Sentences with phrase «scene upon scene»

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Suppose you've completed your audit and, upon review, noticed that the «behind the scenes» blog posts you've shared to your website have the most social shares and the lowest bounce rates.

There's a scene in the film Up in the Air where George Clooney's character, Ryan while firing J.K. Simmons's character, Bob realizes he isn't buying the platitudes spouted upon him, and helps him see inspiration in his unexpected transition...

When Google came upon the scene in 1998, it introduced a new way to categorize this massive body of data by organizing it around keywords, which made it easier for users to discover exactly what they were looking for.

Video of the scene shows the donkey pushed down a makeshift ramp into the water surrounding the tiger habitat, where it is promptly pounced upon.

Upon graduating, he became acquainted with the Atlanta tech scene and networked his way into an opportunity with Terminus.

right, and they also wanted to make a scene with the FBI & airport police showing up upon landing.

Such moments, nonetheless, appear» implicit though undramatized» throughout the Old Testament, and the story of Noah has at least two: Noah's own never - expressed response to the Lord's commission, and the late scene when Shem discloses Noah's drunken stupor to his brothers, who engage in a tortuous maneuver to cover their father's nakedness (which only alerts him upon wakening to what has happened).

Clad only in her own hair, illustrating her complete dependence upon God, she leaves behind scenes in which she preached the gospel message of hope.

This scene at the tomb of Jesus bestows a supreme gift upon the beloved of God.

In the dark days which followed, while the new Babylonian empire threatened the little nations ever more nearly, another of the great prophets came upon the scene.

Though science has reached phenomenal heights in our time, it has at no point invalidated anything basic to Christian faith, and at no time in human history has the revelation of God in Christ shone upon the human scene with greater clarity and power.

Once, when he came upon a drunken scene, probably in connection with the temple sacrifices, where priests and prophets, as he says, reeled with wine and staggered with strong drink until the tables were full of «vomit and filthiness,» he was greeted with the intoxicated jeers of the people's religious leaders: «Whom will he teach knowledge?

On the international scene I should define power as the capacity of a political unit to impose its will upon other units.9

The imposition of Word upon king is sharply attested again in that brilliant scene immediately preceding the death of Ahab in the middle of the ninth century (I Kings 22) The Word through Micaiah works its radical historical effects, and another prophet is instrumental in the efficacious juxtaposition of divine life and will upon human events.

Just as the Virgin Birth, and the physical Resurrection of Christ are and were requirements of his literal Divinity and uniqueness upon the human scene, so also this type of development to which we appeal can not take place, except in a Church which claims the infallible magisterium on earth of the same Jesus in the name of his Divinity, and can manifest a line of consistent and coherent, definition because she has done so.

When first the tribes of Joseph met him at Sinai and he came down in «thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount,» nothing remotely like the interior practice of the presence of God was suggested by the scene.

For moral standards ultimately depend upon something transcending the human scene.

If positive values tend to confirm relationships and negative values to fracture them, then the particular ways in which changes take place in the human scene will depend upon the systems of value which pertain.

Unfortunately, it is an effect that no photograph can capture: invariably, it is not only the rich aurous lambency of the scene that is lost, but the impression of depths within depths, layer upon layer.

Upon this orderly, ecclesiastically manageable scene burst the lay activists of the «30s, «40s and «50s, including Dohen and her colleagues in the Grail movement.

Intelligent agency brings something new upon nature's scene in the course of its own functioning.

The demands constantly being made upon us in business and family life, the world scene, and the precarious state in which we all dwell compel thoughtful people to consider the nature and destiny of man.

Clinical psychology had not yet come upon the scene in its modern sense.

He did not press the point, but there was no need to do so since when he came on the scene it was generally accepted that sensing is «a sort of being acted upon.

If by God's «glory» we understand a majestic court scene in which God is seated upon a great throne, lording it over the creation and gloating in his divine magnificence, then the phrase suggests ideas that are the exact opposite of the «Galilean vision» of the Love which is self - giving, gladly receptive, utterly ungrudging in generous openness to all that occurs in the created order.

