Sentences with phrase «by kind strangers»

Perhaps because if all these cats that have been historically taken in by kind strangers were to be handed over to the SPCA, the increased figures could be used to justify increases in the contract price.

It begins for our two central characters, Megamind and Metro Man (Brad Pitt) as it did for the legendary Clark Kent — dying planet, popped in a pod as a baby, landing on Earth, adopted by kind strangers.

She is offered a ride by a kind stranger (James Remar), and learns he and his wife are traveling to visit the grave of his daughter who was murdered.

Not exact matches

This strange mixture has so far defied attempts to reduce it to neat categories, although one of the better recent studies places Schweitzer among the death - of - God theologians, who exhibit similar kinds of eclecticism (see Schweitzer: Prophet of Radical Theology, by Jackson Lee Ice [Westminster, 1971]-RRB-.

And as I close this chaotic volume I open again the strange small book from which all Christianity came; and I am again haunted by a kind of confirmation.

People have been doing all kinds of religions, christianity, and islam for over 2000 years, praying to strange gods, not known to Abraham, Isaac, nor Jacob, all from the first generation of Adam, and of the covenant of the 10 commandments, and statues, ordinances, and judgments that are perpetual by YHWH, and the world has not gotten any better, since before the 8th century, this has happened, and at some point one must realize that this religion thing obviously is not working for us, the reality check is to «awaken'to the truth, and righteousness, of YHWH Our Righteousness, in Jeremiah 23:1 - 8, and not pagan religions, man - made, and all controlled for selfish gain.

One of the strangest claims often made by purveyors and consumers of today's popular atheism is that disbelief in God involves no particular positive philosophy of reality, much less any kind of religion or creed, but consists merely in neutral incredulity toward a certain kind of factual asseveration.

A spokesman said «It was a kind of sex education lesson but by untrained inspectors without the consent of parents or the school,» In a sane world this would be an entirely reasonably response: in what other situation could a complete stranger approach a group of young children and ask them about same sex attraction?

I am having some kind of resolution - making moment, which feels strange since I'm not one to resolve to do things — especially when probed by events like the turning of a calendar year — because I'd rather just do the things.

Agreed Invincibles — is kind of strange that perhaps the most significant transfer of the window so far for any PL team is relegated to a thing of indifference by some.

not really making the news, the atmosphere on last wednesday was really strange, silent, step by step to normal football, but you can't throw away your thoughts immediately, I just got a glimpse of Enkes personality during a film of him shown before the match, I can't realize how hard it must be for his wife to lose him, tomorrow the players of Germans first Bundesliga will wear a black ribbon again, but I think it won't affect the atmosphere like it has with the national team despite of Hannover of course, people will be enthousiastic again, but there is the idea of an «Enke donation» which I like, will keep his name alive, will take some positive emotions on this tragedy and a kind of appeal for everyone to reflect the important things of life and control your own behaviour, I hope so at least, and I hope his wife will cope with that situation, and again: it was really hard for the German nationl team to play under these circumstances, to lose someone close in this way is hard to deal with, on the other hand it causes a close solidarity feeling I think, but of course the world will not change, things are returning to the old soon, but nonetheless for me this tragedy is a kind of human wake - up call, at least a call and then you continue

It's kind of sad and strange to think that babies never died because they kept their parents awake, but because they did not keep their parents awake enough, by virtue of their frequent arousals.

Moms of boys, and especially moms of just boys, know there's something kind of strange that happens when you're surrounded by little dudes.

By day three, I was supplementing with donor breast milk that I received from a kind stranger, but it wasn't really enough for my baby's growing appetite, so she cried... a lot.

Even if you're a stay - at - home kind of family, your child can catch a contagious disease from a neighbor, a friend, or a complete stranger who sneezes as she walks by you in the grocery store.

The strange thing is that the itchiness is not accompanied by any kind of rash.

There are many people and creatures in this world whose lives would be changed by one simple gesture from a kind stranger — teach him that!

In recent years, scientists have confirmed a remarkable link between two kinds of objects that should, by all rights, have nothing to do with each other: black holes and strange metals.

Using a special kind of atomic force microscope to control the spacing of the surfaces, they found that this strange attraction kicked in at an even longer distance of up to two microns and that it was accompanied by the formation of a vapor bubble in between.

McGreevy admits the quantum systems he and his colleagues studied were very abstract because they had properties that were smeared out continuously in space instead of varying in a stepwise, quantum fashion.Sachdev's has come up with a more realistic model, McGreevy says, by applying a gravitational object, a kind of black hole, to a quantum system with properties that vary stepwise along a lattice, just as in the lattice structure of strange metals.

His trotting steps accompanied by rag - time music in his famous acts became the strange kind of movement they called Fox's Trot.

One kind of strange little herb, readily available, that has been proven to accelerate fat loss by increasing a women's Leptin sensitivity by a massive 52 %!

Maybe, it's because it's December and a white Christmas is all I've ever known, but it is actually kind of strange not having it cover the valley by now.

If I lived by Pike Place Market, there would be no more 5 or 10 dollar bouquets because I would buy every single one and cover my house and hand them out to kind strangers.

This year is a bit different, maybe because I am getting older or something - BUT the whole night scene: dancing, singing and putting my hands around strangers as we swag back and forth singing Auld Lang Sync just doesn't sound like my kind of thing, instead this year I am keeping things a bit low key and having a nice fancy dinner with friends, followed by great conversation and wine, of course - as we countdown with Ryan Seacrest and Carson Daly on TV.

