Sentences with phrase «n't insistent»

Wiseau spent $ 6 million of his own money to make The Room (though it could've cost less if he wasn't insistent on shooting in both 35 mm and HD).

Still, this is a rip - snorting adventure fantasy for families, especially the younger members who are not insistent on continuity.

If the artist is not insistent on a traditional print run and New Yorker reviews, he or she has a good chance at finding readers via self - publishing.

If you're a baseball fan and not insistent on having official Major League Baseball players, teams, and stadiums, you will have a lot of fun with Super Mega Baseball 2.

External demands for change are not insistent; employers seem willing to train starting lawyers on the job, the ABA has been quiescent since the MacCrate Report — which found more resonance among practicing lawyers than legal academics — and universities are typically content to tax their law schools and be done with them.

But if you're not insistent on planar magnetic awesomeness, you can find great sound from vastly cheaper headphones these days.

Not exact matches

«Trump comes across as needy since he is insistent on holding her hand when she is clearly not interested.»

Do not pump the hand, unless the other person is insistent on just that.

It was a lovely compliment, but I found that people were often very insistent that teaching was the only way for me to go — even after I told them that my interests didn't lie with education.

Westergren was insistent on having humans analyze each song, arguing that computers alone would not be able to pick up the nuances and mood.

He is insistent that piety and greed were not contradictory in the Middle Ages, which is quite correct.

George tells me that Nava described it as a «bad part of his past» and that Nava was insistent that the assault on him had not been fabricated.

His clear, insistent voice did not always carry throughout that wide land.»

It is no accident that Percy summons Flannery O'Connor to such questions as well; but unlike her, he does not anchor his response in St. Augustine and St. Paul (we have here no abiding place) nor in St. Thomas, whose argument is insistent that the poet's, the artist's, responsibility is to the good of the thing being made, not with the correction of appetites in his audience.

My dear friend who died in less than 18 months from aggressive breast cancer was told by the vicar to apologise to the church committee about a minor matter or «consider her future as a member» (I helped her prepare her reply and told her that she couldn't say what she wanted to say, she was insistent but I was emphatic «it's not the content....

Jesus has not criticized or dismissed their insistent demand but has...

Jesus has not criticized or dismissed their insistent demand but has lovingly transformed it from a desire for glory into a willingness to suffer.

You don't have to be the most educated person in Laodicea to know that the Greek philosophers were rather insistent upon the importance of maintaining a household in which the man exercises unilateral authority over his wives, children, and slaves.

It is not the violence of terror or coercion, but the violence that makes us intransigent toward ourselves and insistent in our demand that the other live — I might say, «that the other live in a manner worthy of God's image.»

In prior posts, I refuted claims made by you in Mr. Spencer video regarding whether Mohammed (Peace and Blessings be upon him) and you conveniently ignored those refutations (even though you were insistent that I can't refute even one of those claims).

Everyone does something in their life that they know is sin but do anyway because they still like it, including people insistent on your philosophy and that they themselves don't regularly do things they like that are sinful.

It expresses not only the «holy insecurity» of his existentialist philosophy but also the «I - Thou,» or dialogical, philosophy which he has formulated as a genuine third alternative to the insistent either - or's of our age.

This is a culture that puts man at its heart, respectful of his God - given dignity and insistent on an understanding of labor that allows each man not only to have but to be.

Yuri, I understand your weariness, but I for one am rather insistent that that is NOT all.

In fact, Jesus» instructions to us are not hard, even if they are insistent.

My point is that, despite insistent claims that they simply follow the «clear teachings of the Bible,» complementarians themselves are not in total agreement on what those teachings are.

Always he was insistent on the need for peaceful protest, citing John Paul's quotation from the Scriptures not to repay evil with evil but with good.

There is the insistent intimation of an order where both immediacy and character are retained, where novelty and achieved order are not antagonistic, where life is not merely a transient enjoyment, transiently useful (PR 340/516).

