Sentences with phrase «mysterious force in»

Matt Damon defends mankind against mysterious forces in the most expensive Chinese movie of all time.

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No mention is made of a Supreme Being in his own religious philosophy, only of a mysterious life - force or universal will - to - live which appears as a creative - destructive force in the world around us and as a will - to - self - realization - and - love within us.

Below the conscious stream there is a great mysterious area, now called the subconscious, where, at differing levels, there move emotional forces set in operation by past experiences.

In the mythological culture he recognized his helplessness and looked to the mysterious unseen forces for the things he could not achieve for himself.

One of the most mysterious and powerful of all forces is the understanding which comes in interpersonal communication.

«Everyday life ceases to appear as something manipulated by vast, mysterious forces beyond human control or understanding and becomes a world that is manipulable, predictable, and intelligible... When you can get by happily enough without God, even if you do believe in him, why bother with him at all?»

Jesus» life is so powerful that it hasn't ended but carries on in a mysterious spiritual force to us all.

It is a battle with those mysterious superhuman and / or subhuman forces that we have already met in our discussion of the whole armor of God in Ephesians 6.

We are aware that all material beings are composite, composed of atoms, that these particles are discrete within the continuity they integrate, that in themselves even they are miniature solar systems, and that these orbits are wide open spaces in relation to the miniature elementswhich are bound within them: bound and determined by the fixed laws that define the still mysterious phenomena of centrifugal and centripetal force.

He went on to conclude in 1931 that «Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mysterious of the cosmic forces.»

Under primitive conditions man was so at the mercy of wind and storm, heat and cold, drought and rain, mysterious diseases and unpredictable disasters, that the first, natural explanation of his good or evil fortune was sought in the will of superhuman forces.

The alternative to this fictitious ordering of life is made concrete in The Public Burning through the character of the Phantom, that «mysterious fearsome force,» to quote Uncle Sam, «which from time immemorious has menaced the peace and security of mankind and buggered the hopes of the holy» (p. 335).

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.

Sexuality is not intended by God as a mysterious and alien force of nature, but as a power to be integrated into one's personhood and used responsibly in the service of love.

Force, a term much used in physics, is not sheer coercion but the mysterious attraction exercised by one entity, understood as an energy event, upon another.

i would have though the same way that james bond got back into mi6 in the skyfall film, very mysterious forces at work in the background indeed!

Whereas Newtonian gravity was a mysterious force that somehow emanated from mass and acted instantaneously over long distances, in Einstein's view a massive object simply curves the space - time fabric around it.

I might add, you know, there are so many things that Martin Gardner did that are so important to me, but I should mention his first, the first book of his that I ever saw, which was Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, which I remember very clearly running into at age 14 in a friend's book [shelf] and that book just, what's the word, the scales fell from my eyes I think is the expression; meaning that I, up until age 14, even though I had grown up in a family, my father was a physicist and I was very exposed to science, I never really thought too much about, I mean, things that, sort of, you might say superstitions or just, sort of, I don't know, mysterious [forces] in the world, you know ESP and paranormal things and predicting the future and such things.

Astronomers are back in the dark about what dark matter might be, after new observations showed the mysterious substance may not be interacting with forces other than gravity after all.

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Then last week, a mysterious decline in the level of oxygen inside the biosphere became critical and project managers were forced to start injecting oxygen into the system, breaching the integrity of the «closed» system.

Roy Craig's riveting book UFOs: An Insider's View of the Official Quest for Evidence, about his investigations for the U.S. Air Force's Colorado Project, includes an account of veteran police officers in Georgia chasing a mysterious, fast - moving object «about 500 feet above the ground.»

DiChristina: Right, in astrophysics and cosmology, what dark energy is referring to is this mysterious force that is responsible for the expansion of the universe at speeds greater than what have been anticipated, or I should say rates rather than speeds.

In the last five billion years the universe has started to rapidly expand, due to a mysterious repulsive force called dark energy.

The map, unprecedented in its size and scope, will allow scientists to test theories of dark energy, the mysterious force that appears to cause the accelerating expansion and stretching of the universe first discovered in observations of supernovae by groups led by Saul Perlmutter at Berkeley Lab and by Brian Schmidt, now at Australian National University, and Adam Riess, now at Johns Hopkins University.

The scientists trained the mighty Keck telescopes at known supernovae and used their findings to determine that the expansion of the Universe was not slowing down, as was expected, but in fact was speeding up — driven by a mysterious repelling force now called Dark Energy.

Estimating both the distance and recession speed of ancient Type - Ia supernovae allow astronomers to calculate the expansion of the universe, back during an era when matter in the universe was still relatively dense and expansion was still slowing under the influence of gravity and before its later hypothesized, subsequent acceleration from a mysterious repulsive force (more from NASA's Observatorium and NERSC's press release).

