Sentences with phrase «not apocryphal»

Apparently that story about the paintings being put down on the studio floor and walked on was not apocryphal.

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It speaks to that perhaps apocryphal quote of the 20 something guy who says «I don't seek out news, news finds me.»

When the word «Son» or «Son of Man» in apocryphal texts from this time it is not in a literal sense.

Available on computers, smart TVs, tablets, iPhones and a hundred other devices not even conceived when that apocryphal dinner party took place, iPlayer has become a key element in the nation's viewing habits.

A careful examination of these images shows clearly and convincingly that medieval artists were not only familiar with the stories of the canonical Gospels, but also with many noncanonical apocryphal tales of Jesus.

Several of them have pointed out that the tradition concerning the correspondence between King Abgar and Jesus is only apocryphal and hence spurious and that the king who became Christian in Edessa was not Abgar V but Abgar VIII (called the Great) who came to the throne in AD.

[50] One must not lose sight of the fact that parallel to such literary work, a growing corpus of «apocryphal» writing was being circulated and transmitted.

I interpret the OT as an apocryphal history of the Jewish people and the NT as the mythologized account of a radical Rabbi's quest to bring the Word of God to the gentiles.

I heard someone suggest yesterday that certain apocryphal material was left out because it wasn't profitable for the faith... Just made me think there were a few more things that maybe shouldn't have made the cut... (besides the obvious that those negotiators of the 3rd century probably didn't really care about not making Jesus a misogynist...)

All Year: The Bible (There are many translations available at biblegateway.com)- Anchor Bible Commentary Series - The Women's Bible Commentary, Edited by Carol A. Newsom and Sharon H. Ringe - Living Judaism: The Guide to Jewish Belief, Tradition, and Practice by Wayne D. Dosick - Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal / Deuterocanonical books, and the New Testament, Edited by Carol Meyers, Toni Cravien, and Ross Shepard Kraemer - Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, Edited by John Piper and Wayne Grudem - Discovering Biblical Equality: Complementarity Without Hierarchy, Edited by Ronald W. Pierce, Rebecca Merrill Groothuis and Gordon D. Fee - Women in the World of the Earliest Christians: Illuminating Ancient Ways of Life by Lynn Cohick - God's Word to Women by Katharine C. Bushnell - Don't Know Much About the Bible: Everything You Need to Know About the Good Book but Never Learned by Kenneth C. Davis - «On The Dignity and Vocation of Women» by Pope John Paul II - The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs

It's also false to think that all Christians interpret God or the Blible in quite the same way — any basic analysis of the biblical and apocryphal texts would show you that God isn't gendered when, frequently, God is refered to as male.

It's horrible that they were accused of something so serious that they didn't do, but that kind of «data» is purely apocryphal: all the evidence and studies points to women getting ignored and having their cases tossed far more than the reverse.

and the sadly - but - probably - apocryphal «Fog In Channel, Continent Cut Off» - but in a simple and obvious way: Villas - Boas hasn't actually done all that much.

related: While the apocryphal cabbage regulation isn't «26511 words» that the typical myth puts it at, both US and EU had ~ 2000 word cabbage regulations.

When they see that the gambit is not achieving the desired results, they have now gone into utter fabrication of apocryphal statements, which they purvey through the social media.

The quote may be apocryphal, but it helps to make this point: Rather than improving already existing products and services, disruptive innovators create demand for products and services that customers don't yet know they need.

2It is possible that this formulation is apocryphal, but that does not make it less applicable here.

DeSmogBlog's Mr. Littlemore (2-16-12) says this about the apocryphal Climate Strategy document: [I] f the Heartland Institute can offer any specific criticism of the Climate Strategy or any evidence that it was faked and not, actually, written on Joe Bast's laptop, printed out and scanned, we would be pleased to consider that evidence.

Perhaps it's telling that Manifesto's best segments extol the virtues of conceptual art, in which, as Lewitt - via - Blanchett puts it, the idea behind the work is far more important that its execution, and artistic appropriation, via the (probably apocryphal) Godard dictum, «It's not where you take things from; it's where you take them to.»

Naturally the makers can not resist the apocryphal tale of Raleigh putting his cloak in the mud before the Queen, saying, «A puddle was in the way, your majesty.»

He doesn't so much have supporting players in the film as he does an extended family of cherished guests who he invites to stay for a while, relax and soak up the ambience: French it girl Léa Seydoux has a part as a maid which may as well be non-speaking; Owen Wilson plays one of M Gustave's concierge brethren and gets a line (if not a laugh); even Tilda Swinton makes a flying visit to Wesworld, caked in gristly prosthetics as an ageing dowager who drops dead after her first and only scene, her passing acting as deus ex machina for an elaborate art heist involving the whereabouts of the apocryphal, priceless chef d'oeuvre, «Boy With Apple».

As I note in my new book, The Same Thing Over and Over: How School Reformers Get Stuck in Yesterday's Ideas, apocryphal or not, this line is a devastating assessment of a half century's worth of school reform.

Despite contacting the CRP, the study's original authors, and the Goldwater Institute which published the original report, we have not been able to obtain a copy of this apocryphal report and are thus unable to verify the specific claims made.

Apocryphal reports indicate that this size of tire will not scrape in the wheel wells.

Morris's ebullience permeates the tale (possibly apocryphal) of his assurance to Hamilton that the great Washington was not so austere as often thought.

My first draft was pretty much a travelogue — Eddie wandering around East Carmine and being introduced to Technological Leapbacks, the Janitor, the Apocryphal man, the lack of spoons, Mildew, barcodes, the Fallen Man, the Chromogencia evening, High Saffron, the Caravaggio and Violet deMauve — not to mention the linoleum factory.

Giotto got the gig and, apocryphal or not, his feat still stands some 700 years later as the litmus test for artistic achievement.

Some people think of Hershman Leeson entirely as a film - maker, so it's terrific to see her early paintings, photographs, photo collages — her apocryphal affair with Elvis: «Photos make things so real, don't they!»

Notice that Mr. Sullivan does not provide a link to Mr. Rice's apocryphal statement.

Because of this, is the probably apocryphal story of the apple hitting Newton on the head proof that gravity isn't science?

«My book is a politics essay, and not a science book — so the errors pointed out are not important» (apocryphal traduction, I can try and translate his whole answer if RC wishes).

I think following story isn't entirely apocryphal, though I don't now recall who told me about it.

Created not from Adam's rib but, like him, from the dust, Lilith was Adam's first wife, according to apocryphal Jewish lore.

Although the story of an apple falling on Sir Isaac Newton's head might be apocryphal, the tree itself is not: the apple tree in question is still alive and well outside Newton's family home, Woolsthorpe Manor, in the English county of Lincolnshire.

Rumors of different stripes have swirled around Silicon Valley that teeter perfectly between plausible and apocryphal: The time Son supposedly quintupled the valuation offered by a blue - chip venture fund (dubious); the time Son overruled his diligence team that advised him against a deal that he couldn't let go (believable); or the times Son fantastically spoke of a larger second fund even though he was just beginning to spend from the first (confirmed).

«It's like King Canute trying to tell the tide not to come in,» McIlwain said, referencing an apocryphal legend associated with a Danish king.»