Sentences with phrase «than stranger by»

He likes Jacques Tati, Loves of a Blonde, and Amarcord among others FlavorWire looks back at Madonna & Sean's Shanghai Surprise in its Bad Movie Night column Telerama (in French) Alain Guirardie talks about his filmography - he thinks he can do better than Stranger by the Lake!

Not exact matches

By exploiting the strange mathematical properties that reign at the subatomic level, D - Wave's chip is theoretically able to do more calculations, faster, than any comparable computer chip that currently exists.

The seven - year - old Plug and Play Tech Center is no stranger to startup investment; in the course of more than half a decade, it has accelerated 1,500 early - stage companies, by Amidi's reckoning.

For my idea, there is no national competition other than PaperlessSolutions.com but they have a different business model (everything is done by mail) which is more concerning for many people as the scanning is happening by strangers somewhere other than their home and the prices are far more expensive.

Immediately, many observed it was strange that Cohen attempted to debunk the dossier by tweeting a picture of the cover of his passport, rather than its interior.

Stunned by his honesty — especially with a complete stranger — I closed my laptop and began to share a few of my more than 20 business failures.

She said: «My twenty - nine - year - old daughter's choice to die gently rather than suffer physical and mental degradation and intense pain does not deserve to be labelled as reprehensible by strangers a continent away who do not know her or the particulars of her situation.

The bishops seem to see American society and its institutions as a market rather than a community united by a common culture — a place where strangers work and pursue their economic interests, not a society where people share common bonds and shared responsibilities.

But it is strange how convinced we are that our own opinion must be right though we admit theoretically that others are on the average not much more stupid than we are and also by and large want to do the right thing.

This is particularly strange since it has so often been assumed, both by advocates of Eastern (South and East Asian) perspectives and by environmentalists and philosophers in the West, that Eastern religions are much more resourceful for ecological sensitivity than are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

Despite itself Israel is climbing Calvary, side by side with Christians — whose vocation concerns the kingdom of God more than the temporal history of the world; and these strange companions are at times surprised to find each other mounting the same path.

The three anchors of the nightly news are greeted routinely as Dan, Tom, and Peter by complete strangers, and for more than a decade Walter Cronkite was considered «the most trusted individual in America.»

I was more respected by my kinsfolk and acquaintance than I had ever been; I was loaded with praise by strangers; and without exaggeration I could believe my name already famous.

In a study of his earlier pictures, Kolker notes that «Scorsese is interested in the psychological manifestations of individuals who are representative either of a class or of a certain ideological grouping; he is concerned with their relationship to each other or to an antagonistic environment... [and finally] there is no triumph for his characters» (A Cinema of Loneliness [Oxford University Press, 19881, p. 162) The Jesus of the Last Temptation fits this pattern (as do Travis Bickel in Taxi Driver, Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull and Paul Hackett in After Hours) By eschewing any reference to a resurrection — and, in an interesting theological note, allowing Paul to suggest that his preaching of the risen Christ is more important than the Jesus of history — Scorsese presents the crucifixion as the final willful act of a man driven by a God who makes strange demands on his followerBy eschewing any reference to a resurrection — and, in an interesting theological note, allowing Paul to suggest that his preaching of the risen Christ is more important than the Jesus of history — Scorsese presents the crucifixion as the final willful act of a man driven by a God who makes strange demands on his followerby a God who makes strange demands on his followers.

The contradiction is summed up by the presence of more than 100,000 Filipinas in Hong Kong, many of them women with university degrees, working as maids to strangers» children as a means of providing for their own back at home.

But this is a more natural way of developing community than by putting together a bunch of strangers and saying, «Now get along!»

The breakdown of the Egyptian empire and the circumstances contributory to the capture of Babylon by Cyrus, besides hosts of incidents from those days to the present, show that organized religion, strange as it appears, can be no less an obstacle to social and political advance than the reactionary policies of vested political or economic interests.

This idea that a particular region of space - time may be occupied by more than one entity without reducing the relation of those entities to that of part to whole is so strange to our common sense that further explanation is needed.

But his real history is much longer and much more extraordinary than could be indicated by these flares of war; it is a history that runs back three centuries into primitive America, a strange and unfathomable history that is touched by something dark and supernatural, and that goes back through poverty and hardship, through solitude and loneliness and death and unspeakable courage, into the wilderness.»

Far more than simply a historical issue, the unique events leading to the Flood are a prerequisite to understanding the prophetic implications of our Lord's predictions regarding His Second Coming.1 (italics are mine) The strange events recorded in Genesis 6 were understood by the ancient rabbinical sources, as well as the Septuagint translators, as referring to fallen angels procreating weird hybrid offspring with human women - known as the «Nephilim.»

«when you argue with an idiot and a stranger passes by they wont know which one is the idiot» So no more comments other than this: not one word of profanity was necessary to make the point!

The ability of general assemblies to explore faith and faithfulness is further weakened by their composition: They are little more than biennial gatherings of strangers.

The Greek versions of the Hebrew names made them seem even more vivid and strange than their direct - from - the - Hebrew equivalents in the King James Bible used by the Protestants.

Rather than finding true love, she follows up her twelve months by having «intensely, profoundly, unutterably anticlimactic» sex with a near stranger.

