Sentences with phrase «about outcasts»

With Boy Meets Boy, he basically set out to write the book that he dreamed of getting as an editor - a book about gay teens that doesn't conform to the old norms about gay teens in literature (i.e. it has to be about a gay uncle, or a teen who gets beaten up for being gay, or about outcasts who come out and find they're still outcasts, albeit outcasts with their outcastedness in common.)
this novel is also about the outcasts of our society, sex offenders, and where do they go after prison and what does society do about them.
There's something hilarious and twisted about outcasts running a school and turning out to be as much idiots as the typically popular kids.
Thankfully, Peculiar Children is all about outcasts banding together.
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger wants his players to earn his trust, and in recent reports he has spoken about outcast midfielder Jack Wilshere.
The Babysitter · October 13, 2017 · Directed by McG · The latest offering from the director of Charlie's Angels takes an almost perverse pleasure in serving bullies a dose of their own medicine in a violent, profane and generally antagonistic tale about an outcast teen who learns a shocking truth about his babysitter.
Now traditionally published by St. Martin's Press, Song of Blood and Stone is a treacherous, thrilling, epic fantasy about an outcast drawn into a war between two powerful rulers.

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In order to maintain a cohesive team, do not spread gossip, cause another to feel like an outcast, or grumble about petty things.
Jesus didn't care about tattoos, he hung out with all the outcasts of the day, loved them all, and saved us all.
Such case I am asking you, America to learn the truth about Islam and not blame it for the Outcasted groups own doings for which a whole religion should not be blamed wether it is Muslims or Christians or Jews or any.
At church that Sunday, we joked about God taking an interest in the games on that day, after talking about the interest He takes in the weak, the disabled, the poor, the beaten, the outcast.
She left a life of ease and generously gave her resources to an itinerant preacher who taught her about loving the poor and outcast.
New converts were able to scrutinize Western imperialism in the light of what they learned in the gospel about God's unalloyed love and favor toward the oppressed, the lowly and the outcast.
It is all about Steve, If he were about Jesus he wouldn't be arguing here, He would out helping the poor, outcasts, visiting prisoners, making arrangements to take orphans, single moms, into his home, giving all his extra money to people who need it etc..
In Cinemax's Outcast, which, you guessed it, is based on a comic by Robert Kirkman, is about a minister (along with another protagonist) and, you guessed it, strange encounters with demonic possession.
I lean towards the third view... but I admit it is the most difficult of the three views... Christ's priorities appear to be «love in motion» flowing in almost unpredictable directions as dictated by the greatest need: — He heals a slave rather than rebukes slavery; — He heals a man at a pool, then leads the man to belief, then says «cease from sinning»; — He heals many others and says «go and sin no more» to but a few; — He shares money with the poor but establishes no long - term aid; — He touches lepers; He converses with seeking Pharisees; He debates with other Pharisees; He lives with Samaritan outcasts for two days; — He acknowledges the five «marriages» of the Samaritan woman as «marriages»... and then remarks about her current co-habitation... but then moves to higher priorities; — He seems so very focused on internal holiness and not on external holiness; — He violates the Sabbath; He says He is Lord of the Sabbath; He even says that the Sabbath was created to assist man, rather than man created to serve the Sabbath... thus turning the entire concept of the Law into one of assistance rather than being chained to obedience; — He insists on impartiality in the way we bless others, even if we call them «evil» or «good».
David: I totally forgot about the culture's view of the shepherds... and how they were outcasts.
He was about sticking up for the weak and the outcast.
Austere as well as paternal, authoritative and kingly as well as merciful and gracious, terrific in judgment against selfishness, cruelty, and sham as well as forgiving to outcasts and prodigals, Jesus» God was revealed not so much in the words he used about him as in the life he lived with him.
More concretely, since the gospel affects how we interact with others, how we spend our money, how we use our time, etc., we are gospelizing not only when we preach and teach about the gospel, but also when we treat others with kindness, fairness and honesty, when we show forgiveness and grace, when we stand up for the poor, the neglected, and the outcast, and any time we reveal the changes that the gospel has brought about in our own life.
I also believe that since our ideas about who God is and what God does must be defined and corrected (not just supplemented) by Christ, the fact that he lived as an outcast and died a death reserved for anti-Roman rebels is not merely a fact of passing historical curiosity.
After knowing these detrimental factors about the conventional Thai coconuts, without due consideration, we decided to outcast them from our store.
tonight, as former WAG Danielle Lloyd cuddled forgotten X Factor outcast Rylan Clark — who was about as good at signing as Jamie O'Hara is at football.
Gibson is slowly making his way back into the Hollywood inner sanctum, after being an outcast for about a decade due to anti-Semitic remarks and well - publicized personal and legal troubles.
