Sentences with phrase «story of a fabled»

I suppose as a longtime fan of Universal monster movies and other forms of classic horror, as well as being, you know, an old man, I can be forgiven for having hoped that this newfangled origin story of a fabled monster maker would be something not entirely awful.

Anthologies are a natural home for the terror tale, from creature - feature film festivals to the bloody pulp stories of the fabled EC Comics to chilling short story collections by the likes of Poe, Lovecraft, and others.

Not exact matches

The fabled story of declined offer to buy Snapchat for a now - amusing $ 3 billion didn't stop Facebook CEO, and he decided he wants that same exact toy for Facebook.

Attacking the flood story based on science is like attacking Aesop's Fable The Tortoise and the Hare with scientific evidence related to the anatomic structure of a tortoise vs the hare.

Considering that story wasnt even created until a few hundred years after the supposed «ressurection», and the fact that the story exists only in your fable book (also compiled, and edited hundreds of years later), I do nt think claiming it to be true is the same as, you know, being true.

This story is largely unknown to this day in Britain, where a childish fable of brotherhood and love is widely believed.

• Pu Songling, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio: Anyone who loves Chinese ghost stories and tales of Taoist magic and supernatural fables — anyone, that is, with a soul — should know this, the classic collection of a great many of the best of them.

Ivan Krylov's fable «The Quartet» tells the story of four happy beasts who decide to make music.

The Bible was a collection of fables, false stories, and some moral truths.

it is more along the lines of old fables and stories that always had a moral to the story, take from it what you wish, but to think that it has bearing on reality from reality is baseless.

Aesop's fables are not historically or scientifically accurate, but they are some of the truest stories ever told.

(R. M. Grant, Secret Sayings of Jesus, p. 188, calls attention to versions of this story in Aesop's Fables and in the Jewish rabbinical literature [Billerbeck, Kommentar I, 674]-RRB-.

Deut and the rest of your fable book mean slightly less than a JRR Tolkien story.

So just how incensed can you be that hollywood ripped off your Noah fable, when your religion ripped it off thousands of years earlier from the stories of Gilgamesh?

It is a collection of writings that was cobbled together by the Council of Nicea, written by multiple authors, containing collections of parables, stories, fables, myths, rules, laws, petty bigotry, tribal rivalries, lessons in life, morals, etc. that tell a story of a few small bands of nomadic middle easterners.

The story of Wonder Woman, far from being a feminist fable, is actually the archetypal tragedy of the goddess who falls in love with a mortal man who must die while she lives on immortally.

The story is one of the most commonly adapted of Aesop's fables, but illustrator Jerry Pinkney breathes new life into it in this wordless retelling.

To sample them, read the story of the attempted sacrifice of Isaac in Genesis 22:1 - 14, Jacob's flight from r in Genesis 31, the finding of the baby Moses in Exodus 1:15 — 2:10, Aaron and the golden calf in Exodus 32:1 - 6, 15 - 24, Joshua's farewell address in Joshua 24:14 - 25, Jotham's fable in Judges 9:6 - 21, or the boy Samuel in I Samuel 1 and 3.

I thought that progressive theologians say that these things are symbolic, moral stories, a bit like Aesop's Fables — that unlike the surrounding peoples of Canaan, the Jews should stop sacrificing children, but nobody actually thinks that it's real.»

The poet's imaginary discourse is not an attempt to propel the story into the realm of fable, but rather his only means of articulating an impossible voice.

Some of the stories from the Bible remind me of Aesop's Fables.

That early apologists had to say that pagan stories were a pre-emptive strike by Satan (written in advance of, but oddly similar to the gospels) is one of many tell - tale signs of fables that should have been abandoned long ago.

«Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange belief that it is the word of God has stood, and there remains nothing of Genesis but an anonymous book of stories, fables, and traditionary or invented absurdities, or of downright lies.»

While I'll agree that much of the bible is stories and fables (Catholics don't typically view much of the old testament as hard fact, but as a way for God to teach mankind right from wrong and ways to live), even some atheists follow the teachings of Christ.

Essentially, the church was formed by Rome thanks to the salesmanship and editorial skills of Paul, who by his writings and interpretations of the various fables and stories surrounding the Jewish rabbi known as Jesus, was able to «de-Jew» those earliest Christian beliefs, thereby making them into something more palatable to the masses, and ultimately to the Roman Emperor Constantine, whose mother converted to the new religion before her death.

B Books of Fables and other stories.

