Sentences with phrase «other than a strange»

Perhaps it would be impossible to imagine that someone as driven and singular as Musk could be anything other than a strange person to live with.

Other than the strange color, the bread was delicious!

The story begins when Thomas (Dylan O'Brien) wakes up trapped in a massive maze with a group of other boys, he has no memory of the outside world other than strange dreams about a mysterious organization known as W.C.K.D. Only by piecing together fragments of his past with clues he discovers in the maze can Thomas hope to uncover his true purpose and a way to escape.

Here is the synopsis: When Thomas (O'Brien) wakes up trapped in a massive maze with a group of other boys, he has no memory of the outside world other than strange dreams about a mysterious organization known as W.C.K.D. Only by piecing together fragments of his past with clues he discovers in the maze can Thomas hope to uncover his true purpose and a way to escape.

Other than a strange announcement trailer, we hadn't really heard much about the game.

Not exact matches

Some of the arms are brighter than the others, which is strange — they appeared to be shadows.

The company recommended that customers install the new Windows update if they «are running an impacted device,» meaning their computers are automatically rebooting more frequently than usual or are exhibiting other strange behaviors.

While all micronations are interesting, some are more strange and storied than others.

More strangers asked me questions about this unfamiliar - looking Chinese - branded smartphone than any other gadget I've tested.

I'm in decent shape, so I was fortunate to be in a position to help people who were having a more difficult time with the course than I. My help was useful for them, but being able to connect to other people, sometimes strangers, with open - heartedness and helpfulness made the entire experience much more rewarding for me too.

For my idea, there is no national competition other than PaperlessSolutions.com but they have a different business model (everything is done by mail) which is more concerning for many people as the scanning is happening by strangers somewhere other than their home and the prices are far more expensive.

He was determined that the R. Kelly the world would know — the one who would sell more than 30 million albums, have 36 Billboard Hot 100 hits, invent his own strange musical language, write hits for countless others, and conceive one of the weirdest syntheses of video and music of all time, Trapped in the Closet — would be someone else.

Tweeters are more active in connecting with strangers and sharing links than Facebook or other social media sites.

I have become fast friends with women who were strangers to me less than 6 months ago, and we have come to rely on each other for so much.»

So it's not really fair to say one is stranger than the other.

The dirt in our minds, like someone hurling insults at other religions and strangers, that bothers God more than the frequency of our baths.

Fairies obey other rules, and hint that the world is stranger than we think.

But it is strange how convinced we are that our own opinion must be right though we admit theoretically that others are on the average not much more stupid than we are and also by and large want to do the right thing.

1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)

Early Old Testament: God's presence shows up in burning bushes, rods / staffs, other physical manifestations, and as «strangers» or «forms» different than «just men.»

In truth, beyond all our experiences, ideas, conceptions, hopes and longings, there is one greater and stranger than any thoughts or imaginings we may have had about an Absolute, a Transcendent, a Wholly Other.

However we seem to be finding that some theologies are more divisive than others, and according to Steve we have «Jesus» to thank for that (which I find kind of strange considering others here are following Jesus and arriving at different conclusions).

Despite itself Israel is climbing Calvary, side by side with Christians — whose vocation concerns the kingdom of God more than the temporal history of the world; and these strange companions are at times surprised to find each other mounting the same path.

In a study of his earlier pictures, Kolker notes that «Scorsese is interested in the psychological manifestations of individuals who are representative either of a class or of a certain ideological grouping; he is concerned with their relationship to each other or to an antagonistic environment... [and finally] there is no triumph for his characters» (A Cinema of Loneliness [Oxford University Press, 19881, p. 162) The Jesus of the Last Temptation fits this pattern (as do Travis Bickel in Taxi Driver, Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull and Paul Hackett in After Hours) By eschewing any reference to a resurrection — and, in an interesting theological note, allowing Paul to suggest that his preaching of the risen Christ is more important than the Jesus of history — Scorsese presents the crucifixion as the final willful act of a man driven by a God who makes strange demands on his followers.

Despite a slogan («Make America Great Again») that targeted oldster nostalgia and irritated young nonwhites whose ancestors were either in some other country or barred from voting in this one when America was allegedly great — and despite his stranger - than - fiction gaffes and scandals, Trump did almost exactly as well as Romney had among young voters.

