Sentences with phrase «heroic acts of»

I pray for our country, and I pray that you, too, will seek the joy and beauty of this season as well as in the heroic acts of other human beings.

Fort Dodge will continue to recognize the heroic acts of our canine companions by presenting more ProHeart Hero Awards in the future.

With heart - wrenching power and suspense, Hosseini shows how a woman's love for her family can move her to shocking and heroic acts of self - sacrifice, and that in the end it is love, or even the memory of love, that is often the key to survival.

Flame & Citron (Unrated) World War II saga, set in Copenhagen in 1944, recounting the real - life exploits of a couple of legendary Danish patriots (Thure Lindhardt and Mads Mikkelsen) who performed heroic acts of sabotage with the Resistance during the Nazi occupation.

For instance, while he correctly notes that hostility towards Jews increased in Catholic milieus in pre-war Poland, and that the responses of Polish Catholics to the Holocaust ranged widely from persecution to heroic acts of aid, he wrongfully accuses Cardinal Adam Sapieha, archbishop of Krakow, of intervening solely on behalf of «baptized Jews.»

The founding fathers as they moved from heroic acts of liberation to the constituting of liberty were aware of the difficulty of maintaining revolutionary zeal as the basis for civil responsibility.

There are plenty of deluded people who give away all their worldly goods or perform heroic acts of self - sacrifice that you never hear about, because such actions aren't crimes and thus don't get reported on the news.

The national news covered many heroic acts of rescue during the storm.

This widow's contribution was a heroic act of faithfulness.

Such evangelical slogans as «I made my decision for Christ» or «I have decided to follow Jesus» imply that it is my decision, my heroic act of will that is at the heart of my relationship to Christ, rather than my formation by the Body of Christ.

Armie Hammer is John Reid, the new Colby, Texas district attorney who witnesses the latest and last heroic act of his lawman brother (James Badge Dale) who has «saved the day, as usual.»

The film starts slow, taking in every painful detail of the family coping with Jonathan's death, from Michael's secret cruelty to a pet dog to the inept military personnel who arrive at the door, treating their son's death like a bureaucratic problem at worst, a heroic act of martyrdom at best.

A day of cruising the Florida coast in search of dolphins became a heroic act of dog rescue for one animal loving...

Meaning in abstract expressionism lay in the heroic act of the artist.

It may be a little thing for you, but it will feel like a heroic act of love for your spouse.

Not exact matches

CNBC's «Mad Money» host Jim Cramer calls him «a heroic figure in a landscape filled with people who are just part of a bland army,» while T - Mobile Executive Vice President of corporate services Dave Carey told «The Brave Ones»: «He can be charming on one hand and a raucous Las Vegas night club act on the other.»

This basically mirrors the scene in Mission to Mars between the characters played by Tim Robbins and Connie Nelson, whereby the death of one leads to a void whereby the other is willing to act in a heroic and self - sacrificial manner.

The practice of forgiveness is a truly heroic act.

It is one of the virtues of Quint's book (another is the generosity of critical annotation, amounting almost to a mini variorum edition) that Paradise Lost's still center is given a density so great that reading the poem becomes itself a heroic act; an act difficult to perform, but in its difficulty providing an experience few (if any) efforts of the human imagination are capable of provoking.

Our ordinary, pre-revelational images of God are often little more than expressions and legitimations of those powers before whom we act out our heroic performances in an effort to gain the significance for which we crave.

REAL Change is a star - studded, emotional TV special (airing onCBS 4/23) featuring top musical acts, highlighting the heroic role of education and teachers and I am sure Office Depot is proud to admit that they are a «presenting sponsor» of the REAL Change broadcast and official retail partner, I mean who would not be?

While the destructive acts of Islamic extremists worldwide capture headlines, countless stories of heroic resistance rarely receive attention.

Of course, women may not always witness these heroic acts in person, but such information is likely to be widely communicated within a tribal community, particularly when the actions of male warriors are outstandingly brave.&raquOf course, women may not always witness these heroic acts in person, but such information is likely to be widely communicated within a tribal community, particularly when the actions of male warriors are outstandingly brave.&raquof male warriors are outstandingly brave.»

Having just walked through «Mission: Impossible» in colorlessly heroic mode, Mr. Cruise does some of his best real acting here.

Learn how writer - director Rian Johnson and crew approached the feel and look of Luke Skywalker's final heroic act.

