Sentences with phrase «as with any tale»

As with every Tales for Tots, we gave away the book we read.

And as with that tale of a knight tilting at windmills, there's social commentary everywhere you look.

However, as with all tales of love and reform, the path to salvation is never easy and, despite a chance encounter with Daniel, Price also falls for another schoolmate in the form of Cam (also an angel).

The performance is adequate, perhaps not as good as with Tales from the Borderlands, but certainly not as bad as The Wolf Among Us (I was unable to record gameplay footage due to audio issues when doing so).

Not exact matches

A rigorously constructed morality tale with a well - paid Wall Street investment banker as its hero, Flash Boys could hardly be confused for Das Kapital.

As with so many business success stories, the tale of Napoleon Grills begins in an immigrant's garage.

Also, he realized, it would make a good tale: Maybe one day he'd create a limited - edition bag with leopard print on the inside, and could tell this story as a way to explain it.

«Shakespeare this ain't, and Gears 3 struggles at times with its forced attempts at heart - string pluckery, but I can forgive it as much; gore - starved guns adorned with toothy chainsaws easily atone for any cheesiness suffered along the way... the Gears 3 story continues with what amounts to a blood - drenched tale of woe, suffering, loss and absolution, cathartica that stands out in harsh relief when framed by the»80s era Schwarzenegger - ness of most of the dialogue.

The negative attention that Honest Company's liquid laundry detergent has received recently serve as a cautionary tale to product producers: a company's ability to verify how products are made and what they are made of diminishes with the length of the supply chain.

If some of the planned series are as well - received as The Handmaid's Tale has been thus far, then Stillerman and Hulu will be off to a strong start toward the company's goal of pulling even with its larger streaming rivals.

«When we first started Fairy Tales Hair Care for Children, a salon - only line of organic products created to deep clean and condition as well as prevent head lice, we spent thousands of dollars on a direct - mail piece bundled with other salon - only products,» says Barash, 43, who started her NYC - based company in 1999.

Clients who have become friends tell countless tales of meeting him at the end of one of his 12 - hour seminar days — Robbins exhausted from giving out as much energy as a nuclear power plant to a room of thousands of acolytes — because he wanted to help with a project or problem, even at 2 a.m. «The secret sauce with Tony is that he recognizes that he's not in the transaction business,» says Guber.

We've always been told to be careful about what we post on the Internet, with cautionary tales stretching as far back as the «Numa Numa Guy.»

With data and the media constantly barraging marketers with tales of millennials being finicky and uncommitted, it's easy to think that bothering to treat them as individuals — rather than en masse — will not deliver the return on investment you sWith data and the media constantly barraging marketers with tales of millennials being finicky and uncommitted, it's easy to think that bothering to treat them as individuals — rather than en masse — will not deliver the return on investment you swith tales of millennials being finicky and uncommitted, it's easy to think that bothering to treat them as individuals — rather than en masse — will not deliver the return on investment you seek.

[14:18] Rules of the game to succeed, but not for fulfillment [14:40] God loves diversity; same is true with people — different sources of fulfillment [14:55] Success without fulfillment is the ultimate failure [16:53] We all have something different as our inner desire, you need to find what fulfills you [17:05] A cautionary tale: Robin Williams, the loss of a national treasure [18:42] He lit everybody up, except himself [19:15] Most of us live a life where we succeed but we're not truly fulfilled [20:10] Richard: Tony, what is your method for happiness?

And their drawn - out feud serves as a cautionary tale for both cash - strapped governments flirting with default and the combative speculators looking to fight them in court.

(TheMIX)-- As a reverse fairy tale for the CEO set, the reality television program Undercover Boss is fascinating, not so much in the witness - to - a-train - wreck mode of the rest of the genre, but because it is so revealing of our conflicted relationship with «the boss.»

As they tell it, the Mast Brothers story is a tale of creativity and invention, an American dream with a hipster twist.

Coinciding with the launch of the second season of The Handmaid's Tale, Hulu's Upfront presentation today (May 2) packed as much of a punch as its...

As is usual with the internet, a writer in the UK spun a dramatic tale that everyone picked up and became indignant about, without understanding what she actually said.