A new report from the Mirror suggests that the Bolton boss is about to make a big splash in the loan market by bringing in Manchester United new boy / outcast / not David Moyes» favorite, Wilfried Zaha, for at least one month.
«Cons» weren't widely trafficked family affairs at McCormick Place filled studded with current TV and blockbuster movie stars, they were modest gatherings in Rosemont hotels where outcasts traded VHS tapes of the fabled «Star Wars Holiday Special» and muttered about watching «C - beams glitter in the dark, near the Tannhäuser Gate.»
But between well - meaning friends telling me about the baby gear I absolutely had to get, the pushy sales associate, and reading far too many maternity magazines filled with ads that convinced me my child would be raised an outcast without their products, I wound up registering for lots of things I really didn't need.
Sherri's a shining example of what's best about EHI... and does an amazing job of making sure our student body is filled with the most beautiful group of outcasts, misfits, nerds, activists, and heros... just the way we love it at EHI.
There is something about this color which seems to outcast all the other shades around it.
The problem is that people around you also make you feel that way — there are people around the world who have become socially outcast when others came to know about their STD.
An interesting, if somewhat fictitious story about a prison guard, isolated and outcast from her peers, striking a friendship with a terrorist subject charged with 9/11.
Abigail (Quinn Shephard) is an outcast who seeks solace in the worlds of the characters she reads about, much to the amusement of her manipulative classmate, Melissa (Nadia Alexander).
Bryan Singer really cares about his mutant outcasts, weaving just enough drama into the superhero shenanigans.
Once again, Sean Baker delivers an exhilarating, compassionate film about a group of social outcasts rarely seen on screen.
Yet for the 32 - year - old musician and actress those genres have never been about escapism but, rather, a means to express how it feels to be an outcast.
The filmmaker is also coming off one of his better - received films in recent years in Big Eyes, so his X-Men-esque tale of super-powered outsiders might yet prove to be another fine addition to his larger body of work - not to mention, another memorably weird, yet heartfelt Burton movie about the experience of being an «unusual» outcast in our world.
Carrie is a horror tale about Carrie White, a shy girl outcast by her peers and sheltered by her deeply religious mother, who unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior prom.
They certainly had good reason to be optimistic: The movie is a genuine crowdpleaser about Wiseau's unlikely saga from Hollywood outcast to cult hero.
Janney praised the film for «telling a story about class in America... about the disenfranchised,» since Harding was often seen as an outcast in the skating world because of her working - class upbringing.
Other stars in the beloved family adventure film about a group of outcasts in search of underground treasure include Corey Feldman, Martha Plimpton, Kerri Green Josh Brolin.
The film also weaves in lots of scenes that are meant to make us think that Barnum was the first 21st century - style «woke» white straight man in America — a goodhearted fellow who gave circus jobs to outcasts of one kind or another (talk about a big tent: the repertory company includes African - Americans, little people, giants, conjoined twins and a bearded lady), not just because they happened to possess certain talents or physical characteristics that Barnum could exploit (often by appealing to the majority's prurient interests or bigotries) but because the onetime poor boy Barnum sees himself in their striving, and wants to build a theatrical - carnival arts utopia in America's largest city with help from his new partner, rich kid turned playwright Philip Carlyle (Zac Efron).
He is obviously such an incredible visualist, and there was something about Max Fischer that I really related to — I always felt like an outcast, but I had a ton of ambition.
Will Forte is excellent as the drug dealer who tells Rell and Clarence about the existence of the 17th Street Blips, a gang made up of outcasts from the Bloods and the Crips.
Gaston has about one - tenth the ego, and Crazy Old Maurice isn't an outcast until it's necessary for plotting.
Perhaps solitude blinds one to any levity in films about gloomy guses and lonesome outcasts.
Set in a boarding school in rural Australia in 1965, it's about the romantic alliance between gangly outcast Noah Taylor and Ugandan boarder Thandie Newton.
2 «The Shape of Water»: Master cinematic chef Guillermo del Toro whips up a Michelin star charcuterie plate of genres — horror, romance, drama and political commentary — for one gorgeous fable about the movies of yore and society's «outcasts
Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director — Guillermo del Toro, I shouldn't have to say much to sing the praises of this fantastical love story about a mute woman, an amphibian creature, and the group of outcasts who help them.
He's got an ongoing skirmish with Halley, which is mostly about the rent money, but then she runs so low on cash that she starts to cross over into hooking, which renders her an outcast even inside this motel of outcasts.
It's about a odd, smarter - beyond - her - years (which makes her an outcast), 16 - year old girl, Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page) who, in a moment of weakness, gets herself pregnant by pencil - thin, track star Paulie Bleeker (Michael Cera).
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