Sentences with phrase «as inquisitor»

Hearings and trials are managed by the presiding judge acting as inquisitor rather than her traditional role as passive auditor of such evidence as the parties choose to present.

It gives the impression that there's actually an organised challenge to the increasing influence of environmental ideology, giving him a role as its inquisitor.

Seeing the Hawke I had played as in Dragon Age 2 and talking with him, now playing as the Inquisitor, was surreal.

As an Inquisitor, the player also has rights normal citizens don't and also «agents» who they can send to investigate or act on their behalf.

Apart from an infiltration of the Ministry of Magic, where the evil Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes), his Death Eaters, and other power - hungry bureaucrats (including Harry's old foe Dolores Umbridge (Imelda Staunton), who fits in quite well as an inquisitor) have taken over the government, printing propaganda pamphlets of the impurity of half - blood and muggle - born witches and wizards, the three are alone.

I would consider Tadanobu Asano as the good cop for awards consideration and perhaps also Issey Ogata as the Inquisitor, but also Ya?suke Kubozuka as Kichijiro who gave up his Christianity and then gained some silver for turning Rodrigues in.

Eschewing the panel's normal role as inquisitor, Pryor's first question was a polite, «Can you tell us about your research, and what a Bose - Einstein condensate is?»

These people do not know each other, which leads me to view them as inquisitors (or probably acolytes) of some religious Global Warming cult, armed with good sounding arguments to convince the unbelievers, and when that fails to use stronger methods.

Scientists have been patient and respectful, and normally get treated as inquisitors in her responses.

Not exact matches

He cut off the inquisitors in favor of softer questions not as immediate to the company's current financial difficulties.

If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.

Yes, you are correct that the religious leaders of Christendom gave their blessing to its members to kill others «in the name of Christ», such as Catholic Dominican inquisitor Tomas de Torquemada (1420 - 98) of Spain, who ruled tyrannically for 15 years (1483 - 98, with the blessings of Pope Sixtus IV [who praise him for «directing his zeal to those matters that contribute to the praise of God»] and Innocent VIII) and saw that over 114,000 (of which 10, 220 were burned at the stake) people were put to death.

If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and enti.tle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.»

It is has become commonplace to regard Ivan Karamazov's «Legend of the Grand Inquisitor» as a prescient parable glorifying human freedom and defending it against the kind of totalitarian threats it would face in the twentieth century.

But when, as in our situation, there is no such coincidence, the believers» vision of society must be imposed on the larger number of unbelievers through force, on the model of the inquisitors and the Hezbollah.

As Ivan Karamazov's Grand Inquisitor tells Christ, the freedom that the gospel brings is too terrible to be borne indefinitely.

The Catholic historian, William Thomas Walsh, even placed Moses as the «first real inquisitor, as a Torquemada would have understood the word» and referred to the Prophet's first descent from Mount Sinai and the slaughter of 3,000 men who had indulged in idolatry around the Golden Calf.

The fourteenth - century Dominican Inquisitor, Bernard Gui, author of Practica Inquisitionis is famously portrayed in the film version of The Name of Rose as a bloodthirsty fanatic.

Thurneysen reads the whole Grand Inquisitor legend as a modern temptation of Christ by the Devil.

The legend of the Grand Inquisitor is often taken as the spiritual center of the novel.

The Holy Office had such total confidence in its own judgments that the Cardinal Inquisitors responded as follows to Galileo's avoidance of an explicit defense of the Copernican theory in the Dialogue:

Although the most famous passage in his works, and perhaps in all of Russian literature, is the fable of the Grand Inquisitor recounted in The Brothers Karamazov (1880), the Grand Inquisitor has as its prelude a chapter called «Rebellion» that shows Dostoevsky at his most tortured and passionate.

And while this world, all of us, mock you, curse you, blame you, reject you, and accuse you, instead of rising to your own defense and turning the mirror of judgment and justice upon us, you instead listen patiently and intently, just as Dostoevsky described in the Grand Inquisitor, and respond with a kiss.

Santorum the Sanctimonious does not have the right to judge but he sets himself up as the Grand Inquisitor:

Given the Grand Inquisitor's anti-Orthodox conception of freedom as unencumbered self - determining choice, it is not surprising that he should have contempt for the average run of men.

In Jean Anouilh's play «The Lark,» the inquisitor declares in effect that the thing which made Joan of Arc dangerous was not that she had visions, but that she had dared to trust in herself as a human being.

