Sentences with phrase «as a legend with»

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Neil Young got on board to headline the concert in August, and on September 29, 2012 appeared with The Black Keys, John Legend as well as the Foo Fighters on the Great Lawn of Central Park.

The now -90-year-old legend delivers an emotionally charged dramatic performance as a jazz musician who struggles with the death of his wife and the possibility that she was unfaithful to him.

A few treasures, curios and keepsakes have become the stuff of legend, as one owner after another has fallen prey to bad luck — with sometimes - fatal results.

Even recent Nintendo bestsellers such as «Super Mario Odyssey» and «The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild» have been lauded for being examples of the company's willingness to take risks with even its most important franchises.

As legend has it, giving a murder victim «cement shoes» has long been a favored body disposal method of mafia hitmen, and it's the origin of the phrase «sleeping with the fishes,» which was made famous by The Godfather.

Nintendo's hit Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) Classic Edition comes with a bunch of, well, classic games such as «Super Mario World» and «Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past» preinstalled.

Years ago, I worked as a waitress at a popular independent brew pub with an origin story that was the stuff of local legend.

The comedy legend is a founding father of Funny or Die, a comedy - video website that hosts user - generated content as well as exclusives with celebrities, including Judd Apatow, Charlize Theron, Jennifer Lawrence, and Jon Hamm.

With his four golds in Rio ---- so far ---- Phelps» legacy not just as a swimming great but as an Olympic legend is secure.

Velloso says his team is working with companies such as Riot Games, the Tencent (tcehy)- owned developer behind the most popular eSports game in the world, League of Legends.

Marketing themselves as a private, members - only club, The Legends Room will cater to clientele seeking a luxury adult - entertainment experience with the option of paying in cash or cryptocurrency.

In addition to his reputation as a statistical savant, Maddon is known for making a deep connection with his players, much like former Chicago Bulls coaching legend, «Zen Master» Phil Jackson.

The Pilgrims may have even shared a meal with them in thanks, as legends say..

Belief in myths and legends and a life filled with puerile wish thinking, ruled by threats and promises is an insult to us as a species.

Missouri Synod theologians had traditionally affirmed the inerrancy of the Bible, and, although such a term can mean many things, in practice it meant certain rather specific things: harmonizing of the various biblical narratives; a somewhat ahistorical reading of the Bible in which there was little room for growth or development of theological understanding; a tendency to hold that God would not have used within the Bible literary forms such as myth, legend, or saga; an unwillingness to reckon with possible creativity on the part of the evangelists who tell the story of Jesus in the Gospels or to consider what it might mean that they write that story from a post-Easter perspective; a general reluctance to consider that the canons of historical exactitude which we take as givens might have been different for the biblical authors.

Some evangelicals accept the ark legend as well, said Ralph Lee, an expert in Ge'ez and Ethiopic theology who has partnered extensively with the Orthodox.

It must be further pointed out that De Rougemont takes the most elaborately dramatized and perverse examples of romanticism such as the Tristan legend with its turgid morbidities, its pathos, and its obsession with adultery, and treats this as the essence of romantic love.

The doctrine of Christ's pre-existence as given by St. Paul and St. John is difficult to reconcile with the legend of the Virgin birth in St. Matthew and St. Luke.

In later chansons de geste, however» such as Les Quatre Filz Aymon, Enfances Roland, and Entrée en Espagne» the details of Roland's earlier life were filled in, with a variety of fanciful elements becoming ever more prominent features of the narrative, and it was not long before the real Roland (such as he was) had all but disappeared behind the more resplendent figure of the hero of legend.

History, as well as legend, is concerned with the relationship of the past and the present.

And yet we find ourselves in the strongest agreement with the German scholar, Professor von Rad, whom we have cited before, in his own expressed feeling that after all, legend is not an adequate term, so long as it is commonly understood simply as a mixture of history and unrestrained popular imagination (one part history, nine parts imagination — our comment, not his) We much better understand legend as a combination of history and meditation, and as motivated primarily by a concern to give expression to the meaning of history, as that meaning is conveyed by the faith that God makes himself known therein.12

There are yet other instances in Genesis where the legend may properly be classified as etymological, or where one aspect of the legend has to do with the meaning of a name.

The myths of Genesis tell us, as no objective history of public events could, what the community of Israel essentially believed about God's relationship to the world and to man; and the legends of the Fathers record Israel's understanding of herself, her own relationship to God and the world, her own sense of sin and inadequacy in tension with her conviction of special divine Election, her fears on the one hand and her highest hopes on the other.

I am not part of satans plans as satan is just a character from a book that is riddled with inconsistancies and mythical legends, superst!tions, etc..

Truth be told, even if we presuppose the truth of atheism, the problem with Hume's argument is that it does not allow us to explain why stories or miracles are invented, as presumably is the case with Islam or Mormonism, as well as many pious legends of the medieval Church.

You mention global myths of a great flood as supporting evidence, but even the article only states,» [a] lmost every culture has a legend about a great flood, and — with a little reading between the lines — many of them mention something like a comet on a collision course with Earth just before the disaster.»

