Sentences with phrase «mystery stories in»

As novelist David Lodge observes about the satisfactions provided by solved mystery stories in both fiction and in law: «A solved mystery is ultimately reassuring to readers, asserting the triumph of reason over instinct, of order over anarchy.»

Include crossword puzzles, word games, riddles, and mystery stories in the mix.

«Murder On The Orient Express» tells a mystery story in bits and pieces.

This presentation is the first part of a lesson about How to write a mystery story in french.

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OK, prepare to suspend your disbelief: The mystery - adventure drama is based loosely on Washington Irving's 1820 short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and follows the character of Ichabod Crane, who has woken up after sleeping for 250 years and is now partnered with police Lt. Abbie Mills in modern day Sleepy Hollow, N.Y..

In order to tell that story for Canada's 150th year, our Government will continue efforts to solve one of the most enduring mysteries of our past.

Her resulting book, «The Newcomers,» is a delicate and heartbreaking mystery story, as Thorpe slowly uncovers the secret catastrophes in the lives of young immigrants at South High School in Denver.

Authorship of John — many if not most NT scholars believe that John nor one of 12 wrote John; James — most agree not authored by James, and sometime in 2nd century AD; Peter — a mystery — some think that it could have been an early template for the other gospels; Luke — a mystery; Mark — finally it seems like we really might have another original author here — or were he and later Paul just using a very early Peter story?

These are among the items promoted for Holy Week: two polemics against white racism, an attack on the tobacco industry, three murder mysteries, one story about a serial murderer, a comedy about soap operas, a story on the sexual abuse of children, and a drama about vampire families in San Francisco.

«Today Christmas has become a commercial celebration, whose bright lights hide the mystery of God's humility, which in turn calls us to humility and simplicity,» the pope said after recalling the story of Christmas.

«The story of the Christian God is ancient and shrouded in mystery» = > no, you confuse Christ and the Holy Spirit with Old Testament mystery.

The story of Jim Jones is the story of a man who by miracle, mystery and authority affected an entire valley in northern California — and an entire world.

The story of the Christian God is ancient and shrouded in mystery.

The supernaturalism is ingredient in the story; the manners convey the mystery, a mystery which is worked into the story, is the story, by means of the manners.

The «mystery thriller» is the basic template for his own fiction, but in his stories, the word «mystery» takes on its arcane, almost its pre-Christian connotations of ritual and spiritual power.

«That you may have the wisdom to know the story to which God calls you, the power to pursue it, the courage to abide its mysteries, and love in every step.»

It is an astounding detail when you think about it: The God of all creation, the One who knows every corner of the cosmos and fathoms every mystery, the One who could answer every theological riddle and who, I suspect, chuckles at our volumes of guesses, our centuries of pompous philosophical tomes debating His nature, when present in the person of Jesus Christ, told stories.

Jeremy thanks for your comments alot of this i never really thought about before until you provoked me to seek the truth in the word it is what we all should be doing finding the truth for ourselves God wants to reveal mysterys if we are open to hear.If we have been christians awhile we just take the word of whoevers preaching or whichever clip we see on god tube its knowledge but not revelation.Because the story sounds plausible we tag that on to our belief for example for many years i believed that the rich young rulers problem was money so the way to deal with that problem is to give it away and be a follower of Jesus sounds plausible.Till you realise every believers situation is different so the message has to be universal.So the reason its not about money because it excludes those that do nt have it and does nt make room for those that do have it but do nt worship it.The rich young ruler was not a bad person he lived by a good moral code but he made money his idol he put that before God.The word says we shall not have any idols thats a sin and a wicked one.In fact there wasnt any room in his heart for Jesus that is a tragedy.So when we see the message is about Idolatry we all have areas that we chose not to submit to God thats universal everyone of us whether we are rich or poor.I believe we are unaware that we have these idols what are some of them that was revealed to me our partners our children our work our church our family i can sense some of you are getting fidgetty.

Even when, like the characters in The Story of the Night, they seem to have fallen away from treating themselves, or their fellow human beings, with the appropriate respect, Jews and others in today's counterculture committed to the mystery of human responsibility before God, and charged with the task of pursuing our own unique individual and communal destiny in a conformist, uncomprehending world, need such reminders.

A mystery novel offers us a glimpse of the fulfillment of that hope: in the context of a story we observe the convergence of human and divine justice.

If the resurrection is the true dénouement of the whole story and not a «happy ending» tacked on to a tragedy, then there is an element in the story itself which brings us to the frontiers of normal human experience, where experience runs out into mystery.

If the divine mystery is present in a special way among the poorest and most misused of his or her children, as the biblical images and stories — from the slaves in Egypt to the official lynching of Jesus — constantly remind us, then allegedly religious people who insulate themselves from the city are putting themselves at considerable risk.

Why Matthew has both stories and has two blind men in each of them is a mystery.

The setting of her stories is a world from which human beings have generally eliminated mystery (grace) and only discover the power of that reality in sudden, startling, and unexpected ways.