That didn't come to much: the Chippewa were resettled by the government shortly afterwards, and, in any case, it is difficult to imagine those theologically rigorous Lutheran immigrants» insistent at all times that the distinction between law and gospel be strictly maintained» having much success in proselytizing efforts among a people to whom the simplest expressions of Christian doctrine would have seemed quite esoteric.

When I really read the Scriptures I find a Jewish man who upheld Torah, is insistent that he did not come to abolish it, and whose followers were members of a Jewish sect called The Way.

As I wrestled with what it meant to be a woman of faith, I realized that, despite insistent claims that we don't «pick and choose» from the Bible, any claim to a «biblical» lifestyle requires some serious selectivity.

The Catechism is insistent, however, that this human knowing of Jesus was not autonomous, taking strength from the thoughts of the Fathers, particularly Gregory the Great and Maximus the Confessor:

The man who prays has to go into his room and shut the door, both to be with his Father who is in secret and to exclude the insistent voices of fashionable witch - doctors, his own distractions, and not least the admonitions of anxious orthodoxy.

This type of experience, suggested not only in Paul but in some of the Gospel narratives, (E.g., Matthew 28:16 - 17; Mark 16:9 - 12) may have been the beginning of the conviction that Jesus was not dead but alive, and the more physical representations of the disentombment may have been an aftermath, caused by the insistent belief of the Jewish - Christian mind that resurrection was of necessity involved in life after death.

The Witch can not fathom the God who is good and terrible at the same time: the Holy One who, fiercely insistent that his people be happy, is willing to die and to conquer death in their behalf.

But in the past decade these legal protections have been systematically dismantled in response to pressures to speed up the execution process — «we just need to kill more quickly» is the primary rejoinder to the argument that the death penalty is not a deterrent — and to address the increasingly insistent demand for «victims» rights.»

So insistent are the pressures that even peoples who are not yet prepared to assume the responsibilities of self - government claim their independence and then pay a heavy price in internal chaos and strife, with the likelihood of having to settle for order by dictatorial power rather than by consent.

It seems not a little strange that the faith which is most insistent upon the principle of Ahimsa and will not take the life of the most humble living thing, makes a definite place for putting an end to one own life.

Am I too insistent that the American people should not lose their right to the freedom of religion and the expression thereof?

His influence was not only through his teaching but also through his insistent efforts to create a community of open critical reflection in both the faculty and the student body.

Professor Tillich himself, to whom we referred at the beginning of this lecture, although not at all identified with process - thought, was insistent on the necessity for the development of a modern philosophical theology and was increasingly finding himself in sympathy with many of the conclusions of thinkers such as Hartshorne; and more recently, as he himself acknowledged in the preface to the third volume of Systematic Theology, he associated his own views with those of Teilhard.

Grapevine, or attending an AA meeting, or listening to a member tell his story, one learns that «something happened» to brings about change; however; often it was not a quick illumination, but rather a gradual and increasingly insistent spiritual awakening.

I am insistent that people don't misrepresent my thoughts as being something different from what they are.

I am not sure why our friends to the north are so insistent that guns protect them.

I told him I was thinking maybe it wasn't blog worthy and he became a bit insistent, and if you know George you know better than to argue with him.

The Villains remain insistent that they won't do any business unless Benteke's # 32.5 millon release clause is met, but they could face the prospect of an unhappy player at the club next season should the Reds refuse to match the valuation.

That doesn't mean they can't, as Liverpool showed this past summer with Philippe Coutinho that if a club is insistent about a player staying, regardless of whether it's Barcelona knocking on the door, then they can make it happen.

Yes the Frenchman is ultimately to blame for picking the side which didn't win, and I can't help but think that our squad depth is a problem with our injuries stacking up, but I'm not 100 % sure that the club wasn't to blame for our lack of transfer activity in the summer, especially when the likes of Ivan Gazidis are insistent that our summer window was a success!

We look so much better when we play at home not just in the way we play either, that away kit the club are insistent on using even when we don't need it is so ugly..

[since that's just the way it is, i wonder why mr wenger is not more insistent on ensuring he has at least 2 good players at each position?