Although it's not consistently creepy, the screenplay by Jane Goldman (Kick - Ass), adapted from Peter Ackroyd's novel, throws some true -
life characters into the fictional mix, which combines with Nighy's performance to provide just enough intrigue.
It seems like it would have been easy to fall into the trap of turning this larger - than -
life character into a two - dimensional cartoon, but Stevens does a wonderful job fleshing her out and bringing her to life.
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.
An animated emoji that will use the front - facing camera to measure your face, animate your favourite emojis
into life - like
characters, and record a short clip for text messaging.
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.
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
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.
We are made in Gods image and thus we need to reflect this image and His
character outwards
into the
lives of people... at their edge of
life and personal hell reflecting Gods grace, mercy, justice, compassion and forgiveness.
The word of the teaching loses its religious
character as soon as it is cut loose from its connection with the
life of the founder and his disciples and recast
into an independently knowable and thoroughly impersonal principle.
Hawkins»
character had a rough childhood, a stint in the Army Rangers, and
lives a quiet
life with his wife Nicole until «he's pulled back
into action as his past comes looking for him.»
But some Bunyan, writing Pilgrim's Progress in a prison where it was so damp that, as he cried, «The moss did verily grow upon mine eyebrows»; some Kernahan, born without arms and legs, but by sheer grit fighting his way up until he sat in the House of Commons; some Henry M. Stanley, born in a workhouse and buried in Westminster Abbey; some Dante, his Beatrice dead, he himself an exile from the city of his love, distilling all his agony
into a song that became the «voice of ten silent centuries», or some more obscure and humble
life close at hand where handicaps have been mastered, griefs have been built
into character, disappointments have been turned
into trellises, not left a bare, unsightly thing — such incarnations of fortitude and faith have infectious power.
In good Aristotelian fashion, therefore, Lewis thinks of all the ordinary decisions of
life as forming our
character, as turning us
into people who either do or do not wish to gaze forever upon the face of God.
But so to understand the child as to unfold his
life into positive and radiant
character takes the finest qualities that we posses — insight, sympathy, intelligence, tact and patience.
The fictional lead
character in New Kind is poised to abandon his ministry until a wise new friend initiates him
into the ways of postmodern Christianity, rehabilitating his ministry and
life.
Godlessness or sin, therefore, is at bottom our refusal to let
into our
lives the fundamentally promising
character of reality.
: «The authority that man recognizes in religion,» he says there, «is one who, in his
character and manner of
life, gives the impression of having insight
into truths that ordinary man can not fathom.»
In one «Saturday Night
Live» skit, a
character portraying Jesus goes
into the Broncos» locker room saying he doesn't want to have to «bail out» the team every week and praising their upcoming foe, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, as a «miracle worker.»
This basic divergence re the
character of time importantly finds its way
into their final visions of the goodness of human
life.
For an unmarried woman could easily be led
into a disastrous marriage based on her poor reading of a young man's
character ¯ which itself would mean a ruined
life for her, although rarely for him.
It possesses magnificent
character delineation: the great theme is the princely magnanimity of Joseph, envied by his lesser brothers, his
life threatened, then at length spared only through the dubious device of selling him
into slavery in Egypt; and there, his fortunes going from bad to worse, he was, for no fault of his own but indeed because of his integrity, hurled
into an oriental prison to lie hopeless until some dubious chance should release him.
Developing the whole person and integrating all aspects of our
lives into an unwavering expression of
character and heart is central to Jesuit pursuit.
There is a limit which stands not only at the end of human
life as death, but which is built
into the structure of human
life by virtue of its creaturely
character.
I think it's very likely that she was autistic; you can get a sense of it from her
characters, but it seems to be the case on you've looked
into her personal
life.
This perverted psychiatric identity, elevated to the status of a mutant «
life form» in order to safeguard polite society against its disgusting depravities, swallowed up the entire
character of the afflicted: «Nothing that went
into [the homosexual's] total composition was unaffected by his sexuality.
It has called me to
live in and to appreciate the joy of uncertainty, the absence of security, and it has led me
into an existential search for integrity of
character and faith in a world that seems to many to have only questions and no final answers.
It's a rip - roaring read, with a thriller's pace and a colorful cast of
characters constantly butting
into the protagonist's
life (and, eventually, mind).
