Sentences with phrase «at ordinary men»

«This is a fascinating look at an ordinary man and the lengths he will go to in order to right the wrongs of the world, including the sacrifice of a personal life.

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Ordinary faces belong to the great multitude: a young girl at Columbine high school; the man who used retirement funds to pay for a mission trip to Haiti to build a house; the corporation accountant who reported the manipulation of numbers; countless others.

At the beginning, a physical organism, whose life - principles were breath and blood, whose mental and emotional experiences were the functions of bodily organs, the ordinary man was submerged in the corporate mass of his tribe, without individual status, separate hopes, personal rights, or claim on divine care apart from the group.

There are royal psalms voicing the festival spirit of celebration at the court, praying for help in the king's need and for blessing on the king's rule, and there are psalms in which the common man poured out his hope and trust in God amid the ordinary happiness, suffering, and drudgery of daily life.

But we really don't have any more proof at all to believe that Paul, the self - proclaimed «apostle» was anything more than an ordinary man who needed to make up religious «sales literature» to survive and spread his own personal beliefs.

While the former aims at the restoration of «true man,» «original man,» the goal of the latter was the transcendence of the human condition, the acquisition of some degree of freedom from the needs or laws that determine ordinary human life by assimilation to a radically different state of being [The Heating Journey (Pantheon, 1973) p. 17].

The ordinary man can, and at times does, break through «from the status of the dully - tempered disagreeableness, obstinacy, and contraryness» in which he lives into an effective reality.

But religious love is only man's natural emotion of love directed to a religious object; religious fear is only the ordinary fear of commerce, so to speak, the common quaking of the human breast, in so far as the notion of divine retribution may arouse it; religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge; only this time it comes over us at the thought of our supernatural relations; and similarly of all the various sentiments which may be called into play in the lives of religious persons.

The devotionof the Seven Churches, in fact, brings together various of the themes we have already discerned in looking at St Philip's methods: it was distinctively Christian and prayerful, allowed for healthy exercise and good spirits alongside its primary purpose of pilgrimage, and was a practical way of getting ordinary young men out of danger's way at a time of potential spiritual hazards.

Now comes the gist of the matter: if he is able to admit this embellishment, he does not lose all of his infatuating power; when he reveals himself as a plain ordinary man, and bald at that, he does not thereby lose the loved one.

For I would add, «I have no faith at all, I am by nature a shrewd pate, and every such person always has great difficulty in making the movements of faith — not that I attach, however, in and for itself, any value to this difficulty which through the overcoming of it brought the clever head further than the point which the simplest and most ordinary man reaches more easily.»

But if this is true of «ordinary» species, what duration may we not look for in the case of Man, that favored race which, by its intelligence, has succeeded in removing all danger of serious competition and even in attacking the causes of senescence at the root.

As a matter of fact, he had not said anything of the kind, but evidently the word «resurrection» conjured up in the minds of the men the stained glass windows in their parish churches back at home, where, in flagrant contradiction to St. Paul (1 Cor 15:36: «Thou fool»), the resurrection of the dead is depicted in ordinary human and terrestrial categories.

Whether he has ever seen a devil, as Mantel did as a girl — «It has no edges, no mass, no dimension, no shape except the formless; it moves» — is ultimately unimportant; his novels are the work of a man who believes in devils, or at least in their possibility, and the possibility that one of his ordinary Americans could encounter one by chance.

«At least in today's statistical terms, Cade McNown was pretty ordinary, but man, did he look great to my 15 - year old eyes, which made the possibility of the local team going to the national championship kind of fun until Edgerrin James was all like, â $ ˜ Nope.»

You are looking at it from your point of view as an ordinary everyday man looking at the huge sums of money involved.

It is, instead, the ordinary man who sets up the children's church room Sunday mornings or who you see mowing your elderly neighbor's yard or who shows up at your house unasked after a summer storm, chainsaw in hand and ready to work.

This presents a great sense of uncertainty to the ordinary man who wakes up at dawn and leave for work without any arms for self - defense.

It was self - effacing in places but clear in terms of saying, here's the choice at the next election: Cameron, who stands up for the wrong people, for tobacco over the cancer charities, [or] Ed Miliband the man on the side of ordinary families worried about their energy bills.

We think that Miller's «ordinary military equipment» language must be read in tandem with what comes after:» [O] rdinarily when called for [militia] service [able - bodied] men were expected to appear bearing arms supplied by themselves and of the kind in common use at the time.»

