Sentences with phrase «greatest living character»

One of our greatest living character actors talks TWIN PEAKS, gardening, and his terrifying BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99 character.

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Dissemination areas don't necessarily reflect the facts on the ground when it comes to how neighbourhoods are understood by the people who live there; these artificial boundaries can't encompass the spirit and character that animates a great neighbourhood — but they can highlight the areas where wealth is most concentrated.

Gratitude to God requires that we live not by evading the real nature of existence, not by denying the violent character of nature and history, but by facing reality as best we can, finally affirming the whole of life in all its sorrow and pain as a great gift.

and to those who say that believing in God at worst, costs nothing, well, thanks, but I'm not wasting my entire life ignoring the existing planet in exchange for telling a make believe character how great he is.

In some sense, indeed, Kierkegaard's life could be written as a kind of dark comedy; despite his premature death, and a great number of sadnesses that afflicted him along the way, there was something enchantingly absurd about his character, a certain benign perversity that often prompted him to make himself willfully ridiculous, and a peculiarly touching element of the ludicrous that clung to him all the way to his early grave.

When Jesus says, as in the Fourth Gospel's interpretative words, «Love one another as I have loved you, greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends,» the very quality of the love which God has expressed through Jesus becomes the quality and character of suffering love poured out for another beyond the worthiness of that other.

The prophetic sense of the entity and power of the Word explains in great part the concentrated emotional character of the prophets and their sometimes deep anguish in proclaiming the negative message, the pronouncement of doom upon the life of the political state.

I call a great character one who by his actions and attitudes satisfies the claim of situations out of deep readiness to respond with his whole life, and in such a way that the sum of his actions and attitudes expresses at the same time the unity of his being in its willingness to accept responsibility.

The Bible is full of fairy tales and should only be taken as a piece of literature of great importance just as the Odyssey is, but it shouldn't be used to govern one's life, much less to help build a relationship with the biggest fictional and ever - changing character in human history.

Maggie knows exactly what she wants at all times and she is deeply determined to achieve her goals: I keep telling the other kids that this will be a great character trait later on her life.

Perhaps, though, the biblical character of Jesus, rather than being entirely mythical, was based on one of many Jewish messiah claimants who had followers who euhemerized his life to a greater extent than those of other such claimants, so that in time the stories were so embellished that he became a god in them, but the Tesimonium Flavianum is hardly proof of his existence.

It depends on how Ivan is defining «local community» and how he envisions it being proposed as the «arrangement for us today,» but against his basic note of resignation I join Mr. T. (Tocqueville) and the A-Team (Aristotelians) in insisting upon the greater naturalness and liberty - fostering character of township / polis life, and thus upon our unavoidable duty to cultivate whatever qualities and institutional features of that life that we can in our circumstances.

It possesses magnificent character delineation: the great theme is the princely magnanimity of Joseph, envied by his lesser brothers, his life threatened, then at length spared only through the dubious device of selling him into slavery in Egypt; and there, his fortunes going from bad to worse, he was, for no fault of his own but indeed because of his integrity, hurled into an oriental prison to lie hopeless until some dubious chance should release him.

It was a great shock to liberal Protestant theology of the turn of the century when men like Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965) and Johannes Weiss (1863 - 19I4) drew attention to the eschatological character of the New Testament and made it clear that Jesus, his apostles, and the early churches, all lived and spoke in a thought - world which, in important respects, is completely foreign to us.

Romesh Dutt, translator of the Epics in Everyman's Library says of them: «The Hindu scarcely lives, man or woman, high or low, educated or ignorant, whose earliest recollections do not cling to the story and the character of the great Epics.

Or begin with great character in persons who have made this world a more decent place for the human family to live in.

After an armistice was signed in the summer of 1953 the Century indicated its support of the United Nations action in Korea by asserting that «now that aggression has been restrained at great cost in life and material, it is to be hoped that communist expansionists have been taught a lesson and that no other test of like character will be demanded of United Nation members» (August 5).

doubtful jesus ever lived, no good evidence if he ever did live, he didn't do any magic tricks from the bible, he was just a cult leader the fictional character of jesus said some great things about love, but also supported slavery and other awful things

It's when the Kentucky character in Re-Membering is at his spiritually lowest, wandering around the streets of San Fransisco at dawn, that he muses about how it would be great to live there (away from his wife and roots) and learn Japanese and all about Zen Buddhism, something Gary Snyder really did, after he had already written a book all about Northwest Native American mythology.

It is increasingly clear that Deuteronomy and the Priestly writings contain at least some material much older than is indicated by the usual dating of the documents.9 Increasingly, too, it would appear that scholars are disposed to accept the substantial reliability of the persistent tradition which sees Moses as a lawgiver.10 That law was an early and significant aspect of Israelite culture is further attested not only by ancient Near Eastern parallels but even more strikingly in the life, the work and the character of the first three great names in Israel's national history: Moses, Samuel and Elijah.

