Sentences with phrase «characters against characters»

Putting famous Capcom characters against characters from the Japanese animation company Tatsunoko.

Not exact matches

While this controversy never circulated to that level («Goodfellas» also has Irish and Jewish - Americans as major characters), «Goodfellas» at least showed that Scorsese was aware of prejudice against Italians.

Overall, the character plays more like a potential antagonist for the next season of «Silicon Valley» than anyone who should have been going up against the likes of Superman.

As a product of the comics pioneer Will Eisner, the character was often pitted against his archnemesis, the Octopus, a mastermind and master of disguise whose face was never shown.

A sale would go not only against Deluce's character, but against WestJet's and Air Canada's too.

In the pilot episode of HBO's sitcom Silicon Valley, the character of Peter Gregory, a billionaire tech investor, delivers a TED Talk in which he smugly rails against traditional education.

Opposition Leader Tom Mulcair's voice quivered and he had to squeeze his eyes against tears as he remembered Flaherty «for his pleasant demeanour and strength of character.»

Holiday parties are typically set up to play against introverts» natural character, but Zack says understanding your strengths can help introverts survive and thrive at holiday get togethers.

Alternatively, another group of fans has pushed back against changing the gender of their favorite series» main character.

In fact, many venture capital investors evaluate potential partners on how they reacted to a failed business, seeing it as a test of character rather than a mark against them.

Nothing against toys, bugs, monsters, or fish, but «The Incredibles» was the first Pixar movie with human main characters, ones you could truly identify with whether you're a parent or a child.

In the same vein as Nintendo's «Super Smash Bros.» series and Warner Brothers» «Injustice» franchise, «Marvel vs Capcom» pits Marvel superheroes and villains (Iron Man, MODOK, and many more) against Capcom's most famous faces (Mega Man, various Street Fighter characters, and many more).

What I tried to do was come up with common characters we face at work — like the «manterrupter» who interrupts you in a meeting, or the office mom who ends up taking on the mother lode of menial tasks — as well as some of the internal barriers, like the feeling of being an imposter, and then digging through the research to find out how you can push back against these things.

At the time that Democrats began paying for the research, Mr. Trump was in the process of clinching the Republican presidential nomination, and Ms. Clinton's allies were scrambling to figure out how to run against a candidate who had already weathered attacks from Republican rivals about his shifting policy positions, his character and his business record.

But to ease those fears, the Deutsche Bank character played by Ryan Gosling took the fund managers to meet the people they were actually trading against.

Kelly — who first learned of the domestic violence allegations against Porter months ago — issued a glowing statement of support for Porter's personal character after the allegations first surfaced publicly Tuesday and privately urged him to remain on the job until the next day when his resignation was announced.

I first read it in high school (teachers warned me against it) while I was in England and its plot, theme, characters and the philosophy Rand integrates through it all has been the guiding influence in my life since.

The job move amounts to a promotion, but Fredrickson is also a character in Benchmark's legal and public relations fight against former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick.

American social movements, it seems, remain immutably Puritan no matter what commonsense fact (the goodness of beer, the heterosexual character of marriage) they are directed against.

And, finally, the 1797 Treaty of Tripoli plainly states: «The government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian Religion, as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Mussulmen [Moslems].»

(At truly incandescent sports moments, as when the basketball team of my alma mater and former employer Valparaiso University this year advanced, against all expectation and indeed against all rational hope, into the third round of the NCAA championship, the grace takes on the character of the miraculous.)

In defending counsel - elect Murena against electoral malpuractice, Cicero's task to neutralize the authority of Cato and Sulpicius without earning their antipathy was dependent not upon facts but upon character.

But, more than that, they would show you, by the characters they featured and the plotlines they put forward, a new way of seeing things on issues ranging from racial equality to obesity prevention to the global fight against AIDS.

The character of Muhammad, which is described in the Koran, fits fully together with his historical character: By the Koran Muhammad declared war and hate against Jews and Christians and he indeed conducted war against Jews and Christian.

Most important to me, though, is how I find what is being taught to be totally against the character of God.

