Sentences with phrase «as the corpse of»

Astronomers think white dwarfs must not be stars so much as the corpses of stars.

Not exact matches

Radiohead and Atoms for Peace frontman Thom Yorke last year described the service as «the last desperate fart of a dying corpse,» while pop megastar Taylor Swift pulled her entire catalog from Spotify in November.

No client really wants to be thought of as a corpse.

Which conjured up a picture of America as a corpse.

In essence Zimbabwe is a corpse of a country kept on life support by the Chinese now as they haul off any raw materials of value.

The Episcopal bishop of Washington once pleaded with FDR, as he slipped into his car after a service, to entrust his own corpse to the cathedral.

You justify your animosity in the name of your faith, just as you justify our silencing on the bed of millions upon millions of corpses «silenced» in the name of religion before us.

Yeah, that would look VERY good having a corpse rotting as it dangled from the uplifted arm of Liberty... how inspiring, how just, how representative of the United States of America.

Christians vary from those who picture the resurrection as the reanimation of a corpse to those who understand it in more spiritual terms and might look for a parallel in group hallucinations.

According to the Qur» an, Muslims are forbidden to eat a corpse, blood, pork, a pagan sacrifice, suffocated animals, animals killed other than by slaughtering, animals which died from a fall, animals killed by other animals, remnants of food eaten by a beast, food offered as a sacrifice to idols.

at what part in the Bible does the dismemberment of a corpse and taking its heart as a sacred relic exist?

Oden also has a curious habit of including excerpts whose only distinction is that they contain somewhat involved metaphors — a journey from Peking to Canton, one thief accusing another to the police, a merchant momentarily given false hope as he watches his ship founder at sea, an emperor choosing a day - laborer as his son - in - law, the difference in value between a pound of gold and a pound of feathers, a corpse still able to perform some of the functions of a living body — as if such metaphors were intrinsically humorous.

As another put it, «The first essential of a quiet funeral is a willing corpse,» and the churches are certainly not that.

Yet the task of the critic, as T. S. Eliot said long ago, is to dissect the cadaver, not to supply the corpse.

We can't relate as directly or intimately to her existence now as we used to, but her corpse (or ashes) gives us some point of contact, some focus for our attention.

As Kemal Ataturk, founder of modern Turkey, once observed «This is Islam, an absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, a rotting corpse that poisons our lives».

Whatever transformation has taken place or will take place in her existence, it is a transformation of an actual life that this corpse was integrally part of as her earthly body.

Respect is shown to the corpse, not necessarily because this body will be enlivened again one day to function more or less as it did during the sister's lifetime, but because the sister's bodiliness, concretized in and through this body, remains an inseparable dimension of her very existence.

See, for instance, Things Hidden, 235 - 236: «In effect, this sacrificial concept of divinity must «die», and with it the whole apparatus of historical Christianity, for the Gospels to be able to rise again in our midst, not looking like a corpse that we have exhumed, but revealed as the newest, finest, liveliest and truest thing that we have ever set eyes upon.»

After all God knows if the late will end to the bottom of the ocean as a full complete corpse or will be missing parts that might have head for the American labs?

When dissection of corpses began to be publicly practiced in medical theaters, medical illustrations — such as those in Vesalius's 1543 De humani corporis fabrica — drew public interest to mapping the interior of human bodies.

D. E. Nineham comments, «after Jesus» death no opportunity ever presented itself for the proper anointing of his corpse a circumstance which apparently caused considerable distress to his intimate friends and disciples — and to some of those who knew of this incident it came to appear as «a kind of anticipatory rectification of the omission».

He was strongly opposed to the teaching of some of his Christian contemporaries who wished to interpret the idiom of resurrection as an allegorical description of that Christian experience by which «a man, having come to the truth, has been reanimated and revivified to God, and, the death of ignorance being dispelled, has as it were burst forth from the tomb of the old man».35 Tertullian was adamant that the resurrection was in the future and to be understood in physical, fleshly terms («I pronounce that the flesh will certainly rise again»).36 In order to forestall those who could contend the impossibility of such a hope on the grounds that the decayed corpse would have long since wasted away to nothing, he pointed out that quite recently, in his city, skeletons some five hundred years old had been unearthed in a remarkable state of preservation.

Ten of the men who carried his leathery corpse Died on the journey, and it was a heroic parade Through unmapped jungle and dangers, but me, This morning, I think of the quiet as they salted Their friend.

I had seen lots of corpses during my career as a reporter, and none of them ever regained life, especially after three days.

The story of man is strewn with the corpses of his gods just as the victorious march of Sennacherib was littered with shattered idols.

