Sentences with phrase «strange language of»

Having previously examined the «strange language of news», Bloomberg political correspondent Rob...

Having previously examined the «strange language of news», Bloomberg political correspondent Rob Hutton now has a rather different project up his sleeve.

And for all the strange language of lifting, it is pretty basic stuff.

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He was determined that the R. Kelly the world would know — the one who would sell more than 30 million albums, have 36 Billboard Hot 100 hits, invent his own strange musical language, write hits for countless others, and conceive one of the weirdest syntheses of video and music of all time, Trapped in the Closet — would be someone else.

That's unusually direct language by Fed standards, but the way it stayed hidden ahead of the FOMC meeting is stranger still.

Even modern materialists, of course, have difficulty sustaining the strange thesis that they are not themselves conscious in the old, subjective sense, and that their own identity is a cultural illusion or mistake of language.

And yet how strange when language is supposed to be a carrier of meaning.

It would be strange if, after all the recent discussion as to how much Christianity is a «historical faith,» Christian theologians would adopt an understanding of theological language which ruled out all historical statements.

Terms like nation, state, government, rule of law, citizenship, passport, and legal justice are minimized or even absent, while the moral language of inclusion, hospitality to strangers, and compassion dominates.

The major problems of the Lutheran Church were those of an educated ministry and the use of a strange language, and they were to plague Lutherans for some time.

This way of putting the connection would seem somewhat strange to those who promoted art as a substitute for religion at the turn of the century, however, for it exhibits a consciousness both about the art object and about the language of religion and art which had not yet informed criticism or religion.

In the same essay, Davison puts forward the case for continuing to use theological language, even when it might be strange, because «it is the task of apologetics to make things clear and on other occasions it is the task of apologetics to cut through the vapid familiarity of our time and present something unfamiliar, glorious and true».

They are an odd bunch of people, with strange clothing, behaviors, and language, but they all love each other and welcome everybody, even those who are very different from them with wide open arms.

Meanwhile the seminary - trained theologians, with all the wisdom of centuries at his finger - tips, will more thanever find himself talking a strange language, more than ever at cross-purposes with the shibboleths of an Atomic Age.

The rapid influx of new ideas, exotic religions, strange customs, foreign languages, and novel wares catapulted the old Athenians out of their comfortable little world into a perplexing cosmopolitan setting.

This is the more strange because the more deeply a concern is loaded with history, the past, things accomplished long ago, the more a church understands herself as a «pilgrim people of God» — that is, called, continuous, on the way, starting with a constitutive deed and living out her life in a hope which is both a given and an awaited consummation — the more clearly the church understands that, the more embarrassing her problem with a flat and impoverished language.

The message which the churches attempt to communicate falls on deaf ears, not because the ears are really deaf, but because the Word of God is spoken in so strange a language or in such trivialities that it fails to be the Word of God to those who otherwise might hear it.

Meanwhile theseminary - trained theologian, with all the wisdom of centuries at his finger - tips, will more than ever find himself talking a strange language, more than ever at cross-purposes with the shibboleths of an Atomic Age.

'' For Christians are not differentiated from other people by country, language, or customs; you see, they do not live in cities of their own, or speak some strange dialect, or have some peculiar lifestyle.

In this model, the church uses the language of peoplehood, of being a pilgrim people, strangers and aliens in the territory in which they find themselves, citizens of the reign of God.

The communication and information media create a strange world out of an arbitrary combination and superficial construction of colors, images and languages that are simplified and separated from reality.

God must have been pretty damn illiterate and in need of some basic grammar and language comprehension classes, which is strange for an all powerful being.

And the problem which faces us today is precisely the problem of persuading ourselves to admit that these categories of thought are quite alien and strange to the mind of the twentieth century and have to be reminded and restated in the language and the thought of today.

Such people seek, therefore, an interpreter to translate the great, difficult, strange words of the Bible into the familiar language of daily life.

But this requires an interpreter to translate the great, difficult, strange words of the Bible into the familiar language of daily life.

And even if some of the foods seem strange at first sight, with labels printed in the Korean language, I can usually find an English translation somewhere on the package, or ask an English - speaking employee or customer for help.

I became enthralled by the strange and wonderful language of basketball color and play - by - play.

