Mixing an uncanny gift for dialogue and a strange,
almost evil way of making pure bastards that live to worship themselves into sweet and lovable anti-heroes that you cant help but want to hang out with.
Not exact matches
It is infinitely comic that an orator, with truth in his voice and in the expression of his features, profoundly touched and profoundly touching, can present the truth in a heart - rending
way, can tread all
evil and all the powers of hell under his feet, with an aplomb in his attitude, an assurance in his glance, a resoluteness in his step, which is altogether admirable — it is infinitely comic that
almost at the same moment,
almost «with his dressing - gown still on,» he can run cowardly and timidly out of the
way of the least inconvenience.
Jesus is indignant that the scribes and Pharisees (1) will not enter the kingdom of heaven themselves and stand in the
way of others entering it as well; (2) will do
almost anything to win a proselyte only to make that proselyte twice as much a child of hell as they are; (3) confuse people by senseless oaths, telling them that if they swear by the Temple, their oath is not binding, but if they swear by the gold of the Temple, it is binding - the fools ought to realize, Jesus says, that the Temple includes all that is in it; (4) tithe some of their money but neglect justice and mercy and faith, which are weightier moral matters, when they ought both to tithe and perform these greater acts of righteousness as well; (5) are careful about outward cleanliness but careless about the inward disposition, so that they are filled with extortion and greed; (6) appear righteous but really are hypocrites, because their appearance hides all manner of iniquity inside; (7) pretend to revere the prophets of history whom their parents killed but continue to practice the
evil of their parents by rejecting those whom God sends to them now (Matt.
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».
Meanwhile, his following sentences were ignored by
almost all major accounts of the interview: «But it is not really the
way to deal with the
evil of HIV infection.
Certainly none of his readers will have trouble differentiating the Good Guys from the Bad guys: the Forces of
Evil almost always wear Roman collars or their equivalent (or take orders from those who do), and appear to stay awake nights thinking up new and devilish
ways to make life harsh for women.
It needn't have been a soapbox, but all the same the subject matter surely lends itself to some sort of debate... Writer / director Mitchell Lichtenstein also falls into the trap of giving Dawn an easy
way out, as so many of the men in the film seem to be
almost cartoonishly
evil.
Its Manichean simplification and insistence that
evil is an external force that can
almost be traced in the same
way one does weather patterns (incidentally the much better Lord of the Flies was published in the same year).
This is epic fantasy the
way I like it,
almost — medieval technology and culture with gifted, spiritually strong warriors fighting an
evil, occultic foe.
Evil dialogue choices are
almost too wicked to pass up at times, but if talking gives
way to fighting, there are always satisfying
ways to bring about someone's bloody, bloody death.
Resident
Evil 6 was a fairly good game, it was superior to Resident
Evil 5 in
almost every
way.
Even with the inclusion of
Evil Ryu, Violent Ken,
Way of the Hado and Buddy Battle, the game absolutely does not deserve to be
almost three times the price of Super Turbo HD.
There's not much imperfect humans can do with all this targeted bullcr **
Almost makes me believe in
evil... but frankly I think the planet is getting ready to shuck our overly exploitative species in a natural
way without all that highfalutin» god in the image of man stuff.
I really don't like Halloween anymore (especially the
way the occult side of it has
almost taken the place of Christmas to a lot of people, in extreme)-- it's so much more
evil - centered than the innocent time it was in the 60's when I grew up.