Sentences with phrase «of character deaths»

The ghastly subject matter and explicitly gruesome nature of some character deaths would be disturbing to witness if the grizzly scenes weren't offset by the adorably stylized, bobbleheaded nature of the characters themselves.

The pages of Injustice: Gods Among Us have seen their fair share of character deaths, but none seem to have drawn the short straw quite like the Green Lantern Corps.

Vanessa's resurrection means that almost all of the character deaths in Deadpool don't really matter.

In a film which involves a lot of character deaths, it seems like the Token Minority will...

Unlike their superhero comics counterparts, the MCU has held strong respecting the permanence and impact of character death.

Not exact matches

But that's the situation that fans of the critically - acclaimed NBC drama This Is Us found themselves in after Tuesday's episode, in which the long - anticipated death of a leading character (actor Milo Ventimiglia's Jack) is hinted to ended up coming at the hands of a faulty slow - cooker, of all things.

What it's about: Another Disney hit, «Bambi» uses an all - animal cast of characters in a story about a white - tailed deer, his animals friends, and a haunting death in the family.

Theological tradition speaks in this connection about a «quasi-sacramental character» in matrimony, because a person is permitted to contract a new marriage after the death of the spouse, but not while the spouse is alive.

and apologies to all the pagans that had their spring fertility festival stolen by the christians with the blatantly copied story from other previous cultures of the death and 3 days later resurrection of their god character.

Since the Second Vatican Council's Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, which called for funeral rites to «express more clearly the paschal character of Christian death,» the homilies and general aura of Catholic funerals have often ignored Purgatory and instead canonized the deceased among the heavenly blessed....

Since last week, I've been thinking about how differently my life and / or the world (all mankind) might have been, had I / we been taught what has been revealed to me over the last 20 + years and now know in my mind / heart is the truth / gospel for me, about Father God's love, character and nature, the death of Jesus and Salvation.

Groups of young friends who go to see some of the more death - focused horror films in vogue of late will routinely take bets on which stock character will face a grisly end soonest, as when viewing the Final Destination series» a film series that is, essentially, the apex of the set - piece disaster horror movie as orchestrated by MacGyver.

In this tenth anniversary year of Fr Edward Holloway's death Fr Kevin Douglas delineates the character of the «new synthesis» which Holloway spent much of his life trying to foster.

Death is one of the major characters in the biblical drama.

I am sick to death of hearing that distortion of God's character thrown at the gay community.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, writing from prison shortly before his death, addressed his godson, Dietrich Bethge, on the occasion of the infant's baptism, which he could not witness: «Music, as your parents understand and practice it, will help to dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibility, and in times of care and sorrow will keep a ground - base of joy alive in you.

Thomas's answer to this question (in ST1.75.6) sounds occasionally like the position Plato sets out in the Phaedo, where the character Socrates argues that the concept of the soul — and, presumably, also its being — is so tied up with life as not to admit of its opposite, death [105C8 - E10].

His love evidently had the character of absolute devotion, even to the suffering of persecution and death; his interest was a perpetual obsession; his admiration was worship.

In some sense, indeed, Kierkegaard's life could be written as a kind of dark comedy; despite his premature death, and a great number of sadnesses that afflicted him along the way, there was something enchantingly absurd about his character, a certain benign perversity that often prompted him to make himself willfully ridiculous, and a peculiarly touching element of the ludicrous that clung to him all the way to his early grave.

Last night, Milo Ventimiglia, star of the hit drama This Is Us, appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live, and of course, his character Jack's untimely death came up.

In Allen's play Death, a central character is cajoled into joining a search party for a killer on the loose but never sees any organized method employed and is never sure of his role in the search.

The Death of God theology and other developments of the late sixties changed the character of the discussion.

Jesus has every right to point out the shortcomings of his Bride because he proved his authority in that area through his love unto death, his undying devotion and commitment no matter what she looks like, and his willingness to be actively involved in bringing out her beauty and maturing her character.

While the first clutch of episodes mainly focused on aristocratic social issues, the second series features a string of shocking plot twists, including the surprise deaths of several major characters.

The great missionary God expresses his love for the world he has created by sending his Son, who reveals the character of that sending through his death on the cross.

In these words the «holiness,» that is, the supernatural character, of the Messianic community is directly related to the saving fact of the death of Christ.

