Sentences with phrase «called life character»

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Out of all the postings on this site today, I found «Derp's «post the most fascinating and informative, as well as deeply revealing.Even after boasting of what seems to be a practically perfect live by any measure, he informs us that he takes pleasure in mocking and ridiculing those of faith who are presumably his opposite; I can only wonder if, given all his supposed accomplishments, he is smart enough to realize how deeply revealing of his true character his remarks are.As a believer, I rarely engage in arguments with my atheist friends, and like to think I wouldn't lower myself to the level of juvenile name - calling and personal attacks against whatever my atheist friends hold dear.Most of the time we simply agree to disagree; when they hold forth with misinformation or ignorance on their assumed «knowledge «of my faith, I try to gently correct them; I certainly don't allow any disagreements we have to devolve into hateful insults and name - calling.

God may call you to a bit of both — a bit of big sexy attention - getting work and quiet thankless character - building life - transforming work.

That faith, plus other perceptions about our personal lives and the course of human history, provided a dimension to our stories that I call their setting: the world the story sets in which story's plot can credibly unfold and its character develop.

The Ear of the Heart presents the life of a person whose character, faith and love continue, after some 50 years, to respond with self - emptying generosity to such a God - given call.

while Christ keeps the moral law that God's people failed to keep before, the moral laws continue because God's people are called to live in Christ - like holiness (because the moral law reveals God's character).

Gods came to set the captive free.God is always in control he calls the shots not Satan he is in control his motives and purposes we can not understand but we do know his character is always for good and he always has a plan.It is spiritual lesson from a real life situation.I am jumping way ahead here but at the time the people sent Jesus away the demoniac man was sent back to his family when you read later because of his testimony the next time they visit years later to those towns many people are saved because of him so again yes some pigs died one man was set free but that man went and told his story and many were saved and added to the kingdom so to God be the glory.brentnz

I call a great character one who by his actions and attitudes satisfies the claim of situations out of deep readiness to respond with his whole life, and in such a way that the sum of his actions and attitudes expresses at the same time the unity of his being in its willingness to accept responsibility.

The element of creativity, which is not accounted for by the so - called laws of nature, and which points to the organic character of the universe or its life as a whole, gives us a clue to God's transcendent functioning.

Whether heeding rational life or the creative will, both Whitehead and Nietzsche feel called upon to transform the worldly character of time and becoming in order to overcome the evil of time and to explain the finally good life.

The historical problem presented by the Gospels is, then, not the problem of determining whether the character of the early Christians, their faith, and the exigencies of their life and work have colored and overlaid the facts of Jesus» teaching and life, but is, rather, the problem of determining just how we should use our knowledge of this fact in our efforts to get back to the so - called historical Jesus» own words and life.

But although certain non-living systems, of which the thunderstorm is such a striking example, do show what we can call «organismal characters,» this property is nowhere found in so high a degree as it is in living organisms.

And life, when full of disorder and slackness and vague superfluity, can no more have what we call character than literature can have it under similar conditions.

It has called me to live in and to appreciate the joy of uncertainty, the absence of security, and it has led me into an existential search for integrity of character and faith in a world that seems to many to have only questions and no final answers.

The philosophy of technology, which has been the principal focus of his work since the mid-1970s, is about bringing to light and calling into question the technological shape and character of everyday life.

Here St. Augustine's realistic view of political life is of such character that Reinhold Niebuhr can call him the wisest political philosopher in Christian history.24 What St. Augustine does is to see the way of love in history as requiring the adjustment of life to political necessities.

Twenty years earlier, the same university's brochure had spoken of Catholicism, of Pius XI's depiction of the Christian Catholic character, and of endowment «with the redemptive merits of Christ which we call grace or supernatural life.»

I could easily show you these regions if I had here a picture of the brain.1 Moreover, the diminished or exaggerated associations of what this author calls the Köperfühlshäre with the other regions, accounts, according to him, for the complexion of our emotional life, and eventually decides whether one shall be a callous brute or criminal, an unbalanced sentimentalist, or a character accessible to feeling, and yet well poised.

Those are not beliefs — not in the biblical sense of the term «belief» — or if they are a form of belief they are disconnected from any relevance to you and I. None of these «so called» beliefs affect much of what you do with your life — knowing about a virgin birth won't give you the tools to be a better parent — these «beliefs» do not function like that — they are more suppositions about the character of God.

In Africa, South America, and now Asia, these Christian movements have reordered the character of moral life, calling upon the power of God to save families from alcohol, from domestic abuse, and from the hopelessness of poverty.

But today and tomorrow and all week, while everyone argues about OKC's future and how Harden will look in Houston, it's hard not to quietly ignore it all and imagine how great it would have been to have a team of characters awesome enough to be called the Pizza Roll Dynasty, and dominant enough to live up to the second part of the name.

The character called Ayan is based on a real - life salesman who Baby Milk Action and our partners in the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) worked with closely during the events depicted in the film and since.

And so, unable to fundamentally change the world we live in, we've retreated into what one of my characters calls an «ironic hipster detachment that masks an abyss of emptiness.»

Yet some researchers call childhood fantasy play — which revolves around invented characters and settings with no or little relationship to kids» daily lives — highly overrated.

Second Life, the creation of Linden Lab in San Francisco, provides its active - user base of one million with a real - time experience on their personal computer, in which they use digital characters called avatars to wander around castles, deserted islands and other fantastic 3 - D environments.

Lowen and Reich called these five personality types «Character Structures» and saw them as results of early childhood wounding and later the underlying motivators in a person's life.

