Sentences with phrase «other than the characters»

It does nt explain his origins, substance, or much more, other than his character, motive and goal, asside from moral laws, codes of conduct, right from wrong, and how to manage life, all while believing in him.

Many of us have a hard time visualizing ourselves looking anything other than a character that walked off a Downton Abbey set.

I suppose the big draw for me is that you actually care about these characters (other than the character of Paul, who is but window dressing in AW) and what they are going through.

Still, seeing it today, other than the characters, the film is very predictable.

Areas are mostly «boxes» with sparse decoration around the outside to denote barriers like walls and hallways, the enemies and the ground being the only things inside said boxes other than the characters you've picked.

Story mode I got nothing out of it other than some characters that show up should've been playable.

The characters in Guilty Gear are more different from each other than the characters of just about any other asymmetric game that I know of, yet the series is still reasonably well balanced and definitely suitable for tournament play.

I'm sure the character list won't be lacking, I'm just hoping there are plenty of different modes and things to give it lasting appeal, I want this for my vita but would still like more info on things other than character reveals

Of course, I can't say much for the game, other than character reveals, considering the real make - or - break for most any fighting game lies in the subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) nuances of the mechanics.

Instead, he rejected (at para 52) Half Moon Lake Resort's argument that characteristics of the transaction other than its character as a conveyance of an interest in land were not relevant.

Not exact matches

Other items which don't impact gameplay, such as character costumes, will still be purchasable with real money, and those purchases will be direct rather than randomized.

When Connor (Jason Clarke) first pops up in the trailer, there's no reason to believe he's anyone other than the heroic character he's always been depicted as; however, seemingly out of nowhere, an aged Schwarzenegger's character shoots him.

His foe is played by none other than Michael Keaton who goes from playing Batman and Birdman to another winged character, Vulture, in «Homecoming.»

Warren Buffett spends a lot of his day reading reports, LeBron trains in the gym more than others, and Leo trains for the character he is going to play.

Empathic people trust that kindness will get them further in life than other human character trait.

The Luthor character is played by none other than Jesse Eisenberg, famous for playing Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network.

For what it's worth, the characters are slightly more fleshed out than in other «Call of Duty» games.

No employer shall «discriminate between the sexes in the payment of wages for work of comparable character, the performance of which requires comparable skills» or «pay wages or other compensation to any employee at a rate greater than that at which the employer pays wages to employees of a protected class for work of comparable character»

Leonard's mom, of course, is more like Sheldon than any other character on the show.

For Poland to be something other than the claustrophobic Soviet puppet - state it had been since 1945 — for Poland to be itself, true to its character and history — Poland had to live in the truth: It had to be a country in which 2 + 2 always equaled 4.

Wnen bad things happen to good people they can be used as steping stones to increase their faith and characters, but I don't know how those that are unbelievers view it, other than a «O» well, that's life.»

He is better known to us as an individual than any of his predecessors — possibly better than any other character in the Old Testament; for his book contains many chapters of personal confessions and autobiography.

Even if some parts of the series aren't «true to the book» they are more true to the Anne Shirley and Marilla Cuthbert and Matthew Cuthbert characters than any other adaption so far.

I read this sacred text no differently than I would read other fairytales with heroic characters and plot twists galore.

The funny thing is, though, that this other group knows all of the stories your family likes to tell about the deceased, and the stories they add to the mix sound more like mythic embellishments of his character than outright lies.

The patriarchs were chosen because of definite qualities in their character, not because God just happened to like them better than other people.

He went on to say: «The other arts — architecture, painting, vestments, and the arts of movement — each contribute to and support the beauty of the liturgy, but still the art of music is greater even than that of any other art, because it forms a necessary or integral part of the solemn liturgy, because it is so intimately bound to the sacred action, defining and differentiating the various parts in character, motion and importance.»

Consequently the Church has less reason than any other historical reality to fear its historical character.

When Jesus says, as in the Fourth Gospel's interpretative words, «Love one another as I have loved you, greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends,» the very quality of the love which God has expressed through Jesus becomes the quality and character of suffering love poured out for another beyond the worthiness of that other.

