Sentences with phrase «ordinary men in»

Rich women running large enterprises are now looking to connect with ordinary men in order to have a life of contentment.

come on, just admit its an old book written by ordinary men in the DARK AGES, so we can all get on with our lives and wake up from our species» infancy.

It's not the first time you'll watch an ordinary man in extraordinary circumstances, but it's always a solid basis for a script.

Joseph Cedar, an Oscar - nominated filmmaker from Israel, brings us an exceptional tale about an ordinary man in Norman, starring Richard Gere and Lior Ashkenazi.

Robert Duvall did a great job playing an ordinary man in this movie.

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Summary: «Peter Parker tries to balance his life as an ordinary high school student in Queens with his superhero alter - ego Spider - Man, and must confront a new menace prowling the skies of New York City.»

It aims to lift up in witness a recognition that while the war and events leading up to it clearly revealed the worst of human potential, among some ordinary people it also brought forth the very best of which men and women are capable.

In such circumstances, ordinary men became great men, all the while remaining manifestly human, with the many shortcomings such a condition implies.

Under the avalanche of commentary on the new translation of the Ordinary Form of the Mass, just approved by the Vatican, I poke my head above the erudite criticisms, to speak as a man whose entire priesthood has been in parishes....

To regard the ordinary embodied experience of men and women as theologically significant in a positive way is to receive all these images of physical delight, of beauty and ecstasy, of human growth and nurture, of the contact between human persons that the touching of bodies can make possible.

The first man is in a debt of 10,000 talents which is the equivalent of 100 million silver drachmas - an impossible amount ever to pay off for an ordinary worker.

In 1973 I met him again in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a broken man, living, he said, on social security, and bitter about what he called the greed and duplicity of men who had brought down his life's work and that of thousands of ordinary peoplIn 1973 I met him again in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a broken man, living, he said, on social security, and bitter about what he called the greed and duplicity of men who had brought down his life's work and that of thousands of ordinary peoplin Cambridge, Massachusetts, a broken man, living, he said, on social security, and bitter about what he called the greed and duplicity of men who had brought down his life's work and that of thousands of ordinary people.

At the beginning, a physical organism, whose life - principles were breath and blood, whose mental and emotional experiences were the functions of bodily organs, the ordinary man was submerged in the corporate mass of his tribe, without individual status, separate hopes, personal rights, or claim on divine care apart from the group.

In ordinary language when we speak of man's aim in life or in a particular act, we sometimes mean a pure possibility he strives to actualizIn ordinary language when we speak of man's aim in life or in a particular act, we sometimes mean a pure possibility he strives to actualizin life or in a particular act, we sometimes mean a pure possibility he strives to actualizin a particular act, we sometimes mean a pure possibility he strives to actualize.

While it is manifestly true that there is a great faith which has long been the secret of life in Western man, does not the ordinary church, whether in New York, Middletown, or Gopher Prairie, provide such a caricature of this faith that it is really a joke?

Had Brown not been cut down, he may have grown into a more life affirming position; perhaps as an internationally renowned neurosurgeon, a nationally syndicated newscaster, a White House cabinet member, a military general, a preacher of the Gospel, or perhaps as a simple and ordinary man who loves his wife and leads his family well, like so many who sit in our congregations every Sunday.

There are royal psalms voicing the festival spirit of celebration at the court, praying for help in the king's need and for blessing on the king's rule, and there are psalms in which the common man poured out his hope and trust in God amid the ordinary happiness, suffering, and drudgery of daily life.

Problems in preaching the gospel today flow out of the necessity for relating the Christian story, the gospel, to the «ordinary knowledge» of the common man.

I believe ordinary men and women would be amazed if they could see how often, in the black spots of the world's superstition, ignorance, disease and fear, the Christians were the first to arrive.

The real hero of our time is the nonhero, the common man, the little Charlie Chaplin, the Dustin Hoffman, who may be buffeted and bewildered and often caught in the struggle between Eagles and Serpents, Seagulls and Frogs, but who somehow through it all manages to remain relatively sane, simple, ordinary and human.

Thus, alongside the lofty and otherworldly flights of Indian mysticism, stands the Zen emphasis upon «nothing special» and «everyday - mindedness» and «just being ordinary,» as in Yun - men's spiritual path described as «pulling a plough in the morning, and carrying a rake home in the evening,» or in Pao - fu's response to the question, «What is the language of the Buddha?»

Instead, he looks to the «ordinary brave man's» active and ideological resistance to the state philosophers in order to discover for himself what progressive values are.

lets say all you people that do not beleive in Jesus and that he either nevr existed or was just an ordinary man are correct.

An ordinary man, merely in and of himself, is not of so great worth and may be a very poor creature.

These men had crowned the second Elizabeth before an astonished world in 1953, and made an ordinary young woman our anointed monarch in a ceremony of grandeur, mystery, and poetry, a vast moth - eaten musical brocade that in those days still comfortingly covered up the peeling wallpaper and cracked plaster of our national home.

man's special place in the cosmos, his connexion with destiny, his relation to the world of things, his understanding of his fellowmen, his existence as a being that knows it must die, his attitude in the ordinary and extraordinary encounters with the mystery with which his life is shot through.

Zen begins with the ordinary individual who is separated from his own true Buddha nature by the false dichotomies of a «Buddha» far back in history, or now in Nirvana; or, more existentially, man as separated from the world around him by a subject - object dualism.

«The unification must be accomplished before a man undertakes some unusual work,» but any ordinary work that a man does with a united soul acts in the direction of new and greater unification and leads him, even if by many detours, to a steadier unity than he had before.

