Sentences with phrase «in chariots of fire»

A similar theme can be found in Chariots of Fire.

Designer Miriam Buether was recognised for her Wild Swans at the Young Vic, but not for her arguably even more startling transformation of the theatre into a running track in Chariots of Fire, or for her quickfire creation of around 70 different settings for Caryl Churchill's Love and Information.

In Chariots Of Fire, an athlete is threatened with losing his chance to participate in the Olympics because of his belief in honoring the Sabbath day.

The performances in Chariots of Fire are of a very high standard.

In Chariots of Fire when Jenny reminds her brother Eric of God's purpose for him (his missions work in China, for which he is still remembered today), he pauses briefly and then delivers that memorable line: «Oh, Jenny.

Elijah, in the sight of his successor Elijah, was carried to heaven in a chariot of fire.

It is quite otherwise, however, with Elijah, the ninth century prophet, who, according to the Biblical tradition, had been carried up to heaven in a whirlwind riding in a chariot of fire, drawn by horses of fire.13 Elijah had made such an impression on the men of his own generation as a man of vitality and divine power that he continued to be a living legend.

In that kind of cosmos a poem about the sun's standing still can come to be taken as literal fact; Elijah can be carried up from earth to heaven in a chariot of fire; Jesus can be pictured as ascending from the earth to the sky by physical levitation, and his second coming can be pictured as a physical return from the firmament to earth.

Elijah was a prophet who went to heaven in a chariot of fire.

Not exact matches

His decisions to honour God in both sport and mission, as well as his athletic prowess, have made him a hero among many Christians, and led to a film being made about him - Chariots of Fire - in 1986.

The chariots of God are two myriads of burning fire, two thousand angels guiding them; the presence of the Lord rests on them, on the mountain of Sinai, in holiness.

Their story is masterfully told in the 1981 Movie, Chariots of Fire.

Through the use of the pillar of cloud and fire and by causing confusion among the army ranks when the chariot wheels fell off, God continued to try to keep the army out of the danger of drowning in the Red Sea.

In the film Chariots of Fire, Eric Liddell's father claims that God is a «benevolent dictator.»

Snakes talk, men live in whales for 3 days, bread rains down from the sky, a man parted the sea, chariots of fire come and go from heaven, and there's a flaming sward guarding this garden of fruit... Anyone who believes this stuff is a dummy of the highest order..

Instead, he entered the 400 metres and won the gold medal, an achievement immortalised in the film Chariots of Fire.

1 come the chariots of the spirit (70.2), the flaming cherubim (71.7), the fire which girdles the house (71.6; in Ezekiel fire surrounds the cherubim); and Enoch, like Ezekiel, falls to the ground when confronted by the vision (71.11; Ezek.

No sooner had the colonialists waved their goodbyes in 1960 than our political elite rode on winged chariots of fire, burning the decencies of our shared existence with the departing overlords.

«I am delighted to be at the Labour party conference to put on record my personal thanks to Tessa Jowell, Tony Blair, Ken Livingstone, Richard Caborn and countless others that have made the Olympic and Paralympic Games the success they were,» he gushed through Chariots of Fire in a moment of merry cross-partyism.

Breath or prana in yoga is that eternal fire which drives the chariot of life through its courses.

Based on a true story, Chariots of Fire is the internationally acclaimed Oscar - winning drama of two very different men who compete as runners in the 1924 Paris Olympics.

For those of us not caught up in the patriotic fervour of the Olympics, it would be tempting to dismiss Chariots of Fire as an outdated, backward piece of filmmaking.

«Annie Hall» was No. 10 in 1977, and «Chariots of Fire» No. 7 of 1981.

The opening credits of Chariots of Fire — during which a flock of young men, barefoot and dressed in white, run at oceanside to Vangelis's unforgettable theme music — immediately clue the viewer in that this is not your typical sports movie.

Of the faux - David Lean white elephants that proliferated in the early «80s, Gandhi is less personal than Reds, but also less complacent than Chariots of Fire and less doddering than Lean's own orderly post-colonial apologia, A Passage to India; it now exists in that dreary realm of antiseptic Best Picture Oscar winners, duly respected and revisited exclusively for school assignmentOf the faux - David Lean white elephants that proliferated in the early «80s, Gandhi is less personal than Reds, but also less complacent than Chariots of Fire and less doddering than Lean's own orderly post-colonial apologia, A Passage to India; it now exists in that dreary realm of antiseptic Best Picture Oscar winners, duly respected and revisited exclusively for school assignmentof Fire and less doddering than Lean's own orderly post-colonial apologia, A Passage to India; it now exists in that dreary realm of antiseptic Best Picture Oscar winners, duly respected and revisited exclusively for school assignmentof antiseptic Best Picture Oscar winners, duly respected and revisited exclusively for school assignments.

Five TIFF audience winners have gone on to win the Oscar for Best Picture: «12 Years a Slave» in 2013, «The King's Speech» in 2010, «Slumdog Millionaire» in 2008, «American Beauty» in 1999 and «Chariots of Fire» in 1981.

