Efforts to humanize the sport, maintain it on a high plane, and differentiate it from professional boxing could not mitigate its essentially violent nature, nor could boxing overcome the longtime opposition from educators who claimed that its objective was to hurt an opponent.
There is something profoundly regressive in the vision of a civilization stripped down to an essentially violent core, so it is perhaps not surprising that regression of another kind provided the movies of the era with their richest vein of humor.
On Schopenhauer's view, the world of daily life is essentially violent and frustrating; it is a world that, as long as our consciousness remains at that level where the principle of sufficient reason applies in its fourfold root, will never resolve itself into a condition of greater tranquillity.
Good ol' Switzerland, though, the darling of Europe, has passed a law essentially outlawing violent video games.
Yet at the dawn of the twenty-first century, ours still remains essentially a violent society, one that inherently tolerates alcohol and substance abuse, firearms and weapons of violence, health destructive behaviors, vehicular overdependence, violent contact sports, and war conflicts driven through bloodlust media cultures.
It was essentially a violent coup d'état that resulted in the demise of a culture and a counter-revolution.
Their prison, the Idaho Correctional Center, was so understaffed at the time of the attack, the inmates say, that guards essentially let violent gangs take over sections of the facility.
Its prison, the Idaho Correctional Center, was so understaffed at the time of the attack, the inmates say, that guards essentially let violent gangs take over sections of the facility.
One tends to forget, under the pressure of events and of the fashions of political vocabulary, that most men, black or white, are essentially non-violent, and that Dr. King was trying to marshal this non-violence to inon-violence toct inspire mand it count for something in the affairs of men.
They concluded he was essentially non-violent.
The Doctor, armed only with a sonic screwdriver, is essentially non-violent and eschews guns.
