Sentence examples for indifferent nature from inspiring English sources

For one thing, the car is not a piece of indifferent nature.

His moral landscape emerges from this space – frail, plucky humanity holding the gap between an indifferent nature and a punishing God.

And no memorial, in Mabey's direct and effective prose, to the processes of weather, the complex entanglements of predatory humans and indifferent nature.

"The Passion According to G. H". (from which the quotation at the start of this review is taken) has the Kafkaish plot of an encounter between a woman and a cockroach.Mr Moser emphasises Lispector's debt to Hermann Hesse's "Steppenwolf", who is part divine and part diabolical, and to Baruch Spinoza, who saw God as having an amoral, indifferent nature.

As the title suggests, the themes of this work of fiction are the old ones: the vanity of human striving, divine punishment for overweening confidence in our technological achievement, the futility of human effort in a world ruled by indifferent nature.

Stevens's conscience made him confront the chief issues of his era: the waning of religion, the indifferent nature of the physical universe, the theories of Marxism and socialist realism, the effects of the Depression, the uncertainties of philosophical knowledge, and the possibility of a profound American culture, present and future.

In this state of freedom, the self becomes indifferent to nature; it ceases to be an agent and an enjoyer.

Lear's existential trajectory teaches him (and us) what it means to be a human being against the backdrop of indifferent, unfeeling Nature.

The indifference principle says: "The object is by nature indifferent to being, although in any case one of the object's two objectives of being, its being or its non-being, subsists [is the case]." This formulation is supposed to be less misleading than the claim that "the pure object stands 'beyond being and non-being' " [ der reine Gegenstand stehe 'jenseits von Sein und Nichtsein' "].

Even more peculiar, the selection of material has an abstracted feel, as if the events occurred through the indifferent agency of nature, beyond human will and political authority — and, as a result, out of the range of moral judgment.

The creature's ideal reproductive strategy — mating with other starfish, releasing a million eggs, of which a handful survive the oceans, and then moving on — was arrived at ages ago: in the long indifferent view of nature, the starfish is more successful than all the antler-heavy elks and tail-proud peacocks and self-shaving mammals that we celebrate.