Sentences with phrase «tales about a man»

That makes the film a pretty straightforward morality tale about a man, who actually does have a soul, weighing the price of taking advantage of people, who are just like him, against the need to provide for his family, who are living in a hotel with a group of other people who have been evicted from their own homes.

Directed by first - timer Mark Fergus, from a script he developed with co-screenwriter Hawk Ostby (both screenwriters for Children of Men), First Snow is a slow - moving but absorbing tale about a man forced to come to terms with who he is.

Strong, Farmiga and Brian Cox will take part in a tale about a man (presumably Strong, though it's not made clear) who can indeed wander around noggins from the inside.

In other words, this isn't a tale about man overreaching his capability or encroaching on God's territory by making his own creation; it's about the THE END OF ALL MANKIND.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (PG - 13 for profanity, sexuality, smoking and brief war violence) Brad Pitt shares the title role with several other actors in David Fincher's adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic tale about a man born old who gradually grows younger over the course of his life.

The result is that Point Blank is at once poised and perfunctory, aesthetically assured but narratively challenged — a lean B - movie ride that never manages to transcend its inherent status as a tension - free fairy tale about men's inherent roles as heroic spousal and paternal saviors.

Tyler's sparkling, covertly philosophical tale about a man who refuses to be defined by his disability or denied communication with his deceased wife reveals how ill - prepared we are for life's contrary demands.

-- from The Book of Samson From the author of the acclaimed and provocative novels Fallen and The Preservationist comes a tale about a man who believes he is touched by the hand of God — then instructed by that God to slaughter his enemies.

However, it is not hard to see that some of those who have attempted to perpetrate this tale about man - made global warming are more interested in climate change as a way of increasing the power of government over all of our lives instead of implementing a sensible energy policy.

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However, the man is not a literature specialist, so what reason do I have to seriously consider what he has to say about «fairy tales,» much less about «philosophy» and «theology» when he hasn't even so much as an undergraduate degree in either of those areas.

He is made up by man, written about in that fairy tale bible my man to control the masses and make money.

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.»

Your old stories are the fantasy tales of ancient Middle Eastern men - creative guys, with perhaps a smidgeon of facts about their tribe's history and a few beneficial morality tales, but mainly myth, fantasy and supersit.ion.

I am sorry that man created a fairy - tale book with false accusations about me, spreading fear, hate and war throughout the world.

Just don't belive your fairy - tale about Big Bang and Simian > Man.

We are so quick to point out the obvious lies about Jews and Israel that come out in Egypt — the Sinai Governors claims that the Mossad released a shark into the Red Sea to kill Egyptians, or, as I once read in a newspaper whilst on holiday in Cairo, the tale of the magnetic belt buckles that Jews were selling cheap in Egypt that would sterilize men on contact — yet we so rarely examine our own misconceptions about the nature of our history with the Egyptian nation.

Oh, this is totally random, but have you ever seen the film «Lilies», which won four Genie Awards in 1996, about the two young men of Roberval, Quebec who fall in love in 1912 — and the poignant tale of how their love is undone by jealousy?

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.»

Open your mind and open a book, other than some several thousand year - old fairy tale about talking snakes, floods requiring more water than exists in the entire solar system to create, mythological heaven dwellers who stole men's wives, ful of numerology and suppossed «fulfilled prophesy».

Open the Bible and read the rantings, ravings and tales of superst.ition of primitive Middle Eastern men who knew a whole lot less about the world than you do.

Jeremy, Herb Montgomery over at http://www.renewedheartministries.com has the perspective about the Lazarus and the Rich Man story that it is actually a common story from Egypt, Cannan, all over the area, each with its own distinct flavor, but a common tale known by people of the day, which is why Jesus used it as an illustration, but not to expound on some kind of theological truth about hell or the afterlife.

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.»

Guardiola's new club Man City are one of those being linked with the possible transfer of Alaba but for most of the week the football press have been talking about another of our Premier League rivals Man United are the most likely to sign him, until this latest twist to the transfer tale emerged.

Ricketts also told the Magic Sponge a brilliant tale about former Spurs, Man City and Wimbledon left - back Ben Thatcher, who was clearly not a fan of decorative flower - holding ornaments.

