Sentences with phrase «ordinary things of life»

It is not simply that poets must work with ordinary words to say their new thing, but some poets are what Paul Van Buren calls «strange ones» for whom the ordinary things of life strike them as wonderful: «the decisive point to be made is that some men are struck by the ordinary, whereas most find it only ordinary.»

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Hope of getting the grass cut this weekend or doing any of those other small ordinary things that mark the pace and even the pleasures of our life — those are over and of no concern.

Three children experienced a series of extraordinary visions in 1917 and were given a message that was both extraordinary and very ordinary: people must pray and do penance (that was the ordinary bit; these things are central to Catholic life, always have been and always must be) and failure to do this would ensure that evils would be spread by Russia across the world (an extraordinary statement to make to children living in an obscure corner of Portugal with limited access to any knowledge of Russia or indeed to anywhere else outside their local area).

There are, for Christians, two steps here: God speaks the law through the ordinary things of daily life; but his extraordinary Word is spoken in the Endtime through Jesus Christ, who fulfills and transcends the law of creation.

They were to all appearances very ordinary people, usually devoutly religious people, who knew that some things must not be done and who put their lives in the way of the doing of such things.

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.

Somehow, a belief system that teaches people that they are the center of all the universe, created in the image of the most perfect being imaginable, strikes me as a bit more of an ego trip than accepting that we aren't destined to live forever because of our «specialness», but that we live our short lifetimes and die like every other living thing on the planet, our bodies decomposing and ultimately entering the food chain once again, on a tiny speck of a planet in an ordinary, remote backwater of the universe.

Writers like Wendell Berry, Annie Dillard and Lewis Thomas all speak of the most ordinary things, yet find in a weasel's stare, a swollen river, a snail's strange life something far more than...

I sat down at the computer again to try to find a few words to say how I find God in this daily place and in this work, how I only learned to pray when I began to pray with my hands and my attention on purpose and how most of prayer to me now is listening and abiding, how I believe it would be nice to have a lovely housekeeper and a clean house and to create amazing soaring art with all of the white space of an uncluttered life and glorious heights of transcendent spirituality, I guess, but I need the God who sits in the mud and in the cold wind, in the laundry pile and in the city park, who embodies grief and joy, wisdom and patience, loneliness as companionship, renewal with simplicity and a good deep breath, and who even now shows up in the unlikeliest and homeliest of lives too, as a sacrament of and blessing for the ordinary things.

Me, I'm an ordinary woman — I write things and I preach sometimes, sure, I lead in my own way in a regular sort of life.

Things like this don't take away the terrible and horrible things of this world but these normal, gorgeous, ordinary joys are perhaps even more powerful once you've woke up to the real world thumping along beside us — these moments are filling us up, they're what makes life worth living, they're a glimpse of who we are at our best and that is sometimes everything we need to carThings like this don't take away the terrible and horrible things of this world but these normal, gorgeous, ordinary joys are perhaps even more powerful once you've woke up to the real world thumping along beside us — these moments are filling us up, they're what makes life worth living, they're a glimpse of who we are at our best and that is sometimes everything we need to carthings of this world but these normal, gorgeous, ordinary joys are perhaps even more powerful once you've woke up to the real world thumping along beside us — these moments are filling us up, they're what makes life worth living, they're a glimpse of who we are at our best and that is sometimes everything we need to carry on.

Like Fernand Braudel and others who ventured into the long - neglected territory of the history of ordinary life, Lasch was a pioneer in connecting the history of everyday things to larger economic developments.

Even the reader, who knows that Jesus has been using ordinary words to refer to extraordinary things, is inclined to agree: «Whoever eats me will live because of me.»

A Lime Less Ordinary: Mama of one who loves life and all things beautiful and natural.

Lots of people have spoken at EU events I've attended have said they want to have a conversation about how we can try and have get a Europe that look like it works a bit better for ordinary citizens — not the rich guys in suits zooming about doing the deals but on things that make a difference to their lives like better rights at work.

All of the things that make life better for ordinary people disrupt profit - maximisation - child labour laws, environmental protections, employment rights.

«Polls go up and down — one thing goes up and up is the cost of living for ordinary families,» he said after a new YouGov / Sunday Times poll found that only 17 % of respondents thought he was up to the job of prime minister.

Comparing the image of the Conservative party now with how it was seen back in 2003, it hasn't changed to a great extent — people think it has a better team of leaders (39 % think so, compared to 22 % back in 2003), is more competent (43 % now compared to 32 % in 2003) and is more united (46 % compared to 32 %), but in things like whether the Conservative party cares about the problems of ordinary people, shares peoples values, is honest and trustworthy or understands normal peoples lives, the improvement is far more meagre.

To support the biological science goal of image classification, we have developed several games and tools that let ordinary members of the public undertake to classify various photos of living things.

It's incredible how the ordinary things in life like walking, running, and dancing become extraordinary when you're disabled - extraordinary in difficulty, yes, but also in the feeling of pride when you finally accomplish them.

I am an ordinary woman, I have a good sense of humor, I share my feelings and love the little things in life... I will never be good enough to everybody,,.

