Sentences with phrase «like goads»

John Richardson I agree with Solomon when it comes to all the written pros and cons regarding Paul: «The words of the wise are like goads, their collected sayings like firmly embedded nails — given by one shepherd.

The words of wise men are like goads, and masters of these collections are like well - driven nails; they are given by one Shepherd.

As part of the concluding remarks of the book, verse 11 reads: «The sayings of the wise are like goads, and like nails firmly fixed are the collected sayings which are given by one Shepherd.»

Then, in a sentence packed with mixed metaphors, the Teacher concludes, «The words of the wise are like goads, their collected sayings like firmly embedded nails — given by one Shepherd.»

Not exact matches

I like having someone peer in on me periodically; it goads me into action.

The biggest lesson is one they probably already know: if you work for professional cads like Dov Charney or Tucker Max, it is eminently possible to goad bloggers into calling your boss a jerk.

He likes to goad but he is really a good man wanting to make us think about the fallacies in our own thought.

But Michelangelo and others like him have through their labors — sometimes as goads, sometimes as nails, sometimes as scribblers in the sand, helped turn us from the world's frivolities and given us time for such reflection.

Granted, perfection is unattainable, but like the holy grail it must be sought, if for no other reason than that the quest itself is a goad, pushing the earnest...

Granted, perfection is unattainable, but like the holy grail it must be sought, if for no other reason than that the quest itself is a goad, pushing the earnest reader to the library or the bookstore.

Brought to his senses by her forcible rebuke he «returned to religion like an elephant spurred on by the goad.

Bengals wideoutCHAD JOHNSON is proof that you can shoot your mouth off without tearing your team apart, that you can goad opponents and still be liked and, best of all, that you can have fun in the NFL

We're left listening to supposed mouthpieces of the club like John cross Who lie and goad our fans

Hell I might even go as far as to goad the Argentine coaching staff and the players sat on the bench, hell I might even run around like a headless chicken such would be my joy.

Super interesting fight, but I think Khabib made a mistake, it looks like Al goaded him into kick boxing and Khabib really tried to stop him a a few times, really rushing in with combinations, but we saw that he has nothing on his punches and his striking defence is terrible.

Khabib won't stand with better strikers, he got goaded into this I think and I doubt he makes the same mistake ever with someone like Ferguson or Conor or Max, but I think every striker in that weight class just sat up in their chairs last night and got interested.

pizza didn't sound like he wanted a fight; he just says he thinks the preds would love to goad z into one.

Like a frightened animal trapped in a corner, prodded and goaded by his enemies, the Labour leader is now decisively hitting out.

Nina Goad of the British Association of Dermatologists said: «We already know that humidity can affect the texture of the skin and impact on skin disorders like eczema, and humidity fluctuates according to season.

One hears a bit of goading in the way some scientists and technologists, including Steven Pinker, Ray Kurzweil, Marvin Minsky, and others, have tried to challenge the notion that individuals are too special to be understood like any other phenomena.

Without this shock value, the film is still an infernal machine — designed, like LaBute's In the Company of Men, to goad us into dark reflection — but its meanings tend to contract rather than expand.

Like Luis Buñuel and Michael Haneke before him, Lanthimos creates looking - glass worlds as a way of goading us into reconsidering everyday presumptions — here picking apart the social fetishisation of the couple, considering whether pairing - off in practice means faking it to match a prospective partner's nesting checklist.

Still, there are marvelous moments strewn throughout the film, like the scene in London's Royal Academy when Turner goads his rival, John Constable; or the seaside Margate scenes with his landlady, Sophia Booth (a wonderful Marion Bailey), who becomes his doting and somewhat uncomprehending companion.

The original Kingsman, adapted by Vaughn and Jane Goldman from a Mark Millar comic book series, may have felt like a straggly, goading holdover from the twilight of the lads» mags — but at least it committed to its nasty streak, and took venomous pleasure in prodding your buttons till they beeped.

(I like Messer and have heard good things about Goad from his colleagues, so that can only help.)

But like almost every other part of Rampage, even the amount of item space increases, goading gamers into adjusting their play strategies.

If you'd like to get involved, GameBlast LIVE are goading gamers into holding their own sponsored gaming marathons between February 20th - 22nd, and all money raised will be going toward helping those gamers with disabilities.

Perhaps suspecting his homosexuality but by no means willing to accept it, she goaded him for years to «act like a man» and ridiculed his high - pitched voice.

You're in luck — Facebook announced in a blog post today that it will begin demoting «spammy posts on Facebook that goad [users] into interacting with likes, shares, comments» starting this week, whether they were created by an individual user or a Page.