Sentences with phrase «extraordinary men in»

Paul Muni's «specialty» in Hollywood was portraying extraordinary men in a series of Warner biopics, including Louis Pasteur, Benito Juarez, Pierre Radisson (the French explorer), Joseph Elsner (Chopin's teacher), Napoleon, and Schubert.

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Written in the irresistible stye that only an award - winning columnist for Vanity Fair can deliver, The Man Who Owns the News offers an exclusive glimpse into a man who wields extraordinary power and influence in the media on a worldwide scale — and whose family is being groomed to carry his legacy into the futuMan Who Owns the News offers an exclusive glimpse into a man who wields extraordinary power and influence in the media on a worldwide scale — and whose family is being groomed to carry his legacy into the futuman who wields extraordinary power and influence in the media on a worldwide scale — and whose family is being groomed to carry his legacy into the future.

The object of the Author in the following pages has been to collect the most remarkable instances of those moral epidemics which have been excited, sometimes by one cause and sometimes by another, and to show how easily the masses have been led astray, and how imitative and gregarious men are, even in their infatuations and crimes,» wrote Charles Mackay in the preface to the first edition of his Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.

I began with a quotation from the preface of the first edition of Mackay's Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, and it is worth recalling now a quotation from the preface of the second edition: «Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.»

For while there are bits and pieces of new information here, the essential truths about the man — his deep (and deeply Bavarian) faith, his extraordinary intelligence, his human decency — were already on display in Seewald's three previous interview - collaborations with Ratzinger.

What made St. Francis so influential was his extraordinary originality: the son of a rich businessman who renounced his wealth and slept in pigstys while retaining the courtliness and gentility that were noble attributes of his era; the anti-establishment figure who founded a great religious institution; the man of radical poverty whose followers were not permitted (even if they had wanted) to imitate his utter rejection of worldly goods; the man of the Bible who never owned a complete one; the author of the first great literary work in Italian dialect, the «Canticle of the Sun,» who was steeped in the jongleur tradition of French poetry and song; the naïf who moved the heart and enriched the religious imagination of that great realist and exponent of papal power, Innocent III; the child of the age of Crusades who sought not the conquest of the Muslims but their conversion.

An ancient book by unknown authors, which makes wild extraordinary claims such as snakes talking, a man living in a giant fish for days, the dead rising, and so on.

It is extraordinary that men and women of unusual ability in their respective spheres have rarely taken the trouble to give their adult attention to such a unique way of life as that proposed by Jesus Christ.

Unless something extraordinary happened to convince them that against all their expectations God had reversed his apparent verdict on Jesus, I can not imagine that they would later on have taken immense risks to assert in public that a man who had been condemned and hanged was no less than God's Messiah.

But an extraordinary belief in the reality of the verities, in the power of man (sic) to know them and to live them by an interior realization, by purity, and above all be meditation».

Curtis gained only fleeting respect and recognition during his lifetime; a man of extraordinary energy and talent, he died relatively unknown in 1952.

Pretty hard for a bunch of «men» to have predict the return of the Nation of Israel... The rebirth of Israel is one of the most extraordinary and unlikely of all the prophecies in the Bible.

man's special place in the cosmos, his connexion with destiny, his relation to the world of things, his understanding of his fellowmen, his existence as a being that knows it must die, his attitude in the ordinary and extraordinary encounters with the mystery with which his life is shot through.

This could happen only if the guilty person were by nature endowed with extraordinary stupidity, and presumably by shouting in antistrophic and antiphonal song every time someone persuaded him that now was the beginning of a new era and a new epoch, had howled his head so empty of its original quantum satis of common sense as to have attained a state of ineffable bliss in what might be called the howling madness of the higher lunacy, recognizable by such symptoms as convulsive shouting; a constant reiteration of the words «era,» «epoch,» «era and epoch,» «epoch and era,» «the System»; an irrational exaltation of the spirits as if each day were not merely a quadrennial leap - year day, but one of those extraordinary days that come only once in a thousand years; the concept all the while like an acrobatic clown in the current circus season, every moment performing these everlasting dog - tricks of flopping over and over, until it flops over the man himself.

Is it not likely that man's extraordinary capacity for making sounds and his spontaneous pleasure in doing so influenced both sides of his psychic life?

