Sentences with phrase «atoning for»

He plots martyrdom, as if a misguided saint calling attention to and atoning for a polluted and degraded planet.

There's a subplot involving Tatiana's crush on Denny (Jackson Beard), a fundamentalist Christian who likes reading books with graphic descriptions of Hell, writes heavy metal songs about his beliefs, and, in one scene, displays a twisted way of atoning for his sins (attempting to carve a cross on his chest, before he's interrupted by his father).

The issue is human trafficking, and as a way of apparently atoning for the movie's tendency to brush aside the consequences of that real - life horror, writer / director Deon Taylor provides us with some numbers just before the end credits roll.

At its heart is Jessie Buckley's prim Moll, a twenty - something living on the U.K. island of Jersey, where she's atoning for a past mistake that her controlling mom (Geraldine James) holds over her.

Diane's life seems entirely devoted to the needs of others, suggesting that she's either a saint or atoning for some perceived transgression.

The movie was written and directed by Paul Weitz, who has spent the seven years since giving the world American Pie atoning for his cultural sins.

Moreover, the 3D family film marks a new milestone in Scorsese's career, and it's likely the Academy is still atoning for waiting until The Departed to reward him.

Jeremy Irons in «Reversal of Fortune» seemed to me to be the Academy atoning for a «Dead Ringers» snub, for which he won the New York Film Critics Circle award for Best Actor.

Fishburne meanwhile has the hardest job, transforming Mueller from pious walking cliché into valued friend atoning for past sins.

A cynic might say Singer is atoning for having penned the Julian Assange biopic The Fifth Estate; as for the director, one assumes he's not making up for the cinematic war crime of having helmed The Cobbler so much as doing penance for playing a poorly drawn journo in The Wire's final newsprint - stained season.

The chemistry between the main players is it's own kind of special effect, atoning for the familiar story beats as the group make their way up the Eastern seaboard.

«Marty's new film is so tonally different from what he last put out it made me feel like I was atoning for all those good times I had with Jordan Belfort and company in his Wall Street - based bacchanalian.

Zaror, who made a memorable but all too brief appearance in last year's Machete Kills, stars in this Chilean - set tale of a hit - man turned vigilante who takes the law into his own hands in hopes of atoning for his previous sins.

Nor does it go well for bystanders like Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman, never better), hounded for fifteen years for stealing a loaf of bread and more interested in atoning for his sins than mixing it up with the local dragoons.

And whether he is atoning for previous sins or demonstrating that he knew what he was doing all along, Tarantino makes a potent and powerful statement about racial stereotype and racist language.

Where «Amores Perros» was a feast of energy, wit and imagination, 21 Grams is like a starvation diet — a movie that wallows so profoundly in its own misery that watching it is like atoning for some sin you didn't commit.

It's not a bad record — if nothing else it goes some way to atoning for the disappointment of AC / DC rather than Ghostface landing on the Iron Man 2 soundtrack — but it could have been so much more.

While Jones is atoning for his abandonment of his white family and Maggie is learning to value his very useful Indian «magic» (beads and totems, as well as some chanting and conjuring, mixed in with Bible reading by Dot).

While Jones is atoning for his abandonment of his white family and Maggie is learning to appreciate his very useful Indian «magic» (beads and totems, as well as some chanting and conjuring, mixed in with Bible reading by Dot).

Sirigu then made one of the saves of the season from Karim Benzema before half - time, atoning for his earlier error.

Koscielny came close to atoning for his earlier mistake as he crashed a header off the post in stoppage time, with Brighton hanging on to their lead as Stuart Attwell blew for half - time.

However, they were able to seal all three points with Carlos Bacca atoning for wasting some earlier chances with a drilled finish after some impressive play from Giacomo Bonaventura.

Atoning for 1969, Rex Kern and a galvanized Ohio State mauled Michigan; the offense was unleashed and the defense held fast

While I view table fellowship with God as the constant over the whole range, atoning for human failure is at least a part of what God provides for in sacrifice.

Not until he has confessed his crime as a sin (to another priest), and his sin as crime (to police), and not until he has accepted and undergone the punishment that is his due, thereby atoning for his sin and his crime, can he be fully redeemed.

Surely in the example of love Christ has shown, by ransoming us and atoning for our sins, he has demonstrated divine love in such a way that we, for our part, are moved to repent and be reconciled to God.

«We use vitamins as insurance policies against whatever else we might (or might not) be eating, as if by atoning for our other nutritional sins, vitamins can save us from ourselves,» Catherine Price, a science reporter, wrote in the book «Vitamania.»

«Shakespeare this ain't, and Gears 3 struggles at times with its forced attempts at heart - string pluckery, but I can forgive it as much; gore - starved guns adorned with toothy chainsaws easily atone for any cheesiness suffered along the way... the Gears 3 story continues with what amounts to a blood - drenched tale of woe, suffering, loss and absolution, cathartica that stands out in harsh relief when framed by the»80s era Schwarzenegger - ness of most of the dialogue.

The exchange suggests Facebook isn't ready to fully change its business model to atone for its many sins.

On the last day of Yom Kippur, Zuckerberg atones for his own failings in a Facebook post but also mentions unspecified instances of others abusing Facebook for divisive means: «For those I hurt this year, I ask forgiveness and I will try to be better.

In the diner, Betty says maybe Svenson's backward thinking of attacking sinners to atone for his mistakes made him do it, but attacking Betty for it makes no sense.

«I promise to atone for it for the rest of my life.»

... Isaiah 52:14 - 15 It was foretold long ago that Messiah / Jesus would atone for the sins of the world.

This atoned for our sins.

Personally, I don't need to atone for my sins.

Had he not died to atone for the sins of man, Christianity wouldn't exist, or would have survived only as a crank Jewish cult.

To atone for the nation's historic sins against the Church, Russians should protect the Church and enter into its life.

There are no traps as past, present and future sins are atoned for.

You didn't mean that Lucas did something he needs to atone for, did you?

Plenty of people with a lot of sins and crimes to atone for go to churches.

We believe that Jesus, as God's Son, came to earth to atone for our sins.

I am a practicing Mormon and we believe that Jesus died on the cross to atone for our sins and make it possible to return to live with him in the next life.

That's why he sent his Son, Jesus, to atone for our sins — to fulfill an unchangeable law (where bad choice equals bad consequences) and to make it possible for all of us to return to God.

In the Old Testament (O.T.) various offerings were made to God to atone for our sins.

However, I am Catholic and I atone for about 40 days in Spring also.

Since Jesus atoned for our sins by carrying love for enemy to the ultimate degree, a refusal to follow his example at this point not only involves a denial of scriptural authority; it also constitutes a questionable doctrine of the atonement.

@heatherjochens I would atone for my laziness and impatience.

In the spirit of the holiday, we put the question «What would you atone for?»

Perhaps atone for his sins through hard labor.

They served to atone for intentional and accidental transgressions, including those against the Sabbath.