Sentences with phrase «of classic point»

Two XBLA releases this week; the first person shooter Blacklight: Tango Down and the remake of the classic point and click adventure Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck's Revenge.

Instead, we discovered a game that features a nice blend of classic point & click adventuring along with mini-games and fragmented object scenes.

In just a few short scenes, Powerhoof communicate a strong framework and a powerful sense of paranoia and despair that are true to both the mechanical genre of classic point - and - click adventure games, and the narrative genre of sci - fi survival horror.

It combines all the elements of a classic point and click adventure game and includes funny dialog puzzles, exploration, wacky inventory items, and of course, a rope.

If you are a fan of classic point and click adventures like the Monkey Island series, you will enjoy Thimbleweed Parks, characters, story, puzzles and gameplay.

The first part of Double Fine's crowd - funded game Broken Age gave us a new tale in the style of classic point and click adventure games.

Of course the same accusation can be levelled at a lot of classic point and click games, but times have changed and this genre thrives on its story and characters.

When I heard that Tim Schafer and the folks at Double Fine Productions would be reviving some of the classic point - and - click adventure games from the «90s, my ears perked up.

Rufus is an idiot, but he's a likable idiot and Goal very nearly manages to topple the lovely Trip from Enslaved as the virtual love of my life, but underneath the charming characters, humor and absolutely gorgeous graphics lies the beating heart of a classic point and click game.

If you were a fan of classic point - and - click adventure games like King's Quest, Space Quest, or Monkey Island, you'll want to grab this one.

I think I'll add a pair of classic pointed toe Jimmy Choo low heel boots, and a Mansur Gavriel tote as well.

Not exact matches

Called «Seeso,» the service will launch widely in January, at which point members can pay $ 3.99 per month for ad - free access to a full library NBC comedy programming — from new episodes of Saturday Night Live and Jimmy Fallon's The Tonight Show to all past episodes of classic shows like The Office and 30 Rock — along with a slate of new original series and stand - up comedy specials.

At a price point that makes this sustainable solution accessible to the average consumer, Fair Harbor board shorts are the perfect example of classic style with a eco-friendly twist.

For example, a restaurant or cafe would do well to replace a classic point of sale system with a mobile iPad POS that allows servers a much greater flexibility in assisting their clients.

The billionaire investor also pointed to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos as the «classic example» of someone who knows how to delight his customers.

The other major change from the original SNES with the Super NES Classic Edition is the inclusion of a function called «suspend points.»

However, since most stocks are already too extended to the downside in the near - term, it is crucial to wait for a decent bounce before initiating new short positions (be sure to review this classic blog post for the key points of my short selling strategy).

: A classic point of contention for risk parity is that interest rates, in general, are too low, and that while the approach may have performed well in the past, it is only because of an historic bond rally, which is unlikely to happen again.

We are at a classic tipping point when it comes to the secret squandering of Canadian tax dollars.

The best - known display of a hard fork without full support (and its failure or success depending on point of view), the two networks (ethereum and ethereum classic) now both operate separately, commanding about as much value as they did before.

Jeff makes the point that the classic bubbles of yesterday gained 1000 % or more, but they did so over at least 10 years, which is why they became so embedded in the economy and so widespread across investor portfolios.

All Points West is boasting a stellar lineup for its first year of existence, including RELEVANT favorites like Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals and The Roots, newcomers like Duffy, and some unconventional festivals acts like Rodrigo y Gabriela and Trey Anastasio and the Classic Tab.

Secular autobiography and the classic novel are unimaginable without the superior point of view of a narrator looking back on a life of errancy that will lead to a transformative experience, which will in turn produce self - understanding.

In this way of conceiving evangelicalism the issues may be focused on questions of anthropology where the basic starting point is an Augustinian tradition of human inability (the «bondage of the will») leading as a necessary consequence to the classic Reformation articulations of election and predestination.

The interface of classical and Christian culture has its obvious pivot point in Augustine, of whom Brown has written a classic study

Werner Jaeger, who has written the classic history of the idea of paideia, [2] pointed out in a later book on Early Christianity and Greek Paideia that Clement not only uses literary forms and types of argument calculated to sway people formed by paideia but, beyond that, he explicitly praises paideia in such a way as to make it clear that his entire epistle is to be taken «as an act of Christian education.»

In that article I pointed to those classic documents that unmistakably define the special character of the American faith, the documents from which I have just quoted.

assume that there is only one — to the point, as I have discovered of late, that some people are immensely relieved when they learn that there are other explanations of the cross, and that Anselm's classic expression of the atonement in Cur Deus Homo?