What became dangerous for the security of this country was the impunity with which some people were doing it (abusing their office), but however beautiful the policies are, until you are able to translate all of those to food and jobs in the homes of the ordinary man and woman, it is still at the theoretical stage.

«It is completely impossible to implement government policies or programmes or to ensure the benefits of economic programmes or the benefits of democracy will ever reach the ordinary man if corruption continues at the level it has been in previous years.

«It is completely impossible to implement government policies or programmes or to ensure the benefit of economic programmes or the benefits of democracy will ever reach the ordinary man if corruption continues at the level it has been in previous years.

The NPP, has been at pains seeking to have Ghanaians see him as an ordinary man, after years of being seen snobbish and arrogant.

Meeting single men online at free online dating sites is ordinary these days.

The best place to meet men are not at the general places where ordinary people are roaming here and there Most men are not exactly in a relaxed state of mind when they do their grocery shopping.

Emmett is a lovable, ordinary construction worker Lego man who takes everything at face value.

We at The A.V. Club were somewhat skeptical of Hanks» ability to portray an ordinary man who must overcome extraordinary odds, in part...

We at The A.V. Club were somewhat skeptical of Hanks» ability to portray an ordinary man who must overcome extraordinary odds, in part because he'd once befriended a volleyball.

Critical accolades notwithstanding, this is a rather ordinary film about an ordinary man who met an extraordinary one, or at least claimed to.

The man who co-founded the naturalism - loving Dogme 95 manifesto with Lars von Trier is at his best when putting ordinary people into low - key situations that slowly become melodramatic.

Fruitvale Station, which won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at this year's Sundance Film Festival, looks past the media frenzy to the life of the victim, portraying him as an ordinary man with friends and family who loved him.

Making its debut at the Austin Film Festival, Brad Silberling's latest An Ordinary Man is yet another film... Read More

Making its debut at the Austin Film Festival, Brad Silberling's latest An Ordinary Man is yet another film spotlighted because of its male lead.

The premise of the original short story is that an ordinary man escapes into his imagination to get away from the mundane experiences in everyday life — and honestly, at a time when unemployment is rampant and wealth disparity is so enormous, that's an idea that could be amazingly resonant to many people.

While drug and alcohol use may be common at most guy's weekends, this one is not ordinary, and the audience is shown the very real consequences of a group of men who are coming a bit unhinged.

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Joel Edgerton stars in this quiet, restrained real - life drama from director Jeff Nichols as Richard Loving, an ordinary working - class white man who found himself at the centre of a legal storm when he married his African American wife, Mildred (Ruth Negga), in 1950s Virginia.

«The various AQA English specifications have as their spine texts - To Kill a Mockingbird, Of Mice and Men, The Crucible, An Inspector Calls - where ordinary but principled people stand up for social justice at whatever cost.

A man at the end of an ordinary workday, extracts himself from his upper - middle - class life and turns to foraging in the same affluent suburb where he once lived with his family.

Amazon calls Cat's Cradle «one of Vonnegut's most entertaining novels... filled with scientists and G - men and even ordinary folks caught up in the game [who] chase each other around in search of the world's most important and dangerous substance, a new form of ice that freezes at room temperature.»

