Sentences with phrase «human character from»

Along the way, gamers cultivate friendships with Jack, Miko and Raf - the human characters from the show - as Team Prime sets out to protect mankind and eliminate the DECEPTICONS once and for all.
That includes the return of some human characters from previous movies, a few new ones and a deep dive into the mythology of Transformers in general.
Along the way, gamers cultivate friendships with Jack, Miko and Raf — the human characters from the show — as Team Prime sets out to protect mankind and eliminate the DECEPTICONS once and for all.
It endorses brawler - style combat and driving sequences, with players building friendships with Jack, Miko and Raf — the human characters from the animated show — as you set out to protect mankind and rid the world of the Decepticon threat.

Not exact matches

«Bennett has become a master of storytelling through character, and while there are clearly no people in these films, it was clearly a very human story, which we knew a director such as Bennett would zero in on and draw out very real human - like emotions from these poor inanimate objects,» Lennon said.
Twenge and Campbell are drawing here on research from the so - called positive psychology movement, which recently has attempted to shift the focus of psychological research away from disease and disorder to a study of the character strengths that make for happiness and human flourishing.
The fact that a novel's narrator must speak as a god from outside the story has always vexed novelists, particularly when the narrator is also a human character in the story.
Senior German churchmen have made clear that they believe something different from what's in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, whether the issue is the nature of marriage, the ethics of human love, the character of the Holy Eucharist and the priesthood, the authority of revelation, or the enduring effects of baptism.
What once protected nature from human abuse was a sense of its sacred character.
The title «Satan» is applied for one who stands in opposition; and it is applied, in the same way as «Elohim,» across the full spectrum of scriptural characters from a) God, to b) angels, to c) human men.
But economists rarely comment on the fact that Homo economicus is abstracted from the relational and communal character of actual human beings.
For example, since skin color has no demonstrable relation to intellectual ability, esthetic sensitivity, or character, it follows that no significant conclusions about a person's characteristically human behavior can be drawn from the nature of his pigmentation.
Now meditation as an exercise in prayer is no different from this sort of natural and normal human experience, except that it is thought about God, about God's character and his activity in the world.
It is at best a prolegomenon which seeks to suggest an element in the ministry of Jesus that gives it a constitutive as distinct from an exemplary character, that makes it the supreme action of all history (action that is fully and entirely human, yet unique), action which crowns a ministry in which the ambiguities of human life are progressively articulated, being action in which their burden is endured à l'outrance.
Angels, visible in human form, appear as characters in the narrative and address the chief actors; an angel descends from heaven, rolls away the stone which sealed the rock tomb and sits upon it.
It's an unfortunate quirk of human character that we tend to associate an entire group with the assertions of just a few from among them.
Rice, in his book, citing Pope Benedict XVI, countered that the need to protect all human life from conception to natural death is innate to human nature and confirmed by faith: «The Church's action in promoting them is therefore not confessional in character, but is addressed to all people, prescinding from any religious affiliation they may have.»
Hartshorne connects the ideas of relative and absolute in the act of knowing: «Unrestricted or literal relativity; so far from being the mere de facto character of our inferior human knowledge, is rather the precise ideal of knowledge in its most absolute meaning» (DR 10).
Departing from the view of human character as a given «nature,» McCabe argued that character is never so fixed and certain as to be unsusceptible of new and different determinations from the inexhaustible source and depth of free will» (FG 420).
Her saving grace there, as in Out of the Deep I Cry, is her ability to create a story both intensely human and delightfully unpredictable, with events flowing naturally from collisions of character rather than the exigencies of plot.
Even when, like the characters in The Story of the Night, they seem to have fallen away from treating themselves, or their fellow human beings, with the appropriate respect, Jews and others in today's counterculture committed to the mystery of human responsibility before God, and charged with the task of pursuing our own unique individual and communal destiny in a conformist, uncomprehending world, need such reminders.
For this reason, efforts to prevent sinful humans from tampering with the pristine character of holy writ are futile.
However from the same human tongue also come lies and gossip, slander and curses, vilification and character assassination, cutting words and false witness, rumor and innuendo.
A legitimate philosophical anthropology must know that there is not merely a human species but also peoples, not merely a human soul but also types and characters, not merely a human life but also stages in life; only from the... recognition of the dynamic that exerts power within every particular reality and between them, and from the constantly new proof of the one in the many, can it come to see the wholeness of man.
It is obvious from even a superficial reading of these human unself - conscious letters that people were being transformed in outlook and character, despite the general collapse of moral values in the pagan world.
The value of the human word depends on the Word of God, from which it receives its decisive and ultimate character.
