Sentences with phrase «than any other character in»

He is better known to us as an individual than any of his predecessors — possibly better than any other character in the Old Testament; for his book contains many chapters of personal confessions and autobiography.

Except for Jim, we see more of Stifler than any other character in Pie 2.

Not exact matches

When Connor (Jason Clarke) first pops up in the trailer, there's no reason to believe he's anyone other than the heroic character he's always been depicted as; however, seemingly out of nowhere, an aged Schwarzenegger's character shoots him.

His foe is played by none other than Michael Keaton who goes from playing Batman and Birdman to another winged character, Vulture, in «Homecoming.»

Warren Buffett spends a lot of his day reading reports, LeBron trains in the gym more than others, and Leo trains for the character he is going to play.

Empathic people trust that kindness will get them further in life than other human character trait.

The Luthor character is played by none other than Jesse Eisenberg, famous for playing Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network.

For what it's worth, the characters are slightly more fleshed out than in other «Call of Duty» games.

No employer shall «discriminate between the sexes in the payment of wages for work of comparable character, the performance of which requires comparable skills» or «pay wages or other compensation to any employee at a rate greater than that at which the employer pays wages to employees of a protected class for work of comparable character»

It does nt explain his origins, substance, or much more, other than his character, motive and goal, asside from moral laws, codes of conduct, right from wrong, and how to manage life, all while believing in him.

For Poland to be something other than the claustrophobic Soviet puppet - state it had been since 1945 — for Poland to be itself, true to its character and history — Poland had to live in the truth: It had to be a country in which 2 + 2 always equaled 4.

The patriarchs were chosen because of definite qualities in their character, not because God just happened to like them better than other people.

He went on to say: «The other arts — architecture, painting, vestments, and the arts of movement — each contribute to and support the beauty of the liturgy, but still the art of music is greater even than that of any other art, because it forms a necessary or integral part of the solemn liturgy, because it is so intimately bound to the sacred action, defining and differentiating the various parts in character, motion and importance.»

When Jesus says, as in the Fourth Gospel's interpretative words, «Love one another as I have loved you, greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends,» the very quality of the love which God has expressed through Jesus becomes the quality and character of suffering love poured out for another beyond the worthiness of that other.

No less than other stories in the Jacob cycle, it reflects the background of the patriarchal age — frictions between groups (Hamor and Jacob); a level of sexual morality beyond the reach of our judgment and in any judgment ennobled by the integrity of Hamor and the love of his son for Dinah; the effort on the part of both families to effect a peaceful settlement honoring the religious sensibilities of the abused; the despicable violation of the terms of agreement by two of Jacob's sons; and finally, in perfect consonance with the general character of Jacob, his sharp rebuke of his sons not on moral but on utilitarian grounds:

(One partial exception to the commission's study results may be the popular program «Golden Girls,» in which the major characters are all women — who are generally portrayed with less egregious exaggeration than some other shows» characters.)

In her case one of the New Testament's major figures remained of virtually unknown origin, character and destiny, so roughly sketched that she could easily be confused with other unnamed and unsketched women and grow into a myth far different, far richer in some ways, than her actual selIn her case one of the New Testament's major figures remained of virtually unknown origin, character and destiny, so roughly sketched that she could easily be confused with other unnamed and unsketched women and grow into a myth far different, far richer in some ways, than her actual selin some ways, than her actual self.

Bill, Christian scientists have done just fine and what we need more than anything in our children... is Godliness — integrity, honesty, character, kindness, empathy, compassion, humility... way more important than any other accomplishment!!!

It is about believing in something better than ourselves helping us in our lives, knowing spirituality (totally different than religion), being humble (after experiencing humiliation) and daily addressing our character defects and the wrong we have done upon others.

I raise this question particularly with Pure Land Buddhists because the affirmation of other power, or what Christians call grace, seems to place a greater emphasis on the metaphysical character of the world and human experience than is present in other Buddhist traditions.

It was, rather, a center that had no given character of its own other than that of being in each new situation concretely responsible for the soul's total response.

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 followerIn 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 followerin 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 followerin 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 followerin 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 followerin 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 followerin 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 followers.

