Sentences with phrase «about as cursed»

Verlaine himself happened to be about as cursed as they come: alcoholic, wife beater, child abuser, jailbird, syphilitic, down - and - outer.

Not exact matches

I love hearing about girls who save their brothers from curses and trick the villain to get to their happy endings, and I appreciate fairy tales even more as I get older.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

I don't know how you are doing now or if you will ever see this, but I experienced two weeks of hell, mentally and spiritually, as a demon brought that blaspheming the Holy Spirit passage up in my mind and forced a cursing thought about the Holy Spirit into my mind over and over again.

Well, I guess if they are going to throw 4 gospels in the trash «coz the Jews cry about «The Blood Curse» and want to make believe to make it go away, might as well go around edit out anything else inconvenient... Yeah, let's get poor St Simon of Trent and throw that statue in the trash... It used to be «What PART of HIS BLOOD be upon us and our Children's Children's Children until the END of TIME don't you understand!?

This man used to be a Christian, but rejected it all about twenty years ago, and now lives as a pot - smoking, cursing, swinging spiritist.

Incidentally it was hand in hand with relgious tolerance, as many city states had their own gods, and while everyone liked their own gods best, they didn't generally go about killing and cursing everyone else just becase they prefered Apollo to Athena.

One of my favorite theologians put it this way: Jesus «dies as a criminal, under the curse of the Law — as if to say, «Look, I'm as guilty as you are in this situation because I set it up in the first place; let's just forget about blame and get on with the party» (Capon, The Mystery of Christ, 34).

Unlike the Christian god that wouldn't ever change his mind or doctrine... except for cursing the world for eating an apple... except for telling Abraham to sacrifice his son, but then stopping him... and except for killing nearly all life on Earth and then because of the guilt says I'll never to do that ever again - in exactly that way... and except for deciding that 2 of himself (Father and Spirit) weren't enough any more, and creating / fathering / spiriting as Son... and except for forgiving all sin, when «In the beginning» he had cursed the universe for the eating of an apple, by having his creation torture and kill his only begotten Son... and except for having to repeat himself about the unchanging eternal rules, to Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Saul / Paul, Mohammed, Joseph Smith, Bahá «u «lláh, David Koresh, and a whole host of others... and except for... and except for...

I've known Jesus for as long as I've known my name, and still I use other people like capital to advance my own interest, still I gossip to make myself feel important, still I curse my brothers and sisters in one breath and sing praise songs in the next, still I sit in church with arms folded and cynicism coursing through my bloodstream, still I talk a big game about caring for the poor without doing much to change my own habits, still I indulge in food I'm not hungry for and jewelry I don't need, still I obsess over what people say about me on the internet, still I forget my own privilege, still I talk more than I listen and complain more than I thank, still I commit acts of evil, still I make a great commenter on Christianity and a lousy practitioner of it.

Even today when pressures such as «outing» seek to enforce a gay identity on all homosexuals, many of them take the view that homosexuality is just one facet of their identity - whether an advantage, or a curse, or simply a slightly awkward fact about themselves - which has little bearing on the rest of their lives outside the bedroom.

We told thee that thy Lord doth encompass mankind round about: We granted the Vision which We showed thee, but as a trial for men as also the Cursed Tree (mentioned) in the Qur «an: We put terror (and warning) into them, but it only increases their inordinate transgression!

One of my favorite theologians put it this way: Jesus «dies as a criminal, under the curse of the Law — as if to say, «Look, I'm as guilty as you are in this situation because I set it up in the first place; let's just forget about blame and get on with the party;» (Capon, Mystery of Christ, 34).

Gen. 3 describes the serpent (nahash in Hebrew) in very un-Satanic-like terms, as «more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made,» and also curses it like a wild animal, stating that it will be cursed «above all livestock and all wild animals,» and also speaks about it «crawling on its belly and eating dust all the days of its life.»

Austin and I are usually cursed with terrible service because it seems as though people feel like all they have to do is show up for work and get paid and not worry about anyone else.

Philadelphia, PA About Blog Instead of diabetes being perceived as a weakness or a curse, diabetes can actually be a great source of strength if we choose to let it.

Even the day before yesterday this is what I exactly told my friend -LRB--LRB-(I'm tired of watching Ozil on the flank as he is struggling a lot & I wish him to get injured)-RRB--RRB- For me Ozil's injury is a blessing in curse we all were complaining & blaming Wenger about the formation; players selection & for using players out of position now this all problems are going to be solved thanks to Ozil's injury.

They care nothing about the club or football in general and are of course looking after their own interests as is most man's curse.