From our human, everyday perspective, which no doubt is our concrete perspective (all others being more or less stretched or «abstract»), the richly diversified realm of life appears permanent, with abiding character.
Operating inside these constraints, Austen's talents allowed her to analyze the complexity of human behavior, the subtle variations of motivation, and the difficulty of judging true character from false in a world of deceptive appearances.
When my new acquaintance discovered that I was a theologian and that I was particularly interested in studying how Romanesque art and architecture illustrated the Augustinian - Anselmian character of the faith of the early Middle Ages — with its profound pessimism about the human condition apart from grace — the conversation sent him into a mood of self - reproach and even to consideration of abandoning his dissertation topic.
Good, in this sense, contains an extremely wide range of gradations, extending from the purely external observance of good order to the most intimate self - examination and character - formation and to personal self - sacrifice for the most sublime human values.
I reply at once that where the character, as something distinguished from the intellect, is concerned, the causes of human diversity lie chiefly in our differing susceptibilities of emotional excitement, and in the different impulses and inhibitions which these bring in their train.
I begin, therefore, by asking a general psychological question as to what the inner conditions are which may make one human character differ so extremely from another.
If this is so, then the issue becomes not one of distinguishing those modes of human thought and experience which are «aesthetic» in character from those which are not, but one of evaluating and comparing (insofar as this can be done) different experiences with diverse textures and degrees of aesthetic intensity.
«Many scholars,» Brown insists through the voice of one of his characters, «claim that the early Church literally stole Jesus from His original followers, hijacking His human message, shrouding it in an impenetrable cloak of divinity, and using it to expand their own power.»
The reason this ultimate program seems so remote or Incredible is partly that we have as yet no real conception of the variables exhibited in human experience, and hence do not see how widely different values from any occurring in our experience are abstractly conceivable as missing areas or extended portions of the domains of potential characters which the variables permit.
Satan did it, and fell... man, seduced by the father of lies, and lust for power has allowed pride to swell up in his heart, has done the same... Scriptures were written long ago, but we see them fulfilled with our own eyes (Dan.12: 4) There has never been time as such we're living in, when man is so advanced, yet the deprivation of human character on WORLDWIDE scale, is unprecedented from any time in history of mankind!
«There has never been time as such we're living in, when man is so advanced, yet the deprivation of human character on WORLDWIDE scale, is unprecedented from any time in history of mankind!»
A movie like The Exorcist — as controversial as it is — also shows that, contrary to the mad scientist characters who try to seize power from God, God in fact manages to work His will through very flawed, human servants.
When these steps have been taken, we shall be freed from being driven to the construction of implausible just - so stories, alleging that human capacities of which we have basic experience are totally different in character from what we, in fact, know them to be.
Just in case his readers construe this as being a human function, Upadhyaya qualifies the extra-mundane character of this teaching: «Jesus Christ claims to have given to mankind the completest possible revelation of the nature and character of God, of the most comprehensive ideal of humanity, of the infinite malice of sin, and of the only universal way to release from the bondage of evil» (Ibid.)
Many attempts have been made to show the symbolic character of much of the human enterprise, from rite and myth to art and science.
Given the diversity of human character, punishment always totters on a moral slope so slippery that it is impossible to determine with any precision where it crosses the line from remedial to vitiating.
But according to Martin Sheen, who played the president, the character was drawn largely from Bill Clinton: «He's bright, astute and filled with all the negative foibles that make him very human,» Sheen once told the Radio Times.
Besides these instincts, humans are otherwise «blank slates» that receive the bulk of their character from experience.
They were created to teach preschoolers that people can be good friends with those who are very different from themselvesEven though they are identified as male characters and possess many human traits and characteristics (as most Sesame Street Muppets ™ do), they remain puppets, and do not have a sexual orientation.
But the drive to create virtual characters that are indistinguishable from human characters has also given rise to complex forensic and legal issues, such as the need to distinguish between computer - generated and photographic images of child pornography, says senior author Hany Farid, a professor of computer science and a pioneering researcher in digital forensics at Dartmouth.
Young U.S. readers show signs of learning better from human characters than from those ever - present talking pigs and bears.
Massachusetts - based start - up GiantOtter wants to take these characters to another level of realism, using data from crowdsourced human interactions.
From Odysseus restraining himself against the Sirens» song to Tom Sawyer conning his way out of painting fences, fictional characters have captured many nuances of human psychology.
Random House, 2011 New York Times columnist David Brooks invents two characters, Harold and Erica, to illustrate recent scientific discoveries about human nature and the quest for success, following their paths from birth to old age.
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