Sentences with phrase «of lesser characters»

I hope that readers who are more visually minded will pore over the illustrations, tracing the subplots of lesser characters or speculating about the home in the log and what else might be in there.

, and even a couple of the lesser characters have something happen that changes them a little.

The climax is gripping and there is a certain Star Wars-esque feel to some of the lesser characters.

Not exact matches

Having already suffered significant legal penalties, SNC - Lavalin has engaged in a process of reforming itself, making internal changes that (hopefully) will change the organization's character and make it less likely to offend in future.

(Such a rupture, of course, is precisely what President Trump has gleefully tweetened — my portmanteau for a threat delivered in 140 characters or less — in recent days, as he slammed those payments as mere «bailouts» to the insurance companies.)

These newest results boost the case of the those who argue that immersing yourself in a fictional world populated by layered, complex characters can't help but increase your understanding of how the human mind works and make your fellow humans a little less strange to you.

Having access to Marvel's roughly 8,000 characters for its sunglass designs has certainly paid off, helping the company generate $ 4.1 million in sales in less that five months, just shy of the $ 5.7 million in revenue it earned the previous year.

It can be a confusing platform to use, tweets are often dashed off from smartphones, hashtags can be hijacked and humor doesn't always translate in 140 characters or less — all of which can lead to fiascos like these.

Nasar's cast of characters is a mix of those who've become brand names, such as Hayek and Friedman; those whose names are found less commonly in economic textbooks (Charles Dickens); and those like Beatrice Webb (née Potter) previously underappreciated by the lay reader.

At the time, Smith was only addressing the underrepresentation of women, who comprised less than a third of all speaking characters in the 100 top - grossing movies in the previous year.

- Sonia Simone, co-founder of Copyblogger Media When Twitter was launched in 2006, nobody could have imagined the impact 140 characters or less would have on our lives... or our businesses.

McDormand, Rockwell, and Woody Harrelson are so good in Three Billboards that I think a lot of voters have totally forgotten the less successful aspects of the movie: How every white character is immensely colorful but every black one is a cipher, that whole thing about Woody Harrelson's big dick (stop!

As with any business venture, the promise of profits attracts some less - than - savoury characters.

The research tells me less about what Walmart is doing right and more about the character and mindset of affluent Canadian shoppers versus American counterparts.

Marijuana Penny Stock Scams With the proliferation of legal marijuana companies and the massive growth we've seen in the industry, it's no surprise that less - than - savory characters have tried to make a dollar off the boom through, shall we say, less honest means.

Because he knows his base doesn't read much, would never go through dozens of pages of a transcript, and can be made to believe anything in 140 characters or less.

In The Road Less Travelled, M Scott Peck explains how a lot of us flee from the pain of solving problems and end up either neurotic or with character disorders (i.e. the neurotic assumes too much responsability and the person with a character disorder not enough).

Anything less than this dishonors both the character of men as well as the women and girls we are hoping to protect.

In fact, that this election became less about conflicting ideas for achieving the same goal (the common good of Americans) and more about making sure everyone knows your opponents» deep character flaws is axiomatic.

3.28 — with rather less endearing texts culled from a narrow range of pagan and Jewish sources, and maintain that one has uncovered the causal factor: the essential character of the new religion.

1) Paul's advocacy of celibacy, politically innocuous to us, would have been rather less so to his contemporaries, given the character of imperial ideology.

It's less usual for these suits to happen in religious contexts, but it happened to a friend of mine, Julie Anne Smith, who along with four others were sued by their former pastor for defamation of character for $ 500,000.

The special approach to the subject and the nature of the book itself combine to give it a less theoretical character than most of the author's work, and it has always appealed to American readers.

And back then, wasn't it the fans wrapped up in «theories» who were ultimately disappointed when they found out that Lost wasn't really concerned with answering the thousands of questions it had raised — that it was less a heady show about theology and science and more an emotional show about its characters and the human experience?

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.»

I find it much less disturbing that Megyn Kelly should make a point of observing that the character of Santa Claus is traditionally white than the suggestion by Aisha Harris that there is something intrinsically wrong with a white Santa Claus.

If the books» other characters are more or less realistically drawn (Thomas More being an exception), Mantel's Cromwell is perfect, a childhood dream of astonishing competence and trenchant power.

If you knew how many of the «debaters» in this forum were paid shills sitting in boiler room type operations all day basically getting into character and arguing the agenda their boss gave them you would spend less time debating them and more time talking about their little known but thriving industry.

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:

Consciously or subconsciously, you decide to either become more or less like some of the characters in the story, based on what they did and how the story turned out.

The books, more or less, have the character of a primer that emphasizes essentials in bold outline with a minimum of detail.

In contrast, other delicate issues of a less political or nonpolitical character receive franker treatment.

This should be imputed not just to the circumstances of the times and even less to preformed character, but rather to... the attraction to the tyrannical demonstrated theoretically in many of the great thinkers.

Interestingly, the character of Marianne is much less attractive on the pages of the script than the Marianne we both saw and heard on the screen: much more selfish, demanding, even cruel.

There is also less attention to the historically - conditioned character of all formulations and therefore to the need for change in new historical circumstances.

They might however have recalled that the Old Testament knew of another character, hardly less significant than the Messiah himself, whose role was essentially that of the innocent sufferer.

Their enduring presence in the life of the community is expressed figuratively or in abstract masses of a more or less anthropomorphic character.

The Bible is full of fairy tales and should only be taken as a piece of literature of great importance just as the Odyssey is, but it shouldn't be used to govern one's life, much less to help build a relationship with the biggest fictional and ever - changing character in human history.

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.

It» fine to wish and hope that people are doing fine, but it's not healthy to bring make - believe characters into the mix — you'll only weaken your mind that way, and then you are of less use to anyone.

From our human, everyday perspective, which no doubt is our concrete perspective (all others being more or less stretched or «abstract»), the richly diversified realm of life appears permanent, with abiding character.

The immediate present is the experiential entertainment of these realized characters, plus entertainment of the potential forms of immediate concrescence and the more or less proximate future.

Their former emotional or feeling characters are more or less conformally repeated in the immediate occasion, modified only by the relevant, novel potentials of character aimed at by the subject (PR 162/246).

The role and importance of the Christian story and narrative in shaping character and virtue in the thought of Stanley Hauerwas is no less subtle and nuanced than his view of the self.

It possesses magnificent character delineation: the great theme is the princely magnanimity of Joseph, envied by his lesser brothers, his life threatened, then at length spared only through the dubious device of selling him into slavery in Egypt; and there, his fortunes going from bad to worse, he was, for no fault of his own but indeed because of his integrity, hurled into an oriental prison to lie hopeless until some dubious chance should release him.

The more I learn about the character of God, the less inclined I am to believe that the statement is true.

The fact that they differ in their details is, for our purpose, of far less importance than the fact that there are the same motifs, general plot and characters running through them all.

And if my experience resembles a less - agonizing version of the experience of Bill Murray's Phil Connors character in Groundhog Day, that may be fitting inasmuch as the two movies invite comparison as different treatments of a common theme.

In estimating the religious character of individuals, nations, or races, the first question is, not how they feel, but what they think and believe — not whether their religion is one which manifests itself in emotions, more or less vehement and enthusiastic, but what are the conceptions of God and divine things by which these emotions are called forth.

I agree, of course, that the naïveté may arise less from the obsolete world view than from the peculiar character of Christian experience, but that is just what my existentialist interpretation is intended to show.