Sentence examples for problem of spirit from inspiring English sources

"There was a profound problem of spirit in the desire to win," he said.

In the popular understanding, he lived in a sweet and sunny communion with the natural world, but in fact he was deeply troubled by the problem of spirit's place in the world — if it had any.

This is budgeting theory for the poor rooted in President Bush's recent observation before a conference of religious broadcasters: "Welfare policy will not solve the deepest problems of the spirit".

But whatever their problems, a slackness of spirit is rarely at the root.

Process theists generally approach the problem of evil in the spirit of the second interpretation.

Hegel's discussion of the master-slave dialectic and the problem of recognition in the Phenomenology of Spirit also draws on Rousseau, in this case on the notion of amour propre and the ways in which attempts to exact respect and recognition from others can be self-defeating.

"It's not a problem of beliefs, but of openness of spirit," Chamaillard says.

Kelman, it should be pointed out, won the Booker Prize for his last outing, How Late It Was, How Late (1994), and clearly didn't approach the problem of its successor in a spirit of light-minded japery.

Our proof is based on the introduction of a penalized minimization problem, in the spirit of A selection principle for the sharp quantitative isoperimetric inequality, by Cicalese and Leonardi, which allows us to exploit the regularity theory for almost minimizers of elliptic parametric integrands.

Li Chiao-Ping struggled with problems of flesh and spirit in "(Lost) Residues," the program Li Chiao-Ping Dance offered on Friday night.

"To me it was trying to work out how to take these problems of soul and spirit and transform them into problems of craft," said Ms. Albert, who claimed that she had been physically and sexually abused as a child and spent her adolescence in group homes in New York.