Sentences with phrase «as an adaptation in»

and see how well it works as an adaptation in addition to its clear quality as a film of its own right.

Not exact matches

Maybe viewers will finally get the adaptation they deserve as the Robbie Reyes version of the character takes center stage in season four of «Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.»

Now, DuVernay is busy making history again as the first black woman to direct a movie with a $ 100 million budget: Disney's A Wrinkle in Time adaptation.

My dream, and I believe it is a rational possibility if not assured, is that as the ecology of our situation increases to exert pressure on us, that there will be a rapid emergent adaptation of behaviors effecting an «ecocultural» revolution in our socio - economic structures.

And actor Johnny Depp starred as Ichabod Crane in the 1999 film called Sleepy Hollow, an adaptation of Irving's story.

The studio does have a pair of big spring releases in Ghost in the Shell, the controversial adaptation of the popular manga comic that stars Scarlett Johansson, as well as the action - comedy adaptation of the 1990s lifeguard TV show Baywatch.

I will choose to see failure as a step in the refining process — an adaptation of sorts.

But the central thesis of «The Bomb,» and one Schlosser made strongly in «Command and Control» (which also premiered at Tribeca as a documentary film adaptation), is that mortifying accidents have happened, and will happen again: People are human and nuclear weapons are machines.

As Disney was wrapping up production on A Wrinkle in Time, the latest film from lauded director Ava DuVernay and an adaptation of the beloved children's book, out Friday, the production team reached out to Rodeo FX to add finishing touches on a selected scene.

It was later revealed that the two went for research purposes, as Gosling was tapped to star in del Toro's movie adaptation of the Disneyland ride The Haunted Mansion, which happens to be Gosling's favorite.

Lions Gate Entertainment (No. 54) has had box office success with two major franchises: The Twilight series (produced by Summit Entertainment, a Lions Gate subsidiary) and Hunger Games, which have much in common as they are both film adaptations of bestselling young adult book series, are fantastical (one is about vampires and the other about a futuristic dystopia), and are anchored by a dynamic young female character (portrayed by Kristen Stewart in Twilight, Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games).

Unlike productive assets such as businesses or farmland, gold is «purchased in the buyer's hope that someone else... will pay more for them in the future,» declares Warren Buffett in an adaptation from his latest shareholder newsletter.

Similarly, many ventures are based around business methods and concepts that have been successful in developed countries, but with adaptations made to reflect local conditions, such as «Careem,» the Uber of Pakistan.

As the advance continued, we incrementally made adaptations in response.

Cities are projected to require at least USD 1.7 trillion a year for climate change mitigation and adaptation above business as usual in order to align GHG levels with those that limit global warming to 2 °C and avoid the worst effects of climate change.

When adaptation in industries and markets occur, patterns begin to emerge as we have seen during the past three years - such as in how buyers search for information.

And prices fall as adaptation rises, as investors in solar panel makers have found.

After winning a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her wild - eyed turn as a mental patient in Girl, Interrupted, she attempted a few other serious acting roles but only seemed to find blockbuster success when she took on the lead role in the feature - film adaptation of the video game Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.

As phylogenetic analysis becomes increasingly robust, it has become clear that the traditional «Tree of Life» diagram is insufficient to relay the myriad complexities of genomic movement and adaptations in the evolutionary process.

Yes, I'm talking about macro evolution, as in one day monkey years down the road... we have a human... There is adaptation for sure but then there is a big drop off from that and new species evolving from single cells...

According to reports, he's consulting the book as he prepares to play a Jesuit in a film adaptation of «Silence,» a novel about Catholic missionaries in Japan.

Although Martin Scorsese's film adaptation of this novel in the 1980s drew the full brunt of scorn from the evangelical community, who were scandalized at the idea that Jesus was actually tempted, the basic story is a stunningly - written and imaginative exploration of the idea of that Jesus was «tempted in every way, just as we are — yet he did not sin.»

In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party; and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect his purpose.

Although the mode of thinking here is radically different from that of modern metaphysics, by following the lead of the new physics, it converges toward the latter in countering the positivism and the practically oriented modernism following from Darwinian evolution, with its stress upon «environmentalism» and «functionalism» as modes of adaptation within a secularized immediacy, an immediacy shorn of depth and ultimacy.

Its utterances will necessarily either be in danger of being contradicted by obstinate «old believers» (such as happened also in Montanism, Novatianism, Donatism down reactionary Jansenism and Integralism) or of being falsified by a mentality which betrays the spirit of Christ, the folly of the cross and the courage to contradict a world lying in the Evil One by cheap «adaptation».

A three - step method for resolving conflicts constructively consists of: (1) telling each other what you appreciate; (2) telling each other what you each need; and (3) negotiating a better plan to meet as many of both sets of needs as possible This adaptation of the Intentional Marriage Method (Before using this communication tool, I suggest that you read H. Clinebell, Growth Counseling for Marriage Enrichment, chap 2) can be used in an individual family communication session, and in family clusters, camps, and counseling.

All liturgical renewal, all changes in the education and way of life of priests, all adaptation of the religious orders to contemporary conditions, the activities of mature laymen as well as the frank dialogue with the present world, all these must only serve the love of God and one's neighbour in the unfeigned faith which will always be foolishness and scandal to the wise and prudent of this world.

However, although religion did not originally emerge as a biological adaptation, it can play a role in both facilitating and stabilizing cooperation within groups, and as such, could be the target of cultural selection.»