Much of your argument such as I've seen, for your sky fairy (and I really think that is an appropriate term for your obviously fictional deity with all the self - contradictory tales about it in the bible), really seems to consist of a combination of willed ignorance and arguments from ignorance.

if your so called god will forgive murders and child molesters as long as they go to confession and say 10 worthless and meaningless prayers, don!t you think god would forgive a person the tales birth control, if there really was a god, which there is not, I do not believe in god or wasting time going to church to try to get myself into the dream world heaven, but if I am wrong I am going to hell because that's where all my friends are going and I don, t want to hang out for eternity with you morons in heaven.

Well it is true that some people seek sorcerers to implement Jinn that are satanic demons into mankind or his house or his business to finish him or make his life miserable or to stop flow of his business income... In such case it is either you are religious enough and say your prayers often then it becomes hard for this to harm you or otherwise you need to find some one who practice exorcism to remove this evil... But many are just pretending to be good at it and help you not but squeeze money out of you with tales and stories... There is another type of possessions and that is not through a sorcerer but directly by coincidence what man is at his weakest moments and those weakest moments for a possessions are when you come through a great fear or when cry or laugh loudly in hysteria, or during a certain moment of mating... or even when sneezing loudly... That's why there are prayers to be said on daily basis to guard you from such things and specially if passing haunted places such as deserted houses but most evil ones are residents of public toilets and market places... Some of them even would claim that you have made a wrong action by which you have killed a dear one to them and for that they have possessed you and that is mostly night time such as throwing a cigaret butt to a dark place or stepping killing an insect or even an animal at night which could have been one of them or possessed by one of them... So this is true thing happening to many who suffer unexplainable illnesses or sufferings which could look like mental illness that comes and goes as pleased...

The Hebrew Bible is filled with tales of backsliding as the Israelites drifted off to worship Ashtoreth, Baal and Moloch and all the other gods in the Middle East.

Before the invention of the novel, verse provided the vehicle for throwing philosophical and theological truths into their enacted, experienced forms, which is why I've profited so much from medieval and Renaissance poems, especially those I've recommended, all of which are allied with the chanson de geste, tales of heroism and adventure that delight as much as they inform.

Of course, Christianity as a whole is a fairy tale as well, but I guess even Christians are uncomfortable with Romney because the Mormon fairy tale is patently unbelievable even for people who believe in the older fairy tale.

In these tales, Japanese Catholics die «with their eyes fixed on heauen, inceffantly calling vpon thofe holy names of Iefus and Maria... not fo much as fhrinking, or giuing the leaft figne of griefe or paine.»

Yet it is surely a sign of the impoverishment of common culture and the common good — and an index of the degree to which liberal order has succeeded in establishing itself as both — that we are virtually required to equate love of country with devotion to the animating philosophy of the regime rather than to, say, the tales of our youth, the lay of the land and the bend in the road, and «peace and quiet and good tilled earth.»

Nothing like that can possibly be «inerrant» because it is as filled with bunk as a fairy tale book.

The fact is, the Bible has been proven to be a historically - inaccurate account of «history» that is laced with fairy tales — an interesting novel but nothing credible enough to base one's life on much less push to influence society as a whole.

This dilemma, it seems to me, calls for reflection upon all those old fairy tales in which the bolder of three unrestricted wishes manages nevertheless to screw things up: reading those stories as children, with considerable incredulity, we thought that in the same situation we would surely do better.

With the rise of race as an issue of major sociological importance, Herberg's book became a quaint tale of American innocence before the fall.

You only see abortion as wrong because your religious belief system has persuaded you to preclude logic with fairy tales.

The numbers tell the tale, from Gallup; The United States remains a predominantly Christian nation, with 78 % of all adults identifying with a Christian faith, and more than 9 in 10 of those who have a religious ident.ity identifying as Christians.

Then the psychedelic path will lead over the bridge of cybernation; and with Herbert Marcuse as guru emeritus, Norman O. Brown as classicist in residence, and William F. Buckley, Jr., as anti-utopian court jester, we will establish the new - consciousness Camelot, telling the little ones tales of old Greenwich Village, the Haight, Millbrook, the Peanut Butter Conspiracy, of all the lotus - eating cadres of the leisure class....

