Sentences with phrase «hopeful note about»

Although the film ends with a hopeful note about putting the past behind and building upon happiness for the future, the downsides of pat characterizations is that we never get the sense that the burdens they carry and flaws in their character will ever allow them anything more then a temporary lift up out of the abyss of misanthropy.

He also sounded a hopeful note about the four renegade Senate Democrats who broke from their conference to form an independent caucus, saying: «We have to see more what it's about, but they're certainly coming in the right direction now.»

Perhaps this last critical point, i.e.» that Muray overstates the substantialism in Hauerwas, allows us to end on a somewhat hopeful note about the future of dialogue between those of us who are strongly influenced by and continue to work in the light of the writings of Stanley Hauerwas and those who call themselves process theologians.

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This leads him to his key point: «Let us make no mistake; the data we now have at hand should serve as a dire warning: Unless we act decisively, many of today's converts will be one - generation Jews — Jews with non-Jewish parents and non-Jewish children,» But Sarna concludes on a note that most Jews would find more hopeful: «Learned Jews and non-Jews have been making dire predictions about the future (or end) of the Jewish people for literally thousands of years — long before William Wirt and long after him — and, as we have seen, their predictions have proved consistently wrong.

As Theos director Elizabeth Hunter notes, this «turns upside down the assumption that the young will be idealistic and hopeful about public life, while the old tend to be more disappointed and cynical».

Staten Island resident Cesar Vargas, New York's first openly undocumented lawyer, told Observer that he feels hopeful about Moya, noting that he was one of the main sponsors of the New York State Dream Act.

It is heartening to note that the women, on the whole, are hopeful and optimistic about the years to come.

Black Panther hits many high notes as a superhero movie, but it also contains a hopeful message about the tribe of humanity.

For a film about tragedy writ large, Parkland manages to convey a deeper message of reconciliation and redemption, and it ends on a hopeful note.

For a film about people living on the fringe in a squalid bubble, «The Florida Project» has a dreamy innocence and ends on an extremely moving note that's somewhat hopeful.

DeVos's remarks began the event on a hopeful note, and those gathered seemed excited about the possibility of federal backing for new, pro — education freedom policies.

NYS Director Andrea Rogers talks about President - elect Trump's choice for education secretary, noting that most recent past Presidents have been supportive of school choice, and remains hopeful that continues to be the case.

The authors don't say much about it, other than a hopeful note at the end that their quantification of the benefits of such a transition «should reduce social and political barriers to implementing the roadmaps.»