Sentences with phrase «life figures who»

They are the larger - than - life figures who worked in New York in the 1940s and 50s, taking non-object imagery as their subject matter in an attempt to reveal society's collective subconscious.

This fictionalized account focuses on three real - life figures who vied to make history as the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.

«The film will offer the viewer a unique look into two larger - than - life figures who served as the catalysts for one of the most defining moments in our history, the end of the Cold War,» said Scott Free prexy Ridley Scott («Black Rain»), who serves as one of the producers.

The modern critical study of the gospels has made the historic Jesus no mere figment of the pious imagination, but a living figure who, at an historic moment in time, appeared in Palestine, lived his brief but tremendously significant life, and gave rise to a vigorous new religious movement that has in time become the most widespread of all the religions of the world.

«Slaughter was a larger than life figure who worked tirelessly to secure federal funding and make this project a reality.

He is persuaded to return to Africa by the African - American politician, George Washington Williams (Samuel Jackson), a real - life figure who really did travel to the Congo to explore the treatment of the Congolese.

A larger than life figure who burned brightly both on and off screen, Errol Flynn engaged in an adventurous lifestyle behind the scenes that rivaled his dashing performances in some of classic Hollywood's most iconic movies.

Vikander has the more complicated and compelling arc, even though Eddie Redmayne is playing a real - life figure who underwent gender reassignment surgery.

This principal, in essence, can become a cult - of - personality; a larger than life figure who exemplifies a rare gift.

White deftly weaves historical fact (and the real - life figure who served as inspiration for Dracula) into this complex concoction of love, war, politics, homosexuality, religion, loyalty, and friendship.

In The Golden House, readers are introduced to Nero Golden, a larger - than - life figure who claims the name of Rome's most infamous emperor for his own.

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Fortunately, there are some tactics that business owners can employ to turn these figures around and engage fans who will be real, living, breathing people with an interest in whatever it is you're offering.

Steve Buckley figured that out and thought the best way to make some progress on this, and I think he's right, wasn't to go out and hire a consultant as we often would have done, but rather get some of these people in from the DMZ and so on who are spending their lives developing these things that will hopefully be a big score for them one day.

I figured the people who connected with me on Facebook really didn't give two shits about what I thought about tech startups and I really didn't want to share photos of my family or private life with the world.

Figure out who you want to be, and what you want in life, and use your drive, hunger and ambition to overcome your obstacles.

«He is truly one of Africa's most influential figures, with his good counsel sought by world leaders and CEOs,» says Rockefeller Foundation president Judith Rodin, who calls him «a champion for the power of technology to improve the lives of millions.»

You'll have to figure out who are your target customers, solidify your plan (that you'll be prepared to alter at a moment's notice) andmake the business the # 1 priority in your life.

There is no figure in public life, with the possible exception of her husband, who has so strong a hold on liberal hearts and minds.

And for all the talk of recovery, it's still mostly those who can afford six - figure parking spots who are doing the recovering, not those looking for somewhere to park the cars they now live in.

He may have lived a life of violence, but the circumstances that turned him into who he is make him a sympathetic figure.

Nobody has a Gross Negotiation Product figure that totals up the aggregate costs of all this instruction and tip - giving, but as John Baker, editor of The Negotiator Magazine, observes, «There are a lot of people who are making their living that way.»

That's the word from the geniuses at MIT, who have figured out a way to eliminate the stoplight — that annoyance of modern life — and replace it with something called «slot - based intersections.»

I'm always amused by those professionals who manage to tell me they have no time for meditation, but on their own, they can't figure out why their life isn't working out the way they had planned.

Although Gen Z has been on brands» radars for the past few years, organizations are still trying to figure out who they, how they work and live, and, what they want from brands.

Goldman, who is now a regularly - featured education expert for ABC News, says the company generated seven - figure revenues in 2010 through advertising, live events, custom content creation, and data sales.

Think and Grow Rich is the number - one inspirational and motivational classic for individuals who are interested in furthering their lives and reaching their goals by learning from important figures in history.

