Sentences with phrase «ordinary women in»

Still, an engrossing portrayal of ordinary women in extraordinary circumstances.»

Lady Macbeth is just an evil version of ordinary women in the home.

Like Audrey Niffenegger's 2003 bestseller, Rhonda Riley's debut tells the story of an ordinary woman in love with someone who's... not so ordinary.

Vida Nueva Aventura (New Life Adventure), an online travel journal is the vibrant personal account of an ordinary woman in pursuit of an extraordinary life.If you've ever pondered on packing it all in and starting over in the tropics, here is a first hand account.

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«Louis Vuitton has become too ordinary,» a billionaire woman told China Market Research Group managing director Shaun Rein in 2011.

«Now it depends solely on your good sense and your way of life whether you die as an ordinary musician, utterly forgotten by the world, or as a famous kapellmeister, or whom posterity will read... whether, captured by some woman, you die bedded on straw in an attic full of starving children, or whether, after a Christian life spent in contentment, honor, and renown, you leave this world with your family well provided for and your name respected by all.»

The Dove Campaign for Real Beauty, which launched in 2004 and included photos of ordinary women, rather than models, was an early example of the strategy.

Her family described her as, «an ordinary Welsh woman who did an extraordinary deed in wanting people in the diocese of St Davids to benefit after her death.»

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.

Many women have gone from leading ordinary lives to living in cramped, inadequate housing.

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 memories rose up out of my mind and threw me backwards decades to sensations of panic I thought I'd forgotten, the ordinary fear almost every woman remembers experiencing in some way.

«We are still confused, including ordinary Muslims, and ask why this is happening,» said the woman, who was interviewed by ENI during a meeting of the executive committee of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, in Bangalore, India.

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.

For the first time in modern history, we have had Popes who as young priests met and worked with women at university as a matter of course and on ordinary terms.

Letty Russell has described the importance of «kitchen table» theology, which begins with the faith stories of ordinary women grouped around kitchen tables or in other everyday settings.

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.

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.

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.

This is a cheerful, readable book which aims to encourage ordinary Catholic women with busy lives, with homes to run and children to raise, with responsibilities and with jobs and worries, to live in the presence of God and to make prayer part of their daily lives.

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.

Moreover, whatever we make of Wilson's discussion of the well - known facts, Lewis's relation with the two women who (after his mother) played important roles in his personal life was, by ordinary standards, quite unusual.

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.

«We are thus led to the conclusion that when Paul asks women to be silent... he is not talking about ordinary Christian women; rather, he has a specific group of women in mind,» writes Scot McKnight in The Blue Parakeet.

One is the scene in which Dolly is on her way to visit Anna at Vronsky's estate in the country; as she travels, the narrative takes us into her thoughts, which are perfectly ordinary: her anxieties as a mother, principally, and as a wife, and her moral uncertainties; but it is all rendered with such confident and seemingly omniscient artistry that one almost feels as if one has momentarily become this woman, and can think and feel as she does; and more than one female critic has called attention to how well Tolstoy succeeds here at imagining his way into the worries and regrets of a wife and mother.

What those missals indisputably attest is that Graham helped ordinary men and women find new water in wells that had long since run dry.

So, for example, in his well - known essay, «Our Calling,» Einar Billing, a Swedish Lutheran theologian of the early 20th century, wrote: «The more fully a Catholic Christian develops his nature, the more he becomes a stranger to ordinary life, the more he departs from the men and women who move therein.

Stephen Crites has this pointed observation about the way in which truth is communicated by ordinary people — including those men and women of the First Century who experienced the Christ event in their own lives:

Talking with ordinary Christian men and women, one discovers that while they do not have the technical competence nor the verbal equipment of the professional theologian, they do raise what in fact are genuine theological issues.

In anticipation of the Ordinary Synod of Bishops on the Family (October 2015), we the undersigned Catholic women — scholars, professors, attorneys, physicians, writers, businesswomen, philanthropists, leaders of apostolate, members of religious orders, and others — wish to express our love for Pope Francis, our fidelity to and gratitude for the doctrines of the Catholic Church, and our confidence in the Synod of Bishops as it strives to strengthen the Church's evangelizing missioIn anticipation of the Ordinary Synod of Bishops on the Family (October 2015), we the undersigned Catholic women — scholars, professors, attorneys, physicians, writers, businesswomen, philanthropists, leaders of apostolate, members of religious orders, and others — wish to express our love for Pope Francis, our fidelity to and gratitude for the doctrines of the Catholic Church, and our confidence in the Synod of Bishops as it strives to strengthen the Church's evangelizing missioin the Synod of Bishops as it strives to strengthen the Church's evangelizing mission.

