Sentences with phrase «man coming to terms»

About Blog The personal journal of a man coming to terms with his motorcycle obsession.

More than a simple puzzler, this is a carefully crafted study of a man coming to terms with his imminent death.

From a reluctant warrior fighting a battle in her own backyard, to a man coming to terms with the racial inequality of his youth, to a romance blooming out of adversity, Readers» Choice offers up favorite stories from the first four years of Fiction River.

Of course, public awareness and acceptance of transgender people is much greater now than it was when Boys Don't Cry — Kimberly Peirce's significantly more insightful film about Brandon Teena, a transgender man coming to terms with his self - described «sexual identity crisis» — debuted in 1999, thanks largely to visibility campaigns and presidential announcements (Barack Obama is the first sitting President to use the word in a state - of - the - union address).

He was supposed to be receiving the script for a CGI children's film Mike White had written but instead was sent the story of a man coming to terms with his life as he takes his high school - age son on a tour of potential colleges while also grappling with the outsize successes of his own old college buddies.

For «Wonder Wheel,» he turns in a deeply emotional performance as a man coming to terms with the shortcomings of his own life as he struggles to please and provide for his wife (Kate Winslet) and protect his daughter (Juno Temple) by another woman.

Van Sant returns to his earthy - airy style for this story of a young man coming to terms with the concept of mortality.

Still, his performance captures the inner turmoil of a man coming to terms with the past and also the future.

Arguably, Montiel's most interesting (and low - key) character study to date is 2014's Boulevard, featuring the late Robin Williams as a closeted gay man coming to terms with his sexuality despite the protestations of his wife (a stellar Kathy Baker).

It's a heart - wrenching drama, more than about a mother dying of cancer, or a man coming to terms with his family and his sexuality.

The final sequences are worth the wait, though, bringing together the story's many threads and offering the classic closure of a young man coming to terms with his identity.

In Jesus» stark prediction, we see a man come to terms with his fate.

As the two men come to terms with their broken relationship, some other person seems to be lurking outside the cabin, wanting to get in.

«BPM,» «God's Own Country,» and «Call Me By Your Name»: Though the handsomely crafted, Italian - set «Call Me By Your Name» has gotten all the critical attention, two other films about young gay men coming to terms with themselves in much harsher environments — the French «BPM» is set at the height of the AIDS crisis in Paris while the contemporary British drama «God's Own Country» is set in a grim, rural northern England — are both more haunting and powerful.

The aim of this writing was to help lonely men come to terms with their troubles.

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The deputies had come to the property to search for a man who had violated the terms of his parole.

A short - term study of 29 young men showed that they consumed on average 238 fewer calories each day for two weeks when they were told not to eat anything between 7 p.m. and 6 a.m. And these calories they were no longer eating were coming mostly from high - fat, high - carb foods.

Instead, it requires coming to terms with the fact that masculinity trains men to have great difficulty recognizing women — or, indeed, anyone that presents as feminine — as persons, as agents, as authoritative and worthy of respect, and then making an effort to see and treat them that way.

When it comes to preparing for the long term, women face a «perfect storm» financially: They are paid less than men are on average, typically have more gaps in employment, engage in more part - time employment and are often more risk - averse investors.

In his book, Angry White Men, which came out in 2013 but seems even more relevant now, Kimmel surveys the growing rage among neo-Nazis, gamers, right wing talk radio hosts and men's rights activists who define their masculinity and manhood in terms of dominance and power and who believe in their «God - given right» to rule the worMen, which came out in 2013 but seems even more relevant now, Kimmel surveys the growing rage among neo-Nazis, gamers, right wing talk radio hosts and men's rights activists who define their masculinity and manhood in terms of dominance and power and who believe in their «God - given right» to rule the wormen's rights activists who define their masculinity and manhood in terms of dominance and power and who believe in their «God - given right» to rule the world.

what you believe is not «biblically based», it's indoctrination about ideas that came from warping and exagerating ideas that existed in «pagan» (not actually the correct term but good for this purpose) mythologies, and the evil imaginations of men like Dante and those who desired to see those they considered inferior in doctrine, belief, religion or culture in torture.

The two moments: first, Binx's seeing the black man leaving the church after Ash Wednesday ritual, with an acceptance of the necessity, as Binx would have it, of «inserting himself into the world»; second, Binx's own ceremony of moviegoing whereby he seems to come to terms with place but in actuality does not.

But you should at least be honest and know that one who believes in the forensic science of origins of life has to have as much faith in the person asserting the theory as one has to have believing God was the witness to the event and told man kind how the world came about in simplistic terms.

It takes a man to come to terms with his mistakes - and we all make them.

So hard is it for these men, in this nerve - wracking moment in Jewish history, to come to terms with the Holocaust.

For the evangelists, and probably for Jesus, the Son of man was the Messiah, both terms referring to Jesus himself, and the coming of the Son of man was a phase or aspect of the coming of the kingdom of God.

Even though the title «Son of God» is used in the account of the Baptism, presumably the origin of Jesus» Messianic consciousness — as many modern scholars interpret the passage — nevertheless the whole idea of his acceptance of death is formulated in terms of the heavenly Man who has power and authority upon earth, (Mark 2:10, 28) who fulfills what is written of him, who dies and rises again, and is to come in glory as the supreme advocate or judge.

