Sentences with phrase «than an ordinary man»

But we really don't have any more proof at all to believe that Paul, the self - proclaimed «apostle» was anything more than an ordinary man who needed to make up religious «sales literature» to survive and spread his own personal beliefs.

In the last stanza the poet invents a series of epithets in which are flung out, in more brutal terms than the ordinary man would permit himself, what nevertheless the ordinary man knows to be his argument with God.

He thought he was nothing more than an ordinary man, but discovers that he is in fact a man with super human abilities, a superhero if you will.

Not exact matches

Rather than interacting with a single male father - figure, Mackenzie interacts with 1) Papa (a big black woman who represents God the Father), 2) Jesus (an ordinary - looking Jewish man who obviously represents Christ), and 3) Sarayu (an ethereal female presence who represents the Holy Spirit).

«The unification must be accomplished before a man undertakes some unusual work,» but any ordinary work that a man does with a united soul acts in the direction of new and greater unification and leads him, even if by many detours, to a steadier unity than he had before.

But above all, it includes the countless ordinary citizens, who knew nothing of Locke or Burke or Thomas or Aristotle, who've struggled and worked and fought and died so that they might live under a government responsible to their will, and constrained to regard them as free men and women rather than as members of a class, church, guild, tribe, town, or race.

For I would add, «I have no faith at all, I am by nature a shrewd pate, and every such person always has great difficulty in making the movements of faith — not that I attach, however, in and for itself, any value to this difficulty which through the overcoming of it brought the clever head further than the point which the simplest and most ordinary man reaches more easily.»

Montgomery brings us to Percy's eventual realization that ordinary experience can reveal profound truths» can actually be holy» no less than some more spectacular epiphany, despite modern man's rejection of all but scientific meaning in natural events.

The ordinary man is more ignorant about science than is the philosopher, for the latter knows that changes are to be attributed to the «particular constitution of its [a body's] primary qualities» (E-I 179).

Before and since Moody the chief standard of success as an evangelist (and a minister) in American Protestantism has been evidence of such charisma, of power not possessed by ordinary folk — the ability to manifest in a convincing way that one represents more than himself, in short, that one is a man of God.

This is directed against the Gnostics who claimed that they were in the most intimate possible fellowship with God, fellowship not even possible for the ordinary man, and who yet wallowed in sin, either on the principle that the body is evil and therefore it does not matter what is done with it or in it, or on the principle that in sin the body does no more than fulfil its own nature, and that in either case the spirit is left quite untouched.

It was literally boys against men as Villa were made to look less than ordinary against a Chelsea who weren't exactly flying high in the league.

But even as preliminary talks between the MDC and Zanu PF go ahead in South Africa, the killing, kidnap and torture of ordinary men and women, who have done nothing other than show their support for the opposition, continues.

Men in uniform, have become so ordinary and are being attacked on daily basis than ordinary civilians who do not even have any weapons to protect themselves.

References to ordinary people were much more gender balanced, with women accounting for 46.8 per cent of individual citizens, although when you take into consideration that women account for a higher proportion of the electorate than men, this too might be viewed as problematic.

«In an ordinary party congress, over a platoon of soldiers and more than 200 F - SARS personnel have been handed over to one man (referring to Amaechi).

Scientific evidence was shown to be just as fallible as and no more robust than the evidence of ordinary men and women.

The man who limned the laws that guide the paths of stars, planets, and falling apples had this to say about the universe: «I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.»

«Even mild dehydration that can occur during the course of our ordinary daily activities can degrade how we are feeling — especially for women, who appear to be more susceptible to the adverse effects of low levels of dehydration than men,» says Harris Lieberman, one of the studies» co-authors and a research psychologist with the Military Nutrition Division, U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine in Natick, Mass. «In both sexes these adverse mood changes may limit the motivation required to engage in even moderate aerobic exercise.

Being taller than most men, my experience is that the opposite sex normally prefer someone shorter (and blonder) that they can protect, pick up or push over or something, so this incident was really out of the ordinary.

As we all know that girls prefer sharp looking man rather than dull clumsy looking ordinary guy, directly or indirectly this provide her self - esteemed feelings.

I'm no fan of Marlo's but have to admit, she is polished (until she opens her mouth) Though, credit where it's due; it was no ordinary white man, the rumoured sponsor is no less than a certain Mr Ted Turner!!

Stealing his heart is not an easy task, but some professional matchmakers claim that hooking up with a millionaire is not that different than meeting the ordinary man.

I am a man who is seeking more from a relationship than just the ordinary.

No Man's Sky is a missed opportunity to do something truly epic, and while the final game, when measured moment by moment, showed glimpses of something more than merely ordinary, the final result, was far less than.

«Man on Fire» wants to be more than an ordinary kidnapped - child drama, and more than an ordinary revenge thriller, and I think it succeeds.

Investigators assume that brave men are naturally more optimistic than ordinary people - it helps them see instant dangers and point out favorable opportunities.

- 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

Other works play on the association of basketball and young black men, such as drawings made by repeatedly bouncing a dirty basketball on huge sheets of clean white paper set on the floor; a series of larger - than - life basketball hoops, meticulously decorated with bottle caps, evoking Islamic mosaic and design; and Higher Goals (1986), where an ordinary basketball hoop, net, and backboard are set on a three - story high pole - commenting on the almost impossible aspirations of sports stardom as a way out of the ghetto.

See: Polling: «More Americans believe in haunted houses than man - made global warming» — 37 % vs. 36 % — October 30, 2009 — For another explanation of why climate fear promoters are failing to convince the public, see: MIT Climate Scientist: «Ordinary people see through man - made climate fears — but educated people are very vulnerable» — July 6, 2009]

The nature of my avocations for the last thirty years has brought me into more than ordinary contact with what would seem an interesting and somewhat singular set of men, of whom as yet nothing that I know of has ever been written: — I mean the law - copyists or scriveners.