Sentences with phrase «folk stories of»

This principle was developed based on the folk story of John Henry's competition with the steam engine, and how John Henry stopped at nothing, even death, to beat his competition (comparison).

Joining me this week are USTA's Roger Dow, talking about the current open skies controversy (and argument) between U.S. and Gulf airlines, Dan Cottrell, fireman and smoke jumper, who talks about the differences in fighting mountain and city fires, Kristen Snavely, head wrangler at Triple Creek Ranch, and Jack Gladstone, Blackfeet singer, lecturer, and writer (and Rose Bowl Champion), who tells (and sings) the folk story of a young orphan boy and his elders tracking a bear.

The purchase capped Maezawa's lightning - fast shoot to the front of the global collecting rat race, and the folk story of the sky - high total soon became a crossover sensation.

Tuulikki's performance in the work cloud - cuckoo - island (2016), retells the folk story of Mad Sweeney, an Irish king who wanders the wilderness deranged, mimicking the cuckoo's insistent call.

You're probably familiar with the folk story of «stone soup,» in which a hungry traveler tells an inhospitable community he can make delicious soup from just a pot of water and a stone.

Not exact matches

But we also told plenty of clunker stories, made lots of mistakes, and tried bad ideas, especially in the early days, so I don't blame folks for snickering.

A lot of folks are averse to telling stories because they believe that «the facts» are the most persuasive pieces of content they can deliver.

For lots of other folks, the game's single - player, blockbuster story campaign is a major part of the annual «Call of Duty» experience.

I also try to make a point of filing a radio story for the folks at Spark.

A lot of folks think that the price of gold correlates with the Federal Reserve balance sheet, and I think that's partially true, but it's not the whole story.

-LRB-...) But our friends at the Liscio Report, Doug Henwood and Philippa Dunne, find a rather different story, especially among younger groups: The vast majority of folks not in the labor force don't want a job, even if one is available.

could it be because invading missionaries found it easier to convert the norse folks by telling them they had misinterrpted their beliefs, that norse beliefs was only the beginning of the story and the OT was the continuation of man.

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!

Biblical interpretation naturally absorbs a lot of ink; but «modern biblical scholars» will be surprised to learn that many of them regard miracle stories as fictions «designed to influence the common folk of an ancient and more simple time»: a view closer to old - fashioned anticlericalism of Thomas Paine's vintage than modern scholarship even of a radical stripe.

Not for nothing do the folk cultures of the world abound with stories like that of the fisherman's wife who was accorded three wishes» and had to use the third to undo the other two.»

Bunch of fools, keep believing the same old folks tales, the same story keeps coming since sumarian times, there is not an original passage in the bible, new testament, koran etc, they just keep repeating and adjusting the story to their convinience.

A couple of your folks who were in on the discussion know the rest of the story.

If I were to rightly divide the word of truth, this is what I would be doing and so should all folks do who impart to the biblically reasoned in order to bring the light the f I c t I t I o u s stories written with the words of truth.

It reminds me of stories of folks letting people stay in their apartments in New York at the time of 9/11 and how the community came together in mourning ant the Clutha helicopter disaster in Glasgow.

That is a whole big bad nasty story — again — on the evils of the right wing religious folks.

«Christians are so loving — so much like the ideal story Jesus (sarcasm)... many of the good Christian folks bash Caitlyn Jenner... Only I spoke out» Sabio «Thanks Sabio for speaking out» David

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.

There are a lot of folks who tell a story of being beaten or abused to the cadence of bible verses just like those deployed by preachers who don't consider consequences of theology.

Paul of Tarsus & Co. had to peddle the stories to other folks who were more gullible.

[The entire comment section is worth a read as we heard from hundreds of LGBT folks and their parents, who shared both painful and hopeful stories.]

I've always gotten a kick out of how each of us (well, at least the happy folks), usually tell stories where they are the heros.

Subtly but nonetheless insistently, the film suggests that Davis's responses to them matter, and regardless of how the story of his folk - music career turns out.

What INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS does is jump into an ongoing story of failure, that of a folk singer.

Paul of Tarsus & Co. had to peddle the stories to other distant folks who were more gullible.

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.

How then can you believe a book that is so patently foolish and so obviously a product of bronze age folk with little or no knowledge of the world and so full of inconsistencies and laughably foolish scenarios and notably misogynistic and brutal and racist and intolerant stories?

The book offers a lively sampling of urban folk stories held together only by a sentimental rejection of all things Irish.

As he thus talked on, my mind rehearsed the life stories of some of these religious folk whom he was thus berating, whose faith had been to them so comfortable and benumbing an anesthetic.

This is like REALLY WEIRD stories I have read that Catholics «supposedly» write their sins on a piece of paper and the priest burns them... sorry folks, doesn't happen that way either.

Although the vivid details of this story give it a ring of plausibility, there may be elements of folk legend in it that attached to it before it came into Mark's hands.

If you are educated and living in the 21st century, how then can you believe a book that is so patently foolish and so obviously a product of bronze age folk with little or no knowledge of the world and so full of inconsistencies and laughably foolish scenarios and notably misogynistic and brutal and racist and intolerant stories?

And in the case of this story, if the RCC hadn't spent the last several decades inst.itutionalizing se.xual abuse and conspiring to cover it up and protect the offenders, or alienating folks with their stance on reproductive rights and birth control which is decidedly misogynistic and has contributed to the spread of HIV and other STDs, or if agents of the Church hadn't kidnapped and effectively sold thousands of Spanish, Irish, Australian and American children from the 1940s to as recently as 1987 — then folks wouldn't be leaving the Church in droves and you wouldn't be seeing stories like this one either.

Some are gay or have stories of someone gay they know who have been deeply wounded by the church, but mostly, we're just folks who know that our faith is significant.

Ancient folk - lore says there are gods and there are many creations stories... all have the same 100 % lack of evidence.

In that I consider myself to be a lot luckier than many of the folks whose stories are just not being told.

I loved the story, characters, and writing in Americanah, but like a lot of folks, found the ending anticlimactic and a tad disappointing.

Skim through the 10,000 responses to the original story any you'll see plenty of folks all claiming that the victims are presently now in heaven.

(Boz Tchividjian of G.R.A.C.E. has graciously agreed to an interview, and folks like Mary DeMuth, Elizabeth Esther, and Sarah Moon will be sharing their stories.)

The folks living when the christian story was forming were more aware than we are of the similarities to other religious narratives.

In its marketing, The Witch describes itself as a New England folk tale, in that it borrows from real stories told by Puritans in the wake of the Salem Witch Trials.

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?

Some folks have a need for a belief system that others just don't; that should be the end - of - story.

========== @Smithsonian «The stories remain a part of folk traditions and were included in the Bible to illustrate and explain theological ideas such as: Where did humans come from?

They can be undergirded anecdotally, encompassing stories of folk who have denied the literal resurrection of Jesus (moving from point A to, say, point H).