No less than other stories in the Jacob cycle, it reflects the background of the patriarchal age — frictions between groups (Hamor and Jacob); a level of sexual morality beyond the reach of our judgment and in any judgment ennobled by the integrity of Hamor and the love of his son for Dinah; the effort on the part of both families to effect a peaceful settlement honoring the religious sensibilities of the abused; the despicable violation of the terms of agreement by two of Jacob's sons; and finally, in perfect consonance with the general character of Jacob, his sharp rebuke of his sons not on moral but on utilitarian grounds:

(One partial exception to the commission's study results may be the popular program «Golden Girls,» in which the major characters are all women — who are generally portrayed with less egregious exaggeration than some other shows» characters.)

She also cited a 1977 Annenberg School of Communication survey of more than 9,000 television characters, which determined that only 3.7 of them were elderly; moreover, compared to other groups, these individuals were portrayed as ineffective, unattractive and unhappy.

In her case one of the New Testament's major figures remained of virtually unknown origin, character and destiny, so roughly sketched that she could easily be confused with other unnamed and unsketched women and grow into a myth far different, far richer in some ways, than her actual self.

Bill, Christian scientists have done just fine and what we need more than anything in our children... is Godliness — integrity, honesty, character, kindness, empathy, compassion, humility... way more important than any other accomplishment!!!

It is about believing in something better than ourselves helping us in our lives, knowing spirituality (totally different than religion), being humble (after experiencing humiliation) and daily addressing our character defects and the wrong we have done upon others.

I raise this question particularly with Pure Land Buddhists because the affirmation of other power, or what Christians call grace, seems to place a greater emphasis on the metaphysical character of the world and human experience than is present in other Buddhist traditions.

Yet our adult character and behaviour are shaped by childhood happenings which we do not recall — other perhaps than during psycho - analysis.

It was, rather, a center that had no given character of its own other than that of being in each new situation concretely responsible for the soul's total response.

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.

I claim with no misgivings whatsoever that some characters are better than others.

Perhaps, though, the biblical character of Jesus, rather than being entirely mythical, was based on one of many Jewish messiah claimants who had followers who euhemerized his life to a greater extent than those of other such claimants, so that in time the stories were so embellished that he became a god in them, but the Tesimonium Flavianum is hardly proof of his existence.

Mansfield Park's cast of characters is socially much higher than the characters in Austen's other novels.

MacLeish's contribution, other than bringing the story into the 20th century, making a great contribution to the tiny, tiny pool of American poetic drama, and winning the 1959 Pulitzer with it, is quite a bit of additional commentary by his God and Satan characters, a pair of washed - up actors who observe the Job story being played on a stage, and occasionally take part in it.

Other than exercising memory, which is displayed in the highly cinematic form of flashbacks, the novel's characters exhibit practically no interior dimensions.

«Evangelicals, whose faith hinges on obedience to God's commands, are far more interested in the character of candidates than any other segment,» stated founder George Barna.

There are few other figures than the monarchs and their satellites — but that only reflects the character of the age — Roman history, Mediterranean history generally, in that century, was a history of Führers and Duces, strutting about imperiously and wreaking their destructions upon the earth.

Character is itself a tool of leadership in that it enhances the leader's capacity to persuade others; and persuasion «is a far more effective approach to leadership than control,» trickery or manipulation.

Both questions lead in the same direction, toward the possibility of a provisional and qualified answer: if the character of happening only once is held to belong to the truth and measure of all things in their very reality, then there is indeed an essence which more than any other satisfies this truth - criterion, and this is the pure essence of time: time taken in itself, or pure movement — movement irrespective of any possible differentiation into the different kinds of movement.

To be sure, he also recognizes, in line with the common distinction between «conditions» and «causes,» that some past events are far more important in determining the character of a present event than others.

Characters in zombie films are willing to do terrible things to each other because of the fear of zombies and the urge for self preservation, while, in the real world, things like the use of torture (or «advanced interrogation»), preemptive war and drone strikes were being debated as options to fight a threat even scarier than zombies: terrorism.