Director Scott Waugh «s biggest error is to give the film the same overly dramatic, utterly heroic tone he brought to Act of Valor.

Sometimes these crises are played for laughs (e.g. Peter Quill's insistence on being called «Star - Lord» in Guardians Of The Galaxy) and sometimes for drama, as in the three movies centered on Chris Evans» heroic Captain America (Captain America: The First Avenger, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War), which follow his journey from Hitler - slugging song - and - dance propaganda act to fugitive.

Last year, four military dogs received medals for valor in the inaugural American Humane K - 9 Medal of Courage Awards, with American Humane President Robin Ganzert saying at the ceremony on Capitol Hill, «We feel it is time to recognize and honor the extraordinary feats and acts of devotion these heroic animals perform every day.»

Gender arguments veer between pro-feminist heroic rhetoric and misogynist - in - disguise movie - talk as, excluding Furiosa, the «breeders» are still the sexy little ladies you'd see in most Hollywood trite («The camera caresses acts of violence in the same way it caresses the brides» bodies.»

But of the two, it is only Infinity War that consistently promotes true heroism through heroic acts.

His pitch was picked up by Fox 2000, and the film will reportedly be about «an ordinary woman» who accomplishes some kind of heroic act and becomes famous.

My issue with Tarantino's choice of words is that it implies something praiseworthy when it isn't, its more an awesome act of resilience, no more heroic than a cockroach could be said to be heroic.

Cheung's is a genuinely heroic piece of acting, and it puts the vaunted best actress award at Cannes to shame.

Their friendship and heroic acts allowed them to save the lives of the more than 500 passengers on board.

But a decade into a world full of expanded comic - book cinematic universes, it's tough to introduce a new hero without hitting the same standard beats: moment of personal crisis, discovery of incredible powers, assumption of heroic mantle, third - act crisis of faith, climactic battle, and trampoline toward a sequel.

But when one of those «heroic» acts of violence causes the death of an innocent loved one, are the perpetrators still superior beings and freedom - fighters, or are they terrorists?

From a run - in with Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow in Texas to heroic acts during World War II (rescuing soldiers and concentration camp prisoners alike), the early days of Weldon's life are — in a word — epic.

One of its most notable and heroic missions took place during the Cold War, when the Vatican attempted to smuggle priests into the Soviet Bloc to act as spies.

Across one bittersweet weekend in their San Diego neighborhood, the revelers mingle among the palm trees and cacti, celebrating the lives of Big Angel and his mother, and recounting the many tales that have passed into family lore, the acts both ordinary and heroic that brought them to a fraught and sublime country and allowed them to flourish in the land they have come to call home.

Judith appears to act according to the heroic warrior «code», taking it upon herself to single - handedly kill Holofernes, a tyrant who has been oppressing the Hebrew city of Bethalia.

Gage's heroic act was recognized with the posthumous award of the PDSA Gold Medal.

In the cartoons and most of the comics, Toad acts as sidekick and constant companion for the brothers during their heroic adventures.

While the game obviously focuses on you as the primary hero in the game, you are basically one among many, working in tandem with a group called BLADE, which acts as a sort of heroic defense force and exploration team for humanity on the planet.

The next Mass Effect game takes place in the Helius Cluster (a cluster of 100s of solar systems in the Andromeda Galaxy), far removed by time and space from Commander Shepard's heroic acts and the final events of the Mass Effect trilogy.

Coined by Adolf Hitler, the term «Entartete Kunst» meaning degenerate art, expresses the Nazi idea that any art which did not conform to the ideal of well - crafted figurative images depicting heroic acts or comfortable day - to - day living, was the product of degenerate people.

These works could be seen as parodies of the heroic — they consist of acts, inhabited moments, rather than portrayals of dandyish poses.

The staged subjects of Fabrice Monteiro's portraits act as living mythologies, transcending the chaos that surrounds them; their costumes reflecting deterioration and the failure of their heroic attempt to save mankind.

Just track the heroic passage of the Biggert * - Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act in 2012 and its subsequent gutting as property owners howled.

They were all larger than life and incidents of history are great heroic dramas or symbolic acts that still stir our hearts.

I realize the the acts of three firms that received money for work held out as pro bono shouldn't taint the heroic efforts of the other 50 firms which did indeed work at no cost and at least, in my mind, they don't.