Sentences with phrase «than the character as»

The protagonist Phileas Fogg has more insecurities and more flair than the character as written, and now there's a lady along for the ride, Monique (Cécile De France), the headstrong French artist and obvious love interest.

Deanna Dunagan and Amy Morton, respectively, played the roles on Broadway, and Barden acknowledges that Streep and Roberts are both younger than the characters as written in the play.

Instead, he rejected (at para 52) Half Moon Lake Resort's argument that characteristics of the transaction other than its character as a conveyance of an interest in land were not relevant.

Unless the order is based on the number of strokes in the radical, rather than the character as a combination of radicals.

Not exact matches

Other items which don't impact gameplay, such as character costumes, will still be purchasable with real money, and those purchases will be direct rather than randomized.

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.

Beyond her age, she also lacks the spark of Superman's girlfriend, intent on blending in with the rest of the cast as a side character rather than taking any initiative.

In fact, many venture capital investors evaluate potential partners on how they reacted to a failed business, seeing it as a test of character rather than a mark against them.

Face characters, as they were called, like Belle or Prince Charming or anyone who doesn't have to wear a thermal death - suit, get paid $ 3 an hour MORE than the «furries.»

Seeing Jews clannishly crowding together in particular businesses and particular localities the non-Jew (who does not think of himself as acting clannishly) is more than ever impressed with the exotic character of this unusual people.

Nothing is more boring than cardboard characters that just serve as plot devices.

As with any business venture, the promise of profits attracts some less - than - savoury characters.

On character, he'd seem to be able to compete, so long as he emphasizes family life rather than political career (leaving aside the suspicions about Mormonism).

Anything less than this dishonors both the character of men as well as the women and girls we are hoping to protect.

Rather than looking at corporate work as the evil scourge of the earth (though you certainly want to make sure your personal values align with an organization's corporate values), riding the elevator to the 11th floor every day may be exactly where God needs you to develop your spiritual character, your gifts and to reach those who are broken, empty and living without knowing their Savior.

Wnen bad things happen to good people they can be used as steping stones to increase their faith and characters, but I don't know how those that are unbelievers view it, other than a «O» well, that's life.»

That belief in God is more important than the character and policies of the person running shows that we have a long way to go as far as maturity and tolerance goes.

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.

As has been argued in the pages of Faith before, as most scientists intuit, scientific knowledge is no more provisional or functional in character than all knowledge of the physicaAs has been argued in the pages of Faith before, as most scientists intuit, scientific knowledge is no more provisional or functional in character than all knowledge of the physicaas most scientists intuit, scientific knowledge is no more provisional or functional in character than all knowledge of the physical.

As the Creative Department disassembles its Creative Lounge, Ginsberg goes on a rant — which, like previous similar speeches from this character, is less crazy than it sounds.

In my family, we see life as a series of grand stories that simply must be populated with larger - than - life characters.

If the new verbalizations of earnestness are causing a stylistic rupture, as I think they are, that may be because the Mad Men writers» room is highly practiced at making these characters go in circles regressively or statically — rather than, as here, progressively.

Metaphor always has the character of is and is not: an assertion is made but as a likely account rather than a definition.»

When these characters consider living like common people they think of that as freedom rather than a duty of shared sacrifice.

What is offensive that Ms. Harris is so pained by a fictional Christmas character being represented as White that she would rather see said character portrayed in the form of a bird rather than a human being.

If I were to describe, so far as this is possible, the company I have enjoyed with my • most intimate companion of fifty - five years, whose name when I met her was Dorothy Eleanore Cooper, the reader in response could not do better than to quote one of Jane Austen's characters: «That is not good company, that is the best company.»

His purpose is «to set down the form and character of a true pastor, that I may have a mark to aim at, which also I will set as high as I can, since he shoots higher that threatens the moon, than he that aims at a tree.»

Throughout, Weinandy imaginatively engages the Christian tradition in a way that respects the truths of faith as a «mystery» to be explored rather than as «problems» to be solved, thus giving to his entire work the character of intelligently believing humility.