Besides the conditions of society itself, under which family and friends had primary responsibility for the care of the dying and the dead, memento mon were spread throughout culture: in the church's art, in morality plays like Everyman, in drinking songs, in the ordinary artifacts of everyday life (e.g., in Austria a towel hanger portraying a human form split down the middle: one half a beautiful young woman, the other a skeleton) To be sure, the specter of death (and judgment) has been used as a form of social control.

Yet we must admit that through their work we have learned to take very seriously the total biblical story, reading with deeper insight the truths which are there stated not in propositions but in the events of history and in the response made to those events in the experience of men and women immersed in the ordinary affairs of daily life.

Although he is a self - declared billionaire, Trump presented himself in the campaign as a champion of ordinary men and women victimized by the wealthy elite.

But more importantly they should first have the pedophiles booted from their ranks, until then they need not meddle in the «temporal» affairs of ordinary men and women.

Writes McKnight, «we are thus led to the conclusion that when Paul asks women to be silent in 1 Timothy 2, he is not talking about ordinary Christian women; rather, he has a specific group of women in mind.

The Wagnerian ideal of erotic heroism inflames ordinary men and women with the desire to live as though such love were possible even for themselves; for myth does not represent some archaic glory but is written «in the eternal present.»

It is not an ordinary biblical term for sexual intercourse, which is usually described as a man «going in» to a woman or «lying with» her.

Unlike its equally murderous counterpart, Marxian socialism, fascism won power in the heart of Europe; it succeeded in gaining the uncoerced allegiance of ordinary men and women in a way Marxism never did.

Through the vicissitudes of human history it has encouraged ordinary men and women to become heroic followers of Christ when love might otherwise have died down in prevailing culture.

In Biblical times, ordinary women hardly had more rights than slaves did.

But even as preliminary talks between the MDC and Zanu PF go ahead in South Africa, the killing, kidnap and torture of ordinary men and women, who have done nothing other than show their support for the opposition, continues.

The Museum's reputation for helping people understand the experience of modern conflicts is unrivalled, and I'm confident that members of the public will be inspired and motivated by the exceptional courage of the ordinary men, women and children featured in the outstanding exhibition.»

What became dangerous for the security of this country was the impunity with which some people were doing it (abusing their office), but however beautiful the policies are, until you are able to translate all of those to food and jobs in the homes of the ordinary man and woman, it is still at the theoretical stage.

The meeting was ahead of the 26th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union billed to commence on Saturday at the Headquarters of the African Union in Addis Ababa with the theme «2016: African Year of Human Rights with a Particular Focus on the Rights of Women».

«The women and men who cheered in that group have no concept of how that looks to the outside world, in ordinary workplaces,» she added.

The law on evidence in the courts has always been predicated on the fact that whereas ordinary men and women may be motivated either to lie or to fail to tell the whole truth, experts have no such motivation.

I found my answer in Kiva, a San Francisco — based organization that allows ordinary people, like most of us, to give microloans to women in the Third World for starting small businesses.

Results You can see in the figure below that the women's calorie expenditure rose after eating the pancakes, especially after eating pancakes that contained ordinary digestible starch.

«Even mild dehydration that can occur during the course of our ordinary daily activities can degrade how we are feeling — especially for women, who appear to be more susceptible to the adverse effects of low levels of dehydration than men,» says Harris Lieberman, one of the studies» co-authors and a research psychologist with the Military Nutrition Division, U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine in Natick, Mass. «In both sexes these adverse mood changes may limit the motivation required to engage in even moderate aerobic exercisin Natick, Mass. «In both sexes these adverse mood changes may limit the motivation required to engage in even moderate aerobic exercisIn both sexes these adverse mood changes may limit the motivation required to engage in even moderate aerobic exercisin even moderate aerobic exercise.

«I started Accidental Icon because I was having trouble finding a fashion blog or magazine that offered an urban, modern, intellectual aesthetic but also spoke to women who live what I call «interesting but ordinary lives» in cities.