Sentences with phrase «at characters saying»

So I guess I'm no longer naive enough to just laugh at characters saying fuck at me.

Not exact matches

«I'm working to create a space where it feels easy to include and imagine black girls and make black girls like me the main characters of our lives,» Dias said at Forbes» Women Summit in New York City last year.

Founders Fund had a manifesto that once said, «We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters,» a ding at Twitter that expressed his disappointment with what he considered a lack of big ideas from startups.

«Making eye contact even with a character on a cereal box inspires powerful feelings of connection,» said Brian Wansink, a professor at Cornell's Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management.

Holiday parties are typically set up to play against introverts» natural character, but Zack says understanding your strengths can help introverts survive and thrive at holiday get togethers.

Bennett says he reads even more children's books («at least two a day») with his daughter, who serves as the basis for his own books» main character.

Ida - Gaye Warburton, who worked on Malvo's defense team while a law student at Washington & Lee University, said being able to track down both expert and character witnesses, who knew Malvo independently of Muhammad, was key to the defense.

At a recent business - blog conference, Jupiter Research vice president Michael Gartenberg said today's single word of advice to Dustin Hoffman's character in The Graduate wouldn't be «plastics» but «Weblogs.»

Because Gilliam says they're «looking at the person first and the business second,» contestants are put through various challenges to test their character and ideas in situ.

«For our purposes, we have a character that's natural at building empathy, whose story inspires passion and understanding about the world and a desire to help and participate,» Grenier says.

But Lewis Ward, video game analyst at IDC, says it doesn't matter which popular character Nintendo focuses on.

«You look at what Trump says about America First, and most of it is very international in character and has a great deal of continuity with, say, US national security policy under Clinton, Bush, and in many ways even under Obama,» he says.

Jennifer Aaker, the General Atlantic Professor of Marketing at Stanford GSB, says that people embrace and remember narratives, which can be rich with characters, emotions, or actions, far more than they recall facts and data.

This is a fun character because he acts like such a idiot at times, but then out of no where he says something that is rather profound or makes an astute observation.

«We are elated to be celebrating RBC Foundation's transformational gift in support of the Museum and our shared commitment to cultural diversity and its role in shaping the character of our nation,» said Marie Chapman, CEO of the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21.

Its second top post, posted to the subreddit r / BlackPeopleGifs, is a clip taken from the episode of Saturday Night Live immediately after the 2016 election, in which Dave Chappelle expresses mock incredulity at a character who says that «America is racist.»

At WrestleMania 33, World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: WWE), its fans and shareholders said goodbye to one of the most successful characters in the history of the business: the Undertaker.

I wouldn't say that God is beyond gender; I would say that He comprehends gender, which is to say that both masculinity and feminity find their source in God, that they are both equally valid revelations of God's character, and that they may both be twisted into something that is not God's character at all (through chauvinism and extreme feminism).

If in the case of the movie Contact again, even if Foster's character stayed with him, bought him presents, took care of him when sick, got him b - day cards or cried at his funeral, someone could always say «Well she could be a psychopath and is just pretending to love him because its expected of her or she expects to get something out it like inheritance.»

f The more original Biblical reference to retaliation was from the mythical character Jesus (invented by Constantine at the first council at Nicaea in 325, and modeled after his own «prophet» the Sun God, Mithra, and named Jesus Christos to combine the Celtic God Hesus and the Indian God Krishna, whose Latin name was Christos, into one God) who said «turn your other cheek» (when struck in the face).

One way to illustrate the full scope of this problem would be to look more closely at the horizonal character of the ecstatic past in contrast with the past of the ordinary interpretation of time, which is only understood by negative contrast with the present.5 Here Mason, apparently following Whitehead, allows us to make a particularly striking contrast: we can never change the past» he says (p. 95), meaning to evoke what Heidegger calls Dasein's «facticity» and to compare it with the objectivity with which perished actual occasions confront the concrescing actual entity in Whitehead.

When you look at the heart of what some Millennials are saying, they want to be god (litte «g»), so they don't have to obey God's commands or submit to His principles, character and laws.

and to those who say that believing in God at worst, costs nothing, well, thanks, but I'm not wasting my entire life ignoring the existing planet in exchange for telling a make believe character how great he is.

«I recently spoke at a university where a student told me it was such a shame that Nigerian men were physical abusers like the father character in my novel,» says Adichie with a wry smile, «I told him that I had just read a novel called «American Psycho» and that it was such a shame that young Americans were murderers.»

This is the concept of that beyond which thought can not go, in which it completes its search for understanding, at which it really affirms only itself, and through which it relates all else.2 Leaving aside his views on its historical character, this is what R. G. Collingwood seems to be suggesting when he says that Anselm's argument does not prove «that because our idea of God is an ideal of id quo maius cogitari nequit therefore God exists, but that because our idea of God is an idea of id quo maius cogitari nequit we stand committed to belief in God's existence.

Berry's character Jayber Crow says, «To feel at home in a place, you have to have some prospect of staying there.

Jeremy i was stumped to on this one as well so i asked the holy spirit to help me i looked at alot of different possibilitys commentarys really werent any help apart from the background.Thinking that Jesus was somehow implicated with satan in any way seemed to be a contradiction of who he was.The holy spirit revealed that to understand these types of passages we can fully trust that God is who he says he is he he does nt change his character or who he is.He is almighty holy trustworthy faithful and more.