The leading theory is that a mysterious force called «dark energy» is pushing everything in the universe apart from everything else, faster and faster.

In an alternate world similar to Earth, the life of a savvy young girl named Lyra is turned upside down, and she finds herself being chased by mysterious forces.

Spirituality isn't just some mysterious, otherworldly phenomenon that only happens in a formal worship service; it's our life force, our energetic footprint in the world and our sense of connection with the big «All There Is.»

We meet Lucy in a tight bind; a (soon to be ex) boyfriend has forced her (via sneaky handcuff application) to deliver a mysterious briefcase to a man called Mr. Jang (Min - sik Choi) in a hotel in Taipei, where she's studying abroad.

Played by Jeff Goldblum with all of his quizzical, hesitant Jeff Goldblum - ishness, and sporting a golden wizard's outfit that would have been rejected as being over-the-top by Elton John in the 1970s, The Grandmaster forces Thor to take part in a brutal gladiatorial contest, but the thunder god runs into two people who might just help him get back to Asgard: a mysterious warrior (Tessa Thompson) with a link to his past, and his old pal the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo).

(In English and Ukrainian with subtitles) Skyline (PG - 13 for profanity, intense violence and brief sexuality) Sci - fi thriller about an evil extraterrestrial force which threatens to wipe all of humanity from the face of the Earth by emitting mysterious, irresistible light beams which attract people like moths to a flame.

Unsure where to turn, being stalked by a mysterious operative known only as the Winter Soldier, Rogers joins forces with S.H.I.E.L.D. superspy Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson) and Afghanistan war veteran Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) to put the pieces together and stop an unimaginable threat before millions of lives are wiped off the face of the planet almost as if they never existed in the first place.

PLOT: In a future where citizens are forced to wear technology that tracks their actions 24/7, a cop (Clive Owen) hunts a serial killer, whose victims have all had dealings with a mysterious hacker (Amanda Seyfried), who's off the grid.

Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Fargo, Barton Fink, Burn After Reading and so many other Coen brothers films have plots that seem driven by mysterious clockwork forces that could either be weighted in favor of «good» or not....

Steven Knight directed from his own script about a fishing boat captain who is forced to grapple with his mysterious past after a glamorous woman crashes up against his simple life on a small island in the Caribbean and ensnares him in a new reality.

Penny Dreadful Created by John Logan Starring Eva Green, Timothy Dalton, Rory Kinnear, Josh Hartnett and Billie Piper SYNOPSIS: Victorian London is under threat as mysterious evil forces seek to envelop the world in darkness, with monsters and ghouls stalking the streets butchering and bloodletting.

A young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her.

Synopsis: In a universe as vast as it is mysterious, an elite, powerful force has existed for centuries.

Players will manage an idol group as they fight back against a mysterious force using their upbeat brand of music in turn - based fights.

Pencil it in as a landslide for Carter's new show, about people «who are thrown together by mysterious forces and must help each other survive in a violent world that defies explanation.»

«Serenity» centers on a fishing boat captain (McConaughey), who is forced to grapple with his mysterious past after a glamorous woman (Hathaway) crashes up against his simple life on a small island in the Caribbean and leaves him questioning his reality.

Welcome the Stranger: A young woman arrives unannounced at her estranged brother's house in an attempt to reconcile, but bizarre visions force the siblings to cling onto reality amidst mysterious circumstances.

Despite the fact that nearly every move in the game brings forth more mysterious and dangerous aspects to the house, the boys are forced to play.

Curtis and his cohorts (including Octavia Spencer, John Hurt and Bong Joon - Ho regular Song Kang - Ho) successfully overpower security forces in the tail section, thus beginning their journey to confront Wilford, the mysterious engineer making sure the train operates smoothly.

The story, cobbled together by the director and young film enthusiasts Dario Argento and Bernardo Bertolucci, plays like a collection of the genre's greatest hits: the tense, real - time set pieces of High Noon; the mysterious hero of Shane; the encroaching antlike forces of civilization as explored in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.

After a mysterious organization fakes his death, Lynch is forced to unlock his genetic memories, allowing him to experience the adventures of his ancestor, Aguilar, in 15th Century Spain.

The Losers, which is based on a graphic novel of the same name, was an all out action movie about a special - forces unit consisting of Clay (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), Jensen (Chris Evans), Roque (Idris Elba), Pooch (Columbus Short), and Cougar (Oscar Jaenada) who reluctantly join forces with a mysterious woman named Aisha (Zoe Saldana) to stop a rogue CIA agent named Max (Jason Patric) who burned Clay's team during a covert military operation in Bolivia.

This secretly wealthy, peaceful and advanced African nation has always avoided interference in the outside world but a different view is represented from within by Nakia (Lupita Nyong «o) and without by mysterious enemy Erik Killmonger (Michael B Jordan) before events force change.