Hopefully you will come to terms with what these men did.

To see this man so worried about his wife and unborn child, just like any other Christian or Jewish father / husband made me come to terms with my own misconceptionsTo see this man so worried about his wife and unborn child, just like any other Christian or Jewish father / husband made me come to terms with my own misconceptionsto terms with my own misconceptions..

«For these men the term «monogamy» simply doesn't necessarily mean sexual exclusivity... The term «open relationship» has for a great many gay men come to have one specific definition: A relationship in which the partners have sex on the outside often, put away their resentment and jealousy, and discuss their outside sex with each other, or share sex partners.

It is given so that men and women who have come to faith through its teaching might learn to five in God's world on his terms, loving and honoring him in all that they do and seeking to make known to the world his law and gospel.

And, to put what some of the symposiasts have noted in Heidegger's terms, man has come to think of nature primarily, if not solely, in terms of «standing reserve.»

And many of these men and women had come from «downrange» — the universal military term to describe the war zone, whether it be Iraq or Afghanistan.

Thirty years later — after Mary Ann Evans had come to London and become Marian Evans, then (in her mind, though not in English law, since the man with whom she lived was married to another) Marian Lewes, and ultimately the great and famous novelist George Eliot» she wrote in very similar terms to Harriet Beecher Stowe: for the good of humankind, orthodox Christianity must be replaced by an ethical religion that would instill in us «a more deeply awing sense of responsibility to man, springing from sympathy with the difficulty of the human lot.»

In our own time, as we have come to think of ourselves more and more in terms of will and choice, Hobbes's «masterless men,» we have transformed the meaning of birth.

The man who has come to terms with It has divided his life into two separated provinces: one of institutions — It — and one of feelings — I.

But in times of sickness the world of It overpowers the man who has come to terms with it, and causality becomes «an oppressive, stifling fate.»

But this fulfillment of their nature is thwarted by the man who has come to terms with the world of It.

The term «transfiguration,» or we might say «transformation,» points to the process by which a phenomenon that is a part of ordinary experience comes to assume a controlling interpretative role in man's understanding of himself and his world.

But if he establishes a long - term faithful relationship with another man, if the two live together and come to church together, many are likely to be scandalized.

Now it is possible to come to the Christian understanding of man's existence within the framework of philosophical terms and at the same time to be speaking out of the mythical orientation.

But it does seem to be the case that they can not increase without a re-stabilizing of a family structure that enlists the support of men, who receive in return the respect and recognition that comes with, for lack of a better term, patriarchy.

If we agree, as surely we must, that the one inescapable and inevitable fact about every man and about the whole race of men is this death, we should also agree that it is in no sense morbid to face up to it and endeavor to come to terms with it.

He was strongly opposed to the teaching of some of his Christian contemporaries who wished to interpret the idiom of resurrection as an allegorical description of that Christian experience by which «a man, having come to the truth, has been reanimated and revivified to God, and, the death of ignorance being dispelled, has as it were burst forth from the tomb of the old man».35 Tertullian was adamant that the resurrection was in the future and to be understood in physical, fleshly terms («I pronounce that the flesh will certainly rise again»).36 In order to forestall those who could contend the impossibility of such a hope on the grounds that the decayed corpse would have long since wasted away to nothing, he pointed out that quite recently, in his city, skeletons some five hundred years old had been unearthed in a remarkable state of preservation.

For example, apart altogether from the more obvious meaning and purpose of the myths we have been looking at, the annual lamentation for Tammuz, Adonis, Osiris, etc., provided an annual outlet for man, however unconsciously it was used, to express grief for his own mortality and to that extent to come to terms with it.

Setting aside all metaphysics, the two terms in each of these pairs are articulated in a quasi - measurable fashion one with the other; with the twofold result not only of at last affording us a unified concept of the Universe, but also of breaking down the two barriers behind which Man was coming to believe himself to be for ever imprisoned — the magic circle of phenomenalism and the infernal circle of egocentrism.

But as men became more and more aware of moral principles and as their thinking was «rationalized», the way in which the sacred was understood, the way in which men came to interpret the more - than - human, was in terms of love and of «persuasion» (as Whitehead put it), although it never lost the awesome quality which evoked from them worship and adoration.

The terms vary; now the symbolic phrase is reconciliation to God and man» now increase of gratitude for the forgiveness of sin, now the realization of the kingdom or the coming of the Spirit, now the acceptance of the gospel.

Matthew has a characteristic concern for the expectation of the coming of Jesus as Son of man which lie betrays in several ways: lie is the only evangelist to use the technical term «parousia» (24.27, 37, 39); he alone has the parable of the sheep and goats, a kind of haggada on the theme «When the Son of man comes in his glory... «(25.31); lie introduces a reference to it into a saying from Q (Matt.

The great problems of history with which we must come to terms tend to appear to us not as members of a chain organically tied to the past and growing into the future, but as cataclysmic interruptions of the normalcy of peace and harmony, occasioned by evil men and evil institutions.