Sentences with phrase «of a hermit in»

For lead actor, dark horse «Biutiful» star Javier Bardem — who portrays a hustler confronting questions about his mortality and morality in the Barcelona - set film — edged strong contenders including «Blue Valentine» heartthrob Ryan Gosling, Robert Duvall's portrayal of a hermit in «Get Low» and Mark Wahlberg's turn as a working - class boxer in «The Fighter.»

As a young Bloom, aspiring con man, spins a tale of a hermit in the woods for the rich kids of the town, one is heard making derisive noises, prompting another kid to snap, «Shut up Dave.»

Not exact matches

Every night the corporate office of Smoke's Poutinerie in Toronto receives a fax from the boss, an enigmatic hermit known simply as Smoke.

Along with the rise of its nuclear and missile programs, the Hermit Kingdom's hacking prowess has improved by leaps and bounds in recent years.

Filmmaker Ben Steinbauer goes in search of the infamous viral video star and discovers him living a hermit - like existence on top of a mountain, unaware of his fame.

I do not suppose for a moment that you wish to become a hermit (though now I understand there are some girl hermits in England and they are sort of friends of mine because they are hermits, so I send them stuff about how to be a hermit).

I challenge you to the hermit you'd have to be in order to fulfill your vision of what you believe should be how things are.

In his second offering, freshly translated into elegant and unwrinkled English by Lisa C. Hayden, Vodolazkin recounts the mystical itinerary of a medieval man who passes from healer to holy fool, from monastic to hermit.

The «Bible» was written by a bunch of hermit priests sitting locked away in some monastery high on herbs, mushrooms, and / or opium writing down what the crooked Popes in Rome wanted them to write.

With time, the location of the tomb was forgotten until in the 9th century a hermit, Pelayo, informed the Bishop of Iria, Theodomir, of the appearance of stars and strange lights and, excavating, they found the tombs of James and his disciples, the place thenceforward being named Santiago de Compostela (of the burial place).

This led some of the more devout to escape the temptations of public life and go into the desert, either as hermits or to live in communities.

The hermit is an established type in both Western and Eastern Christianity, and monastic institutions, even though striving for a common and closely knit way of life seemingly at the opposite pole from solitude, have often been linked with hermetical institutions and practices of one sort or another.

Perhaps a hermit in a cave somewhere has evidence one (or more) of them exist.

As for me, I can't believe in an human - like being that designed and jump - started the universe 13.8 billion years ago and set aside a planet for His special favorite creations, so He'd have someone to keep Him company and sing songs praising Him, then gave Bronze Age hermits a book of His orders to mankind that includes «thou shalt not round thy head nor cut thy beard» on penalty of eternal suffering... just CA N'T, any more than I can force myself to believe the world rests on the back of giant turtle.

Since it appears none of them were hermits or in secluded orders, one can not help but wonder where they have been for the last twenty years.

In her account of her «shewings», by which she meant the disclosures (or series of revelations) which she believed were given her in the cell which as an «anchoress» or hermit she occupied adjoining St. Julian's Church in Norwich (hence the name which has been given her), she sets forth what she has learned to be the proper «ghostly [spiritual] understanding» of the basic Christian messagIn her account of her «shewings», by which she meant the disclosures (or series of revelations) which she believed were given her in the cell which as an «anchoress» or hermit she occupied adjoining St. Julian's Church in Norwich (hence the name which has been given her), she sets forth what she has learned to be the proper «ghostly [spiritual] understanding» of the basic Christian messagin the cell which as an «anchoress» or hermit she occupied adjoining St. Julian's Church in Norwich (hence the name which has been given her), she sets forth what she has learned to be the proper «ghostly [spiritual] understanding» of the basic Christian messagin Norwich (hence the name which has been given her), she sets forth what she has learned to be the proper «ghostly [spiritual] understanding» of the basic Christian message.

The king slept the night on the threshold of the hut and when morning came, found the bearded man confessing that he had lain in wait for the king's return from the hermit's hut, having sworn to kill him for a judgment the king had once given against him.

Christianity has always admired and looked up to monks and hermits, seeing in them a real attempt to forsake this world for the Kingdom of God.

I'm reminded of the fact that he had to go to Asia to realize he'd always been free as a hermit at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky.

The life story of the northern Russian wilderness - dweller Nikodim Kozheozersky tells of how this saint, as is customary for hermits, ate only wild plants, an assertion that is not hindered even when the hagiographer announces in the next sentence that he also cultivated turnips for his diet.

In evil case the army stood, their stores of food were spent: Peter the holy Hermit, he sat before his tent: Then came to him the King Tafur, and with him fifty score Of men - at - arms, not one of them but hunger gnawed him sorof food were spent: Peter the holy Hermit, he sat before his tent: Then came to him the King Tafur, and with him fifty score Of men - at - arms, not one of them but hunger gnawed him sorOf men - at - arms, not one of them but hunger gnawed him sorof them but hunger gnawed him sore.

In a way, we are like Merton who are living as kind of hermits out in the world, many of us in isolation from other Christians and church communitieIn a way, we are like Merton who are living as kind of hermits out in the world, many of us in isolation from other Christians and church communitiein the world, many of us in isolation from other Christians and church communitiein isolation from other Christians and church communities.

In the Jordan steppe, on the reed - and shrub - covered floor of the valley which extends along both sides of the Jordan throughout the southern part of its course, a hermit, John by name, carried on his lonely existence.

But it also has its dangers, such as living the life of a hermit holed up in my cave without any real live humans to disturb my introspections.

