Sentences with phrase «finding redemption as»

On the surface, THE BOSS has the goods to make it winning material: pioneering comedic genius Melissa McCarthy starring as a disgraced Martha Stewart type, finding redemption as a leader for a group of underdog girl scouts.

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So the only words King actually is quoted as saying is that he «hates organized religion» and in his stories you find religious leaders as the great villains (prison warden in Shawshank Redemption) and this article concludes he is a great proponent of religious faith?
But he must accept this redemption with the turning of his whole being, for only thus can he extricate himself from the maze of selfishness where he has always set himself as his goal and find a way to God and to the fulfillment of the particular task for which he is intended.
I am learning that, as a process of liberation from either injustice or despair, healing is a process of finding — if need be, creating — redemption in suffering.
But in the mystical body of the Church, the surplus humanity that Christ finds in each of the members of this his body is called upon, insofar as each is a part of the whole, to participate in the work of this body, which is the redemption continued throughout time.
Redemption is won as men find themselves judged, forgiven, and brought to repentance through the fact of God's victory on the cross.
While Brock found images of redemption in Scripture, New Testament scholar Gail Paterson Corrington found hers in pre-Christian figures such as Isis and Sophia, ancient female divinities whose legacy lives on in apocryphal literature in the figure of Mary, the mother of Jesus.
«36 These thoughts are central also to the new school of Pannenberg, in which Christ is seen not as ending time and history but actualizing a new order of history in which men participate and find their redemption.
Or consider the report by Caryn James in the New York Times on the recent Sundance Film Festival, in which she describes the film Care of the Spitfire Grill as «a manipulatively heartwarming story about a young woman just out of prison who finds spiritual redemption
Nor is there any dialogue between God the Father and the pre-existent Son about the work of redemption such as we find in the hymns of Luther and Paul Gerhardt.
It is not the same kind of «yes» that one finds in that tradition of theology of culture today that makes use of the world as illustrations for its doctrines of sin and redemption.
He sits among them on a temporary seat, «so that, despite the deep seriousness of his leadership, the picture presented was one of an uncomplicated and familiar comradeship., The Seer uses the spiritual power of his disciples as a magic force to hasten the coming of redemption, while the Yehudi helps his disciples find the path that «they seek to pursue of themselves and for their own sake.»
In Judaism it found expression in that apocalyptic despair that in certain circles regarded the whole of the present created order as beyond redemption and looked for a cataclysmic irruption of God to establish a new order from which evil would be banished.
Further books contain liturgical materials such as a hymn of initiants found at the end of a copy of the Manual and the hymns or psalms (hodayoth) of thanksgiving for redemption.
We suspect that on the road to Damascus St. Paul found his rabbinic teaching was perfectly fulfilled in his overwhelming vision of Christ as the Lord of Creation, Salvation and Redemption which he was to proclaim later in his letters to the Colossians and the Ephesians.
But though I believe in redemption and realize Aires Correira may be a changed man, I found the wording in David Soares» letter to the Rhode Island Parole Board, as quoted by the Troy Record, troubling.
Once written off as unusable, they might now find redemption by rescuing solar panels, which have hit a formidable pothole in their efficiency.
Homeland, Season 3, Episode 12: In the third season finale, Saul plans a last ditch rescue operation as Brody struggles to find redemption.
This is a fantastically spun tale which starts out as a bleak expose about death for cash, which forms into a story of friendship, but delves back down into revenge, reemerges for justice and redemption, and then turns into a cat and mouse thriller for a while until unraveling into a blood - thirsty mess of explosions and bullets before finding its ending.
I mean, he's done some amazing music for other movies such as «Shawshank Redemption», «Finding Nemo», «WALL - E» and even «Green Mile».
Milltown Pride tells the story of a young man who dreams of playing professional baseball, his rise as a baseball star, his fall from grace, and the redemption he finds through faith and love.
Rodrigo Perez, The Playlist (C --RRB-: A fascinating story, but as reimagined by screenwriter by screenwriter Nick Hornsby and director Jean - Marc Vallée («Dallas Buyers Club»), «Wild» starring Reese Witherspoon is a well - intentioned, but misguided and occasionally even garish adaptation of spiritual redemption that never connects or finds itself.
Anyway, as said rumors around this Red Dead Redemption project have started to spread and there's even someone who thought to have found out the name of the upcoming Red Dead Redemption game.
Cue the redemption arc as Hope finds true happiness and softens her aggressively unpleasant shell to let some people in, like her put - upon father Stan (Gary Cole) and coach's aid Ben (Thomas Middleditch), whom she mocks for his involuntary facial twitch.
Conversely, Dixon is drawn three - dimensionally as a person on the wrong side of things who is capable of finding redemption.
It may not be a film that raises pulse levels, but the visual impact is often gut - wrenching, as if Ripley were tossed into purgatory to fight along side lost sinners and miscreants who are trying to find a way to redemption.