Martin Scorese's film adaptation of the acclaimed book tells the story of persecution, martyrdom and faith involving two Jesuit priests who serve as missionaries to Japan in the 1600s.

Maximal adaptation would signify maximum order as verified in the successful achievement of the dominant ideal.

It likewise implied, however, that faith in Jesus Christ must be on European terms, take them or leave them, and that the forms it took — organizational, ethical, doctrinal, liturgical — must be, with as much adaptation as necessary but as little adaptation as possible, the ones it had acquired in its European configuration.

Further, all that can rationally be said about that absent requires it to be viewed as interacting with human purpose, as itself conforming in all respects to the purpose of order and law, and also as exhibiting telic adaptations serving the ends of life and beauty and sublimity.35

At the same time, he rejects those theories, «more or less tinged with behaviouristic psychology,» which assume» that human nature has no dynamism of its own and that psychological changes are to be understood in terms of the development of new «habits» as an adaptation to new cultural patterns.»

Read loses sight of Buber's concept of dialogue, however, when he suggests that Buber's teaching shows how to replace the inter-individual tensions of the classroom by «an organic mode of adaptation to the social organism as a whole» and when he reinterprets the teacher's concentration of an effective world as a selective screen in which what is kept in and what is left out is determined by the organic social pattern through the medium of the teacher's «sense of a total organism's feeling - behaviour.»

Man is in reality, many persons now tell us, a biological species, with a superficial adaptation to those artificial conditions of life which we call civilization; but under his skin, and beneath the thin top level of his inquiring, aggressive, clever mind, he is still what he has always been — an acquisitive, competitive, power - seeking, warring beast, with which the divine Spirit must still «strive,» even as at the beginning of human history.

In primitive existence, intelligent adaptation to the environment and unconscious symbolization, as a means of intensifying and ordering the psychic life, existed side by side.

In the New Testament adaptation of this ritual, Jesus at the Last Supper looks forward to the salvation which he believes (as human) that God will grant in the death he realises as imminenIn the New Testament adaptation of this ritual, Jesus at the Last Supper looks forward to the salvation which he believes (as human) that God will grant in the death he realises as imminenin the death he realises as imminent.

In Adventures of Ideas Whitehead tends to refer to harmony as Beauty, the «mutual adaptation of the several factors in an occasion of experience» (AI 252In Adventures of Ideas Whitehead tends to refer to harmony as Beauty, the «mutual adaptation of the several factors in an occasion of experience» (AI 252in an occasion of experience» (AI 252).

So, if you want to define «adaptation» as «changes that we don't agree with», then you may be correct, but even your pro-pericope site admits, «It is not in the earliest manuscripts (with one exception); in those manuscripts where we do find it, it is not found in one place.»

Brunner is right that there is a certain impersonality about a system of justice, a definiteness and a structured quality which is not dependent on attitudes of personal like or dislike.3 Yet justice within a family requires adaptation to individual need, and justice within an economic order requires some variation in income according to contribution as well as need.

We see paws turned into pincers, paws equipped with hooves for running, burrowing paws and muzzles, winged paws, beaks, tusks and so on — innumerable adaptations giving birth to as many phyla, and each ending in a blind - alley of specialization.

If the world is a world in dynamic movement, then God as its chief principle of explanation will himself be in dynamic movement; if ceaseless adaptation to novel possibilities is found in the order of creation, the meaning of creation will itself include a factor which in the highest degree is adaptable.

A man who is utterly self - contained and whose chief ambition is to be «self - existent» and hence to exist without dependence upon relationships of any sort, is a man whom we regard as an unpleasant if not vicious specimen of the race; and it is odd that deity has been regarded, and this even in Christian circles, as more like such a self - contained human being rather than as like a man who in every area of his life is open to relationships and whose very existence is rich in the possibility of endless adaptations to new circumstances.

Conceived as we now conceive them, as so many fortunate escapes from almost limitless processes of destruction, the benevolent adaptations which we find in Nature suggest a deity very different from the one who figured in the earlier versions of the argument.

Nevertheless, as we have seen, there is a small but growing number of scientists, both in physics and biology, who operate with a relational model, who see some correspondence between the constructs of the mind and reality itself, however inexact, and who also see the possibility of restoring the experience of meaning if the non-human natural world is perceived as dynamic, creative, full of life and purpose, whom process thinkers have engaged in conversation; together they have attempted to explore new visions of reality better suited for adaptation to the urgent needs of the contemporary world.

Lincoln wrote, «In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party; and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect his purpose.

He is, as Charles Hartshorne would put it, «the supremely worshipful», who is surpassed by anything which is not Himself; yet in His own life He may surpass, in richness of experience and capacity for adaptation and provision of new opportunity for advance, that which He has been.

Possibly it goes back to Abraham as recorded in Genesis 17, though this is more likely a later adaptation of the patriarchal stories to the covenant idea.

His transcendence is in His sheer faithfulness to Himself as love, in His inexhaustibility as lover, and in His capacity for endless adaptation to circumstances in which His love may be active.

In one of the world's longest psychological carom shots, the authors offer as an example of such antagonism the Ayatollah Khomeini, whose violent reaction to Salman Rushdie masked his fear of adaptations that were moving Iran «mildly in the direction of species consciousness.&raquIn one of the world's longest psychological carom shots, the authors offer as an example of such antagonism the Ayatollah Khomeini, whose violent reaction to Salman Rushdie masked his fear of adaptations that were moving Iran «mildly in the direction of species consciousness.&raquin the direction of species consciousness.»