Sentences with phrase «of ordinary men»

He grounds the story of an ordinary man who was forced to become a hero.

In fact, there are a lot of ordinary men who landed up with insanely rich women.

2 Did he have the sexuality of an ordinary man?

I am glad they are seeing the economy from the angle of the ordinary man.

I found myself drawn into the depths of this ordinary man who decides one day to do an extraordinary thing.

Directed by Mayank Sharma and produced by Vikram Malhotra, Breathe is a gritty psychological drama that follows the lives of ordinary men faced with extraordinary circumstances.

He could portray pathology — the ruthlessness of a villain, the torment of a ordinary man caught in a web of violence or corruption — like few players in the history of film noir.

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From the special advisor on Saving Private Ryan and the bestselling author of Undaunted Courage and D - Day, the definitive book on the most important day of World War II, comes the inspiring story of the ordinary men of the U.S. Army in northwest Europe from the day after D - Day until the end of the bitterest days of the war.

These new expressions of faith, fed by passions of ordinary men and women, did not merely diverge from received authority; increasingly they failed even to take into account the standard theological categories that served as guides for religious experience and formed the common denominator of theological discussion between disputants.

Dostoevsky's Christ is an ikon, an ascetic who has lost touch with the real world of ordinary men.

Nothing in his thought seems to correspond to Plato's famous portrayal in The Republic of ordinary men as cavedwellers in bondage, darkness, lies, and delusions.

His preaching was finding a home in hearts of ordinary men and women, and the religious authorities in Jerusalem were increasingly rattled.

But more importantly they should first have the pedophiles booted from their ranks, until then they need not meddle in the «temporal» affairs of ordinary men and women.

Unlike its equally murderous counterpart, Marxian socialism, fascism won power in the heart of Europe; it succeeded in gaining the uncoerced allegiance of ordinary men and women in a way Marxism never did.

But even as preliminary talks between the MDC and Zanu PF go ahead in South Africa, the killing, kidnap and torture of ordinary men and women, who have done nothing other than show their support for the opposition, continues.

If we ask what people who wanted to put more power in the hands of ordinary men (or more rarely, women) thought that they were doing, and how they conceptualised their objectives and behaviour, we find that democracy came on to the scene as a popular term rather belatedly.

The Museum's reputation for helping people understand the experience of modern conflicts is unrivalled, and I'm confident that members of the public will be inspired and motivated by the exceptional courage of the ordinary men, women and children featured in the outstanding exhibition.»

Let's not forget also that Ed, protector of the ordinary man, didn't know the cost of his own weekly shop; but that's hardly surprising, given the Milibands» non-ordinary joint salaries of around # 340,000.

What became dangerous for the security of this country was the impunity with which some people were doing it (abusing their office), but however beautiful the policies are, until you are able to translate all of those to food and jobs in the homes of the ordinary man and woman, it is still at the theoretical stage.

Scientific evidence was shown to be just as fallible as and no more robust than the evidence of ordinary men and women.

If a bodybuilder consumes twice the calories of an ordinary man, then a strongman can actually consume twice as many calories that a serious bodybuilder consumes on a daily basis.

The imagery of True Story is treacherously familiar — how many films have drawn tension from the simplicity of an ordinary man sitting opposite an extraordinarily scary one in a blank prison room?

Where the film really manages to strike an emotional chord, though, is in its examination of an ordinary man's search for meaning in his life as he nears his eventual demise.

Hendricks plays the femme fatale in her first post-Mad Men role, while the two leads have a chemistry that lifts this 80s Texas crime show out of the ordinary

It's another excellent study from the filmmakers of an ordinary man caught in a tailspin.

All three movies focus on the inherent inaneness of ordinary man.

BODYGUARDS AND ASSASSINS tells the story of a motley group of ordinary men turned revolutionaries in an epic, action - packed, historical drama.

His first novel, Hope, was published in 1997, and has been followed by five further novels: Love Remains (2000); I, Lucifer (2002), shortlisted for the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize; Weathercock (2003); Death of an Ordinary Man (2004); and The Bloodstone Papers (2006), set in India in 1946, and A Day and a Night and a Day (2009), The Last Werewolf (2011), Talulla Rising (2012), By Blood We Live (2014).

He is also the co-author of An Ordinary Man, the autobiography of Paul Rusesabagina, whose actions during the 1994 Rwandan genocide were portrayed in the movie Hotel Rwanda.

Deadlight is the frightening odyssey of an ordinary man fighting extinction like a flame in the desert.

Call of Duty: WWII will take players to the front lines of war - torn Western Europe during one of history's greatest conflicts, where the stakes were high and the only thing standing in the way of Nazi oppression was a generation of ordinary men and women willing to make extraordinary sacrifices to preserve our way of life.

I can say, however, that at its core, STASIS is a story about family and the journey of an ordinary man in an extraordinary situation.

Haunting portraits of ordinary men and last works describing his struggle with cancer express a rare humanity.

With the imminent opening of an exhibition of around 100 works from the collection, on public display for the first time, the media has suddenly pricked up its ears at this irresistible story of an ordinary man cum major art donor.

Considered one of the best welding artists in the world, Madero and his team work tirelessly to create the sculptures that highlight themes such as power, determination, and strength of ordinary men.

Thus, when a jury of ordinary men and women made its award of $ 350,000, it not only vindicated St. Lewis, but it also fortified the Canadian justice system.

Even as Zen repudiates all actual ways to enlightenment, so in the last resort nothing is gained by enlightenment of satori, and thus the life of the sage is no different from the life of ordinary men.

Edgar Rice Burroughs» tale of an ordinary man who mysteriously transports to Mars, first serialized in 1912, is the template for just about every piece of fantastical science fiction that has come after.

Dunmore had become particularly known in recent years for her portrayal of stories of ordinary men and women during the World Wars.

Mullen, P. H. Gold in the Water: The True Story of Ordinary Men and Their Extraordinary Dream of Olympic Glory.

The Confabulist is the story of an ordinary man, Martin Strauss, who in his waning years feels compelled to tell the truth about his connection to Harry Houdini, the most famous magician of all time.

His work is influenced by the life of the ordinary man and Indonesian cultural traditions such as wayang kulit or tau tau sculptures of the Toraja death cult in Sulawesi.