Sentences with phrase «mythical characters not»

Previous artists were the Scottish painter Peter Doig, who created «Siegfried + Poster Project»; the New York artist Julie Mehretu, whose exhibition was called «Notations After the Ring»; and Elizabeth Peyton, whose series of paintings, drawings and prints based on many of Wagner's mythical characters not only filled the gallery but also various spots throughout the opera house.

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I don't pray because I truly feel God is a mythical character invented by a few wild imaginations and the wonderful myth has been perpetuated for 1000s of years by dupes.

If you add in any other mythical character you wish, it's easy to see how absurd this sounds to the ears of someone who does not believe.

I use «lack of proof as an excuse» not to believe in leprechauns, why should it be any different for the mythical character you call «god»??

In a word, just as the earliest Christian community rested back firmly and surely on the historical reality of Jesus, so there has never been a time in the subsequent history of the church, regardless of how ideally Jesus may have been conceived, when a demonstration of his merely mythical character would not have struck at the foundations of its life.

I am not part of satans plans as satan is just a character from a book that is riddled with inconsistancies and mythical legends, superst!tions, etc..

And Paul's view of man's condition (and in its essentials his is the central biblical view) can not be declared false, for all its mythical character, so long as it is the only view of man which takes adequate account of this inescapable reality of human experience: On the one hand, I know that «it is not I who do these things but sin which has possession of me»; but, on the other hand, I know that I am responsible for these acts of sin and that I deserve to die because of them.

Because the disciplined study of history has helped us to distinguish between history and myth, and to come to the tentative conclusion that the stories of the Virgin Birth, the Transfiguration, the Resurrection and the Ascension are mythical in character, this does not mean that the faith which they have traditionally expressed and conveyed is thereby undermined.

Enoch is a mythical character from Israel's prehistoric traditions, and of him the Old Testament simply says, «Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.»

That's one of the ways he gives his movies a mythical quality; the characters don't talk in mundane everyday dialogue, but in a kind of elevated geekspeak that lovingly burnishes the details of their legends, methods, beliefs and arcane lore.

[return][return] Surrender None works well in fleshing out a mythical character for the readers who loved the Paks books, but this volume wouldn't stand well on its own.