Sentences with phrase «better than character»

There's nothing better than character in a house.

As we know to a greater and greater extent today, athletes can not be better than their character, and who they are as people will continue beyond their time in athletic competition.

The film, like «Fink,» is a sort of portrait of the artists as young men, and anyone who has, or had, creative ambitions will identify with Davis, who is talented enough to acquit himself (Isaac's performances are excellent: he's arguably better than the character is meant to be), but probably not enough to move up to the next level (like Garrett Hedlund, now that we think about it...).

What could be better than a character - driven Western in which Christian Bale and Russell Crowe spend more time matching wits and swapping philosophies than firing pistols or punching each other?

We find ourselves rooting for the part of her that knows she is better than the character description given to her at birth.

That is, Cormier's «downbeat» conclusion challenges readers to be better than his characters, and to make the real world a more hopeful place than his imagined one.

Fits better than characters like say Shovel Knight or Shantae...

Not exact matches

This year, that's best personified by the world premier of Pee - wee's Big Holiday, Paul Reubens» return to his most famous character after more than two decades.

For better or for worse, people often possess «less than ideal» character qualities or behaviors that make working with or for them intensely challenging.

Not only does the sixth Spider - Man film understand the character better than previous outings, but «Spider - Man: Homecoming» is also genuinely funny while adding an unexpected amount of heart from the unlikeliest of places.

That's fine, though, because what the movie does so well is zero in on its core group of characters while also highlighting that there is a larger world than just them.

If it takes more evidence to accept a change for the better in someone's character than it requires to believe someone has changed for the worse, then equivalent behaviors will warrant punishment while not qualifying for reward.

He's also exploring allowing more than 140 - character tweets — Twitter's signature and some fans say best aspect, in a Facebook - like morph that could fall flat.

Generally, cities and towns with a population less than 20,000 qualify, but bigger cities are eligible if they are «rural in character» or don't have good access to mortgage credit.

In Iowa, Romney did slightly better among the 47 % of the voters who stressed the ability to beat Obama (31 %) or having the right experience (16 %) than did Santorum among the 49 % of the voters who emphasized «true conservatism» (25 %) or «strong moral character» (24 %).

Anything less than this dishonors both the character of men as well as the women and girls we are hoping to protect.

The fact that you say the characters in the bible are more nuanced than characters in the odyssee is, well, it makes me wonder if you've every actually read the bible.

You're wandering off the subject of intelligence and into education, whether or not someone is «better» than another, and now, «character».

@Chuckles «The fact that you say the characters in the bible are more nuanced than characters in the odyssee...» = > well, if you scroll up, it wasnt me saying that, i was quoting another.

Wnen bad things happen to good people they can be used as steping stones to increase their faith and characters, but I don't know how those that are unbelievers view it, other than a «O» well, that's life.»

For instance, a character may change from good to evil (or the reverse), become disillusioned, survive a series of tests, or prove to be more admirable in a crisis than anyone could have believed.

Well then I have to hope that «god» is a loving god and not the Christian god that care more about being worshiped than the character of his subjects.

Or does what I read about you better better inform me about your character than my relationship with you?

He is better known to us as an individual than any of his predecessors — possibly better than any other character in the Old Testament; for his book contains many chapters of personal confessions and autobiography.

My wife believes him and trusts him and she is a better judge of character than I. [When she met Mark Driscoll in 1997 she said he was a «future cult - leader» and she was never happy about me hanging out with the Young Leaders Group.]

The person has not fared especially well at the hands of modern attempts to write about history, which have generally sought to locate historical explanations in the workings of large structures, impersonal forces, and social groups rather than the vagaries and razor - edged contingencies of individual character and agency.

Unfortunately, those who hear such warnings don't know how to process God's character any more than the failed communicator, for even a good communicator can only relate the truth to the degree he understands it.

The patriarchs were chosen because of definite qualities in their character, not because God just happened to like them better than other people.

If I were to describe, so far as this is possible, the company I have enjoyed with my • most intimate companion of fifty - five years, whose name when I met her was Dorothy Eleanore Cooper, the reader in response could not do better than to quote one of Jane Austen's characters: «That is not good company, that is the best company.»

All music in some way is sacramental and all public performance has some religious character, but Jackson cultivated his image as a lay practitioner of pop spirituality more than any performer in his market segment, through the soppy universalism of «We are the World» as well as through his identification with the Jehovah's Witnesses and, according to recent rumor, with Islam.

The character of Isaac is hardly sufficiently drawn to return an impression of independence; or perhaps it would be better to say that the stories about Isaac appear more as a link between the Abraham and Jacob cycles than as an independent unit of stories.

It is about believing in something better than ourselves helping us in our lives, knowing spirituality (totally different than religion), being humble (after experiencing humiliation) and daily addressing our character defects and the wrong we have done upon others.

I would like the story better if she gave the credit of her success to her own intelligence and hard work rather than a fictional character in an ancient book.

Obviously these dubious characters must have liked his company a good deal better than they would have liked that of his critics, even if these had not held them at arm's length.

And for attaining this particular character, love works better than hate.

We never learn much about her history, save for a few significant bombshells down the road, yet she feels a good deal more dimensional than about 95 % of characters in film history.

I claim with no misgivings whatsoever that some characters are better than others.

We want to see sympathetic characters find within themselves the means to carry on, to grow as people, to look in the mirror and see somebody new, rather than a hero born unchangeably good, or a villain unalterably wicked.

Third, I will treat in detail the Hartshornian stance regarding abortion, a stance with which I agree, both to illustrate the aforementioned connection between moderation in metaphysics and moderation in ethics as well as to combat the charge that virtue ethics, because it focuses more on the character of agents than on their acts, is incapable of treating the really difficult issues in applied ethics.

Here we see unknown writers in the hills of ancient Judah, seated in simple homes that from the point of view of our present - day luxury might be regarded as little better than hovels, surrounded with furnishings more bare and austere than those of a medieval monastery, equipped with simple reed pens and rolls of papyrus, or perhaps with broken sherds of old pots, as they slowly indite in awkward, ancient Hebrew characters, words that have run like fire and are potent at this distant day.

You will find as many of her villans are «businessmen» as heros — rather it is the type of businessman \ businesswoman that you are that matters — the world would be a better place if we had more business people mirrored after her characters than what we have today.

It suggests that rather than having a huge list of New Year resolutions, it's better to pick one word that «centres on your character and creates a vision for your future».

I am convinced that a good deal of talk about prayer is vitiated by the assumption that God is an intolerant, indeed we might say an intolerable, tyrant who must be cajoled rather than addressed; and this is tied in with a picture of his nature or character that is fundamentally unchristian or subchristian, even if many Christian thinkers have fallen victim to it.

Yet Crump may really be the better Crump, for his inner discords and second birth; and your once - born «regal» character, though indeed always better than poor Crump, may fall far short of what he individually might be had he only some Crump - like capacity for compunction over his own peculiar diabolisms, graceful and pleasant and invariably gentlemanly as these may be.)

Therefore testimony better than either an example or a symbol Places reflection before the paradox which the pretension of consciousness makes a scandal of, I mean that a moment of history is invested with an absolute character.

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.»

85 % of a child's character is developed in the first 5 years of life — no better way to start them out than with the Bible.

God rewards in keeping with God's own character and is incapable of giving anything less than the best to us.

Evangelical pastors are much more concerned about the personal character of Trump and Clinton, as well as their Supreme Court picks, than the people in their pews.

For, if there is no God, then one faces the problem of goodness, beauty, truth, all that is lovely in music and art, all that is admirable in character, and that problem of good seems to me far more important and more difficult to solve than the problem of evil.