Sentences with phrase «ancient times whose»

There is a story of a painter in ancient times whose painting of grapes was so realistic that even the birds were fooled and they tried to eat them!

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What is really fascinating is the theory that the Hebrew and Muslim deity figure derive from a war god in an ancient Semitic pantheon whose association with the other gods was lost in the confusion that time and oral tradition bring.

Micah 5:2» speaking of Jesus - whose goings forth are from old (ancient times) from everlasting (from eternity)» the Holy Spirit is eternal Heb.

Doubtless this pleasant young man soon found someone unacquainted with Joseph Smith's Testimony, that ubiquitous missionary tract which contains the official account of the prophet's visions and his discovery of the ancient record chronicling the lives and times, vicissitudes and final destruction of a Hebraic people whose patriarch immigrated to America with his family in 600 BC.

Americans are worshiping the god Molech, the terrible furnace god into whose fiery mouth parents in ancient times threw their own children, destroying them to relieve the guilt of their own consciences.

The significance of the myth of the end - time for us must be no less cosmic than it was for the ancients, whose breadth of vision, when carefully examined, is little short of amazing.

In ancient times, the death of a leader in battle would mean slavery or worse for the defeated side; likewise, in a presidential - style election battle if Cameron were caught with his trousers down, or suffered a catastrophic failure in authority, there are 303 Conservative MPs whose careers depend on him.

The legendary limits of the Terra Australis of ancient and medieval cartographers, whose northerly coast was represented in art in the time of Ptolemy as extending eastward from Southern Africa toward China and inclosing the Indian Ocean, began to recede to the southward on the map of the world in the generation which produced Columbus, da Gama, and Magellan and disclosed America, the route to the Indies, and the circumnavigation of the globe.

Cast from a less heroic mould is David Rohl, whose book A Test of Time: From Myth to History (Century, # 17.99, ISBN 0 712 65913 7) aims to rewrite ancient history by revising Egyptian chronology.

The technique relies on the radioactive isotope carbon - 14, whose radioactivity diminishes over time in a predictable manner, allowing researchers to calculate the age of ancient human sites using charcoal from fires or the bones of the prehistoric humans themselves.

Dr. Beth Shapiro, whose work focuses on how populations of organisms respond to climate and habitat change over time, has isolated ancient DNA from a variety of Pleistocene and Holocene species.

If not, you'll find «Last Vegas» a rehash of ancient gags, a look at people in life's twilight (which, by the way, are shown in polls to be on average the happiest time of people's lives), with a ending whose sentiment is fully deserved.

Never wanting to rest on its breathless trip around the ancient historical landmarks, things begin to pick up again in time for an explosive Istanbul climax that effectively uses sites previously featured in From Russia with Love — an appropriate touchstone for a film whose hero acts more like a globe - trotting James Bond than a fusty book - scented academic.

One of its strongest assets is its cast, with superior actors in the leading roles: Cumberbatch as Steven Strange, the brilliant and arrogant New York surgeon whose reason for existence is cut short by a horrific car crash... Tilda Swinton as a mystic known as the Ancient One who is willing to lead him to enlightenment in Kathmandu if only he will subjugate his inflated ego... Chiwetel Ejiofor as her faithful follower and right hand man... Benedict Wong as the guardian of the library where the accumulated secrets of their sect are stored... and Mads Mikkelsen as the brilliant student gone rogue who may soon destroy the earth, one major city at a time.

The experiment opened the way for Griffa's fascination with the golden mean: the irrational number whose enigmatic significance has enthralled mathematicians, philosophers, architects and engineers since ancient times.

For this megalomaniac solo Hirst concocted an elaborate story about an art collector from ancient times, whose ship loaded with prize pieces sunk at high sea and was only recently rediscovered.

The title of this show encapsulates the ethos of Ryden's continued investigation of natural phenomena and the beauty of earthly energies; the geometric structure of a dodecahedron is a solid figure whose 12 - sided perfection and symmetry has been the inspiration for extensive inquiry by mathematicians since ancient times.

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — This has been a terribly sad time for clowns, those purveyors of happiness whose recorded history dates back to ancient Greece.