Sentences with phrase «as hick»

Through it all, even as Hick's bond with Eleanor is tested by forces both extraordinary and common, and as she grows as a woman and a writer, she never loses sight of the love of her life.

McDonagh writes Dixon as a hick and a loser who still lives with his verbally abusive mother and almost failed out of school.

Hasker next suggests that my position on the nature of intrinsic value is counter-intuitive by concluding — from my argument that within the Hick1 - lasker type of theism our enjoyment of freedom could be the same whether we had real or only apparent freedom (as Hick himself had said)-- that I would hold that falsely thinking one is loved and knows the truth is «just as valuable» as really knowing the truth and really being loved, so that these latter relations are «not of any worth in themselves.»

Nazareth was what is known in colloquial English as a hick town, an insignificant village.

It does recognize, however, that any such evaluations will prove more difficult than they would if, as Hick proposes, they can all be evaluated by their success in promoting the achievement of a common goal.

Not exact matches

Much of the background material and the presentations at Canberra, in the vein of such recent literature as that by John Hick and WCC Mission Director Christopher Duraisingh, posited the spirit without the Logos.

Unity In Suffering Jesus» uniqueness as a deity who saves through suffering may resolve in part the questions of salvation outside of Christianity and / or the Church that John Hick posed (Gavin D'Costa, «Remembering John Hick,» May).

Hick chooses the term, «the Real,» as a more neutral name for that which replaces the self as center.

John Hick has done us the great service of formulating a persuasive hypothesis as to the answer.

These people come across as a bunch of cross bred country hicks.

When he said that to this country hick, 2 weeks ago, Mr. Naive here took it as high praise.

Some modern Christian thinkers, such as John Hick or Raimundo Panikkar, in their interpretation of the Trinity as a metaphor come close to Muslim thinking, but as the distinguished Muslim scholar Professor S. A. Ali observes, Muslims will always be uneasy with the language of «Father, Son and Holy Spirit.»

By 1983, John Hick had included, in his justly influential introduction to the philosophy of religion, process theodicy as one of three main Christian responses to the problem of evil (Hick 41; Griffin, Evil 1).

«18 Hick has characterized this as an Irenaean type of theodicy which «accepts God's ultimate omni - responsibility and seeks to show for what good and justifying reason He has created a universe in which evil was inevitable.

Nevertheless, I can not accept Hick's solution that a loving God has intentionally made the world look as if there is.

Rejecting Paul's confidence, and the inevitable dogmatic corollary, Hick's solution is that God has intentionally made the world ambiguous — i.e., has intentionally created it «to look as if there were no God» so that we can come to faith freely.

As a series of famous incidents has shown (for instance, Westminster's decision in 1977 to publish John Hick's Myth of God Incarnate, despite intense protests from some church members), a denomination's self - restraint in decisions about publishing particular titles is an essential concomitant of support for publishing.

In the passage at issue, however, I simply said that» [m] y question to [Hasker] is whether my argument [against Hick] does not tell against the adequacy of his position as well.»

According to John Hick, all the major religions — at least those emerging during and after the Axial Period — share a commitment to salvation, whether defined as enlightenment, forgiveness, satori, or something else (21 - 35).

John Hick develops the idea of «seeing as» a step further into «experiencing as», in which there is a greater involvement of the total person.

So religious faith, Hick proposes, consists in «experiencing life as encounter with God»:

Religiously speaking, the best that can be made of such a world is to see it, as John Hick proposes, as a «vale of soul - making.»

In Hick's example, I would say «I interpreted the tuft of grass as a rabbit», acknowledging that I had misinterpreted it (whereas it would seem strange to say that I misexperienced it).

I would like now to set forth Wisdom's idea of «seeing as», Hick's idea of «experiencing as», and the idea I would favour, «interpreting as».

Metaphors, I said, may momentarily encourage us to see patterns which we might not have noticed (the process which Black termed «construing as»), but models systematically suggest distinctive ways of looking at things (for which I proposed the term «interpreting as» in preference to Hick's phrase, «experiencing as»).

In response to my statement that it would have arguably been preferable for Hick's deity to have prevented all the suffering and destruction resulting from human sin forgoing the satisfaction of having us develop authentic love and trust, Hick gave the same response as Hasker — that such deception would be improper.

Now people think it's somehow «cool» to be a hick (which I would define as «an unintelligent man or woman with no social graces and no desire to better themselves in any way or sometimes take a shower»).

In a switch on the beloved hick flick story line, wonder trotter and kindly underdog owners show up at big Kentucky race with hearts high — and have them broken as a crafty rival driver blind - sides our hero

Part of the public's love - hate fascination with Maradona stems from the fact that he is seen as an overstepper, that beneath his athletic, nouveau - riche exterior lies the soul of a simple hick who can be fleeced and chastened by sly folks everywhere.