It's basically a story about this guy who discovers that someone's highlighted words in the library — each book has got one word highlighted and there is some mystery involved and all that.

In a special way the image of the cosmos as itself a story or an adventure into mystery provides the key to such a hermeneutic.

The development of doctrine in the early Church — the emergence of the creeds — is the story of how people tried to explain mysteries, that is to draw them down into the grasp of human imagination.

«The story of his death is enveloped in more mystery than that of any other zaddik,» writes Buber in Tales of the Hasidim, The Later Masters.

Updike presents the reader of his novels and stories with the pseudo — wise men of today's society — with Jimmy, the big Mouseketeer who quotes Socrates; with the neon owl that advertises pretzels; with Ken Whitman, the scientist living in Tarbox who is considered intelligent in his field but who lacks a basic understanding of life; with Bech the writer, honored in direct proportion to the decline of his literary production; with Connor, the efficient, well - trained administrator of the old people's home who fails to comprehend as much of life's mystery as his simple and sometimes senile wards do.

Especially in the story of the momentous event of liberation called the Exodus the Hebrew people felt the revelation of the mystery of God.

In the story of Christ the cloud of mystery intimated in our boundary experiences and limit questions is given a personal face that summons us to a distinctive type of response that can be called the Christian lifIn the story of Christ the cloud of mystery intimated in our boundary experiences and limit questions is given a personal face that summons us to a distinctive type of response that can be called the Christian lifin our boundary experiences and limit questions is given a personal face that summons us to a distinctive type of response that can be called the Christian life.

There appears to be a story to it too; reminds me of mystery movies and books read in the past

J. R. R. Tolkien, in On Fairy - Stories, coined a term for the way the redemptive mystery is explored in fiction: he called it the eucatastrophe.

But Christian discrimination ought to operate on another level here; it ought to applaud the metaphorical adroitness in giving a new context for the passion story, a context which provides for disbelieving contemporary human beings a genuinely «secular» experience of the narrative, and one which is in continuity with the parabolic way of hiddenness and mystery.

If Chalcedon had preceded Nicaea, or if the Church Fathers had turned to the biblical story of Jesus instead of Nicaea and Ephesus for their moorings, they might have been faced with and had to deal with the mystery, ambiguity, indirection, in other words, the parabolic quality of an actual human life and its growth.

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Knowing of my interest in crime fiction and detective stories my late father - in - law, John Thynne — who had supported Arsenal from before the war — was always talking about a film made in 1939 called The Arsenal Stadium Mystery.

Some of our couples are same - sex couples and often prefer a known donor, which can help to relay honesty and dispel the mystery of the child's birth story in the future.

And while her humble two - story home in Queens is no mystery mansion, the set - up sounds strikingly similar to the plot of the 1985 film «Clue,» which was based on the board game.

► As part of this week's Science special issue on forensics, Lizzie Wade told the story of how José Torero, a world expert in the forensic science of fire investigation, has shed a light on — or perhaps, added to the mystery of — «a crime that shocked the world: the disappearance of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Normal School, a rural teacher's college near Tixtla, Guerrero,» in Mexico in September 2014.

In the classic Sherlock Holmes story «Silver Blaze,» the famed detective solves a murder mystery by noticing something that does not happen: a watchdog's failure to bark in the middle of the nighIn the classic Sherlock Holmes story «Silver Blaze,» the famed detective solves a murder mystery by noticing something that does not happen: a watchdog's failure to bark in the middle of the nighin the middle of the night.

«It's a nice story that solves a cool mystery — how did Neandertals end up with mtDNA more like that of modern humans,» says population geneticist Ilan Gronau of the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya in Israel.

The stories, from an online repository of books in the public domain called Project Gutenberg, fell into one of six genres: mystery, humor, fantasy, horror, western, and science fiction.

VANCOUVER — In a story worthy of CSI: Jurassic Period, researchers have solved the mystery of what killed a predatory allosaurus dinosaur 147 million years ago.

Part of the apparently rare fish's story remains a mystery, however, as scientists don't know if it still exists in the wild.

A planned neutrino detector in a US mine — the Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment — could unlock mysteries about antimatter, but its future is uncertain (see main story).

The six - decade - long study on domesticating foxes in Siberia that we write about has everything from cutting - edge science to political intrigue to human / animal love stories, but perhaps more than anything else, it shows that when smart people with a passion for science pair that with almost superhuman perseverance, we can unwrap the mysteries of the world we live in.»

The story, Goodman told Next Wave in an interview, is not a whodunit but a «mystery of character» that untangles a case of purported scientific fraud.

Mr. Tran's stories have appeared in the Harvard Review, Southern Review, Glimmer Train, Antioch Review, 2007 O. Henry Prize Stories, Best American Mystery Stories 2009, and stories have appeared in the Harvard Review, Southern Review, Glimmer Train, Antioch Review, 2007 O. Henry Prize Stories, Best American Mystery Stories 2009, and Stories, Best American Mystery Stories 2009, and Stories 2009, and others.