Sentences with phrase «from conceited»

Additionally, White imbues his film with an added layer of surrealness with occasional cutaways to fantasy sequences; and while the use of voiceover narration is arguably on - the - nose, it does nudge the film closer into earnest territory and further away from conceited, navel - gazing white middle - class folly.

CBGB follows the story of Hilly Kristal's New York club from its conceit as a venue for Country, Bluegrass and Blues (CBGB) to what it ultimately became: the birthplace of underground rock»n roll and punk.

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The conceit is similar to that of TONL, a stock photography company born from the Black Lives Matter movement, which expects to book $ 188,000 in revenue this year serving up imagery that represents black and brown people.

The conceit that law is not a business, or only incidentally so, seems connected with the efforts of elite lawyers in the early years of this century to distance themselves from the buccaneer - founders of their own firms and from «hustling» immigrant lawyers, as well as to assert their independence from their own clients.

Philippians 2: 3 - 11 Do nothing from selfishness or conceit, but in humility count others better than yourselves.

as someone who was raised religious and was rather religious in my teens i can see where people of faith are coming from and how you can get caught up in it but as soon as i started to apply logic to it i struggled to find any truth to it to me its to man made and the whole concept to conceited i mean apparently animals don't go to heaven because they don't have a soul....

«Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves» (Philippians 2:3).

It has been clear for a long time that the doctrine Limbaugh preaches: The exaltation of money and material wealth as representative of a person's HUMAN value, contempt and hatred for the poor, bigotry, arrogant conceit, etc., has become indistinguishable from satanism.

Still, manifestations of pride, at least in its more ordinary sense of conceit or presumption, have been discernible from the outset.

I find it difficult to believe God / Jesus would approve of tattoos but whatever, the amount of people who are truly christian is very low anyhow, If you ask me the desire to tattoo religious imagery onto yourself is quite shallow / conceited and I'm almost certain these people are just pretending to be something they're not in an effort to fit in or be «cool», like the majority of so - called «Christians» Jesus will turn away from them and will «profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.»

The injunctions to «do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit» but rather «look to the interests of others,» are motivated by the example of Christ (2:1 - 5).

From this perspective one approaches life motivated, not by «selfish ambition or conceit,» but by a concern that «looks... to the interests of others.»

Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.

It is the result of nothing but an invincible blindness from which we suffer, an insensibility to the inner significance of alien lives, and a conceit that would project our own incapacity into the vast cosmos, and measure the wants of the Absolute by our own puny needs.

A scholar whose work I admire contributed an eloquent expostulation invoking the Holy Innocents, praising our glorious privilege (not shared by the angels) of bearing scars like those of Christ, and advancing the venerable homiletic conceit that our salvation from sin will result in a greater good than could have evolved from an innocence untouched by death.

But this double «betrayal» stemmed from a single motivation: Weil objected so adamantly to the national idolatry endemic in European (and particularly French) Christianity» the conceit that «holy France» was God's chosen people» that she blamed Israel and its God for inflicting the idea of election on the world in the first place.

Yet, in effect, attacking religion itself will only serve to isolate these atheists from the mainstream (most Americans do actually believe in God), and, therefore, it only helps Republicans in their largely false conceit that they are the party of God.

Perhaps that is why, although I saw him angry sometimes, I never saw him in a temper or lose his temper, and certainly self - pity or conceit were very far from him.

In the way she lived her life, Roosevelt echoed the words of Paul's letter to the Philippians: «Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.»

I think its a silly conceit that people think moving from one big 5 league to another is so difficult.

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

But no less ominous, for the economy, is the tragic conceit that you could, at gun point, spring those accused of humongous sleaze from justice.

Maybe, the Ashanti regional minister needs to be reminded that Ghana is a nation governed by laws and not on whims of self conceited government appointees who take instructions from political simpletons; may he be reminded once again that, through this act of indiscretion, he is effectively opening the government up for huge legal liabilities that may culminate in the payment of huge government debt.

Far from cramping his career through conceit, that ebullient confidence could just be his biggest strength.

This affected conceit serves only to maintain the Westminster bubble, detaching our legislators from the realities of the lives of «ordinary» Britons.

No one wants to date someone who is a downer, and while you may think that modeling picture from your college years makes you look like a sexy beast, to others it only looks like you take life too seriously and are perhaps just a bit conceited.

The Danish iconoclast holds strong ideas about our society, and expresses them in satiric allegories of such audacity that we cast loose from realism and simply float with his conceits.

It's true that the disorientation produced in the collision of Igorrr's frenetic style - mashing and Dumont's unadorned long - take aesthetic ensures that the film feels remarkably distinct from prior cinematic adaptations of Joan of Arc's life, but it's also hard not to wonder how this particular story might have played without the farfetched musical conceit grafted atop it.

The basic plot — a woman collecting payback from the men who have assaulted her — is not exactly new, and it's a conceit that can be used as an alibi.