Another awful fable that makes women abhor their sexuality is the story of the Fall, where it is Eve who started the whole mess to begin with.

I can imagine how some readers might take offense at some aspects of the story (the devil presents himself as a Catholic cardinal, for instance), but only if they forget that they are reading an intentionally fantastic fable.

The story of his aggressive rise preserves the exceedingly choice and ancient Fable of the Trees, or Jotham's Fable.

In each episode there is a traditional fable or a story from one of the main world religions: Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and Sikhism.

Many of the stories are nothing but old beast fables adapted to Buddhist purposes simply by having the Buddha in a former birth take the form of one of the beasts of the fable.

Here one finds the dull report of the census - taker, the uninspired but minute directions for the performance of the cult, stories of man's beginnings and that of many of the common experiences of his life, such as language, relationship of races, why the rainbow; colorful stories, of the might and prowess of ancient ancestors of the race, riddles, puns, fables, prayers, songs that have become almost the universal songs of the human race, the history of the rise and fall of dynasties, the preaching of reformers and prophets, the questioning of it all by men grown weary of the struggle, proverbial sayings of great wisdom; the dreams of conquest both of earth and heaven.

Meet studio jeweller Amy from Foxes and Fables, who makes whimsical jewellery that captures the beauty of the Welsh landscape and combines it with everyday stories and the glamour of the past.

The Lexington Historical Society and Indian Americans of Lexington join together to showcase fables and Stories from Near and Far (Lexington)

The first two hours of each day are devoted to the Main Lesson block, with Language Arts, Math, Science, and History taught artistically through developmentally appropriate stories, including fairy tales, saints and fables, Hebrew scriptures, Norse Myths, Ancient India, Ancient Rome, the Renaissance, and American History.

For those who haven't heard it, the song, based upon Aesop's fable, «The Farmer and the Viper», tells the story of a woman who lets a snake into their home, only to have it turn around and bite her, filling her with a fatal poison that causes a slow painful death.

The infamous Der Stürmer publishing house put out a book of fables for children which included the very same tale from Aesop as Trump - «The Farmer and the Viper» — and, like Trump, they added a post script to the story which made it abundantly clear what it meant:

When civilization arrived in this northern edge of the Mesopotamian plain, the story goes, it was bestowed by the Sumerians from fabled cities like Ur, Uruk, Eridu.

There are 9 fables in the book, and 9 corresponding costumes which you can see here, but there are 13 patterns in the book — The Hare story has a pattern for both a cardigan and a hat, and many of the others have variations in the patterns that can give them entirely different looks.

Co - writer / director Robert Zemeckis presents the story of Philippe Petit, who walked a tightrope across the 130 - foot gap between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974, as a romantic fable.

Too much of a slam dunk for Streep and Hanks, this fabled newspaper story is headed for the B section.

Knothole Island is not a DLC that is worth the price off admission it does add new weapons, treasures, and achievements which are good, but the story is ok and the quest is a repetitive go back and change the weather every now and again, the only reason i would recommend this is for the new cool weapons and a couple of achievements but that is hardly a reason to recommend this mediocre DLC, if you still want to give this a shot buy the platinum hits edition of Fable 2, and don't waste your Microsoft Points.

The recurring fairy - tale narrative device might fool viewers into thinking FABLED has more of a story than is actually there.

Loosely inspired by the true story of the heavy metal band Judas Priest, this music industry fable from director Stephen Herek is based on a script by actor - turned - writer / director John Stockwell.

The Fog of War is a 20th century fable, a story of an American dreamer, Robert S. McNamara, who rose from humble origins to the heights of political power.

Each of these stories slowly unfurls its metaphoric underpinning and meaning in modern Portuguese politics just in time for the next fable to begin.

Wondrously inventive, funny and poignant, WALL * E is part sci - fi adventure, part cautionary fable, part satire and part love story, which may be the best and most improbable part of all.

It's well written story and charming visuals can't hide the fact that most of the time Fable: The Journey is quite unplayable thus breaking the experience.

From the Studio: From master story teller, Guillermo del Toro, comes THE SHAPE OF WATER - an other - worldly fable, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 196OF WATER - an other - worldly fable, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 196of Cold War era America circa 1962.

Most of the performances are over the top and the inconsistencies in character development make the story hard to follow and the characters difficult to connect to, sadly this film boasts itself as a fable, indicating a moral lesson, but there are no such lessons to be had at the end of this film, if you can make it there.