Sentences with phrase «greatest riddles»

Once Gage arrives, he encounters incredible surprises: one in the form of a beautiful Macedonian slave and another in the dawning knowledge that the medallion may solve one of the greatest riddles of history — who built the Great Pyramids, and why.

Pulitzer Prize winner Watson crafts a thrilling tale of science's hunt to solve one of naval history's greatest riddles: What happened to two ships lost while searching for the Northwest Passage in the mid-19th century?

Inspiring hundreds of thousands of readers to wake to their own wondrous lives, the New York Times Bestseller, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are, shares the journey of one woman facing her own hard, dark days and hidden fears, and stumbling straight into the answer of life's great riddle: How do you discover joy — right here and now?

... This fleshy, tangible, complex, multi-faceted, doubt - riddled, question - drenched, hard - won yet resoundingly - clear answer to the great riddle that brought us all there:

To argue by inference from effect to Cause, from the passive object to the active Subject of change, from transitory, contingent being to a Being who is necessary and eternal, from nature's striving after perfection to a Perfection which is ultimate, from the order observable in creation to a creative Mind - all that (I shall be told) is to approach the great Riddle from one side, and that the most difficult.

Here's some great riddles that are sure to stump even the smartest kid: Easter Riddles

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«You will gain a greater understanding and appreciation for your employees when you are able to get your hands dirty with them,» says Joshua Riddle, a contributing writer for workawesome.com who specializes in time management and productivity strategies.

More importantly, by tracking the data on every loan and providing greater insight on the lender and the property, PeerStreet aims to insert accountability and transparency into a market that has historically been riddled with opaqueness.

• The Riddle of Tampa Bay: Harold and Jay Bowen — who alone have managed billions for Tampa's police and firefighters for forty years — may be two of the greatest stock pickers of all time.

Yet Sir Karl Popper, a great philosopher of science, once commented that «science doesn't make assertions about ultimate questions - about the riddles of existence».

«The body,» he continues, «would thus be, not the cause of our thinking, but merely a condition restrictive thereof, and, although essential to our sensuous and animal consciousness, it may be regarded as an impeder of our pure spiritual life.8 And in a recent book of great suggestiveness and power, less well - known as yet than it deserves, — I mean» Riddles of the Sphinx,» by Mr. F. C. S. Schiller of Oxford, late of Cornell University, — the transmission - theory is defended at some length.9

I understand that they have said that (in probably one of the greatest doctrinal about faces in history) but when you look at the official Catholic Catachism, it is still riddled with references to Adam and Eve, Noah and the other cast of mythical characters.

G. K. Chesterton said, «The Iliad is great because all of life is a battle; the Odyssey is great because all of life is a journey; the Book of Job is great because all of life is a riddle.»

Here one finds the dull report of the census - taker, the uninspired but minute directions for the performance of the cult, stories of man's beginnings and that of many of the common experiences of his life, such as language, relationship of races, why the rainbow; colorful stories, of the might and prowess of ancient ancestors of the race, riddles, puns, fables, prayers, songs that have become almost the universal songs of the human race, the history of the rise and fall of dynasties, the preaching of reformers and prophets, the questioning of it all by men grown weary of the struggle, proverbial sayings of great wisdom; the dreams of conquest both of earth and heaven.

Jon Lester has been a touch confusing, Jose Quintana has been solid, but not great, and the whole roster has been riddled with injuries and disappointments.

Alabama's defense was historically great when it was so injury - riddled?

With your great mind surely you can work out the riddle of my pseudonym!

Nate Wright, a detention - riddled sixth grader — and drummer for the greatest garage band in the history of the galaxy, Enslave the Mollusk — hopes to woo beautiful Jenny away from her boyfriend Artur by winning first prize in his school's Battle of the Bands.

Had this article no headline, this might prove to be a riddle of great merit.

The health care proposals drew a sharp and immediate response from two politically powerful interest groups, the Greater New York Hospital Association and 1199 S.E.I.U., the health care workers» union, which, in a joint statement, said the governor's health proposals were «riddled with inaccuracies.»

There is something curious about the sedimentary rocks laid down around the world 250 million years ago, at the height of Earth's greatest extinction: they are often riddled with filaments, and no one is sure what they are.

