Sentences with phrase «good grace notes»

Good grace notes for any period piece.

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A note showing the incompleteness of the chapter indicated something of his feeling:» «I feel about it more or less like this: the good citizen, too, is humble before God, but the vicious man really lives only by grace.»

On a more serious note, «although no good Catholic novel should read like a theological tract, it is remarkable that a book whose hero has his heart set on damnation should ultimately reaffirm the power of grace.»

J. M. Garrigues correctly notes that Maximus does assume Dionysius» understanding of a cosmic order as a «vision of the communication of grace», while at the same time avoiding the Areopagite's «rigid, well - constructed hierarchy» as an ontological plan.

Those prophets and theologians of today who, like the Old Testament prophets and Paul, from whom they draw much of their message, have a clear and powerful sense of sin would do well to accent as much the prophetic note of hope through the grace of God.

Philosophically speaking, the virtuous life is regarded as the life worth living (the life lived well, or rightly); and so it seems fitting to conclude this summary of Lumen Fidei on the note struck at the outset; namely, that in this encyclical one finds the sort of word on which one can rely — a word one might expect, in fact, from a conscientious father such as we have had in both popes with which the Lord has graced our times.

This was contained in a note dated October 13, 2015, and signed by Grace Adzroe, Controller and Accountant General and circulated among all the Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) as well as the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs).

Now it's time to hop on over and check out the beautiful vignette from Jen at Noting Grace, as well as the rest of the awesome posts this week.

Unusually for Spielberg, the emotional grace notes that elevate his best genre work — Elliott's flying bicycle in E.T. or that first dinosaur reveal in Jurassic Park — are substituted with the sugar rush of endless cyberscapes.

Sayombhu Mukdeeprom's striking cinematography adds a grace note to the proceedings, as well as showing off this Italian paradise that surely will have tourists overrunning it as soon as they see the movie and can book a flight.

There are some grace notes as well.

Finalist: Orly Silbersatz Banai gives good layered subtext as a self - deluding mom in Yossi, Angela McEwan is one of Nebraska's loveliest humanizing notes as a newspaper woman, Joanna Lumlay has a rich funny cameo in Wolf of Wall Street Semi-Finalists: Portia Doubleday & Olivia Wilde add complicating romantic colors to Her's palette saving it from insularity, Rosie Perez could give Malika a run for her mercilessness in The Counsellor, and Grace Gummer is a great counterpart to Frances Ha's clumsy warmth with her Ivy league prickliness

He's among the finest explanations we've had thus far of why the Left can't seem to muster a compelling resistance: in the face of all this outrage and insult, under the weight of almost four decades of poisoned passion, the voices of our best intentions find themselves tongue - tied and thunderstruck, sick on smack with their heads against a toilet — as slow in coming to our defense as the punchline that serves as this picture's surprisingly understated grace note.

Among the restored sequences is a legendary scene with Louise Fletcher as a cemetery director, previously only glimpsed in publicity stills, as well as numerous moments that add lovely grace notes to the characters and add dimension to certain relationships.

Though the film's overarching narrative travels a well - tread road, it strikes a few potent grace notes along the way.

If «In a Valley of Violence» ends up being largely enjoyable all the same, a good deal of credit ought to go to composer Jeff Grace, whose Morricone - indebted score hits all the right notes and helps keep the picture tonally on track.

But there's so much more wrong with Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius than just the music, the winking title, and the truism that for as boring as golf is to watch on television, it's that much more boring to watch in reverent celluloid slow motion — no, the picture is also fatally tagged by a terrible screenplay and terrible direction (that includes a half dozen ball's - eye view shots: not as interesting as you might misunderstand), as well as the dreadfully persistent belief that the measure of a man's life are the crescendos and valleys rather than the caesuras and grace notes.

Grace Jones does give the character of Zula a unique and authentic feral look, and a good physical prowess, even if the role is only one note in the end.

As you'd expect, the track is heavy on anecdata from the set and light on much insight into the film's making, but the participants mount a reasonably good case for Final Exam, pointing out its grace notes.

by Walter Chaw Genre poetry from B - movies» poet laureate, Quentin Tarantino's conclusion to Kill Bill is marked by the filmmaker's carefully - calibrated celluloid insanity, as well as a deceptive maturity that allows a few powerfully - struck grace notes for the cult of femininity and the sanctity of motherhood.

Feig is at his best handling those kind of grace notes, just as in «Bridesmaids» he would sometimes pause the action for a relaxed, conversational scene between Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph or allow nuance for Byrne's perfectionist second wife.

6/9/14 You may have noted a new look (it's evolving daily) as I get ready to upload my Lisa Grace - Where Good Meets Evil videos.

Now, in what may well be the final act of its agonies, the hulking bookstore chain sprawls on the divan of America's Bayreuth, rising from the silks to sing another negative earnings report, recently with grace notes about restaurants being added to some locations — and stylish firepits!

The interiors of Baan Tawan are filled with grace notes that exude good taste.

NOTE: TILA - RESPA Integrated Disclosure requirements that go into effect Aug. 1, but there will be a good - faith enforcement grace period that both the mortgage industry and a bipartisan coalition in Congress have asked for.