Sentences with phrase «folk stories about»
So in one day you can spend an hour on a beachfront massage table to the sound of waves rolling in, then head off to watch ancient religious / folk stories about playful gods acted out in a nearby temple (there are no fewer than 20,000 temples on the island).
http://www.crusadertravel.com/ Not exact matches
Still, the executive had some strong words for high - profile folks who don't like the stories journalists report about them.
Moral of the story: most religious folks tend pick and choose which parts of the bible to get feisty about.
I miss the days when Sarah Palin inspiried the folks in Alabama with stories about how Paul Revere rode a 4 - wheeler all night to warn Abe Lincoln that Buddhist Mexicans under Nelson Mandela were coming to attack the statue of the 13 commandments that Charlton Heston built on the white house lawn!
There are folks who have posted to this wonderful story about a group of youth who are working towards the Aims of Scouting: Growth in moral strength and character, Participating citizenship, and Development in physical, mental, and emotional fitness.
When I used to attend (evangelical christian) church there was always a vocal strain of folks who wanted to think they were persecuted, they told made - up stories about christians being persecuted in various parts of the world (at the time a lot of them were set in the U.S.S.R.)... it was so obvious that they LOVED thinking of themselves as some small group of martyrs, that they NEEDED to imagine themselves to be a persecuted minority... holding on to some secret truth that the rest of the world had turned its back on.
One might also say that if the story is about science, like Stephen Hawking's theories, then folks shouldn't post religious comments either, but try stopping them!
Right now the primary hashtag is «#ikeptliving,» and we're seeing so many folks from all over use that — not only to spread the word about what we're doing but to share their own stories and even their own pain within that.
Oh... forgot you Proving... I wasn't referring to what he said... on the surface, it's fine to have a point of view... whether I agree with it or not... but when you are A) in a position of influence and B) spending money to fight the opposing view... and it's to stop two people who love each other from wedding in the eyes of their Lord, then it is hate... if your ignorance allows you to think my comments are stupid... so be it... and one last point about slavery... whether it was Democrats or Republicans who supported, or fought against slavery... many justified slavery because of their perverted interpretation of the bible... most people can't tell a simple story from one person to the next... but so many foolish Christians think they know exactly what the bible is saying w / o any doubt... forget the fact that it's been translated and passed for 1000s of years... yup you must be right that God is against two people loving each other... He must have made a mistake with those folks huh?
One of the interesting things about the story is that the rich man is very religious and knows all about Abraham and the prophets, but his religion had done very little when it came to the compassion folks were starving for on the streets.
Booty, the reason you don't comprehend His love, is because those life stories are about folks like you.
Then, there's the fun stories about folks who get married and find out that they are second cousins after the fact.
Folks, I'm not sure I've ever asked for your help so earnestly (well, except for asking you to look the other way about my cheese and wine consumption, but that's a whole «nuther story).
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It's something we talk about here at BA a lot, and it's something she did in her latest release called Feed the Resistance, a compilation of recipes and ideas from folks around the country whose stories and traditions so often go unheard.
That's not a disservice to our marketing folks, but it does give us a chance to tell really honest, clear stories about his point of view, his journey, coming out of Oakland, playing at Weber State, getting drafted sixth, coming to Portland.
A Changed Man Making the most of a second chance, Virginia Tech back Branden Ore has lost hisbad attitude and found a starring role TO HEAR folks at Virginia Tech tell the story, there's little about the BrandenOre of 2006 that resembles the angry and undisciplined player who was such adisruptive force last fall.
Story for the gods... they don't need Van Persie to beat us, just get some kids off the streets in a Man U, Chelski or hell, even Monaco kit, top it up by putting the moaning one [or just about any brash folk like Berbatov] in the picture and we are in deep s ** t, our players will quake in their boots and lose the plot; we only beat Man City «cos their manager is almost as studious and gentlemanly as our prof. kindly remind me of one feisty game we've won in recent times, ok maybe Stoke [it took a broken leg to Ramsey and constant harassment before our players thought it was necessary to stand up to Stoke].
Some of the stories — like the one about the 1940s — are true folk history.
My husband has told the story many times about his «sausage eating years» (don't let your imagination run wild here folks, we are talking about food) where he would only eat sausage for dinner.
This is the story folks are talking about today — of course it's a parenting decision.
Contrast that with stories of alternative health folks who lie about having a cure for cancer, or tell people they have disease they actually don't, and are NEVER held accountable.
