Sentences with phrase «of such legends»

Because of such legends, there's a perception that blind people make great musicians.

Carbajal is also a keen student of his craft, poring over films that Danny has acquired of such legends as Duran, Alexis Arguello and even Joe Louis.

It has none of the extravagant supernatural coloring characteristic of such legends.

If you honestly say you know of no such legend, then just say so.

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But Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo's famed designer who created iconic franchises such as Mario, Donkey Kong, and The Legend of Zelda, says he thinks something else was to blame.

That can't be proved, of course, so every such case resides in the limbo of urban legend and ancient superstition.

Germany, one of Europe's green superpowers, is home to clean - tech manufacturers like wind turbine maker Siemens and solar - panel producer Solarworld; there's hope such companies might one day rival legends like Volkswagen and BMW.

After all, this is the place where legend has it that Google employees were warned prior to their IPO that showing up at work in a fancy car after the big day would likely get them a broken window, and where a Facebook employee once told The New York Times that if anyone working there bought such a car and posted a picture of it online, they could expect to be «ridiculed and berated.»

Even recent Nintendo bestsellers such as «Super Mario Odyssey» and «The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild» have been lauded for being examples of the company's willingness to take risks with even its most important franchises.

Nintendo's hit Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) Classic Edition comes with a bunch of, well, classic games such as «Super Mario World» and «Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past» preinstalled.

Unfortunately for the Tribune, being a media entity also involves boring things like having a platform and infrastructure that can support the release of news such as the retirement of basketball legend Kobe Bryant, who also happens to be an investor in the site.

Its members have included such legends as Robert Peary and Matthew Henson (explorers of the North Pole), Roald Amundsen (South Pole), Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay (Mt. Everest), Charles Lindbergh, Chuck Yeager, Jane Goodall, and Sally Ride.

Such pitches are part of entrepreneurial legend.

When Weston took control of his family's chain of Loblaw's grocery stores — now helmed by his son Galen G. — he saved the floundering company by closing dozens of stores, upgrading the remaining locations and wooing new talent, such as future marketing legend Dave Nichol.

The creator of such classic games as Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda is reporting an operating loss of about $ 335.7 million for its fiscal year ending in March.

You might know Seth Godin as a sort of marketing legend, the author of books such as Unleashing the Ideavirus, «the most popular e-book ever published,» according to his marketing materials (I have no idea how I'd check that), and Purple Cow, «the best - selling marketing book of the decade» (similar caveat).

Our culture of entrepreneurship continues to attract and build business legends, such as Boeing, Microsoft, Amazon, Costco and Starbucks.

Velloso says his team is working with companies such as Riot Games, the Tencent (tcehy)- owned developer behind the most popular eSports game in the world, League of Legends.

[Update 11:23 AM: In a press release Tuesday morning, Nintendo noted that the length of the rewind depends on the genre of game: «Players can go back a few minutes in role - playing games such as Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, while action titles such as Super Mario World offer around 40 seconds, ideal for re-trying short segments of gameplay.»

Starbucks has also become a champion of emerging artists such as John Legend, Madeleine Peyroux and Fleet Foxes, introducing customers to these musicians at an early point in their careers.

As much as the two consider themselves disrupters of competitors like Luxottica (Warby Parker's $ 10.5 billion rival, which owns everything from LensCrafters to Ray - Ban), they're students of retail history and find inspiration in such leaders as hospitality guru Danny Meyer, Apple Store legend Ron Johnson, and Mickey Drexler, the merchandising titan famous for reviving Gap in the 1990s and J.Crew in the 2000s.

Screen for stocks that pass the strategies of investment legends such as Joel Greenblatt, James O'Shaughnessy and Martin Zweig.

Most biblical stories were adoptions of earlier myths and legends, such as the virgin birth, creation and Noah's flood.

Missouri Synod theologians had traditionally affirmed the inerrancy of the Bible, and, although such a term can mean many things, in practice it meant certain rather specific things: harmonizing of the various biblical narratives; a somewhat ahistorical reading of the Bible in which there was little room for growth or development of theological understanding; a tendency to hold that God would not have used within the Bible literary forms such as myth, legend, or saga; an unwillingness to reckon with possible creativity on the part of the evangelists who tell the story of Jesus in the Gospels or to consider what it might mean that they write that story from a post-Easter perspective; a general reluctance to consider that the canons of historical exactitude which we take as givens might have been different for the biblical authors.

For this reason the legend must be told in such a way that two things are apparent: how the saint was so holy that he controlled his surroundings; and how his life, from infancy, was under divine guidance and protection and hence was lifted out, by God Himself, from the mass of human misfortune.

From a modern point of view we can only regard such a story as a devout legend.

It must be further pointed out that De Rougemont takes the most elaborately dramatized and perverse examples of romanticism such as the Tristan legend with its turgid morbidities, its pathos, and its obsession with adultery, and treats this as the essence of romantic love.