He himself was confused at an early age, as we all have been, by the imposition of religious teaching that depicted the
character of God as one who creates and stands in charge of the gates of hell to give non-believers eternal physical
life then to cast them
into eternal physical pain.
The philosophy of technology, which has been the principal focus of his work since the mid-1970s, is about bringing to light and calling
into question the technological shape and
character of everyday
life.
Sometimes we say that the newness of Jesus lies in his personality — in his powerful
character which inspired men to faithful loyalty, in the vigor that shook them out of their ruts, in the holiness before which they felt ashamed, in the mercy that brought love
into the
lives of sinners.
Five of the Upangas are definitely legendary in
character, dealing mainly with the
life beyond, one especially with the various hells, one with the birth of ten different princes
into a different heaven.
Moreover, he lays so much emphasis on the fact that this event of the past can be real only if it is brought
into vital connection with our own
lives, that he undermines the historical
character of the event itself.
When Max and her friends are transported
into the movie, Max must use the rules of the classic slasher to save her mom's
character from the killer — which Max clearly hopes will bring her real, deceased mother back to
life.
Thus
life turns back
into society: it binds originality within bounds, and gains the massiveness due to reiterated
character» (PR 163).
Article 19 bears quoting in full: Holy Mother Church has firmly and with absolute constancy held, and continues to hold, that the four Gospels just named, whose historical
character the Church unhesitatingly asserts, faithfully hand on what Jesus Christ, while
living among men, really did and taught for their eternal salvation until the day He was taken up
into heaven (see Acts 1:1).
This level ensures that «
life turns back
into society: it binds originality within bounds, and gains the massiveness due to reiterated
character» (ibid.).
Here is my evil plan — Create a fictional
character, have him born
into poverty in a part of the world full of strife with no recorded history, cast some doubts on his conception (that will keep them guessing), leave a decade or so gap in his
life story, re-introduce him in the middle of nowhere and tell everyone he has all these amazing powers, he confounds and confuses all his followers and tells them not to tell anyone about what he does or where he is going and Oh yeah, they are all prostiitutes and tax cheats and lepers and the really lowlifes of society, deny them the chance to follow him, set him at odds with both the government and the church powers of his time, cast doubts on his seexuality and intelligence, make it so he refuses anyone to come to his aid and kill him in the most horrible way imaginable, then hide his body, make it so nothing he does can be historically proven.
This isn't a game, this is our
living and we need to win and I think Paul's got to get that a bit more
into his
character.
The increasingly popular TV series has set itself up nicely for comparisons
into our everyday
lives, and some funny so - and - so has decided to throw together a video highlighting just which of our favourite footballers look like
characters from the show.
They took a real
life situation, turned it
into a shoot during a
live broadcast, then created the worked
character of Mr. McMahon to capitalize on the heat created by the shoot while making the action somehow simultaneously a work and a shoot.
We offer kids rugby opportunities beyond club level, and we help develop and nurture them
into young adults with
character and social and
life skills.
Says Terry Jastrow, a former Wonderful World of Golf producer, «Since the beginning of sports television the tech people have spanned the globe to bring images
into American
living rooms, and the cameramen, for whatever reason, have always tended to be colorful
characters, full of spirit and personality.
A New England farmer, as everyone knows, should be a taciturn, flinty
character who makes a bare
living scratching out rocks to build
into fences to keep out his neighbors.
For a brief window of time, they got to
live in a magic world of princesses and storybook
characters, escape
into nature, and forget about treatment and cancer.
Chapter 20
Live What You Want Them to Learn shares insight
into the importance of walking out the
character traits you want to grow in your children.
Annie talks with Phyllis about the myth of the Straight A student and how
character development fits
into success in the workplace and in
life.
Shonda Rhimes (creator of Scandal and other successful television shows like Grey's Anatomy) and her team have decided not to integrate Kerry's real -
life pregnancy
into her
character Olivia's storyline.
Psychologists who have studied attachment have found that when human kids have that same kind of licking and grooming - style bonding with their parents, especially in the first year of
life, it gives them all sorts of psychological strength, confidence [and]
character that, when they reach school age and even
into adulthood, will make a huge difference in how well they do.»
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