Sentences with phrase «little less one»

Another: «Loving you less than life, a little less / Than bitter - sweet upon a broken wall / Or bush - wood smoke in autumn, I confess / I can not swear I love you not at all.»

However, a woman enjoying a swim off the coast of Maui named Mariko Haugen proved that you can be a little less afraid of sharks if you're a black belt in taekwondo.

But maybe I'm a little less frustrated with all the blaming and shaming than I was — just a little!

A little less than a third of Christians agreed.

In 1930 he left for Japan and it is here in little less than a month he created and published a Japanese edition of the Journal.

a rather pointed open letter implicitly, but very clearly, characterizing Catholic teaching on sexual morality and marriage (and, perhaps, on abortion as well, though that is a little less clear) as «repression,» and implicitly characterizing the Archbishop himself, who is a strong defender of marriage, chastity, and the sanctity of human life, as an oppressor.

Could there be more grace, finesse, and a little less whoo - ha?

The Bald Eagle is a wild animal that just came off of the endangered species list a little less than 5 years ago.

It's like we have revelations slowly one at a time and each time God leaves us with something a little less unhealthy to hold onto.

God knows we have ugliness so if it doesn't faze him maybe we can be a little less shocked buy our own reflection, and not be so upset that we can't buy purity.

It is a sign that Americans are becoming a little less gullible that other Christians are roundly critical.

I've been hesitant to answer this question at one level because hindsight is 20/20, and it feels a little less than honest to (a) see how things play out and then (b) pronounce how I should have done things differently.

With a little less corruption in the homelands, and no Comblock troops in those countries, that unification probably would have taken place.

If you can't love, at least try hating a little less.

Join the Advent Conspiracy by spending a little less and giving a little more.

The other two are a little less storied: the hulking rock monster known as The Thing goes to Jamie Bell — who's never been out of work, but is most certainly best known as Billy Elliott.

This silence becomes a little less perplexing, perhaps, when we recall that the letters of Paul are genuine letters, addressed to actual churches, that their contents are in large part determined by the requirements of particular concrete situations, and that therefore they can not be expected to indicate to modern readers the entire content of Paul's missionary preaching and teaching.

For example, my previous church that cost $ 24million probably spends a similar amount on their Special Needs ministries that my current church has as a budget (maybe a little less).

Perhaps you will be a little less pessimistic.

And shall not memory be able to remind him of that time when he sneaked away by underhanded means, in order to avoid a decision; of that time when he gave the matter another turn, in order to please men; of that time that he deserted his post, in order to let the storm pass over; of that time he knuckled under, in order to secure an easing off of his painful position; of that time he sought refuge and association with others — perhaps, as it is called, in order to work all the more effectively for the Good's victory, that is, in order to make his own position a little less difficult than as though at the midnight hour, somewhat terror - stricken, one stood all alone «with heavily loaded weapons at his dangerous post.»

Then, a little less than a year ago, I hit a wall.

It's painful work, but hopefully compassion (including for self) arises in the process — and we are a little less judgemental afterwards.

Then blown by every wind of doctrine and preoccupied with fads and the ethos of hypertoleration, now I suffer fools a little less gladly.

In light of the grand jury decision handed down tonight in the wake of Michael Brown's death in Ferguson, MO, I think it is of utmost importance that all Christians, but specifically white evangelicals, talk a little less and listen a little more.

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Haven was their attempt to feel a little less lonely.

For the non-established churches, things are a little less prescriptive.

If there was a little more self - reflection on their part, there might be a little less of it on ours.

This is exactly what I have been trying to teach for the last couple of years, I just do it with a little less eloquence.

You see things differently but you refuse to recognize that your view isn't the only view - little less the only correct view.

If that social context is alert, open, and engaged, the writer's solitary quest for perfection is a little less lonely, and the reader's attempt to find the best new writing much easier.

(The important fact I missed about Billy continuing with the Superteam — which actually makes some sense — suggests that maybe their economic future is a little less precarious.

It'd be a little less obvious — the contempt and the hate -, if these people just said they were «spiritual» but they were afraid to do that, because a lot of people consider themselves spiritual — a lot of people that they wanted to reject and not be inclusive with — so they had to make this whole bratty phrase up «spiritual BUT NOT religious»

Franklin may allow himself a few more slips or a little less guilt about the slips than Mather did but what Lawrence called the «barbed - wire of shalt - not ideals» is still up.10 Though now we can not tell for sure whether virtue is pursued for its own good or for the public seeming of good («Honesty is the best policy» clearly illustrates the problem) the impulse life is still tightly reined in.

Blogging has helped me feel a little less crazy for questioning, for doubting, for wrestling, for noticing the little moments, for celebrating, for learning, for changing, as I wrote my way through my life and you wrote your way through yours.

Maybe we need a little less of all this sibling rivalry and a little more mutual acceptance and respect.

Our experiences of suddenly remembering events long forgotten, as well as alleged instances of mental telepathy between persons who are contemporaries, render such relationships a little less incredible.

Her tragedy seemed a little less significant as we watched my dog emerge from the water and shake herself dry over a fisherman.

These activities are not simply ways of making the present life a little less beastly, a little more bearable, until the day when we leave it behind altogether (as the hymn so mistakenly puts it...).

all makes me feel a little less alone in the world.

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality by Donald Miller — The book that is likely on the short list for 90 % of evangelicals my age, Donald Miller made me feel a little less crazy.

My atheism doesn't make me feel I am a better person than believers; it does, however, make me feel I'm a little less stupid or deluded.

And for you and many others who are having a tough time understanding what love looks like in the context of our family, maybe we'd be a little less hurt, a little less disappointed, a little less wounded by our family if we truly internalized that a loving God came to earth and was «called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.»

The conclusion seems inescapable that, though Heidegger was an official member of the National Socialist Party for a little less than a year, the movement of his thinking traveled along the same waves as other proto - Nazi thought of his day.

Keep your people dumb, give them always a little less than they need and keep them amused (entertained) on a regular base so they will work to be amused the next day... give them hope...

Mark gives 20 percent to Jesus» death; Matthew and Luke, a little less, at 15 to 16 percent; and John (with the Last Supper discourses included) 30 percent.

I know you think they are, otherwise you probably would react with a little less enthusiasm.

You should really consider reading a little more and repeating a little less.

They, being a little less jaded than myself, were incredulous.

It is in this land of reality that 90 % (in actuality a little less, but for sake of argument we'll use this figure) of the population has determined that the Judeo - Christian God revealed in the biblical literature is valid.