Sentences with phrase «by heroes like»

This girlie is now up and about and adjusting well — thanks to funds donated by heroes like YOU.

Short wheelbase 911s have gone the route of the 911R, or towards original rally cars driven at Monte Carlo by heroes like Björn Waldegård.

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If he needs something to look at, there's a painting of his hero, Christopher Reeve, and a color - copied image of what looks like a photo taken by accident — all you can see is a ceiling, partially in shadow.

Since then, the index fund — a type of mutual fund pegged to a specific market index, like the S&P 500 — has been lauded as an investing tool by legendary investors such as Warren Buffett, who called Bogle a «hero» in his 2017 letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders.

As this story got some play, even at the highest levels of the movie business to make it into a feature (we were signed to an option by the guys who did Philadelphia and Silence of the Lambs), one of the fears we had was that someone would turn Lonnie into a homosexual hero (like Harvey Milk).

I'd just like you all to know, that by my standards, my Dad was my hero.

The titular Wasp, only teased in the first movie, is a new Ant - Man - like hero played by Evangeline Lilly (Lost).

But I am not a hero, I am a human and our humanity makes is do what we think is impossible with the help of other humans like yourself, who fill in the blanks left by families and friends.

would get them criticized and yelled at by people and would get no approval by fictional heroes like batman, I'd say that for all of God's omni - benelovence and infinite love, God could really come of like an antihero, especially in the old testament.

But I like to read Esther as the hero of her own story — and also the hero of the story shared by the whole Jewish people.

Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story From Africa by Jeanette Winter — I love finding books that subvert the notion of «hero» to include powerful and influential women like Wangari Maathi.

She gets to have every woman's actual secret dream job, which is to be the lone female on a team of guys — in this case a samurai - like cadre of unlikely heroes assembled by Trevor to thwart the deployment of an ultra-lethal poison gas by a rogue German commander.

I need to tell someone about the books I've been reading because Inspector Gamache is my new hero and I want to live in Three Pines, Quebec (well, I think would like to live there... it does seem rather murder - y by my tastes).

So dinosaurs are a fake created by men, just like DumbAzzScot's hero in The Babble, jesus christ.

The analogy I used when I was startled by a similarly lame attempt at proof by an otherwise intelligent fellow grad student is that using the bible to prove the resurrection is like using the Old Irish tales I had been studying then to prove the superhuman powers of Irish folk hero Cu Chulainn.

Postmodernist interpreters join Iago in scorning the protestations of Othello and Desdemona that their love is actually something more than mere sensual attraction, and only by this great negation can they deny that Othello, like all Shakespeare's tragic heroes, is the embodiment of a Western ideal who fails and suffers catastrophe.

In contrast to Matthew and Luke, who play the storytellers, charming us at Christmas with tales about angels and shepherds, a virgin birth in a stable, a villain named Herod and heroes like the Magi, John plays the theologian, starting off with a dazzling conundrum: the light by which everyone sees came into the world, yet the world didn't see it.

And yet Roberts (and the kinds of judges that have been appointed by Republican presidents in recent years), will soon seem like the heroes of a bygone golden age.

Fortunately, these ideas never shaped the normative documents of the American civil religion, nor have they characterized its greatest heroes — men like Jefferson, Lincoln, and Martin Luther King — but they have formed an important tradition of interpretation, one carried by nationalistic clergymen more often than by jingoistic politicians.

You feel inspired enough by someone that it changes your life, you could say that person's your hero, if you like.

The UCI World Tour is composed of 37 events, including the three three - week grand tours, but also 20 one - day races that are attended by the best riders and receive much greater attention in places like, say, Belgium and the Netherlands, where winning on the famed and treacherous Paris - Roubaix cobblestones can make you a national hero.

Wenger has pissed me off more times than i could count in recent years but that's how i want to see him leave, like a club hero and legend and not a stubborn, senile and delusional old man despised by most of his club's fans.

This is a problem across the game and continent, it is up to the fans to correct their own players instead of treating them like heroes or smart for having gained an advantage by trickery and play acting.

When Weir, who like Zokol attended BYU, shot a final - round 64 at La Quinta to win by three, northerners thought their hero deserved some exposure, eh?

By now, you've probably seen the video of Riley, the little girl ranting about stores wanting girls to buy princesses and boys to buy super heroes when really girls and boys can both like both of those things.

This huntsman by inkidot is bang up to date — he's a bit of a hipster, and definitely looks like a modern day hero.

