Sentences with phrase «about each character by»

We know just as little about these characters by the end of the film as we do the first moment they are introduced.

Not exact matches

«It's not what Mark had in his head initially, and that's why he's spoken very openly about his being caught off guard by the script and where the character ends up,» Johnson said.

Viewers may be inspired to become doctors by watching their favourite television characters, or develop ideas about how doctors should behave and present themselves to patients.

I recently had the opportunity to interview Ms. Huffington about the sleep crisis and a world where you can sleep your way to the top and you won't be looked at as an unsavory character, where you're encouraged by management to snooze at work, and where sleeping longer will earn you a cash reward from your employer.

Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

The «awful» scene of the blood eagle in season two was not a cynical attempt to shock the audience: It was about the character's attempt to enter Valhalla by not showing his pain and suffering.

You can tell a lot about the candidate's character by how he responds.

We won't spoil much about the character if you haven't seen the film, but the droid, masterfully played by Marvel veteran Paul Bettany, steals just about every scene in which he appears.

Lions Gate Entertainment (No. 54) has had box office success with two major franchises: The Twilight series (produced by Summit Entertainment, a Lions Gate subsidiary) and Hunger Games, which have much in common as they are both film adaptations of bestselling young adult book series, are fantastical (one is about vampires and the other about a futuristic dystopia), and are anchored by a dynamic young female character (portrayed by Kristen Stewart in Twilight, Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games).

How much more time would she spend thinking about a comic character who was having their seat banged by an obnoxious ghoul playing with a tray table behind them?

I quite often treat this blog like a diary, so sometimes I'll stray away from talking about my personal finance and share my current thoughts, I'll be excited to go back and read some old post when the years go by, and it will help me reflect on the overall journey that has been experienced, because as great as the end goal of early retirement is, I would imagine the character developed through such a process has more then just monetary value.

The intense antagonism between Jews, Christians, and Muslims is explained by the fact that they share the same characters but tell different stories about them.

When Jews and Christians have something in common to say to the world, especially when that message is not one that simply promotes some issue of immediate benefit to the communities themselves, secularist stereotypes about the necessarily antagonistic character of religious public discourse fall by the wayside.

If you are concerned about Muslims — or anybody else — not being willing to abide by American principles and the Constitution, is there anything else we can do to prevent this, beyond the Draconian and character - destroying (our character and theirs) discussion of deportation or internment camps.

This is a sadly misguided piece of propaganda by the s c u m b a g producers of this b l a s p h e m o u s P.O.S.. On top of character assassination, they have the gall to lie about it, when the evidence against them is d a m n i n g!

Yet, we have to listen to prayers about a mythological character made up by «their» religion.

I'm starting every day by writing down five things I am thankful for and five things I know to be true about God's character.

We know a great deal today about how our thinking is conditioned by culture, gender, and class interest, and is thoroughly perspectival in character, and we become rightly suspicious of every claim to truth that does not acknowledge its own conditionedness and relativity.

Much of the energy that goes into reflection about the Christian tradition in general, and Christology in particular, is generated by awareness of its oppressive character.

Infuriated by the moral decadence he finds about him, Lancelot Andrewes Lamar determines to create a stern new morality of his own, a revived courtly righteousness which will put an end to the American baboon colony, as he calls it, where men and women cohabit as indiscriminately as characters in a soap opera.

By that he meant that, had the founding happened before about 1770 or after 1805, the controlling texts of our constitutional order would have been much more explicitly Christian in character.

We then have a major section on Ayesha, who is later impersonated by one of the prostitutes, the whores of «The Curtain,» and from that impersonation the reader is given full details of Ayesha's strong - willed character, and the scandal involving her and an apparently innocent young man, Safwan, who rescues her on a desert trail only for idle tongues to wag about their alleged secret conduct.

Thus, while strictly speaking, the conjunction of a contingent statement — that oppression is real — with a metaphysically necessary statement — that God is G - of - A — yields what is technically another contingent statement — that God is G - of - O; there is a certain undeniable ineluctability about the truth that if oppression is real, then God can not fail to be G - of - O, which compels me to indicate its ineluctable character by saying that it is «restrictive yet necessary» (and here necessary does not mean metaphysical necessity).

By taking on complex characters who don't easily fit any predetermined bubble, Plaza is helping the rest of us feel better about our own lack of labels.

The possibility of radically different behavior due to completely novel characters or circumstances is taken into account by the very fact that any predictions about the future are regarded as at best probable.

While we certainly need to be careful about putting theologians like Bonhoeffer on too high of pedestals, I still feel as though there are things about him that are both commendable and, if repeated by modern Christians, could help shape our collective character for the better.

She is delicate (like a barracuda) in her maneuvers around the third main character in Leaf's drama, a graduate student who is writing her dissertation about the moment in 1973 when Margolies lost an election for the presidency of a national feminist association to a rival supported by Feinberg.

Whitehead's teleology is then descriptive of the event's process of actualization; it says nothing about the event as striving to give rise to a specific character determined beforehand by its essential nature (PW 188/207), nor is it in conflict with physical determinism (PW 206/226).

