Sentences with phrase «tale told about»

«The Lovely Bones» is a dark yet gripping tale told about Susie Salmon, a young girl who was the victim of a brutal rape and murder in the cornfields of Norristown, Penn., told from her point of view after her death.

Another tale tells us about some Charles Coon, also a captain, who kept longhair cats aboard.

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When I took on competitors» salespeople who'd told me tales about the great things they'd done in their previous jobs, I learned that I shouldn't have been so quick to believe them.

Like every company making a pitch, we'll tell that tale in about 20 slides and 20 minutes.

The boycott is a cautionary tale about the risks entrepreneurs take, and it's also a marketing lesson about knowing your customers, and getting in front of the story you tell about your brand.

The numbers tell the tale: According to our analysis of U.S. Census data, over the next 10 years, the 18 to 49 age segment is projected to grow by only 1 percent to about 137 million.

In many ways, the publicity about the «tell - all» book — not to mention last summer's scandal in which former HubSpot executives allegedly attempted to obtain a predraft copy — has usurped the tale told in the book itself, of Lyons» career reinvention.

We've always been told to be careful about what we post on the Internet, with cautionary tales stretching as far back as the «Numa Numa Guy.»

And that's how Coca - Cola gets away with telling sappy tales about young love.

You have no idea what you are talking about with your fairy tale illusion of what you THINK salvation is all about... it's a ridiculous concept based on flawed foundations right from the get go... here is my EVIDENCE... The record in Samuel tells us that it was the Lord who tempted David to do the numbering; that in Chronicles says it was Satan.

In view of the number of specific prophetic events that were fortold and have come about exactly as fortold, your position requires more faith to believe it is a fairy tale than mine to believe that there is someone (God) who knows the future and told us the future.

As far as unicorns go, there could have been some mutant horses 10000 years ago that a few people saw and told their fellow cavement about but Chief Ragnar laughed and then it became fairy tales.

Johnny Depp for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, everything about The Emoji Movie and Transformers: The Last Knight in the «Worst Screen Combo» category, for «any combination of two humans, two robots or two explosions.»

The tales told around my hospital bed illustrate what Geertz and Douglas have taught about world view.

On its first telling, this little tale illustrates a point about the role of stories in religion.

And in the fullness of time, D'Joan's rebellion does bring about the liberation of the animal people — although that tale is told in another story.

It is up to us whether we wish to make any application to our life from a fairy tale, or simply enjoy the fantastic events it tells about [p. 8].

And, of all the diverting tales that can be told about Kierkegaard, none is really any more terrible than that: If he was ever cruel, it was principally to himself, and he managed to live out his brief but prolific philosophical career without once (if you can credit it) feeling the need to heave an elderly charwoman into a stairwell.

What does this tale of the Secular Inquisition incident tell us about modern Britain today?

Why don't you figure out why so many people tell you fairy tales about your heritage in the Bible.

In the same way «once upon a time» tells us to expect a fairy tale and «here is the news» to expect a report on the day's significant activities, the «sui generis» approach to the gospels invited the expectation that we would learn about the early Church, not the life of a historical figure.

For example, Peter said, «We didn't follow cleverly devised tales when we told you about the power and coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His Majesty» (2 Pet.

Christians need to learn to step outside themselves and think about how difficult and annoying it is to talk to people about important issues when the only thing Christians base their «ideas» on is ancient Middle Eastern fairy tales and that they were told to believe something.

Just as an eternal object, say, redness, gives no information about itself save when it ingresses in or is realized in the red shirt or the red book, so too, a proposition as such «tells no tale about itself» (PR 256f / 391 -3).

One tale that never grows tired of the telling is the one about how Bruce Springsteen — two albums into his career and with nothing but disappointing sales to show for it — was...