Like Matthew, Luke says «lost its taste» instead of Mark's «lost its saltness,» suggesting that the ordinary use of salt for seasoning is in mind; but instead of Matthew's «It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trodden under foot» Luke has «It is fit neither for the land nor for the dunghill; men throw it away.»

So the point of Whitehead's example in the above passage would be that in talking about the membership of the complex structured society which is a total man, in the ordinary sense of the term, one is referring not to a subordinate society, such as the enduring object which is the life, or soul, of the man, but to all the individual actual occasions in all the subordinate societies and subordinate nexus which make up the man.

He is, rather, a very complex structured society which sustains, among many other societies, a regnant, personally ordered, subordinate society (an enduring object) which Whitehead refers to as «the soul of which Plato spoke» (Adventures of Ideas 267 — see also pp. 263 - 264 for a clear statement of the distinction between «the ordinary meaning of the term «man,» which includes the total bodily man, and the narrow sense of «man,» where «man» is considered a person in Whitehead's technical sense, i.e., as the regnant, personally ordered society which he identifies as his equivalent of Descartes» thinking substance and Plato's soul).

The ordinary man can, and at times does, break through «from the status of the dully - tempered disagreeableness, obstinacy, and contraryness» in which he lives into an effective reality.

I believe that what Tillich was attempting to say in his own particular idiom (based as it was on a combination of existentialist analysis of human sensibility and the philosophical outlook found in German idealist thought) can be put in another fashion — and one which in my judgment speaks more directly to the ordinary man or woman.

The term «transfiguration,» or we might say «transformation,» points to the process by which a phenomenon that is a part of ordinary experience comes to assume a controlling interpretative role in man's understanding of himself and his world.

This means that the church needs to be present in trade unions, political parties, and every other secular institution to promote justice and compassion.18 In this way ordinary men and women who are engaged in the actual life - situations participate in the dialoguin trade unions, political parties, and every other secular institution to promote justice and compassion.18 In this way ordinary men and women who are engaged in the actual life - situations participate in the dialoguIn this way ordinary men and women who are engaged in the actual life - situations participate in the dialoguin the actual life - situations participate in the dialoguin the dialogue.

: «The authority that man recognizes in religion,» he says there, «is one who, in his character and manner of life, gives the impression of having insight into truths that ordinary man can not fathom.»

A notion of God emerges because a certain happening or complex of happenings in ordinary experience undergoes a transfiguration that gives it a paradigmatic role in man's perception of reality.

While natural law and Augustine's moral theology might be difficult for some, the rules derived from them were understood by ordinary Catholics: Sexual intimacy is permissible only in a sacramental marriage between one man and one woman, and the purpose of marriage is the procreation and education of children.

Indeed, in his other volume, Luke described two of them, Peter and John, as «uneducated and ordinary men» (agrammatoi and idiotai in the Greek) even after their days under Jesus» tutelage.

But religious love is only man's natural emotion of love directed to a religious object; religious fear is only the ordinary fear of commerce, so to speak, the common quaking of the human breast, in so far as the notion of divine retribution may arouse it; religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge; only this time it comes over us at the thought of our supernatural relations; and similarly of all the various sentiments which may be called into play in the lives of religious persons.

They are the ordinary citizens, the men in the street.

The devotionof the Seven Churches, in fact, brings together various of the themes we have already discerned in looking at St Philip's methods: it was distinctively Christian and prayerful, allowed for healthy exercise and good spirits alongside its primary purpose of pilgrimage, and was a practical way of getting ordinary young men out of danger's way at a time of potential spiritual hazards.

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.

If God does actually love such men as we are, the meaning of that love lies far beyond the power of ordinary terms to convey, and the Christian story, which does succeed in conveying that meaning, is therefore in the truest possible sense true.

It is sure, just as every simple man is sure, that some states of mind are inwardly superior to others, and reveal to us more truth, and in this it simply makes use of an ordinary spiritual judgment.

33:4, 6, 9) Man shared in this creation, taking physical and intellectual possession of the world by his giving names to all living creatures (Gen. 2:19) Throughout the Old Testament, in ordinary and sublime statements, in magic or prophecy, Israel took as her starting point the conviction that a word possesses creative power.

In the last stanza the poet invents a series of epithets in which are flung out, in more brutal terms than the ordinary man would permit himself, what nevertheless the ordinary man knows to be his argument with GoIn the last stanza the poet invents a series of epithets in which are flung out, in more brutal terms than the ordinary man would permit himself, what nevertheless the ordinary man knows to be his argument with Goin which are flung out, in more brutal terms than the ordinary man would permit himself, what nevertheless the ordinary man knows to be his argument with Goin more brutal terms than the ordinary man would permit himself, what nevertheless the ordinary man knows to be his argument with God.

For such a man to occupy a foremost place in history, and to continue to occupy it after nineteen centuries and more, is unexplainable on any ordinary grounds.

This statement is altogether in line with the words quoted from Acts as representative of the primitive view:» God hath made this same Jesus both Lord and Christ,» In each case a son of man in the ordinary sense is spoken of as becoming the Son of God in a unique sensin line with the words quoted from Acts as representative of the primitive view:» God hath made this same Jesus both Lord and Christ,» In each case a son of man in the ordinary sense is spoken of as becoming the Son of God in a unique sensIn each case a son of man in the ordinary sense is spoken of as becoming the Son of God in a unique sensin the ordinary sense is spoken of as becoming the Son of God in a unique sensin a unique sense.

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.