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* Among other options, you can find straightforward decency, as evidenced by Captain America (Chris Evans); wayward pilgrims in search of redemption, like Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), Gamora (Zoe Saldana) and Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan); rakes, including Stark and Quill; talented people of privilege learning to carry the mantle of responsibility, including Doctor Strange and Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman); goofballs such Ant - Man (Paul Rudd); and promising young people, including Peter Parker and Shuri (Letitia Wright).
Jimmy has been in prison for the last several years, and when our movie opens, it still opens with Eli finding this weapon, but it becomes this family drama, this brother's redemption story as this weapon gets Jimmy and Eli into some hot water that they did not anticipate, and they end up being on the run and on the road from some really scary dudes, both of our world and perhaps beyond.
Another member of the gang we know from the original Red Dead Redemption, in 1911 Javier has returned to his home country of Mexico and can be found (and captured or killed) working as a hired gun for the authoritarian rule of President Sanchez, Colonel Allende and Captain DeSanta.
As a career CIA operative (George Clooney) begins to uncover the disturbing truth about the work he has devoted his life to, an up - and - coming oil broker (Matt Damon) faces an unimaginable family tragedy and finds redemption in his partnership with an idealistic Gulf prince (Alexander Siddig).
Sia, who can drill down to the emotional core of a cliché, sings «Deer in Headlights» as a submissive who finds herself falling «down a shame spiral» while seeking redemption.
These two men enable the worst in each other, but also find some fellowship and redemption in the relationship, as they make their way from Dubuque, Iowa, to New Orleans on a misguided, haphazard road trip.
Featuring an all - star cast (and that's used a lot, but it really does fit in this case) including a scene - stealing Clifton Collins Jr. as a pimp with principles and Robert Forster as grumpy, heavily armed grandpa, it follows the redemption of an alcoholic former cop (Hawkes), who discovers a dead body in a field and decides to find out who she was and how she got there.
Red Dead Redemption 1 shockingly didn't make its way to PC but it did just find itself available as a backwards compatible title on Xbox 360, just in time to help fuel the hype train for Red Dead Redemption 2 (yes, that's the title so deal with it).
Full of humor, camaraderie, trust, redemption, music, food and, of course, community, it's as lively and fun a film as you'll find at the festival.
Back to Boss, where things get more interesting (in between the various hauntings) as Mayor Kane attempts to find redemption on a number of fronts: at home, where his wife (the terrific Connie Nielsen) and estranged daughter Emma (Hannah Ware, a pallid weak link) can barely stand to share a dinner table with him; and more compellingly, with the city at large, where his efforts at urban redevelopment of a run - down housing project seem unusually selfless — he certainly impresses the alluring and earnest political operative (Sanaa Lathan) whom he lures into his inner circle.
I've adored Rockwell for years and years, but this is definitely his best performance to date as the racist cop who is able to find some redemption.
I enjoyed this movie as one in which the sort of character who in most movies ends up dead or in jail finds redemption, and the Barbie doll scene, inappropriate as it was, was pretty funny.
As complications grow, it is only through Joan that Richie can find redemption.
This question is meant to make students ponder the nature of evil as an inherent force, whether people are truly born innocent and whether a notably evil person might find redemption through a change in circumstances and environment.
«The Immigrant» Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Marion Cotillard and Jeremy Renner as directed by Playlist favorite James Gray («We Own The Night,» «Two Lovers «-RRB-, period drama «The Immigrant» screamed Oscar - contender from the outset, but it's actually quite a different animal with divergent concerns, as Harvey Weinstein found out (he pretty much dumped the movie, despite rave reviews, one of the biggest shames of 2014 so far), really more of a slow - burning emotional drama exploring the ideas of forgiveness and redemption via terrible characters that are nearly beyond salvation.
The novel tells how five very isolated and extremely disparate people find themselves touching bottom both physically and emotionally, and how their lives become enmeshed as they each find a very different pathway to redemption.
Like The Last Crossing by Guy Vanderhaeghe, The Tenderness of Wolves is a classic «western» in which the raw and rugged people are dwarfed by their surroundings as they find their way towards, or away from, hard - won redemption.
His writing often contains elements of mystery and the fantastic, as he tries to find the redemption in the horrific; the surviving heart still left beating among all the sorrow; the beautiful lost somewhere in all the ugliness of the world.
I did not find this enjoyable in any way and was mostly depressed as I plowed through looking for redemption but finding it too dark and dreary.
When an Estonian woman finds down - and - out Vaara and tells him that her daughter with Down syndrome has gone missing and is perhaps now in the clutches of sex slavers, he sees it as a chance for redemption.
Natty's family farm is in the path of the mountain - top removal coal - mining, and Charlie will be facing some hard decisions as the people of Red Bone begin showing him the love and strength to be found on Redemption Mountain.
Rather than ask his wealthy father for help, Luke finds redemption and love as an entry - level clerk.The Christmas...
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