He said the portion of the book most offensive to Muslims «happens in a dream, the fictional dream of a fictional character, an Indian movie star, and one who is losing his mind, at that.

«Its happy optimism, its gaiety, its love of good - natured fun» has been overlooked by most of its commentators, he says: «They have invested the Song with a serious edifying character which does not fit it at all.

God, transcendent and immanent, above all yet in all; God, forthgoing in the sublime and challenging character of Christ; God, no abstract essence only, but the Spirit who can strengthen us with might in the inner man, so that, as Paul dared say, we «may be filled with all the fullness of God» — if one is going to believe in God at all, what richer, more comprehensive, and sustaining idea and experience of him can one imagine than that?

But it is evident that these did not satisfy the demands of the Christian community, for the four writings which were selected as authoritative have the character of narratives into which sayings are inserted at suitable or significant points.

So I guess you would be fine with a student at a high school graduation getting up to the podium and saying «I would like to take this moment to reflect on how strength of will and character helped all of us to graduate today, and please join with me for a moment of reflection at how amazingly the human race has evolved, to this point of passing on our collective knowledge to each new class, and to hope that we add to it, for if we do not, the future may be very dim.

To say that God is without any limitation is to say that there is no God at all, for to have any nature or any character or any meaning there must be limitation to this rather than that.

Thirdly, Niebuhr said that the last judgment is at the end of history, showing the double character of all historical striving.

«If you believe that government has the responsibility to promote the common good and general welfare and moral good of the society and it's ordained by God to do that, then for me, I would probably want someone with character and is interested in those questions at least,» he said.

At the founding of the University of Berlin, Humboldt was explicit in saying that, in making the faculty of arts and sciences central, the research university had the same overarching goal as that of ancient Athens» paideia: it «transforms the character.»

The popstar - whose boy band at the height of their fame in the nineties, sold 25 million records worldwide - said his rebellious character was enhanced when he joined the group in 1993.

Other writers want the story line to be true to the character, and still others seek «an omnidirectional assault on anything that is sacred — hypocrisy will be mocked at all times,» he said.

As a student of literature, I'd like to say that it is Austen's subtle satire, masterful character development, and nuanced prose that draws me to her romantic comedies... but at the end of the day, it's probably just the girly thrill of seeing who ends up marrying whom.

A faulty reference is thereby created at the beginning of sentence 3, where it is said that «By reason of its character as a creature,... it receives a reaction from the world.»

I found in Ford far more than I had hoped for: a writer who, by his own account, had «apprenticed» himself to America; whose stories and characters so spring from their landscapes and physical situations as to personify the spirit of the motels, roadside bars, lakes and highways where we encounter them; and who may well be, as his friend Raymond Carver (who died last summer) said, «sentence for sentence... the best writer at work in this country today.»

From my perspective, I may say that Whitehead has described God's operations at the level of creativity - characterization, at the level where God helps shape the character of the world in very specific ways, including its moral, aesthetic, natural, and cultural qualities.

But let's say I am extremely well - catechised and refer to my sins with the chilling self - awareness of a character in a Graham Greene novel, while you are perplexed by the Church's teaching and are currently overburdened with stress at work, which makes it hard to think straight.

Robespierre's address to the Commune of Paris at the convention of 1793 evidences that his Supreme Being also had this same character: «L'homme pervers se croit sans cesse environné d'un témoin puissant et terrible anquel il ne peut échapper, qui le voit et le veille, tandis que les hommes sont livrés au sommeil...» (F. A. Aulard, Le Culte de la raison et le culte de l'Être Supreme (Paris, 1892), pp. 285 f.) How can one isolate this «structure» and separate it from its biblical antecedents, when — to cite only one of the many passages — one can read in the book of Isaiah (29:15): «Woe to those who hide deep from the Lord their counsel, whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, «Who sees us?

If this be the highest thing that can be said of man and of his existence, then the ethical has the same character as man's eternal blessedness, which to all eternity and at every instant is his telos, since it would be a contradiction to say that this might be abandoned (i.e. teleologically suspended), inasmuch as this is no sooner suspended than it is forfeited, whereas in other cases what is suspended is not forfeited but is preserved precisely in that higher thing which is its telos.

I understand that they have said that (in probably one of the greatest doctrinal about faces in history) but when you look at the official Catholic Catachism, it is still riddled with references to Adam and Eve, Noah and the other cast of mythical characters.

«The National Hotel remains as one of the destinations of choice in Miami Beach due to its original character, as well as the devotion of our staff in offering genuine and authentic service to make our friends and guests feel truly at home with the classic feel and warmth that a historic, classic hotel can offer,» General Manager Yaser Mohamad says.

«At Idylwilde, we carry over 200 cheeses from all over the globe, each with its own character, family and flavor,» the company says.

The character of design has its own attitude toward localism, with less of a systematic approach typically seen in most quickserve models,» said Jesse MacDougall, senior project manager at ICRAVE.

Also you'd have to say that we should be stronger mentally speaking with us adding strong characters who led at their previous clubs.