Based on Lowen's five Character Structures, the Rhys Method ® focuses on the positive core soul qualities he calls the Five Life Purpose Profiles.

There's this island called Bird Island (because the inhabitants are all birds you see) where everyone lives happily accept for one character called Red.

The main character of the film is a good - hearted guy named Mark Renton, who wants to clean his life up and become a good person, However, this task is incredibly difficult due to the unchangeable nature of so - called mates.

Hallmarks of Altman's aural and visual style are evident everywhere - overlapping dialogue, life - like improvised roles and ensemble acting, multiple means of communication to connect the characters (phone calls, tape recordings, radio and TV, and P.A. announcements), a continuously moving camera, long takes, and imaginative sound and film editing.

However, when Matthews is lured off his guard and badly wounded, Isaac moves centre stage as he finds himself pinned down by an unseen Iraqi sniper (loosely based on a real - life character called Juba, who was responsible for killing a huge number of Americans).

The cover story, «Grade B — But Choice,» is devoted to an obscure 1934 musical called «Young and Beautiful,» featuring «budding starlets, grade - A character actors, grade - B musical numbers, a pair of vaudevillians, a look behind the scenes of Hollywood, bogus appearances by Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton and a script by Dore Schary» [later famous as a producer of films such as «Crossfire,» «Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House,» «They Live By Night» and «The Red Badge of Courage»].

Crowe's new cast of characters is on display in the Showtime series «Roadies,» his first foray into episodic television and a collaboration with J.J. Abrams and «My So - Called Life» creator Winnie Holzman.

And while I'm not sure that the Sam Crawford (Lynn Collins) character has any real - life analogue, «Papa» Joe Bradford (Michael Ealy) is a real guy, a former computer hacker who has been doing good work with so - called «at - risk» kids on the meaner streets of Nashville, Tenn., for years.

This zesty, defiantly awkward shambles of a film might be called a domestic drama, as it plucks its penniless main character from her beer - soaked California stage and sends her to the Midwest to deal with her wealthy ex-husband (Kevin Kline, playing off Streep as tenderly as in Sophie's Choice) and their suicidal adult daughter (Mamie Gummer, Streep's real - life progeny), a victim of Ricki's long - ago abandonment.

More importantly, there is an 8 - page booklet called The Good & Bad of Love, Life & Career, authored by the series» characters.

Disclaimer: We considered including Bryan Cranston (Trumbo), a likely Best Actor nominee, but in his cartoonish Dalton Trumbo's defense, this tendency to be a «character» and say each line «like it was carved in stone» is called out within the movie so larger than life Dalton Trumbo was.

There is a featurette called «Behind the Microphone», which shows our cast behind - the - scenes who gave these great characters life.

This happy little girl — I call her a little girl, Jessica — I would never have thought that she's not like her character in real life.

A fact - based story about the real - life poker - game operator Molly Bloom (Jessica Chastain), the drama follows the title character as she masterminds an underground game for the mega-rich and famous in Los Angeles and New York, trying to outmaneuver her enemies and avoid calling everyone out when she lands on the legal hot seat.

Unlike real life, where all of the zany events would have likely been captured and posted immediately to YouTube and Facebook, or, at the very least, called someone and likely would have alerted and prompted the U.S. Military to move in, the script keeps it all contained to the characters at hand.

«Spends a lot of time keeping its plates spinning (and napkins twirling) as the filmmakers parade a series of eccentric characters before their camera, the better to let us appreciate this farce we call modern life» — Norm Wilner, NOW Magazine

Xavier and Logan are living with a factotum called Caliban, a droll character - part for Stephen Merchant.

The live - action Pokemon movie Detective Pikachu has added another name to its cast, with THR revealing that Ken Watanabe (Batman Begins, Godzilla) is set to portray a character called Detective Yoshida.

From the literal, physical journey of one single heart from one human to another in Heal the Living, to the metaphorical way the heart keeps going even when it stops pumping blood in A Ghost Story, via the discovery of intimacy and the baring of the soul that the characters of Moonlight, Certain Women, Call me By Your Name and God's Own Country all experience as they open up their hearts to life and love - and all that they entail - these films kickstarted my heart, and let the engine roar.

However, just as it's a predictable response that the majority of people who saw Up were viscerally impacted by the first 10 minutes, the reaction to the film as a whole has also become slightly stereotypical, summed up as follows: the so - called «Married Life» montage, in which we watch the lead character, Carl Fredricksen, and his wife, Ellie, as they live their lives over multiple decades, culminating in her death at an old age, is excellent.

Cristela Alonzo («The Angry Birds Movie») was called on to help bring the character to life.

Tangerine director Sean Baker's The Florida Project unfolds at first like a series of sketches about the characters who live in a purple - painted, $ 35 - a-night motel called the Magic Castle down the street from Disney World.

The company is believed to have cast Billy Magnussen (Into The Woods, Bridge of Spies) as a character called Prince Anders, who does not feature in the 1992 animated Aladdin or the original folklore «Aladdin and the Magic Lamp», for its upcoming live - action film.

A perennial loser who just doesn't get why everyone around him is an idiot and can't quite bring himself to adapt to modern day life, you wouldn't call the character of Wilson a stretch for Harrelson to play but it doesn't take away from the fact that Harrelson completely nails his turn.

Jude is sent to New York City to live with his dad in an effort to get him out of his funk, and the film finds Jude, Diane, and a slew of memorable characters navigating this thing called life.