For example, a number of nomad Arabs in the valley of the Euphrates accepted Christianity because they were attracted to the Christian faith by the power which the Christian monks and hermits exercised over the evil spirits in the name of Jesus.»

Mingana mentions the biography of hermit Yonan, the archimandrite of the Monastery of St. Thomas in India written by the end of the fourth century.

Apparently, the first to act on this idea were the anchorites of the Nile valley, those hairy, savage hermits of the third and fourth centuries, who periodically descended on the great cities of the valley (especially Alexandria) and, wielding their long gnarled sticks, set about beating up people and smashing everything in sight.

Distressed by the vices of the nominally Christian population, in his teens he left the city and adopted the life of a hermit.

Gregory Zilboorg, a convert himself and a skilled psychoanalyst, warned Merton in the 1950s that his desire to leave the Trappist communal silence for the even more withdrawn life of a hermit was schizophrenic: «You want a hermitage in Times Square with a large sign over it saying «Hhermit was schizophrenic: «You want a hermitage in Times Square with a large sign over it saying «HermitHermit.

From the monasteries many went forth, some as individuals to live as hermits, and others in groups, often of twelve with a leader in imitation of the Apostles and Christ.

See also Max Müller, Chips, IV, 188: «If he lived the life which is there described, few saints have a better claim to the title than Buddha; and no one either in the Greek or in the Roman Church need be ashamed of having paid to Buddha's memory the honor that was intended for St. Josaphat, the prince, the hermit, and the saint.»)

He read the Lives of the Fathers and wondered at the austerities of the desert hermits: «I used to imagine such a saint, who would live in the desert, and abstain from food and drink and live on a few vegetables and roots and cold water.»

In the late seventeenth and eighteenth century similar aspirations were felt from time to time, but the only conspicuous Anglican ascetic is the controversial theologian, spiritual guide, and mystical writer William Law, who would certainly have found his place as a monk, or perhaps a hermit, in other ages of the ChurcIn the late seventeenth and eighteenth century similar aspirations were felt from time to time, but the only conspicuous Anglican ascetic is the controversial theologian, spiritual guide, and mystical writer William Law, who would certainly have found his place as a monk, or perhaps a hermit, in other ages of the Churcin other ages of the Church.

I don't think I've ever had a hermit bar here in New England, but the flavoring sounds like one of my favorite regional cookies — the spice cookie.

«Out of the same brush pile we have flushed the common hermit thrush of the northeast, the one that comes from the western U.S. and a race common in Alaska.

It was in 1294, when the elderly hermit Pietro of Murrone, who had been elected as Celestine V after a two - year deadlock, abruptly resigned after five months and went back to being a hermit, a life he evidently preferred.

Also, the novelty of the method of assassination ensures that the hit becomes international news that is available to everyone else whom that government might want to exert pressure upon in the future (and a link to a verifiable third - party news clip could send the same message to hermits living on rocks who didn't catch this news the first time around).

Comparisons between the USSR and North Korea are all too frequent, yet it is highly unlikely that a potential collapse of the hermit kingdom would lead to a similar collapse in North Korean studies.

The recent defection to South Korea, of Deputy Ambassador to the UK, Tae Yong - ho, from the North Korean «embassy» in Acton, London has further raised the profile of this «hermit kingdom».

Plus, because walking coral fossils are easy to come by in Japan, she also wants «to reveal the evolutionary history of the symbioses of walking corals [with] sipunculans and hermit crabs by observing these fossils.»

In recent years scientists have found that members of many species, from hermit crabs to rats to fish, have unique dispositions, demonstrating consistent behavioral differences over time and across varying situations.

Other kinds of hermit crabs live in coral reefs, but typically move in and out of a series of mollusk shells as the crabs grow.

A new species of hermit crab discovered in the shallow waters of southern Japan has been enjoying the perks of living like a peanut worm.

A new species of hermit crab, Diogenes heteropsammicola (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura, Diogenidae), replaces a mutualistic sipunculan in a walking coral symbiosis.

In 1986, Ivan Chase of Stony Brook University made the first observations of hermit crabs exchanging shells in a «vacancy chain» — a term originally coined by social scientists to describe the ways that people trade coveted resources like apartments and jobIn 1986, Ivan Chase of Stony Brook University made the first observations of hermit crabs exchanging shells in a «vacancy chain» — a term originally coined by social scientists to describe the ways that people trade coveted resources like apartments and jobin a «vacancy chain» — a term originally coined by social scientists to describe the ways that people trade coveted resources like apartments and jobs.

Social context of shell acquisition in Coenobita clypeatus hermit crabs.

Other kinds of hermit crabs live in coral reefs, but typically move in and out of a series of mollusk shells as the crabs...

In experiments done at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute here, hermit crabs living in highly acidic conditions did not show the increased boldness of Munday's clown fish, but they took far longer to withdraw into their shells than normal when they came under attack from a potential predator (in this case, a toy octopusIn experiments done at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute here, hermit crabs living in highly acidic conditions did not show the increased boldness of Munday's clown fish, but they took far longer to withdraw into their shells than normal when they came under attack from a potential predator (in this case, a toy octopusin highly acidic conditions did not show the increased boldness of Munday's clown fish, but they took far longer to withdraw into their shells than normal when they came under attack from a potential predator (in this case, a toy octopusin this case, a toy octopus).

ONCE described as the finest sound in nature, for centuries birdwatchers have compared the song of the North American hermit thrush to human music.

Bruno Gingras (University of Vienna) and Dominik Endres (Philipps University of Marburg) then used two different statistical methods to demonstrate that the notes of the hermit thrush song were, in most cases, simple integer multiples of a base frequency, corresponding to an overtone series.