Sentences with phrase «happen upon a man»

The film stars Annette Bening as a grieving widow who happens upon a man (Ed Harris) who looks almost exactly like her...

Not exact matches

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.

The fact is, that a good man who happens to yell the wrong name in his prayers is damned, while an evil man who calls genuinely upon the right name is saved.

Under the air conditioning vent in his office, i.e. Lane Pryce's old office (Bert Cooper reminds him brutally of the «dead man, whose office you now inhabit»), Don happens upon the crumpled Mets pennant that had been an emblem of Lane's affection for New York, the city that killed him.

And if the terrible thing happened (for religious edification should not, like a woman's finery be intended for a splendid moment) that you were buried alive, if, as you awakened in the coffin you seized upon your accustomed consolation, then even in this lonely torment, you would be in unity with all men.

The resurrection of Christ is a way of affirming that God has received into his own life all that the historical event, designated when we say «Jesus Christ», has included: — his human existence as teacher and prophet, as crucified man upon his cross, in continuing relationship of others with him after that death, and also what has happened as a consequence of his presence and activity in the world.

If the fashion in which the basic New Testament proclamation has been interpreted in the preceding chapter has validity, then talk of the resurrection of Christ is a way of affirming that God has received into his own life all that the historical event, designated when we say «Jesus Christ», has included: his human existence as teacher and prophet, as crucified man upon his cross, in continuing relationship of others with him after that death, and along with this what has happened in consequence of his presence and activity in the world.

If something new happens — that means, that forgiveness is not a necessary result determined by the nature of the man who forgives, something upon which the offender can count (if he did, he would obviously be unworthy of it); but it is an act arising wholly from the free good will of a person, wholly a gift.

I mean seriously, pretty sure the white man doesn't exactly need to advance, maybe protection in basic rights if they are ever impeded upon, but since I have yet to see that happen and that every other group is just requesting to have the SAME rights as the white man, it's sort of hard to feel sympathy... you know?

When the Holy Spirit descended upon the first Christians at Pentecost, Peter drew from the words of the prophet Joel to describe what had happened, saying, «Your sons and daughters will prophesy... Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy» (Acts 2:17 — 18).

For that is exactly what has happened over the last four hundred years, as all the aspects of the new world have been slowly impressing themselves upon man.

At a remote rain forest site in Guatemala last February, archaeologist David Lee happened upon the find of a lifetime: a royal tomb from the seventh century A.D. that suggests war was not strictly a man's game in ancient Mayan society.

Whether you're a man reeling from being unceremoniously crumpled up and lobbed into the trash can of love, or you're a woman baffled at the behavior of an ex who you were convinced was sane, chances are you've happened upon this article in the middle of a frantic heartbreak - induced Googling session.

Sorvino plays a princess who goes for a stroll in the woods one day and happens upon the inspiring sight of a handsome young man named Agis (Jay Rodan) emerging naked from a swim.

Thinking John dead, Bill and his men left him out in the wilderness, however the former outlaw was merely wounded, and later Bonnie MacFarlane and Amos happened upon him.

He happens upon the Browns, who name him for the train station they meet him in and twenty minutes in the stage is set for a whimsical wee tale equally interpretable as a chirpy anti-UKIP yarn as it is a harrowing parable on the consequences of man's interference with nature, although it's mostly the former.

It wants to feature CBGB as a living personality populated by rotating ranks of legends, but it consistently sticks to Krystal, a man who happened upon a scene while envisioning a country and bluegrass club on the Bowery.

There are lines and situations touching upon things like canine ESP, two Starbucks across the street from each other, a man with two left feet (literally), plenty of other memorable, laugh - out loud, bizarre happenings in the contestants» world.

When they happen upon a chance to rehabilitate a bankrupt mall full of vagrants, bizarre stores and a man - eating wolf that stalks the food court, they see dollar signs — a billion of them.

Miguel (Kenneth Branagh, Theory of Flight, Wild Wild West) and Tulio (Kevin Kline, Wild Wild West, A Midsummer Night's Dream) are the two con men from Spain who happen upon a map to the legendary city of Gold.

Showing neither man nor fallen doe, the film arrestingly impresses upon us the gravity of what has happened.

A lesser - known Tibetan folktale From the Elephant Pit is about a hunter who happens upon an elephant pit in which a man, a lion, a mouse, a snake, and a falcon are trapped.

The impetuous Lady Esme Byron happens upon a naked man by a secluded country lake, and she stealthily sketches him while he's sleeping.

I like telling the story of when I was 17, a confused kid going nowhere, and how I happened upon a TV series called ROUTE 66 about two young men in a Corvette traveling the country in search of America and themselves.

HE IS A NOWHERE MAN, BOUGHT AND PAID FOR TO SIT IN AN OFFICE OF EMPTINESS AND GO ALONG WITH SELLING OUT THE VENICE BOARDWALKS, ARTIST, MEDICINE MEN, BEAUTY AND CREATIVITY THAT VENICE WAS BUILT UPON, THE SYSTEM HAS FAILED EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US, WE ARE ALL IN THE AMERICAN HOLOCAUST TODAY, BEFORE THE EUROS CAME, IT WAS JUST THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES BEING MASSACRED, NOW IT IS YOU, YOUR GRANDCHILDREN AND CHILDREN OF YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW, YOUR GREAT GRANDPARENTS SLAUGHTERED THE NATIVE AMERICAN PEOPLES TO STEAL THERE LANDS, NOW IT IS HAPPENING TO YOU, KARMIC JUSTICE THE NATIVE CHOCTAWS PULLED TOGETHER EVERY THING THEY HAD TO SAVE THE IRISH POTATO FAMINE, TO SAVE THE IRISH PEOPLES, AND THEN THE IRISHMAN KILLED THE NATIVE S FOR THE SACRED GROUNDS, KARMA AND JUSTICE IS NOT A PRETTY PHOTOGRAPH OF WHAT YOUR ANCESTROS DID TO MY ANCESTROS ALL SACREDNESS NOW IS GONE THE AMERICAN HOLOCAUST CONTINUES, GREAT BOOK, BY DAVID STANNARD

She happened upon this style when she came across a men's fashion magazine with an editorial entitled, «Dark Florals are IN For Men.&raqmen's fashion magazine with an editorial entitled, «Dark Florals are IN For Men.&raqMen.»

Painter Kehinde Wiley plays upon that inkling ironically in a characteristic work such as «Alexander the Great» (2005), which decks out a young black man — who happens to be a nephew of Mickalene Thomas, an artist prominently featured here — in contemporary dress and the trappings of traditional European dignitary portraiture.