Sentences with phrase «surprised by death»

The ever - reliable Brendan Gleeson is on the form of his life as Father James, a priest in rural Ireland who is surprised by a death threat one morning as he takes confession.

Perhaps we shall at the end be absolutely unconscious; perhaps surprised by death.

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Which is not surprising since thought crime, apostasy or even coveting, is punishable by death in the scriptures.

It has got away for so long with the kind of lunatic word - games that allow death - by - torture to be presented as an act of love, and eternal torment in the flames of hell to be seen as a necessary act of justice, that we should perhaps not be surprised that it has also managed to dupe its followers into seeing the systematic suppression and silencing of women as an act of liberation and equality.

Clark no doubt surprised his viewers by then veering off in a different direction, with an encomium to a chivalric figure of a quite different sort, the spiritual knight errant who, by the time of his death, had captured the imagination of much of Europe: St. Francis of Assisi.

The Arabs completed the conquest of the Levant within a few years of the death of the Prophet, their surprising success made possible by the inspiration of their new faith which filled their souls with confidence, and by the decline of the power of Persia and Byzantium as a result of their perpetual wars against each other.

Once the resurrection of Jesus came to be proclaimed by way of a narrative set within an historical context, it is not surprising that, after the death of the apostles, Christians of the latter part of the first century expanded this tradition and produced others.

Jeremy i am surprised you never countered my argument Up till now the above view has been my understanding however things change when the holy spirit speaks.He amazes me because its always new never old and it reveals why we often misunderstand scripture in the case of the woman caught in adultery.We see how she was condemned to die and by the grace of God Jesus came to her rescue that seems familar to all of us then when they were alone he said to her Go and sin no more.This is the point we misunderstand prior to there meeting it was all about her death when she encountered Jesus something incredible happened he turned a death situation into life situation so from our background as sinners we still in our thinking and understanding dwell in the darkness our minds are closed to the truth.In effect what Jesus was saying to her and us is chose life and do nt look back that is what he meant and that is the walk we need to live for him.That to me was a revelation it was always there but hidden.Does it change that we need discipline in the church that we need rules and guidelines for our actions no we still need those things.But does it change how we view non believers and even ourselves definitely its not about sin but its all about choosing life and living.He also revealed some other interesting things on salvation so i might mention those on the once saved always saved discussion.Jeremy just want to say i really appreciate your website because i have not really discussed issues like this and it really is making me press in to the Lord for answers to some of those really difficult questions.regards brentnz

The sentence of death is announced to him, the same instant he overcomes death and carries himself through in the famous reply which expresses surprise that he had been condemned by a majority of three votes.»

I think Peter and the Apostles would have been rather surprised at the concept that Christ had been scourged and beaten by soldiers, cursed and crowned with thorns and subjected to unutterable contempt and finally nailed to the cross and left to bleed to death in order that we might all become gentlemen.»

Recently, in a surprising move prompted by the 1982 death of his father, William Southcombe Lloyd Webber, organist at All Saints Church near Westminster Abbey, the composer departed in style and set to music the same Latin text of the Roman Catholic Mass for the Dead that fascinated composers from Mozart to Verdi.

Zeile was surprised by the demotion but said, «It's not a death sentence.

The Irish team of Harry Bradshaw and Christy O'Connor had just staged a stirring finish to win the sixth annual Canada Cup trophy, and then Bradshaw had been narrowly defeated in a three - hole, sudden - death playoff for individual honors by the surprising Angel Miguel of Spain.

We'll get van Dijk IF we get CL footie but as we have a death wish at the moment, judging by losing so many games to lesser teams and with West Ham tomorrow, I personally wouldn't be surprised if we draw at West Ham and Arsenal win their last few games to pip us.

from another...» She used to be here in Michigan, more than one infant death here related to illegal use of vaccum at a home birth — her CPM credential was revoked (and later, one of her students, having learned similar practices at her «knee» also lost her credential) so I'm not surprised, but still shocked — I had understood that she was «retired» from Midwifery after she moved to Utah; I'm very saddened by this.»

The six month mark of Leo's death and birth took us by some surprise, we naively didn't think it would affect us that much (Ha!

Older women with cataract can reduce their risk of death from any cause and from certain specific causes by undergoing cataract surgery, reveals a surprising new research.

They were surprised to find that this youthful galaxy contained an abundance of interstellar dust — dust formed by the deaths of an earlier generation of stars.

Of these, 20 (4 %) had TTS that had been precipitated by happy and joyful events, such as a birthday party, wedding, surprise farewell celebration, a favourite rugby team winning a game, or the birth of a grandchild; 465 (96 %) had occurred after sad and stressful events, such as death of a spouse, child or parent, attending a funeral, an accident, worry about illness, or relationship problems; one occurred after an obese patient got stuck in the bath.

