Sentences with phrase «as goads»

The prophets of the Bible similarly served as goads.

But Michelangelo and others like him have through their labors — sometimes as goads, sometimes as nails, sometimes as scribblers in the sand, helped turn us from the world's frivolities and given us time for such reflection.

Jesus left us relatively few words — a person could memorize them all — and he spoke with such economy and precision that each can be seen as a goad and a nail.

And throughout American history, this belief has served as a goad to the conscience, inspiring reforms and renewal in almost every generation.

McCarthy uses Nichols» film as a goad for his actors - who include a Liz Taylor lookalike - in developing the hours and hours of frightening video footage from two deranged performances, which are projected around the walls.

The chemical industry pro «won» in terms of the naive audience's response to his well crafted barbs and arch ploys, as he goaded the biologist into being snarky and angry, then deplored his behavior, tsk tsk...

Not exact matches

- The company has already reached 70 % (7,000 employees) of its 10,000 - employee commitment for hiring «opportunity youth» (unemployed young people who are not in school) as well as being 25 % of the way toward its even more ambitious 100,000 opportunity youth hiring goal, the 100,000 Opportunities Initiative, that Starbucks successfully goaded other corporate giants (Target, Walmart, etc.) to join in.

She wrote a novel instead, Uncle Tom's Cabin, that sold 200,000 copies in its first year and, as much as any other force, goaded a nation toward change.

In such works as Idea of a Christian Society, After Strange Gods, and Notes Towards the Definition of Culture, he turned away from firmly embedded nails and toward goads.

The communists thought (fatally, as it turned out) he might be a goad they could control.

Many of the states affected by human - caused earthquakes have acknowledged the phenomenon, but, as The New York Times notes, «state regulators around the country have not gone as far in controlling industry practices as environmental groups have asked, and there is little sign that the new federal findings will goad them to go farther.»

There may or may not be a God, but if there is, I sure hope he (or she or it) does not go around raising up killers, plying them with semiautomatic weapons, goading them to target practice, encouraging them to plot mass killings and cheering them on as they shoot multiple bullets into screaming 6 - and 7 - year - old children.

As a result of the brief, violent moment of crisis in which it became conscious at once of its creative power and of its critical faculties, humanity has quite legitimately become hard to move: no stimulus at the level of mere instinct or blind economic necessity will suffice for long to goad it into moving onwards.

Given the diversity of seminaries, neither would it be fair to rank them comparatively based on selectivity and other factors that are goads to quality in fields such as business and law.

As part of the concluding remarks of the book, verse 11 reads: «The sayings of the wise are like goads, and like nails firmly fixed are the collected sayings which are given by one Shepherd.»

Ya, your goad, belly told you, word god is short of word goad, belly, every hindu ignorant prays to as deity.

If the views of these theologians are correct, then the good accomplished in redemption lies in a different dimension from the goad realized by human effort, and we can not sustain the thesis that the work of redemption involves as an integral aspect a process in this world, and the actualization of love in this life.

which you then followed by some ridiculous and insulting further perversion of my view as if it can somehow goad me into playing your game anyway.

Each person may be summoned to tasks which seem beyond his or her capability — tasks such as a sojourn through sorrow, a struggle to define the nature of goad and evil, the quest for joy.

There they could gawk and gape and revere, as high schoolers are enabled and goaded to do during spring vacation trips to sacred sites in Washington, D.C. Are the young people in American churches grasping, or able to grasp, this hero?

This claim is frequently presented, whether implicitly or explicitly, as a correlative to the idea that Christianity often as personified by Jesus or less frequently by Paul - was «goad» for women, paid them particular attention, or at least offered them opportunities not otherwise available, to caricature, the ideal of «the Feminist Jesus».60 In an admirable and scholarly article Leonard Swidler has marshaled historical evidences to show convincingly that Jesus was a Feminist.61 The politics of such a view is self - evident, for much study of the subject has developed within a context where women were struggling to establish a proper role for themselves within the contemporary church; to this end they have sought an egalitarian past to act as model for present polity.62

Jones identifies theodicy as the crucial theological category to assess whether or not liberation and process can be characterized as guardian or goading theologies.

A society that safeguards both community and contrast needs some vision that will serve as a lure, that will be a goad to action, and that will offer a goal that is worth achieving.

Between the halves, U.S. Coach Buzz Bennett, an earnest young man but hardly closer to first - rank as a coach than his players, tried to goad his men to better performances by saying, «Don't you guys realize that's a high school team you're playing against?

As woeful as Arsenal have been that third goal really goads mAs woeful as Arsenal have been that third goal really goads mas Arsenal have been that third goal really goads me.

In the second, the Heat bounced back with their full - court press, goading Teague and Cook into poor decisions, as each had short, counterproductive stints.

