Sentences with phrase «about good character»

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But in the sentencing, Superior Court Judge James Downs found that Diez's military service, along with testimony from former colleagues about his good character, were mitigating factors, and chose to sentence him to 15 - 27 months instead.

Now she is talking not about good science, but rather about good character.

Not exact matches

«Going into this process, I expected tough questions about how to best care for our veterans, but I did not expect to have to dignify baseless and anonymous attacks on my character and integrity,» Jackson said in a statement.

In the end, understanding the world is about understanding people, and fiction gives you the best, most nuanced, most varied human stories and character portrayals.

The other thing we identified about the Metatag was that Best in Class made use of the 67 to 70 character limit whereas the Industry Average did not.

Cantaloupes imprinted with the face of the popular Sanrio character are currently being grown in Furano, Hokkaido, one of Japan's best regions for growing the fruit, according to Rocket News 24 The Hello Kitty Furano melons weigh about four pounds, and with only 300 being sold, they will be priced at 5,500 yen, or just over $ 50.

«In addition to my well known differences with Donald Trump on public policy issues, I have raised questions about his character after his comments on Prisoners of War, the Khan Gold Star family, Judge Curiel and earlier inappropriate comments about women.

McDormand, Rockwell, and Woody Harrelson are so good in Three Billboards that I think a lot of voters have totally forgotten the less successful aspects of the movie: How every white character is immensely colorful but every black one is a cipher, that whole thing about Woody Harrelson's big dick (stop!

For much of his career, he wrote bitterly satirical novels about well - off Londoners; even when the prospect of nuclear catastrophe arises, as it does in London Fields (1989), Amis seems to treat «The Crisis,» the coming «horrorday,» primarily as a vehicle for revealing the largely unpleasant traits of his handful of main characters.

In fact, that this election became less about conflicting ideas for achieving the same goal (the common good of Americans) and more about making sure everyone knows your opponents» deep character flaws is axiomatic.

His characters always seem to come to life and often are making choices about good and evil.

If you wish to put a white hat on him (or a halo), and spin things and fantasize about this character's loveliness to make yourself feel good, go ahead - I think it's silly and dishonest.

This one tells about Mitt's good character (like willingness to drop his regular business affairs to help search for the daughter of the coworker, sounds like he ate the costs of paying several employees to have them aid in the search), and the other side of the spectrum of how at least one Mormon woman felt that Mitt had offended her.

But still: It's hard to diss a movie that displays so much of what's undeniably good about Amy Adams and Jennifer Lawrence — two attractive and fascinating characters.

It's about learning proper skills, character development and a good moral compass.»

Well then I have to hope that «god» is a loving god and not the Christian god that care more about being worshiped than the character of his subjects.

Or does what I read about you better better inform me about your character than my relationship with you?

My wife believes him and trusts him and she is a better judge of character than I. [When she met Mark Driscoll in 1997 she said he was a «future cult - leader» and she was never happy about me hanging out with the Young Leaders Group.]

That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll

The person has not fared especially well at the hands of modern attempts to write about history, which have generally sought to locate historical explanations in the workings of large structures, impersonal forces, and social groups rather than the vagaries and razor - edged contingencies of individual character and agency.

Or perhaps like the poor gullible fool you are, you just accept things on faith knowing that nothing was written about this character until 30 - 40 years after death and knowing that stories told like that so many years after could very well hold little accuracy.

It is not necessary to say much about culture in the sense of «polish» or good manners, except that this is an important asset to Christian character and a dangerous substitute for it.

I now understand better the conservative character and structure of the church, having been working within it (or at its edges) as a priest for about 16 years.

In children's television, self - consciousness about heroism can be reflected in the show as a whole, as well as in individual characters.

For almost two full seasons, the main characters were striving to make it to the Good Place, but their strivings were rooted in a legalism that kept them in a self - centered mode of thinking: This journey toward goodness is about me and my reward.

Although we do not know much about their character, God seemed to think that they represented everything that was good and worth saving about creation.

Just adding courses won't do, Theological Literacy for the Twenty - First Century makes clear that thinking about the character of theological literacy leads to good ideas for too many courses to fit into even an expanded seminary program.

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.

The character of Isaac is hardly sufficiently drawn to return an impression of independence; or perhaps it would be better to say that the stories about Isaac appear more as a link between the Abraham and Jacob cycles than as an independent unit of stories.

Hereâ $ ™ s some of the things that grabbed me: important theological / spiritual themes are developed through the story such as good and evil, leadership, courage, love, forgiveness, and unity; good character development; convincing geographical descriptions; it does feel like the same kind of worlds Tolkien, Charles Williams and C. S. Lewis wrote about.

Well that is something about character but at the same time I would vote for an Atheist if he or she could lower unemployment, keep our military strong, and educate our kids.

When people use their religion as a cloak of immunity which they feel gives them the right to spread lies about another person's character, well that is just wrong.

It is about believing in something better than ourselves helping us in our lives, knowing spirituality (totally different than religion), being humble (after experiencing humiliation) and daily addressing our character defects and the wrong we have done upon others.

And what's so bad about having multiple spouses — it was good enough for many of characters in The Babble.

Subject to constant comparisons to predecessors Breaking Bad and Weeds, Good Girls attempts to ask similar questions about morality, deceit and greed, but fails to interest us beyond the shallow circumstances of the characters, ultimately diminishing its value.

We never learn much about her history, save for a few significant bombshells down the road, yet she feels a good deal more dimensional than about 95 % of characters in film history.

Parables, which are not stories about historical characters or about empirically descriptive events, have similar power, and for a very good reason.

However, the fact that we can't know everything about God should not lead to the conclusion that we can't know anything about God and therefore shouldn't try to understand his character and his world better.

A good example: I've been playing a videogame of late with a combination Greek / fantasy pantheon in which the player - character is a very faithful servant of a particular goddess, knows other gods exist (because killing them / beating them up is the main plot of the game), and winds up with an ally who can clearly see that the gods exist but only cares about following himself — so there's a mix there of misotheism with a few of the gods (they are there, but they're evil), faithful worship (serving a good goddess), and nay theism («You gods are selfish jerks, I'm going my own way!»).

Nor can we think very well about the idea of success without some of Aristotle's vocabulary of virtue and character.

That's one of the joys of the franchise: prequels notwithstanding, they're a deliciously simple story — it's about good against evil, an underdog upsetting the odds, a final shot at redemption for a corrupt character... It's a story we want to inhabit and make real in our lives.

This is Greek historical writing at its concise best, elaborating the facts simply whilst working in a wealth of information about all the characters involved.

If Christians accept that God has ordained our democracy, we then desire to possess a character of civic engagement that reflects this fact, driving us to learn about our society and to consider in prayer the best course for our nation.

doubtful jesus ever lived, no good evidence if he ever did live, he didn't do any magic tricks from the bible, he was just a cult leader the fictional character of jesus said some great things about love, but also supported slavery and other awful things

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.

But he sees this as a problem, and so he must be metaphysical as well as phenomenalistic about it — he wants a view of why a later stage in a process should carry forward a character inherited from an earlier stage.

The point, rather, is that belief in the divinity of Jesus does not settle the question of Christianity and other religions, and it raises again questions about the truthfulness, or (better) the literary character, of the Gospels.