At worst, it can feel like the author can't make up her mind about which type of POV she wants to use and keeps slipping
into omniscient.
This often pushes these creative nonfiction texts
into omniscient or distant third person points of view, creating a detachment between the reader and the characters.
At the same point, Blomkamp ratchets up the intimacy: in one startling moment, he drops from his mockumentary style
into an omniscient narrative mode.
Not exact matches
Vic: «God did not cause people to crucify the Lord Jesus Christ, rather, as God is
Omniscient, He knew beforehand what man will do at «Free Will,» and He (God) therefore predetermined the counter measure accordingly, hence turning the evil doing of condemning the Lord Jesus Christ to the Cross †
into Salvation for humankind.»
Lem me see here, according to your holy book your God personally ordered more infant killings than all American abortion doctors combined, ordered the annihilation of half a dozen civilizations, routinely taunted and tortured humanity, introduced evil
into the world then blamed the things he created for it (even though he's supposed to be
omniscient and omnipotent), then abandoned humanity for at least a couple thousand years while making plans to come back and slaughter 2/3 of Earth's inhabitants so that he can judge them and throw most of them
into a torturous hell for all of eternity... for not being able to overcome the nature your book says he gave them... Just so he can have non-free will - having cloud gnomes sing his praises for eternity.
If you're not chosen, you will be tortured for five months by a God who created you, who knew you would not make it
into heaven well before he made you (if He's
omniscient).
IF god exists and is omnipotent and
omniscient, do you think I could «fool» him
into thinking I believe when in my mind I KNOW he does not exist?
Christians claim an omnipotent,
omniscient, omnipresent god yet can offer no evidence for that god and will twist
into mental and verbal convolutions to avoid explaining the obvious contradictions.
One is the scene in which Dolly is on her way to visit Anna at Vronsky's estate in the country; as she travels, the narrative takes us
into her thoughts, which are perfectly ordinary: her anxieties as a mother, principally, and as a wife, and her moral uncertainties; but it is all rendered with such confident and seemingly
omniscient artistry that one almost feels as if one has momentarily become this woman, and can think and feel as she does; and more than one female critic has called attention to how well Tolstoy succeeds here at imagining his way
into the worries and regrets of a wife and mother.
An
omniscient being knows every way in which evils can come
into existence.
Yet somehow this
omniscient creator came
into existence without any creator.
The latter become part of the literature of science both by modeling the possibility of a thoroughly satisfactory aesthetic unity and by inciting the anxiety of influence that will later be a factor when Dante's and Milton's
omniscient and omnipotent Creator is transmuted
into Laplace's formulas of probability.
If God is
omniscient, then it means that he knows every single thing that happens in the universe, both now and infinitely
into the future.
I mean, honestly, what kind of bovine excrement
omniscient being designs a universe that obeys a set of rules (physics), but designs a sentient being that He will then cast
into eternal torment at death — no matter how good the being was during its life — unless that being has faith in His son?
It switches between handheld point - of - view shots from the perspective of the characters and an
omniscient camera that seems to have a mind of its own, weightlessly sweeping through rooms and drifting up
into corners with a spectral presence.
It's not too much to say that, at its best, Attack the Block makes you feel the way you did when the guys took things
into their own hands to deliver the flying,
omniscient, omnipotent E.T. to his landing site.
by Walter Chaw John Dahl's latest foray
into knock - off B - movie territory is Joy Ride, a film that indulges an awkward dedication to hiding the face of its villain (which results in the biggest cheat of the film at its conclusion), presents predictably misogynistic victimizations for both of its female characters (followed by weak - wristed salvations), and demands an ironclad suspension of disbelief that the bad guy is
omniscient, omnipresent, and only ruthless when there isn't a long speech to be made.
In which David Wain, he of Wet Hot American Summer fame, takes on the life of Doug Kenney (played by Will Forte and, in his
omniscient - narrator state, Martin Mull), a Harvard man who'd co-create the National Lampoon, co-write Animal House and inject much - needed vulgar irreverence
into American comedy before mysteriously falling off a cliff in 1980.
When we step
into their individual worlds, one at a time, we don't learn their every thought — the narrator who follows them isn't
omniscient — but rather we have a partial, or selective, understanding of them.
What steps it up beyond this simple formula is that you can take control of any of these units, shifting from your top - down
omniscient view
into a first person shooter style game.
In this era of artificial intelligence and
omniscient Google, the ancient practice of painstakingly twining coloured wool
into pictures is undergoing an unexpected revival.