Sentences with phrase «fascinating persons who»

While the offbeat interests, unconventional outlook, and unique manners of the lead would be enough to distinguish Juno, the film surrounds its eponym with other fascinating persons who add to the air of realism and supply layers of depth.

It's possible that Teddy Roosevelt is the most fascinating person who ever lived.

Another client of mine went to a fundraiser for Ethiopian women and met several fascinating people who invited her to other social engagements.

Must Love Cats is a celebration of fascinating felines and the fascinating people who love them.

If, conversely, you're more interested in the culture and people of the country, you can seek out a host who sounds like a fascinating person who can offer you a peek in to the life of a local in Australia or Bolivia or France.

Ramble beaches, explore aboriginal villages and abandoned homesteads, handle colourful intertidal critters, and meet some of the fascinating people who live in this remote — and stunningly beautiful — region.

«We've been very lucky to work with so many talented and fascinating people who have been kind enough to talk about everything from Milton Glaser to being a female sign painter to designing title plates (and why we shouldn't be saying «mastheads»); or opening up their studios and sketchbooks for us.»

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But the stories of the people who created these acclaimed works are just as fascinating and inspiring as the ones we see in theaters, ranging from partnerships between newfound friends, finally getting to yes after years of hard work and the remarkable work ethics of idiosyncratic minds.

In a fascinating post on The Conversation blog, Maynard makes an argument that won't surprise anyone who has read any fictional account of human's interplanetary future — colonizing other planets probably won't bring out the better angels of our nature, and any attempt to put people on Mars will require overcoming serious social and political problems, such as:

The most fascinating thing is the people who said no to blogging, then subsequently said yes.

This is fascinating — I think a lot of people who are basically atheists «try» religion in this sense — reading sacred texts, reciting prayers, even attending church.

about people who experience same - sex attraction trying to live a Christian life, this fuller exposition of his thought on the new ideologies presented a fascinating look into the way in which colonialism — discredited by liberals and to lesser extent many conservatives as well — has gone away from the actual military and political rule seen in previous centuries, to a stealthier and subtler form of the exertion of foreign power.

Fascinating study of what you learned about people who didn't have twitter and iphones!

Read any of the accounts of pioneers, such as the fascinating Canadian explorer, David Thompson, and you will read the story of courageous people who experienced loneliness.

It's fascinating since I've mostly been in that very world and am generally a traditional, conservative person who defers to authority figures.

The history of the Jews, recorded with such fascinating candor in the Old Testament, is that of a stiff - necked people who were al ways rebelling against the discipline of the Torah and turning their backs on God.

In the TIME profile, «An environmental evangelist», actor Don Cheadle wrote, «There's something fascinating about a smart person who defies stereotype.

People who do are at risk of being viewed like zoo animals (fascinating, compelling and somewhat repulsive).

He wrote a fascinating book that those of you who are wondering about that might enjoy called The Great Divorce in which people are given kind of one last opportunity to experience heaven and experience the kingdom and see if they want it.

But then, I have a fascinating book by a Jungian Buddhist psychologist, Polly Young - Eisendrath, The Gifts of Suffering: Finding Insight, Compassion, and Renewal, where she tells story after story of people who have experienced terrible struggles, yet have what she calls «resilience» and recover to find renewed creativity and compassion in the world.

I always find it fascinating to learn more about the people who read this blog, and I love it when you interact with each other as you so often do in the comment sections on the forums.

I've gotten to know a few people in my life who hold similar views, needless to say they they're perfect no matter how bad they act, they love to complain about everyone else and how everything is other peoples fault instead of taking responsibility for something... They tend to be depressed deep down also... quite fascinating actually.

While some people find in this idea a fascinating plan of action, there are many others who shudder at the thought.

I think it would be fascinating if the person who got transplanted started to take on similar personality traits as the previous owner without any prior knowledge.

Our website is filled with fun and helpful information about the Cliff House, its history, the surrounding area, and the fascinating people — past and present — who created its rich history.

It implies that Formula 1 is less dangerous today, and therefore less fascinating and appealing for some people - those who go to the circus to watch the acrobats fall.»

A decade after his Heisman season, it's still fascinating to see how he's thought of by people who aren't college fans.

