Sentences with phrase «like full human beings»

So my new year's wish is that for X, actors substitute Greta Gerwig, who made sure, in Lady Bird, that even characters as peripheral to the action as Stephen McKinley Henderson's mournful high school drama teacher felt like full human beings who could have wandered in from, or off to, their own movies.

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Like all humans, they are as full of hypocrisy as the rest of us, why don't they just go to church if it pleases them, or not, and let the rest of us deal with our own spirituality.
Somehow the omnipotent being that created the universe and all its potential life forms is male, often has a big full beard, and behaves like a human father.
«The prophet Ezekiel described an incredible vision of cherubim angels in Ezekiel chapter 10 of the Torah and the Bible, mentioning that the angels» wings were «completely full of eyes» (verse 12) and «under their wings was what looked like human hands» (verse 21).
When I reflect on the infinite pains to which the human mind and heart will go in order to protect itself from the full impact of reality, when I recall the mordant analyses of religious belief which stem from the works of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud and, furthermore, recognize the truth of so much of what these critics of religion have had to say, when I engage in a philosophical critique of the language of theology and am constrained to admit that it is a continual attempt to say what can not properly be said and am thereby led to wonder whether its claim to cognition can possibly be valid — when I ask these questions of myself and others like them (as I can not help asking and, what is more, feel obliged to ask), is not the conclusion forced upon me that my faith is a delusion?
You and your God and all that believe like you can have full reign for all eternity in your particular conceptualization of your afterlife but here on Earth we like people to be treated equal before human law.
Ancient literature, like modern fairy tales, is full of narratives in which gods and other supernatural beings disguise themselves as human beings, sometimes as the lowest of the low, and roam throughout the world to see how people will treat them.
Churches must be doing something right, even if, like all other human communities, they're full of strife because they're full of sinners.
Books like Bunyan's autobiographical Grace Abounding or Augustine's Confessions are full of reversals, which indeed provide evidence of human frailty and thus bolster the narrative.
Even when the characters are not human beings, they are like us; Tolkien's hobbit far prefers an easy chair and a pipe full of good tobacco to an adventure.
Postwar Nazi Germany is full of drug - taking young Nazis, implicitly just like us that way, it makes them more human.
If you are absolutely convinced a fetus is truly the full moral equivalent of an extant human baby, then any political or ideological qualms you have about helping out with things like birth control and child care, or including se - x education in school classrooms.
In their quest for righteousness, they often become self righteous, using their belief system as a weapon, to bash over the heads of others, rather than as a tool to improve their own lives and to become a living example of what true christians should be like or what truly compassionate humans should be like, it's very sad, that so many christians don't have a clue how to act like decent people, and that they are hypocrites and full of hate.
The primitive conceptions of clean and unclean lie at the bottom of these rules; there are certain things and certain events in natural human life (like birth and death) which bring man under the influence of mysterious dæmonic forces; there are actions and situations in life which are full of these dangerous powers or are threatened by them.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel «The prophet Ezekiel described an incredible vision of cherubim angels in Ezekiel chapter 10 of the Torah and the Bible, mentioning that the angels» wings were «completely full of eyes» (verse 12) and «under their wings was what looked like human hands» (verse 21).
He is human makes mistakes like you, but the players have to take full responsibility for that performance.
They are human beings, just like girls, with a full range of human emotion.
BOSTON — For bee researchers like May Berenbaum, 2006 was the year an international consortium of researchers published the first full sequence of the honeybee genome, offering a unique and long - sought glimpse at the biological quirks of an insect that shares a productive history with humans.
We can guess that this coat was lost by the time of Homo erectus, as its skeleton's proportions show that it was adapting to heat stress like modern humans do, and part of our adaptation involves an enhanced sweat gland cooling system which would not function well with a full coat of body hair.
The result, says Flajolet, is a brain that is hard and transparent, almost «like glass,» which allowed the researchers to see the amyloid plaques in full detail and in 3D, in a full mouse brain hemisphere, as well as in small blocks of human brain tissue.
Early humans probably shed their full body - hair suits because they were often infested with disease - carrying parasites like lice, fleas and mites, according to scientists at England's John Radcliffe Hospital and University of Reading.
If the same thing happens in humans, the full effects of accidents like Chernobyl, above - ground atomic tests, and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki won't be known for generations.
We may like to think of humans as perfect, finished natural products that should not be interfered with, but nature's creations are botch jobs, full of mindless mistakes.
Though it's invisible to the human eye, Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest structure in our solar system, and if we could see it from Earth it would look like a glowing teardrop in the night sky twice as large as the full moon.
Mobility work also allows you to move like a human again, which is through full range of motion with no pain.
As opposed to traditional vitamin E supplements, which contain a single isolated form like alpha - tocopherol, this vitamin E is derived from plants and contains the full array of tocopherols and tocotrienols for optimal absorption in humans.
Calorie Restriction - like Effects of 30 Days of Resveratrol Supplementation on Energy Metabolism and Metabolic Profile in Obese Humans Cell Metabolism 2011 (Nov 2); 14 (5): 612 — 622 ~ FULL TEXT The result of just 30 days on resveratrol were impressive: (1) The same gene regulators (AMPK, SIRT1 and PGC - 1a) were activated in this study as are activated by caloric restriction and resveratrol in mice and endurance training in hHumans Cell Metabolism 2011 (Nov 2); 14 (5): 612 — 622 ~ FULL TEXT The result of just 30 days on resveratrol were impressive: (1) The same gene regulators (AMPK, SIRT1 and PGC - 1a) were activated in this study as are activated by caloric restriction and resveratrol in mice and endurance training in humanshumans.
