Sentences with phrase «life as a character»

As the film's shooting schedule wears on, Fairbanks becomes romantically involved with her leading man, Jake Fields (Jeremy Sisto), but Fields and his friends on the production staff begin to question her stability when she starts wearing her costumes at all times, living on the sets, and tries to live as the character of Guinness.

Scotty (Simon Pegg) seems to have begun life as a character in a Scots sitcom.

He first introduced the project into the world as a gallery installation where different screens pertained to an artistic movement or school of thought, whose texts Blanchett then brings to life as a character befitting a dramatic exploration.

Wednesday morning, Walt Disney Studios kicked off the third day of CinemaCon with a presentation of the studio's upcoming slate, and an advance screening of Pixar Animation's «INSIDE OUT», about a little girl who is guided by her emotions, Joy (voice of Amy Poehler), Fear (voice of Bill Hader), Anger (voice of Lewis Black), Disgust (Mindy Kaling) and Sadness (voice of Phyllis Smith) that come to life as characters inside her mind.

In revising A Time for Living as a character education program, the TFL curriculum committee decided to honor the history and tradition of the school by retaining the Time For Living name, while focusing on universal ethical values that transcend religious or cultural differences.

I think she also provided the contrast that Melvin required to come to life as a character, and really, to shape the rest of the narrative.

Sarah's history and the inner life I gleaned of her from my research is the ground floor of her story, but the only way I could bring her fully to life as a character was to find her in my own imagination.

I have some familiarity with the artists who populate this fictional tale and I think he did a great job of bringing them to life as characters in this amusing mystery.

Perhaps a favorite stuffed animal comes to life as a character in a story all his own, or an entire cast of characters is made up of his best friends or cousins.

The fears come to life as characters and puzzles in the game, and you'll tackle them -LSB-...]

Then one day the team remembered the Daily Prophet newspaper from the Harry Potter movies, where images on the printed page magically come to life as the characters read.

Not exact matches

As the book's main character, a young Circle employee named Mae, sinks deeper into company life, she becomes less and less attuned to the real people around her.

Without character running through your veins as the source of your decision - making process, and without integrity as your internal GPS system navigating you through life, you're going to eventually fail.

Curiosity is good for us too: Happiness guru Martin Seligman identifies it as a key character strength that can enhance life satisfaction.»

So to hear Rae talk about standing up to a room full of network execs, her new bosses, and fight for two insecure black characters who have messy lives and are fully realized as complex characters?

«Several unromantic dinners with my girlfriend were spent with her in character, telling me stories about her life as a Nebraska farmer... which I then recalled for her over dessert.»

The convention centre's 720,000 square feet were packed with elaborate exhibits for giants such as Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo, featuring enough futuristic tech gadgetry, life - sized game character reproductions and leather - clad «booth babes» to make any gamer's head explode.

Despite a real - life narrative stuffed with secrets and suspense, the film version quickly feels bloated as Stone treats us to scene after scene of Snowden struggling with his inner dilemma and, especially, with his devoted girlfriend, Lindsay, who is a major character in her own right.

The leather will grow softer and more personalized with character as the years pass, and the shearling will continue to feel soft and lived - in.

Character assassination is part of rejecting reality as a basis for action, but it has a life of its own and is very old.

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett has a double life - as a cartoon character.

As Tom Bissell, a journalist, former Salon writer and lifelong gamer, explains in his new book, «Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter,» the graphics, storytelling and interactivity of gaming have all made tremendous leaps forward in recent years, allowing players to intermingle with nuanced, fleshed - out digital characters in near - photo - realistic environments.

«Behind the scenes, Trump has derisively referred to Sessions as «Mr. Magoo,» a cartoon character who is elderly, myopic and bumbling... Trump has told associates that he has hired the best lawyers for his entire life, but is stuck with Sessions, who is not defending him and is not sufficiently loyal.

High - profile, successful, and gold - agnostic investment - world luminaries assess the macroeconomic risks of radical monetary policies and reach a similar conclusion: This will end badly: — Seth Klarman: «All the Trumans (reference: a 1998 movie [The Truman Show] in which the main character's entire life takes place on a TV set which he perceives as reality)-- the economists, fund managers, traders, market pundits — know at some level that the environment in which they operate is not what it seems on the surface....

On character, he'd seem to be able to compete, so long as he emphasizes family life rather than political career (leaving aside the suspicions about Mormonism).

Rather than looking at corporate work as the evil scourge of the earth (though you certainly want to make sure your personal values align with an organization's corporate values), riding the elevator to the 11th floor every day may be exactly where God needs you to develop your spiritual character, your gifts and to reach those who are broken, empty and living without knowing their Savior.

Wnen bad things happen to good people they can be used as steping stones to increase their faith and characters, but I don't know how those that are unbelievers view it, other than a «O» well, that's life.»