The same was being said about Ramsey, he was rubbish 2 seasons ago and we all wanted him out, no one could stand Ramsey, but Wenger as always stuck by him, accommodated him even though we were all cursing him the same we you lot are disrespecting Wilshere..

There will be plenty of reasonable suggestions put forward as to why this might be — from subtle points about counter-pressing and team shape and the difficulty of translating club systems over to the international game, to snarky ones about Theo Walcott being no Erik Lamela — but ultimately everybody will realise, even if they don't vocalise, that the England shirt is a cursed object that destroys every beautiful thing that it touches.

listen to «In sickness and in health» on audioBoom The Arsenal injury curse strikes as an ill Sam Limbert and an ill James Bale are joined by Rob Starr to talk about Arsenal's defeat to Chelsea, Wenger v Mourinho, internationals and Arsenal's injuries.

Anthony Hudson is the head coach of the New Zealand national football team and he talked about the approaching challenge of not only making it past their group stages curse but also making a memorable campaign as the 36 year old American manager said: «We want to -LSB-...]

But the leader of the GFP in denial of the story making rounds in the media said:» the person behind this mischief would be drowned for peddling such untruth about me; some people don't respect at all, hence the curses will serve as a deterrent to them,» Akua Donkor told a local Journalist in the Brong Ahafo region.

Diabetes Dominator by Daniele Hargenrader About - Instead of diabetes being perceived as a weakness or a curse, diabetes can actually be a great source of strength if we choose to let it.

Philadelphia, PA About Blog Instead of diabetes being perceived as a weakness or a curse, diabetes can actually be a great source of strength if we choose to let it.

Just yesterday I found my old photos of when I was a small blonde baby, I was about four years and, over the odious hairstyle (I remember it like it was yesterday) and I remembered those very tender (as most hated) dresses in pink toulle that mom slipped me for any event, they were a real curse: itchy and prevented me from playing football like I wanted to do (yes, I was a real tomboy!).

and some other concerns... as we talked about the election and at my opinion he used fowl lanuage to curse at me..

Some ladies think about age as a blessing whereas others call it a curse.

But I digress fire emblem fates gameplay is the best of awakenings and the past games combined into one and as a long time fan of the series I would actually say play revelation and ignore the rest... But you'd be missing out on 2/3 of gameplay that you didn't play but (Mild Spoiler) I can't stand the plot miguffin they use for Azuras reason for not telling anyone about the kingdom, curse?

In an interview with RogerEbert.com, Hauer talked about his long career as an international star, playing everything from a replicant in «Blade Runner» to a cursed knight in «Ladyhawke.»

Escape Dead Island has a fairly liberal checkpoint system though, so I never found myself with too much time lost, and certainly not as much time lost as some of the unbalanced later encounters in the game that were only beaten through enemies getting stuck, about 45 rounds of shotgun ammo fired wildly in no certain direction, and perhaps my wife doing some kind of voodoo magic so that I would stop cursing at the TV.

Characters drop in and out of the story with no explanation (Emmy Rossum is terribly underused as Lena's dark Caster cousin) and there's so much babble about destinies, curses and rules that it becomes a jumbled mess of boring exposition.

Miyazaki's magnum opus, a bittersweet biopic about the cursed dreams of Zero fighter - plane designer Jiro Horikoshi, has been read as something of a self - portrait, but The Kingdom Of Dreams And Madness suggests that we don't know the half of it.

Billy immediately starts losing weight at incredible speed to the point of illness, and, as white men have done for centuries, sets about exterminating the family of the old traveller to force him to lift the curse.

It's rare enough to see a Hollywood movie about grown - ups, but it's even rarer still to see one from Gore Verbinski, the director behind such disparate popcorn - munchers as The Mexican (2001), The Ring (2002) and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003).

Then, perhaps because of their powers, which are sometimes a curse as well as a blessing, they can do something about it.

Maybe you can take this as minor commentary about how the «normal» characters» excessively - masculinized relationships are no less screwed - up than the Farmer's efforts to play house with his victims (the appearance of the latter forcing the two brothers to mend old wounds), but you have no choice except to abandon such thoughts the moment Tracey's curse - laden diatribes are cut short by a shovel crammed into her mouth — which really has nothing on its mind besides «that oughta shut the bitch up.»

Before getting into how spectacular the action sequences truly are (and trust me, they save the blockbuster from plundering to the bottom of the ocean), it must be said that Oscar - nominated Kon - Tiki directors Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg have no idea whose story the movie should actually belong to, starting out as Henry Turner's (Brenton Thwaites) quest to free his cursed father at sea Will Turner (Orlando Bloom in a glorified cameo along with Keira Knightley as his partner Elizabeth Swann) to locate the Trident of Poseidon subsequently lifting that curse, and while the ultimate goal of the movie for all characters is finding said artifact for different reasons, by the end it's hard to fault the audience if they have forgotten all about that plot element and are just living in the moment of Jack Sparrow and company battling an army of decomposing, undead ghost pirates led by Captain Salazar.

