Sentences with phrase «story at hand»

Such a conclusion had nothing to do with the story at hand and presupposed that it was beyond the means and minds of «coastal communities» a century hence to move themselves away from the shore or build coastal protection.

Yes it's a bad fit for «conventional media» if you mean the lazy, self - important, star system of media, more worried about perceived «activism» than the story at hand, of which, we are too often suffocated by.

What Lara Croft does to relax (eating caviar off her butler's extended arm while listening to Brahms, I like to imagine) is rarely relevant to the story at hand.

Anyway, on to the story at hand.

Their personalities still aren't deep in any real sense, but they're distinct and work well enough for the story at hand.

For me, marginalia is about creating a deeper connection with the story at hand.

Kazuo Ishiguro wrote «Remains of the Day,» but there's nothing of his Japanese background in the book, because it has nothing to do with the story at hand.

He discovers a girl frozen to death in the snow, and thus begins the story at hand.

Frears has no distinct style; his rhythm and direction conform to the story at hand.

(At one point the Mounties get into an extended discussion / debate about the career of Danny DeVito that has nothing to do with the story at hand, is actually quite funny and works as a tribute to the versatility and longevity of Mr. Danny DeVito.)

Rather, they tie in directly to the story at hand, and expound the emotional element without drawing things out to absurdly lengthy proportions just to show more eye - candy fire and brimstone.

His contribution to co-op, however, enlivens - if not improves - the story at hand by bringing back the Marker hallucinations that once tortured Clarke.

The performances are fantastic, but also: the cinematography is jaw - dropping stunning, the score is wonderful, the whole film has this joyous cathartic feel to it that goes beyond the story at hand.

Born in China starts in spring and follows their adventures (also monkeys and leopards and antelopes) for a year, organizing itself around cycles of nature that complement the familiar Disney circle - of - life theme, by now part of the corporate brand, but essential and necessary for the story at hand.

While moviegoers knew what they were getting into with Anderson's sci - fi slasher, the sudden introduction of the badly scarred Pinbacker (Mark Strong)-- the sole survivor of the original mission who sneaks onboard to terrorize the crew — is a jarring u-turn from the story at hand.

Perhaps I wouldn't even have noticed such a thing if not for the fact that the story at hand is trite and boring, with little to be engaged by and no one to really root for.

It keeps its focus on the story at hand, and it's all the better for it.

The Hobbit would have been the film were he could have the best of both worlds — numerous creature designs that have an ACTUAL BACKSTORY AND ARE TIED TO THE STORY AT HAND.

Pointless romantic meandering doesn't gain dramatic heft just because you pretty it up, especially when there's so much more meat behind the story at hand.

I did the same to some of the things others told me that I believed could raise unnecessary dust or distract from the story at hand.

We don't want to downplay the real story at hand, but the fact is that this game will get played, and people are going to bet on it.

Not exact matches

Fifty - one % said they found news stories about the deaths of people at the hands of police officers, or news about ambush attacks on police in three states, to be among the year's most important news events.

Well, to make a long story short while referencing a great episode from Seinfeld, we employed a special team of people to «retrieve» the reports for us, and «yadda yadda yadda,» we appeared at pretrial with these ultra-damaging reports in hand.

We have a similar story at Virgin Atlantic involving ice - cream bars on our planes, which we always hand out midway through daytime flights.

A spokesperson for the University of Southern California's Marshall School, which hands out the highest average scholarships in the nation at $ 35,490 a clip, declined comment for the story.

This Alexa «skill» allows a universe of podcasts, shows, and even audio clips from news stories to be pulled up at home in a hands - free way, said 60dB co-founder Steve Henn.

He has filed this defamation lawsuit with a single purpose: To silence and intimidate Ms. Kohler — and other women like her — from coming forward with stories of grave sexual mistreatment at his hands.

Then stories broke about his earlier decisions not to properly shield himself — a rich former Bay Street executive trying his hand at politics — from conflicts of interest.

And while in this aspirational world they love being up at the crack of dawn to bake cupcakes seven days a week (if you believe the glorified story that they're always hands - on like that), the reality is that they are up at the crack of dawn, seven days a week.

In the last 15 months, the 77 - year - old has taken positions in and then launched campaigns against 14 companies, a burst that has made him, at an age when he would have long been expected to fade away, the most disruptive individual in business, with a hand in almost every major corporate story in America.

All you need to do is head over to the main Instagram Stories screen and press the icon at the top left - hand corner of the screen.

Julie's story obviously stands out, but each story of pain and suffering at the hands of men and women who claim to be «called by God» contributes to a narrative whole that must never be forgotten.

Noor has told her story of abuse at his hands.

Even though God is not mentioned anywhere in the story, we see His hand at work everywhere, destroying the proud, and raising up the humble.