Perhaps, though, the biblical character of Jesus, rather than being entirely mythical, was based on one of many Jewish messiah claimants who had followers who euhemerized his life to a greater extent than those of other such claimants, so that in time the stories were so embellished that he became a god in them, but the Tesimonium Flavianum is hardly proof of his existence.

Mansfield Park's cast of characters is socially much higher than the characters in Austen's other novels.

MacLeish's contribution, other than bringing the story into the 20th century, making a great contribution to the tiny, tiny pool of American poetic drama, and winning the 1959 Pulitzer with it, is quite a bit of additional commentary by his God and Satan characters, a pair of washed - up actors who observe the Job story being played on a stage, and occasionally take part in it.

Other than exercising memory, which is displayed in the highly cinematic form of flashbacks, the novel's characters exhibit practically no interior dimensions.

«Evangelicals, whose faith hinges on obedience to God's commands, are far more interested in the character of candidates than any other segment,» stated founder George Barna.

There are few other figures than the monarchs and their satellites — but that only reflects the character of the age — Roman history, Mediterranean history generally, in that century, was a history of Führers and Duces, strutting about imperiously and wreaking their destructions upon the earth.

Character is itself a tool of leadership in that it enhances the leader's capacity to persuade others; and persuasion «is a far more effective approach to leadership than control,» trickery or manipulation.

Both questions lead in the same direction, toward the possibility of a provisional and qualified answer: if the character of happening only once is held to belong to the truth and measure of all things in their very reality, then there is indeed an essence which more than any other satisfies this truth - criterion, and this is the pure essence of time: time taken in itself, or pure movement — movement irrespective of any possible differentiation into the different kinds of movement.

To be sure, he also recognizes, in line with the common distinction between «conditions» and «causes,» that some past events are far more important in determining the character of a present event than others.

Characters in zombie films are willing to do terrible things to each other because of the fear of zombies and the urge for self preservation, while, in the real world, things like the use of torture (or «advanced interrogation»), preemptive war and drone strikes were being debated as options to fight a threat even scarier than zombies: terrorism.

It's frustrating to whitness a «fictional» character claim more followers than any other non-fictonal character in all time.

Indeed, whether in the name of Islam or against Islam, the novel's main characters commit a series of ugly, wreckful acts against each other, their personal hurts and vices intensified rather than relieved through their differing contacts with the faith.

This principle of discontinuity, as it is often called, does not presuppose that Jesus was never in agreement with the Jews of his day or that his character and doctrine were generally out of phase with the teaching of the early Church, but simply that it is more difficult to account for dissimilar statements as originating from sources other than Jesus himself.

They are: rationalization, which tends toward sterile intellectualization and robs life of its character and vitality; estheticism, which cuts off true communication by maintaining an esthetic distance in order to dominate, rather than to support, others; capitalism, which tends to deper - sonalize people by providing for their hedonistic needs in order to support production and consumption regardless of its human utility; and nationalism, which tends to make national things sacred and in doing so to create idols out of them.31.

those who are the most intelligent or able or competent have demonstrated more character in manifesting a potential that flows through all; don't they deserve to be treated with more respect than others, or at least to be entrusted with more power?

Second, Banerjea posits that «the meaning of Prajapati... coincides with the meaning of the historical reality Jesus Christ; and that no other person than Jesus of Nazareth has ever appeared in the world claiming the character and position of the self - sacrificing Prajapati, half mortal and half immortal» (Ibid.).

I do not find this so strongly in other process thinkers, and insofar as Muray will not be more specific than that the criterion for reconstituting a tradition is «whatever contributes to the enhancement of relationality and creativity that are true of the fundamental character of reality itself» (93), I do not think he will much like the basis of Hauerwas» critique, namely the stories of the history of Israel and Jesus as they continue to be remembered and enacted in the Christian church.

If this be the highest thing that can be said of man and of his existence, then the ethical has the same character as man's eternal blessedness, which to all eternity and at every instant is his telos, since it would be a contradiction to say that this might be abandoned (i.e. teleologically suspended), inasmuch as this is no sooner suspended than it is forfeited, whereas in other cases what is suspended is not forfeited but is preserved precisely in that higher thing which is its telos.

