Sentences with phrase «than the heroes who»

With so few reaction tokens, though more can be gained, the Sins player gets considerably less agency than the heroes who all boast two turn tokens each by default, so there is more emphasis on the Sins player carefully picking their moments in order to gang - up on the heroes.

Not exact matches

The movie had more problems than just its casting — like choosing to introduce the mutant in someone else's standalone movie and nearly ruining «Deadpool» forever — but that doesn't excuse the bad interpretation of a beloved hero who was much more clever in the comics.

Citing studies on the early lives of heroes who rescued people from the Holocaust and highly creative architects, Grant suggests parents «help children think about the consequences of their action for others,» rather than simply yelling «no!».

Still, it's not hard to see why politicians have latched on to entrepreneurship: It's sexy and founders make much more palatable economic heroes than the corporate titans who triggered the financial crisis.

Of course since they are both Democrats the same idiot right - wingers who make idiotic comments about liberals will bash Spitzer and Schumer both and say they are too stupid to score that high on the SAT even though clearly Schumer and Spitizer are orders of magnitude more intelligent than them and all their right - wing heroes

They remembered the courage and determination of the young civil rights workers («The real heroes were the black «Snick» [SNCC, or Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee] personnel, who faced the worst dangers and took more than their share of the violence.

Honestly he is a hero in today's America where flash is greater than substance, and financial success determines who is right and who is wrong.

Yet mindful of Thomas à Kempis's words that it is better to be a devoted servant of God than somebody who can discourse wisely, I was delighted to learn the revealing information that the former parish priest of four US parishes has as heroes inspiring men and women of God: Simone Weil, Edith Stein (St Teresa of the Cross), Dorothy Day, Blessed John XXIII, Blessed John Paul II, Blessed Teresa of Calcutta and St Margaret Mary Alacoque.

Heroes, or at least he - men like Achilles, should be in charge rather than lesser beings like Agamemnon, who have mainly their lineage to recommend them and who therefore do not give he - men the honors they deserve.

Villains need to threaten the hero in a way that makes the resolution of their conflict more interesting than «who will win?»

Lots of people want to read about celebrities — who are more psychological accessible than great heroes and full of vices that most of us might have if we had the money.

Heroes in every area of attainment are those who have given themselves without reservation for a cause they love more than life itself.

Today, more than fifty years after the Holocaust, many of us need to be reminded that Pope Pius XII saved more Jewish lives than any other person, including Raoul Wallenberg and Oskar Schindler» men who are often, and rightly, treated as heroes for their efforts.

In case he did not know this definitely, then he has not made the infinite movement of resignation, then, though his word is not indeed an untruth, he is very far from being Abraham, he has less significance than the tragic hero, yea, he is an irresolute man who is unable to resolve either on one thing or another, and for this reason will always be uttering riddles.

Postmodernist interpreters join Iago in scorning the protestations of Othello and Desdemona that their love is actually something more than mere sensual attraction, and only by this great negation can they deny that Othello, like all Shakespeare's tragic heroes, is the embodiment of a Western ideal who fails and suffers catastrophe.

As in Becket, the Roman Catholic saint emerged as a problematic hero, but the panel decided that it was a statement «about a man who cared more for honesty and integrity than for his life... and is therefore a profound statement of the possibilities of human existence under the pressure of faith to oneself and to God.»

Yet they were better men than the twenty - first - century intellectuals who have supplanted them as cultural heroes.

Though Peter knew Jesus was greater than the heroes of the past, he too thought of a messiah as one of those who had controlled kingdoms of this world.

Gore begins with hero scientists like Roger Revelle, who first began to imagine the magnitude of this tragedy, and continues through the latest scientific findings, like last fall's revelation that the ice over Greenland seems to be melting much faster than anyone had predicted — news that carries potentially cataclysmic implications for the rate of sea - level rise.

Such was Paul's dynamic theology, and Erasmus had failed, so Luther judged, to understand on the one hand the relative dignity and goodness of the Law, on its own merits, and on the other the fact that in any case to keep it was useless, and indeed largely impossible for most men without Christ: «Fulfilment without faith in Christ, even if it creates men like Fabricius, Regulus and others [heroes of Roman history] who are wholly irreproachable in the sight of men — no more resembles righteousness than sorb apples resemble figs.»

In sufficient number of causes to make us humble, we discover good points in the cause which time has erased, just as one often learns more from the slain hero of a tragedy than from some brassy Fortinbras who comes in at the end to announce the victory and proclaim the future disposition of affairs.

I, the immunity hero who only suffered a single bout of flu in 5 years (it ended up being swine flu) have been down with more illnesses in the last two years than in the first entire lifetime.