Ever since the publication in 1903 of Wilhelm Wrede's famous book on this subject, The Messianic Secret in the Gospels, scholars have been compelled to take seriously the thesis it set forth, namely, that the whole conception of the secret Messiahship is an intrusion into the tradition, either read into it by Mark or at a late pre-Marcan stage in the development of the tradition, and not really consonant with the story of Jesus as it was handed down in the earliest Christian circles.

Everyone who has suffered at the hands of the church and its leaders has a stake in this story.

everything in the universe evolves, not only life forms but also memes, Religion is a meme so it also change in conformity to its era or time of its conception as faith.Because in pre scientific times thousands of years ago, the scientific method of approach or philosophy has not existed yet, myth or merely story telling is considered facts, The first religion called animism more than 10,000 years ago believed that spirits or god exists in trees, rivers, mountains, boulders or in any places people at that time considered holy.hundreds of them, then when the Greeks and Romans came, it was reduced to 12, they called it polytheism, when the Jews arrived, it was further reduced to 1, monotheism.its derivatives, Christianity And Islam and later hundreds of denominations that includes Mormonism and Protestants flourished up to today.So in short this religions evolved in accordance to the scientific knowledge of the age or era they existed.If you graph the growth of knowledge, it shows a sharp increase in the last 500 years, forcing the dominant religions at that time to reinterprete their dogmas, today this traditional religions are becoming obsolete and has to evolve to survive.But first they have to unify against atheism.in the dialectical process of change, Theism in one hand and the opposing force atheism in the other, will resolve into a result or synthesis.The process shall be highlighted in the internet in the near future.

If we concede that Jesus was a real person, more likely than what is illustrated in the telephone version of the story (a.k.a. the bible) was that he was a man of conscience that saw the corruption and cruelty towards people in his day and spoke out about it, which led to his death at the hands of those he was speaking out about.

This scripture does nt conflict in these verses we see the truth exposed as God allows satan to have limited power over his people to test them as in the story of Job.So was it God who tested job by allowing satan to bring trails upon him.Or was it satan who was the one testing him.Both are involved but the motivations are completely different Gods purposes are to build up his people.Satan on the other hand wants to destroy there is this conflict at work all the time.brentnz

the colonization of the Dalits, which began with their defeat at the hands of the Aryans, was internalized through religious myths and stories and finally by introducing a fixed social order based on a caste system dependent on one's birth.

On the other hand, I was surprised at his seeming criticism of the Babar stories, whose merit he saw as lying chiefly in the illustrations.

It started with Twitter users Emily Joy and Hannah Paasch, who took to social media to share their stories of abuse at the hands of church leaders under the hashtag #ChurchToo.

Gensis is a beautiful story of the fact that at someplace in sometime, the world evolved through God's hands as did a soul.

Some of the specific stimuli of my sober reflections have been the histories of the fiendishly diverse injustices, cruelties, tyrannies and butcheries human beings have inflicted on one another — in particular the long, appalling story of Jewish suffering at the hands of Christian Europe with its insane climax under the Nazis; Camus's searing reflections on our blood - soaked century; accounts of the horrors of plagues and epidemics at whose complete mercy human beings for so long existed; and insights of depth psychology into the character and influence of the unconscious, childhood and repression in our behavior.

On the other hand, the bible makes no mention of them at all and shows no awareness of prehistory in the slightest (hence the magical creation stories).

I worry about turning the Bible into a children's story book, about helping the tinies to engage with Scripture and wrestle and ask questions, and then I can't bring myself to read about Abraham's near - sacrifice of his son, Issac, on the mountain, no part of me could ever understand that obedience, I admit, I'd probably go to hell before I'd raise a hand to hurt my child, I don't understand it at all.

I have sat across the table at a coffee shop as a young woman, looking down at her hands, told me her story....

The perfect judge would have to apply an infinitely complex law, so that each person under the law would be held to a standard that is individually tailored to his situation: «Anyone who was born on May 23 at 2:53 p.m. at 1128 Main St. and whose first sight was of a quite pretty nurse named Amy whose hands were slightly cold...» and so on, telling the exact story of your life in literally every detail, ``... any such person ought to have been able to control his temper upon discovering that the morning newspaper was wet from the rain, but could not be expected to remember to buy a card for his sister's sixteenth birthday.»

Those who have suffered at the hands of the church, its leaders and its members, must be allowed to tell their story to believing and sympathetic ears or the possibility of healing is almost closed to them.

Silence, the haunting 1966 Shūsaku Endō novel of faith, apostasy, and martyrdom in seventeenth - century Japan, tells the story of a Jesuit priest, Sebastião Rodrigues, in search of a former mentor, Cristóvão Ferreira, an historical figure who apostatized after undergoing torture at the hands of the Tokugawa state.