Sentences with phrase «of named characters»

From a technical point of view, this allowed the team a lot of opportunities for balancing, but more importantly, having a large cast of named characters allowed them to tell an even better story than the already impressive efforts in the Loto Trilogy (the first three Dragon Quest games).

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A team was presenting the ultimate skin of a magician character named Lux.
In part, those expectations were stoked by photos of Western influences seeping into the regime: Jong - un has done photo ops at water parks and taken roller - coaster rides with foreign diplomats, Disney characters have performed for the new leader on state TV, and Jong - un's wife has sported a Dior handbag, to name a few examples.
In the George Lucas movie, THX - 1138 (the name of the main character was «THX - 1138 ″) everyone's choices are removed and they all live underground because above ground is «radioactive».
As it happens, Marvel briefly changed the name of the character to Black Leopard to avoid confusing connotations with the militant party.
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Some of the characters, logos or other images incorporated by NBCUniversal on this Site are also protected as registered or unregistered trademarks, trade names and / or service marks owned by NBCUniversal or others («Trademarks»).
That's useful if you want to register a domain name in Chinese or Arabic script, or even just correctly spelled French or German - anything that can be represented with the Unicode standard can be registered, even emoji - but it's also opened up a whole new avenue of misdirection for malicious actors to take advantage of, by finding characters in other alphabets which look similar to Latin ones.
Ever since Microsoft introduced MS - DOS, in 1980, users of IBM - type microcomputers have been limited to eight characters when naming a directory or file.
The product is mentioned by name and is the focus of one character's act of kindness toward another.
One of the show's characters, a somewhat more mature sports agent named Phil, got into an illuminating chat with a couple of the younger guys:
But the teaser gives us the character names of the hateful eight.
He put it in the mouth of a character named Polonius, who Hamlet accurately describes as a tedious old fool, even though Polonius was senior counselor to the King of Denmark.
Tsarnaev's defense team is expected to lay out a «Svengali» defense for their client, a strategy named after a character in a 19th century novel and meaning, in a legal context, the defense of a criminal who was «a pawn of a more influential mastermind.»
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.
Besides spending $ 15,000 on the 21 Royal experience for Halloween, Madison regularly posts pictures of herself and her daughter doing Disney - related activities, including having a Disney - themed cake for her daughter Rainbow Aurora (perhaps named after Sleeping Beauty), taking multiple trips to Disneyland, and dressing as Disney characters.
Jenna is proud of her roots and pays tribute to her home state by naming each showpiece after a place in Michigan that exhibits great beauty, character and charm.
The city is named after J. J. McAlester, who became the Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma and was immortalized as a character in the 1968 novel True Grit.
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.
The idea of the minimum viable personality (or «MVP») originated from a guest post on the AVC blog, by a fictional and hilarious character named «Fake Grimlock.»
Like a well - developed character, a room in actress Natasha Leggero's home requires personality, history and, of course, a name.
It may seem odd to carefully craft fictitious clients with names and backstories, but defining these characters and their attributes will help identify valuable types of visitors and customers and enable you to coordinate the efforts of the various parts of your company in extracting maximum value.
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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.
Name calling makes your character clear to the rest of us.
Out of all the postings on this site today, I found «Derp's «post the most fascinating and informative, as well as deeply revealing.Even after boasting of what seems to be a practically perfect live by any measure, he informs us that he takes pleasure in mocking and ridiculing those of faith who are presumably his opposite; I can only wonder if, given all his supposed accomplishments, he is smart enough to realize how deeply revealing of his true character his remarks are.As a believer, I rarely engage in arguments with my atheist friends, and like to think I wouldn't lower myself to the level of juvenile name - calling and personal attacks against whatever my atheist friends hold dear.Most of the time we simply agree to disagree; when they hold forth with misinformation or ignorance on their assumed «knowledge «of my faith, I try to gently correct them; I certainly don't allow any disagreements we have to devolve into hateful insults and name - calling.
Jesus came to tell and show all mankind the true heart of our Father / Mother God; the name, the character, the nature and nurture; which is love, and compassion;
We named her after Woman Wisdom partly because She's a pretty kickass biblical character, and partly because our lives were such a mess at the time of Sophia's birth.
Even though only about 9 % of female characters have names in the text, there are more than one hundred «eleventy» (111) women's names that are preserved.