Made by Canadian filmmaker Adam MacDonald (Backcountry), the occult nightmare film is about a girl who puts a curse on her mother for fun, but it suddenly becomes all too real as an evil presence known as Pyewacket begins to make itself known, tormenting both of them.

With new polish and content, such as brand new party members, this version of Journey of the Cursed King is sure to please fans and give those who may have missed its 2005 original release a chance to see what all the fuss is about.

Zelda U info, such as Storyline, Boss Fights, and possible extra mode where you play as a brand new protagonist PaD: SME info, such as new characters and storyline Confirming the Paper Mario 5 rumor, confirming the return of partners and a post-game storyline Pokemon Delta Emerald or Gen. 7 confirmation, or Battle Frontier DLC Mario Maker new playable characters and art styles, as well as level styles (even though there probably is) Kirby and the Rainbow Curse info, maybe talkong about new characters / storyline featuring Bandanna Dee or King Dedede Info on the rumored «Mario Movie» Stuff about Projects Giant Robot and Codename STEAM And some more stuff I probably don't care about much, like Xenoblade or StarFox

This is evident almost immediately, as the film tells its one joke (these medieval people talk like modern people and also they curse a lot) before it establishes anything else about the world it's proposing.

Two days into the Venice Film Festival, and still the only film I consistently hear people talking about is «Black Swan» — even as the film accrues its share of detractors, it seems Venice fest director Marco Müller has broken the traditional curse of festival curtain - raisers, kicking off this year's Lido activity with a film -LSB-...]

Whilst many have already given credit to the originality of the central plot about a curse being passed on by having sex, let us not forget the works of directors such as David Cronenberg and, if you want to go even more bizarre, Frank Henenlotter, who have both made films involving the distortion of sex and the idea of sex being the conduit for bad things to happen, And granted, the actual threat in It Follows is a supernatural one rather than one of the body turning on itself, but how many curse movies have there been since Ringu convinced us all that video tapes were credible vessels for evil beings from other dimensions to cross over and kill us?

In Ghana, where Wife of the Gods is set, many people believe that spells, curses, witchcraft and the power of various gods can bring about misfortune - disease, suffering, and as in this story, murder.

«The Curse of the Wendigo,» a story about a mysterious creature set during World War I, written by Mathieu Missoffe and illustrated by Charlie Adlard, the artist of «The Walking Dead;» «Josephine,» a romantic comedy by Penelope Bagieu, the creator of «Exquisite Corpse;» «Promethee,» a science - fiction story in the same vein as «Lost,» created by Christopher Bec, with an introduction by Mark Waid; «Iron Squad,» an alternate history sci - fi story in which new technology allows the Germans to win World War II, by Jean - Luc Sala and Ronan Toulhoat; «Spin Angels,» a tale of black ops and spies, a Catholic cardinal and the Mafia, by Jean - Luc Sala and Pierre - Mony Chan; «Come Prima,» a road story about two warring brothers, done in a style that pays homage to Italian films, by Alfred.

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Monumental's website says that they can't reveal the franchise they're working on yet, which basically backs up the Mega Man theory completely: they're working on a franchise and Mega Man is the only one all of us have gone to sleep dreaming about as an MMO; cuddled up with our Mega Man plush, cursing Dr. Wiley's name as we steadily fall asleep hoping that some day the blue bomber will sweep us up in his arms and... where was I?

As far as my memory calls back, the only meme moment of 2015 in NoE was when the Germany branch posted about the «Giant Enemy Crab» in Kirby and the Rainbow Curse, haAs far as my memory calls back, the only meme moment of 2015 in NoE was when the Germany branch posted about the «Giant Enemy Crab» in Kirby and the Rainbow Curse, haas my memory calls back, the only meme moment of 2015 in NoE was when the Germany branch posted about the «Giant Enemy Crab» in Kirby and the Rainbow Curse, haha

As far as progression goes, Pirate's Curse changed a few things about the formula, mainly creating spell «items» you can use instead of an MP pool, since Shantae is a full - blooded human in this game, rather than a magical genie capable of using magiAs far as progression goes, Pirate's Curse changed a few things about the formula, mainly creating spell «items» you can use instead of an MP pool, since Shantae is a full - blooded human in this game, rather than a magical genie capable of using magias progression goes, Pirate's Curse changed a few things about the formula, mainly creating spell «items» you can use instead of an MP pool, since Shantae is a full - blooded human in this game, rather than a magical genie capable of using magic.