Sentences with phrase «of early character»

We're just posting interesting examples of early character designs that likely wouldn't have been seen otherwise.

This was part of his early character, with one of Angle's signature moves even labeled the «Olympic Slam» for much longer than you would have expected given how protective that organization tends to be with their name.

Here we would see some of the early characters — Dux (the duck), Selma (human), and Bormin (the boar)-- head out and attack a small compound out in the wasteland known as The Zone.

Not exact matches

Kevin Conroy has basically become «the voice» of the Dark Knight, doing the character for «Batman: The Animated Series» in the early 1990s and almost everything else related to Batman in animation and video games.

Nintendo finally announced its entry into mobile last year and earlier this year decided to bring some of its popular characters to mobile.

If you had small children growing up in the early noughties you will remember the catch phrase of children's TV character Bob the Builder.

The problem is a board and top executive team that don't always appear to have control of its wide - ranging cast of characters, including founders who have attained near - celebrity status (another co-founder, Biz Stone, is a regular on NPR, and earlier this year Dorsey was profiled in Vanity Fair), headstrong and divisive managers, and investors used to getting their way.

Early PCs relied on a code called ASCII, which took care of most of the characters used in Western European languages.

«In addition to my well known differences with Donald Trump on public policy issues, I have raised questions about his character after his comments on Prisoners of War, the Khan Gold Star family, Judge Curiel and earlier inappropriate comments about women.

In the works since early September, the UA deal has left Wagner and Cruise «completely open right now» to all varieties of film projects, Wagner told TIME, «ranging from high concept to smaller, character - driven films.»

As readers of Austen's early 19th century fiction, such as Pride and Prejudice, will know, the characters (usually the overbearing mothers) referred to a man's value in England's early 19th century on an annuitized basis.

Earlier this month in his outlook for September, the head of the world's largest bond shop employed the Lindy dance craze, former Citigroup CEO Chuck Prince, the Wimpy cartoon character and his «dying cult of equity» argument in a mash - up of prose to describe the «age of inflation that is upon us,» which he claims typically «provides a headwind, not a tailwind, to securities prices in both stocks and bonds.»

The Obama Administration's Wall Street managers have kept the debt overhead in place — toxic mortgage debt, junk bonds, and most seriously, the novel web of collateralized debt obligations (CDO), credit default swaps (almost monopolized by A.I.G.) and kindred financial derivatives of a basically mathematical character that have developed in the 1990s and early 2000s.

An online video that came out in late August features the same characters in a throwback to toy ads from the late 80s or early 90s, and was more of a way to introduce the Giant Jr. name.

Most of the earliest monetized transactions were public in character.

I quite often treat this blog like a diary, so sometimes I'll stray away from talking about my personal finance and share my current thoughts, I'll be excited to go back and read some old post when the years go by, and it will help me reflect on the overall journey that has been experienced, because as great as the end goal of early retirement is, I would imagine the character developed through such a process has more then just monetary value.

If Jesus existed (and that is not a given since his name means «salvation,» he's probably an allegorical character), and if the stories about his visit to Jerusalem early in the reign of Pontius Pilate are true, he died because he was an anti-Roman insurgent, probably involved in a Zealot uprising over the use of the Temple treasury to finance the construction of an aqueduct.

As for why they invented the character of the messiah: The original gospels employ the cadence of mystery plays (an early form of theater).

Beyond our parish, too, the Church Revival was taking anti-Soviet forms, corresponding to the democratic character of the early post-Soviet state.

And perhaps most significantly we should notice that some would trace the emergence of early forms of biblical criticism to Pietism and its attack on the abstract doctrinal character of orthodoxy.

A more thoroughgoing awareness of the nature of imperial ideology in the New Testament world should also lead us to think again about the political character of the early Christian communities.

By this Huizinga does not mean to equate culture and play but only to suggest that «in its earliest phases culture has the play - character, that it proceeds in the shape and mold of play.

Women of the early Church gave witness to Christ in boldness of speech, purity of character, and even the final sacrifice of martyrdom.

@Chad «no serious scholar buys into that nonsense: The Christ myth theory (also known as Jesus mythicism, the Jesus myth theory and the nonexistence hypothesis) is the idea that Jesus of Nazareth was not a historical person, but is a fictional or mythological character created by the early Christian community.

Adding insult to injury — and an instance of unplannable irony — O'Reilly's latest book, Old School, released earlier this month, a kind of manifesto on «old school» character — and, yes, chivalry.

Regarding Jesus celebrating passover a day early, it certainly wouldn't be out of character for him to take something that was essentially Jewish, break the rules a bit and redefine it around himself...!

