Sentences with phrase «about facing death»

After the moody, atmospheric Majora's Mask, a game primarily about facing death and loss, the cutesy, cartoonish art style for Wind Waker left a large part of the Zelda community feeling that Nintendo was taking the franchise in the wrong direction.

It's dark and tragic, and lets the business of the greedy talent agents get in the way of saying something meaningful about facing death

Yet now in 2:2 Jonah seems anxious and distressed about facing death.

Not exact matches

The series of hearings will determine whether he faces life in prison or the death penalty, a decision to be made after family and friends testify to judge and jury about their interactions with the mystery man.

Both Harry and William also spoke about the challenges they have faced since their mother's death.

Others have talked openly about the enormous pressure they feel to maintain rigorous publishing schedules, even while facing personal challenges like illness, newborns, even death and divorce.

She shared a recent conversation she had with Sheryl Sandberg about her new book Option B, in which the Facebook COO writes about resilience in the face of her husband's sudden death.

I suffered a terrible car accident... during 3 weeks I almost died «many times»... Now I can read a beautiful article like this one and agree with it... Believe me... no matter your faith, your fortune or whatever you may be involved with... on the face of death if you are human you will only care about your loved ones... you will remember about the moments you were happy together and dream they happen again... you will remember your childhood like you were 7 again... you will ask forgiveness and try to show your love, no matter how hard you are... In the face of death we realize that nothing more then our family matters... For the professor, once his life of arrogance reaches an end, he will then understand what is the meaning of family...

So I doubt many will take her views seriously, since the fly in the face of what we have learned through the years about such Christians martyrs as Jim Elliot (speared to death by the Aucas and yet his son went back to be a missionary to them, because he LOVED them, something she might want to consider).

God has redeemed the crucifixion so that we now sing songs about it and listen to sermons about the horrible death of an innocent victim with smiles on our faces.

Flannery O'Connor's novel The Violent Bear It Away does suggest a more satisfactory relation for human beings between the ordinary and the transcendent though it is, on the face of it, a very strange one indeed.19 Her novel is about a fourteen - year - old boy, Francis Tarwater, who, after the death of his great - uncle, a self - proclaimed prophet, goes to his uncle Rayber in order to fulfill the Lord's «call» that he, Tarwater, baptize Rayber's young idiot son.

People today face complex problems, difficult decisions, and increasingly ambiguous choices about matters of life and death.

On another day, also about noon, Jesus will face death and again confess his thirst.

in the face of great evil, Christians talk about our greatest hope... namely Jesus (not just his ethics, but his life, death & resurrection... he did what we can't... he overcame where we fail... etc.).

It's just as likely, after all, to find yourself facing some other god than YHWH upon death, so why obsess about just him?

There are four affirmations about Jesus Christ that historically have been stressed in Christian faith: (1) Jesus is truly human, bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, living a human life under the same human conditions any one of us faces — thus Christology, statement of the significance of Jesus, must start «from below,» as many contemporary theologians are insisting; (2) Jesus is that one in whom God energizes in a supreme degree, with a decisive intensity; in traditional language he has been styled «the Incarnate Word of God»; (3) for our sake, to secure human wholeness of life as it moves onward toward fulfillment, Jesus not only lived among us but also was crucified for us — this is the point of talk about atonement wrought in and by him; (4) death was not the end for him, so it is not as if he never existed at all; in some way he triumphed over death, or was given victory over it, so that now and forever he is a reality in the life of God and effective among humankind.

Human personality and culture are inherently about the denial of death, about helping the human animal achieve day - to - day equanimity in the face of our existential burden and helping us manage our instinct for self - preservation in the face of a cognitive awareness that we are bound for death, that we can not run away or escape our fate.

In The Bible Tells Me So, Peter Enns attempts to present an approach to Scripture which allows for us to accept that it has historical and scientific errors and that it contradicts itself at various places, and yet still retain the Bible as an important witness to the theological and spiritual struggles which were faced by our forefathers in the faith, and more importantly, as a historical document about the life of Jesus and how the death and resurrection of Jesus resulted in the transformation of the first century mediterranean world.

If we agree, as surely we must, that the one inescapable and inevitable fact about every man and about the whole race of men is this death, we should also agree that it is in no sense morbid to face up to it and endeavor to come to terms with it.

In the face of his certain death he became fanatical about his belief in the afterlife and insisted that his family not be sad because he wasn't really dying but transferring to a better place.

But if and when you are faced with the issue of death, what are your thoughts about it?

The chaplain will accept the challenge Dr. Kübler - Ross has forcefully given him to stop and listen to the dying, but he will further face the prospect of ministering to patients who are not able to speak peacefully and calmly about death.

He was young, perhaps in his early forties, but his face bore the signs of great suffering; his voice was low but forceful, especially when he preached about the culture of death.

And he faced death with absolute certitude about the life to come.

we already faced and went through what many married couples go through being married for 40 to 50 years such as death of a parent, death of many family members from different things (most deaths they were 20 and 40 yrs old), gun voilence due to an adult not locking the gun away, the victims were 12 years old, a house fire that destroyed just about everything, car accident which resulted in surgery with 2 years unable to work, inlaws, rasing children, ect...)

You may not be aware of this, but at the moment, in the UK Stella Creasy and Caroline Criado Perez are facing threats of rape and death on Twitter for protesting that the only female face on UK banknotes, other than the Queen, was about to be replaced with yet another DWM.

