Not As Good As: Despicable Me, this year's other animated feature about
a bad man who changes his tune.
Beyond the cliché of
the bad man who wants to end his sordid ways, the film doesn't demonstrate any arc.
He is
a bad man who has sold his soul for wealth and power.
The sequel shares a director with Keanu Reeves» instant cult classic about a bad,
bad man who kills a whole bunch of even worse men to get vengeance for a very good dog, although stuntman - turned - auteur David Leitch's co-direction of John Wick was uncredited.
Gavin Schmidt is a mean,
bad man who did a bad thing.
Not exact matches
They offer classes in personal responsibility and accountability, they teach
men to forgive themselves and to forgive the people
who perpetrated them as children because they all grew up surrounded by
bad influences.
You forget they are prisoners and realize they are
men who have done
bad things and made mistakes -; many of them as teens.
«
Worst thing I ever heard of,» snarled an 87 - year - old
man who had been a dedicated fan of the team, formerly known as the Rock Cats.
Last week, following the publishing of details from Comey's memoir, the president called the former FBI director a «slimeball,» «slippery,» and «a
man who always ends up
badly and out of whack (he is not smart!).»
And as I suggested recently with regard to the Ray Rice scandal, cases involving famous
men doing awful things don't necessarily help us understand the ethical subtlety of the more general problem of whether to fire employees
who do
bad things off the job.
Additional analysis points that when a low - performing female employee switches to work for a high - performing female supervisor from her previous male manager, she actually ends up doing significantly
worse — earning 30.1 % less relative to
men who make the same switch.
The
bad juju goes back further: George Reeves,
who played the
Man of Steel in 1951's «Superman and the Mole
Men» and in the television series «The Adventures of Superman,» died of a self - inflicted gunshot wound in 1959.
The credit belongs to the
man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;
who strives valiantly;
who errs,
who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but
who does actually strive to do the deeds;
who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions;
who spends himself in a worthy cause;
who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and
who at the
worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls
who neither know neither victory nor defeat.
I learned yesterday the extent to which I left these women
who admired me feeling
badly about themselves and cautious around other
men who would never have put them in that position.
But even those
who credit Malhotra for winning Credit Suisse the business said there was no
bad blood between the two
men.
Worse, they were run by executives
who were still viewed as know - it - all baseball outsiders — like the G.M., former management consultant Jeff Luhnow, and the so - called Director of Decision Sciences, the former NASA engineer Sig Mejdal — even though the
men had at that point worked within the game for a decade.
The hearing has all but anointed Carney as Britain's New World saviour — the
man who is tasked with hauling Britain out of its triple - dip recession, seeing it safely through the eurozone crisis and the
worst economic downturn since the great depression.
While the best electric shavers for
men will not be able to give you a perfectly fully smooth face, this isn't necessarily a
bad thing — especially for
men who frequently suffer from pain and irritation.
If you're one of those shaving traditionalists
who scoffs at the idea of those poor
men who still use cheap cartridge razors or
worse still, even cheaper disposables, you can probably stop reading right now as we can assume you already know all there is to know about straight and safety razors.
And that in turn requires trillions and trillions of dollars given by «the neighbors» to the
bad irresponsible
man who burned down his own house.
And all this avalanche was caused by a not very successful attempt by a porn actress Stormy Daniel to make a photo robot of a
man who allegedly threatened her and her daughter if she did not give up attempts to cancel the agreement between her and Donald Trump, forbidding her to publish memories of their not quite platonic relationships, at the time in his life, when he could not imagine himself as President of the United States even in his
worst nightmare.
Don't feel too
bad: The hashtag — #ProgressIs, a take on the carmaker's line «Luxury has progressed» — flashed on the screen for just a second, near the end of a surreal and entertaining ad that featured millionaires trying to escape from a minimum - security prison, and a cameo by,
who else, sax
man and Lite - FM staple Kenny G.
But at best the story can seem frivolous, and at
worst it can feel like a distraction from the damage done by Trump's policy decisions (like, most recently, appointing a
man who has called for war with both North Korea and Iran as national security adviser).
Wu, a champion of open internet and the
man who coined the term «net neutrality,» investigated the speed of Time Warner Cable, Cablevision and Verizon, and while no specific figures were revealed due to the preliminary nature of the results, the early signs look very
bad for Time Warner Cable.
Slippery James Comey, a
man who always ends up
badly and out of whack (he is not smart!)
The
worst one was a
man who had been publically asked to leave a church... and no, he wasn't propositioning anyone or acting improperly, he was just honest about
who he was.
I woudn't want any attractive women or
men who wear smart suits to feel
bad about that.
Instead, we may see them as magisterial figures committed to Scripture and tradition, as
men who were victims not of history but of hatred, the
worst kind of theological odium.