Rorty's liberal ironist sees persons and cultures as «incarnated vocabularies» and tries to resolve her doubts about her own character or her own culture by enlarging her acquaintance of other people and cultures.

Nowadays, I listen to a couple of pastors online once in awhile, and many of the books I read are by former «church pastors,» who had the same type of revelation about the character of God that I had.

He is passionate about helping people break - free from religious oppression by writing about the true character of God, love.

A lesser film would have opened by loading her with backstory about her royal heritage, her home planet and her ties to the Rebel Alliance (in fact, the lesser prequels committed just such errors with their own characters.)

Instead of believing with Hartshorne that man's convictions about the ultimate character of reality can and should be determined by allegedly neutral logical principles, the understanding here being argued is that man's thinking about God is and should be governed by a vision emerging in the context of faith, a vision that is itself decisively conditioned by its rootage in history and in the prereflective levels of consciousness.

Austen wants our judgments about her characters to be shaped by the principles they display, not by their ability to charm.

Anyway, the beautiful thing about The Trail by Ed Underwood is that he takes two of the more common approaches to finding God's will and incarnates them into two of the main characters in his book, Matt and Brenda.

Luke had been at pains to make clear that the risen Jesus was no otherworldly spirit but a physical form with flesh and bones, 42 who consequently presented his disciples with infallible proofs.41 The risen Christ came to be regarded as having conducted a fresh ministry with his disciples, and in these forty days he «taught them about the kingdom of God».41 But since the experience of the risen Christ was not of this character at the end of the century when Acts was written, it had to be made clear that this kind of experience was brought to an end by a new event, the Ascension.

The principal points Paul made in that address are (1) to recall to their minds the character and quality of his ministry to them; (2) to remind them of the trouble the Jews gave him and the anxiety and suffering he underwent in their behalf; (3) to state that he preached repentance and faith in Jesus Christ as the essence of the gospel; (4) to testify that he went now to Jerusalem not knowing what would happen to him there except that he knew by the Holy Spirit that afflictions awaited him; (5) to assure them that nothing concerned him, not even the loss of life itself, so long as he could testify to the grace of God in Jesus Christ; (6) to say that he had no regrets about his ministry to the people in Ephesus, for he was clean of the blood of all the people there, for he preached the full gospel to all of them; and (7) to admonish them to be diligent in their oversight of the Ephesian church and to feed the church of God there, which Christ purchased with his own blood.

In the Joseph story in Genesis, God brings about his purposes by working within the network of human causes; God never becomes a character within the story with whom other characters interact.

As silly as this article is, my 4th grader's public school recently pulled «Superfudge», a book by Judy Bloom, out of the curriculum because the characters talk about the fact that Santa isn't real.

During the movie, Tom Cruise's roguish persona keeps the character basically likable and worth investing in, but by the end, it's clear that Liman has something different to say about the American Dream and how many of us can be just as easily swayed by the perks of moral relativism.

Anything else ever written about your storybook character jesus was written by people in the same deluded cult as you are.

The formal designation can be made easily enough: When we refer to «Jesus Christ,» we are referring to the historical reality about which we were thinking in the preceding chapter — the reality from which the Christian community took its beginning and by which the continuing character of that community has been determined, the reality in and through which the revelation of God, known within the church, took place.

From clueless bosses to wacky neighbors, One Day at a Time hits refresh on your usual sitcom character tropes by bringing a distinctive familiarity as the cast uses their synergy to deliver their scripts and convince audiences that they do in fact care about one another and the journey they're all on together.

The change of properties does not affect this qualified eternity, or does so only when the thing little by little loses its essential attributes, hence when the change of attributes, whether they be essential or unessential, brings about an essential change in the thing and thus amounts to an essential change of its character.

That Rush predictably blew a gasket by pontificating about CBS's motives for hiring Colbert, who already stated he is not bringing the character portrays to «Late Night», is indicative of his tendency to make mountains out of molehills.

Consequently, the kinds of problems raised by what the Bible says about the character of God or the world or his will for man must be faced openly, without fear or sense of guilt.

However that may be, I do not intend to avoid the «stumbling - block» by minimizing what I have said about the provisional and still imperfect character of this state.

In The Art of Biblical Narrative, Robert Alter suggests a key to characters» inner thoughts and motivations which would be helpful even to the inexperienced reader of Scripture: first, external details (appearance, clothing, gestures); second, «one character's comments on another»; third, «direct speech by the character»; fourth, «inward speech... quoted as interior monologue»; and fifth, «statements by the narrator about the attitudes and intentions of the personages» (pp.116 - 117).

I am convinced that a good deal of talk about prayer is vitiated by the assumption that God is an intolerant, indeed we might say an intolerable, tyrant who must be cajoled rather than addressed; and this is tied in with a picture of his nature or character that is fundamentally unchristian or subchristian, even if many Christian thinkers have fallen victim to it.

(Example: Benjamin Constant was often marveled at as an extraordinary instance of superior intelligence with inferior character, He writes [Journal, Paris, 1895, p. 56]-RRB-, «I am tossed and dragged about by my miserable weakness.