Sentences with phrase «life characters such»

You can expect major doublecrossing and bloodshed in this stellar espionage thriller — as well as real - life characters such as poet / playwright Bertolt «Bert» Brecht.

Not exact matches

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.
We named her after Woman Wisdom partly because She's a pretty kickass biblical character, and partly because our lives were such a mess at the time of Sophia's birth.
The Ear of the Heart presents the life of a person whose character, faith and love continue, after some 50 years, to respond with self - emptying generosity to such a God - given call.
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.
Within the setting of his life, such knowledge was quite unimportant, whereas what we mean by knowledge available but unknown to us actually contributes to determine the conditions of our own lives, and because we know it is not familiar to us, gives them a threatening and sinister character.
These others could be actual living persons, or else personifications derived from them, such as dream images or the characters created by a child's imagination.
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.
As such, given the character of Heidegger's life, I can not see how that life recommends his proposals for how we ought to order our own lives.
Human life touches on absoluteness in virtue of its dialogical character, for in spite of his uniqueness man can never find, when he plunges to the depth of his life, a being that is whole in itself and as such touches on the absolute....
I call a great character one who by his actions and attitudes satisfies the claim of situations out of deep readiness to respond with his whole life, and in such a way that the sum of his actions and attitudes expresses at the same time the unity of his being in its willingness to accept responsibility.
Do the Zombies see such intertwining of love's highs and low - downs as the tragically monstrous character of humanity's sexuality — a perennial trait, albeit one only recently reactivated on a wide scale after a long and unnatural cultural hibernation — that we simply have to learn to live with?
By the same token, conflict between rival groups within a society may be intensified by differences in their net reproduction rates; such differences may have implications for the tenor of civil life or the composition and character of the national directorate, factors that may play a decisive role in determining the climate for development.
Perhaps, though, the biblical character of Jesus, rather than being entirely mythical, was based on one of many Jewish messiah claimants who had followers who euhemerized his life to a greater extent than those of other such claimants, so that in time the stories were so embellished that he became a god in them, but the Tesimonium Flavianum is hardly proof of his existence.
This list is limited to those that focus mainly on Jesus» life story as told in the Gospels; thus, it does not include films about characters who are only peripherally connected to Jesus, such as Ben - Hur (1925, 1959).
To begin with the first and most obvious: When we speak of Christ, we certainly have in mind the man whose personality and the general character of whose life emerge clearly enough in the Gospels, the man who was remembered as speaking such words as are found in the Sermon on the Mount and in the fifteenth chapter of Luke and, more important, as being himself the person who could have spoken them.
I have claimed, and I claim again, that the life lived in love and right relation, and the character of one who lives in such a way, are in the most important sense better.
But although certain non-living systems, of which the thunderstorm is such a striking example, do show what we can call «organismal characters,» this property is nowhere found in so high a degree as it is in living organisms.
This character moulds the Church both in terms of her being as such and also in terms of the life of her members, and is rooted in Mary's yes in the chamber of Nazareth (Annunciation).
Here St. Augustine's realistic view of political life is of such character that Reinhold Niebuhr can call him the wisest political philosopher in Christian history.24 What St. Augustine does is to see the way of love in history as requiring the adjustment of life to political necessities.
Grace is only cheapened when we try to add human effort such as requiring people to have a changed heart, life, lifestyle, mind and character in order to assure them that God loves and forgives them and freely gives them eternal life.
Reading his lively account of the scholars who excavate and display the Middle Ages, an account replete with cultural history, moral judgment, psychological speculation, gossip, and no small amount of romantic idealism and fin - de-siecle pathos, the reader can reflect as much upon his own world, and about the character of Cantor himself, as he does about the painstaking task of historical reconstruction that absorbed the lives of such as Theodor Mommsen, Marc Bloch, or David Knowles.
It would be unreasonable to adopt or recommend a way of life unless one believes that the universe is of such a character that this way of life is appropriate.
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!»