Neither cracks a smile, which is its own kind of victory, but nor do they crack the code of these «characters,» two men united by circumstances that look, in movie form, not so stranger than fiction after all.

A strange kind of game that simulates - through the use of Kinect - the famous TV Show by the same name.

He's the kind of person who believes in «Fregoli syndrome,» a condition where one feels many different strangers are all connected by one single person out to get you.

However, Po has absolutely no skills whatsoever, so he is groomed by master trainer Shifu (Hoffman, Stranger Than Fiction), who is skeptical that Po was the right choice, to hone some skills to have a chance at being the kind of master he was chosen to be.

These are the kind of questions prompted by Allen's latest picture, which is titled You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger and is very weak indeed.

For those of us horrified by watching the movie Scum in 1982, seeing the trailer for it had a strange kind of sickening fascination.

What kind of wacky situations do the Duplasses conceive for these strangers bound together only by a seating chart?

Hearing all kinds of strange thing about this neo-western about a cannibal hunter played by Kurt Russell.

Situated somewhere between a poignant family - drama and a bloodthirsty monster - survival tale, The Monster — written and directed by The Strangers» Bryan Bertino — is not the kind of horror movie that you come across very often.

«I don't know, I feel like he's channelled something that Doctor Strange is channelling by the end, where he's tapped into something, some kind of force within him that keeps him going and he's got a fire in his belly.

There are a lot of far - out jokes in Seven Chances, the kind of situations that you can't unravel with words — described point by point, they wouldn't sound as funny and strange as they are.

**** Zachary F November 29, 2012 this movie is sooo funny Jon C November 29, 2012 a fun, crude, and hilarious comedy two girl roomates formulate a plan to make their own sex hotline in order to make ends meet hijinks and raw laughs ensue between two very different people who embrace their sexuality via telephone the performances from both Graynor and Miller are pretty damn fun to watch the dialogue is insanely funny and gratuitous there's a very strange cameo in here too by Nia Vardalos Justin Long adds a nice touch being the supporting gay best friend mentoring these two girls it's just very awkwardly humorous listening to these people talk in this kind of film, there's interestingly no actual sex happening on screen, no boobs, no ass, no exposed body parts the plot mainly focuses on the bonding relationship bewteen the two leads which is a good break from the usual norm we're used to I can't help but feel though that the filmmakers didn't have anything left at the end, some of it felt unfinished and unresolved for all those problems, «For A Good Time, Call..»

Re: Those Who Feel the Fire Burning: a (literally) hauntingly strange vision of Fortress Europe's decimation of those whose plight as refugees sees imminent danger at sea replaced by a gnawing, clawing kind of limbo on land.

That kind of comedy loses its bite when surrounded by either mundane story points or flat - out bizarre ones (the story's climax is easily one of the strangest put on film, animated or otherwise).

Ready or not, you're getting it in Nickelodeon - ILM's seriously strange «Rango,» which is populated by the kind of reptilian creatures that could only slither from Hunter S. Thompson's zonked - out subconscious.

Since being introduced in 1963 by artist Steve Ditko (who co-created Spider - Man), Doctor Strange has remained «a different kind of super-hero» as his debut comic claimed.

It may also seem a strange title for a film by Michael Haneke, the great Austrian director best known in America for his Oscar - nominated study of the origins of German fascism, The White Ribbon; the surveillance thriller Caché; and The Piano Teacher, which was itself a kind of love story — the sadomasochistic kind.

This kind of pop nostalgia, of course, has only intensified in the 16 years since «Donnie Darko's» initial release, as demonstrated most recently by the hit Netflix series «Stranger Things,» which shares Kelly's affection for Steven Spielberg and Stephen King.

Instead of venturing out beyond this kind of familiar comic material, the script (by Jeff and Craig Cox, John Altschuler, and David Krinsky) brings in the strange Van Waldenberg brother and sister duo (Will Arnett and Amy Poehler), whose predictable final note isn't bothered to be set up throughout (apparently in a failed attempt to shock, since it's obvious from the beginning).

The setup for the film is positively Hitchcockian, kind of reminiscent of Hitch's 1959 classic North By Northwest in which Cary Grant also finds himself in strange circumstances that threaten to consume him.

In the recently completed Sleeping Beauty, her most controversial film to date (which polarized audiences at this year's Cannes Film Festival), her character works in a kind of high - end prostitution that involves no sex but requires her to be fondled by strangers while in a sedated state — until curiosity about what happens to her while she is «sleeping» gets the better of her.

A collection of very short stories by Mike Russell, Everything Is Strange comes across as a kind of mix of Black Mirror and The Twilight Zone,

Young Adult: Psychological thrillers, «geeky» or «artsy» romance, magical realism (The Accident Season by Moïra Fowley - Doyle or The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton), fantasy of any kind, science fiction, and steampunk (Airborn by Kenneth Oppel and The Finishing School series by Gail Calliger).

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (782 pages) What kind of magic can make a nearly 800 - page novel seem too short?

Both are by highly - regarded fantasy authors (although Gaiman is very well - established in all kinds of media, and Clarke just blazed onto the scene a couple of years ago with her brilliant, amazing Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell), both collections have stories that tie in to previous novels, both were very high on my to - read list for Fall 2006, and both were satisfying in their individual ways.