Lewis» most successful novel, I believe, is the first part of his science - fiction trilogy, Out of the Silent Planet, in which a Cambridge don named Ransom is kidnapped by two diabolical characters, the scientist Weston and the entrepreneur Devine, and transported via rocket ship as a sacrificial victim to the inhabitants of another planet called Malacandra (Mars).12.
For her, the three are the «entities» (objects, feeling states, situations, activities) that I would term the group's setting; the «directives» (actions to be done or avoided) I term its plot; and its «character» (qualities of personality approved or disapproved, rewarded or punished) to which I give the same name (Ethel Albert, «The Classification of Values,» American Anthropologist 58 [1956]: 251ff.).
Something about the young Lakita character reminded me so much of a little girl I met named Bharathi, who is pictured above on the left.
Even if someone named Jesus with some sort of causal connection to the Jesus in the gospels existed, if you just blandly say that Jesus really existed, you sound like you are confirming the largely fictional being of the gospels rather than someone who stands oin some real but in many ways indirect, even tenuous relationship to this fictional character.
In The Philosopher's Pupil (1983) a man's life is changed by his vision of a flying saucer; a key episode in The Good Apprentice turns on what appears to be the effects of a love potion; a young girl in The Green Knight exerts an involuntary telekinesis over the stones that she has collected in her room; in the same novel the goodness of a man named Peter Mir (Mir meaning, in Russian, both «world» and «peace,» as several characters note) seems to be contagious, bringing sweet dreams and love to those with whom he comes in contact.
My response to it all was, «yeah, but...» and I set up my piano on the border between Funny and Mean, playing sarcastic scales in the name of wit, you might be surprised by how much snark you can fit into 140 characters.
If I were to describe, so far as this is possible, the company I have enjoyed with my • most intimate companion of fifty - five years, whose name when I met her was Dorothy Eleanore Cooper, the reader in response could not do better than to quote one of Jane Austen's characters: «That is not good company, that is the best company.»
Some bright lad noted that a whole lot of people were turning out for both, and it would be mutually beneficial for all to merge the two into a single date, while retaining their individual names and characters.
Sabar investigated the seller of the artifact — a shady German fellow named Walter Fritz, whose varied exploits and proclivities make the characters in the Da Vinci Code seem downright conventional.
None of these characters, whether they were atheist or not, killed in the name of a lack of belief in a god.
They say that the Gospel stories are just rehashed pagan myths, where some of the details and the names of the characters are changed.
Russ — I don't think you'll find people arguing too much about the few character names we have, but more about other pieces of information that should be available to corroborate the supernatural aspects of the stories.
Thus the first was Ame - no - minaka - nushi - no - kami.5 The frequent repetition of the names of the numerous gods gives to the text a stilted character.
I suggest your read the entire NT and get acquainted with the character of Christ, rather than the few verses you think support yet another us v. them paradigm erected in the name of Christ.
For Santayana, «matter» is the appropriate name for such «substance» as the character possessed by the substance of our actual world (see RB 234).
The Board of Trust, in affirming him in the struggle, gave some sense of what «service in His name» would mean: ``... our chief concern is to promote the highest type of Christian scholarship and Christian character... «Nowhere in Kirkland's writings can we find that he acknowledged any intrinsic benefit for the mind in Methodism.
Within this circle is Jehovah's name, Forward and backward anagrammatis'd, The breviated names of holy saints, Figures of every adjunct to the Heavens, And characters of signs and erring stars, By which the spirits are enforc'd to rise: Then fear not, Faustus, but be resolute, And try the uttermost magic can perform.
But with such wild success has come wild controversy, for the centerpiece of Perry's success has been his portrayal of a character named Madea.
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 charactername,» verse 6) of God in Christ; their mission, their unity in love, and their present and future relation to God and to Christ.
and Godless (of course) and Ricky Bobby (with a login name like that you want to stereotype me Haha)... Derp if i was a character in Deliverance i would be Burt Reynolds shooting an arrow right through the heart of the problem and as for as your paying attention in class... sounds more like some liberal teacher has you brainwashed already.
Stillman's conceit is to take Jane Austen's story, in its screenplay version, and imagine it narrated by a character of his own creation — a pretentious fool named Rufus Martin - Colonna, Lady Susan's nephew - by - marriage.
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