It's about time a sports hero emerged who cares more about others than himself.

Bench, who had been valedictorian of his high school class three years before, rewarded them with more than the customary words of the modest hero returned.

Jan 04,2016... Few heroes suffered harsher falls from glory than Dr. FrederickCook, the Brooklyn physician who limp...

As an Arsenal hero and Legend, knows the club inside out like its his own and love Arsenal and Peps philoshophy who better to be hos no2 than the king himself?

City hero Joe Hart, who saved a last - minute penalty from Argentine magician Lionel Messi, nonetheless believes his side are more than capable of producing a shock win.

Proof that Diego Costa is worse than Chelsea's epic # 50m flop England Lingard: Seven English strikers who should have been called up BEFORE Manchester United wonderkid Top 10 Manchester United legends to play for Sir Alex Ferguson, including England hero & Ballon d'Or winner

Monreal has been an unsung hero over the years and deserves more praise than he gets... a model professional who never makes the headlines, no fancy haircut or tatoos and goes about his business in a discrete way..

Who better, therefore, than Inter's triplete heroes can send a message of black - and - blue pride to the Nerazzurri's current squad ahead of Sunday's derby?

Well, you may know that leading up to Father's Day we're honoring some everyday heroes, and I have to tell you about one named James Maina, who might just have a rougher commute than me.

Citizen Corbyn, elected with more votes than the Tories have members as he's fond of warning sceptics, will parade his grassroots legitimacy at Labour's conference in Brighton next week where he's guaranteed a hero's welcome from the army of activists who feel this time they've really got their party back.

«There's plenty of people from 9/11 or since who are real heroes whose names should be recognized more than a sitting politician,» Coll said.

He was a mere boy, though older than Tony Benn, another «real world» hero who was just 25 and a BBC radio producer when picked to become an MP in 1950.

Women are more attracted to war heroes than regular soldiers or men who display heroic traits in other fields, such as in sports or natural disaster work, according to new research from the University of Southampton and partners in Europe.

A small dam in M'bé near Bouaké, Côte d'Ivoire represents the inspiring story of unsung heroes who helped more than 300 farming households survive a difficult time when they had little hope.

But without Metro Man, Megamind has no purpose in life, so he creates a new opponent, who quickly decides that it's more fun to be a bad guy than a hero.

Some are elements of mystery, like the Hobo, who is helpful and even saves Hero Boy's life but is in a world of his own up there on top of the train and doesn't become anybody's buddy (when he disappears, his hand always lingers a little longer than his body).

It's telling that the hero who never shuts up doesn't dare joke about the contradiction; rather than face its own moral incoherence, Deadpool 2 blinks.

For the millions of true believers out there - the ones who loved him in 1985 and who would prefer to live in the past rather than listen to the 2017 version of their former hero - the film provides a blissfully melancholy roll call of pleasures.

Ironically, Black Panther is most successful in its treatment of the main villain, Erik «Killmonger» Stevens, played by Michael B. Jordan (Fruitvale Station and Creed), a character who ends up being more sympathetic in his cause than the titular hero.

All of the lead actors were exactly what was needed: Chris Pine, soft on the eyes, action hero, an average Joe in for more than he bargained for, but a soldier first and foremost; Keira Knightley, the pretty innocent who tags along, and then is

The director (who also co-wrote the script) invests ample time in fleshing out Wakanda and makes the dynamic between its villain Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan) and hero T'Challa (Boseman) much deeper, and more philosophically murky, than most central conflicts in Marvel movies are.

There will be blood and, more than likely, there will be tears from legions of younger viewers who aren't yet old enough to appreciate the reality that all our heroes are dead and our enemies are in power.

Unlike The Big Lebowski, The Long Goodbye, or The Big Sleep, Inherent Vice has less of an actual plot than the outlines of one fashioned in the mind of its hero, incidentally a PI and former skip tracer but above all a guy who wants to make sure his old girlfriend is safe.

Who would have guessed that the director of «Tron: Legacy» could do an emotional hero story better than Peter Berg?

When the long end credit sequence features family snaps of the real men who died, soundtracked to Peter Gabriel's version of «Heroes», it's clear that at some point Berg switched from filmmaking to hagiography, and that he's much better at making movies than he is at making saints.

Fresh off his victory over the Hand in The Defenders, Luke Cage season two finds its titular hero back home but more visible than ever and in need of sending a message out to anyone who's listening.

That might be a hard task, drumming up sympathy for the genocidal space Nazis of the Star Wars universe and establishing a new hero who wants nothing more than to crush the Rebellion and avenge the Emperor.

Plus, bad guys who truly believe that they're the heroes are always more compelling than those that are just evil for evil's sake.