Sentences with phrase «insistent life»

Whether strutting about in the nude with a magnificent lack of embarrassment, seducing a crowd with a karaoke cover of Deep Fish's «Direction NYC,» or cheerfully antagonizing everyone in sight, he is an impudent, insistent life force in a movie that slowly and meticulously charts a course for death.

If you've ever longed for a movie with all the insistent life lessons of a Disney fairy tale, the tacky visual excesses of digital - era George Lucas, and enough glorified karaoke covers to fill half a season of «Glee,» then you may want to treat yourself to the altogether perplexing animated brew that is «Strange Magic.»

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Like Steve Jobs (who was so insistent that employees bump into one another that he placed Pixar's single bathroom at the center of the building), Pogue recommends motivating people to leave their normal workspaces by making life a little less convenient.

Indeed, «it is to all Christians that we address a fresh and insistent call to action» — for «beneath an outward appearance of indifference, in the heart of every man there is a will to live in brotherhood and a thirst for justice and peace, which is to be expanded.»

Unlike Marx and others who tried to turn socialism into a science and thought they knew what would happen, Rorty's religion is radically open to, adamantly insistent upon, the new — making possible a life of «pure, joyous hope.»

Her autobiography reveals her in her younger days as a prayerful person, devoted to the Blessed Sacrament and insistent on living out the principles of her faith.

It is not the violence of terror or coercion, but the violence that makes us intransigent toward ourselves and insistent in our demand that the other live — I might say, «that the other live in a manner worthy of God's image.»

Scripture is fairly insistent that without God we have no life.

Everyone does something in their life that they know is sin but do anyway because they still like it, including people insistent on your philosophy and that they themselves don't regularly do things they like that are sinful.

The practical problems of organizing life in the present were dealt with only as the needs were insistent.

There is the insistent intimation of an order where both immediacy and character are retained, where novelty and achieved order are not antagonistic, where life is not merely a transient enjoyment, transiently useful (PR 340/516).

To his insistent demand that she return she only replied, «I would go back if I could, but in your arms you carry my own life.»

In this way, the insistent craving is justified — the insistent craving that zest for existence be refreshed by the ever - present, unfading importance of our immediate actions, which perish and yet live for evermore.

The need for a trustful relationship with life, the universe, with God — is insistent in the so - called «golden years» (which actually are more like lead than gold for some people).

This type of experience, suggested not only in Paul but in some of the Gospel narratives, (E.g., Matthew 28:16 - 17; Mark 16:9 - 12) may have been the beginning of the conviction that Jesus was not dead but alive, and the more physical representations of the disentombment may have been an aftermath, caused by the insistent belief of the Jewish - Christian mind that resurrection was of necessity involved in life after death.

It seems not a little strange that the faith which is most insistent upon the principle of Ahimsa and will not take the life of the most humble living thing, makes a definite place for putting an end to one own life.

Yet Whitehead might tell us that we try too hard, that we are too insistent on lifting our purposes into consciousness and examining them, that such tensions as those between love and duty reflect the frustrations of a life that strives for too much autonomy.

My perspective is that there are a number of connections that arise both from the issues that confront us as Christians living in a mass media age and from the Bible's insistent message.

The sacramental action of the Church in celebrating the Eucharist is the living enactment of the gospel which is proclaimed by preaching; Luther was insistent on the point that the gospel is enacted in the sacrament, and he was altogether right in this insistence.

The Puritan was zealous for reform; eager, impatient, and intense; insistent that all of life must quickly be reduced to conformity with God's will.

Ruby has never really been into sport, we do swimming but I'm insistent on that more as a life skill than an exercise, but she's recently discovered indoor climbing and totally loves it, the difference it's made has been incredible in terms of her confidence.

Asha Dornfest is a writer, parent, and insistent optimist living in Portland, Oregon.

Asha Dornfest is a writer, parent and insistent optimist who lives in Portland, Oregon with her family.

Now I can be more insistent since the room was standing room only knowing I'm gifting people with something that will change their health and their lives forever.

Depardieu has so much life on screen, so much bounding energy and insistent physicality, that he almost brings it off.

You could read that as a statement about the historic limitations on women's ability to shape their own lives, yet Michael Brook's insistent score ill - advisedly keeps trying to fan flames of feeling which just aren't present.

Doing the voice of the title character, a newborn infant whose insistent demands challenge the family life of his young parents, Baldwin plays to type: court jester for the angry Hillary mob.

While following a frantic night in the lives of two transgender prostitutes, Tangerine managed to infuse a grimy milieu with a pulsing, insistent beauty.

At a push of the start button on the console, the 650S Spider's engine came to life with a high - revving bark before settling down to an insistent idle.

I didn't like the idea of her putting shape on my life, but she was insistent.

When O'Brien develops her own life - threatening illness, the biologist who saved the life of a helpless baby bird is herself rescued from death by the insistent love and courage of this wild animal.

ii) I tend not to focus so much on self - selection, adverse - selection, incremental longevity factors etc. — they remind me everybody thinks they live in Lake Woebegon, and they're all above average... That's a luxury we all might enjoy when we're 70, or even 80 — but when you're hitting 90 & 95, that exceptionalism & your options tend to rapidly diminish in the face of insistent Death, even if you have a pretty nurse bending over every hour to adjust your oxygen tank...

To modern eyes the humility might read false, but Nairn surely meant it — his major criticism was that modern architects were too insistent on telling people how to live; why then, would he be able to tell them how to look at buildings?

Devotees of this spin - off from the popular podcast This American Life soaked up the insistent, questioning voice of investigative journalist Sarah Koenig as she unpicked the frayed ends of a true - life murder cLife soaked up the insistent, questioning voice of investigative journalist Sarah Koenig as she unpicked the frayed ends of a true - life murder clife murder case.

Her style is a kind of virtuosic, melty smear - and - daub where everything nevertheless resolves into place and rides along on hot, insistent colour, and where interior lives forever rise to the surface of the face.

Modern life, with its insistent focus on the computer screen, has become increasingly disembodied, but here is a world in which labour is enacted in the realm of tangible things.

The insistent teaching of this approach over the last century or so has led many people to believe that selfish and even opportunistic behavior is simply «natural» or «standard» in commercial life — and therefore both excusable and unavoidable.

∀ In one of the Bard's best - thought - of tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten.

For example, although homeless people were successful in their Charter claim in Victoria (City) v Adams, this judicial bias is evident even in that case — the first to consider the relevance of international human rights law, including concerns and recommendations from the CESCR, to section 7 of the Charter.284 The BC Court of Appeal in Adams upheld the trial judge's decision that the City of Victoria was violating homeless persons» constitutional rights to life, liberty and security of the person by prohibiting them from erecting temporary overhead shelters in public parks.285 However the Court of Appeal was insistent on framing its decision as a negative «restraint» on government, rather than as a positive obligation.

I've even had clients that are practically insistent on making up their own questions and answering them because they believe that surely the life insurance company made an error in not including that question.

It might sound like another buzzy acronym, but Samsung is pretty insistent that its quantum dot technology is a big deal in the living room.