With the ferocity of an Old Testament prophet, Powers indicts our blindness and selfishness, a grotesque narrowing of vision; one of his principal characters learns early on that «human wisdom counts less than the shimmer of birches in a breeze.»

On his return to England, Newman was approached by some Catholic parents and asked to found a school, along the lines of the traditional Public Schools but Catholic in character, and the result was the Oratory School, which still continues today and is the subject of Shrimpton's earlier work A Catholic Eton?

Like an earlier woman mystic, Hildegard of Bingen (1098 - 1179), Julian stressed the motherly character of God's love and said that God is really a Mother as well as a Father.

Another theme found in an earlier writing, which Bonhoeffer developed later in the letters, is the provincial, limited character of religion, in contrast to genuine faith which encompasses the whole life.

Earlier we found that Marx's critique of religion is derived from a detailed analysis of the manifestation of nineteenth century religion, and his negation of religion has a predominantly social character.

Unlike the rainbow, the sign of God's earlier covenant with Noah and all life after the Flood — which addressed only the preservation of life rather than its moral character and which accordingly demanded nothing from man in return — circumcision is an unnatural sign, both artificial and conventional.

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.

In a word, just as the earliest Christian community rested back firmly and surely on the historical reality of Jesus, so there has never been a time in the subsequent history of the church, regardless of how ideally Jesus may have been conceived, when a demonstration of his merely mythical character would not have struck at the foundations of its life.

Mantel's early experiences explain not only her richly ambivalent attitude toward her Tudor characters, but also her impressive «negative capability» as their artist — her ability, that is, out of the small circle of her original family, either to play or to cast all the parts.

It is roughly from the end of the first century, when the earliest Christian proclamations were already requiring some reinterpretation, that some aspects of the ancient character of religion began slowly to return.

By proceeding on the assumption that people are what they are to a large degree because of their basic character structure, a structure which was formed in the very early years of life, psychotherapy has been able to release many from the vicious cycle of guilt and compulsion which has made self - determination impossible.

In the early modern period, political thinkers formulated a new conception of natural law, whose distinctive character has defined a distinctively modern tradition of thought about natural or human rights.

4 An actual occasion, however, is not completely self - realized; for part of its determinate character is given to it by the objectification of earlier occasions (PR 489).

As we have earlier remarked, the characters in Genesis speak their own lines, lines in immediate contact with the realities of their own existence, as well as the lines of the theological drama of God's concern in love to reconcile man and himself.

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 Christian character of the early American Protestant colleges was nothing very reflective.

He describes his work simply as that of making pictures for Christians, and he gives the impression that he works in the spirit of those early medieval artisans who carved biblical characters on capitals and reredos to remind worshipers of well - known stories.

It was this social and critical dimension, understood as an intrinsic part of evangelical and pietistic commitment, that gave the early missionary movement its distinctive character.

According to Deadline, filmmaker Jared Hess (the director of comedies including Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre) will direct NickToons, an adventure comedy featuring characters from «90s and early 2000s Nick shows including Rocko's Modern Life, Rugrats, The Angry Beavers, Ren & Stimpy, Aaahh!

I firmly believe that the character of our country is stronger now than it was in our nation's early formative years.

In a study of his earlier pictures, Kolker notes that «Scorsese is interested in the psychological manifestations of individuals who are representative either of a class or of a certain ideological grouping; he is concerned with their relationship to each other or to an antagonistic environment... [and finally] there is no triumph for his characters» (A Cinema of Loneliness [Oxford University Press, 19881, p. 162) The Jesus of the Last Temptation fits this pattern (as do Travis Bickel in Taxi Driver, Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull and Paul Hackett in After Hours) By eschewing any reference to a resurrection — and, in an interesting theological note, allowing Paul to suggest that his preaching of the risen Christ is more important than the Jesus of history — Scorsese presents the crucifixion as the final willful act of a man driven by a God who makes strange demands on his followers.

Unlike many of the early church fathers who, under the influence of Greek philosophy, sought to identify the image of God with human reason, Niebuhr, following Augustine, saw the image of God as the self - conscious and self - transcendent character of man's whole self.

Yet, to repeat another point made earlier, if these constraints themselves become too rigid, as they often do in the unfolding of a religious tradition, then the communication flow becomes so burdened with redundancy that it loses any truly informational (in this case, revelatory) character and decays into the transmission of mere banality.

Such a statement hardly does full justice to the remarkable character of this occurrence, since by the use of the term «renewal» it suggests something of a return to an earlier condition.