Sentences with phrase «story of people like»

God teaches this important lesson by specially recording the obscure stories of people like Ruth and Rehab.

After all, we know how the stories of people like Anne Boleyn and Joan of Arc and even Edgar Allan Poe end.

Not exact matches

«Bennett has become a master of storytelling through character, and while there are clearly no people in these films, it was clearly a very human story, which we knew a director such as Bennett would zero in on and draw out very real human - like emotions from these poor inanimate objects,» Lennon said.

This data disregards all the successful stories of people, like me, who started their own business.

The narrative transportation theory, as it's called, states that people may feel like they have been teleported to the world of their character in a story they can identify with.

There are, of course, limits to this truism, otherwise there'd be even more celebrity gossip «stories» out there than there already are, but for the most part news outlets like to give people what they want.

«Sometimes it seems like people will have similar amounts of evidence or similar stories, and one person might get expelled and one person won't.

Characters that feel and act like real people are the core of any good story.

You can find many stories of successful companies that originated from a serendipitous moment like two people randomly meeting or someone being in a certain place at a certain time.

After hearing the story, many people responded by saying something like, «I guess that's what you do when you have a lot of money.»

Something that might have seemed like a risky bet in the past because of a lack of historical data can end up being an incredible success story, and change the way that people view an entire industry.

While it may seem like an overnight success in hindsight to an outsider, the people on the inside will almost always give you a different, more factually accurate, version of the story.

«This whole story is causing people to kind of take a step back because at the least it looks like you have an increasingly protectionist administration that is increasing tariffs and scuttling M&A,» Kessler told CNBC.

Like the beginning of most startup stories, a group of people had a problem and couldn't find a solution, so they made their own.

According to a story in Bloomberg BusinessWeek, his reasoning goes like this: «Call me opportunistic; I thought I could get better people with less competition because we were willing to understand the skills and capabilities that many of these women had.»

People are anonymously sharing stories of men saying outrageously sexist things like:

When I got out of the military a decade ago, my story went something like this: Recently discharged veteran wants to meet the world's most interesting people, write about them, and find a way to make a living.

When Freitas sat down to talk to young people about their phones, she heard some pretty crazy stories of raging tech addiction, from the girl who gave her phone a name and talked about it like a friend to the boy who claimed he'd rather leave his brain at home than his precious device.

They might want to... If they feel like they've locked in their future earnings to take care of their kids, or families, sisters, brothers, whatever, then I think people should really look into their story and see how football is affecting their life.»

I read somewhere, maybe Rick Perlstein's Before the Storm about Goldwater's 1964 campaign, that newspapers simply didn't report about the John Birch society in the 1950s — the owners, people like the Chandlers, wouldn't allow it — or they buried the stories in the middle of the paper.

And many of the stories of Katrina survivors, stranded on bridges, waiting for any refuge, sound a lot like the ones being told by the people still waiting to be rescued in Houston.

Organic reach, as defined by Facebook is «the number of unique people who saw your post in News Feed or on your Page, including people who saw it from a story shared by a friend when they liked, commented on or shared your post, answered a question or responded to an event.»

I can tell you for sure that people on parties will be more interested in the guy who says «I have made $ 5,000 with Bitcoin in the last year» then your story of buying a share of Johnson & Johnson and have a very safe dividend that will be increased every year like the last 55 consecutive years.

Pensions really are in crisis, but the story is so full of large numbers, obscure projections, and dry terms like «unfunded liabilities» that not many people are paying attention.

The stories of players in these accounts challenge our moral imagination by forcing us to recognize that the uniformed men on the field are not just Football Players, but Persons - brothers, fathers, husbands, and sons like me.

So seeing stories like this and others where people report that they aren't getting promoted because they aren't christian make me worry about the state of the military that I take pride in having served

Well it is true that some people seek sorcerers to implement Jinn that are satanic demons into mankind or his house or his business to finish him or make his life miserable or to stop flow of his business income... In such case it is either you are religious enough and say your prayers often then it becomes hard for this to harm you or otherwise you need to find some one who practice exorcism to remove this evil... But many are just pretending to be good at it and help you not but squeeze money out of you with tales and stories... There is another type of possessions and that is not through a sorcerer but directly by coincidence what man is at his weakest moments and those weakest moments for a possessions are when you come through a great fear or when cry or laugh loudly in hysteria, or during a certain moment of mating... or even when sneezing loudly... That's why there are prayers to be said on daily basis to guard you from such things and specially if passing haunted places such as deserted houses but most evil ones are residents of public toilets and market places... Some of them even would claim that you have made a wrong action by which you have killed a dear one to them and for that they have possessed you and that is mostly night time such as throwing a cigaret butt to a dark place or stepping killing an insect or even an animal at night which could have been one of them or possessed by one of them... So this is true thing happening to many who suffer unexplainable illnesses or sufferings which could look like mental illness that comes and goes as pleased...