One sees now how extraordinarily (that there might be something extraordinary left)-- how extraordinarily stupid it is to defend Christianity, how little knowledge of men this betrays, and how truly, even though it be unconsciously, it is working in collusion with the enemy, by making of Christianity a miserable something or another which in the end has to be rescued by a defense.

«With man, thanks to the extraordinary agglutinative property of thought, she has at last been able to achieve, throughout an entire living group, a total synthesis of which the process is still clearly apparent, if we trouble to look, in the «scaled» structure of the modern human world.

I was privileged to be invited to Westminster Hall, where, in an extraordinary moment of British history, the Pope was to address Members of Parliament and a great gathering of men and women in public life from across Britain.

I maintained that, contrary to the commonly expressed or tacitly accepted view, the era of active evolution did not end with the appearance of the human zoological type: for by virtue of his acquirement of the gift of individual reflection Man displays the extraordinary quality of being able to totalize himself collectively upon himself, thus extending on a planetary scale the fundamental vital process which causes matter, under Certain conditions, to organize itself in elements which are ever more complex physically, and psychologically ever more centrated.

But I think those who have been part of an extraordinary move of God, especially the young men, would point to a few in the church who have preached and taught and mentored and discipled them, so that they may be used of God.

as for making extraordinary claims — if you weren't ignorant in relation to the data that's available - you'd understand that the claims that man is very highly likely to have effected the global climate aren't at all extraordinary, dummy.

So Peter with an extraordinary completeness presents us with the Christ who pre-existed in history and before history began (1:10, 11, 20), the Christ who came to this earth and who suffered and died for men on the cross (1:16 - 22; 2:24), the Christ who descended into Hades and so tasted the full bitterness of death (3:19), the Christ who rose from death (1:3, 21; 3:21), the Christ who ascended into glory (1:11; 3:22), and the Christ who will come again (1:7, 13; 4:7; 5:1, 4).

Graham knew that Johnson was no saint, but mutual respect for the extraordinary talent each possessed and a common commitment to Jesus Christ bonded the two leviathans in a friendship that was as deep and as genuine as either man ever knew.

Rather, I have begun more and more to experience for myself the «joy of the Gospel» that Pope Francis calls us all to proclaim, and which shone out in the lives of the priests who inspired me as a young man: an extraordinary sense of peace, happiness and purpose which comes from encountering Jesus and handing your life over to him.»

They «can properly imply that in some respects man is only a «plain citizen» (Aldo Leopold) of the planet on a par with all other species, but they are sometimes interpreted as denying that humans have any «extraordinary» traits, or that, in situations involving vital interests, humans have no overriding obligations towards their own kind.

M.d religion is about man there is alot of man in the evangelical church as well as other churchs however the Holy spirit is the one we lean on to teach us Gods word he reveals the scriptures just as though Jesus was teaching his disciples in his day.Often after speaking in parable his disciples would ask what he meant and he would give them insight into the messages.I find for me if i struggle understanding a topic i ask the holy spirit to help me if you havent received him just invite him into your life if you have already confessed Jesus as your Lord and savior.We can not live a christian life without him.He is the one who empowers us to live righteously rather than according to our old nature.In the last year or so he has been showing me extraordinary insight into the word its new its fresh he is amazing.brentnz

On many counts it seems extraordinary that it took place at all: a man and a woman in public; a Jew and a Samaritan; a transient and a citizen; one offering living water and another caught in the ceaseless rounds of drawing water at the well.

When baseball legend Roberto Clemente died in a plane crash in 1972, on a mission of mercy to victims of a Nicaraguan earthquake, the world not only lost a great man, but someone with extraordinary dreams.

In my experience I have never known a man to make an adult study of this extraordinary life and remain wholly in the darIn my experience I have never known a man to make an adult study of this extraordinary life and remain wholly in the darin the dark.

What was special in part among the early Christians — and not just Jesus, but St. Paul, as well — was that they were two extraordinary men.

I do not see how anyone can have lived as long as I have, and can have witnessed the extraordinary about - face in man's thinking about war, without finding hope rising in him that we shall in the end «unshackle ourselves from the past.»

In his insightful new biography, Richard John Neuhaus: A Life in the Public Square, Randy Boyagoda recounts the extraordinary journey of the man who many believe was «the most consequential public theologian in America since the days of Reinhold Niebuhr and John Courtney Murray.&raquIn his insightful new biography, Richard John Neuhaus: A Life in the Public Square, Randy Boyagoda recounts the extraordinary journey of the man who many believe was «the most consequential public theologian in America since the days of Reinhold Niebuhr and John Courtney Murray.&raquin the Public Square, Randy Boyagoda recounts the extraordinary journey of the man who many believe was «the most consequential public theologian in America since the days of Reinhold Niebuhr and John Courtney Murray.&raquin America since the days of Reinhold Niebuhr and John Courtney Murray.»