The Church's understanding of its witness to the gospel of Christ as that of the crusader and the inquisitor, and the goal of its evangelistic activity as proselytisation, was admirably suited to the theology of the colonial era, and conformed to the practices of imperialist expansion of the major western powers in Asia.

The «devil,» who is regarded by the inquisitors as the center of this cult, is always male.

Though Rhagium inquisitor isn't exactly a pretty insect, it is pretty tough: It can survive temperatures as low as − 25 °C in Siberia by synthesizing RiAFP.

Description: In the second video of the four - part series, two of the most iconic classes in the Star Wars universe face off as the Force - wielding Sith Inquisitor ambushes the stalwart Republic Trooper.

In the second video of the four - part series, two of the most iconic classes in the Star Wars universe face off as the Force - wielding Sith Inquisitor ambushes the stalwart Republic Trooper.

Co-written with three - time collaborator Jay Cocks, Scorsese's appropriately expansive treatment deals with some upsetting material in a refreshingly blunt but unbiased manner, as emphasized by the numerous observational shots taken at a distance from the violence visited upon the innocent by merciless shogunates like Inoue The Inquisitor (Issei Ogata).

From the opening section, which finds Harry fending off an attack by Dementors in a storm sewer near his neighborhood and running afoul of wizard rules prohibiting spell - casting in the presence of Muggles, through the installation of a chillingly polite authoritarian named Dolores Umbridge (Imelda Staunton) as Hogwarts» new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher and future grand inquisitor, to the near - collapse of the wizard world's governing body, the increasingly ossified and timid Ministry of Magic, Phoenix is steeped in a mix of fear and futility confirmed by the movie's visuals, photographed by cinematographer Slawomir Idziak.

Goya's Ghosts starts its first half in Spain in the year 1792, amid the tension of the French Revolution, where Francisco Goya (Skarsgard, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest), one of the country's most famous of painters, has drawn the suspicious eye of the Spanish Inquisitors, who see some of his work as possible representations of evil.

The villains are also interesting, in no small part due to some hidden motivations — I'm very curious to see what the masked Jin and Inquisitor Mórag do as the story moves along.

The simplicity of her message is seen by the inquisitors as a threat to the church, a devil's deception, and there is only one place it can end: in a public burning.

Those familiar with Lu's wildly popular Legend series will recognize the author's propensity to include multiple perspectives, and here those viewpoints include other members of the Young Elites and their rebel leader, as well as the queen's Inquisitor, who is hunting them all.

Classes are much the same as they were in D: OS; you pick an archetype (wayfarer, inquisitor, knight, etc.) and can from there shape every aspect of your character as you see fit.

As previously covered, the expansion includes a level cap bump to 100, the Inquisitor and Necromancer masteries, two new story chapters, cosmetic gear system, new factions, new environments, new items, and a bigger stash.

No matter whether you're thinking of returning to the grand adventures of the Inquisitor once more to help settle the civil unrest within the land of Thedas, or you're a newcomer yet to find out the story behind the mysterious tear in the sky known as the «Breach», one thing is for certain, you're probably going to want to get in on the whole story... right?

Those of us who were looking forward to the release of Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor — Martyr will be a little disappointed as Neocore Games have announced the release date has been pushed back from 11th May to 5th June.

That Bioware chose to make the Inquisitor an amputee felt to me like something obligatory rather than something genuinely necessary, as if it was a decision made separate from the scenes that followed where he claimed that he had a world to save.

But if Dragon Age 4 comes around and the Inquisitor isn't given the opportunity to finish their own fight because there's a perception that that is «how it has to be,» I may have to close the book on my own Dragon Age story, as it's not one that Bioware seems intent on telling.

As the very first Action - RPG set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, Inquisitor — Martyr will let you control an Inquisitor in the Caligari Sector, a region infested with heretics, mutants, and Chaos Daemons.

Those drawn to the dark side can choose from a variety of classes as well, including the Bounty Hunter, Sith Warrior, Imperial Agent or Sith Inquisitor.

We're guessing the creator of Optical Inquisitor has, as the it borrows the look, concept, and violent death scenarios from the 2012 shooter.

Warhammer 40K Inquisitor — Martyr, as suggested by the title, will allow players to become an Agent of the Emperor's Inquisition.

Once players have proven their worth to the crew of the Ghost, they'll take on the Inquisitor as the climax of this event.

Thanks for the BBC link, however I think Myron Ebell in the quote at the end, («put science on trial»), portrayed himself as an «Inquisitor» of science.

Like mad Inquisitors, they pounce on imagined clues... torturing the data — as the old joke goes about economists — till the data confess.