Hell I might even go as far as to goad the Argentine coaching staff and the players sat on the bench, hell I might even run around like a headless chicken such would be my joy.

Although he has enjoyed goading his Arsenal rival over the years, most notably in 20154 when he described Wenger as a «specialist in failure», Mourinho insists that the only thing that matters tomorrow is the players on the pitch.

But that has limits, and when some try to paint him as an old crackpot, and get away with it because he won't be goaded, I think a line is crossed.

As Leave campaigners looked for a statesmanlike message, the leading Brexiteer was goaded into song.

Klein, meanwhile, has goaded Felder into taking a position on hot - button issues friendly to the Democratic base, such as abortion rights.

The same hubris goaded Kurunmi's tragic unhorsing; just as it is behind the unfolding but spectacular unravelling of the Afenifere gerontocracy, in contemporary Yoruba political country.

How much would Cameron enjoy the opportunity to goad the Eds with the spectre of Brown's ghost loitering palely around the arras as they try to present a new beginning for Labour?

Ablakwa however mentioned constant goading from the host of the program as a key reason why Anyidoho was provoked to make those pronouncements.

ALBANY — After trying just about everything else to goad Gov. Cuomo into a debate, Republicans adopted a new tactic Monday — they depicted him as the Cowardly Lion from «The Wizard of Oz.»

As federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York he hit hard at both parties, taking down former Democratic Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos, the former Republican State Senate majority leader, and often reveled in the spotlight as he gleefully goaded those accused of corruption or grafAs federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York he hit hard at both parties, taking down former Democratic Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos, the former Republican State Senate majority leader, and often reveled in the spotlight as he gleefully goaded those accused of corruption or grafas he gleefully goaded those accused of corruption or graft.

Terry Bernardo, chairwoman of the county legislature for two years, sat quietly rereading her acceptance speech as the convention wound down toward adjournment before goading her nominators into acting.

In a study published earlier this year, the same Belmonte and Gage lab team demonstrated that a few ES cells in a culture dish tended to lose stemness and evolve into muscle cell precursors, most likely goaded by a muscle differentiation factor known as BMP.

I have been a lemon water loyalist ever since I was goaded by my mother into trying it as a teenager.

Young British actress Letitia Wright brings a playful, quicksilver quality to her role as T'Challa's teenage sister, who goads and teases him relentlessly.

The other factor leading to Darwin's creative block was the death, seven years earlier, of his daughter Annie at age 10; in scenes where Darwin is visited by the goading spirit of Annie (newcomer Martha West) and finally in the film's keening climax in the town where she died, «Creation» seems as neurotically focused on her passing as Darwin was.

«The World's End» bring us a leather - jacketed Simon Pegg as Gary King, a bad boy well past his sell - by date who goads four old chums into recreating a 12 pint hometown pub crawl.

Martin McDonagh's best movie to date, Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri follows Frances McDormand's grieving Mildred as she erects the title objects to goad the town's sheriff (Woody Harrelson's Willoughby) into solving her daughter's murder - with the narrative also weaving in such periphery characters as Sam Rockwell's dimwitted Dixon and Lucas Hedges» pragmatic Robbie.

When Margot is goaded into climbing that tree (suspected to be rotting, the tree doctor gives it a clean bill of health), which stands as sentinel between the childhoods better remembered and the present better forgotten, and finds herself stuck there with a bug crawling into her ear, there is, stark and indelible, the feeling that we've come somewhere in our process of grief — past vengeance, into despair, no looking back.

A long anecdote told by Warren, which mockingly recalls forcing Smithers» doomed, naked son to fellate him on a freezing Wyoming prairie (shown in an accompanying flashback), goads the slower Smithers to draw on him, but it feels as if Tarantino has exploited Confederate atrocities to serve his brand of reclamation by irony.

Barry Levinson's riotous 1982 classic depicted a diner as the place where middle - class guys goad each other to release their inhibitions.

Like Luis Buñuel and Michael Haneke before him, Lanthimos creates looking - glass worlds as a way of goading us into reconsidering everyday presumptions — here picking apart the social fetishisation of the couple, considering whether pairing - off in practice means faking it to match a prospective partner's nesting checklist.

As with much of Payne's work, you're never sure whether the director is goading you into pitying his beaten - down characters or feeling affection for them — a tension that's long produced a bittersweetness often mistaken for outright misanthropy.

A chance meeting with Billy Bob Thornton, as shady Lorne Malvo, goads him into violently lashing out and embracing a life of slippery deceit.

The performance is so exuberant it almost leaves the film with nowhere to turn, but Fiennes is also sly at suggesting hidden agendas and a goading neediness as Guadagnino clouds the scene with ominous intimations of possessive, lusty jealousy.