Sentences with phrase «of green»

Do YOU have a «choice» to buy that the moon is made of green cheese?

The moon is made of green cheese.

It was a special privilege for me to attend the formal publication of the green encyclical by Pope Francis on June 18, 2015.

Trying to convince someone the new Anne of Green Gables remake is legit is almost like going to work and bragging about how great the front - row seats were for the...

I've watched Anne of Green Gables twice a year every year since 1985.

However, books certainly aren't the limit of Green's impact and influence.

We find ourselves living during a time of a green revolution, a time when people are shopping locally, driving their cars less and simply being more environmentally conscious.

Suffice to say: self - confessed «nerds» around the world, people perhaps a little like Hazel and Augustus, who don't quite fit in but want a full life and a better future, have found purpose and fellowship through the pioneering leadership of the Green brothers.

Then the fields of Esdraelon slope up toward Galilee in an immense checkerboard of green and brown, while through a break in the hills distant Hermon looks down from its snows upon the idyllic scene.

Who will try to salvage the human wreckage of the green felt jungle?

It is not surprising then that after an exhaustive study of the impact of the green revolution in five countries, Keith Griffin concluded that the transfer of capital - intensive, market - oriented technology not only had little positive effect on malnutrition, but actually increased the range of inequality, wiped out many subsistence farmers (usually women in most of the poorer countries), and plunged them further into destitution.

But while «the moon is made of green cheese» may have been unverifiable — remember, this was in 1935 — and may be an altogether silly thing to say, we all know perfectly well what it means.

Surveying the sea of green plants rustling in a pleasant breeze, the 43 - year - old describes what he feels: «A knife in my heart.»

They will be adorned therein with bracelets of gold, and will wear clothes of green silk and velvet, and will rest on comfortable furnishings.

It was quickly pointed out that this would mean that a statement such as «the moon is made of green cheese» is meaningless.

We go ourselves in search of green grass and of such means as may alleviate the ravages of an earth whose prevalent systems are advantageous for so few and demeaning and destructive for so many.

«Go there in the morning and you will find the beautiful eagle on the nopal tree and around it you will see a great quantity of green, red, yellow, and white feathers of the elegant birds on which the eagle sustains himself.

The thousand physical influences of a green, warm, stale, almost - silent, lamp - lit, desk - furnished, late - at - night room are unconsciously eliminated in favor of a line read on the page on the desk before my eyes.

As Charles T. Rubin argues in The Green Crusade: Rethinking the Roots of Environmentalism, unscientific, alarmist forecasts, irresponsible as they are, are not the greatest failing of the Green movement.

To get there, we drive through a subdivision and down a road that narrows and roughens and leads to our few acres, a patch of green skirted by dank Alabama forest.

For example, if I tell you a story about a green man with a thin stomach and no beard, who never laughs a jolly «ho ho ho» but instead constantly scowls, and instead of giving children presents he tortures them and calls them names — especially the good ones, and then said the name of this green man was «Santa Claus,» you could say that I am wrong, that whatever I am talking about it is most - certainly not Santa Claus.

I have not come across a single review of the Green Linnet weekend that even mentions Fr.

As a priest, he could not have been further from the spirit of Green Linnet Records.

Each relation belongs to the relational essence of green and together are constitutive of the eternal object green (SMW 230).

Sweet leaf or sap smells: conversations renewed between trees now so graceful in their drapery of green you'd never guess how lately they have taken it from winter storage and have shaken it out and put it on.

Its skepticism of a depraved humanity and criticisms of avarice would contribute to the bedrock of green thought.

Most of us urban Westerners, especially us males, have little of the green sensibility.

As one of my friends put it in an e-mail recently, «If God says that the moon is made of green cheese, then the moon is made of green cheese despite what the scientists and my own senses might say.

I am not ashamed because there are all these little mustards seeds scattered across our broken, shameful world, some of them just now swelling and splitting underneath the dark soil; others breaking through the surface with a garish flash of green; others meandering toward the sun, desperate for light or rain or some sort of trellis; others growing slow and steady into tall shade tress with limbs like arms wide open to the world, welcoming the birds of the air to nest in their branches.

You can see them arrayed now in rows of crosses and stars of David below the purpled hills of Anzio, and on the long sweeps of the green....

Plans also call for an acre of green space, and an outdoor fountain where in warm weather baptisms will take place, underneath a towering cross.

Believing in God and Heaven is a lot better than worshiping a piece of green paper like most Americans do.

Although the simple eternal object defines a class of particulars that as values of the variable are that definite shade of green, and although these individuals are externally related, the simple eternal object itself is internally related to the higher grade object, in that it partially constitutes its essence.

For example, a simple eternal object, say a «particular shade of green,» can be incorporated in «another eternal object of the lowest complex grade,» say «three definite colors with the spatio - temporal relatedness to each other of three faces of a regular tetrahedron, anywhere at any time» (SMW 166).

This campaign also led the producers of green beans to negotiate new prices and other working conditions with their partners.

One of my favorite books of poetry from 2015 was not a new one but rather a gorgeous reissue: Ronald Johnson's The Book of the Green Man, first published by Norton in 1967 (my prized copy of that edition is upstairs) and reissued this past year by Uniformbooks with an afterword by Ross Hair.

I read widely but I have particular weakness for literature, poetry, conversion memoirs, Christian spirituality, and authentic stories of God's grace and redemption, Anne of Green Gables, Hogwarts, Narnia, Northanger Abbey, Gothic mysteries... oh, okay, fine I'll read almost anything...

And with the Sun continuously expanding and contributions of green house gases from volcanoes, African termites, cows and decaying trees / plants / insects / animals, there may not be anything we can do about it even if there is an effect.

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery — Of course, you knew that this book would be on the list so I don't need to go into too much detail here.

At the end, there's a section of unpedantic and very useful notes (Johnson, in the Poundian manner, has a sharp eye and ear for apt quotations to weave into his lines) and a bit of background on the figure of the Green Man.

May the God of green hope fill you up with joy, fill you up with peace, so that your believing lives, filled with the life - giving energy of the Holy Spirit, will brim over with hope!

I have comfort books (Anne of Green Gables), comfort food (beef stew and bread), and I have comfort television: Saturday night and we watch Hockey Night in Canada by lamplight.

if only they'd start throwing a couple of green peppers, a hunk of cheese, and a ham....

There is only one Anne of Green Gables and Megan Follows is her face, forever and ever amen.

And so the tale of a Green Knight with his chopped - off head still holding a knight of the Round Table to promises made is no less true than the tale of a man crammed with secrets who spontaneously combusts and leaves behind only a black, tallowy mark on the floorboards, and his story in turn is no less true than the tale of a Texas sharecropper's wife who has had a miscarriage only ten days before but just this morning was walking behind the mule and guiding the jerking plow.

If you've read more than Anne of Green Gables, you know that she often wrote about loneliness, about family.

A Green Thought in a Green Shade Alan Jacobs» critique of The Green Bible («Blessed Are the Green of Heart,» May 2009) was not only insightful but written with cleverness and wit.

But we're talking about rewriting the Anne of Green Gables book, we're talking about a miniseries adaption of the book.

Some of them are just now swelling and splitting underground; others are breaking through the surface with a garish flash of green; others are meandering toward the sun, desperate for light or rain or some sort of trellis; others are growing slow and steady into tall shade tress with limbs like arms wide open to the world, welcoming the birds of the air to nest in their branches.

(oh, Anne of Green Gables!