Sentences with phrase «than the drama of»

We know this sounds boring, but it's much better than the drama of losing big money because you went for it with eyes half closed.

Not exact matches

The service is also getting ready to debut multiple original shows developed specifically for CBS All Access, including a spin - off of the hit drama The Good Wife and the first new Star Trek series in more than a decade, called Star Trek: Discovery, which is expected to premiere in 2017.

A powerful portfolio of scripted and unscripted drama and comedy originals seen in more than 102 million U.S. homes.

The subtleties of language and gesture that make up a small - scale drama are far harder to translate than a meteor demolishing a skyscraper.

The Netflix political drama House of Cards earned an Emmy nomination for best drama series Thursday, marking the first time a program that aired online rather than over traditional television received a nomination.

The situation gets more galling when Netflix executives state, without offering proof, that they are beating the networks, as Sarandos did last December when he said that Netflix's drug - trafficking drama Narcos reached more viewers than the HBO hit Game of Thrones.

It's worth noting that another Fox Searchlight film, Birdman, was among the lowest - grossing Best Picture Oscar winners of all - time, but it went on to gross more than $ 100 million worldwide, while 12 Years a Slave (another slavery - themed period drama) grossed $ 187 million in global ticket sales, according to Box Office Mojo.

Rather than concentrating on the immediate prologue to the crisis and its day - to - day dramas, they go back 30 years to Salomon Bros.» Lewis Ranieri, BlackRock founder Larry Fink, Fannie Mae exec David Maxwell and the invention of mortgage - backed securities.

Meanwhile on the TV side, the site TorrentFreak found that for the third year running, HBO's Game of Thrones is the most pirated program of 2014 with more than 8 million downloads from BitTorrent, followed by AMC's The Walking Dead (4.2 million), and CBS's The Big Bang Theory (3.6 million), the consistently most watched cable drama and network comedy.

While the Bronfman family dramas have been wellcovered in other books and in the Canadian press — this magazine is among the book's sources — Goodman understands the music business better than any of the family's other chroniclers.

Drama queen conclusion, including what appear to be rather over-the-top estimates by JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank: More than 13,000 banking jobs are on their way out of London because of Brexit!

The drama around this document — titled «Amoris Laetitia,» Latin for «The Joy of Love» — has been building for more than two years, ever since Pope Francis first announced he would call Catholic bishops together to examine modern family crises around the world.

As of early Monday, Toscani's initial tweet had garnered nearly 173,000 retweets and more than half a million likes, with workers sharing their own stories and even presumably lunch - theft - immune celebrities weighing in on the drama.

For example, iQiyi bought the exclusive rights to stream Korean drama Descendants of the Sun in China in 2016, which later brought more than 1 billion views to iQiyi.

The study revealed that less than 10 percent of adult viewing on Netflix was of its much - buzzed - about original series, like «House of Cards,» its political drama, and «Orange Is the New Black,» the dark comedy about prison.

An era when less than 10 percent of voters respond to pollsters, and where mass opinion changes rapidly, will be one where Election Day is again a day of drama.

During the mid-season finale of the CW teen drama, Archie and Betty discover that the masked man is none other than the high school custodian, Mr. Svenson.

The drama started with a group of employees grousing about a state tax withholding mix - up that left them owing more than they thought they would have.

Of course, the company is inseparable from founder Larry Flynt, the larger - than - life personality that was notably brought to the big screen in the 1996 drama The People vs. Larry Flynt, a film that grossed $ 20m and was nominated for two Academy Awards.

This blind hope reduces Christians to pawns in a politically partisan drama, rather than signposts for the hope found in the upside - down Kingdom of God.

The salvation of a single soul, he says, is worth more than all the poetry, drama and tragedy ever written.

As a preacher who shakes hands, I believe worship leaders have a quite different job: to expose illusions at every turn, including the illusion that they are something more than fellow players in the drama of worship.

Rather than releasing a woman from her bondage to sin, Luther's courtroom drama recapitulates the very dynamics of her oppression — the «shattering she knows all too well.»

Plays are play, as Walter Ong observes, except for the playwright and perhaps some of the paying public.5 Moreover, while most would say that tennis and drama provide at least the occasion for play (even if some tennis players, for example, are not actually «playing»), the list of possible play activities is much broader than we often imagine, including much of life - more, in any case, than just tennis, reading, dancing, etc..