The crew being stalked by a bear - like creature, whose wails sound uncannily like those of a disappeared crew member, manages to exquisitely generate tension from its surrealistic conceit, while the climactic twenty minutes in the lighthouse sees Garland attempt to explore the theme of consciousness (a conceit he's tackled in everything from his screenplay for Never Let Me Go, to his directorial debut Ex Machina) from a different perspective.

District 9's skid into rote convention is matched by a retreat from the documentary conceit that so expertly delivered us into this strange world in the first place.

Kevin Smith turns out to be reverent after all: he wants to separate true love from mere copulating for money, but his story mixes romance and porn so inextricably that he seems confused, and the movie trips over its own conceits.

As for the central conceit of the «Transformers» mythology: I can work up only so much enthusiasm for the idea of Transformers having dictated the course of human history from the Dark Ages onward.

At the risk of further estranging myself from De Palma geeks, I must admit I rather enjoyed watching a Body Double without Armond White guilt - tripping my subconscious — which is not to say that Looker circumvents an auteurist reading altogether, but the idiosyncrasies that betray it as «Crichtonian» (like a novelistic conceit that starts off each new act with a placard indicating the day of the week *) are less than venerable and thus hardly lend themselves to an apologia.

A slippery stylist, Soderbergh's films hop from genre to genre with creative restlessness appearing to be his defining characteristic whether filming glossy, expensive star laden confections such as the Oceans series or experimenting with digital video and unknown actors on low budget conceits such as Bubble or The Girlfriend Experience.

The basic conceit of Nicolas Winding Refn's Bronson is such: Bronson (Tom Hardy) wants to be famous, he isn't good at much aside from beating the shit out of people and so, after knocking over a store, he's thrown in jail and seeks his fame by becoming Britain's most violent prisoner.

The basic conceit of Nicolas Winding Refn's Bronson is such: Bronson (Tom Hardy) wants to be famous, he isn't good at much aside from beating the shit out of...

Wonderfully theatrical in conceit and frequently beautiful to look at, Archangel is nevertheless choppy and listless in pace, and has little of the surrealist zing of the earlier film (Tales from the Gimli Hospital).

From the very outset «A Quiet Place» develops a central conceit which it fully embraces throughout its tight, lean 95 - minute runtime.

In First Reformed, Dreyer, Bresson, and Ozu form a kind of holy trinity: The narrated journal conceit and prevalent environmental themes are clear lifts from 1951's Diary of a Country Priest and 1977's The Devil, Probably, while there's a gleefully goofy mounted bicycle shot that's pure Ozu.

Hollow and mercilessly superficial in its characterizations, this Hitchcockian wannabe mystery wastes a talented cast (particularly a sometimes convincing performance from Emily Blunt) on a clunky bait and switch conceit all the more disappointing because of several elements promising otherwise.

That's the basic conceit behind Into the Woods, finally adapted to the big screen from the Broadway musical created by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine in 1986.

This time, he is pitted against the vengeful Kai (voiced by the Whiplash Oscar - winner JK Simmons), a bull - headed, strangely conceited and emotionally insecure warrior who has returned from the spirit realm to steal the «chi» (the mojo) of every creature he can find.

The conceit of the dead rising from the graves feels elemental and terrifying as everyone from neighbors to sweet little girls goes hungry for brains.

He sets his sights on Aurora Lane (Jennifer Lawrence), a writer from New York whom he acquaints himself with via her passenger video profile (one of a number of conceits the plot demands).

The conceit for this musical, of course, is that all the songs are contemporary pop songs: The theme from The Sound Of Music, Queen's The Show Must Go On, The Police's Roxanne, and Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit.

The conceit is right there in the name: A bunch of guys — it's almost always guys, though that's beginning to change — team up to swipe something valuable from a seemingly impenetrable stronghold, often with the odds stacked against them.

The Shape of Water is that, certainly, a monstrous and modest example of Man - Child wish fulfillment but moreso is it something truly greater, the dazzling level of love of craft poured into each shot displaying a filmmaker working at his absolute peak, toiling from a place of pure, unchecked passion without much thought to the fact that his central conceit is wildly off - color and potentially repulsive to some, no matter how rose - colored the glasses you're looking at it through.

In 1630, a family of six devout Puritans from England is banished from an American plantation community over the «prideful conceit» of patriarch William (Ralph Ineson, who you might but probably should not remember from his recurring role in the UK's «The Office»).

If one is going to make a movie that glorifies the aforementioned activities — which Project X is clearly attempting to do with director Nima Nourizadeh's implementation of a found - footage conceit to give the movie a «you are there» feel and screenwriters Matt Drake and Michael Bacall's complete and total whitewashing of whatever consequences might arise from a party that results in what is essentially a war zone in a sleepy subdivision of Pasadena, California — it should at least give a sense that the entire affair is fun.