For many centuries there lay side by side in one of the famous archaeological sites two enormous obelisks, cut with great skill out of the living rock of Egypt, dressed down to the proper shape, then deeply inscribed with hieroglyphic characters.

According to Neumann, who follows Jung quite closely, the superficial and at times disintegrated character of much modern Western life is, to a great extent, the result of the repression of the «shadow side» of our existence.

Through his treatment of his characters» deaths, he makes known the nature of that great gap he finds between the actuality of life in the world, with its disappointments and limitations, and the possibility of infinite life.

Important as these distinctions are, there is a great deal of uniformity in the Sufi attitude toward life, and this attitude has permeated the Muslim's character and outlook throughout the world of Islam.

The ideal character of the fine arts should not result in isolation from other spheres of life, but should enable them to be of greater service in lifting the esthetic level of all experience.

The excellence of His character — the greatest example of courage and heroism in history — was displayed because Jesus aligned every detail of His life with this prize.

The kind of courage involved in living above the average is indispensable to great character.

These manuals follow a common pattern, taking up individual cases and indicating how they are to be resolved, and the directions they offer are remarkably similar in character.53 The greater number of cases discussed deal with moral perplexities — questions involving family life, economic activity, military service, political issues, the relationship of master and servant, the right use of recreation — but spiritual perplexities — involving «the great case which the Jews put to Peter and the jailer to Paul and Silas «54 undoubtedly received equal attention in actual pastoral work.

As death spares no human, good or bad, the life of this great noble character had to come to an end.

But today and tomorrow and all week, while everyone argues about OKC's future and how Harden will look in Houston, it's hard not to quietly ignore it all and imagine how great it would have been to have a team of characters awesome enough to be called the Pizza Roll Dynasty, and dominant enough to live up to the second part of the name.

Welbeck's miss convinced the Old Trafford hierarchy he wasn't the dependable striker the club needed; Savage's voicemail gave Keane the impression of a self - indulgent buffoon — living proof of the great Pulp Fiction maxim that «just because you are a character doesn't mean you have character».

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Some of the ideas he has brought to light — that preschool is a great government investment given the payoff later in life, that building character matters as much for success as academics — are so deeply ingrained in my own thinking that it's hard to remember I had to learn them somewhere.

Minifigures are great to mix - and - match and create all - new characters to live in the pretend worlds your kids have created.

The propriety of these distinctions, is explained by the nature of the senatorial trust; which, requiring greater extent of information and stability of character, requires, at the same time, that the senator should have reached a period of life most likely to supply these advantages.

Actually quite a lot, and Douglas Hurd and Edward Young have written a wonderful reassessment of the great politician and showman in Disraeli: Or, The Two Lives (Weidenfeld & Nicolson # 20) in which they explore the paradoxes at the centre of his character, and how his exotic personality and ability to dazzle his contemporaries overcame his lack of principles, indebtedness and disloyalty.

«These changes to the continental character might have contributed to the Great Oxygenation Event on Earth — and, consequently, to the origin of life as we know it,» suspects Chowdhury.

It's a great character - building exercise that can be applied to all aspects of your life, not just your job.

Other texts such as the Bhagavata Purana and Ramayana contain descriptions of the lives and actions of great sages and characters who have attained the highest states of yoga.

So that I can live all these different lives, meet all these great characters.

The cosplay contest is always a great way to show everyone's hard work and just how much fun it is seeing your favorite characters to life.

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She would have a greater impact if the movie did more with her character, as she is the long - suffering girlfriend who keeps accommodating his life choices.

In terms of the camera allowing us to see the tiniest flickers of emotion — and amplifying the greatest — this is a device that works insofar as it reveals much of the characters inner life, but also produces an intensity that never varies.

Ed Helms did a great job as Captain Underpants, He really brought the character to life.

As writers, Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg run their characters through a bunch of funny situations, work in flashbacks and dream sequences to great effect (Harold & Kumar is, in the best possible way, something of a live action «Family Guy»), but their directing skills are nil.

Oliver Stone did a great job at balancing Edward's private life with his career which definitely made him more relatable as a character.

From his first great success in «MASH» to the wonderful «Cookie's Fortune» (1999), there are a lot of interlocking characters in his stories, and almost alone among white American directors he never forgets that a lot of black people live and work in town.

The art, too, is wonderfully realised, both making the world a dangerous but curious place, and giving a great deal of life to the characters.

There are a few life lessons in some great character moments and there are some cool Dj sequences, but that is about it.