Jewish people will like this story, because they feel that they have a corner on the market of real persecution.

Set in a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, shortly after the massive changes ushered in by the modernizing Vatican II conference in Rome, the story quickly sets up a conflict between the old - school nun who serves as principal and runs the school like a prison (played by Meryl Streep) and the young, new priest (Philip Seymour Hoffman) who wants to shake things up by treating the students as fully rounded young people who deserve doses of freedom and respect as well.

The Bible contains a lot of interesting stories, talks between people, between God (Jesus) and people, wisdom (proverbs), prophecy (revelation), words of salvation (the 4 gospels, the epistles), historical data, like dates, locations, names of people involved in the stories, parables, reports about miracles, Jesus did, songs, prayers, psalms etc...

There are thousands of other stories like this, from people working with those in Vietnam who are dying of HIV / AIDS to people who are simply having Christmas dinner with a friends who live on the street.

«Trolls» (people who like to get on comment boards to upset people) gravitate to these types of stories.

I served this country, volunteered for war, and now am left to deal with idiots like you who want to see stories like this, read some kind of republicanized twist into everything, blame Israel and Obama for your own personal failures (to include turkey farms - which I abhor unless free range), then go ahead: you're embarrassing yourself, your family, and every good person, Jews included, that you know.

Stories like these helped me recognize the «good» within people; not the 2 - dementional stereotypical characters that we tend to see in moviesand associate as «bad guys» (dark eyes and a goatee); that is just movie makeup that plays on the social consciences of that era.

I think I'm too simple in my thinking that; if you don't like it, DO N'T WATCH... if you don't agree with it, DO N'T CHOOSE TO LIVE YOUR LIFE THAT WAY... Seems like a very simplistic way of thinking, but I have personal opinions on EVERYTHING, but I don't force others to live their lives according to my moral fiber... i don't judge people for living their lives the way that makes them happy... And i believe that IGNORANCE is the basis for INTOLERANCE... people are famous for HATING things that they don't understand... again, if it MORALLY offends you, don't read stories on things that you don't agree with, don't watch shows that portray choices that you don't agree with... The Brown family seems close knit, almost like extended family living under one roof... the kids work together and get along much better than a lot of «mainstream» households i see...

It's not like a thousand eyewitness accounts of an event, where they'd vary in the details but generally agree on the most important aspects, it's more like a thousand people who were asked to right a short story about anything they wanted.

From books like * The Sociopath Next Door * by Martha Stout, I recalled that one of the key ways a manipulator hooks people is by sharing stories that make themselves look like they've been misunderstood, bullied, attacked, suffering... in short, The Victim.

No evidence of Adam and Eve or hell or heaven or god or satan... just stories meant to fool the weak of heart and gullible... stories to make you feel like you're less of a person than you are.

By doing careful research and weaving more of a story arc into the five women's encounter, I hope to show people that the «characters» of the New Testament are actual, breathing people with stress and dysfunction and hopes just like us.

I told that little story of Mary and Jesus as you told it in the beginning of your post and people acted like I was really doing something terrible.

Mark Greene, executive director of the London Institute of Contemporary Christianity (LICC) tells a story about an office worker who took the time to find out what kind of tea people liked to drink, and when she next made the tea she produced bags of each kind of tea.

But too often assumptions like these are made after hearing only a small part of a person's story.

But making wild claims like these (which seems completely unfounded or based on one or two bizarre stories that really have no relevance to the discussion) and generalizing it to an entire group of people shows an ignorance and bias which makes it hard to take you seriously.

Some recent contributions to this conversation include Grace Biskie's plea to engage in racial reconciliation, Erin Thomas» story of what it's like to be a person of faith with Asperger's Syndrome, Aric Clark's defense of the passionate Mainline, Dianna Anderson's explanation of what feminism is not, and Registered Runaway's heartbreaking post about what happened when his father learned he was gay.

This question came to me like «the little cloud no bigger than a person's hand» in the story of Elijah.

«You're not like those people» — For many parents, the only thing they know about homosexuality is what they know from gay pride parades or stories of lewd, immoral behavior.

Of course, some people will cling to this old paradigm for as long as possible, just like we have people who belong to the Flat Earth Society, who believe the creation story in Genesis is to be taken literally, and who believe the lunar landing is a hoax.

The Rortyan vision of heaven on earth, in which people merely tell enlightening tales and abjure the search for truth, sounds like a gathering of tipsy old sea dogs swapping dimly remembered stories of past voyages of discovery.

Afterwards, as we were sitting on the couch, a little depressed from all the people who die, the women who get treated like trash, and the overall view in the movie that life is cheap, my wife said, «Of all the traditional Christmas movies, «Miracle on 34th Street,» «White Christmas,» or «A Christmas Story «why do you watch this movie?

Like McWethy, Martin belongs to an older generation of reporters who imagined that television would provide them with a way to reach tens of millions of people with stories that shed real and necessary light on the actions of their government.