Sentences with phrase «bored with tradition»

Well, she tells us in the beginning of the story that she is bored with tradition.

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So, not wanting to lose favor with the King he told them they could do their tradition of bloody sacrifice of the first born in the stable.

Some scholars who reject the tradition of a virginal conception say that the idea arose from a misreading of Isaiah 7:14, which in the New English Bible reads: «Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign: A young woman is with child, and she will bear a son and will call him Immanuel.»

Were such consequences to be accepted, then a process metaphysics could indeed dispense with Whitehead's God, although not with that singular function of «total affirmation» which Whitehead — the weight of ontotheological tradition bearing down upon him — valiantly attempts to grant Him.

But our work together thus far has already established several points that may have an important bearing on the future of theological education in America: (1) the party - strife between «evangelicals» and «charismatics» and «ecumenicals» is not divinely preordained and need not last forever; (2) the Wesleyan tradition has a place of its own in the theological forum along with all the others; (3) «pluralism» need not signify «indifferentism»; (4) «evangelism» and «social gospel» are aspects of the same evangel; (5) in terms of any sort of cost - benefit analysis, a partnership like AFTE represents a high - yield investment in Christian mission; and (6) the Holy Spirit has still more surprises in store for the openhearted.

Though populist impulses go as far back as the colonial era, the contemporary tradition was born with the fiery rhetoric of William Jennings Bryan in the 1890s.

He was born in 1878 into one of Germany's old aristocratic families with a tradition of service in both Church and nation.

It is understandable that Christians who bear witness to the gospel try to persuade others that their communities and traditions are more fully in accord with the gospel.

The nature of that price is suggested by a parallel volume, Theological Education in the Evangelical Tradition, edited by D. G. Hart and R. Albert Mohler (Baker, 1996), a history and interpretation of counterinstitutions born out of restiveness with mainline theological teaching.

I would agree with you that it's really not very newsworthy given the Muslim tradition of naming a first - born son «Mohammed».

Since no remembered fact threw any light upon why his parents were in Bethlehem when he was born (earlier tradition uniformly associating them with Nazareth), imagination was free to explain the circumstance in whatever seemed the most plausible way.

I've tasted what we all want and need, and I suspect the only way we are going to arrive at a place of contentment, unity, one - another - ness that truly satisfies and meets real needs in real daily lives, is to completely cut our moorings with traditions (that are frankly boring, repetitive and spirit numbing to many).

However, in our opinion, and here we would include Hans Urs von Balthasar, these thinkers bear too much of a Hegelian flavour to be truly consistent with Catholic tradition - notwithstanding de Lubac's outstanding contributions to the nature - grace debate.

A minister whose career is suffused with a perception of the «great church,» whose thinking bears the imprint of his or her acquaintance with living members of many church traditions, will be a minister who understands and knows how to welcome people searching for a new church home, those who have married into a new denomination, and those who feel that they must turn away from some aspect of their own history.

In the tradition of Moses, and from then on, this God breaks with the other gods, finding their company boring and their preoccupations inane.

That is the kind of productive license writers can take with sacred stories, the kind of story Tóibín could have told, when the storytelling effort is born of a freedom ordered — and indeed enlivened by the challenge of being ordered — to the realities of tradition, Scripture, teaching, and belief.

Revered for masterfully «blending the Bohemian and artistic free spirited left bank of Paris with the roots and tradition of the rural areas of France» and for using top - quality locavore ingredients, at Bleu Bohème Irvine brings to bear a combination of his experiences growing up in both France and Montreal, Quebec City, with a menu reflecting both traditional and seasonal bistro food as well as country classics.

Chris Brown, Commercial Director of James Cropper, said: «Croxley Heritage is a name synonymous with the best traditions of British paper manufacturing, born of a pioneering paper maker, John Dickinson.

Born into an affluent family with a long tradition in Hong Kong, Fu said he spent too much time on sports during his secondary - school education at St Paul's College and failed to secure a place at the University of Hong Kong, forcing him to go to the US to further his studies.

My niece would love this, she was just born Dec. 5th and we are starting her a American Doll collection so this would be perfect for her, she is my Sisters first Grandbaby so we are starting new traditions with our Grandbabies than what our Grandparents had with us

I definitely plan on continuing this tradition with my little boy once he is born.

Liv Tyler was born under the sign Cancer and as you can see she's all about making every moment count, spending lots of time with family and cherishing family traditions.

The NPP was born out of TRIBALISM, and they have always remained so since the time of the National Liberation Movement (NLM) with Mate - Meho as its local name, the Danquah / Busia tradition have always used Tribalism to advance their political ambitions.

Some are bound to tell you I'm Preaching to the choir And that is very true And we are going even higher Like a mama bear in Idaho She'll protect your family's condition If you mess with her cubs She's gonna take off the gloves It's an American female tradition

The survey findings are borne out by Labour's national figures, released to the Guardian in a break with party tradition of keeping them secret.

