Sentences with word «omniscient»

Christians believe in a loving, omniscient God who is in total control of everything including when, how and why people die.

Opening with maximum pretension — Emma Thompson, serving as omniscient narrator, places events in context by blathering on about Voyager 1 and its journey beyond our solar system — Men, Women & Children quickly introduces its iDamaged ensemble, all of whom live in the same sleepy suburb.

But I've never offended some all - powerful omniscient being that created the Universe.

Traditionally God has been spoken of as omniscient, knowing all things, including the future.

With omniscient details of the inner lives of the ensemble delivered in shared voice over, Mike Mills makes a film that is deeply personal for all of its inhabitants, a work about growing up from a filmmaker who has done just that with his third film.

These rules say authors should limit the number of viewpoint characters, and shouldn't use omniscient point of view.

I won't read any contemporary fiction written in omniscient POV — it's too confusing and almost always amateurish.

First, she cast Anna Kendrick in the central role of «Beca;» second, she cast herself as «Gail» (an ever - present but far from omniscient narrator on the sidelines).

Remedy creates this confusion by weaving together no less than six different types of storytelling, from omniscient narration to radio broadcasts to collectible leaflets of the game's script foreshadowing key moments.

As for your god and biology — you'd have thought an omnipotent omniscient deity who created rabbits would know if they chew their cud or not.

The rule against it is for novices who don't know how to write in a truly omniscient voice.

This is not to be confused with Omniscient POV, a style of writing in which most or all of the characters mingle POVs throughout the entirety of the book.

By omniscient you should understand it is the POV of the eternal observer.

That's right — he's an omnipotent, omniscient creator, but he forgot that part.

What steps it up beyond this simple formula is that you can take control of any of these units, shifting from your top - down omniscient view into a first person shooter style game.

«A richly detailed tapestry of tragedy and triumph told by a seemingly omniscient narrator with an attention to detail that reads like fiction while in possession of the urgent humanity of nonfiction.»

We're actually watching one mom who's clearly becoming more and more uncomfortable with her ex-boyfriend's omniscient presence in her life.

Do you think the novel is more effective told this way, from a closed point of view, or do you think it would have had more impact if she had used a third - person omniscient narrative?

In the fourth and final section, set a day after the first, on April 8, 1928, Faulkner introduces a third person omniscient point of view.

I've ended up in more unusual topics like omniscient viewpoint and organizing while right - brained.

Annie Parkhouse (letters) Michael Mazzacane: The opening pages of «Judge Dredd vs Razorjack» uses omniscient narration quite well.

Martin's scrappy set - up begins with the correct amount of misdeeds and mayhem, but 10 Cent Pistol is an example of how omniscient narration works desperately against the desired ambience.

â $ œBut the Christianity of the peasants Farmer talked to had a different flavor: â $ ˜the shrewd conviction that the rest of the world was wrong for screwing them over, and that someone, someone just and perhaps even omniscient, was keeping scoreâ $ (p. 78).

Should the narrative voice be an «I» first person or omniscient third person?

If this Jesus fellow was truly a god incarnate, omnipotent and omniscient then it would have known that the whole Noah flood story was just fiction.

With Courtney B. Vance providing omniscient narration (and a superb, bombastic score from Alexander Desplat), a score of the auteur's regular players have key voice work moments, from Bill Murray, Bob Balaban, Ed Norton and Jeff Goldblum as a pack of helpful mutts, to Scarlett Johansson and Harvey Keitel as love interest and savior.

The Buffalo News» seemingly omniscient man in Albany, Tom Precious reports a Seneca Nation Council member was sanctioned by tribal leaders after being accused of shoving well - known WNY lobbyist and Democratic operative, Jack O'Donnell, off his chair at an Albany hotel earlier this week.

I am assuming of course that the objector means to insist (among other things) that in the Godless world no individual possesses omniscient awareness.

Adults are often limited to their own intellectual understanding, feeling omniscient all over matters.

This often pushes these creative nonfiction texts into omniscient or distant third person points of view, creating a detachment between the reader and the characters.

The idea that praying to an all - powerful omniscient god does any good, and that it might change it's mind is ludicrous.

If omniscient, the deity knows beforehand which choices will ultimately be made.

This isn't about surrounding Creative Visionaries and Agile Strategists with Yes People who are afraid of criticizing a supposedly omniscient set of plans.

When we try to blame omniscient boogeymen for political outcomes we don't like, we may feel better about ourselves, but we aren't actually solving any real problems.

Like us, he started with divine potential and by his choices became omniscient and omnipotent, just as we can.

Luv how your claimed omniscient deity still needs to test his subjects.

B. God is indeed omniscient and omnipotent.

That is unless God is omnipotent, which would mean omniscient.

I think the Pastor Marshall Mabry should be volunteering to help save the lives of the 40,000 innocent children that die horrific deaths each and every day instead of pretending to have telepathic powers and sending suggestions about oil prices to an invisible omniscient creature that lives outside space and time.

And the experiences of the dead are all everlastingly preserved in their total value, exactly as originally experienced, in the everlasting and omniscient memory of God.