He was a keen amateur gardener, and the argument from kindness seemed to him to prove both God's existence and his essentially kindly, liberal nature, but the proponents of a harsher God had beaten him.
For me, the novelty of Lean In is that it put words to what I believe many women of my generation struggle with: that paralyzing sense of self-doubt, that insecurity, that fear of being perceived as too harsh (or, god forbid, bitchy) that causes us to keep our hands down instead of raising them (or, as Sandberg puts it, to 'lean back when we should be Leaning In').
King believes he can change his life; he doesn't see that he's yet another pawn of this neighborhood's harsh, remorseless gods.
Gopnik compares it to Job's gaunt, tragic acknowledgment of a harsh and unknowable God: "He found no serenity in the idea that he was doing God's work.
In order to curb Gilgamesh's seemingly harsh rule, the god Anu causes the creation of Enkidu, a wild man who at first lives among animals.
In order to curb Gilgamesh's seemingly harsh rule, the god Anu caused the creation of Enkidu, a wild man who at first lived among animals.
By Andy Borowitz June 19 ,2012 NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) — Reverend Pat Robertson's controversial remarks in which he advised that it was acceptable to divorce a spouse with Alzheimer's drew a harsh rebuke from God Almighty, who held a press conference today to tell him to "shut the fuck up".
Competing proselytizers pounced on those wounds with harsher claims: Maybe God punished Haiti because its dominant faith was on the wrong track, some Pentecostals preached; maybe the Catholic Church, by tolerating voodoo among some faithful, courted evil.