And this «complex character» is a «continuance of mentality» (WPP 405) such that, by means of the regnant society, «the mental originality of the living occasions [of the nonsocial nexus] receives a character and a depth.
According to virtue ethics, the cultivation and formation of character through virtues such as temperance and fortitude is the essential aspect of the moral life.
Seljuq institutions were essentially military in character, not only because of the kind of life the Turks had lived in their original steppe environment, but also because the Turks adopted a role in the Islamic Society which necessitated such an organization.
Such a theology should be relational in character since «the priority of the relational» makes the ultimate test of faith one's life and not one's label.
But finally the ministers who, as Lyman Beecher said, were «chosen by the people who have been educated as free men,» and were «dependent on them for patronage and support, «88 achieved such status as their reputation for personal piety, character, and ability made possible in the society in which they lived.
«90 Such judgments, of course, constitute a high and not undeserved tribute to the exemplary personal lives and good character of these men, and to the effectiveness of their ministry.
I always felt blessed to have a man of such character, generosity, wisdom, even stubbornness as my father - a man full of life fifty years my elder.
O.K. Foods is very active in First Tee, which «provides young people of all backgrounds an opportunity to develop life - enhancing values such as confidence, perseverance and judgment through golf and character education,» the organization says.
Ask your child questions about a story, such as what will happen next, how a character might feel or how the story relates to your child's life.
When a young child works, plays and lives his life freely with his parents (or parent substitutes, such as grandparents or other guardians) in a one - to - one relationship in the home and out and about, he has a better chance to develop sound character traits systematically: neatness, orderliness, promptness, dependability, honesty, diligence, perseverance as well as kindness and concern for others.
«It gave a hint of why he became such an extreme character in later life and why he would just choose a particular path and plough down it to its absolute logical conclusion, even if self - destruction was the consequence.»
Richard Evans started out as a developer of the artificially intelligent behaviour in video games such as The Sims 3 (pictured), in which players direct the lives of characters in a simulated suburban community.
Such interpretation is strengthened by the observation that length of exposure to university life is positively associated with character development.
Such a strong reaction persuaded Pixar to avoid making uncannily realistic human characters — it has since focused its efforts on films about living toys, curious robots and talking cars to win Academy Awards and moviegoers» hearts.
Meredith et al.'s [22] younger dates for these clades may reflect the difficulties of timetree analyses for clades such as Mammalia that include taxa with a wide range of life history characters (e.g., baleen whales versus muroid rodents) and a correspondingly wide range of molecular evolutionary rates.
Other texts such as the Bhagavata Purana and Ramayana contain descriptions of the lives and actions of great sages and characters who have attained the highest states of yoga.
It's such a character, and it was where we lived.
After signing into the system you are offered to create a profile of your own, by entering a personal data, such as age, occupation, place of living (city, not the exact address), a little about your character field, and also you need to fill in the field that is about the preferences towards your future partner.
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With such a talented writer on board, Parenthood deserves a few more episodes to iron out some of its more trite, movie - of - the - week storylines, allowing its multifaceted characters, and all their routine tribulations, to organically manifest as life consequently unravels.
Through Xbox Live online entertainment network, Atari, Inc. provides fans with downloadable Bullet Witch content post-launch such as character costumes and extra levels.
Mendelsohn proves once again he's a chameleon and capable of almost any performance (compare his sad sack Gerry here to his work in «Killing Them Softly» and «Animal Kingdom» to see the gamut of his talents) and brings Gerry to life in such a way, it's tough to watch his character flounder again and again over the course of the story.
From the top down, this is a show that has such patience and empathy for its characters, even the most minute of roles, that it makes you want to get to know the people around you in real life better, open yourself up to their stories, discover their secrets within.
Part of what makes Ms. McAdams and Ms. Weisz such appealing performers is how persuasively they convey the inner lives of the characters they play, which makes it easy to put yourself on their side.
It was back to dramatic roles in the early 1940s, and as age crept up on Dunne, she made a seamless transition to starring character roles in such films as Anna and the King of Siam (1946) and Life with Father (1947).
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