Howdy folks, your redoutable Epolitics.com editorial team (i.e., me) is back from The Burn with about 2000 photographs and even more stories — some of which I might be able to tell in public!
Regardless of why this story popped, perhaps more political reporters will start paying attention to Campaigns & Elections and Technology Bytes — rumor has it, folks there occasionally know what they're talking about.
All the stories about the Garden and Gandolf and pills and majic potions lead folks down a pretty path to the land of Woo.
Philippines About Blog Pepper publishes playful recipes and curious food stories for creative folks in the Philippines.
Between her own life experiences - including a 23 year marriage, raising an amazing daughter, surviving a tough divorce, overcoming a history of childhood sexual abuse, and sitting at the brink of suicide - and then learning about even more relationship stories through interviews from folks across the country... she's heard it all.
Find a busy place and sit down with the intent of creating stories about the folks you see.
It's especially good to hear folks like O'Neil and Miller discuss what they wanted to do when they worked on Batman, and I like the notes about specific Bat - stories.
In the case of the former, writer - director Rick Famuyiwa's story about a high - school geek (Shameik Moore) negotiating life in South Central blasts its John Hughes - in - the - hood tale with a lot of Nineties hip - hop and 21st - century updates of clichés (gang members track down folks with GPS apps on iPads).
«What's moving to me about the story is that at the start it's this guy who just wants someone to pick up after him,» says Ethan Hawke of his cantankerous Everett character in Maudie, which also stars Sally Hawkins as legendary real - life folk artist Maud Lewis.
The film leaves a few too many unanswered questions but it's still a compelling true story which gets you thinking about the power of politicians and how even incompetent folk can orchestrate a cover up.
Based on an old Russian folk story, Corpse Bride is set in the 19th century but has nothing dreary or stodgy about it.
Ensuring that it doesn't get left behind in the» stories about affluent white folks struggling with daddy issues» arms race, Netflix has announced that it's picking up Noah Baumbach's latest film for its online streaming library.
Arabian Nights is inspired by the structure of the eponymous Middle Eastern folk tales but re-imagined as a modern story about the Portuguese's struggle with a crumbling economy, and it may come to be considered the definitive film about the global financial crisis.
From the perfect production design and washed out look, to the cast and lead performance by Oscar Isaac (who I will be rooting for to get the Oscar) as folk musician Llewyn Davis, to the amusing but tragic story at its core, everything about this film is near perfect.
We're talking about biopics: those films that take the real - life stories of musicians, politicians, artists, atheletes and other famous folks, and mine them for reel - life fodder.
Based on a true story, the film is about an unlikely romance between a folk artist and a reclusive fish peddler.
It opens on a trio of movie folk — a director (played by Robbe - Grillet himself), a producer (actual film producer Paul Louyet), and a secretary / script supervisor (Catherine Robbe - Grillet — you get the idea)-- boarding a train (the Trans - Europ - Express, naturally) and brainstorming a story for a film about drug trafficking between Paris and Antwerp.
In terms of how the story unfolds, from the way the folks are not fully identified in the beginning, it's not about good guys versus bad guys.
STAR TREK: INSURRECTION The «Next Generation» gang keeps the action - packed sci - fi adventure saga going in this imaginative, visually engaging story about a Federation - backed plan to forcibly relocate a small race of happy agrarian folk and seize their secret to halting the aging process.
To learn more about Maud Lewis, click here to read Susan Stamberg's story about the real Canadian folk artist.
Here are 10 great biopics about folks you never imagined wanting to learn their whole life stories about on the big screen, until suddenly you did.
My real take away is that whatever this film lacks in plot complexity or story telling, many folks will see it — and will come out of the theater without regrets about having bought their tickets.
Everyone has a story — and I'm not just speaking about folks at the Ed School.
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«We view Officer Singh as a Castlemont staff member partly because of his efforts to really build relationships with folks here,» said Navarro, who happily shares the success stories of students who once had failing grades but are now A students talking about college.
I want to bring other young people along not just gay Asians but people of color, and trans folks, who have amazing stories but are too shy to speak about.»
* Multicultural Cinderella Folk Tales In this WebQuest by Laura Monson of Cordova Middle School in Phoenix, Arizona, students in grades 4 - 6 learn about the many different versions of the Cinderella story available online.
Luckily, the Bishop Museum Press had just published Mary Kawena Pukui's bilingual collection of Hawaiian folktales, and breaking my department's copying budget, I set about using it as the basis for a semester long project on family folk stories incorporating oral, written, and visual presentations.