Speaking more than one language, strange behavior during playtime, the joys of reading the same book over and over again, and more

Many parents know all about «childhood milestones» these days... we can go on and on about the rooting reflex, crawling, separation anxiety, stranger awareness, windows of opportunity for language... etc... But many of us stop following these developmental milestones at some point and fail to recognize that our teens are still developing important physical and emotional skills!

Bishop Daniel Obinim spoke in a strange language in the presence of his Church members, during one of his Church services.

The intricacies of dating — striking up a conversation with a stranger or trying to gauge another person's interest based on body language or facial expressions, for example — aren't specific to people with autism, but they're more difficult for people with the condition to navigate.

He felt bottled up in Lubbock, he says, and is drawn to places like India, where you step out of a taxicab to face cows and crowds and people of many colors speaking strange languages: «It's incredible, and it's overwhelming.

The most common type of dementia after Alzheimer's disease, it triggers strange and inappropriate behavior, especially in social situations, as well as difficulty with decision - making, language, and other cognitive functions.

Unfortunately, I did nt have any clue how to implement that my idea because making a trip to the strange country alone, without knowledge of local language and customs, and trying to find a girl there for dating seemed too difficult for me.

Fran wasn't the least bit embarrassed though — she was determined to learn everything she could about how strangers built strong emotional connections by using their body language, tone of voice, and other expressive actions.

This often results in the situation where Russian women arrive to their new country as total strangers, without the knowledge of the culture or the language, and the only contact they have is with their partner / husband.

I'm a rapper that speaks in strange languages greatly opaque, eradicating hate with saintly halos of waves while balancing the Yin Yang.

I cringe to share some of the conversations I've had, not because I am squeamish about sexual language, but I am off - put by people thinking every unrepressed stranger must automatically want to hear about their ejaculations.

Though she appeared in director Adolfo Aristarain's Argentine - U.S. thriller The Stranger (1987), Roth eschewed an English - language career, instead starring in a range of Argentine films during the 1980s and 1990s.

His first English - language film, «21 Grams,» which he has again co-written with Guillermo Arriaga, also uses a car accident as a means of making strangers» lives intersect, and also tells its story in a non-linear fashion.

An intimate drama about a Chinese mother mourning her son's untimely death and the sudden appearance of a stranger who doesn't speak her language.

My Days of Mercy was directed by Tali Shalom - Ezer, whose last film, the Hebrew - language Princess, was far stranger and darker than this.

Ever since the French filmmaker Leos Carax announced Annette as his next film, the project has seemed just too strange to survive the often perilous road to financing and production: an English - language musical from the director of The Lovers On The Bridge and Holy Motors, with original songs by the cult art - pop duo...

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Most disturbingly, he seems even to have caved into ultra-conservative religious morons by toning down the magic (there are no details of the actual lessons taught at Hogwart's, and the spell - casting is reduced to a few minor flourishes and a strange comic - relief kid who's always blowing things up) and side - stepping the sticky revelation that Harry actually talks to snakes in the reptiles» hissing language and not the Queen's English.

One of the strangest facts about In the Fade, Germany's submission for Best Foreign Language Film, is that it's the first time German actress Diane Kruger starred in a film made entirely in the German language.

Sukiyaki Western Django - which has been filmed entirely in English, though most of the actors clearly aren't native speakers of the language - follows a mysterious stranger (Hideaki Ito) as he rolls into a prototypically violent Old West Town, where he quickly finds himself caught smack - dab in the middle of a feud between two warring clans.

SYNOPSIS: Dr. Louise Banks, a celebrated linguist reeling from personal tragedy, is called in by the military to decode the language of an alien civilisation when a strange spacecraft lands in Montana... There's a human -LSB-...]

Irrational Man Rated R for some language and sexual content Rotten Tomatoes Score: 42 % Available on DVD and Blu - ray Woody Allen's latest stars Joaquin Phoenix as a burnt out writer who becomes a professor at a small college only to get a new lease on life when he toys with the idea of killing a local judge to help out a random stranger.

Lilting / United Kingdom (Director & Screenwriter: Hong Khaou)-- The world of a Chinese mother mourning the untimely death of her son is suddenly disrupted by the presence of a stranger who doesn't speak her language.