But she also loved the dramatic arts, and by the time of her first communion, she had already been signed by talent scouts, and appeared in commercials and on television, alongside acting legends such as David Niven, Richard Burton and Sir Lawrence Olivier.

thinks, that the Tigris and the Euphrates have not a common source, that the Dead Sea had been in existence long before human beings came to live in Palestine, instead of originating in historical times, and so on... We are able to comprehend this as the naive conception of the men of old, but we can not regard belief in the literal truth of such accounts as an essential of religious conviction... And every one who perceives the peculiar poetic charm of these old legends must feel irritated by the barbarian — for there are pious barbarians — who thinks he is putting the true value upon these narratives only when he treats them as prose and history.

Well, part of the problem is that the legends in the Bible frequently exhibit mythological archetypes that have been employed by countless religions, such as the God martyred for mankind's salvation.

In later chansons de geste, however» such as Les Quatre Filz Aymon, Enfances Roland, and Entrée en Espagne» the details of Roland's earlier life were filled in, with a variety of fanciful elements becoming ever more prominent features of the narrative, and it was not long before the real Roland (such as he was) had all but disappeared behind the more resplendent figure of the hero of legend.

If the legends of Genesis have been employed editorially in such a way as to express the faith of Israel and if, in the legends of the patriarchs, Israel sees her own experience mirrored, it is also true that the legends retain at the same time their own stamp, something of their own unique character.

If, in Genesis, individual legends and originally separate cycles of legends are combined in such a way as to convey the theological drama of Israel, if the spoken lines are the lines of the play, we observe at the same time that this literary material of legend always refuses to yield itself completely to such editorial, theological design..

Such tawdry legends and images simply became emblems of one's own importance.

By that time various legends about Jesus were growing steadily, such as that of the Virgin Birth, and the more miraculous stories of what he did during his earthly ministry.

It is quite otherwise, however, with Elijah, the ninth century prophet, who, according to the Biblical tradition, had been carried up to heaven in a whirlwind riding in a chariot of fire, drawn by horses of fire.13 Elijah had made such an impression on the men of his own generation as a man of vitality and divine power that he continued to be a living legend.

Maybe that's why John Legend is such a good choice to play Him in NBC's Easter production of Jesus Christ Superstar Live.

The legend of the beautiful sleeping Briar Rose — for such was the name of the king's daughter — went about the country, so that from time to time kings» sons came and tried to break through the hedge and reach the palace.

In the legend Agnes is (to modernize my expression a little) a woman who craves «the interesting,» and every such woman can always be sure that there is a merman in the offing, for with half an eye mermen discover the like of that and steer for it like a shark after its prey.

By 1926 Rudolf Bultmann of Marburg University concluded that all such attempts to find the «real» Jesus were fruitless, because the Bible is so full of legends and unprovable events that «we can now know almost nothing concerning the life and personality of Jesus.»

Upon such criteria as literary form, the nature of the tradition, the social and theological concepts underlying and the apparent motivation of the story, Gunkel classified the myths and legends of Genesis.

That such a heralded rock band could be so unfamiliar with the legends who've gone before them is maybe the most unbelievable part of their story.

This suggests a volcano, and Sinai may have been that or legend may have exaggerated such storms of thunder and lightning as still occur about the huge granite massif of the traditional Sinai, with mist pouring up like smoke from its flanks.

There are many illustrations of their nostalgic attachment to the old ways, such as their tendency to escape into the desert for sports and physical and spiritual refreshment, the practice of sending their children to be reared in Bedouin encampments to protect them from the effects of city life, and the legends of the desert which beguile their evening hours.

One should strive to grasp the symbolic meaning of the religious facts in their heterogeneous, yet structurally interlocking appearances; such facts can be rites or ritual behavior as well as myths or legends or supernatural beings.

As the tradition is now enveloped in legend, there is no way of discovering the historical circumstances of the call of Moses, but we can be reasonably confident that there was such a man, who led a band of Hebrews in a dramatic escape from Egyptian slavery, and one of the oldest elements in the tradition is a song which celebrates the defeat of the Pharaoh's army in the waters of the Sea of Reeds.

The legend of this upside - down pie claims that it was first made by accident, although reasons for such accident are not very clear.

Like the St. Louis location, Mike Shannon's Grill offers a unique atmosphere highlighted by memorabilia such as baseballs autographed by all - time legends of the sport including Ted Williams, Mickey Mantle, Stan Musial, Johnny Bench and Bob Gibson.

«We are very excited to face such a great team of Arsenal legends and we look forward to putting on an entertaining and competitive match.

Pires stop chatting you keep mentioning city and ignore the other teams such a spuds and Liverpool who are miles ahead of us We can Only talk about now, Wenger WAS a legend not any more he's a has been who should retire