As if the hydra-headed economic disaster and the heightened tension between nuclear Pakistan and nuclear India were not enough to quicken the pulse, the Bush era is ending, and the Obama era is opening, with yet another conflagration in the most intractable, faith-dazed, and history-inflamed spot on earth.
Two showboaters in an intractable, bad faith argument, posturing for the most likes, forever.
The rapturous glories conjured by the pious Bruckner might provoke faith in the most intractable disbeliever; the conductor's conception had exactly the same effect on his own behalf.
They were up with me on the podium that night, playing baseball for the Yankees, writing the book they never wrote or getting the girl they never got".His has been a triumph of ambition over intractable matter, a fulfilment of Mahler's faith in Arthur Schopenhauer's idea that the human will can overcome any force on earth.
These days, he said, while it is rare to hear the Bible cited as a basis for negative statements about "the Jews," a broader problem exists in that many Christians possess "a much more subtle and intractable disregard" for Judaism as a vital faith in its own right.
The intractable complexities of fact produce the inevitable ambiguities of faith.
We are surrounded by a constant drumbeat of natural and manmade tragedies that call for our attention as people of faith: earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, disease, oil spills, airplane crashes, wars and intractable prejudice.
Third, the rise of intractable partisan politics in the US has left the American people with ever less faith in their government.China has emerged as the rival superpower and is flexing its muscles in all sorts of ways.
There were brilliant philosophers of good faith in all three camps, he knew, so why were their disagreements so intractable?
His faith in us helped us believe in our own agency and power to set right even the most intractable wrongs.
Unfortunately, corruption remained intractable.