Let's exist in that moment for a second as we ponder what, I feel, will be the most fascinating question heading into draft day: Who is the first non-QB off the board in this draft, and where does that person go?

With so many teams looking for a new GM, and many of them looking at the same people, it will be fascinating to see who strikes first in hiring a new one this winter.

What I thought was really fascinating is that we were talking to some cloth diapering folks over the week, and I had no idea... and get ready to have your mind blown... there were so many people who use a conventional diaper.

I know my personality is not suited to that sort of thing (not that I'm considering it, but I find the subject fascinating), because I am a control freak who is excessively accommodating to other people — inherent conflict guaranteed!

People who choose a child psychologist career enter a complex and fascinating field that involves treating children with a wide variety of issues and disorders.

It can be so fascinating to learn more about the people who came before us, and how their experiences have shaped the world we live in today!

«What I've found fascinating in the last week of this process has been the numbers of people — probably not in the Labour party, may not even be Labour voters — who have written to me to say thanks very much for speaking up against austerity and for speaking up against inequality in society,» he says.

An inveterate inventor who couldn't stop playing with ideas if he tried, he's come up with some fascinating tools that might change the way people live in impoverished areas across the globe.

It's always fascinating to see what organizing tools stand out to people who aren't embedded in the political realm day - to - day, and besides these two, Carberry also picked up on the political organizing site Ruck.us.

An inveterate inventor who couldn't stop playing with ideas if he tried, he's come up with some fascinating tools that might change the way people live in impoverished...

Stories about which spin doctor once said what to whom five years ago may be fascinating to people who both know and care about these things, but they're utterly dull to everybody else.

Breaking down 2010 Liberal Democrat voters by how much attention they pay to politics though shows a fascinating split: 2010 Lib Dem voters who paid a lot of attention to politics were more likely to switch to Labour; people who voted Lib Dem in 2010 but who paid little attention to politics were more likely to split to the Conservatives.

And it's that fact which could see a fascinating new front open in the battle between people who can have things for free and people who don't want them to.

I can imagine that it would be very fascinating news which I believe would be hailed and well - received among people of African descent all over the world if our Government is minded to announce Ghana's willingness to offer Right of Abode Status to the Black Panther cast and crew who are of African descent in recognition of the honour done Ghana and the African people.

A pretty innocuous campaigning photo you might think, but the discussion that ensued was fascinating and instructive, particularly as you see the difference between people who had friends and family suffering with cancer (they liked the war metaphor) and those who actually suffered with cancer themselves (they largely rejected the war metaphor).

«This is important on every level, but it's fascinating that you've got a bunch of people who essentially are insisting on principle in a system that people say, offhand, has none of it left.»

I like kids, and I thought it was a fascinating exercise to think about how you diagnose and treat disease in small people who can't talk to you.

You'd be surprised how fast you can forget the name of that friendly person who's doing that fascinating work on... you know... that subject.

To really raise the question with serious people who have explored it scientifically is a fascinating thing to do.

«It's a fascinating model,» says Richard Weiner, a neuroendocrinologist at the University of California, San Francisco, who notes that stress - related hikes in cortisol correlate with an inhibition of reproductive function in people, too.

I find this position very rewarding in that I get to meet very interesting academics as well as people at all levels in industry who are experts in fascinating fields of science and technology.

And it again, it brought home to me the way in which Martin Gardner was at the hub of a vast universe of brilliant, sparkling intellect — including people like Marvin Minsky [at] the M.I.T. artificial intelligence lab; and John Conway who at the time was in England and later came to Princeton and who invented so many deep and fascinating mathematical ideas, especially the Game of Life, to which Martin devoted several columns and which was an incredibly important thing in bringing new ideas to the world of computation and about the cellular automata; and Donald Knuth at Stanford, the great computer [scientist]; Perci Diaconis a statistician who is fascinated by paradoxes of probability and a great magician as well; and Ray Hyman, a psychologist who had a spent a great deal of his life debunking people such as [Uri Geller]; and James Randi, one of the great magicians of our era who also was one of the most important debunkers of pseudoscience in the world.

And that's a way that people who otherwise would not, let's say, buy Scientific American the newsstand or specifically go to a science blog or something like that, they keep hearing stories about science and find them fascinating and interesting.