Out of all the postings on this site today, I found «Derp's «post the most fascinating and informative, as well as deeply revealing.Even after boasting of what seems to be a practically perfect live by any measure, he informs us that he takes pleasure in mocking and ridiculing those of faith who are presumably his opposite; I can only wonder if, given all his supposed accomplishments, he is smart enough to realize how deeply revealing of his true character his remarks are.As a believer, I rarely engage in arguments with my atheist friends, and like to think I wouldn't lower myself to the level of juvenile name - calling and personal attacks against whatever my atheist friends hold dear.Most of the time we simply agree to disagree; when they hold forth with misinformation or ignorance on their assumed «knowledge «of my faith, I try to gently correct them; I certainly don't allow any disagreements we have to devolve into hateful insults and name - calling.

But none of this is a serious mark against the overall character of the man, whom Marsh regards with unabashed affection and profound respect.

This is a sadly misguided piece of propaganda by the s c u m b a g producers of this b l a s p h e m o u s P.O.S.. On top of character assassination, they have the gall to lie about it, when the evidence against them is d a m n i n g!

This not only helps to explain religion's primordial, irrepressible, widespread, and seemingly inextinguishable character in the human experience, it also suggests that the skeptical Enlightenment, secular humanist, and New Atheist visions for a totally secular human world are simply not realistic — they are cutting against a very strong grain in the nature of reality's structure and so will fail to achieve their purpose.

As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion, — as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen

The command against killing, he says, is based on the sacred character of human life -LSB-?]

Dostoevsky himself, or that part of him which turns against his skeptical characters, «would rather remain with Christ than with the truth,» and thus yields the field, in reality, to the so - called scientific Weltanschauung.

Their stories often suggest the appalling extent to which the church tends not simply to ignore sexual, physical, emotional and spiritual violence against women and children as a major crisis, but actually to provide theological justification for this violence in its teachings about male headship, women's subordination, and the sinful character of sexuality.

is simply too ingrained, too much a part of what sin is all about, for us not to feel vexed when reminders come of the opposite reality, which it is precisely the office of religion to provide: «Accordingly, it has always been the office of Religion to protest against the sophistry of Satan, and to preserve the memory of those truths which the unbelieving heart corrupts: both the freedom and the responsibility of man, the sovereignty of the Creator, the supremacy of the law of conscience as His representative within us, and the irrelevancy of external circumstances in the judgment which is ultimately to be made upon our conduct and character.»

lololol I say these last things to demonstrate the absurdity of making character judgments against someone I do not know.

In this way Wood honors the concern of the sort of position illustrated by Hough and Cobb to stress theology's public and practical character against the apparent privatizing and interiorizing of it by the position illustrated by Farley.

It brands accusations brought against the 50 - year - old from North Carolina as an «absurd collection of anonymous accusations, flights of fantasy, and random character assassination».

We find little, if any, effort to «improve» the character of Jacob: no word or phrase appears to relieve his premeditated treachery against his father Isaac (27:1 ff.)

One charge too often laid against him, though, is that his characters are not consistently developed.

Does the change in me represent anything more than this: that the practical relevance, the struggle and the confessional character of my theological teaching have become visible to many, and now for the first time to most, against the background of a time which has taken shape at the hands of National Socialism?.

For those who rebel against this relational matrix, either embracing or acquiescing to a lifestyle of isolation, separation, destructiveness, and exploitation, the totality will have the character of enemy or void.

Mojtabai draws her characters in relief against the dryness of the land in the brilliance of a Texas sun.

Bercier's insightful study powerfully promotes this science and the salutary rehabilitation of the university mission against the impersonal and inordinately universal character of both Cartesian and Socratic science.

At a time of unprecedented transition in the Christian Movement, when (as George Orwell once put it) «the little orthodoxies of the right and the left vie with one another for possession of our souls,» it is necessary to assert both the modesty and the complex, nuanced character of Christian faith and theology against the false certainties of true belief, ideology and religious simplism.

The conspicuous tendency of our age... is not, as is sometimes supposed, directed merely against the sanctioning of... norms by religion, but against their universal character and absolute validity... their claim to be of a higher order than man and to govern the whole of mankind.

Gandhi, who defended the theory of caste, said, «I consider untouchability to be a heinous crime against humanity... I know of no argument for its retention and I have no hesitation in rejecting scriptural authority of a doubtful character in order to support a sinful institution.»

There is a need to take a stand against the exploitative dominance and destructive character of the present free market policy.

The central question becomes the very character of the discipline itself: What modes of argumentation, which methods, what warrants, backings, evidence can count for or against a public statement by a physicist, a historian, a philosopher, a theologian?

n 1797, the United States Senate ratified a treaty with Tripoli that stated in Article 11: As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

Your own statement with fictional characters of Harry Potter actually argues against your position.