It is a commentary on the other - worldly character of the orthodox form of Christianity we have inherited, that the very term «Christian hope» has come to be used almost exclusively for what the Christian expects to enter into on the other side of death.

It's difficult to critique this in a spoiler - free way, but to use the example of A New Hope, while the Death Star was a looming, terrifying presence throughout, the big threat to our heroes in this film seems to appear quite late in the day, and seems more important as a plot device to bring key characters together than a genuinely gripping menace.

This basically mirrors the scene in Mission to Mars between the characters played by Tim Robbins and Connie Nelson, whereby the death of one leads to a void whereby the other is willing to act in a heroic and self - sacrificial manner.

Nearly all the themes of the Johannine theology are contained here: obedience unto death as the meaning of God's glory in Christ; the disciples» being in, but not of, the world; the revelation to the disciples of the true character («name,» verse 6) of God in Christ; their mission, their unity in love, and their present and future relation to God and to Christ.

The Book and the Brotherhood, for instance runs to more than 600 pages; it has at least eight major characters; and its themes include love and the failures of love, death, belief and disbelief in God, friendship, Marxism, and the social condition of contemporary...

[5] The rite of burial should be revised to show more clearly the paschal character of Christian death.

Although Jesus» death is important for Paul, it seems important here chiefly as an indication of the radical character of Jesus» faithfulness.

We have seen that it was because of the recognition of the real and all - embracing character of death that the hope of a general resurrection took such firm root in later Judaism.

In general, the Christian feeling for the solidarity of believers and the expressions of this in prayer and devotion can stimulate relational theology to maximize the social - organic character of its reflection, and thus present death as less of an atomistic event and more as an occasion in a society of events that share a real union through internal relations.

There are a lot of character issues from my unredeemed self that needed (and need) to be put to death.

In a gripping passage of Infinite Jest, one character observes that for recovering alcoholics, pathetically unironic and gauche expressions like «one day at a time» can make the difference between life and death.

James Davison Hunter pointed this out a decade ago in The Death of Character: Any truly formative education needs to be oriented by a substantive specification of the Good.

The episode involved the death of scores of characters, including many of the central leads.

For those who take shelter in Christ, who stand with the One who was bullied to the point of death on a cross, should display his kindness and character.

There has been much controversy on life after death, hell, the existence of God, the «right religion», the laws of God, the character of God, Christians, and much more.

The question under debate is whether the character of Job is here intentionally represented as affirming faith that he will achieve his justification with God in life beyond death; or whether the redeemer is in the original sense of the word (in Hebrew, go'el), the kinsman who, in this case, succeeds in ultimately exonerating Job.

In Hebrews, the sacrificial character of His death is described in the Psalmist's words, «Lo, I am come to do Thy will, 0 God» (x. 5 - 9); and for this writer His trials and temptations, (Heb.

But in none of these writings is there any sustained attempt to give an eschatological interpretation to the facts of the ministry of Jesus apart from His passion, death, and resurrection, even though all three writers are aware that His death was the final expression of a character and a moral purpose which displayed itself in His whole incarnate life.

It declares the substitutionary character of Christ's death and his desperate loneliness.

The Book and the Brotherhood, for instance runs to more than 600 pages; it has at least eight major characters; and its themes include love and the failures of love, death, belief and disbelief in God, friendship, Marxism, and the social condition of contemporary Britain.

I am avoiding naming that event «resurrection» because this was simply the only category at hand among Jesus» followers for dealing with the radically new character of this singular overcoming of death's finality.

There is a limit which stands not only at the end of human life as death, but which is built into the structure of human life by virtue of its creaturely character.

I'll remember the grace and mercy and loving - kindness in His character, and I'll pray to a Father who can give the blind eyes to see and who is working even now to create a world free of pain, suffering, crying or death, where many tribes worship as one, holy people.

Especially the theme of God's word and promise, but also those of exodus, redemption, covenant, justice, wisdom, of the Logos made flesh, of the Spirit poured out on the face of creation, of the compassion, paternity and maternity of God, and especially the Trinitarian character of God — all of the indispensable elements in a Christian theology — communicate their depth only when they are united with the theme of divine self - abnegation which, at least to Christian faith, comes to its most explicit expression in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus?