Sentences with phrase «sorts of stories in»

It's just a shame that after pioneering story in games with Donkey Kong, creator Shigeru Miyamoto has become so gun - shy about virtually any sort of story in Mario games.

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I've got a story in the new issue of Canadian Business magazine about the rise of cloud gaming — or online services that act much like Netflix do in that they sell streaming access to the same sorts of video games you'd find on your Xbox or Playstation.

New York magazine made a similar case in a recent post, saying tens of millions of Facebook users «were served up or shared emotionally charged news stories about the candidates, because Facebook's sorting algorithm understood from experience that they were seeking such stories.»

There are all sorts of stories told about Facebook, some of them on film, that really give a sense of a place where it's immature not only in terms of the jokes you choose but also in how you value your relationships.

After all, this sort of price signal is somethng like the story in favour of floating exchange rates, is it not?

In her 2014 essay «Cassandra Among the Creeps,» Rebecca Solnit uses the story of Cassandra, daughter of the king of Troy, as an archetypical example of a woman who was not believed even though she told the truth, in a sort of reverse parable to the Boy Who Cried WolIn her 2014 essay «Cassandra Among the Creeps,» Rebecca Solnit uses the story of Cassandra, daughter of the king of Troy, as an archetypical example of a woman who was not believed even though she told the truth, in a sort of reverse parable to the Boy Who Cried Wolin a sort of reverse parable to the Boy Who Cried Wolf.

The second and subsequent times through the text, the reader finds all sorts of nuggets that can be very satisfying in terms of realizing just how carefully the story was crafted.

It used to be that around Christmastime (and Hannukah) there would be all sorts of stories about political and judicial conflicts about the various signs of the season: creches and menorahs in public spaces, carols and songs sung or not sung at «holiday» programs in elementary....

The third category deals with things that would not convince him at all: speaking in tongues or other pseudo-miracles; people's conversion stories; any subjective experience; the Bible Code or other numerological feats, creationism of any sort.

And Cain went into the next valley and found all sorts of nubile ho - rny women in the land of Nod, sort of puts a BS on the whole Adam and Eve story.

It really helps people who have experienced similar issues know that they are not alone, and it helps people who have never experienced this type of thing in their church to know that these sorts of stories are more common than they think.

In this story, a Pharisee condemns her, noting that «if this man were a prophet, he would have known who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him, for she is a sinner.»

When we have an ordinary sort of night, you say, «We made walking to Walmart into a fantastic date» to remind that these ordinary nights matter in a love story.

But, in my experience, sometimes the best way to keep communication healthy and open is to go to bed angry and then talk about it the next morning when you've had enough sleep to know that leaving the milk out in the car probably wasn't a veiled act of aggression meant to symbolize every problem in the relationship, but rather just the sort of mistake anyone would make while distracted by a fascinating story on NPR.

But with an epic fairy tale, Pixar is working in a different medium that just isn't close enough to the familiar and everyday to inspire the sort of deep laughs and tearful moments we've come to expect, thanks to Toy Story, WALL - E, and Up.

I listened to their stories — they had been on the Bowery, been in all sorts of places I had never been.

The publisher's promotional material appears to build on the expectations associated with this sort of story, describing Mariette in Ecstasy as «a powerful portrayal of the disturbing world beneath the placid daily life of an American convent.»

Still, Wolfe's depiction of Charlotte's fall is worthy of Flaubert, though it's more disgusting and vulgar, in a smirking sort of way, than any story Flaubert would have written.

But no genealogical record in Scripture is without some sort of important insight into the story.

But on all other legitimate levels, just having these interests going in intelligent hands is itself an excellent method of evangelizing, of telling the gospel story to all sorts and conditions of men.

Apparition and ascension stories aside, it is clear in Paul's theorizing that some sort of new bodies will come into being for us after the physical disintegration of our first ones (I Cor.

Whoever reads On the Edge of the Primeval Forest or the chapters in Schweitzer's autobiography dealing with his life in Africa, as if they were the sort of glib, humorous travelogue stories one finds in National Geographic, is missing a great deal.

The individual stories still speak at points with qualities of expression characteristic of their origin and background in ancient folklore, when the stories were primarily motivated by etiology of one sort or another, or by the love, simply, of a good story, or by the desire to entertain and to be entertained.

He has been missing for four days, and Wendy found him perched 30 feet up in the air on a telephone pole, and... well, take all the events I described above and fit them together into some sort of story (any crazy story will do) and you pretty much have what happened today as she tried to rescue Christmas.

and it's such a laughably silly story, with no basis in any sort of reality, that you wouldn't believe it unless you had had it drummed into your head since childhood.

If one does not believe, why even read a story that has any sort of religion or mention of God in it?

having anyone or anything take away your bad deeds and impure thoughts is such a laughably silly story, with no basis in any sort of reality, that you wouldn't believe it unless you had had it drummed into your head since childhood.