They are no more historical than the set and scenery of a play are part of the narrative of the drama, or than the order in which an artist fills in the pigment and detail of a painting is part of the significance of the painting.

Whether or not the story of the giving of the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai amid thunder and lightning and great pictorial drama is to be taken literally, there is little question that the Hebrews entered Canaan with a clearer sense both of their covenant relation to their deity and of their moral and social obligations to each other than they had possessed prior to Moses» leadership.

Those rest on his uncritical use of sources, his false assumptions about both European and Near Eastern societies, and his enthusiasms for staged drama rather than accurate analysis.

Every week this winter, more than 100 million people across the globe will gather for the iconic opening shot of Downton Abbey, ITV's period drama phenomenon.

As God prehends the universe at the instant the piano teeters, he sees the various possible ways this little drama could be played out, sees all the ramifications of the possible scenarios, and realizes that some ways the action might unfold are better than others, that is, some outcomes would produce a future which when he, God, prehended it would make his experience more rich, more harmonious, more beautiful than his experience would be were alternative outcomes to produce quite different futures.

Their narrative faithfully portrays the movement of the drama, with its fundamental unity and continuity, even though in fact the interval between the arrest and the session of the council, and between that and the trial before Pilate, may have been more considerable than appears.

Rather than conceiving of modernization as moving happily toward greater prosperity and enlightenment for all, world - system theorists depict it as moving in fits and spurts, as a kind of Hobbesian drama.

But does the bias of a lawyer in a courtroom drama (be it positive or negative) make the legal process any less objective than that of the scientist in the laboratory?

If science and technology are ever to be liberated from tutelage to the dominative powers of history, if the drama is to be «interrupted» redemptively rather than destructively, then Christian theology, which has itself been enticed time and again to legitimate dominative power, can contribute to that future by mediating more dialectically to the present the subversive memories of God's identification with the struggles of victims everywhere in the mystery and message of Christ Jesus.

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.

In an era of television characterized by fantasy, science dystopias and larger - than - life drama characters, Penelope Alvarez feels like the Every Mom.

I had rather discern a cry of human need voiced in a novel, or discover the grace of God profanely proclaimed in a drama on the stage or on the street, than retell what some other has discerned there.

What God wants from us, more than anything else, is to make the Bible's great drama of restoration and new life the story of our lives too.

More than any other Shakespearean tragic hero, he commands respect and radiates authority as the drama begins, and also embodies the values of aristocratic chivalry.

But the gospel story itself was communicated to most of the faithful through pictures, carvings, stained glass, drama, music and spoken words rather than through books.

What is most unlikely to change is the underlying structure of these cultural interactions: the ideologies and agendas of the churches all originate outside them; the churches play a basically passive role in the cultural drama, as receptors and disseminators rather than as initiators; they «read the signs of the times.»

But the history of our time is no less the stage upon which the drama of salvation is played out than was the history of the fifth century B.C. or the first century A.D. Accordingly, the Christian does not doubt that God is moving with power in the world today — the world of African nationalism, thermonuclear politics, metropolitan planning, and space exploration, The Christian's problem is rather to discover when, where, and how God is moving with such decisiveness as to create a crisis of decision for the church and to summon it and its resources into the struggle.

There has, instead, been a tendency to see nature as none other than the stage on which the drama of human life is performed.

This is why it is misleading (however soothing it may be) to say that the drama of fall and redemption will make the final state of things more glorious than it might otherwise have been.

For Barth this drama is nothing less than the being - in - act of God.

Much more effective than all the religious programs presented in «ghetto hours» may be the frequent portrayal of an attractive, sensible, and compassionate religious person in general television drama.

Drinking tons of water (more than you think you need), moving your body in some way every day, and not letting the little dramas of everyday life take up too much space in your life.

It was also a red carpet showcase of do I have the better dress / ensemble than you — or him, for that matter — and each person seemed to make this another designer drama diva deal with who was wearing what, and by whom?

But it still nails some of the less - than - savory realities of life as a server at a top New York City restaurant, from the wine snobbery to the palpitation - inducing kitchen drama.

But he seems confident that the Gunners that are fit are more than capable of getting us to the new year with no more dramas.

With their young, dime - store pen proving mightier than the swords in the favored Red Sox» lineup, the Indians took the lead in an ALCS that had the rare look of a drawn - out October drama