She recommended getting rid of both caskets and corpses, and letting convenience and cost efficiency replace what she regarded as pricey and barbaric display.

Resurrection is God's re-creation of the deceased elect, those who are identified in Isaiah 26:19 as the dead who belong to God: «Your dead shall live; their corpses shall rise.»

I disagree with the choice of words here, and, perhaps, the meaning in that Jesus» death was necessary and so was something that he chose to not resist and that, later, he left the tomb into which his then - corpse had been interred by rolling away a rock which had served as the «door» to it, which would not require any «busting».

Please allow the Rev. Dr. King to rest in peace and don't insist of exhuming his corpse to use as a ventriloquist's dummy to mouth whatever words you want it to say.

As Emory Professor Gary Laderman has written, by the end of the nineteenth century, «intimacy with the naked truth of death, as it was embodied by the corpse, was no longer a necessary part of social life (The Sacred Remains, 175).&raquAs Emory Professor Gary Laderman has written, by the end of the nineteenth century, «intimacy with the naked truth of death, as it was embodied by the corpse, was no longer a necessary part of social life (The Sacred Remains, 175).&raquas it was embodied by the corpse, was no longer a necessary part of social life (The Sacred Remains, 175).»

Panvitalism, according to Hans Jonas, was the common view.20 Where there was an apparent absence of vitality, as in a corpse, there was a tendency to deny the reality of any dead matter and to look upon death itself as an illusion.

It appears that those who insist on the idea of the lost as corpses that can not respond in any way to God, seem to be not listening to Jesus» parables.

He also grants the common - sense view that a human corpse is a dead thing as a human body, but he still makes his panpsychistic point by insisting that even a corpse is composed of many living things and, as far as our knowledge runs, nothing else.29 In addition, he claims that his belief that there is only a relative and not an absolute distinction between mind and matter is given support by recent developments in physics that have shown that the differences between matter and various kinds of radiation are differences of degree and not of kind.

The Divyavadana tells us a temptation story of Ananda, who is blamed because — as the Cullavagga reports — he permitted women at the corpse of Buddha, who by their sorrow defiled the corpse.

KADUNA — Members of the Shiite Islamic Movement of Nigeria has called for the unconditional release of its leader, Sheikh Ibraheem Yaqoub Zakzaky, his sister - in - law, and other members incarcerated since last month as well as release of corpses of those killed for proper and befitting Islamic burial.

«The DPO in Owutu went to Igbolomu and the surrounding communities and as of the time he got there, he saw everybody running in panic and it could be maybe because of that immediate response the militants had fled the place and while moving round, he later found six corpses of the people that were killed and the police took over those corpses out of which two were immediately released to their families who said they want to go and bury according to Islamic rights, while we took the remaining four to the morgue.

Lagos State Government has placed embargo placed on transportation of corpses from DRC as part of measures to prevent the...

As political theatre goes, it was bizarre, like an amateur production of a Jacobean melodrama: bodies piling up all over the stage; actors stumbling over the corpses and missing their cues; tragedy turning to farce.

The warning came as the controversies over the identity of the Liberian corpse brought into a hospital in Nkwelle Ezunaka, Oyi local government area of Anambra State, are yet to die down.

The recent Abuja bomb attacks on the day of the country's 50th Independence Anniversary as claimed by Movement for Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), though caught the country by surprise, the response agencies timely and responsibly attended to the disaster saving more lives as well as moving survivals and corpses to hospitals.

A driver, simply identified as Ade and an unidentified aged woman, have been arrested by the police after allegedly dumping the corpse of a seven - year - old girl,...

The pathologist, who carried out the autopsy on the corpse of the late politician, Dr. Taiwo Solaja, as well as the Chief Medical Director of LAUTECH Teaching Hospital, Osogbo, Prof. Akeem Lasisi, also testified.

Asejire, a border community of Osun and Oyo states stoodstil for minutes as people of the community trooped out to catch a glimpse of the late Governor while his corpse was officially handed over to Aregbesola.

There was pandemonium in a Zambian village as a corpse refused to be buried until it led villagers to the house of its killer.

He was allegedly made to marry the corpse of the woman as tradition demands.

Also known as corpse wax, it effectively preserved the shape of the soft brain tissue (HOMO — Journal of Comparative Human Biology, doi.org/nz6).

No other horror creatures invite quite the same breadth of paranoid speculation as zombies, perhaps because they embody such a pure, reflective sense of terror: animated corpses dependent on living flesh for survival.

Is it neurologically possible that life - shattering events can actually be buried for years, as Freud suggested, then winched out of the deep waters of the subconscious like a long - lost corpse?

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