Sentences with phrase «on apocryphal»

When it comes to climate science, the FBI seem to rely on apocryphal KGB sources, journalists, and contrarians who smear famous climate scientists.

There are some really interesting revelations here that set the record straight on apocryphal events through art history, like that Damian Hirst spot painting that supposedly landed on Mars and Martin Creed's 3,500 quid sheet of paper crumpled into a ball.

Similar studies have appeared on the Apocryphal and the Pseudepigraphal books as well, and the wisdom trends were identified in several of these booksxxi.

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The most popular (and likely apocryphal) version of events then goes something like this: One soldier and two plant workers, all volunteers, bravely strapped on wetsuits and clamored into the radioactive water.

Available on computers, smart TVs, tablets, iPhones and a hundred other devices not even conceived when that apocryphal dinner party took place, iPlayer has become a key element in the nation's viewing habits.

The apocryphal stories, in some instances, were understood to be «Gospel truth» on par with accounts found in Scripture.

There is an apocryphal story told about some of the followers of Rene Descartes, who, on the banks of the Seine River in Paris, would nail dogs to wooden boards, cut them open, and watch them bark and writhe.

It becomes apparent that many of the details in the synoptic accounts are paralleled in the Hellenistic literature; that Christian writers did use Hellenistic models can be seen quite clearly in the apocryphal Acts of Peter, where the author improves on a version of a story similar to that told by Philostratus.

While Brock found images of redemption in Scripture, New Testament scholar Gail Paterson Corrington found hers in pre-Christian figures such as Isis and Sophia, ancient female divinities whose legacy lives on in apocryphal literature in the figure of Mary, the mother of Jesus.

And on his most recent trip there, Robinson also learned that the Bodmer Papyri (canonical and apocryphal texts) may have been found in a cave north of the monastery ruins.

However, the use of «she» as a pronoun for the Holy Spirit is more than a matter of personal choice; such usage appears to have some theological possibilities, especially if serious attention is given to certain research on early Christian texts, apocryphal as well as canonical.

All Year: The Bible (There are many translations available at biblegateway.com)- Anchor Bible Commentary Series - The Women's Bible Commentary, Edited by Carol A. Newsom and Sharon H. Ringe - Living Judaism: The Guide to Jewish Belief, Tradition, and Practice by Wayne D. Dosick - Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal / Deuterocanonical books, and the New Testament, Edited by Carol Meyers, Toni Cravien, and Ross Shepard Kraemer - Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, Edited by John Piper and Wayne Grudem - Discovering Biblical Equality: Complementarity Without Hierarchy, Edited by Ronald W. Pierce, Rebecca Merrill Groothuis and Gordon D. Fee - Women in the World of the Earliest Christians: Illuminating Ancient Ways of Life by Lynn Cohick - God's Word to Women by Katharine C. Bushnell - Don't Know Much About the Bible: Everything You Need to Know About the Good Book but Never Learned by Kenneth C. Davis - «On The Dignity and Vocation of Women» by Pope John Paul II - The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs

My mother always made a cherry pie on President's Day as a tribute to George Washington and the myth, now thought to be apocryphal, of him chopping down a cherry tree.

«On a regular basis, the Coalition wheels out apocryphal stories about health and safety for the amusement and entertainment of the public.

The story may be apocryphal, but to Charles Wohlforth it carries a ring of truth: For the lowdown on climate in the Arctic, he argues, it often makes more sense to consult the plainspoken wisdom of the indigenous Alaskans rather than rely exclusively on abstruse data gathered by well - meaning but often clueless scientists.

DeSmogBlog's Mr. Littlemore (2-16-12) says this about the apocryphal Climate Strategy document: [I] f the Heartland Institute can offer any specific criticism of the Climate Strategy or any evidence that it was faked and not, actually, written on Joe Bast's laptop, printed out and scanned, we would be pleased to consider that evidence.

It's so big that (possibly apocryphal) stories have popped up about the government forcing publisher Square Enix to only release new games in the series on Saturdays, to avoid obsessed gamers skipping out on school and work to stand in line at a store.

On the flip side, the Coens give us scene after scene of transcendent screen craft, whether it's Channing Tatum executing an era - perfect sailor - themed dance number in the apocryphal MGM - like musical, Swingin» Dinghy, Ehrenreich's Hobie Doyle practicing his lasso skills in the street, or Clooney intoning a floorboard - rattling speech for the climactic reel of Hail, Caesar!

Though the letter is evangelical in tone, Bezos forgets the apocryphal preacher's advice on a successful sermon: «First, I tell them what I'm going to tell them, then I tell them, then I tell them what I just told them» Perhaps he was information snacking when he wrote the letter.

On the strength of this (possibly apocryphal) story alone, I was excited about the Royal Academy's Cornell retrospective (until 27 September)-- the first in this country since the 1970s; I have only ever seen the travel - fixated recluse's works in reproduction.

Apparently that story about the paintings being put down on the studio floor and walked on was not apocryphal.

Because of this, is the probably apocryphal story of the apple hitting Newton on the head proof that gravity isn't science?

One is reminded of the apocryphal tale about Bertrand Russell, who, when giving a talk on astronomy, was challenged by an elderly woman who insisted the world was in fact a flat plate, resting on the back of an enormous turtle.

Perhaps this is apocryphal but I heard that when Joey Smallwood was Premier, he suggested scrapping the publication of the Newfoundland Gazette, the CNRs and the Annual Regulations on the basis that nobody needed to know this stuff and that if they did, they could ask him.

Although the story of an apple falling on Sir Isaac Newton's head might be apocryphal, the tree itself is not: the apple tree in question is still alive and well outside Newton's family home, Woolsthorpe Manor, in the English county of Lincolnshire.

While spectators of the past week have foretold of everything from rosy outlooks to apocryphal warnings, we, at least for the moment, seem to be on a path toward embracing cryptocurrency futures as a new wave of derivatives.