Although White is absolutely right about the tendency of today's animated films (Tangled included) to pander to the most annoying and depressing aspects of popular culture even as they ignore or deny the richer, deeper culture from which most classic fairy tales emerged, the animated features that Disney brought to the screen when Uncle Walt himself still oversaw the studio made a point of drawing considerable aesthetic, emotional, and narrative power from specifically Christian aspects of the culture that, even today, America shares with Europe.

The Bible is full of fairy tales and should only be taken as a piece of literature of great importance just as the Odyssey is, but it shouldn't be used to govern one's life, much less to help build a relationship with the biggest fictional and ever - changing character in human history.

As is the case with jeremiads, The Decline and Fall of the Catholic Church in America sometimes exaggerates and distorts, but it is, all in all, a cautionary tale that should be heeded by bishops, priests, theologians, and lay leaders responsible for the future of Catholicism in America.

Most of us are politely quiet and secretly roll our eyes when someone says that god speaks to them or that they have been touched by god etc., yet when someone mentions any of the other things we are quick to point out that they are wackos... perhaps it is time for us to speak up and say there is no such thing as god and it is time to clear our heads and get on with moving the human species forward and leaving fairy tales and silly beliefs behind.

They share their unique perspective on the joys and challenges of ministry in alternating segments, forming a collective narrative that illuminates the inner workings of a clergy marriage, even as it inspires with heartfelt tales of life in ministry.

The women can not take it in, and there is a sense of incompleteness as the tale breaks off with them fleeing.

Up and down its narrow valleys and across its great plain went the pomp and panoply of the ancient world, and its more commonplace traffic as well: rich argosies from far Babylon, carrying the wares down to Egypt; royal messengers of the great kings who ruled in Persepolis, bearing decrees for the officer in charge at the frontier station of Assouan; plenipotentiaries of Hatti and of Egypt, seeking a modus vivendi in the political stresses of the thirteenth century; conquerors with their chariots and footmen and their tale of atrocities behind and yet before; wandering bands of foot - loose adventurers, seeking a good land where they might strike roots into the soil - all these and hosts of others were led among the Palestinian hills where went the great trunk roads of the ancient world, camped in the plains, bartered in the little cities, or stayed to lay permanent claim to some hit of the land.

We are so quick to point out the obvious lies about Jews and Israel that come out in Egypt — the Sinai Governors claims that the Mossad released a shark into the Red Sea to kill Egyptians, or, as I once read in a newspaper whilst on holiday in Cairo, the tale of the magnetic belt buckles that Jews were selling cheap in Egypt that would sterilize men on contact — yet we so rarely examine our own misconceptions about the nature of our history with the Egyptian nation.

Last Testament: In His Own Wordsby benedict xvi with peter seewald bloomsbury, 288 pages, $ 24Arandom tale from the front line of the Ratzinger media wars: At the time of Benedict XVI's announcement in 2013 that he was to step down as pope, I was writing for one of the Irish national dailies.

Fair enough, except that she's already been divorced from Prince Charming, and fairy tale or not, she's a single woman pregnant with, as it turns out, seven babies she didn't ask for.

Since as we know the first mankind kill on earth has started with these two sons of Adam: Al - Maeda sura 02: In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful But recite unto them with truth the tale of the two sons of Adam, how they offered each a sacrifice, and it was accepted from the one of them and it was not accepted from the other.

I've talked with Jews about this matter, and they said the stories in the Torah (Adam and Eve, Noah's Ark, etc.) aren't meant to be taken as literal, historical facts, but as allegories and moral tales.

In one tale, Maui captures the sun with ropes early one morning as the brilliant orb rises over the crater of Haleakala.

These tales had been preserved by the women as they gathered with their water bottles at the wells, by the men as they chatted around the campfires and as they told the stories of the great past to their young sons.

Caxton's prose may well strike us as courtly, decorous, expansive, big - hearted — rather as if Lancelot from his beloved Morte D'Arthur were regaling ladies with the merry tales of the wily fox and his less witty victims.