The use of the women as the characters and the mention of the anointing of the body may be elements suggested to the author of this legend by the story in Mark 14:3 - 9, in which an unknown woman, and the only woman «disciple» mentioned elsewhere in Mark's Gospel, anointed the feet of Jesus with costly perfume.

Acquaintance with this legend formed part of the necessary background to the Gospel account of the transfiguration of Jesus in which it is reported that three of the disciples were led by Jesus up a high mountain where he conversed with Elijah and Moses as they appeared to him.

It is quite otherwise, however, with Elijah, the ninth century prophet, who, according to the Biblical tradition, had been carried up to heaven in a whirlwind riding in a chariot of fire, drawn by horses of fire.13 Elijah had made such an impression on the men of his own generation as a man of vitality and divine power that he continued to be a living legend.

All of those countless hours of sermons and worship services will help when Legend takes the stage as Jesus in the televised musical, but even when the curtain drops on Easter Sunday, that message will stay with him, because that's still what fuels John Legend — the singer, the activist, the father — in the real role that he was always born to play.

A myth, as I shall be using the term, is not to be confused with a legend.

The only reasonable answer I can come up with is that the bible was the word of man — not god — and it was based on legends, stories, knowledge and science as it existed about 2000 years ago.

The entire story is given to us in the Old Testament material, including as it does much genuine history as well as a good deal of legend and myth, not to speak of poetic expressions of the relationship between Jahweh and humankind but with reference also to non-Jewish races and nations.

White the fictional character in the culture originated with the legend of St. Nicholas... the fictional character of Santa Claus was popularized in advertising images by the Coca Cola company as a rotund, bearded elderly white man in a red and white suit in the early 20th century.

This suggests a volcano, and Sinai may have been that or legend may have exaggerated such storms of thunder and lightning as still occur about the huge granite massif of the traditional Sinai, with mist pouring up like smoke from its flanks.

The eleventh Anga is filled with legends of the retribution which various people have suffered or enjoyed as a result of the working of the principle of Dharma not only in this but in preceding successive births.

(35) 2 - 15 — «From savage legends up to Hume's civilized Dialogues on Natural Religion, with its conversation between Job and his friends as an intermediate between the two, the same problem is discussed» (AI 141f).

They took as their examples Jesus who did not open his mouth to defend himself, thereby cementing his execution, as well as Paul who did everything in his power to stay in chains so that he could testify to the top dogs in Rome, which ended with his execution (legend has it).

Furthermore, Eastern religions, despite that wealth of fantasy, myth and legend which make them quite unacceptable to modern minds with an historic sense, possess a keen perception of the spiritual as opposed to the material.

The personality of Mary has been so overlaid with legend and adoration that a lifelike picture of her as a real woman is hard to come by.

YummyHealth ®, a provider of better - for - you snacks that taste just as good as regular junk food, announced today that it will partner with the «Caring for Kids» program sponsored by Pro Football Legends, the commercial marketing arm of the NFL Alumni Association (NFLA).

Throughout the book are «Legends & Lore,» delightful one - page chocolate trivia facts (such as how Devil's Food got its name), and «Quick Fix» pages, with instructions on fast and easy chocolate treats like chocolate - dipped potato chips and pretzels.

Rock & Brews ™ announced that KISS rock legend Paul Stanley is joining forces with fellow KISS co-founder Gene Simmons in his Rock & Brews restaurant venture as the company prepares for worldwide expansion.

Collaboration and innovation continue to be vital to our brand, via partnerships with (RED) and inspired artists such as Lady Gaga, John Legend, Esther Mahlangu, Usher and Rita Ora.

Felderman Keatinge + Associates are a Los Angeles - based design firm with an international career spanning more than three decades of innovation and a catalog of honors deeming the husband and wife duo of Stanley Felderman and Nancy Keatinge as futurists, industry leaders and Interior Awards» 2016 Design Legends.

The aesthetic isn't ironic: With counter-service ordering, gigantic pies, and ice - cold cans of Hamm's beer, this pizzeria (the vision of Bunk Sandwiches legend Tommy Habetz) is as group - friendly and unpretentious as they come.

Before all the action in the Moët Suite, Opening Night of the US Open began with the star - studded USTA Serves Opening Night Gala in the President's Suite, where actor Kevin Spacey — who led an exciting charitable auction during the Gala — as well astennis legend Billie Jean King and US tennis players Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan signed a bottle of Moët & Chandon — crystalized with the US Open logo — for the USTA Serves.

As the San Antonio River Foundation prepares to mark its first decade of bringing recreation, public art and educational opportunities to the San Antonio River, it is joining forces with catering legend Don Strange of Texas, Inc. to create a culinary partnership that will benefit the River Foundation.

Rockin» & Roastin» was established by rock legend Joey Kramer in 2012 as an online business after having trouble finding a decent cup of coffee on the road while touring with Aerosmith.

To showcase once again how Heineken ® is pairing their decades of passion for soccer with the momentum the beautiful game has seen in the U.S., Heineken ® has launched the «Soccer is Here» campaign, which debuts a hat trick of renowned players as spokespeople, including International Spanish star and New York City Football Club (NYCFC) captain, David Villa, U.S. Women's National team captain and summer games hero, Carli Lloyd and American soccer legend Landon Donovan.