Seriously, other than the bible what evidence do you present that there even ever was a Jesus character in history?

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but, here's a little reminder of his importance (i) upon arrival his was the goal that catapulted into th CL; (ii) when others were tired and unable to respond he has the strength of character to fight to bring us into the game; (iii) he scores the goal to save us face in FAC after last seasons fiasco; (iv) he is without equal our best player so he already earned the right to be in the highest bracket of epl strikers, we need sanchez desperately we've no choice other than to pay # 320K + and build into his deal performance rated enhancements so as we're all able to move forwards.

Joining a club of arsenal s stature has its ups and downs.There is a requirement of how our players should perform when on the pitch.The following is a list of players who were wrong to choose arsenal.Aaron ramsey - Even though he is the most favoured of all players at the club now.I cant help but think how it would have gone for Him if he decided to search for other greener pastures.He was a clear talented footballer during his time at cardiff but he hasnt been raised with the discipline at arsenal.You can always see ramseys all round strengths but sadly Its not helping him or the club with his foward moving pleasurr.He is so Over used and its sometimes difficult for him to get used to the rythm of the game.With time you realise he gets low ib confidence and his engine gets wasted.He needed somebody who would have managed him properly and with care and that person is certainpy not wenger.You would have been better off at Manu mate.Calum chambers - Came us a very talented player from southampton with raw talent.He was very good at first but wenger found a way to reduce his level of confidence.His inexperience was left exposed and wenger did nt do anything to resolve that problem and instead He looked for other talented players.Alex oxlade chamberlain - Another very talented player who needed only his skilled sharpened and his character modelled.That and he was ready to become a world beater.But wenger decided to let him run and run like a headless chicken causing him to be often injured and damaging his confidence.Who knows what would have happened to him gad he decided to look for more greener pasture.He is surely a much better player than this.Theo walcott - Another player who was tipped to have a very bright future.He had it in him.But all he needed was an appropriate manager who would nurture him with discipline and help him with his talent.But on Coming to arsenal he was given Much more responsiblities putting more weight on his shoulders on top of that another player who was recklessly managed with his talent and never coming off age because his character wasnt properly shaped.Mesut ozil - Al right i agree he perfoms well just recently.But imagine all the legendary players he was often compared to during his time at real madrid.On coming to arsenal he found no rotation often overused, suffered many injuries and his confidence dwindled.It is pretty clear arsene does not take any responsibility for players.And when at arsenal you have to be your own manager.You need not rely on your manager otherwise you might continue being the same player for the next many years.That is why each and every player are what they are because of their own efforts and wenger had nothing to do with it.Van persie was the same player for over 7 years untill he himself decided to change.Wenger only organises and prepares tge team while the rest is in your court.It is not what so many people make it out to be.Thats why we need to pressure wenger more than our own players.They are their own self managers and wenger needs to take that responsibility

As I told you on Twitter (well, as best I could in 140 characters lol), my youngest is 19 months old and she's NEVER been driven anywhere by anyone other than my husband or I.

The characters in them seem to make mistakes just like I did so perhaps that helped me identify more with them than in some other books.

Other than this, identifying a direction has revolved around looking at the backgrounds, characters and objectives of the new leaders, in particular Mr Xi, and to a lesser extent, Li Keqiang, the Party secretary.

Subject to the provisions of this article, a political party is free to participate in shaping the political will of the people, to disseminate information on political ideas, social and economic programmes of a national character, and sponsor candidates for elections to any public office other than to District Assemblies or lower local government units.

Order 120 (1) of the Standing Orders of the House, which is premised on Article 106 (2) of the Constitution states that «Except as provided in Orders 119 and 112 no Bill shall be introduced unless the text of the Bill, with no variations other than such as, in the opinion of the Parliamentary Draftsman, are of a trivial or drafting character, has been published in the Gazette fourteen days before the date of its introduction in the House.»

Yet these traditional practices, which Hartford describes as «more risky than many other wineries care to employ,» make Mangahas's scientific approach all the more valuable — especially in combination with «his keen palate, thoughtful personality, the Winery's very strong vineyard sources, and... ability to recognize vineyard character in wines,» as Hartford puts it.