More such explorers will follow over the next decade, but few, if any, will bear names from the Greek and Russian traditions associated with the first space race.

Thus was born a tradition: Every year since 1980, Llanwrtyd Wells has hosted the Man Versus Horse Marathon, which pits hundreds of runners against dozens of horses with riders.

Born in Tuscany, an Italian region with a long tradition of social movements, Leonardo Menchini (pictured at top) traces his interest in equity issues to high school.

The proposal is in line with the tradition of honoring a scientist and recognizes Professor Yuri Oganessian (born 1933) for his pioneering contributions to transactinoid elements research.

I first dove into Sally Fallon's Nourishing Traditions when I was newly pregnant with my first born experiencing a startling repulsion for anything that contained the slightest bit of processed food.

Since I'm living in Finland and I was born in Russia, but lived most of my life in Croatia, we have mixed kind of Christmas traditions in our family, so what we do is that on 24th we celebrate traditional Finnish Christmas and then on 25th we celebrate our own / modern - day version of Christmas with lots of Russian and Croatian food.

While Carell has the showiest of the roles, playing an especially creepy man who has delusions of grandeur, partially due to being born into a family with exceedingly high expectations to continue the tradition of excellence, it's really for the performances of Mark Ruffalo and Channing Tatum that the film ultimately succeeds.

Born in Spain, she was raised with not only Spanish traditions like flamenco and canto but also pop music and jazz.

All things said, the text of «Beowulf» would prove nearly impossible to craft into a commercial motion picture if it were to adhere to complete slavish adaptation, as those great early epic stories, born from oral tradition, weren't exactly rife with depth of characters or motivations.

Any costume drama with Helena Bonham Carter in a main role probably is worth at least a look for her performance, and she commands attention as the story's most beguiling character, Miss Havisham, even though the way she's utilized feels borne more from the tradition of Gothic horror than customary.

More and moreof us were born in other nations, speak different languages, and carry variouscultural traditions with us than ever before.

-LSB-...] All these amazing contradictions find an explanation and can cope with each other perfectly since we have established that not even today the behavior of man is not exclusively directed by reason and cultural tradition, but is still subject to all those laws that govern any instinctual behavior born on phylogenetic path, laws that we know very well from studying the animal behavior.»

This marked the beginning of a tradition: all future Alfa Romeo race cars would bear the four - leaf clover on a white triangle — with the missing point symbolizing the loss of Sivocci.

Rich and supple leather seating with driver friendly features such as a fully digital instrument cluster with the speedometer, tachometer, and engine monitoring gauges squeezed tightly into an area approximately the size of an open check book, and a flat - bottom steering wheel, with the full regiment of buttons, serve - up an atmosphere which could only be borne of the rich tradition created by many generations of machines with a focus on performance.

However, in keeping with the tradition of cars that bear the trident (Maserati's crest and logo), the Ghibli unleashes quite a throaty rumble when acceleration is demanded and is more than capable when pressed into performing a challenging driving maneuver.

Born in Alabama, Paula Vauss spent the first decade of her life on the road with her free - spirited young mother, Kai, an itinerant storyteller who blended Hindu mythology with Southern Oral Tradition to re-invent their history as they roved.

Bear Crunch Charlee Bear Treats continues its tradition with a healthy purpose.

For all the lives Bear played a part in saving, this Foundation will continue the tradition and assist with helping save more.

Though the region's celebrations bear the name «Carnival» and a handful fall on Fat Tuesday, the Caribbean blowouts are actually not affiliated with Christianity nor are they traditions imported from Europe or Brazil.

Thanks to tradition and communism, Transylvania is an old fashioned land full of bears, wolves and shepherds with a strong sense of tradition More

With its heritage of world - class musicians and composers that were born to the city including Schubert, Strauss and Kreisler, it is unsurprising that Vienna has kept its musical tradition and 19th century balls alive and celebrated to the present day.

In 1848, the town of San Pedro was born as mestizo (people of mixed Spanish and Mayan descent) refugees from the Yucatan rebelled against Spanish occupation and landed on Ambergris Caye, bringing with them the Spanish language and rich cultural and religious traditions.

The Village Art Faire is a decades old San Clemente tradition, born from a desire to put gifted artists and craftspeople in touch with their local community.

Murakami merges the grotesque characteristics of the dragon in Western culture with the generous and gift - bearing powers of the dragon in Eastern traditions.

Deeply anchored in tradition, Ross's radical and technologically advanced Mountain photographs are influenced by his fascination with Albert Bierstadt's and Frederic Church's iconic views of the American West, which he studied while at Yale University and which he has described as «my salvation from the certain death of a narrow aesthetic inheritance — namely Clement Greenberg's formalism and the Color Field tradition I was born into.»