Sentences with phrase «devout families»

Rather, it is the personal, purpose - driven mission of one of the most devout families I've ever met.

She was a devout woman from a devout family; all those prayers to save her life went unanswered.

A series of dark, supernatural events befall a theologically devout family of Puritans, despite their apparent innocence.

He is a devout family man who loves his girlfriend Sophina (Diaz) and daughter more than anything else in life.

-- Kurt [LOVED] A handsome slow burn horror movie in the spirit of Jonathan Glazer or Stanley Kubrick, thick with atmospheric dread as a devout family have their faith tested by a dark force lurking in the woods.

Winner of the Directing Award at Sundance 2015 for first - timer Robert Eggers, this atmospheric thriller follows a devout family living in the wilderness of 1630 New England (60 years before the Salem witch trials) who fall victim to paranoia and superstition.

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On a personal level, Pence and his wife, Karen, who are both devout evangelical Christians who have advocated for conservative «family values» for decades, were shocked and disturbed by the video.

This has caused him to be reviled and chastised by members of his family which are devout Southern churchgoers at a time when he needs the most moral support, as he is trying to turn his luck around through smart, hard work and to do right by his wife and children.

With Claire, I enter the world of serious and devout Catholicism: natural family planning, homeschooling, daily Mass, the theology of the body, Love and Responsibility.

The nonbelievers came from as far afield as Ireland and France, but most described themselves as refugees from the heart of the South - atheist anomalies amid fiercely devout friends, family and neighbors.

In a statement released by the FCO, his family said: «We are all deeply saddened by the loss of Ian, a loving father, husband, and devout Christian, who dedicated much of his life in the service of others.

They prayed together as a matter of course - all came from devout and practising Catholic families.

He was a sensitive, intelligent and highly articulate person, brought up in a devout and well - educated Muslim family in upper Egypt.

Nabeel Qureshi grew up in a devout Muslim family.

Edward Tylor, for example, had been raised in a devout Quaker family.

I was adopted and raised in a devout Christian family, and witnessed 15 years of the cruelest, most disturbing behavior I've ever seen.

«I grew up Nancy D'Alesandro, in Baltimore, Maryland; in Little Italy; in a very devout Catholic family; fiercely patriotic; proud of our town and heritage and staunchly Democratic,» she told Washington Post reporters.

In a glowing review of a movie called A Perfect Family, Rex Reed writes that the main character Eileen is «a devout, self - obsessed Catholic so enslaved by dogma and ritual that she crosses herself and gives thanks to God before she so much as eats a vegetarian tamale.»

Of course, when our genetics are threatened, as in the case of someone trying to harm a family member, or in the case of someone threatening our social group, or country, even the most devout Christian may opt to defend with deadly force, or support the death penalty, and going to war.

The novel's protagonist and narrator is twelve - year - old Hayat Shah, whose life changes when his beautiful, devout aunt, Mina, comes to stay with his family in suburban Milwaukee.

Just thought I would ask, not very religious myself although my family are all very devout Sikhs, I follow the teachings as well and consider myself Sikh but I do not partake in what I personally believe are more cultural influences on Sikhism.

Take the family of Augustine, for example; his mother was a devout Christian, but his father was originally a pagan.

I grew up in a very devout Catholic family and had learned that suicide was a sin; I wanted to die, but I did not want to go to hell.

A devout Catholic, she worked with the Catholic Family Movement and was national executive director for the Young Christian Workers before marrying John Froehlich in 1948.

Rich or poor, educated or illiterate, socialist or capitalist, Muslim or Catholic, secular or devout, with tough government birth control policies or none, most — most families — tell the same story.

He grew up in a devout Christian family but was always drawn to science, and in graduate school he became a particle physicist because, he explains modestly, he was also «quite good at mathematics.»

Traditionally, devout men and women meet spouses through friends and family.

Well - crafted, eerie, thinking man's slasher flick, about a dysfunctional devout Catholic family under attack from an unknown assailant.

Shot over just five weeks, the film follows a devout Christian 17th century family, whose newborn son disappears without a trace, inciting rumours that Taylor - Joy's character, Thomasin, is practicing witchcraft.

«The Perfect Family» starred Kathleen Turner in a truly change of pace role as Eileen Cleary, a repressed and depressed devout Catholic homemaker and mother.

In 1630, a family of six devout Puritans from England is banished from an American plantation community over the «prideful conceit» of patriarch William (Ralph Ineson, who you might but probably should not remember from his recurring role in the UK's «The Office»).

The Perfect Family (PG - 13 for mature themes) Dysfunctional family dramedy about a devout candidate (Kathleen Turner) for Catholic Woman of the Year who does her best to hide her alcoholic husband (Michael McGrady), her lesbian daughter (Emily Deschanel) and her philandering, married son (Jason Ritter) from the jFamily (PG - 13 for mature themes) Dysfunctional family dramedy about a devout candidate (Kathleen Turner) for Catholic Woman of the Year who does her best to hide her alcoholic husband (Michael McGrady), her lesbian daughter (Emily Deschanel) and her philandering, married son (Jason Ritter) from the jfamily dramedy about a devout candidate (Kathleen Turner) for Catholic Woman of the Year who does her best to hide her alcoholic husband (Michael McGrady), her lesbian daughter (Emily Deschanel) and her philandering, married son (Jason Ritter) from the judges.

The main focus of the story is Chad Cutler (Fassbender) and his young family, and how this relationship is put under strain by the negative influence of his religiously devout father, Colby (Brendan Gleeson).

The eldest daughter in a devout Christian family who move to New England in the 1630s, Thomasin is blamed for the disappearance of her baby brother and the bewitching of her other younger brother.

(In Danish with subtitles) Silent Light (Unrated) Mexican morality play about a devout Mennonite family man (Cornelio Wall Fehr) tormented by the crisis in faith which arises after he starts cheating on his wife (Miriam Toews) with a neighbor (Maria Pankratz) who's also a member of their tight - knit religious community.

Turns out the man is «adopted» by a suburban family of devout Christians headed by exemplary character actors Jean Smart and Richard Jenkins.

The Witch, a pristine horror debut from writer / director Robert Eggers, is a chilling circa - 1600 story of the devil taking over a devout, Scripture - quoting family.

For example: Don Jon and his family are devout Catholics.

By then a devout Muslim, she began wearing a head scarf, the only one in her family to do so.

«The book is essentially a compassionate account of a close - knit, deeply devout and surprisingly ordinary family caught up in quite extraordinary circumstances.»

After a 16 - year - old girl from a wealthy Saudi family is found dead in the middle of the desert, a devout Muslim guide and a young medical examiner seek to unravel the mystery.

He was baptized James Ngugi, and later became a devout Christian while at missionary school; but around 1967 he rejected his baptismal name, and changed his name to Ngugi wa Thiong «o. His family was caught up in the Mau Mau rebellion (an insurgency by Kenyan freedom fighters against the British colonial administration (1952 - 1960) during which...

Warhol was born into a devout Byzantine Catholic family that attended mass at Pittsburgh's St. John Chrysostom Byzantine Catholic Church.

I was brought up in a devout Christian family but I am no longer a churchgoer.

The paralegal appeared to the lawyer to be a devout and caring person, and invited the lawyer to family gatherings.