Rush is a character study in the manner of Chariots of Fire, with excellent acting, story, pacing, setting, dimension, and moments of pure visual poetry.

2010 The Social Network 2009 UP IN THE AIR 2008 SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE 2007 NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN 2006 Letters from Iwo Jima 2005 Good Night, And Good Luck 2004 Finding Neverland 2003 Mystic River, Clint Eastwood, presented by Laura Linney 2002 The Hours, presented to Scott Rudin by Julianne Moore 2001 Moulin Rouge, presented to Baz Luhrmann, by Stanley Donen 2000 Quills, presented to Peter Kaufman, Julia Chassman and Philip Kaufman by Geoffrey Rush 1999 American Beauty, presented to Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinx by David Denby 1998 Gods and Monsters, presented to Bill Condon by Clive Barker 1997 L.A. Confidential, presented to Curtis Hanson by David Denby 1996 Shine, presented to Scott Hicks and Jane Scott by Isaac Stern 1995 Sense & Sensibility, presented to Lindsay Doran by Alan Pakula 1994 Pulp Fiction, presented to Laurence Bender by Jennifer Beals Forrest Gump, presented to Wendy Finerman by Inez Glucksman 1993 Schindler's List 1992 Howards End 1991 The Silence of the Lambs 1990 Dances With Wolves 1989 Driving Miss Daisy 1987 Empire of the Sun 1986 A Room with a View 1985 The Color Purple 1984 A Passage to India 1983 Betrayal 1982 Gandhi 1981 Chariots of Fire 1980 Ordinary People 1979 Manhattan 1978 Days of Heaven 1977 The Turning Point 1976 All the President's Men 1975 Nashville 1974 The Conversation 1973 The Sting 1972 Cabaret 1971 Macbeth 1970 Patton 1969 They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

, Midnight Cowboy, Patton, Ordinary People, Chariots of Fire, Terms of Endearment, Out of Africa, Platoon, Rain Man, Dances With Wolves, Forrest Gump, The English Patient, Titanic, Shakespeare in Love, American Beauty, Gladiator, Crash, The King's Speech

In previous years, winners of the audience award included Oscar winners «American Beauty» and «Chariots of Fire,» as well as «Where Do We Go Now,» «Tsotsi,» «Hotel Rwanda,» «Whale Rider,» «Shine,» «Strictly Ballroom,» «The Fisher King,» «Roger & Me,» «The Princess Bride» and «The Big Chill.»

There are lots of other examples — I happen to think Shakespeare in Love deserved its Oscar over Saving Private Ryan but there are many who don't, Chariots of Fire (a favorite of mine) is most often remembered as a film that didn't deserve its Oscar, The Greatest Show on Earth is considered one of the worst films to win Best Picture, and on and on.

I had only seen one of the films in contention, Raiders of the Lost Ark, of course, but all I really remember is the theme song from Chariots of Fire.

In this year's Battle of the Sexes he delivers victorious piano - driven sports anthems much like the one that inspired him to become a composer: Vangelis» Oscar - winning main theme from Chariots of Fire.

I sprint across LA Live, the Chariots of Fire song playing in my head, and hop into a seat a split second before the film begins.

Ironically, though, the synthesizer was losing its chic in movies just as Zimmer came on the scene, after a decade of electronic scores like Wendy Carlos's The Shining, Giorgio Moroder's Midnight Express, and Vangelis's Chariots of Fire.

However there was a change in the tide over the course of the night and the Best Picture award, which Reds should have won, went to Chariots of Fire (1981) a rather tepid and, frankly boring British film with a majestic musical score.

Previous winners of the Audience Award include «Chariots of Fire,» «Precious,» «No Country for Old Men,» «Michael Clayton,» «Crash,» and the Argentine film «The Secret in Their Eyes,» which won this year's Oscar for Best Foreign Film.

Read the last part of that sentence back and let me know whether that sounds at all like Chariots of Fire or Driving Miss Daisy or Dances With Wolves or A Beautiful Mind or any of the staid, dull, forgettable movies that have reeled in Best Picture in the past four decades.

Same story with Brenda Fricker in 1989, Adrien Brody in 2002 or even 1981's surprise Best Picture winner «Chariots of Fire,» all contenders with deep, even vocal, pockets of support who nonetheless never lost their dark - horse status.

crowed screenwriter Colin Welland from the Oscar stage in 1982, hoisting aloft his just - awarded awarded statuette for «Chariots of Fire» — and anticipating one of the bigger upsets in the history of the Best Picture race, as the modest British sports drama upended Warren Beatty's grand political epic «Reds.»

In 1993, the makers of The Killing Fields and Chariots of Fire bought the film rights to the world's biggest video game.

Mind you, Sprog 1 has been practising the theme song from Chariots of Fire over and over and over again on her trumpet this week, in preparation for her Spring Spectacular concert.