But another option is that the research represents a business owner who brings in that $ 300,000 alone, or that it is a combined figure that includes contributions from adult children who have temporarily returned to live at home.

LinkedIn's From van life to careers, figure it out as you go covers a couple who have spent several years as VanLifers.

Among other factors, Facebook also looked for public figures who were able to «easily produce and test a variety of live programming.»

You only need to read the headlines to see the ethical and moral breaches in all walks of life (and that goes for scientists who who fudge figures as well as business people who fudge balance sheets).

In reference to non-historical figures, Gary Habermas states «In each of these cases we find numerous problems such as a decided lack of historical data, reports that are far too late or stories about mythical personages who never lived.»

I will have to live my whole life surrounded by a world filled with mental midgets who have fooled themselves that faith and belief in deities is the answer instead of using their minds to work out problems, study science and figure out how we leave this planet when it becomes inhabitable in 4 billion years.

He was challenged on his show in 2007 by Father Tom Euteneuer of Human Life International, who observed that such a position emanating from a public figure technically fulfilled the requirements for something called heresy.

Given that its figures do not include Cardiff where rough sleeping is highest, as well as other parts of Wales, the 18,000 hours is just a snapshot of what Welsh churches are doing for people who don't have anywhere to live.

Everyone you just yammered about was a public figure who put him or herself on the stage and therefore has the expectation that the media will dissect their lives.

«For someone like me who has long campaigned for open and honest data in public life I could not have set foot on a battle bus that has at the heart of its campaign a figure that I know to be untrue,» she told the BBC.

(Aal - e-Imran, Chapter # 3, Verse # 45) And will make him -LSB-(«Îsa (jesus)-RSB- a Messenger to the Children of Israel (saying): «I have come to you with a sign from your Lord, that I design for you out of clay, a figure like that of a bird, and breathe into it, and it becomes a bird by Allah's Leave; and I heal him who was born blind, and the leper, and I bring the dead to life by Allah's Leave.

Children who lived with both a mother and father figure also had less behavioural problems than those who just lived with their mother.

Orthodox priests serve as guides along the path of life — and are not viewed as authority figures who are meant to be «holier than thou».

Not only do the lives offer the unexpected, saints who do not always conform to stock virtues or conventional patterns, they also put a new figure on the stage, the holy woman.

Well, it's because no religious value, rule, law, tenet, or bit of dogma EVER trumps this nation's laws and we all agree on that, otherwise you might as well make the sleazy pope President and let the Ayatollah Khomeni be Vice President and we will live under religious sharia law with death for anyone who speaks blasphemy or who «dishonors» any religious figure whether real or not.

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 If you're a civil engineer who is allowing your faith to inform your life, it's your job to figure that out.

Although Wise Blood is chock full of the sort of «large and startling figures» that O'Connor relished, there is a sense in which Motes's journey hits the reader a little too close to home, challenging our sensibilities about who God is and how God is at work in our lives.

Let's go to preschool graduations and high school graduations and university graduations, and then let's stand in our empty nest house someday and cry because it went too fast and try to figure out the rest of it, and then laugh because there is still so much life ahead, who are we kidding?

He is not just a figure of first - century Palestine who shows perhaps the perfect way to live, or who fully realises human anthropology, or a man potently orientated to God.

If you are not experiencing opposition in this life as a Christian than you need to take another look at the truth that the Bible and Christ taught... Jesus was a revolutionary figure who opposed the society and people that he lived with... He was not a person who was sugary sweet... and He didn't tell people what they wanted to hear... as Scripture says, the path to heaven is narrow and Few choose it... the road to hell is wide and most are following that path.

The figure of Beatrice was probably derived indirectly from the life of St. Francis, who was thought to have offered his followers as close an approximation of an experience of the nearness of Jesus as anyone since apostolic times had ever felt.

While none of Jesus» twelve apostles were women, Mary Magdalene was considered an important figure in his life, and it was the ladies who first found out about Jesus» victory over death.

Like Chopra's novels on Jesus and Buddha, Muhammad succeeds in offering a millennial narrative to a gigantic religious historical figure that lived a long time ago and who may not be readily accessible us in the 21st century.