Karl Barth understood this well when he wrote: «Strange as it may seem, it is still true, that those who fail to understand other churches than their own are not the people who care intensely about theology, but the theological dilettantes, eclectics, and historians of all sorts; while those very men who have found themselves forced to confront a clear, thoroughgoing, logical sic et non find themselves allied to each other in spite of all contradictions, by an underlying fellowship and understanding, even in the cause which they handle so differently and approach from such painfully different angles.

p.s.. Also, by some super strange coinky dink, my friend Erica has also done a croissant tutorial (her's seems easier than my method tbh) I think we must have a psychic food connection haha

There's been on more than one occasion that my family's tab has been picked up at a restaurant by complete strangers.

So while Frank Lampard makes a convincing case that none of them would have approach Roman with such a strange request, it is undeniable that a bunch of senior players with less than charitable intentions towards an unpopular Chelsea manager can certainly influence the pace of his dismissal by dropping their shoulders.

But stranger things have been known to happen in football so just best to not lose by more than one goal today, should we lose that is.

At the same time, I am quite aware that the fear of something bad happening is a reality for women (although for the most part women are more likely to victimized by individuals they know than by a stranger).

As for the existence of people on the internet who are evil & exploitative of children, yes they exist (I know I prosecuted a few myself when I was a lawyer), but the sad truth is that children are more likely to be harmed by people they know best than strangers.

Indeed, while parents worry about «stranger danger», they often fail to realise two things: their children can be more at risk from online grooming and sexting, and that according to one children's charity they are actually 90 per cent more likely to be abducted by someone they know than a stranger.

Alfred Sacchetti, an emergency room doctor in Camden, New Jersey, and spokesman for the American College of Emergency Physicians, says it's common for parents to worry more about their child being abducted by a stranger than about his riding in a car without a seat belt or playing near an ungated swimming pool — even though car - and water - related accidents pose a far greater threat to kids than abduction.

Traumatic events which are caused by a close family member and result in physical harm or a major disruption in a child's life circumstances will have a worse effect on the victim than trauma inflicted by a stranger or non-human event.

I welcome these changes and agree with Angie about the art categories being difficult — I make embroidered and appliqué artworks which I guess should be classed as textile art, but I do think textile art is considered by buyers to be more specialised (and also more abstract) than my pictures, which puts me in the strange position of not wanting to call my pictures textile art, as I think people have preformed opinions of what textile art is.

Seventh, there is a big divide in parenting circles between the «co-sleepers» and the «crib - sleepers» so be aware that whichever choice you make will probably be challenged by more than one of your friends or relatives or even complete strangers who seem to have no issues with giving advice to someone they don't know!

BOSS TOLD ME THAT many people assume mothers who pump exclusively are doing so out of convenience, rather than necessity or utter desperation: «Moms frequently feel attacked and criticized by friends, family, Internet strangers, etc..

Looks from strangers at the market are more often of concern than of excitement, as they watch you tossing a bag of crackers at your toddler while you try to bend down to grab the keys you dropped, which no one, by the way, is offering to grab for you.

, and her aura was not one which installed colempte confidence in me of her competence.Eventually, we reached a stage where the lead midwife announced that upon another examination (that we had been told was advisable due to the amount of time my partner had been in labour) that she would be calling in an ambulance as the baby was apparently taking longer to recover it «s heart rate between contractions than it had been previously which was a concern, and that my partner needed to be dealt with in hospital.The reassurance of the surroundings of home was soon replaced by a period of comparative chaos and strange faces which then developed into me travelling with my now scared and distressed partner in a speeding ambulance across a busy city road system amidst late afternoon traffic.

If your friends and family live close by, it is a good idea to visit those houses as your toddler will be more at ease with them than a stranger's house.

Yet a parent is more likely to be reported to authorities for letting their kid walk to the park by themselves than for driving them there, because people mistakenly believe that stranger abduction is more common than it is and because they are comfortable with driving and don't see it as immoral.

Experts say that children between the ages of 1 and 4 are more likely to be killed by fire, burns, drowning, choking, poisoning, or falls than by a stranger's violence.

Website blacklists, storage of all your emails by intelligence services and routine monitoring of your internet connection may sound like something from a science fiction novel — or an authoritarian regime — but the truth may be stranger than fiction for Britain in 2012.

Firstly, I should point out that most sexual crime is committed by someone the victim knows - «stranger danger» is less of a fear than «partner danger»... or in many circumstances «pimp danger».

Yet the letter sent to Mr. Felder by the governor — no stranger to political hardball — seemed to be banking on his power of persuasion, rather than more pointed threats.

Then it was the pileated rather than the ivory - billed woodpecker that went by this strange name.

«Even Darwin observed that children tickled by a stranger would rather scream than laugh.»

But a recent study by researchers at Chatham University found that friends are no better at interpreting correct emotional intent in e-mails than complete strangers.

Ditto for what we call industrial technology, which, having come into existence a little more than two centuries ago, is likely to be superseded by something strange and new in the next 10,000 years.

Sculpted by the dark, acidic river's challenging conditions — including an annual drop in water level of more than 30 feet — the fish have evolved strange forms, bizarre habits, and striking colors.