When you say you did your research, does that mean you listened to some guy, or are you like me — a chemical engineer, who has access to the full chemical analysis, and an understanding of the effects on the human body?
You can take off the cardigan if you're hot, add it if you're cold and still look like a decent human when you're giving your grandma that first hug in a full year.
My fiance is a mechanic and I'm a teacher, so our days (like most working humans) are full and exhausting.
The story, while playing like a soap opera on the surface, is chock full of wry human observations while showing great affection for its characters.
It's hard to believe that any film that starts so promisingly, with Ryan Phillippe full - on punching Sarah Silverman in the mouth, can go so far downhill, but despite its gonzo and engaging opening half hour, the film soon sinks under its own weight, hampered by thin characterization, ludicrous overplotting and a director way, way too much in love with the prose on the page to bother trying to make it sound like dialogue from a human mouth.
Like Eve, Wives is a well - crafted contemporary melodrama full of human interest and intrigue.
Neither a full - fledged new beginning but also far from treading water, the movie feels like a celebration, of friendship, collaboration and all that is silly and glorious in the human spirit.
While there, Dr. Abaius stuck around to talk about the latest movies, extreme female lactation, full - grown live human births, The Mountains of Madness, Red State and why box office pundits are like political scientists.
Neither actress ever devolves into stereotypical histrionics or hamminess and both come across as full - fledged human beings; it's tremendously easy to forget that they're acting as the film often appear almost like a documentary.
Franco captures that while Wiseau's mouth, which perpetually feels like it's full of peanut butter and / or cotton - mouth - inducing pills may be joylessly droning, «Ha ha ha», the eyes betray that he has no idea what he's supposed to find amusing, but apparently «laughing» is a common trait of these «humans» so as long as he's at least attempting to pass among their ranks, he might as well give it a shot.
A smart, human - scale procedural about working for change, «Selma» is both real and impressively cinematic, full of facts and feelings both — and a much - needed reminder of what America is capable of in the face of what seem like immovable forces of injustice and inertia.
The Download (comprising 4 files, within one zip file) includes: - A PPT Containing a Full Lesson - A complete lesson plan covering: objectives, key - words, differentiation, and lesson timeline - Double - sided A4 worksheet - A3 Silent Debate group worksheets - A Homework Task The topic of the lesson focusses on the following part of the specification: Human Concerns [Duties / Virtues / Yamas] • Hindu understanding of the concepts of free will, suffering and virtue, including their relationship to karma and samsara • The meaning and importance of Hindu virtues / moral duties (yamas), including harmlessness / non-violence (Ahimsa), compassion (daya), selfcontrol / restraint (dama) and giving (dana) • The relationship between virtues and particular elements of dharma • Common and divergent emphases placed on human concerns by different Hindu groups, including which virtues are identified as of core importance • Different interpretations and emphases given to sources of wisdom and authority by different Hindu groups Sources: Mahabharata V 39 Bhagavad Gita XVI, 1 — 3 Bhagavad Gita VIII 8 — 12 This is part of a series of lessons, if you like it: save countless hours by downloading the complete coHuman Concerns [Duties / Virtues / Yamas] • Hindu understanding of the concepts of free will, suffering and virtue, including their relationship to karma and samsara • The meaning and importance of Hindu virtues / moral duties (yamas), including harmlessness / non-violence (Ahimsa), compassion (daya), selfcontrol / restraint (dama) and giving (dana) • The relationship between virtues and particular elements of dharma • Common and divergent emphases placed on human concerns by different Hindu groups, including which virtues are identified as of core importance • Different interpretations and emphases given to sources of wisdom and authority by different Hindu groups Sources: Mahabharata V 39 Bhagavad Gita XVI, 1 — 3 Bhagavad Gita VIII 8 — 12 This is part of a series of lessons, if you like it: save countless hours by downloading the complete cohuman concerns by different Hindu groups, including which virtues are identified as of core importance • Different interpretations and emphases given to sources of wisdom and authority by different Hindu groups Sources: Mahabharata V 39 Bhagavad Gita XVI, 1 — 3 Bhagavad Gita VIII 8 — 12 This is part of a series of lessons, if you like it: save countless hours by downloading the complete course!
It is like having a human library full of vast resources in my classroom.
The Norwegian Lundehund is also remarkably flexible, being able to tilt its head backwards to touch its back and outstretch its legs to a full 90 - degree horizontal angle like human arms.
Domestic noises like washing machines, Etc. would not be part of their early experiences in the crucial time when puppies get to trust people and absorb human activity in its full domestic glory that enables it to cope later in life.
Treats for dogs are very much like treats for humansfull of calories!
Just like human food, most common pet food is chock - full - of chemicals and genetically modified hormones and substances.
Humans, who are omnivores, have evolved to thrive on diets that are full of more calorically dense foods, like starches, nuts, seeds, and fruits.
Your dog's mouth is full of bacteria, just like a human's mouth is, and it needs regular cleaning to stay healthy.
Just like a hospital, nursing home or human shelter, when we are full we are full.
Since getting the food i had never seen my dog eat so much i really feel like now there eating enough to were there not begging for human food cause there bellies are full.
If foods are full of processed carbohydrates then, like humans, they experience steep rises and falls in energy.
You can not ignore that the puppy (the same thing occurs with adult dogs and with humans), when time arrives, starts to segregate gastric juices in the stomach, especially when there is a visual stimuli, like for example the fact that someone is placing a bowl full of delicious food in front of him; if the dog is not able to eat that food after having segregated those juices, they will turn into acid and be eliminated through the urine, causing a strong smell.
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