No one likes to confront their mortality, the true and abiding loneliness of life, our insignificance, but that Cuaron chose to make this a simplistic and unsubtle movie about the human spirit, about the redemption of mankind in our resilience, left me feeling considerably more sad than inspired, wondering what real genius could do with this technology.
As wise as this all may sound, a shift from sustainability to resilience leaves many old-school environmentalists and social activists feeling uneasy, as it smacks of adaptation, a word that is still taboo in many quarters.
We argue that more fluid or associative means of stabilisation seem to be overlooked in the present strategies for retail resilience, leaving more classical network stabilization as the only means of choice.
Paul Mohai has had his own close encounters with this adversity and resilience, leaving him all the more interested in the tears and repairs to Detroit's urban tapestry.
"It depends how much resilience is left in them".
So she traveled to different provinces – and found, again, a sense of resilience that left her in awe of the people she was meeting.
The question now, as one senior American official put it on Sunday, is "what kind of resilience is left" in a relationship that has sunk to new lows time after time this year — with the arrest in January of a C.I.A. officer, Raymond Davis, the killing of Osama bin Laden in May and the deaths of so many Pakistani soldiers.
They believe that, even at low levels, the chemicals cause neurological damage to insects, undermining their resilience and leaving them less likely to breed successfully.
They scored early and held on for another 1-0 whenwhen they hosted Norway last month and demonstrated their defensive resilience by leaving the Czech Republic with a precious draw three days later.
Instead of aiding us in our aspiration to govern ourselves through rational thought, Rorty weakens our intellectual resilience and leaves us even more vulnerable to rhetorical seduction.
Maybe we should forget about our lauded grit and resilience and leave the prosecution of the men who attacked our city to the federal government - or better yet, let the military do it.