All music in some way is sacramental and all public performance has some religious character, but Jackson cultivated his image as a lay practitioner of pop spirituality more than any performer in his market segment, through the soppy universalism of «We are the World» as well as through his identification with the Jehovah's Witnesses and, according to recent rumor, with Islam.

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.

It is studied and examined as a stratagem rather than as a hallmark of character.

The character of Isaac is hardly sufficiently drawn to return an impression of independence; or perhaps it would be better to say that the stories about Isaac appear more as a link between the Abraham and Jacob cycles than as an independent unit of stories.

rather than viewing each individual character or incident as only an instance of some collectivity or trend, is able to see the specific, the novel... the way even the «typical» diverges from type... [and can] recognize the peculiar dialectic between continuity and discontinuity in tradition.

Her saving grace there, as in Out of the Deep I Cry, is her ability to create a story both intensely human and delightfully unpredictable, with events flowing naturally from collisions of character rather than the exigencies of plot.

Thus, Whitehead holds that it is the actual occasion which decides which eternal objects it will participate in, so that one must not look to the eternal objects to explain why one enters existence as a character present in some actual occasion rather than another.

As the first determination of real potentiality it is given with and by the actual world of each occasion, but in itself it arises out of the general character of the world rather than out of that particular actual world of which it is the first determination.

This, of course, was an account of moral character which saw it as a substitute for Christian faith and community, rather than its outcome.

She also cited a 1977 Annenberg School of Communication survey of more than 9,000 television characters, which determined that only 3.7 of them were elderly; moreover, compared to other groups, these individuals were portrayed as ineffective, unattractive and unhappy.

As the poetic parallelism makes clear, the character of Yahweh's compassion is the hesed character — the steady, enduring strength of fidelity, devotion, and commitment which partakes of the quality of grace precisely because it is more than the convention of covenant can appropriately command, because it is greater than the relationship which first produced it, and because it is able, in breaking out of the relationship, to recreate the very relationship in transformed dimensions.

It's difficult to critique this in a spoiler - free way, but to use the example of A New Hope, while the Death Star was a looming, terrifying presence throughout, the big threat to our heroes in this film seems to appear quite late in the day, and seems more important as a plot device to bring key characters together than a genuinely gripping menace.

There is, for this reason, a legitimate connection between the nation and socialism which supports rather than obstructs the international character of socialism as a force for world unity and peace.

The conspicuous tendency of our age... is not, as is sometimes supposed, directed merely against the sanctioning of... norms by religion, but against their universal character and absolute validity... their claim to be of a higher order than man and to govern the whole of mankind.

This, then, is the conclusion of the matter: life can be either consecration or desecration, and no test of character goes much deeper than the decision as to which of these two it shall be.

God, transcendent and immanent, above all yet in all; God, forthgoing in the sublime and challenging character of Christ; God, no abstract essence only, but the Spirit who can strengthen us with might in the inner man, so that, as Paul dared say, we «may be filled with all the fullness of God» — if one is going to believe in God at all, what richer, more comprehensive, and sustaining idea and experience of him can one imagine than that?

If a person publicly attacks a religion — such as in a cnn sound off - it says much more about that person's credibility and character than the religion they are trying to discredit.

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 followers.

But man is more able to tend toward God through amor, drawn passively in a way by God himself, than he can lead himself to God by means of his own reason [ratio), which pertains to the character [ratio) of dilectio, as said above.

In the philosophic tradition it is the idealists rather than the naturalists who have made the fullest place for this insight into the essentially social character of human existence, though contemporary naturalism as in Mead, Dewey, and Wieman has achieved a similar perspective.

We want to see sympathetic characters find within themselves the means to carry on, to grow as people, to look in the mirror and see somebody new, rather than a hero born unchangeably good, or a villain unalterably wicked.

Third, I will treat in detail the Hartshornian stance regarding abortion, a stance with which I agree, both to illustrate the aforementioned connection between moderation in metaphysics and moderation in ethics as well as to combat the charge that virtue ethics, because it focuses more on the character of agents than on their acts, is incapable of treating the really difficult issues in applied ethics.