- the team has been adding weapons one by one because they want the same amount of attention for each weapon - the team learned that when they added two new weapons at once, one would end up getting overshadowed by the other - there were more new stages than returning stages because bringing back old stages would have little surprise - since they want to satisfy both new and returning players, they changed the order of stage additions - there weren't any major direction changes in balancing from Splatoon 1 - there have been more pattern combinations between weapons and stages, so there was more involved to balance them all - matchmaking is handled by getting 8 players with similar rank points, and then they're split by weapons - the rank point gap between S + players is bigger than ordinary players - only about one in 1,000 active players are in the S +40 to S +50 region in Ranked Battles - there's even less than one in 10 players that reach S +, while 80 % of the overall player base are in A or less - about 90 % of S + ranked players are within a + / -150 hidden ranked power range - rock was the popular genre in Splatoon, so they tried changing it for the sequel - they prioritized making good background music first before forming the band to play that music - the design team would make the CD jacket - like artwork afterwards - due to this, the band members would often change; some getting added while some others removed - Off the Hook is an exception, as they first decided they would be a DJ and rapper along with their visuals first - Off the Hook's song came afterwards - In Splatoon street fashion was the trend, but in Splatoon 2 they tried adding more uniqueness - the aim was to add Flow with ethnic clothing and Jelfonzo with high fashion - all Jellyfish in this world are born by splitting, which means Jelfonzo was born by splitting from Jelonzo - Jellyfish are like a hive mind - when they hold a wedding ceremony, they're just simply holding the ceremony - Jelonzo and Jelfonzo start gaining their own consciences so they can speak - Flow used her working holiday to go on a trip before reaching Inkopolis Square - during the trip, she met the owner of Headspace - the owner liked her, so she got hired to work there - Bisk has a unique way of speaking: anastrophe - the team tried to express him as an adult man - they made him into a giant spider crab because they wanted someone with high posture - he came from a cold country and broke up with his girlfriend to join a band - just like Flow, he became attracted to squids - Crusty Sean finally has his own shop, but he opened it because he's someone who follows the current trends - one of the trends happens to be people opening their own shops - drink tickets aren't stacked, but the probability is higher than a single brand - the music in Inkopolis Square changes depending on the player's location - sounds contribute to creating atmosphere in the location - the song at front of Grizzco Industries had an atmosphere that feels like some smell can radiate from the game screen - as for Salmon Run, they imagined it as a Japanese restaurant outside Japan that is not run by a Japanese person - each time the player moves between the shops, the game uses an arrange shift that shows the personality of each inhabitant - the arrangement in Shella Fresh is related to Bisk's guitar and mystery files that describe his past - with the Squid Sisters moved to Hero Mode, Off the Hook was put in charge in guiding battles and festivals - Bomb Rush Blush has an orchestra «because it would sound like the final boss» - the team wanted to express the feel of the story's real culprit with this music - the probability of each event occurring in Salmon Run is different - there are no specific requirements, meaning they're picked randomly - this means it's possible for fog to appear three times in a row - the Salmon have different appearances based on the environment they're raised in - if the environment is harsher, they would become large salmon - Steelheads and Maws have big bodies, while Scrappers and Steel Eels have high intelligence - Salmons basically wield kitchenware, but everybody else has a virtue in fighting to actually cook the Salmons - Grill is the ultimate form of this - when Salmons are fighting to the death, they can feel the same sense of unity - they would be one with the world if they were eaten by other creatures, and they also fight for the pride of their race - MakoMart is based on a large supermarket in America - the update also took place on Black Friday in America, which was why Squids are buying a lot of things in the trailer - Arowana Mall looks like it has more passages because there are changes in tenants and also renovation work - Walleye Warehouse has no changes at all, because the team wanted to have at least one map that stayed intact - the only thing different in this map is the graffiti, which is based on the winner of Famitsu's Squid Fashion Contest - all members in the band Ink Theory graduated from music university - they are well - educated girls who also do aggressive things - the band members wearing neckties are respecting the Hightide Era from the prequel - the team will continue adding weapons and stages for a year, and Splatfests for two years - the team will also continue to make more updates including balancing

Burly Men at Sea is a folktale about a trio of large, bearded fishermen who step away from the ordinary to seek adventure.

The protagonist is Edward Turner, an ordinary man with a troubled past, who arrives in the wrong place at the wrong time and he can only survive by staying within the light.

One of TIME's top ten games of the year, Burly Men at Sea is a folktale about a trio of large, bearded fishermen who step away from the ordinary to seek adventure.

Every few minutes, on weekends, a man or woman will run through the gallery, an act at once ordinary and surprising.

Molloy conveys the horrifically unjust nature of their demise — at the hands of their own government — by picturing each man as happily engaged in ordinary day - to - day activities.

Stevovich's images depict ordinary men and women in everyday situations and locations — in restaurants and bars, at the beach, on public transportation — but their gestures and expressions confused the overall logic of the scene, creating a sense of mystery and allowing for a a variety of readings.

PY Clouin will be present during the screening of a 50 - minute program entitled Extra Ordinary Men curated by Stefan St - Laurent which features 21 of his videos from 1995 - 2008 during the Art Star Biennale in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on November 4, at 9 pm.

Starting from his early work Dwelling (2002), in which miniature airplanes fly around through everyday objects in an ordinary apartment, to one of the latest work Lineament (2012), beautiful, film noir - like work featuring amnesia man, Sawa's works have been presented at both solo and group shows all over the world.