«A very surprising fraction of the amount of variation in the death rate is explained by one single variable — namely, income per capita.»

IN DEFENSE OF PRESCHOOL As a longtime reader of your magazine, I was quite surprised to open this month's issue and find the preschool I send my children to savaged in «The Death of Preschool,» by Paul Tullis.

The researchers were surprised by the increase in heart - related deaths among women after the Rams» loss.

Although they aren't certain, experts believe takotsubo cardiomyopathy is triggered by adrenaline and other hormones that flood the body in response to a stressful event, be it the death of a loved one, the loss of a job, a mugging, or even walking in to your surprise birthday party.

For anyone who's ever sweated and groaned their way through Virabhadrasana I (Warrior Pose I), it may come as no surprise that the asana was inspired by cosmic chaos, death, and destruction.

I'm not surprised a diet has good results on your health when we have been eating exactly the opposite for generations and fucked ourselves up by avoiding fat (and also eating ourselves to death and have a sedentary lifestyle) because all the diet «experts» (that was sarcasm) said so just like they are now all screaming you should use a ketogenic diet because it worked on a few people (just like low fat diets work and Atkins works and Zone works or any other diet you can come up with).

Muscle injury and tissue death leading to rhabdomyolysis can be caused by a variety of factors, some of which may surprise you.

I need to start remembering, however, that year after year I'm surprised by who I run into at 4 a.m. and stop going out looking like death.

Before he was surprised by cops, the Lionel Richie has admitted he is «scared to death» that his teenage daughter Sofia, 19, is dating ladies» man Scott Disick, 34.

Morgan and Bernal embrace that bare - bones approach with physical performances that carry a surprising emotional weight; Bernal's panicked face, desperate to avoid death, is immediately engaging, while Morgan swaggers about like John Wayne in an anti-western, accompanied by a vicious dog.

Oscar nominated actress Margot Robbie has dropped the bombshell she's a fan of death metal bands, before being surprised by Bullet For My Valentine and Slipknot frontman.

[Debruge:] «It's funny to encounter a movie like «I, Daniel Blake» at Cannes — not surprising, mind you, since Loach (now 79) has sort of a standing invitation to premiere whatever he makes in competition, but funny in that Cristi Puiu (the great Romanian director of «The Death of Mr. Lazarescu») essentially told the same story — about how a decent man is let down by «the System» — better 11 years ago, but is now here with a new and far more challenging work, «Sieranevada.»

It comes as no surprise that by the end Landa manages to weasel his way out of certain death, but it shouldn't come as a surprise given everything we've seen beforehand.

Written and directed by John Michael McDonagh, «Calvary» reveals itself over and over to be a movie of such surprises, a serious - minded, lightly comedic rumination on life, death, faith and community.

The Rebellion once again plans to destroy the Death Star before it becomes functional by eliminating the force field surrounding it generated by a base on a nearby planet, but the Emperor isn't a fool, and has a few surprises up his sleeve.

Even though the action platform puzzler has pretty much been done to death, every now and then we see something storm through and take us all by surprise.

A tale of love and death, of friendship and too much herring, A Right Pickle is a surprising comic delight for three actors, inspired by Chekhov's early one - act «Jests», The Bear and The Proposal.

Whether it is the death of a friend or relative, or a stranger in another land, or the death of a beloved pet, death affects gifted children with a depth and power that often takes us by surprise.

«Perhaps it is not surprising that profit margins take precedence over public health, but with transport emissions the main contributor to urban air pollution, resulting in nearly 10,000 early deaths a year in London alone and hugely decreasing quality of life for children, the elderly and those with pre-existing health complaints, the public should be utterly outraged by this news.»

In these eloquent and surprising essays, twenty writers face this fact, among them Geoff Dyer, who describes the ghost bikes memorializing those who die in biking accidents; Jonathan Safran Foer, proposing a new way of punctuating dialogue in the face of a family history of heart attacks and decimation by the Holocaust; Mark Doty, whose reflections on the art - porn movie Bijou lead to a meditation on the intersection of sex and death epitomized by the AIDS epidemic; and Joyce Carol Oates, who writes about the loss of her husband and faces her own mortality.

So, I was surprised by the statement that death is more accepted on the farm.

It was just a sneakier death, a crueler death, in a way, because it always seemed to come by surprise.

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It was the first time I've had to deal with the death of a dog I rescued, and I was surprised by how hard it was to deal with the loss, even though I hadn't seen him since he was adopted.

