Sentences with phrase «as blind men»

Brandon Nowalk reviews Arabian Nights, which he describes as the blind men's elephant: miniseries and short story cycle, documentary and fantasy, proletarian and prohibitive.

When asked what it was like to be in the middle of a diplomatic struggle between two countries he said,» (Chen) as a blind man was willing to risk his own life and his family paid such a heavy price, what about ours who are living in the free world?

As a blind man, I think I see a lot better than when I as sighted... because I think we don't really see with our eyes.

Starring veteran actor Stephen Lang (Manhunter, Avatar) as a blind man targeted by three teenagers for a robbery that goes way, way wrong, Don't Breathe is being hailed as one of the strongest and most suspenseful horror films to come around in years.

So years later here we have Pacino, still without an Oscar, go wildly off the rails (which he always does these days), as a blind man no less, and of course, OF COURSE, he is going to win.

THE GOOD: Gene Wilder's masterfully funny performance, Peter Boyle's endearing portrayal of the monster, the lush black and white photography, a great song and dance number, Gene Hackman (The French Connection, Bonnie and Clyde) as the blind man, Mel Brooks» adept direction, and some genuinely hilarious sight gags and characters.

Stephen Lang (Avatar) as the blind man is truly frightening.

Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette and Daniel Zovatto star as the trio of criminals who eentually face off against a character simply known as the blind man (Stephen Lang).

Stumbling literally and emotionally into darkness, into love, into couch - shopping at Ikea, into adulthood, and into truce if not acceptance of his identity as a blind man, his writerly self uses his disability to provide a window onto the human condition.

But it was as a blind man that his achievement was most striking.

Not exact matches

A follow - up study found men weren't as color blind when it came to bargain shopping for something they really wanted.

Dutton's book rambles through the annals of neuroscience as he interviews lawyers, con men and expert interrogators, and brings his own expertise to bear in mapping the brain's pressure points and the locations of people's psychological blind spots.

«Now as Jesus passed by, He saw a man who was born blind from birth.

But for me the finest and most moving essay was the last one, devoted to one Matthew Shanahan, a man otherwise unknown to the world, who was going blind and whom the author met while he was reading aloud books at a Jewish home for the blind: «Matthew Shanahan was as Irish as Joseph Epstein is Jewish....

Indeed, as best as I can tell, the None's and the Done's have recognized the walls of the Evangelicals — not as noble walls of doctrine, but rather, as the sides of a ditch being viewed by the blind man in the muddy center.

As far as I'm concerned, one hippie liberal in a man - dress CAN walk on water with bare feet, instantly turn that water into wine, give sight to the blind and walking to the lame with but a toucAs far as I'm concerned, one hippie liberal in a man - dress CAN walk on water with bare feet, instantly turn that water into wine, give sight to the blind and walking to the lame with but a toucas I'm concerned, one hippie liberal in a man - dress CAN walk on water with bare feet, instantly turn that water into wine, give sight to the blind and walking to the lame with but a touch.

A curious feature of Matthew's story is that there are two demoniacs just as later he twice has two blind men (cf. Mt 9:27; 20:30).

As Jesus and the disciples come into Jericho, passing through on their way to Jerusalem, two blind men cry out for help from the crowds, and Jesus touches their eyes so that they can see.

Well for sure He had skin we also see He could transfigure, He could be a blinding Light but now he was man as well as God for he also had real skin.

If we first assume that the perception of things as finite existents is the natural perception for man, then we may assert with Mascall that what inhibits this vision blinds us to what is as it is.

Kierkegaard conceived it his function as a writer to strip men of their disguises, to compel them to see evasions for what they are, to label blind alleys, to cut off men's retreats, to tear down the niggardly roofs they continue to build over their precious sun - dials, to isolate men from the crowd, to enforce self - examination, and to bring them solitary and alone before the Eternal.

This blind method can usually used (plotted) by the enemy to create division (know on network security as middle man - eves drove).

The blind man saw; the disciples would come to see clearly; and Mark's readers will come to see as well.

† Just because a Blind Christian has the need to feel as if they posses a traditional family lifestyle, religious holidays where the give their kids chocolate eggs, dvd gifts on christmas of movies full of women acting as the equals of men (Against the bible), a lack of understanding culture, and the feeling of belonging, does not mean all people need / want / or feel that way.

The majestic spectacle of this blind, inarticulate purposiveness thrusting its way upward and ever upward in an endless unity of differentiated achievements towards an ever increasing complexity of organization, towards spontaneity and spirituality, swept away all my old conception of a duty to Man as such.

And as he makes his witness to Jesus, we realize that the man blind from birth has a multitude of sons and daughters with their own stories to tell.

This optimistic approach to man's virtue and the problem of evil expresses itself philosophically as the idea of progress in history.17 The empirical method of modern culture has been successful in understanding nature; but, when applied to an understanding of human nature, it was blind to some obvious facts about human nature that simpler cultures apprehended by the wisdom of common sense.