He says this city used to be a «hick town» with only the Rebels — the University of Nevada, Las Vegas basketball team that was led by legendary coach Jerry Tarkanian in the early 1990s — as something to rally behind.

Monday night, as we got ready for bed at 11:30 pm, I noticed that my braxton hicks were still coming despite how late it was.

As one who has reported fromnearly 30 states in the last six months, I can attest that the opportunity tovisit both city slickers and hill country hicks is the only way to begin tograsp the hopes and dreams of the world's most powerful country.

AS corrupt a scheme as has ever been imposed and folks in the city should be glad that BDB is fighting to end the blatant pay offs to the hick upstate polAS corrupt a scheme as has ever been imposed and folks in the city should be glad that BDB is fighting to end the blatant pay offs to the hick upstate polas has ever been imposed and folks in the city should be glad that BDB is fighting to end the blatant pay offs to the hick upstate pols!

Certainly a fully fledged character in his own right, the documentary makes use of Hick's personal photographer, interviews with his family and friends (all too willing for the great), and footage of his sets, some well done as they are his HBO specials, and others are mere scratchy images of his times in small clubs around the country.

As Pullman tries to hunt her down, she enlists clueless Hick Peter Berg to help her out.

Gillian Anderson's growling Moro sounds silly (she doesn't have the breath control), and the fey - hick tones of Billy Bob Thornton are too recognizable as the Akim Tamiroff - like mercenary, Jigo.

Dowd, who's mostly played stock wives and mothers for the past 25 years (Kim Kelly's mom on Freaks And Geeks; Bettie Page's mom in The Notorious Bettie Page, etc.), takes full advantage of this nearly impossible role, depicting the manager not as a terminally gullible hick, but as a perfectly ordinary woman whose first instinct, in common with most of us, is to assume that others are trustworthy until they demonstrate otherwise.

Cartoon Network somehow extends its own story of one - dimensional, sociopathic hicks into nearly twenty episodes as «Squidbillies» — so named because they're hillbillies but also squids, get it?

Payne wallows in this hick sideshow: There's a long shot of the extended family gawking like lobotomy patients at a sports game, while another scene set in a supremely tacky restaurant / karaoke bar finds Stacy Keach — as an old, bullying business partner — warbling out a painful rendition of «In The Ghetto.»

The Time of Their Lives is Thelma & Louise for the 70 - plus set: the threat isn't hick rapists so much as a foreign - language GPS system in a stolen rental car.

This is Thelma & Louise for the 70 - plus set: the threat isn't hick rapists so much as a foreign - language GPS system in a stolen rental car.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri — two of the very finest performances of the year in Frances McDormand as a grieving mother and Sam Rockwell as a racist hick cop.

STARRING Neve Campbell as SIDNEY PRESCOTT David Arquette as DEWEY RILEY Courtney Cox as GALE WEATHERS RILEY Emma Roberts as JILL ROBERTS Hayden Panettiere as KIRBY REED Marley Shelton as DEPUTY JUDY HICKS

Yet such restraint does come as happy relief to some of the supporting cast, as fellow parents and assorted townsfolk are played with maximum hick.

But all is lost as tow - truck hick Mater (voice of Larry the Cable Guy) takes centre - stage in a convoluted espionage scheme, meaning that Cars 2 stoops to the same mistaken - identity spy parody that children's movies have beaten into the ground since 1966's The Man Called Flintstone.

It's even possible to read it as a critique of the Reagan administration along the lines of Dan O'Bannon's less - successful The Return of the Living Dead from two years earlier — locating as it does a pair of sweater - and - ascot yuppies (Sarah Berry and Richard Domeier) to play against the aforementioned hicks (Dan Hicks and Kassie Wesley), with blue - collar folk represented by our Ash and Linda.

From the onset, the film establishes that these are not your stereotypical backwater hick teens, and the rest of the film certainly supports that, investing in exploring the depth and complexity of the two young men as they (primary Ellis) are coming of age in a most unorthodox way.

The best way to describe these people, including and especially Ansel's second wife Sharla (Gena Gershon), is they are the epitome of trailer - park hicks who are not merely dysfunctional as a family, but even moreso as human beings.

Set in Trump country, a blue - collar South of lost jobs and broken dreams, it's a terrific, twisty, funny - as - hell crime flick about so - called hicks who decide that making America great again starts right at home.

This resource is a complete analysis of the text from John Hick which considers Jesus and his role as a Moral Examplar in the atonement.