It is also impressive that before these true stories about Jesus were written down (in that 27 - 30 year period) Christians would sort of have «story time» and orally present the events we find in the Gospels, and there was absolutely no room for fluffing up the story or saying something false because during that time, people who actually witnessed Jesus» ministry were still alive and would have quickly corrected the mistakes.

I always knew I was called to ministry: but then you find yourself in a regular sort of job and you have to figure out a new story.

So as I was writing Out of Sorts, I began to realise how often music played a big part in my story — which is odd because I'm not a musician or a singer or even someone who can carry a tune.

He was a typical self - seeking upstart of the sort that has made history — and trouble — through many a century, and his story runs true to the type as known in our own days.

The priest who first did my instruction in the faith was once a missionary in Africa, and told me terrifying stories of having to do spiritual battle as an exorcist with the same sort of «religious leaders» the pontiff was now welcoming as his honored guests.

This was a long involved story of how Marduk was elected King of the gods in order to attack and defeat Tiamat the goddess of the watery deep, who was spreading chaos by spawning all sorts of evil creatures.

Whereas A Sort of Life is content to report, «I married and I was happy,» the biographer tells the extraordinary story of courtship, wedding and early marriage, as well as suggesting what would undo that union in the end.

I'd love to share your story as well as mine, so today's going to be a sort of open mic focused around one question: What triggers doubt in your life?

I am an non theist and I do believe in god of sorts... I believe there is a force that has created the universe or that is the universe itself... BUT!!!! Believing god chatted with people thousands of years ago and told them to bring out a book, and to put in this book that if you believe the mythical story they wrote... you... and you alone will get to spend eternity in disney land in the sky... and if you don't..

Second, because the anthropological account has a moral - political intention, the stories introduce us to human life in all its moral ambiguity; we are meant to learn which human elements cause what sorts of moral or political trouble and why.

In that case, the story is an historical record of sorts, one that impressed the writer enough that he thought it should be written down for posterity.

Denying blatant stupidity is not a hate crime, but justifying stories that were told in antiquity as some sort of truth without any proof required.

Phrygian to me i sense that you are struggling with issues in your mind that you cant reconcile and these issues are affecting what you believe in your heart and therefore your faith in God.I had something similar happen to me recently regarding the story of the demon possessed man at one point the demons begged Jesus to cast them into the pigs does that mean that Jesus was implicated with the work of satan.It cast my mind into doubt and then i began to question who God is.I prayed and sort the holy spirit for an answer the answer i got was that Gods character never changes he is always holy righteous and sovereign why else would satan ask for his permission.So the answer was that he allowed satans purpose to prevail so that we can see that satans intention is always to destroy it may well have been that the pigs were his anyway.As they were for the gentile nations who offered the pigs to their demon Gods.Just as satan can not change who he is the destroyer the thief the liar God can not change who he is when we realise that despite what we see going on in the world God is still the same yesterday today and forever.The time is coming when those that have hurt others will be judged for there wickedness as we serve a holy and just God.Just as it was in the times of Noah so it is with this this generation that as the wickedness reachs its zenith then the Lord will return to judge the nations.He is coming again and we need to be ready it is not a time to be caught sleeping.brentnz

I can sort of understand believing in a First Cause / Prime Mover / Ultimate Energy type of thing (Theism), but to believe in any of the man - made stories about what this being demands, wants, needs or promises, if anything, is simply not my default position.

I shall argue in this book that such a «narrative» interpretation of nature, one that discerns a sort of story - line in nature, can only be called a projection if nature itself is dualistically segregated from those events that we call mental.

In commenting on this story Koestler (1982 p. 685) suggests that the magnitude and complexity of the offending tower involved specialists of all sorts, each with a special terminology and set of beliefs.

In an event ripped from a superhero origin story but that, in real life, is actually sort of scary and definitely an environmental headache, the bridge upon which a train.In an event ripped from a superhero origin story but that, in real life, is actually sort of scary and definitely an environmental headache, the bridge upon which a train.in real life, is actually sort of scary and definitely an environmental headache, the bridge upon which a train...

A story's making the rounds today that acts as sort of a Rorschach Test, in that everyone who hears it seems to have a different take on what it means.

The task of Christian educators is not to develop an individual's potential (as if the world were not already developing all sorts of potentials in us), but rather to induct us into the faith community, to give us the skills, insights, words, stories and rituals that we need to live this faith in a world that neither knows nor follows the One who is truth.

In one way, what happens next makes the whole story look like a conventional miracle of the sort that healers of many nations and peoples have done over the centuries, including prophets such as Elijah and Elisha.

So instead, I would like this little spot on the Web to serve as a sort of traveler's forum, a place for exchanging adventure stories, survival tips, and those priceless hole - in - the - wall recommendations that make a journey memorable.

Because it is so ambiguous, we make up all sorts of stories about sex or the lack of it in Eden (Augustine says one thing, Milton says another, and so on) but the important thing to realize is that we are making it up ourselves.

As to what sort of thing «the gospel» may be, too many years ago I tried to explain that in a book with the title Story and Promise, and I still regard these two concepts as the best analytical characterization of the church's message.