Sentences with phrase «aunt no»

A prophecy was made to an evil king Kamsa that the eighth son of Devaki his aunt, and wife of Vasudeva, would kill him.

My aunt managed to pass through the coastal town where this took place hundreds of times without stopping to visit, saying it hurt her too much to see her mother like that.

We might fairly conclude that «early infanticide of defective newborns,» or even the mercy killing of poor old Aunt Alice who no longer has the capacity to desire to live, is perfectly legitimate.

Philadelphia Austen, Jane's aunt, had a daughter named Eliza who married a Frenchman, Jean Capot, Comte de Feuillide.

I might believe that the woman who claims to be my mother is in fact my aunt, or that my physics textbook is a conspiracy of lies written by heliocentrists, or that the sense experiences I have are illusions created by an evil demon.

As we gathered by his side to pray, my aunt asked the Rector «what happens next?»

At some point, his aunt's boyfriend threatened him, and Cavonte called my parents to come get him.

In sum, because it treats belief as an atomistic decision taken piecemeal by individuals rather than a holistic response to family life, Nietzsche's madman and his offspring, secularization theory, appear to present an incomplete version of how some considerable portion of human beings actually come to think and behave about things religious — not one by one and all on their own, but rather mediated through the elemental connections of husband, wife, child, aunt, great - grandfather, and the rest.

On the evening following the Pope's Mass in Birmingham beatifying Newman, Aunt Mary rang up my father, who listened with astonishment as she spoke of how she had followed every minute of the papal visit on BBC2.

, I would try to say, «You'll be in my prayers, Aunt Mary,» and she would reply quite confidently, «I don't need your prayers, young man, I am an atheist!»

I drain the tender dumplings in another of Mom's castoffs, a colander I've used for the past 25 years, and serve them in the scalloped stoneware bowl that once belonged to her aunt.

Each summer my family would arrive in Oxford for tea with our elderly Aunt Mary, who habitually relished every opportunity she could find to remind my siblings and me that down the centuries religion has done nothing but cause wars and oppress people in the name of God.

And kudos to both my Aunt Mary and to Pope Benedict for their humility, good will, and mutual respect.

She paid tribute to her cousin and aunt, saying Ms Saye's love for art and her work had «inspired people to do better and make a difference».

«We ask everyone for prayers, because Allen really needs them right now,» Wright's God - aunt, Debbie Lee, said.

Case in point... my wife's aunt was spouting off at the weekend.

If God isn't that reasonable, well, I'll enjoy my time chilling with Nietzche, Buddha, some of my good friends, a few favorite professors, my therapist, my favorite aunt and uncle, Gandhi, some of our founding fathers, and all of those other folks who do not subscribe to Christianity or don't follow it to the letter.

He toldmy aunt [a voluteer carer on the ward] that he felt like walking.

As my wife and I enter our monthly rotation in children's church, we view ourselves as aunt and uncle to every child in there.

I looked at my aunt and said «I'll see you outside» and left the building.

I attended a Pentecostal church with my aunt when I was young.

Talking about Aunt Sally's operation and other stuff.

Whereas «She got off the plane» resolved ten years» worth of Friends» narrative progression, «This is the story about how you're totally in love with Aunt Robin» scrapped everything and started over in the last three minutes of the series.

She looks very much like my aunt who had weighed close to 120 her entire life until her last two years of battling breast cancer ballooned her weight grotesquely.

if you can lie to yourself with immunity, you might be an atheist if you think the indifferent support your side, you might be an atheist if you don't think at all, you might be an atheist if you are drawn to religious discussions thinking someone wants to hear your opinion, you might be an atheist if you copy paste every piece of crap theory you find, you might be an atheist if you think you are right no matter what the evidence shows, you might be an atheist if you can't hold your water when you think about science, you might be an atheist if you can't write the word God, with proper capitalization, you might be an atheist if you think your view has enough support to be a percentage of the seven billion people on earth, you might be an atheist if you think The View has enough support to be a percentage of the seven billion people on earth, you might be an atheist if you live in a tar paper shack, writing manifestos, you might be an atheist if you think you're basically a good person, and your own final authority you might be an atheist if you think your great aunt Tillie was a simian, you might be an atheist if you own an autographed copy of Origin Of The Species, you might be an atheist if you think that when you die you're worm food, you might be an atheist if you think the sun rises and sets for you alone, you might be an atheist if all you can think about is Charles Darwin when you're with your significant other, you might be an atheist if all you can think about is you when you're with your significant other, you might be an atheist if you attend a church but palm the offering plate when it passes, you might be an atheist If think this exhausts all the possibilities of definition, you might be an atheist.

When aunt Sally says that the children are so cute she «could just eat them up» we know that usually «eat» means a literal consuming but in this sense just points out the figurative attractiveness of adorable children.

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Aunt Betty somehow got better... the doctors must have been wrong... they said she had six months and now 15 years later she's still with us and not sick.

They would talk about my great - aunt making wine on her kibbutz and the beautiful city of Haifa where many of my cousins lived.

Her aunt attended a «Brethern» hall and she had the elders of the church come out and annoint her with oil and pray.

Maybe something like this has happened to your best friend's aunt or your colleague's father but not to you.

Yes, Aunt Jenny.

PANK is an acronym for Professional Aunt, No Kids.

Black theology has apparently been dialoguing with everyone except «Aunt Jane» and the black preacher.

In «I'm Not a Spinster Aunt, I'm a PANK,» Allison P. Davis describes the newish phenomenon of «aunthood as a marketing opportunity.»

For Aunt Emily also shares Uncle Will's stern ethical humanism in its paradoxical regard for defeat as its finest justification.

Fortunately, Aunt Sadie in the home doesn't have a bull - horn to yell at people as they pass by outside.

By the Shores of Silver Lake begins with the unanticipated arrival of Aunt Docia at the shanty: «Ma sighed.

Though he admires what Aunt Emily stands for, he can not fathom her single - minded devotion to a goodness that has no ultimate basis.

Much of The Moviegoer's interest centers on the relation between the narrator, a young stockbroker named Binx Bolling, and the aunt who has been his spiritual mentor.

I know I get it from my Aunt for not being a JW.

Finally, however, Boiling can not sustain his antic avoidance of the religious question which Aunt Emily's ethical humanism forces upon him.

If, as Stoics like Aunt Emily believe, he has simply been reabsorbed into the circumambient nothingness, why is human life not absurd and worthless?

Only when Binx himself obliquely receives this gift can he take up the morally responsible life which, in Aunt Emily's ethical humanism, remains without transcendent sanction or support.

My late aunt was.

To be sure, there is the «hot, sweet Catholicism» of his aunt, the «stern and unyielding Calvinism» of the Presbyterian cook, the lukewarm Anglicanism of his boarding school («a religion that «Never Went Too Far»)-- all part of the warmed - over stew of a divided Christendom long past its prime, of which only the «warm gravy of Catholicism retains a little flavor.

My mother and her immediate family escaped but every cousin aunt uncle, friends, neighbors....

Her aunt had wanted to help her,» Bonnie said.

The author (foreground, age 7), his late aunt, Sylvia Blake (left) and other family members outside their Baltimore church.

His mother, his aunt, and his uncle swamped the two Carson boys with toys to try to make up for the departure of his bigamous father.