If someone was born in Saudi Arabia, they would be Muslim and if they were born in the US, they would be Christian... It's up to them to figure out that religion is a crock before they waste their whole life worshiping a non-existent friend in the sky and believing in a book full of fairy tales... My favorite fairy tale is about the guy who was told not to look behind and was turned into a block of salt when he disobeyed the command and took a peak... lol... I was raised christian but I had too many doubts and questions especially after our scandalous pastor took the money that was raised to build a new church building and disappeared into thin air with the loot... lol... After I ditched religion, I had a peace of mind and I am still at peace...

It's easy to let your mind go numb and just be told what to think but it's a lot more rewarding when you can actually let you mind go free and live your own life and not worry about fairy tales.

Anyone familiar with most of the notable versions of the tale from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries will recognize almost all the standard elements here, however much names and details may shift about in various tellings.

It's just at book about how a localized group of people tell a tale of creation.

The people speak, both through their prayers and through the visible tale told through their eyes, and the wind gives voice to the forces of the world about them and impinging upon them; yet God has nothing to say.

Pilate has his troubled tale to tell, but so do the members of the Sanhedrin, and their fears about the Roman threat to their temple and their people — which they are, after all, charged to protect — form the basis of Caiaphas's proposal: «It is better for you to have one man die for the people than to have the whole nation destroyed.»

The one time my former wife I and did get into a disagreement about was when I told her I had no consideration toward telling out kids about Santa Claus as being nothing more than a old, worn out tale.

There is an extraordinary passage in Ezekiel 16, where the history of Israel is told in the form of a romantic tale about a foundling child who was adopted into a rich family and then went to the bad.)

I recall, however, a true tale about an old and impoverished woman living in a mean flat in a slum, who told a visitor that she spent most of her day in giving thanks to God.

They are «tales that perhaps might be told about particular actualities» (PR 392), and their chief function is to be «relevant as a lure for feeling» (PR 37).

Pi's repeated all - inclusive paeans to his private trinity of faiths detract from an otherwise enjoyable tale, which Martel achieves when he forgets about religion and concentrates on telling his young hero's adventures.

Thus, in the above case, the nonsocial nexus entertains the proposition «baby as crying» as a «tale» that might be told about the child, and this is for the parent a «lure» for feeling.»

This notion of a God that cares about individuals and humanity is a nonsense fairy tale told by people who can't accept not knowing why what we call «bad things» happen.

Chad Point is, people tend to tell tall tales about famous people.

Though conventionally viewed as destructive of community, gossip, Samuel Heilman demonstrates, is essential for corporate cohesion.16 Telling tales about other members, even maliciously, is an important way of identifying and characterizing the congregation.

In mainline theological schools, divinity students are told a familiar tale about the church in modernity that goes something like this: The present age is «secular» or «post-Christian» and the church is in decline.

One tale that never grows tired of the telling is the one about how Bruce Springsteen — two albums into his career and with nothing but disappointing sales to show for it — was on his label's chopping block.

Here, kids ages three to twelve can enjoy crafts and activities that immerse them in the Southwestern experience, such as making Indian headbands and pinch pots; hearing tales told by cowboy storytellers; learning about local culture, geography and indigenous plants and animals; or splashing around in the Water Playground.

But I'm not just telling you tall tales over here, gloating about this great new cookbook that I have and you don't.

Get into a country store and sit on the cracker - box by the side of two or three Georgia «colonels» and «majors,» and they will tell any number of tales about how their ancestors bought their estates from the Indians and to close up the bargain gave the «noble red men» a barbecue, consisting of venison and sweetened hoe - cake, followed by plenty of imported rum and other «firewaters.»

While the wine itself is awesome (I'll never turn down fine Fiorano from Lazio with age), it was more about the chance to hear Dalton — who tends to take on the host role at these dinners — tell the story behind the wine, a convoluted tale involving an eccentric prince and his mold - covered caves.

That's how former Liverpool goalkeeper Tony Warner introduces Steve Harkness before telling the Magic Sponge podcast a truly gruesome tale about his ex-Reds teammate.

Many arsenal fans have bought into all these tale tale tells and have overtime become disenchanted in everything about arsenal.

42mil is too much to be telling tales about.

He tells this tale very specifically — it's not so much what he saw, but what he thought about what he was seeing.