My sleep is kind of unpredictable, with weeks at a time filled with great sleep and others riddled with random 3 a.m. wakeups or a serious case of overactive bedtime brain (is there an acronym for this yet?).

Honey is a great natural healer and possesses antibacterial properties to help revitalize dull skin riddled with issues like acne or eczema.

He's to take an aged, cancer - riddled Indian chief (the great Wes Studi) «home» to Montana to die.

While we've certainly seen stories that satirize society's upper class and upend their addiction to manners to great comic effect, this series hinges on a dazzling performance by Cumberbatch that reminds us why he's become one of the internet's most obsessive riddles of the past eight years.

The new trailer for Alex Garland's directorial debut, sci - fi thriller «Ex Machina», is tense, atmospheric, and riddled with great FX.

Despite being riddled with clichés and tropes of the genre, the story of Soul Suspect is a highly entertaining and campy detective story with some great chemistry between Ronan and Joy.

The report says: «Faced with the greatest shortage of school places in decades, too many of the UK's schools are past their life cycle and riddled with asbestos.

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Using riddles is a great way to get children to apply their place value knowledge to solve problems.

For students experiencing difficulty with organizing and memorizing information, teachers may use: (1) mnemonic devices such as the acronym HOMES, which stands for the names of the Great Lakes; (2) riddles, poems, and songs for remembering important people, places, and events; (3) check lists and calendars for organizing and completing assignments; (4) color coding for organizing and accessing materials and assignments (for example, different colored notebooks or dividers for different assignments and subjects); and (5) multisensory assignments and activities for remembering more fully an experience or more thoroughly grasping a concept from a concrete example (for example, construction projects, three - dimensional maps, textured artifacts, period music, dance, and dress, regional dialects and languages, and samples of various cuisines).

This percentage is greater than the national average for charter schools and on par with the average for district schools (de Jesus, personal communication, July 10, 2013; Goldring, Taie, & Riddles, 2014).

The need to tease the reader whilst giving them every chance to solve the riddles ahead of the final page without using whacking great signposts is the challenge.

Although the cliffs were also riddled with caves, which were common in limestone, these unusual shelflike formations created shelters of stone that made exceptionally good living sites and had been used as such for a great many thousands of years.

Not everyone is a great writer, but it you want to be recognized for your writing (and I assume a writer wants to be recognized for his writing if he's published a book) you are shooting yourself in the foot if you produce something riddled with mistakes.

One could have the greatest story in the world, but if it's riddled with spelling errors in the first few pages, even the most forgiving of readers is going to put the book down.

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The Great Outdoors is riddled with both natural and man - made dangers to our pets.

Since Great Danes as a breed in general can be riddled with health issues, we highly recommend some sort of medical insurance and published this page to share the best dog insurance plans available for 2016.

The great outdoors is riddled with potentially life - threatening risks for cats, from chance encounters with predatory animals to being exposed to Feline Leukemia.

The Labradoodle has a fairly short but fascinating history, which is riddled with drama, breeder politics and a great deal of confusion.

Our Jeep Riddle Rally and Scavenger Hunt is a great add - on to our popular San Andreas Fault Jeep Tour.

If you are driving from Cape Town then the route between the Mother City and Mossel Bay is as riddled with great stops (Hermanus, Gansbaai, L'Agulhas, De Hoop Nature Reserve, Still Bay) as the Garden Route.

It's a great place to hang with new friends, decipher the staff's riddles, and enjoy the ocreanfront view.

It's close to Scorpion Bay, a great put - in site for kayakers who want to explore this island's remarkable cave - riddled shoreline.

If you manage to solve all those riddles, the challenge is not yet over: Grid Mania generates random levels which might prove even more puzzling to wrap your head around.Game features: 4 game modes 170 custom - crafted levels Randomly generated levels Chilly music Great for short gaming sessions Real challenge for your brain

As Riddles has mentioned, JRPGs rely on menus, and Skies — as strange as it is to say — has really great menus.

2010 was actually an outstanding example of Riddles as not only a great games journalist, but a great writer in general.

The profound effect that the Final Fantasy series has had on both Riddles and I is very evident and the buzz around Final Fantasy XIII translated into a great week.

After his hiatus, Riddles mostly took to writing great HLLs, lengthy TV retrospectives, and thoughtful game reviews.