Sentences with phrase «death wish came»

Almost 1,700 people were murdered in New York City the year Death Wish came out, and the rate didn't start to drop until halfway through the Clinton administration.

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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.

I still kept a round of duties, and would not suffer myself to run into any open vices, and so got along very well in time of health and prosperity, but when I was distressed or threatened by sickness, death, or heavy storms of thunder, my religion would not do, and I found there was something wanting, and would begin to repent my going so much to frolics, but when the distress was over, the devil and my own wicked heart, with the solicitations of my associates, and my fondness for young company, were such strong allurements, I would again give way, and thus I got to be very wild and rude, at the same time kept up my rounds of secret prayer and reading; but God, not willing I should destroy myself, still followed me with his calls, and moved with such power upon my conscience, that I could not satisfy myself with my diversions, and in the midst of my mirth sometimes would have such a sense of my lost and undone condition, that I would wish myself from the company, and after it was over, when I went home, would make many promises that I would attend no more on these frolics, and would beg forgiveness for hours and hours; but when I came to have the temptation again, I would give way: no sooner would I hear the music and drink a glass of wine, but I would find my mind elevated and soon proceed to any sort of merriment or diversion, that I thought was not debauched or openly vicious; but when I returned from my carnal mirth I felt as guilty as ever, and could sometimes not close my eyes for some hours after I had gone to my bed.

God has given us the time that we have on this earth so that we can prepare for death: «The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is long - suffering to you - ward, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance» (2 Peter 3:9).

And even though he annoys me i still love him and would never wish death upon him but my children will ALWAYS come first NO questions asked and that is how it should.

Death and dying are concepts we wish we didn't have to teach our children, but these sad events are a natural part of the cycle of life and it's our responsibility to help kids come to terms with these difficult ideas.

«Here's a man who wished death upon others and I'm less convinced that he's somehow been neutralised... I am not at all convinced that we can't come to an agreement with the Jordanian government,» she said.

«For the people like John Faso who say, oh, this is some stunt, I wish they could come here and see the sincerity of the people here who are telling their stories, who are talking about serious health issues in their own lives and who are scared to death about what the Republicans are doing,» Maloney says.

Paladino, an outspoken conservative, came under fire in December after he openly wished for President Barack Obama's death.

That's very unlikely to happen, which makes his death wish an illustration of his hate for Obama not something he reasonably expects might come true.

The Buhari death wish is, therefore, the philosophical death of those who somewhat wish their nemesis would vanish — some Greek classical drama - like deus - ex-machina, come to spring them from the dire comeuppance of their past crimes!

For those of you who were distressed to hear that the remake of «Death Wish» was having its original Thanksgiving release date bumped and despaired that you might have to go through the entire holiday season without seeing a single film in which an ordinary person turns vigilante when the police and the courts fail to provide any sense of justice, «In the Fade» may come as a relief.

In the new film the series» viewpoint comes into focus, and it's a lot more intricate and enlightened than some unthinking death wish.

In what is quickly looking like Bald Men: The Movie, news has come that Vincent D'Onofrio and Breaking Bad's Dean Norris have joined Bruce Willis for the upcoming Death Wish remake.

The wishes come true, but why hasn't Clare connected the deaths of her dog and family members to these granted wishes?

Prior to a Thursday screening of «Winchester,» a ghost story whose protagonist comes down on the pro-gun control side of the firearms violence debate, a smattering of multiplex attendees and I watched a trailer for the new «Death Wish» (opening March 2).

Coming in third place was the weekend's other new wide release, Eli Roth's spectacularly ill - timed Death Wish remake, which debuted at a relatively soft $ 13 million to an audience that was, unsurprisingly, majority male and over the age of 35 (a.k.a. the «Mancow demo»).

Understanding the jaw - dropping effort that went into this movie, it's tempting to wish that Kobiela, Welchman, and their army of animators had come to the same conclusion that old Albinus reached before he scrapped the whole idea: A film made in this way, he reckoned, «would bore most people to death and be a general disappointment.»

When Trash's death wish inevitably comes true (amid muddy, 45 Grave - scored mayhem), she actually doesn't seem too psyched about it at the time.

«I wish I understood you» So what happens when a small town is coming upon the anniversary of the death of a supposed witch and you have a young outcast boy who has the ability to see and communicate with ghosts?

It should come as no surprise that filmmaker Eli Roth gives us a Death Wish filled with gory scenes of death, brains spewed hither and thiDeath Wish filled with gory scenes of death, brains spewed hither and thideath, brains spewed hither and thither.

Following on from the first look images of «Death Wish» comes the trailer and poster for the Bruce Willis action movie.

Now comes «Death Wish» 2018, set in Chicago and starring Bruce Willis as the mild - mannered surgeon Paul Kersey, who becomes a revenge - thirsty gunman after thugs break into his home, murder his wife and savagely attack their daughter.

Death Wish's biggest problem is a much more thoughtful examination of vigilante justice recently came out with Netflix's The Punisher series.

The movie was shot by co-directors with a death wish Sebastian Junger (A Perfect Storm) and Tim Hetherington (The Devil Came on Horseback) who embedded themselves with a 15 - man, U.S. military unit stationed at a remote outpost in the Korengal Valley from May 2007 to July 2008.

The original Death Wish was an unexpected hit in 1974, which came with it a bit of controversy tied to it due to the amount of sexual violence in it, as well as its portrayal of vigilantism in a favorable light.

With the wider, grippier Pilot Super Sport Cup 2 tires from Michelin in the Z07 pack, the only way you'll come unstuck is if you've got a death wish.

To the Moon is a story about a widower on his death - bed who has paid a company to alter his memories and make his final wish «come true.»

New York cyclists are widely regarded as having a death wish but cyclist fatalities have been slowly coming down even as bike use has more than tripled since 2000.