Sentences with phrase «about some of the characters who»

Not only did I not care about any of the characters who worked at the circus, but the solution to the murder was just so stupid and completely implausible.

Not exact matches

So to hear Rae talk about standing up to a room full of network execs, her new bosses, and fight for two insecure black characters who have messy lives and are fully realized as complex characters?

Coates recently spoke to Wired about the joys and challenges of penning new adventures for the character, who is the king of an African nation called Wakanda.

You might agree with the Times about how a wizard of Dumbledore's moral superiority should be immune to the weaknesses of human sexuality or you may side with some of Rowling's fans who think a strong gay character is leap for gay rights.

In an interview with Fortune, Chapman, who received fellow animators» support after going public about the ordeal, recalled her struggle «being the only woman in the room trying to explain my characters» point of view of the mother and daughter and why they're both sympathetic and they're both not sympathetic.

Their goal was to make marginally more correct decisions than their competitors, in the long haul, and to do so they implemented an analytically rigorous system that not only processed all of the bleeding edge metrics they could find or create, but also heavily incorporated data from old fashioned sources: scouts, who could see things about a player's potential and character that numbers couldn't.

At the time that Democrats began paying for the research, Mr. Trump was in the process of clinching the Republican presidential nomination, and Ms. Clinton's allies were scrambling to figure out how to run against a candidate who had already weathered attacks from Republican rivals about his shifting policy positions, his character and his business record.

That totally discredits your legends about Paul of Tarsus, Doubting Thomas, and quite a few others who have claimed «miraculous» «enlightenment» from this «God» character.

There are folks who have posted to this wonderful story about a group of youth who are working towards the Aims of Scouting: Growth in moral strength and character, Participating citizenship, and Development in physical, mental, and emotional fitness.

But even the people who downplay his significance as an agent of historical change acknowledge the pathbreaking character of his writings, and just about everyone grants that he was the founder of modern Jewish philosophy.

But if we are humble before Him, and our hearts long to know Him, He will not always give us ALL the answers, but He will assure us about His character, that even when we don't see the whole picture, He is the one who holds every piece of the puzzle, and He knows where they go....

Something about the young Lakita character reminded me so much of a little girl I met named Bharathi, who is pictured above on the left.

And back then, wasn't it the fans wrapped up in «theories» who were ultimately disappointed when they found out that Lost wasn't really concerned with answering the thousands of questions it had raised — that it was less a heady show about theology and science and more an emotional show about its characters and the human experience?

As an atheist I think it's important to know if your candidate picks his nose and eats the boogers, not that it makes any policy difference, but it is a charachetr difference, and if the candidate promotes his faith which includes baptizing dead jews whether out of guilt or love, I want to know about it so I can make an informed character choice on who I give my vote to.

Just as important, we make claims about what the world essentially is and about the character of the God who created it.

anyone who is in the lobby industry or marketing research knows about this business but the majority of the average forum readers have no clue that the person they are talking with is in character and secretly copying their info and telling some lobby if they agree or disagree with their agenda.

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.

A Twitter thread blew up yesterday when user Ed Solomon posted a story about Mark Hamill, the actor who plays Luke Skywalker, appearing in character to grant the wish of a friend's terminally ill child.

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.

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.

Readers are thus made to feel like witnesses to what actually happened, with access to the thoughts and motives both of the characters in the drama and of those who wrote about them, the authors of the sources used to build an uncluttered reality.

And if «the years of lives are 70», what about all those Bible characters who lived for almost 1,000 years?

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.

The book is called The Gospel of Yes, and while the title indicates that the book is about the Gospel, the biblical Gospel is rooted in the nature and character of God, and so the book is also about the God who says «Yes» to each one of us.

This assumption is common among highly intelligent people, like Weinberg, who haven't thought much about the history and character of Christianity except as a sociological or psychological phenomenon.

You do not even know that when everybody was attacking jesus's character on «Lightening struck Jesus statue», there were some Muslims, including myself, who were quoting verses of Quran about the beautiful Prophet Jesus and defending Christians too.

On the contrary, he's going to wonder about the content of the character of individuals who insist that something which they can only imagine is real.

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.

(Look at the women in Ireland and The Dominican Rep. who died because of being denied an abortion recently) You are SO correct about Hitler being a xstian, google away... «Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith... We need believing people.»

Those who are wise in their own minds (whether they are «educated» or not makes no difference) often depend upon their own wisdom; whereas those who are know they have much to learn (that is, they are «babes») are willing to accept what Jesus reveals to them about the character and nature of God.

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!»).

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.

Ironically (but importantly), this is not about Donald Trump's character or transgressions — now or prior — but about the character and transgressions of Evangelicals who change their views to suit the moment.

