Sentences with phrase «life characters who»

A Prisoner in Malta is populated with lots of personages whose names and reputations have been bequeathed to the annals of British history (The novel contains a helpful appendix of thumbnail biographical sketches of some of the more infamous real - life characters who figure prominently in the story).

Unnaturally thin, these two actors deserve real credit for committing to the art and bringing to life these characters who suffer tremendously in the name of religion.

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Re-teaming with his «Edge of Tomorrow» (a.k.a. «Live Die Repeat») director Doug Liman, Cruise plays Barry Seal, a real - life character who ran drugs, guns and money between Central America and Arkansas in the late 1970s and early»80s, while also working for the CIA.

With the eponymous Maggie of her film, MAGGIE»S PLAN, she has brought to life a character who manipulates other for their own good, and still seems like the great - hearted soul.

There's a decent supporting cast, with Ben Whishaw as a Copenhagen bachelor attracted to Lili (for a long time it's not clear if he knows she's still a man underneath) while the Belgian actor Matthias Schoenaerts does his handsome best to bring to life a character who feels he's been invented especially for the film — the childhood friend who once found Einar so attractive he kissed him, but whose romantic attentions are now firmly fixed on Gerda.

«Cupid» is a romantic dramedy about Trevor, a larger than life character who may or may not be the Roman god of love, Cupid, sent to earth to bring couples together.

I guess you might say that means I write psychological novels, but that sounds a bit pretentious to me — I'd rather say I create living characters who react with a certain degree of independence to the situation in which I've placed them.

Not exact matches

«We want to use the phone to create iconic characters, but just like Marvel, we believe our characters can live forever,» says Davis, who is 26.

When paired onscreen with actors living fully in the present — playing characters who are defined by their relationship with the lead rather than by their own complicated backstories — DiCaprio is again made to suffer.

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?

Dissemination areas don't necessarily reflect the facts on the ground when it comes to how neighbourhoods are understood by the people who live there; these artificial boundaries can't encompass the spirit and character that animates a great neighbourhood — but they can highlight the areas where wealth is most concentrated.

The Brisbane Baylands project has received sharp criticism from people living in Brisbane, who don't want to see an influx of tech workers change the character of their neighborhoods.

The main character, Gordon Gekko, who is loosely patterned after Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky, lives his life under the belief that greed is good and money is everything.

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.

Its second top post, posted to the subreddit r / BlackPeopleGifs, is a clip taken from the episode of Saturday Night Live immediately after the 2016 election, in which Dave Chappelle expresses mock incredulity at a character who says that «America is racist.»

«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.

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.

All Biblical characters we read about are to some extent abstractions from the real person who lived in time and space.

Rather, the new NIV here makes it possible for English readers to discover a more Catholic or Orthodox or truly Lutheran Paul, one who teaches that the problem with the Jewish law is its ethnic and temporary character and that human salvation concerns our real sacramental participation in divine life, real transformation, and ultimate resurrection.

I was the man in her life and now all of a sudden there's this Jesus character who she is looking up to and worshipping.

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.

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.

But I expected to find in those who took their faith seriously (especially those in leadership) the type of character my Dad lived out, every day.

and to those who say that believing in God at worst, costs nothing, well, thanks, but I'm not wasting my entire life ignoring the existing planet in exchange for telling a make believe character how great he is.

Or that other character Jesus, Allah or any of that weird s *** t. Believing in god is for the scared and weak who are too lazy to achieve their goals and be happy with themselves, their legacy and their achievements in life.

For Balthasar, the risen Lord, who wills to be present in His Church until the end of time, can not be isolated from this constellation of historical life.13 He gives a lasting character to these figures so that believers may continue to have access to the divine life.

Genuine education for community is identical, therefore, with genuine education of character — the education of real persons who deny no answer to life and the world but are ready to respond out of a living unity to everything essential that they meet.

And when we give our imaginations over to the stories of imaginary characters, especially ones who are seemingly unlike anyone we would ever dream of meeting in real life, we engage in a similar process.

So, it is Christ his life, example, character and teaching who is our guide and our primary lens, not only for biblical interpretation but for doing life.

In Zorba the Greek, Nikos Kazantzakis portrays the simple character of Zorba — a man who is simply complex, a man of rich experience whose life is so full of stories that his crude philosophy is full of wisdom.

The film will chart the true story of just how the housing bubble burst, and Bale, Gosling and Pitt will all portray real - life (albeit, more handsome) characters who helped engineer the disaster...

This may be a character flaw in someone who writes autobiographies purporting to be true accounts, although even on that score more charitable interpretations are possible (politics of any sort didn't seem to be very important in the life and thinking of Eliade).

Strauss is obscure, but Trump's cartoonish Machiavellianism is comparable to that of another character who started life as a cartoon.

I mean, I know many people of different faiths, and even agnostics and atheists who live by these «character traits.»

Second, name me ONE historical character who is like Jesus, in that 2,000 years ago or so all this textual evidence is given regarding his life in a rational manner.

«what about all those Bible characters who lived for almost 1,000 years?»

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.

And if «the years of lives are 70», what about all those Bible characters who lived for almost 1,000 years?

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.

The revelatory character of sacred writings results essentially from their powerful exemplification of the first two fundamentals of religious experience: In the first place, there is the marked element of surprise, of wonder and amazement at the new and wholly unexpected things that have come to pass (e.g., deliverance of the Hebrews from Egypt or from Babylon, the sense of a living presence among the disciples who had witnessed Jesus» crucifixion).

George Gerbner «s research at the Annenberg School of Communication in Philadelphia tells us that in the TV world two - thirds to three - fourths of the important characters are male, American, middle class, unmarried, and in the prime of life — and they are the people who run the world.

: «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.»

Who but a madman or a prophet would have imagined, as novelist Walker Percy did, that a whole industry of profitable «Qualitarian Centers» would spring up, where, as one of Percy's characters explained, doctors would respect «the right of an unwanted child not to have to endure a life of suffering»?

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.

Nonetheless, the Justices gravely declared that «the character of a nation of people who aspire to live according to the rule of law» is ultimately to be measured by the people's willingness to put aside their deeply held moral and religious views and accept the Court's pronouncements on this and other divisive questions.

The question under debate is whether the character of Job is here intentionally represented as affirming faith that he will achieve his justification with God in life beyond death; or whether the redeemer is in the original sense of the word (in Hebrew, go'el), the kinsman who, in this case, succeeds in ultimately exonerating Job.

The film is written and directed by his real - life son Emilio Estevez, who also plays the recentlydeceased firstborn of Sheen's character, on whose behalf he is making the pilgrimage.

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).