You have some atheists who proselytize directly - I found this to be particularly true when I lived in Tempe, and had strangers walk right up to me in a restaurant or the street to inform me how I'm subhuman, less intelligent, or naive for no other reason than I was wearing a cross necklace or pendant.

How then, does his recent DAMSELS IN DISTRESS, a rather stranger film and one made more than a decade after the others, work with the earlier films?

«when you argue with an idiot and a stranger passes by they wont know which one is the idiot» So no more comments other than this: not one word of profanity was necessary to make the point!

The similarity in style and content between the stories I knew from the Bible and the myths of other Mesopotamian cultures suddenly made those strange tales of talking snakes and forbidden fruit and boats packed with animals seem colloquial, routine — nothing more than myths operating from the religious and literary conventions of the day.

The other four quark flavors (strange, charm, top and bottom) turn up only at higher energies than I've ever seen in even the most caffeine - and nicotine - rich AA.

But I do think that it is strange to seek after the Spirit of God in the works of authors other than the one book we know the Spirit wrote... why do that?

The students began as strangers, but their work in reflecting on Scripture and in sharing what they discovered with each other created something more than themselves: a friendship between themselves, and beyond themselves, with God.

Others see our beliefs as strange and difficult to accept, yet in reality they are no more difficult to accept than the fantastic stories told in the Bible.

Karl Barth understood this well when he wrote: «Strange as it may seem, it is still true, that those who fail to understand other churches than their own are not the people who care intensely about theology, but the theological dilettantes, eclectics, and historians of all sorts; while those very men who have found themselves forced to confront a clear, thoroughgoing, logical sic et non find themselves allied to each other in spite of all contradictions, by an underlying fellowship and understanding, even in the cause which they handle so differently and approach from such painfully different angles.

There are, however, some contemporary poets who seem, more than others, to be «strange ones»; for instance, Denise Levertov, Gary Snyder, Paul Blackburn, Charles Olson, James Dickey, Robert Penn Warren, Richard Wilbur.

In spite of the fact that Socrates studied with all diligence to acquire a knowledge of human nature and to understand himself, and in spite of the fame accorded him through the centuries as one who beyond all other men had an insight into the human heart, he has himself admitted that the reason for his shrinking from reflection upon the nature of such beings as Pegasus and the Gorgons was that he, the life - long student of human nature, had not yet been able to make up his mind whether he was a stranger monster than Typhon, or a creature of a gentler and simpler sort, partaking of something divine (Phaedrus, 229 E).

Even though no one knew about my transgression other than random strangers in an airport, I felt incredibly guilty about it.

I'm so curious how they became runny, such a strange thing to happen when there's no liquid involved other than a couple drops of extract or juice.

Plants on other planets are bound to be even weirder than the strangest ones we find on Earth — if they even exist.

Which was strange, because other than the bread, she wasn't much of a cook at all.

I wish I'd read your update sooner, because I also concluded that mine had too much leavener, because nothing else was strange or unusual about the recipe other than the 1 TABLESPOON of baking soda (no baking powder) to 3-1/2 cups of flour.

We can complain all we want but if the people at the club (Wenger / Kroenke) have different objectives than us, ie we want trophies and competitive teams, they want profit and a solid business, we will always seem to make strange decisions or want strange things from each other.

but for some strange reason wenger never seems to build a big enough squad, to compete in all competitions it almost as if he is only interested in certain cups more than others.

It was also strange to rest Petr Cech, who has more experience of winning Champions League games than any other player in the squad, but Wenger thought he needed a rest.

im not saying he can hold us to ransom — NOT even our best player has the ryt to do that but the reality is, it seems to be something very common at Arsenal... Beside Fabregas and Henry most of the others left for more money... he cant expect more than 100K a week... But strange fact is we pay players under 100k a week and expect to compare them to players that are paid over 200k a week (eg Rooney)....

The prospect of Walcott as somebody other than Theo Walcott is a strange and not altogether happy one.

Gundogan is more like that than the others mentioned, he uses his intelligence to be at the right place and if it gets played around him then he isn't a stranger to putting in a tackle that has great technique.

Mustafi isn't more error - prone than any other defender but he does have this strange tendency to «check out».

On the other hand, clowning — defined as absurd nonverbal behavior, such as making odd facial expressions or sounds, or performing strange or absurd actions — will not only be more effective at making your baby laugh than any other strategy, but also, it will grow more effective the older your baby gets.

It was strange, having to make all new friends with guys that I shared little in common with other than a routine of midnight diaper changes.