If I understand his thesis correctly, it is very similar to what I have argued here — that the Old Testament must be interpreted in light of the New and that, at least occasionally, reports in the Old Testament (about what God commanded people to do) must be relativized in light of the character of God revealed in Jesus Christ who is the Word of God in person.»

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.

Still, anyone who cares about preserving the Catholic identity of Notre Dame can recognize that if the greatest threat to the Catholic character of the University were Protestantism, the situation would be a far happier one for Catholics than is the present situation.

I can quite reasonably worry in these cases about the effects of government action on the character of those who are compelled to give and on the character of those who expect as a matter of course to receive.

Reading his lively account of the scholars who excavate and display the Middle Ages, an account replete with cultural history, moral judgment, psychological speculation, gossip, and no small amount of romantic idealism and fin - de-siecle pathos, the reader can reflect as much upon his own world, and about the character of Cantor himself, as he does about the painstaking task of historical reconstruction that absorbed the lives of such as Theodor Mommsen, Marc Bloch, or David Knowles.

(26) Rogers, in emphasizing the first level, is consistent with his theological mentor, G. C. Berkouwer, who wrote: «Every word about the God - breathed character of Scripture is meaningless if Holy Scripture is not understood as the witness concerning Christ....

He who has penetrated the mystery of religion will cease wanting simply to convert the believers among the other high religions; moreover, his desire is twofold, to give and to receive, to represent the purest form of Christianity to others and in turn to learn about the most intimate character of the belief of others.

Still fresh in our memories are the arguments about who is the greatest; the weakness of character exposed on that recent dreadful night and their slow wit in so many situations.

They were simply about how to appreciate the character and nature of God, and grow closer to him each day, even among people who'd like nothing more than to see us fail.

Arguments were about who was the true god and about the nature or character of God.

Soon after the fair, he wrote to a friend about his meeting there a «marvelous man» (vir mirabilis) who had with him a perfectly produced book, one that was exceedingly clean and correct in all of its lettering, with beautiful characters that could be read «effortlessly without glasses.»

Whittaker Chambers, he says, was «wrong, wrong, wrong»; one chapter's vignette has a character who appears to be a caricature of Hannah Arendt, and the character is pronounced a «fraud»; he thinks that if Hitler had been assassinated the Germans would have revived their stab - in - the - back theory, which would rankle again for years to come; and then there is that business about the death of a civilization, of which more presently.

He may have been mistaken about how important he was, or he could have just been a preacher who was the root of a legend that ended up with developing this character called The Christ.

Wenger as usual has his head in the sands and is too busy spouting his memorized usual garbage about mental strength and character of the team.instead of facing the reality that once again he has placed his trust and by large the clubs ambition in players who just aren't good enough....

but, im ok with this vardy transfer... it shows us many things: 1) wenger is changing, something some of us have been demanding for a long time; 2) it shows that wenger is taking risks: think about it, he is buying a men for a not cheap price, knowing he could not getting anything after, with a future sell i mean... this is an act that shows wengers intentions to win something, the buy is not motivated by any financial or economic reason but only for a «get the f epl once again» reason... this is an act that shows us hungry, even if we fail, we could said we try... first ever, we really try; 3) finally but very important... vardy is the kind of player we need... he is a warrior, a fighter... he has character... look at how he celebrate his goals... full of energy... he, like alexis, can motivate the team when the things are not going in our way (something wenger cant do because of his age and because he has never been an active coach on the pitch)... the vardy transfer, if it finish well, is a demostration of a change, and a good one... lets take care of winning things and do nt look the economic side for once... vardy is a bit old, but we can give a chance to welbeck after maybe, or akpom... u are not thinking about the future when we talk about ibra... guys: u complain when wenger do nt spend or because he is always looking for the bargain when u are the guys who has to pay the very expensive tickets... u complain when wenger buy the always for the future guy... like morata... stop to complain for everything and be consequent with yourself... i would love auba, but it is not going to happen... lukaku is awesome but the asking price is stupid... lets try with vardy, give us the throphy..

How terribly sad... we have fallen so far that we find ourselves in the ridiculous position of propping up the oft - injured and rarely inspirational Jack Wiltshire... what's next, extending Walcott, Welbeck and Ramsey... can't you see that these players have nothing to do with winning and all to do with providing recognizable names to the plastic fans who frequent our overgrown library of a stadium... it's high time we rid this club of one of the worlds most incompetent and unsuccessful owners (look it up) and our fragile and spineless manager (much like our club) who can't bring in the best talent because he knows he can't live up to expectations that come with players of that ilk... think about it, he couldn't even handle Sanchez, who was largely a periphery character in Barcelona

Maybe this just shows that Mourinho is a feisty character who did not get on with this player, but we have seen a lot of this sort of thing and we have also heard a lot about how well Wenger's players respect him.