In the scheme of Lehane's pulp narrative he is, in fact, a white savior, and while various critics and a few ordinary citizens are busy throwing that condemnation at the Ryan Gosling character in «La La Land,» a charge that makes little sense in the context of the movie itself (vanilla is one thing; white savior is a different flavor) here in «Live by Night» we have a serious case of the white saviors.

Following on the success of E.T., there were quite a few clones involving a being that changes the lives of ordinary families for the better, only to have scary government agents out to destroy the alien / robot / sentient spaceship / mythical creature / furry animal lest things be revealed that the public dare not know.

One thing we need to know about African - American experience is the minutiae: there should be films that present the ordinary, everyday reality of these lives in forms that resist cliché and hyperbole, refuse to glamorize, mystify, or stereotype.

Saoirse Ronan's Lady Bird finds herself caught somewhere between being the kid her parents want her to be — accepting an ordinary life in Sacramento — and chasing an inner whirlwind of big dreams of big places, of people who pursue and achieve different things.

His movies are full of complicated characters discussing complicated things, sympathetically attuned to the lives of ordinary folk; quietly political and engineered with a masterly but unflashy sense of craft.

Not only does this French drama pass the Bechdel Test with flying colours, it also goes to show that the ordinary lives of ordinary people can be the most moving thing to watch.

The result is a slick and enjoyable but largely unremarkable masala flick, though it does feature an unashamedly confident and realistic portrayal of ordinary Muslim lives — still a rare thing in a mainstream Bollywood movie.

Things acclaimed British director Mike Leigh is known for: wry comedy - drama poking at ordinary lives and the class system, a compassionate yet sharp take on the human condition, his almost unique working method that involves workshopping and improvising for months with his cast before a frame of film is shot.

These are things that educators, parents, carers, coaches and mentors can help children with in the ordinary course of life.

I, like so many teachers across our great state, can tell you with great joy the hundreds of examples of ordinary students doing extraordinary things in the classroom; Tell you the time when tears filled my eyes, when life hit a student like a ton of bricks, and give you the names of kids who were the first in their family to go to college.

With all the insurance and medical hassles of the accident on top of the stress of ordinary life, the last thing I needed was to battle a car dealership on a new vehicle.

«Circe is the utterly captivating, exquisitely written, story of an ordinary, and extraordinary, woman's life» — Eimear McBride, author of A Girl is a Half - Formed Thing

The Last Dead Girl, the prequel to Harry Dolan's critically acclaimed Bad Things Happen, plucks an ordinary guy from an ordinary life and draws him into an amateur investigation of his lover's death, an investigation discouraged in no uncertain terms by the cop assigned to the murder.

He's led an ordinary kind of life — not much by way of adventures, but some silly things.

You wouldn't describe your books as «domestic», but you write about daily lives and ordinary things, which maybe one doesn't get in a lot of books.

At the same time, and ordinary investment in a basket of lower investment grade and high yield bonds offers a nice return for those willing to live with some default risk, which is over-discounted here, even with things as bad as they are.

The American Humane Association Hero Dog AwardsTM Now in its second year, the Hero Dog Awards competition searches out and recognizes America's Hero Dogs — often ordinary dogs who do extraordinary things, whether it's saving lives on the battlefield, lending sight or hearing to a human companion, or simply the tail - wagging welcome a pet owner relishes at the end of a hard day.

The annual national competition searches out and recognizes America's Hero Dogs — often ordinary dogs who do extraordinary things, whether it's saving lives on the battlefield, lending sight or hearing to a human companion, or simply the tail - wagging welcome a pet owner relishes at the end of a hard day.

The American Humane Hero Dog Awards ® are an annual, nationwide competition that searches out and recognizes America's Hero Dogs — often ordinary dogs who do extraordinary things, whether it's saving lives on the battlefield, lending sight or hearing to a human companion, or simply providing the tail - wagging welcome a pet owner relishes at the end of a hard day.

We focus on featuring ordinary people that are doing extraordinary things in the realm of entrepreneurship, personal productivity, development, location independent work and living, and world impact.

You can live many years of your life in the same ordinary way, living the same routine and doing the same things everyday, but in just a blink of an eye, your world can turn up side down, for the better of course!

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.

Taking the everyday as his primary subject matter, he features ordinary people, places, and things in his work, resulting in a slice - of - life portrait of the everyman.

Recent group exhibitions include You are Looking At Something That Never Occurred, Zabludovicz Collection, London, Ordinary Pictures, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, For the Love of Things: Still Life, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, and An Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015, Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Once things have settled, I suppose that because such an investigation can be provoked, scientist will be much more careful not to give way to biased research, and that again could happen to be of great relief to ordinary people who might have their life negatively influenced because of bad science adopted by policymakers as the «truth».

These toys are usually nothing that appear immediately out of the ordinary; they are typically just miniatures of things that occur in «real life» (people, animals, cars, fantasy figures, etc.), along with puppets, stuffed toys, dolls (often with their own furnished dollhouse) articles of dress and props for dress - up and make - believe play, art supplies, blocks, or sometimes items for indoor active games, such as ring toss.

Finding a buyer can also be difficult if the seller isn't readily available to conduct showings due to work, family - duties, or any of the other things that compose ordinary life.

Most of our life is spent doing ordinary things.