Another fascinating chapter is Frederick Pike's on Latin America since 1800, wherein the suggestion is offered that liberation theology's «ahistorical» character comes from its Neoplatonist strain» ironically, one of the most radically transcendental philosophies available as a basis for religious life and theology.

Religious folks tend to think humans have some kind of divine character given to them by God whereas we tend consider ourselves as members of the ancient primate family of life.

Our prayers are not to alter the will of a sovereign God who remains forever unchangeable, but instead, prayer molds our disfigured and malleable wills to be like His perfect will, as well as operating as a means of revealing His character to us through a personal interaction with His word that has been intricately meshed together with our lives.

I wish I could be as optimistic as you, but I feel like we are living Mark Twain's A Conn Yankee in King A's Court, where the main character thinks he has the religious people beaten but they come back and go right back into the stone age.

Out of all the postings on this site today, I found «Derp's «post the most fascinating and informative, as well as deeply revealing.Even after boasting of what seems to be a practically perfect live by any measure, he informs us that he takes pleasure in mocking and ridiculing those of faith who are presumably his opposite; I can only wonder if, given all his supposed accomplishments, he is smart enough to realize how deeply revealing of his true character his remarks are.As a believer, I rarely engage in arguments with my atheist friends, and like to think I wouldn't lower myself to the level of juvenile name - calling and personal attacks against whatever my atheist friends hold dear.Most of the time we simply agree to disagree; when they hold forth with misinformation or ignorance on their assumed «knowledge «of my faith, I try to gently correct them; I certainly don't allow any disagreements we have to devolve into hateful insults and name - calling.

More recently, Coronation Street's Rev Billy Mayhew (Daniel Griffith) is a gay character who struggles with the apparent conflict between his sexual identity and the Church he loves, which could be viewed either as a reflection of real life, or a deliberate ploy to drum up viewing figures by exploiting a delicate and complicated theological subject.

Despite complaints over hard - to - define bias, many shows and movies have made Christianity a part of on - screen characters» lives, portraying the faith as an important element of a bigger story — instead of just a punchline.

These it takes as the conditions for nurturing «qualities of mind and character» (ICC 25) that have enabled and should again serve to enable «generations of men and women to grasp a vision of the good life, a life of responsible citizenship and human decency» (ICC 6).

That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll

As a result, Sherman - Palladino, the six - year showrunner and head writer for Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, chooses to do what very few television storytellers do with their characters: She allows nature to take its course.

Gratitude to God requires that we live not by evading the real nature of existence, not by denying the violent character of nature and history, but by facing reality as best we can, finally affirming the whole of life in all its sorrow and pain as a great gift.

And so I have decided to go to Jerusalem, where God was seen as man and spoke with men and to adore the place where his feet trod» (p.104 - 5) These examples bring the characters — and by extension, their history — to life.

He was bitterly opposed to all organized Churches and said that «Moses, Mohamet, and Jesus can lay as little claim to moral merit, or to the character of the benefactors of mankind, as any three men that ever lived upon the face of the earth....

Even beyond this the word is used to express, as nephesh does, the whole inner life and character — «Man looketh on the outward appearance, but Yahweh looketh on the heart.»

In the later Book as in the earlier, the word sweeps the gamut from breath soul, which was its origin, to interior spiritual life and character, which was its culmination.

In my family, we see life as a series of grand stories that simply must be populated with larger - than - life characters.

Thomas's answer to this question (in ST1.75.6) sounds occasionally like the position Plato sets out in the Phaedo, where the character Socrates argues that the concept of the soul — and, presumably, also its being — is so tied up with life as not to admit of its opposite, death [105C8 - E10].

For my own children, in this video - gaming age, what those fictional children get away with is simply unimaginable, except as the stories themselves seed the imagination, and the lives of the characters work their way into the life of the real child, enlarging that child's 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.

When these characters consider living like common people they think of that as freedom rather than a duty of shared sacrifice.

As yet, no one has ventured to translate Dasein or Vorhanden, but in order not to disfigure the English translation by the frequent use of German words, I have rendered Dasein as «human life», «human Being», or even «Being» where its human character is made clear by the contexAs yet, no one has ventured to translate Dasein or Vorhanden, but in order not to disfigure the English translation by the frequent use of German words, I have rendered Dasein as «human life», «human Being», or even «Being» where its human character is made clear by the contexas «human life», «human Being», or even «Being» where its human character is made clear by the context.

The sacrament «is stripped of its essential character when it no longer includes an elemental, life - claiming and life - determining experience of the other person, of the otherness, as of something coming to meet and acting hitherwards.»

There is a Marian character which moulds the Church both in terms of her being as such, and also in terms of the life of her members.