Twain was a
bad man, yes, in some ways, but he was the same mixture of good and
bad as the rest of us, and every other artist and writer
who ever lived, including the saintly ones.
According to the work produced by David B. Barrett's religious statistics organisation (FYI, the
man was a Christian no less) atheists number more than Jews, Sikh's, Shintos, Baha'is, Jains, combined, and if you want to consider all «non - religious / secular / agnostic / atheist» together, since the whole «non-religion» movement is kinda riddled with people
who find conontations of words like «atheist» to be
bad enough to not want to declare themselves atheist, you'll find the number of that non-religious group also amounts more than those religions plus buddhism, and taoism or even Confucianism.
Today CNN also reported that the taliban killed a
man who they thought talked
bad about their prophet.
That
man has been a snake in his professional life, while I don't think making money is a
bad thing, making it off the backs of people
who got laid off is.
There has been much spurious research and false conclusions drawn by those known as «anti-Mormons» to lead people to a
bad impression of a
man who was about as good a
man who ever lived - save Jesus, of course.
A God
who could make good children as easily as
bad, yet preferred to make
bad ones;
who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one;
who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short;
who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it;
who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body;
who mouths justice, and invented hell - mouths mercy, and invented hell - mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell;
who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself;
who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all;
who created
man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for
man's acts upon
man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!
Any comparison between President Obama, a deeply human and compassionate
man, and the mythical figure of the «devil» reflects
badly on those
who would even entertain such an obviously misguided idea.
And bears eat children
who question God's
men (and question = derision = mocking God = you deserve to die, or whatever
bad things might happen — and outside of your «covering» all bets are off, don'tcha know.)
Barack Obama is, for better or
worse, an empathetic
man who has tried for years to see the world through Republican eyes even as he has pleaded for Republicans to walk a few miles in Democratic shoes.
Their status will be
worse than that of the
man who got rid of one devil but did nothing to fill the vacuum the devil's departure had created, allowing the devil to return with seven other devils (Matt.12: 43 - 45).
In other words, he poses the problem of means, but does not hesitate to condone the
worst means: «We must respect every
man who decides to participate.»
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those
who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things
worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed
man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed
man.
This was
badly needed, because the Cathars were making great inroads, appealing to Catholics
who saw in them
men and women
who were living a simple life, many of them in great austerity, and with a spirituality that met an evident thirst among the faithful.
I often get jealous of the people
who «strike it rich» with book deals and conference invitations,
who get the parties and the fame because they were
bad but now they found Jesus, but then I look back over my life, at how far Jesus and I have walked together, what we have been through together, and how we have suffered, and grieved, and rejoiced, and laughed together, and I realize that no book deal, bank account, or applause from
men could ever substitute for what I have with Jesus.
Most memorably of all, «If you want to know the law and nothing else, you must look at it as a
bad man,
who cares only for the material consequences which such knowledge enables him to predict, not as a good one,
who finds his reasons for conduct, whether inside the law or outside of it, in the vaguer sanctions of conscience.»
The majority of Catholic priests are good holy
men who are suffering and paying the price because of a few
bad, just as the majority of coaches and teachers are good people.
Or if you were witness to that lovable young
man's beautiful enthusiasm when he read and heard of the great
men who fought with a heavy destiny and suffered
badly in the world, the glorious ones whom earth renounced because it was not worthy of them, would you dare, when no clamor caused your speech to wander but when the stillness of intimacy, of the lovable one's confidence, the in experience of the young
man, all obliged you to tell the truth; at such a time would you dare lay your hand on your heart and say, «Such things no longer happen.
Therefore, for Altizer, secularization is good insofar as it destroys that God
who is different from
man, but
bad insofar as it also eliminates the religious instinct, the awareness of the Sacred, that divine dimension of experience which is intuited as identical with
man's own ultimate being and destiny.
This obstinacy is like the infantile notion of a child,
who in his lack of judgment even sets up a cleft in the father's nature; for the child imagines that the father is the loving one, that punishment on the other hand is something that a
bad man has invented.
Jesus,
who hung around with 12
men, NEVER trashed gays, but he sure had a lot of
bad things to say about heteros.
But it's even
worse when people
who know them (and the pain, chaos, and deconstruction that have happened as a result) ride the fence and give him an out because he's a
man.
So a magical all - powerful being living in some fantasy world in the clouds created the earth, placed a modern day
man and woman on the earth from whom all humans are modeled in a fantastical garden 4.5 billion years ago, allows «good» people to live in a cloud kingdom where everyone
who has ever died lives (like a Florida retirement community in the sky), and sends «
bad» people to a fiery pit of despair for all eternity.