Sentences with phrase «life the characters by»

The costume design gloriously brings to life the characters by recreating their style almost directly from the comics.

Its funniest moments are when it's at its most tasteless, as it tries to squeeze out of the limber corpse as many laughs as it possibly can (the corpse manages to upstage the living characters by getting more laughs).

Not exact matches

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.

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.

In an episode of 30 Rock broadcast live in 2010, attention - seeking sketch comedian Tracy Jordan (played by Tracy Morgan) catches some reruns of The Carol Burnett Show and decides to start mimicking its tendency for characters to «break» — that is, succumb involuntarily to laughter on - screen — on purpose.

Religion is what is required by those that do not have the strengthen of character to to stand on their own two feet, admit that they are not special and still live a moral life.

And good characters are defined by being accessible: The audience must be able to see through their eyes and live in their shoes, or the story falls flat.

Religious folks tend to think humans have some kind of divine character given to them by God whereas we tend consider ourselves as members of the ancient primate family of life.

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.

By conceiving of collegiality in terms of «support groups,» the authors fail to appreciate the potential for strong forms of collegiality that have the character of friendship, in which fellow pastors share each other's lives and help shape each other's character.

Gratitude to God requires that we live not by evading the real nature of existence, not by denying the violent character of nature and history, but by facing reality as best we can, finally affirming the whole of life in all its sorrow and pain as a great gift.

And so I have decided to go to Jerusalem, where God was seen as man and spoke with men and to adore the place where his feet trod» (p.104 - 5) These examples bring the characters — and by extension, their history — to life.

It is an experience of living together, in community and in conflict, within boundaries set by our moral and philosophical commitments but also under conditions determined by our vices and virtues, our character, our circumstances, and the habits of our variegated culture.

The character of individual destiny now becomes conditioned by the character of the life lived in the body.

This notion of nondominant living strands may also throw light on Whitehead's view of how mental originality is «canalized»: «By this transmission the mental originality of the living occasions receives a character and a depth.

Over the last fifteen years or so I have seen (and been moved by) many of the aspirational / inspirational billboards sponsored by The Foundation for a Better Life, an organization that promotes common - ground character virtues while trying at the same time to avoid being a partisan in our contemporary....

By way of contrast, the worth of a man for Jesus is not determined by his human quality or the character of his spiritual life, but simply by the decision the man makes in the here - and - now of his present lifBy way of contrast, the worth of a man for Jesus is not determined by his human quality or the character of his spiritual life, but simply by the decision the man makes in the here - and - now of his present lifby his human quality or the character of his spiritual life, but simply by the decision the man makes in the here - and - now of his present lifby the decision the man makes in the here - and - now of his present life.

As yet, no one has ventured to translate Dasein or Vorhanden, but in order not to disfigure the English translation by the frequent use of German words, I have rendered Dasein as «human life», «human Being», or even «Being» where its human character is made clear by the context.

If this maturing does not occur, four types of nonproductive life - orientations (and character structures) develop in the attempt by persons to defend themselves from feelings of existential insignificance and aloneness.

In The Philosopher's Pupil (1983) a man's life is changed by his vision of a flying saucer; a key episode in The Good Apprentice turns on what appears to be the effects of a love potion; a young girl in The Green Knight exerts an involuntary telekinesis over the stones that she has collected in her room; in the same novel the goodness of a man named Peter Mir (Mir meaning, in Russian, both «world» and «peace,» as several characters note) seems to be contagious, bringing sweet dreams and love to those with whom he comes in contact.

Then God begins a work in our lives through His word and by His Spirit to develop His character, the fruit if His Spirit, within the new nature that has been birthed in us.

However, even apart from the tenuousness of this tradition as exposed by Whitehead's careful examination of it (only parts of which we have presented in the previous chapters), there are serious logical fallacies involved in its denial of the genuinely emergent character of life and mind.

By proceeding on the assumption that people are what they are to a large degree because of their basic character structure, a structure which was formed in the very early years of life, psychotherapy has been able to release many from the vicious cycle of guilt and compulsion which has made self - determination impossible.

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.

Rice, in his book, citing Pope Benedict XVI, countered that the need to protect all human life from conception to natural death is innate to human nature and confirmed by faith: «The Church's action in promoting them is therefore not confessional in character, but is addressed to all people, prescinding from any religious affiliation they may have.»

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

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.

You tell a true brother that he is deceived for believing that the resurrection power of Yahshua is strong enough to cause him to die to all sin, becoming a mature man, giving Yahshua a place to live in the earth in him by His Spirit, and so have a place in the earth to live out His nature, and character, to His glory, and the glory of the Father.

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.

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.

What is threatened by these extra-religious elements is the lived concrete — the moment «in its unforeseeableness and... irrecoverableness... its undivertible character of happening but once.»

The king himself had reached nearer perhaps to a monotheistic conception of God than any of his people, but he was oppressed by the fleeting character of life, and uncertain of what lay beyond this life.

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 developmenBy 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 developmenby 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.

The element of creativity, which is not accounted for by the so - called laws of nature, and which points to the organic character of the universe or its life as a whole, gives us a clue to God's transcendent functioning.

My wife and I had to live it through 8 years of court case, and continuing mistreatment, slander, and maligning of character by her family and mine.

Only when it came to its successor, my second novel, The Junkers, was I taken aback by the way evil characters sprang to life in my imagination.

«Nationalism shows its character as a faith whenever national welfare or survival is regarded as the supreme end of life; whenever right and wrong are made dependent on the sovereign will of the nation, however determined; whenever religion and science, education and art, are valued by the measure of their contribution to national existence.»

The character of the faithful community and of its life in the world is determined by its experience of and response to God's character.

The historical problem presented by the Gospels is, then, not the problem of determining whether the character of the early Christians, their faith, and the exigencies of their life and work have colored and overlaid the facts of Jesus» teaching and life, but is, rather, the problem of determining just how we should use our knowledge of this fact in our efforts to get back to the so - called historical Jesus» own words and life.

And so we learn, for example, from THE FEDERALIST or from Hobbes that the Athenian assembly was filled with vain and contentious men, men animated by sometimes cruel and often violent aristocratic pretensions.That «democracy» did have the characters or the institutions to support a just and stable middle - class way of life.

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.

The principal points Paul made in that address are (1) to recall to their minds the character and quality of his ministry to them; (2) to remind them of the trouble the Jews gave him and the anxiety and suffering he underwent in their behalf; (3) to state that he preached repentance and faith in Jesus Christ as the essence of the gospel; (4) to testify that he went now to Jerusalem not knowing what would happen to him there except that he knew by the Holy Spirit that afflictions awaited him; (5) to assure them that nothing concerned him, not even the loss of life itself, so long as he could testify to the grace of God in Jesus Christ; (6) to say that he had no regrets about his ministry to the people in Ephesus, for he was clean of the blood of all the people there, for he preached the full gospel to all of them; and (7) to admonish them to be diligent in their oversight of the Ephesian church and to feed the church of God there, which Christ purchased with his own blood.

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 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.

But this testimony of our own experience to the uniquely creative character of this ancient event is confirmed by our observation of the life of the church and by our study of its history.

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.

In an era of television characterized by fantasy, science dystopias and larger - than - life drama characters, Penelope Alvarez feels like the Every Mom.

seem to want to mold public policy based on the rantings of fictional characters created by a hypocrite who railed against socialist and collectivist principles and then collected her Medicare and Social Security benefits later in life, can we also consider alternatives?

As E. G. Selwyn puts it, the Christian believer is a man who has «the Lord's example behind him, and the hope of glory in front of him», and by these two things the tone and character of his life is dominated and dictated.