Many kids will like to use their imagination by combining their Pokémon collections with other super hero characters.

With the release of his memoir this week and a set of high - profile media interviews to publicize it, Comey — whose firing by Trump made him a hero to the president's critics — has veered onto risky terrain, shedding the trappings of a high - minded referee and looking instead like a combatant in the country's partisan battles.

In the world of the Hunger Games, the fates of our rural heroes are decided by the rulers of the Capital, which looks like Manhattan crossed with Versailles.

After a summer in which he plans to maintain election fitness with yet more rallies and campaigning, Jeremy Corbyn will be greeted like a hero by his adoring fans at Labour's conference in Brighton.

«We'd be heroes for doing that and I feel like we're being held hostage by having the 10th plank put in.»

It is amazing that it is this same Tinubu, driven by an unchecked ambition with high value morbidity, who is relentlessly trying to destroy their legacy, and the legacy of the greatest Yorùbá man since Odùduwà, Obafemi Awolowo, by letting loose his hungry goons like Sam Omatseye, on the heroes of the Yorùbá Nation.

By Jeff Moore Wisconsin folk hero Earl Giefer, 94 years cool, decided he'd like to be able to look himself in the mirror every morning rather than take an easy $ 1.2 million from the city of Oak Creek for his...

Judging by some of the comments, they appear to think economists like Blanchflower are heroes.

Meet the hero shrew (Scutisorex somereni), a molelike creature that owes its near - mythological status to a remarkable spine, thickened by extensions of bone that interlock like fingers.

By the time he and King roll around to Candyland to find Broomhilda, they're almost like super heroes.

Abetted by Jolie's Mel Gibson - like fixation with cruelty, the film exalts its hero as Christ - symbol more than unbreakable American soul.

Such personal reflections are woven throughout «Newtown,» including interviews with ordinary citizens like Father Bob Weiss, who buried eight children following the tragedy, and Rick Thorne, the school's custodian, who has been hailed by some as a hero for making three calls to 911 and keeping police on the phone for 10 minutes while confronting the shooter.

As with John Wayne's Ethan Edwards (Travis's spiritual forefather), his thwarted patriarchal possessiveness is not tempered by anything like genuine concern, yet it is enough... to make him a peculiarly American folk hero.

Along the way, our bilious, pickle - skinned hero partners up with Donkey, a nattering jackass voiced by Eddie Murphy with all the jiveyness the comedian likes to unleash under cover of cartoon.

Aside from the romantic interlude, this movie is bogged down by the weak villains, neither of whom are convincing or threatening in any manner (and this, like the comments made repeatedly about the virus and the cure, reflects on how the hero is perceived).

Of course, simply everyone is completely bamboozled by our hero's disguise, even though he now looks like a Ken doll with liver disease.

It's a smart movie — a quintessentially L.A. one, too, in its self - awareness (the nameless hero is a stuntman, Richard Rush fans take note), and it has an extraordinary quality of stillness that paints in confident strokes what it feels like to be completely alone by luck you call choice.

While nothing has been confirmed by Nintendo, it looks like it's only a matter of time before additional content comes to Tri Force Heroes.

Like the movie's young, confused hero Jamie — played by newcomer Lucas Jade Zumann — the writer - director grew up in the Southern California during the end of the Carter era, listening to punk records pilfered from his older sister.

Having made appearances in international productions like Robert Aldrich's Too Late The Hero and Sydney Pollack's The Yakuza (written by Paul and Leonard Schrader) in the Seventies, Takakura continued to work with foreign filmmakers in Ridley Scott's Black Rain and with Tom Selleck in Mr. Baseball, as well as with Chinese director Zhang Yimou in 2005's Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles, securing his superstar status in that country as well.

, one of those patronizing stage shows performed by three dudes in chinchilla suits... complete with, like, totally hip references to «Guitar Hero» and text - message lingo.

Kermit finds his theatre foreclosed by the evil Mrs. Bitterman (Joan Cusack), and his despair catches the notice of both well - meaning guardian angel Daniel (David Arquette) and, eventually, God Herself (Whoopi Goldberg), who offer our green hero a glimpse, Capra - like, of what things would be like without him.

It always sounded like a stretch for a director who tends to be fascinated by action heroes, terrifying monsters, and touching historical tragedies.

His film, with its smalltown setting populated by a raft of eccentric, wholly self - absorbed characters, is like the dark, funny underbelly of Preston Sturges» The Miracle of Morgan's Creek or Hail the Conquering Hero.