Sentences with phrase «life of the writer who»

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«You can't roll Disney, you can roll individual writers who live off of that money.

«Programming is one of the few things in life that can not be automated,» says Paul Lutus, who wrote the popular Apple Writer word - processing program in a plywood cabin atop a mountain in Oregon some 23 miles from the nearest town.

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We had enough technical leaders to start a second production, but all of our proven creative leaders — the people who had made Toy Story, including John, who was its director; writer Andrew Stanton; editor Lee Unkrich; and the late Joe Ranft, the movie's head of story — were working on A Bug's Life.

I turn to writer Flannery O'Connor, who, though she never wrote stories about the consecrated or even ostensibly Catholic life, had a great deal to say concerning the intersection of invisible and visible, of grace and nature.

~ G.K. Chesterton, (May 29, 1874 — June 14, 1936) a prolific English writer also known as the «Apostle of Common Sense» who convertd to Catholicism after being a Unitarian most of his life.

Buckley was never a professional Catholic, in the sense of someone who made his living from the fact of his faith, and his standing as a Catholic commentator may have declined when, in 1961, National Review responded to John XXIII's encyclical on Christianity and social progress, Mater et Magistra, with an unsigned quip: «Mater si, Magistra no» (though most reports now ascribe it to a hotshot young writer at the magazine named Garry Wills.)

Twain was a bad man, yes, in some ways, but he was the same mixture of good and bad as the rest of us, and every other artist and writer who ever lived, including the saintly ones.

If, as a natiion and people, we took this slothful opinion writer's advice to «turn the other cheek» to ruthless terrorism, who do you think would have to answer for all the innocent (and preventable) loss of life?

In the matter of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and the Washington Post, we stipulate that compassion be shown to Joan Biskupic, a Post writer who reported on Scalia's April 9 speech in Mississippi on religion and public life.

Experts on the origins of Europe traditionally refer back to Herodotus (c. 484 - 425 B.C.), the first known writer to designate Europe as a geographic concept: «The Persians consider something of their property to be Asia and the barbarian peoples who live there, while they maintain that Europe and the Greek world are a separate country.»

While many Christian writers were directing their messages toward teenagers tempted by pre-marital sex, she spoke empathetically to singles who had already been sexually active, and were wounded by their way of life.

One can still find this emphasis on divine immanence in writers formed by Pentecostalism like James Baldwin, who equated it with the outworking of love in human life.

Including Josephus, there are ten known non-Christian writers who mention Jesus within 150 years of his life.

What I found, in addition to more wonderful reading, was a writer who had lived in many of the worlds evoked by his fiction.

robert — we can't even verify the writers of the contradictory gospels of the supposed life of jesus, though with reasonable certainty it has been established that they were not written by anyone who had actually met the fabled man.

Begley relishes the paradox of a writer who lived so modestly in private (aside from adultery, he was, for an artist, remarkably free of scandal) but so large on the written page.

There is so much wealth of knowledge in the scriptures only because the writers give glory and praise to the Living God who Inspired them to write HIS thoughts not their own.

Brown's life parallels that of Douglass in that he too was born into slavery and escaped to become an abolitionist, writer, and orator, who gave nearly a thousand lectures favoring the abolitionist cause in England, Ireland, Scotland.

The reflections of the French Catholic writer François Mauriac, who succeeded in leading a conventional family life despite what he experienced as the powerful lure of alcohol, drugs, and homosexuality, demonstrate the gap between the austere piety of the religious individual and the tactful lifestyle that Tóibín detects in James:

The same writer says on page 38: «Jesus is the supreme disclosure which opens my eyes to God in the present, and while remaining a man who lived in a particular historical situation, he will always be the unique focus of my perception of and response to God.»

The writer, Bill Sakovich, is a professional translator of Japanese to English who's lived in Japan for two decades or so, who married a Japanese woman, and who just loves Japanese culture in general — in many of his cultural posts, for example, he suggests that the more typical Japanese approach to religion, while seemingly shallow, contradictory, and form - obsessed, makes a lot of sense to him, and indeed, is superior to Western ways.

Within the Jewish - Christian tradition, this refreshment and companionship is given a supreme and clear statement in the language in which the biblical writers speak of God as the living one who identifies himself with his creatures, works for their healing, enables them to experience newness of life, and enters into fellowship with them.

It has always been an insoluble problem for harmonists and writers of the life of Christ; and it is clear from the way Matthew — and perhaps John — and even Luke used the materials of the Gospel of Mark that they, who were its earliest editors and commentators, did not view the Marcan order as chronological or final and unalterable — save in one section, the passion narrative, though even here they did not hesitate to make some changes in order.

The book is at its best in its portrayal of a man who, even while being praised as one of the greatest living American writers, was swamped by loneliness and despair.

Had she herself lived longer she might have added a corollary: the writer who survives middle age will invariably want to tell the story of that childhood directly, in autobiography.

Indeed, Luther was not perfect; his ideas were a reflection of the society in which he lived just as were those of the unknown Gospel writers who merged Judaism and Hellenism in the creation of Christianity.

That God, who rewards the wealthy landed aristocrats with riches and long lives and curses the poor, is the butt of a merciless lampoon that issues from the outraged sensitivities of a writer who has acutely observed how the oppressed and infirm suffer undeserved evil at the hands of the powerful and rich.

But for the most part, the author admits the evils embedded in Greek civilization, among which one can easily name the constricted life of most women, the demagoguery of so many politicians, and worst of all the degradation of the slave's life (he quotes the medical writer Galen who once saw an owner poke his slave's eye out with a reed pen).

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Contemporary writers often reflect this sad reality, and it is helpful to point to (and to publish) the writers who grapple courageously with this dilemma, writers whose imaginations collide with the grim implications of life in a culture which has forgotten the future.

Even Mark Mathabane, the mild - mannered tennis player turned writer who is author of the best - selling autobiography Kaffir Boy, offended the government with the simple, powerful story of his boyhood, and he, too, now lives in the U.S.

The writer Delmore Schwartz, who almost certainly was one of the models for Bellow's Humboldt, liked to say that life is a wedding, by which he meant that the universe is meaningful, and one can happily take his place in it like the figures in Brueghel's painting.

These passages give every evidence of being crafted by thoughtful and deeply experienced writers who are trying to communicate what it means to live by a radical trust in God in the midst of terror, enmity and death — some of the greatest challenges to faith.

The Incarnation enabled the New Testament writers, and especially John, to see this separately and eternally existent Word - Wisdom as a person - the person of God: «Something which has existed since the beginning, that we have heard, and we have seen with our own eyes; that we have watched and touched with our hands: the Word, who is life - this is our subject» (1 Jn 1, 1).

Doreen is the daughter of prophecy writer Salem Kirban, and was most influenced by the people in her life who showed her Christ in the practical ways.

To their credit, they also highlighted some of the most scathing responses, including this from Jimmy Kimmel Live writer Bess Kalb: «You know who had nice manners?

But time and place are strong medicine for many in our world, where, to quote Flannery O'Connor, many people «ain't frum anywhere,» and where a contemporary writer like Warren's fellow Kentuckian Bobbie Ann Mason finds a sobering story in the lives of many of her characters who can't think of anything to do with themselves.

When, either in the Persian or the Hellenistic period, a writer said, «Thy dead shall live,» he used as a parallelism, «My dead bodies shall arise,» (Isaiah 26:19) and one of the familiar prayers of subsequent Judaism ends with the words, «Blessed art Thou, O Lord, who dost return souls to dead bodies.»

It has produced a number of amateur limericists («There was a young lady named Iris / Whose bosom could truly inspire us») and many low satirists who enjoyed doing vulgar things with Marlowe's «Come live with me and be my love» and some writers of Christmas and birthday verse.

And so do the numerous Muslim - born writers, artists, and musicians who spend their lives in hiding for fear of murder from their erstwhile co-religionists for «crimes» like «apostasy» and literary criticism.

All the great spiritual writers have known this, but few in the Church's history understood it better, experienced it more deeply, and wrote about it with more insight than John Cassian, the monk from southern Gaul who lived in the early part of the fifth century.

I am skeptical of writers who claim that we're all just one book away from a more fulfilled life, and speakers who promise to unlock the single secret to joy.

Like the Old Testament wisdom writers, Updike believes that God's signature is written on the patterns of life for the person who will look.

Updike presents the reader of his novels and stories with the pseudo — wise men of today's society — with Jimmy, the big Mouseketeer who quotes Socrates; with the neon owl that advertises pretzels; with Ken Whitman, the scientist living in Tarbox who is considered intelligent in his field but who lacks a basic understanding of life; with Bech the writer, honored in direct proportion to the decline of his literary production; with Connor, the efficient, well - trained administrator of the old people's home who fails to comprehend as much of life's mystery as his simple and sometimes senile wards do.

We have considerable national resources with which to develop these guidelines, including our tradition of justice and fair play, our respect for individual rights and the common good, and — not least — the wisdom of the eloquent writer who left us those eloquent words about the natural rhythms of life: «For everything there is a season.»

We begin with the Didache of the late first or early second century, perhaps written in Syria and we end with Hymns by Simeon the New Theologian, Byzantine mystic and spiritual writer, who lived from 949-1022.

The Lord, who is proclaimed in the gospel as God's definitive and focal activity in manhood for our wholeness, takes us into himself, makes us one with himself, lives in us as we live in him, to the end that we may be knit together in «a bundle of life» in a much deeper sense than the Old Testament writer of that wonderful phrase could ever understand.

Maybe because he, too, was a writer, the author seems fondest of Henry, who gave his life to mainly caustic reflections on the greatness from which the American experiment had fallen.

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