I will return to these themes below, but for now my point is a simple one: Catholic moral theology needs to reestablish a connection with the broader and deeper just war tradition, and especially with the form given that tradition in the classic period of its development.

You've pointed out a classic cycle of miscommunication between you and padre.

Jesus of the Gospel accounts was compatible with the classic confession of the true humanity o There my point was that the book's emphasis on the concrete historical - political humanity of the f Christ (i.e., the core meaning of «incarnation»), whereas those who deny that humanity (or its normative exemplarity) in favor of «some more spiritual» message are implicitly Docetic.

Perhaps Ridley Scott is making a point that movies like Lawrence of Arabia teach human excellence in its complexity better than his own movies do — even a classic like Alien.

This is classic Obama — point your fingers at someone else and don't accept responsibility for the actions of those under your watch.

Although White is absolutely right about the tendency of today's animated films (Tangled included) to pander to the most annoying and depressing aspects of popular culture even as they ignore or deny the richer, deeper culture from which most classic fairy tales emerged, the animated features that Disney brought to the screen when Uncle Walt himself still oversaw the studio made a point of drawing considerable aesthetic, emotional, and narrative power from specifically Christian aspects of the culture that, even today, America shares with Europe.

It's a classic moment in Lost history because it perfectly encapsulates John and Jack's characters, and because it points to a predicament to which we can all relate: Some of us really struggle to accept things on faith, while others seem to find it easy.

A major point in Kass's arguments against research cloning is that it is a classic slippery slope, allowing the development of the biological tools necessary for reproductive cloning, which is sure to happen when those tools are in place.

He makes two fine points: First, regardless of inner desires, we Christians are accountable to behavioral standards set forth in classic Christian sexual ethics, which inevitably revolve around the Christian teaching on marriage; and second, the current definitions of internal desires are a mess.

The new Lion King movie saw a lot of hype stirred up for its casting announcements last year, but now, it looks like Disney fans will have a new point of attachment to the live - action remake of the 90s classic.

At the same time, though, our own particular way of putting questions to the sources that are believed to contain a revelatory word will cause other hidden riches in these classic sources to go unnoticed by us, and it is the merit of Barth's theology to have emphasized this point.

Perhaps it would help clarify the point if I noted that, in my 1987 book Tranquillitas Ordinis, I «translated» St. Augustine's classic definition of peace as «the peace of dynamic and rightly ordered political community.»

11 Cone acknowledged that, in fact, his position is «in company with all the classic theologies of the Christian tradition,» though, of course, with a different point of departure: the plight of the oppressed.12 Biblically, he focused on the redemptive suffering of Jesus (coupled with his resurrection as a defeat of suffering) and expressed the eschatological point that God has in fact defeated the powers of evil even though we still encounter them and are called to fight against them, «becoming God's suffering servants in the world.»

Further, much as he admired the United States — a civilization, he felt, full of reverberations of the realities to which he was trying to point in Integral Humanism — Maritain never fully grappled with such classics of American political economy as The Federalist, his fellow Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America, or the writings of Abraham Lincoln.

Mary — I hope you are well educated yourself... I'm not disputing your point but you really should know that «alot» is not a word... It's «a lot», not «alot»... That non-word has become the classic sign of an uneducated internet poster.

One of the points of DAMSELS is that the social dancing practices of Society that made the deb balls possible, and which dance-wise received a brief revival / reworking during the classic disco era — i.e., musically and socially reworked in a more democratic and improvised manner — are now almost completely dead.

De Bary also points out how John Erskine, one of the pioneers of the new program at Columbia, though he had little knowledge of Asian cultures, felt that a core curriculum based only on Western classics was inadequate for the global world in which we live.

I should agree with Buri and I should say that the point of the Christian gospel is to «re-present», as Ogden puts it, that possibility; to «re-present» it in starkly human terms, under human conditions, in Jesus as what I like to style «the classic instance» of what God is always «up to», rather than the totally other or the sheer anomaly, as so many (including Bultmann, presumably) would wish to regard him.

This subject was an Oxford graduate, the son of a clergyman, and the story resembles in many points the classic case of Colonel Gardiner, which everybody may be supposed to know.

(At a few points we are also treated to gentle but decisive explanations of just how Disney adaptations have compromised - and in some cases eviscerated - the original moral content of some classic tales: Bambi, The Little Mermaid, and Pinocchio.)

C.S. Lewis in his classic The Four Loves points out the necessity of «lesser loves.»

Just before describing (and dismissing) the proposed link between prostate cancer and contraceptive pills, a classic «falsehood» embraced by traditional - minded conservatives, Stepp points out that «the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, counts contraception as one of the 10 greatest health achievements of the 20th century.»