Sentences with phrase «of age story in»

It's a coming of age story in Afghanistan before the Soviet invasion and the Taliban.

Cousins Mariko and Jillian Tamaki re-team for their first collaboration since «Skim» to tell a coming of age story in «This One Summer.»

A coming of age story in an eerily altered world, Age of Miracles is a well written, easily read novel about how life goes on.

A fine one night coming of age story in the tradition of American Graffiti, Dazed and Confused and Can't Hardly Wait.

Mud told a coming of age story in a film that's — to me - nearly unparalleled to many of the other films out this year and with a young lead who more than carried the film.

Not exact matches

It's a great story to read along to at any age, but I particularly loved seeing a group of friends in a vulnerable time in life (and a hyper - vulnerable station in life) come together and show each other the loyalty they couldn't get anywhere else.

Netflix description: «Two groups of high school misfits — the AV club and the drama club — collide in this quirky coming - of - age story set in 1996 Oregon.»

In the age of social media, an employee or customer with a cell phone can be a company whistle - blower, choosing to trigger a media story and investigation.

The story points to Care - A-Van, a mobile clinic, which recently set up shop in a parking lot among BMWs and Teslas to battle this epidemic of advanced aging in Silicon Valley.

Sure, there's still crime - fighting and high - tech gear, as in any superhero film these days, but focusing on Parker's vulnerability, and creating a relatable coming - of - age story, seems to be what makes this Spider - Man special.

In his new book, The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation (Penguin), Jon Gertner vividly tells the story of the transistor, as well as the dozens of other innovations that rolled out of Bell Labs.

According to a story in The Atlantic, college dropouts over the age of 25 are 71 percent more likely to be unemployed, and four times more likely to default on their student loans.

In the summer of 1983 Foster's leveraged net worth paid for 500,000 square feet of medieval - looking foundries, 200,000 square feet of ramshackle storage warehouses, a couple dozen creaky overhead cranes, four two - story electric furnaces, and countless other pieces of aging appurtenances.

As Hitched.com editor Steve Cooper put it in a rebuttal to the Facebook divorce stories, this has been the case since the times of our caveman friend Blaaarggg: «I'm sure at some point during the Stone Age a woman was frustrated because her mate wouldn't step away from the fire and come to bed.

A friend of mine is one of the people who would have answered «yes» to the GEM survey, and his story is probably pretty common in this age of downsizing and restructuring.

He is the author of The Recession - Proof Business: Lessons from the Greatest Recession Success Stories of All Time, Extreme Revenue Growth: Startup Secrets to Growing Your Sales from $ 1 Million to $ 25 Million in Any Industry, and Bookmercial Marketing: Why Books Replace Brochures in the Credibility Age.

In the age of social media, how do you ensure that customers share positive stories about interactions with your employees?

During his time with Ad Age, he has been recognized with the Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award for best range of work by a single author, as well as a Best in Business award for a feature story from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.

«Whether it was the use of hotels instead of supportive care to house youth like Alex Gervais, or the heartbreaking story of Paige Gauthier whose belongings were dropped off in a black garbage bag at her last known school when she aged out, Mary Ellen gave British Columbians a window into the stories of children and youth being failed by the Christy Clark government.

Long story short — she insisted we sell everything the next day (which was also a significant down day); we eventually re-entered the market; I retired at age 53 in 1995; and today, my IRA is 3.5 times greater than at retirement (in spite of zero new $ $ $, 2 more market crashes, and 2 significant RMDs).

«The opioid epidemic is intertwined with the story of declining prime - age participation, especially for men, and this reinforces our doubts about a rebound in the participation rate,» Mericle said.

The development of social buyer personas today must tell the story of the social buyer in the social age.

Christians trying to be relevant often add story - telling to their «evangelism toolbox» because of how effectively it can be used to convey the gospel in an age without absolutes.

While many of the news stories about this report focused on figures showing a tendency for numbers of religious believers to increase with age, the figures also showed the overall percentage of religious believers declined in most countries, showing an increase in only three:

A companion story to this same type of discontent by this age group is presented in the book UnChristian by David Kinnman.

As the organization grew, Johnson felt a hunger to step out and share his story with people who are uncertain, or ex-Christ-followers, struggling with belief in an age where evangelicalism seems to have given up its core values in the name of bringing alleged child molester, Roy Moore, into the Senate.

I usually begin by sharing a little of my own story, and then I point to research conducted by the Barna Group in which young adults, ages 18 - 29 were asked the same question.

This accessible book is especially strong in countering New Age and other esoteric renderings of the Jesus story.

In terms of forming our own thoughts, we are not the ones running to a book of iron age (or older) stories for «truth»

Ambersons tells the story of George Amberson Minafer, a spoiled young man coming of age at a time of upheaval in his fictional Midwest hometown (modeled on Tarkington's Indianapolis), and headed for a «comeuppance» as the world changes and his Gilded Age lifestyle collapsage at a time of upheaval in his fictional Midwest hometown (modeled on Tarkington's Indianapolis), and headed for a «comeuppance» as the world changes and his Gilded Age lifestyle collapsAge lifestyle collapses.

(iii) you are a complete blowhard who has never studied one subject of university level biology, never been on an archaeological dig, never studied a thing about paleontology, geology, astronomy, linguistics or archaeology, but feel perfectly sure that you know more than the best biologists, archaeologists, paleontologists, doctors, astronomers botanists and linguists in the World because your mommy and daddy taught you some comforting stories from Bronze Age Palestine as a child.

it's in buildings like these that children are systematically mentally abused as parents and priests brainwash them with bronze age fairy stories and the threat of eternal fire and torment if they don't believe.

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For my own children, in this video - gaming age, what those fictional children get away with is simply unimaginable, except as the stories themselves seed the imagination, and the lives of the characters work their way into the life of the real child, enlarging that child's world.

When I'm writing the stories about a few of these homeless and runaway teens, I'm thinking in terms of kids out on the streets without their families, kids that mostly fall into the thirteen to eighteen or twenty age group.

It wasn't just about the subject matter — although it's tricky to write about such a tender and intimate time in a person's life, to tell your own story while still holding space for stories that are so different than your own, to attempt to shepherd people well in the liminal spaces of their faith journeys — but it was also just the season of life with being pregnant with our fourth and then giving birth and suddenly having four tinies between the ages of 9 and newborn meant I had a lot less time with a lot less energy (and even less sleep!)

Christians find such moments narrated especially in the Bible, and they find there innumerable stories directing them to trust, now in the present, the promise of a future given ages ago but still not fully attained.

Such chronicles have always been fraught with ambiguity and the possibility of misinterpretation, however, and such reckonings have generally been disapproved by the church; Origen and Augustine, among many others, both argued that many of the ages chronicled in the OT are simply of unknowable length, and went on to note that the «days» of the creation story simply can not be «days» in the ordinary sense of the term as the sun isn't created until the fourth «day».

everything in the universe evolves, not only life forms but also memes, Religion is a meme so it also change in conformity to its era or time of its conception as faith.Because in pre scientific times thousands of years ago, the scientific method of approach or philosophy has not existed yet, myth or merely story telling is considered facts, The first religion called animism more than 10,000 years ago believed that spirits or god exists in trees, rivers, mountains, boulders or in any places people at that time considered holy.hundreds of them, then when the Greeks and Romans came, it was reduced to 12, they called it polytheism, when the Jews arrived, it was further reduced to 1, monotheism.its derivatives, Christianity And Islam and later hundreds of denominations that includes Mormonism and Protestants flourished up to today.So in short this religions evolved in accordance to the scientific knowledge of the age or era they existed.If you graph the growth of knowledge, it shows a sharp increase in the last 500 years, forcing the dominant religions at that time to reinterprete their dogmas, today this traditional religions are becoming obsolete and has to evolve to survive.But first they have to unify against atheism.in the dialectical process of change, Theism in one hand and the opposing force atheism in the other, will resolve into a result or synthesis.The process shall be highlighted in the internet in the near future.

Rauschenbusch's story of the true meaning of Christianity is archetypically Protestant: The original purity of faith was lost and obscured by later corruptions, only to be discovered anew in our age.

It is an age which accepts a corporate sense of responsibility: the guilt (or the merit — see the story of Abraham's intercession for Sodom and Gomorrah in ch.

No less than other stories in the Jacob cycle, it reflects the background of the patriarchal age — frictions between groups (Hamor and Jacob); a level of sexual morality beyond the reach of our judgment and in any judgment ennobled by the integrity of Hamor and the love of his son for Dinah; the effort on the part of both families to effect a peaceful settlement honoring the religious sensibilities of the abused; the despicable violation of the terms of agreement by two of Jacob's sons; and finally, in perfect consonance with the general character of Jacob, his sharp rebuke of his sons not on moral but on utilitarian grounds:

Orlando is, unambiguously, a champion of an imperiled Christendom; his stories certainly can not be resituated (in the manner of contemporary Arthuriana) in a realm of fatuous New Age pantheism.

Our story of Judah and his daughter - in - law Tamar, as also in fact the book of Ruth, indicates that in early Israel the levirate obligation might be extended to any near male relative.9 We note finally that this is a good story, not, obviously, in the sense that it is morally elevating (it candidly reflects the morality of the age), but in the remarkably graphic portrayal of character, especially Tamar, the deft integration of plot, and the skillful employment of suspense.

The next decade found Scorsese expanding into directing studio remakes (The Color of Money, Cape Fear) along with passion projects (The Last Temptation of Christ and Age of Innocence), while returning to the stories of criminals in the heralded epics of Goodfellas and Casino.

religious people are some of the smartest people in the world but they still believe in a magical sky fairy and in the wors of a bronze age story book written by goat herders with no concept of science.

No, obviously an invisible man in the sky magically created the entire universe 6000 years ago, in a series of contradicting events, as laid out in a bronze age collection of spoken - word stories.

It is most lively and productive to think of one body of literature, the Bible, representing in any time and place the testimony of the narrative stretching from Abraham to the Apostles, which can be juxtaposed to any other age by its Psalms being sung again, its letters being read again, its stories and parables being retold.

And in some ways it is easier to dramatize some rare, grim disease in a TV story than it is to depict the relative banalities of old age.

Then in the juxtaposition of those stories with our stories there leaps the spark of the Spirit, illuminating parallels and contrasts, to give us the grace to see our age in God's light and God's truth in our words.