some mishaps: Wharton, trying to understand the blind force of utter conventionality, wrote words about May that, when broadcast from the screen, sound like a sneer, and provoked an uncomfortable laugh from the audience.