Time to re-read your Bible with eyes to see His truth this time, nstead of them being blinded by man and their scoffing of the Lord's truth as is written.

Both here and in Matthew's earlier account (9:27 - 31) the blind men address Jesus as Son of David, and Jesus touches their eyes.

As he passed along, he saw a man who had been blind from his birth.

Reason can be perverted by passion as when, momentarily blinded by grief and rage, I unjustly strike the bearer of the news that my wife is deep in adultery with another man.

The call to conversion which was placed at the heart of ecumenism by Vatican II and was reiterated by Pope John Paul as an adjunct of the millennial celebrations must be taken into consideration when we respond to Jesus» question about belief which he first put to the man born blind.

He argues convincingly that for all the neo-Darwinian atheists» claim that man is no more than the result of blind scientific forces, they have to wriggle to claim, as they do, some place for justice, equality and political fairness.

Paul the Apostle was, prior to his blinding on the Road to Damascus, known as Saul of Tarsus, a man who persecuted the early disciples of Jesus around Jerusalem with enthusiasm.

In the Fourth Gospel, written in Hellenistic Ephesus, where reincarnation was a common idea, as everywhere among the Greeks, Jesus is represented facing the old question of suffering as penalty — «As he passed by, he saw a man blind from his birtas everywhere among the Greeks, Jesus is represented facing the old question of suffering as penalty — «As he passed by, he saw a man blind from his birtas penalty — «As he passed by, he saw a man blind from his birtAs he passed by, he saw a man blind from his birth.

After Jesus left the Temple on the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles, as he was walking with his disciples in the streets of Jerusalem, they noticed a blind man.

The truth is this: that since atheists are people who have allowed a part their beings to die, how can they possibly understand those who speak of life which they not know??? It's like when a blind man would argue with the one who sees, telling him that there is no such thing as sight, and all the beauty he's seeing and describing to him is just the figment of his immagination...!!!

When questioned by his friends as to how such a miracle could have happened, the man replies, anecdotally, «All I know is that I once was blind, and now I can see.»

''... the extreme difficulty or rather impossibility of conceiving this immense and wonderful universe, including man with his capacity of looking far backwards and far into futurity, as the result of blind chance or necessity.

We should first notice that the man is described as «a blind beggar.»

«As Jesus went along, he saw a man blind from birth.

The facts were, chiefly, these: Jesus of Nazareth, a man anointed by the Spirit and divinely accredited by mighty works, who went about doing good, and healing all those who were oppressed by the devil (for God was with him), who was put to death by the blind and misguided authorities, religious and civil, at Jerusalem, where he was crucified — all this is preliminary and descriptive, as identifying him, like the central clauses in the Apostles» Creed.

Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928), in his later years hailed as the outstanding living man of letters in the English - speaking world, in his youth a believing Christian, in his maturity held that men's lives are governed by blind, unconscious, purposeless cosmic forces.

Even as Jesus himself stuck around to help the blind man in John 9 adjust to a world of light and sight, so now the community to whom Christ entrusts the newly raised in baptism, that group we call the body of Christ, assists us daily in stripping off the binding remnants of the old life in death's dominion.

I do this... as a duty of brotherly love, so that if any misfortune or disaster comes out of this matter, it may not be attributed to me, nor will I be blamed before God and men because of my silence... We have no one on earth to thank for this disastrous rebellion except you princes and lords, and especially you blind bishops and mad priests and monks whose hearts are hardened... The murder - prophets [a reference to Karlstadt, Muntzer and all the Schwarmerei] who hate me as they hate you, have come among these people... for more than three years, and no one has resisted and fought against them except me... I beseech you not to make light of this rebellion... The peasants have just published twelve articles some of which are so fair and just as to take away your reputation in the eyes of God... Because you made light of my To The German Nobility you must now listen to and put up with these selfish articles.

In a dark room without features, any guess by a blind man at the direction of the door is as valid as the other 359 degrees.

Consider the case of a blind man who undergoes an operation and, as a result, receives back his sight.

It would ne nice to accept our own moral compasses or as I put it «a morally correct manner» and then leave it at that, accept only detailed proven facts and then use your best judgment on the rest, its more likely to be right then listening or reading «facts» by those who tell you to not look for them or prove them one way r the other, that's the Fox News of the religious world... Religion is more dangerous then a blind man in a room of razors, it hurts, kills and destroys more of humanity then any «God Made» disaster.

Jesus sure swims good and roofs and gardens and cooks and oh wait wrong guy but yeah your boy Christ would have been a wierdo if in his manhood which he was man first wouldn't have enjoyed himself a lady even in the book you profice is the word of god he didn't know of his «godly» or as I like to say adulterous origin till late in life thirties wasn't it why wouldn't he want to try to be mortal man and live that life Christians are so silly and blind thanks for the laughs

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