The striking works of Pratt, India and Its Faiths (1915) and A Pilgrimage of Buddhism (1928) did much to make these religions come alive for the first time for many Western readers; for Pratt had a gift not only of brilliance but of extraordinary human sympathy.10 These are clear instances of the increasing mobility of modern man: each book was written as the result of travel in the East.

In my own experience I find it perfectly extraordinary that men and women of unusual ability in their respective spheres have rarely taken the trouble to give their adult attention to such a unique way of life as that proposed by Jesus ChrisIn my own experience I find it perfectly extraordinary that men and women of unusual ability in their respective spheres have rarely taken the trouble to give their adult attention to such a unique way of life as that proposed by Jesus Chrisin their respective spheres have rarely taken the trouble to give their adult attention to such a unique way of life as that proposed by Jesus Christ.

I long for a society in which the extraordinary dynamic that is at work in the encounter between a man and a woman continues to be established, under a specific name.

(ENTIRE BOOK) The author intends to present the portrait of a man of extraordinary accomplishment in the fields of religion, politics, linguistics and ecclesiology, but also as an ordinary man whose letters and reported conversations reveal his struggle with the ordinary issues of a person of his time.

Shortlisted for the Man Booker prize, this extraordinary novel set in post-colonial Nigeria is a modern day myth.

His plaque at the society's headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, reads «Dr. Fabian Garcia, a man of humble origins, but a gentleman of extraordinary achievements.»

Garcia's plaque at the society's headquarters in Alexandria, Va., reads simply: «Dr. Fabian Garcia, a man of humble origins, but a gentleman of extraordinary achievements.»

In a less gifted man such a performance would be astonishing, but von Zedtwitz» memory is extraordinary.

Liverpool's extraordinary first - half attack, coupled with a stellar defensive showing in the second half, has Pep Guardiola and Man City facing another premature Champions League exit.

Robert Weintraub is the author of three books, including the just - released «NO BETTER FRIEND: One Man, One Dog, and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage and Survival in WWII», and is a regular contributor to Slate, the New York Times, Grantland, and many others.

Domestically, Liverpool sit fifth in the league and go into the match on the back of an extraordinary win against QPR, scoring twice in stoppage time to eventually win 3 - 2 but a victory of any sort will do for Brendan Rodgers's men on Wednesday,

However, given the extraordinary pressures I feel in the divorce process and the privileges apparently given to mothers, regardless of historical involvement with the children, I can understand how some men can be pushed to the limit to think that the only bearable path is abandoning the children.

You won't want to miss our fourth annual Celebration of School Nutrition Heroes, which will be held this year on Monday, April 3 at the J.W. Marriott in Washington, D.C. Meet and honor five extraordinary men and women in the school nutrition profession who go beyond their daily duties, and making a big impact in their communities.

Each year we honor a selection of extraordinary men and women working in school nutrition, nominated by you, their peers.

In the last few extraordinary days, I have been reminded of my favourite Edgar Allan Poe story, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, in which a man is frozen at the point of death by hypnosiIn the last few extraordinary days, I have been reminded of my favourite Edgar Allan Poe story, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, in which a man is frozen at the point of death by hypnosiin the Case of M. Valdemar, in which a man is frozen at the point of death by hypnosiin which a man is frozen at the point of death by hypnosis.

Yet, on Monday, with his political compass apparently spinning in his never - ending feud with Mayor Bill de Blasio, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo took the extraordinary step of including the New York Police Department in his regularly scheduled fulmination against the mayor, specifically for failing to assist a sleeping homeless man in the city's subways.

The fact that Labour candidates are happy to accept donations from the man who led us into the illegal war in Iraq, introduced tuition fees and started the process of NHS privatisation is extraordinary.

Cuomo called Duffy «an extraordinary man» who has been an «extraordinary mayor,» but also said he believes his hand - picked No. 2 will be able to do more for his hometown working in Albany «because a lot of the problems that Rochester is facing... these are statewide problems, and you're really going to need to tackle them in Albany on a statewide basis.»