Sentences with phrase «fit the story into»

Asch is content to fit the story into an over familiar mold, and is drawn to blunt, obvious contrasts, such as that between Sam's righteous father (well played by Mark Ivanir) and the unscrupulous Yosef.

Not exact matches

The gesture is fitting — Bouchard's transformation of Alimentation Couche - Tard from a single convenience store into a $ 35 - billion retail empire is one of the country's more successful business stories of the past 40 years — but 2016 has not been without its trials.

But, as is often the case, my interview with Sam Yagan, OkCupid's co-founder and CEO, had more interesting tidbits than I could fit into the story.

Contis was quick to point out that your business's name is a creative platform for telling a long - term story to the world, so it is worth spending some time and effort into finding the best fit.

If oil is all that really matters in the economic story of the Harper years, I'm not sure how to fit certain staggering sums into the narrative.

Still, the story matters because it fits into a broader pattern of payoffs, including from AMI, being used to cover up stories about Trump sex scandals.

The leaders sort through a mass of ideas to find the ones that fit into a coherent whole — that support the story — which is a very difficult task.

They will distil things down into a simple story, fitting the central bank into one pigeonhole or another.

Surely you could have fit Santa or the tooth fairy into your story somewhere for some added magicalness?

Summary: Christians see themselves as persecuted because the myth of their persecution fits into the story they are told in the bible.

People of God have a way of trying to fit everything into a «perfect little box», when the real story may be different from what they believe to have happened.

But the story I've lived and the stories I know don't fit into «Side A» or «Side B,» and it is somewhat frustrating to feel as if our stories not real, recognized, or legitimate.

«One of the most striking recent trends in the American religious landscape has been the growing share of the unaffiliated, and this study allows us to see where Latinos fit into that story,» said Cary Funk, a senior researcher at the Pew Research Center and one of the co-authors of the study.

In his books, The Last Word and Scripture and the Authority of God, N. T. Wright uses an extremely helpful illustration for explaining how God's story functions, and where we fit into the plot.

To them the Bible seems to be full of miracle stories which have much to say that can not be fitted into a scientific way of looking at things.

We learn to grasp the plot of God's story, and how we might fit into this ongoing narrative of heaven.

To see our existence as some kind of coherent story, we have to be able to relate it to a larger story — our «little story» has to be fitted into a «big story» just as archaic men and ancient apocalyptists both saw.

But another aspect is precisely the question of how God and man can fit into the same story.

He has been missing for four days, and Wendy found him perched 30 feet up in the air on a telephone pole, and... well, take all the events I described above and fit them together into some sort of story (any crazy story will do) and you pretty much have what happened today as she tried to rescue Christmas.

It's time honored tradition for the conquering empire our country to absorb the local population by desecrating their temples, and twisting their gods to fit in to the ruling empires pantheon or in the holy roman empire's case, to fit into the jesus story.

We need a God we can manage, perhaps, one that fits into our story instead of orienting ourselves around how we fit in the bigger story.

We could guess at exactly how loss of limbs fits into that picture but that is why we have the story of Job.

The entire story never fits into the headline — it only rarely fits into the entire article, for crying out loud.

Williams suggests that we approach the whole Bible as a story God wants to tell us, a story of his own action and of his people's response to him, and that we ask where we fit into that story.

So, the next time you proudly proclaim that you know the secrets to life, death, the origins of life on Earth and the origins of the Universe, because your parents or priest taught you some comforting stories from late Bronze Age Palestine as a ten year - old, you might like to consider where your beliefs fit into the bigger picture.

To bring some biblical examples to Wright's point, Hebrews 11 and 2 Peter / Jude employ the strategy of fitting the readers and their circumstances into the ongoing story — complete with a future ending.

During the long period when these narratives were regarded as historically accurate, based, as it was thought, on the memories of the apostles, all kinds of ingenious explanations were offered in an attempt to fit all the stories into one composite and complete picture.

When the early Jews retold the story to fit it into their own mythological framework, Utnapishtim and his family became Noah and his family and Enki and Enlil were recast as Yahweh.

I am still wondering how Danny fits into the overall story.

But it takes a step back to get the wide angle of where gender equality fits into the story of Jesus, the story of God's redeeming work in this world.

Much has been made in the past decade or so of the historical - redemptive narrative: the belief that the story of God and His interactions with His people fit into four categories (or stages) we call Creation, Fall, Redemption, Consummation (or shalom).

New Testament books often twisted verses from the Old to try to make them fit into the Jesus story.

Not that I can ever, as I said, deny Jesus, but that sometimes I think man has written the stories in the bible to suit himself (a power struggle to make us fit God into a certain size box) and I want to find out as much of the truth as I can.

It's not a story that fits into a sound bite.

In my experience teaching Christians in their twenties and thirties (some who grew up in church, and others who did not), I have discovered that though they may be familiar with certain Bible stories, they are not always sure how the stories fit together into the Bible as a whole.

Great episcopal figures of the antebellum period — for example, the Irish liberal John England of Charleston, and the pugnacious John Hughes of New York — were «fitted» into the Carrollingian story line (if I may be pardoned the neologism) even as their distinctive styles and the accomplishments of their episcopates stretched the boundaries of the «Carroll Church.»

John, recounting the story of Lazarus, gives us a God who does not fit neatly into the comfortable theodicies of our postmodern sensibility.

For me, people who have studied the languages and cultures of the Bible can shed light underneath some of the stories and bring them to life as I see how what is written fits into the life back then.

Much of her recent work has focused on sharing the stories and experiences of intersex people and examining what Scripture has to say about people who do not fit into rigid, binary gender categories.

You can fit one walnut in the palm of your hand — yet it has all the building blocks to grow into a tree that's nearly as wide as a school bus and as tall as a 10 - story building.

«What we've created here is a standalone destination that evokes the feeling of early 20th century Florida and fits into the greater story of Disney Springs.

In each issue of Paleo Magazine, I share the story of a traditional recipe and adapt it to fit into a healthier Paleo lifestyle.

3 Frozen Pasta Salad from Christine at Cook the Story — Easy suggestions allow you to adapt this pasta salad to fit each of your children's preferences... and also to turn this make - ahead recipe into a warming lunch box soup or hearty pasta dish to serve in a thermos.

Regardless of the situation, Yaya Toure is being linked with a move to Arsenal, most likely to sell the story, but where exactly would he fit into our team?

Some stories were so unique and unexpected, they did not fit into any obvious category.

The harder the Clintons have worked to preserve their marriage, the less easily that marriage has fit into easy stories about what true love should look like.

Next you can trim the body to the length you desire (long enough for 15 beads to fit into if you are reading along with the story).

Nor is being explicitly dismissive of someone who is thankful that his family had the option to keep their child alive through formula just because that story doesn't fit into your fantasy world of everyone happily breastfeeding.

How does Ron Paul's Meet The Press interview fit into this story?

Other research has also found that no matter how good the evidence is, people will reject it if it does not fit into their mind's coherent story about the world.