In one way or another they refer to what Jesus was doing, and to the effect of what He was doing upon the total scene.

Imagine some scene where Roman armies fall upon a little country, sure in time to be crushed under the heel of the conqueror.

i remember now seeing this one movie with mid-east people drama in it — don't remember to much about the movie except this one scene of men in mid-east dress advancing in protest in mass upon these soldier guards over something these people in mass thought was rightfully theirs (a freedom from violence was one of these things they thought was rightfully theirs).

But taken together, these stories, told from many different points of view, converge to give a distinct impression of a real person in action upon a recognizable scene.

The incongruities themselves illustrate the manner in which through trial and error men came to apprehend the truth; and the defects and limitations of which we are aware serve as background to the growing light which, as if evoked by them, shone upon the human scene.

Had Ken Pike not happened upon the scene, it is most doubtful SIL would have attained such academic stature.

Suddenly hitherto illiterate populations were equipped with a written Scripture for the first time, and from the wonder and pride of possessing something new that is also strangely familiar, they burst upon the scene with confidence in the whos and whys of their existence.

Then the fields of Esdraelon slope up toward Galilee in an immense checkerboard of green and brown, while through a break in the hills distant Hermon looks down from its snows upon the idyllic scene.

In brief, social change — this rapid, turbulent, accelerating scene — is more than a professional challenge; it is a total human challenge, and to deal with it as human beings, be we professionals or nonprofessionals, we must unashamedly call upon the full range of our human capacities and interests — scientific, artistic, and religious.

Mead calls this rather absurd scene — that of filming people watching film — the ultimate manifestation of Bridezilla culture: «an exercise in self - regard so grandiose that it has collapsed in upon itself.»

Pop music critic Simon Reynolds, in his book Retromania, and style - writer Kurt Andersen, in his «You Say You Want a Devolution» essay, have their finger upon a certain pattern in our contemporary cultural scenes of recyle - ment, repetition, and lack of forward motion.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

Before faith there goes a movement of infinity, and only then, necopinate, by virtue of the absurd, faith enters upon the scene.

Are the gospels and the pastoral letters of Paul and the other apostles direct, hotly written, and clearly sincere expressions of a living master, or are they remote, carefully written up studies upon one who has long left the scene?

The end of the play would be much more comfortable for us if we could treat the Portia of the trial scene as an allegory of the Divine Judge who forces Shylock (the allegorical sinner) to relinquish all his wealth with the conditional restoration of a part of it upon his baptism» that is, he must throw down everything he has and follow Christ.

It is not strange that, when Jesus came upon the scene, the Sadducees, the ultraconservatives of their day, who accepted only the earlier books of the Old Testament and refused credence to the new ideas of the later literature, held «that there is no resurrection.»

It could be relied upon long after the preacher had disappeared from the scene.

You open your eyes upon a scene of which you miss the whole significance.

We accept these victories over injustice in former days as assumptions of the position of the Church in our own day; it is harder to see in our contemporary scene just what it is that the Church is called upon to do.

The impact of Wieman in the American scene has sometimes been compared with that of Barth upon Continental theology, 17 and a parallel does exist at the point at which both men direct attention away from humanity and human values to the work of God which is understood as prior to and sovereign over human endeavors.

In turning men away from the mythological concepts of the gods to the YHWH who was known through His Word, Israel seized upon the most important phenomenon in the human scene — language — to become the metaphor for faith «The Word became flesh.»

Following World War II, redaction criticism came upon the scene.

Just imagining the master waiting upon the servant relaxing on a couch ready to be served a banquet (Christ like the Romans ate in a reclining position to aid their digestion) would have evoked a scene of luxurious bliss from the listeners.

If I chance upon a scene where one person is violently attaching another, it is not enough for me to say: «I love both of you!

God manifests Himself upon the scene of our daily living as the Lord and Giver of life: interpreting the divine will to our human hearts, comforting us in our sore bereavements, awakening within us a hunger for the eternal, quickening our souls to repentance for sin, witnessing with our spirits that we are the children of God.