The people who supported her delusions about the safety of homebirth, and in the face of the baby's DEATH continue to support are the ones responsible for her torment.

Because they still have poor head control and often experience flexion of the head while in a sitting position, infants younger than 1 month in sitting devices might be at increased risk of upper airway obstruction and oxygen desaturation.128, — , 132 In addition, there is increasing concern about injuries from falls resulting from car seats being placed on elevated surfaces.133, — , 137 An analysis of CPSC data revealed 15 suffocation deaths between 1990 and 1997 resulting from car seats overturning after being placed on a bed, mattress, or couch.136 The CPSC also warns about the suffocation hazard to infants, particularly those who are younger than 4 months, who are carried in infant sling carriers.138 When infant slings are used for carrying, it is important to ensure that the infant's head is up and above the fabric, the face is visible, and that the nose and mouth are clear of obstructions.

«People are getting pretty nervous about our candidates because (Trump is) in a death spiral here and nobody knows where the bottom is at,» said U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican who is close to many of his colleagues facing re-election.

«While Sen. Skelos has compassion for and is sympathetic to the plight of any individual facing such a serious illness that it could ultimately lead to their death, he has serious concerns about the potential dangers associated with this bill,» said Scott Reif, a spokesman for Skelos (below left).

It reveals that the AG's own staff is worried about flaws in Cuomo's controversial July 8 executive order that handed responsibility in cases of killings by police to Schneiderman — an ally of the Rev. Al Sharpton — in the face of intense political pressure from black Democrats that resulted from the tragic death of Garner and other cases involving police killings across the country.

As North American bats face a death toll approaching 7 million, University of Akron scientists reveal new clues about their killer, White Nose Syndrome, or WNS.

J. Wickwire and D. Bullitt, Addicted to danger: A memoir about affirming life in the face of death (Pocket Books, New York, 1998)

«The life - or - death public relations struggles facing businesses today are not about information, they are about power.»

Steve: Carson is obviously talking about the NFLs concussion crisis, the head trauma faced by players has been a subject of discussion for years now, but it really exploded into the public consciousness with the death of twelve - time Pro Bowler Junior Seau, who took his own life on May 2nd.

About 40 percent of older adults with pneumonia are hospitalized and face high rates of complications and death.

Los Angeles, United States About Blog Hope for Paws rescues animals who are suffering, facing death or extreme danger that nobody else are able to save.

There's a tender drama about reconciliation, growing old, and facing death wrestling the more commercial choir - contest story - line with the early scenes between Stamp and an unrecognizable Redgrave resembling a gentler take on «Amour».

And that's just what it is — something we live through with Georges, Anne, and the guilty, panicked, unaccepting Eva (Huppert), something horrific but beautiful, the decline into invalidity and death of a wife and mother throwing into very sharp relief the truth, the authenticity, and the inexhaustibility of her and her husband's love as he faces ever more painful choices about how to care for his wife, how to relieve her of her awful suffering, and how to let her go.

The 2018 Academy Award nominations also include another transgender entry in the Best Foreign Language Film category with the Chilean / German co-production, A Fantastic Woman, a film about a trans woman who faces transphobia while mourning her lover's death.

There's an election coming up, and he's about to star on the National Theatre stage in «Everyman», a fifteenth - century morality play about man's powerlessness in the face of death.

Time (Jacob Latimore) counsels Claire about the slowing of her body clock; Love (Keira Knightley) leads Whit to repair his relationship with an estranged daughter; Death (Helen Mirren) helps cancer - ridden Simon face the inevitable.

Perez's most spellbinding moment takes place in the middle of a crowded shopping mall, when her character, Carla, spots a mother holding a baby about the same age as her dead son and hovers over the child like a ghost, apparently unseen despite being inches away; the look on Perez's face communicates both intense longing and boundless wonder, as if she's simultaneously working through the reality of death and suddenly comprehending the miracle of life.

Two great films about the search for meaning in the face of death.

The World Cinema Audience Award: Documentary was presented to Senna, directed by Asif Kapadia; written by Manish Pandey, about legendary racing driver and Brazilian hero Ayrton Senna, taking us on the ultimate journey of what it means to become the greatest when faced with the constant possibility of death.

Morgan and Bernal embrace that bare - bones approach with physical performances that carry a surprising emotional weight; Bernal's panicked face, desperate to avoid death, is immediately engaging, while Morgan swaggers about like John Wayne in an anti-western, accompanied by a vicious dog.

The film's hero with a dozen faces is a young man (Wiley Wiggins of «Dazed and Confused») who wanders an urban dreamscape, encountering various guides and fellow sleepwalkers, most of whom have something to say about the meaning of life and the nature of death.

Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams and Kyle Chandler star in this emotionally overwhelming and critically acclaimed drama from writer - director Kenneth Lonergan (YOU CAN COUNT ON ME, MARGARET), about a reclusive handyman who must face his painful past when he returns to his Massachusetts hometown after the sudden death of his beloved older brother.

It's in this hand - off from one tone to another where Macdonald fumbles the ball, as he hasn't given us enough of an emotional connection between the characters in order to feel for their plight, or even care about Daisy's newfound romance, before they're all thrust into danger and having to propel themselves forward out of a sense of love that we feel is shallow and, in a real world sense, would likely have been forgotten in the face of the death and destruction that surrounds them.

Zach Braff stays on comfortable turf in this dramedy about a man facing the inevitability of death.