- the team has been adding weapons one by one because they want the same amount of attention for each weapon - the team learned that when they added two new weapons at once, one would end up getting overshadowed by the other - there were more new stages than returning stages because bringing back old stages would have little surprise - since they want to satisfy both new and returning players, they changed the order of stage additions - there weren't any major direction changes in balancing from Splatoon 1 - there have been more pattern combinations between weapons and stages, so there was more involved to balance them all - matchmaking is handled by getting 8 players with similar rank points, and then they're split by weapons - the rank point gap between S + players is bigger than ordinary players - only about one in 1,000 active players are in the S +40 to S +50 region in Ranked Battles - there's even less than one in 10 players that reach S +, while 80 % of the overall player base are in A or less - about 90 % of S + ranked players are within a + / -150 hidden ranked power range - rock was the popular genre in Splatoon, so they tried changing it for the sequel - they prioritized making good background music first before forming the band to play that music - the design team would make the CD jacket - like artwork afterwards - due to this, the band members would often change; some getting added while some others removed - Off the Hook is an exception, as they first decided they would be a DJ and rapper along with their visuals first - Off the Hook's song came afterwards - In Splatoon street fashion was the trend, but in Splatoon 2 they tried adding more uniqueness - the aim was to add Flow with ethnic clothing and Jelfonzo with high fashion - all Jellyfish in this world are born by splitting, which means Jelfonzo was born by splitting from Jelonzo - Jellyfish are like a hive mind - when they hold a wedding ceremony, they're just simply holding the ceremony - Jelonzo and Jelfonzo start gaining their own consciences so they can speak - Flow used her working holiday to go on a trip before reaching Inkopolis Square - during the trip, she met the owner of Headspace - the owner liked her, so she got hired to work there - Bisk has a unique way of speaking: anastrophe - the team tried to express him as an adult man - they made him into a giant spider crab because they wanted someone with high posture - he came from a cold country and broke up with his girlfriend to join a band - just like Flow, he became attracted to squids - Crusty Sean finally has his own shop, but he opened it because he's someone who follows the current trends - one of the trends happens to be people opening their own shops - drink tickets aren't stacked, but the probability is higher than a single brand - the music in Inkopolis Square changes depending on the player's location - sounds contribute to creating atmosphere in the location - the song at front of Grizzco Industries had an atmosphere that feels like some smell can radiate from the game screen - as for Salmon Run, they imagined it as a Japanese restaurant outside Japan that is not run by a Japanese person - each time the player moves between the shops, the game uses an arrange shift that shows the personality of each inhabitant - the arrangement in Shella Fresh is related to Bisk's guitar and mystery files that describe his past - with the Squid Sisters moved to Hero Mode, Off the Hook was put in charge in guiding battles and festivals - Bomb Rush Blush has an orchestra «because it would sound like the final boss» - the team wanted to express the feel of the story's real culprit with this music - the probability of each event occurring in Salmon Run is different - there are no specific requirements, meaning they're picked randomly - this means it's possible for fog to appear three times in a row - the Salmon have different appearances based on the environment they're raised in - if the environment is harsher, they would become large salmon - Steelheads and Maws have big bodies, while Scrappers and Steel Eels have high intelligence - Salmons basically wield kitchenware, but everybody else has a virtue in fighting to actually cook the Salmons - Grill is the ultimate form of this - when Salmons are fighting to the death, they can feel the same sense of unity - they would be one with the world if they were eaten by other creatures, and they also fight for the pride of their race - MakoMart is based on a large supermarket in America - the update also took place on Black Friday in America, which was why Squids are buying a lot of things in the trailer - Arowana Mall looks like it has more passages because there are changes in tenants and also renovation work - Walleye Warehouse has no changes at all, because the team wanted to have at least one map that stayed intact - the only thing different in this map is the graffiti, which is based on the winner of Famitsu's Squid Fashion Contest - all members in the band Ink Theory graduated from music university - they are well - educated girls who also do aggressive things - the band members wearing neckties are respecting the Hightide Era from the prequel - the team will continue adding weapons and stages for a year, and Splatfests for two years - the team will also continue to make more updates including balancing

What I got was long stretches of time where nothing happens broken up by either just outright dying from a surprise attack, pitched battles that aren't fun because of lag issues and poor gunplay, or death by blue circle.

Grandpa, Murder and the American Dream, by Amanda Hudgins Amanda revisits the Death Wish movies and, surprise, the populist vigilante at their center is more terrifying than you remember.

With each of those levels taking around 2 minutes each, and countless minutes spent in them by restarting following one of my hundreds of deaths, I was surprised by how many hours it actually took just to beat the final level.

It surprised me that Helen had remained loyal to oil paints as, by the time I was in New York, safe water - based acrylics were available (the new Magna paints had been unsafe, causing the tragic death of artist Morris Louis in 1962).

You'd be surprised by how many people consider trillions of dollars in property damage and millions of deaths to be a bad thing.

Several earthquake analysts focused on the Himalayas said they would be surprised if the death toll ended up lower than 10,000 once rural towns and villages, hammered by landslides and building collapses, finish assessing losses.