Except possibly for the story about how he made his team scrimmage in a pond full of man - eating alligators, none of the tales about Sullivan have been exaggerated.

Starring Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson and Christoph Waltz, WATER FOR ELEPHANTS is a powerful, epic tale of forbidden love, based on the acclaimed # 1 best seller, in which an idealistic young man finds his destiny in a magical place filled with adventure, wonder and great danger... I don't know about you gals but I think that is a recipe for awesomeness.

You know, it's not like it used to be, as often, and you know for me, before..., while I was pregnant, I actually read a book of women recounting their own tales of breastfeeding and one of the women talked about finding all of these men who were....

About this Book: The Man Who Touched His Own Heart: True Tales of Science, Surgery, and Mystery Robb Dunn Little, Brown, 2015

The Man Who Wasn't There 13 February 2009 What does the tale of Douglas Prasher, the protein, and the Nobel Prize reveal about the scientific labor market?

A few years later, he read about Nadia and other savant artists in Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales.

A short, bearded, excitable man, LeBlanc accuses Fry of perpetuating «fairy tales» about levels of violence among hunter - gatherers and other pre-state people.

The story of the wildfire, and the brave men who fought it at a time when firefighters knew little about battling such blazes, is a fascinating tale in itself.

A three - year pilot project involving 11 men (age range: 31 to 44) found that there was some truth in the old wives» tale about hot baths being bad for a man's prospects of conceiving.

Marriage services love to tell tales about Russian girls preferring much older men, and that it won't influence your future marriage; but that's exactly what these fables are — stories.

So, for those women over 50, questioning how their partner feels about them, we've compiled the tell tale signs that your man really likes you.

However, in her review for Variety, Jessica Kiang writes, «Treat Me Like Fire is an engrossing and compelling tale about the dice - roll of female transformation, as well as a sexy little torch song for Paris by night, and for the men who make us into the women we are.

Becoming Chaz is undoubtedly one of the most thought - provoking films you will see on any screen this year, a frankly chronicled tale of Chaz's life as a transgender man that opens a more than occasionally mind - blowing conversation about the essentials of gender, and subsequently, sexuality.

Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, the latest from legendary director Ken Loach is a gripping, human tale about the impact one man can make.

Nowhere is this more disturbing than when Dusty improvises a fairy tale to the kids about the «real king» and the «step - king» in a way that paints Brad in a negative light, including the relative sizes of the men's «swords».

A mere fortnight after Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle left British cinemas, here comes Dwayne Johnson again with a similarly hushed and introspective tale about the love between a man and his giant albino gorilla.

The current rash of movies based on toys, or comic books, or video games, or fairy tales, exists to canonize the narrative building blocks of childhood, to provide frameworks for all your stories about Spider - Man or Megatron or Snow White, and then to sell you specially licensed toys so you can keep playing those stories out.

Suddenly finding himself as the proverbial big man on campus, Gulliver grossly exaggerates his achievements in Manhattan, creating all kinds of tall tales about his importance and positions.

Upon man meeting the man who was The Shape in Halloween IIat an intimate screening of the film in Williamsburg, Virginia (you can read about it here), I was simply in awe, not only of his entertaining storytelling style but also candid humor and unbelievably impressive wealth of tales from some of the most iconic movies sets in history.

But for all its fugitive conventions, the film is at heart a social - realist tale about the toil of the working man.

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Disney's cross-cultural retelling of a popular Chinese folk tale about a peasant girl who disguises herself as a man and takes her ailing father's place in the emperor's army turns the traditional fairy tale ending on its head.

A sprawling cautionary tale about the evils of the internet, Men, Women & Children examines the ways in which the internet affects the way we connect as human beings.

Final Verdict: Forgive the more obvious flaws and you will really enjoy this epic tale about one man trying to better himself.

What starts as a revenge tale unconvincingly morphs into a bitter, lonely middle - aged man bonding with a young Indian kid (whose parents don't seem to feel one way or another about this weird man hanging out with their kid alone in a hotel, giving him copies of Maxim magazine).

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