Sentences with phrase «upon the scene in»

When Google came upon the scene in 1998, it introduced a new way to categorize this massive body of data by organizing it around keywords, which made it easier for users to discover exactly what they were looking for.

Clinical psychology had not yet come upon the scene in its modern sense.

Ever since he first burst upon the scene in 1988 with his hypnotic debut feature «Tales from the Gimli Hospital,» Guy Maddin has been one of those filmmakers whose new work I most eagerly look forward to seeing.

Star Wars burst upon the scene in May 1977.

Not exact matches

There's a scene in the film Up in the Air where George Clooney's character, Ryan while firing J.K. Simmons's character, Bob realizes he isn't buying the platitudes spouted upon him, and helps him see inspiration in his unexpected transition...

Such moments, nonetheless, appear» implicit though undramatized» throughout the Old Testament, and the story of Noah has at least two: Noah's own never - expressed response to the Lord's commission, and the late scene when Shem discloses Noah's drunken stupor to his brothers, who engage in a tortuous maneuver to cover their father's nakedness (which only alerts him upon wakening to what has happened).

Clad only in her own hair, illustrating her complete dependence upon God, she leaves behind scenes in which she preached the gospel message of hope.

In the dark days which followed, while the new Babylonian empire threatened the little nations ever more nearly, another of the great prophets came upon the scene.

Though science has reached phenomenal heights in our time, it has at no point invalidated anything basic to Christian faith, and at no time in human history has the revelation of God in Christ shone upon the human scene with greater clarity and power.

Once, when he came upon a drunken scene, probably in connection with the temple sacrifices, where priests and prophets, as he says, reeled with wine and staggered with strong drink until the tables were full of «vomit and filthiness,» he was greeted with the intoxicated jeers of the people's religious leaders: «Whom will he teach knowledge?

The imposition of Word upon king is sharply attested again in that brilliant scene immediately preceding the death of Ahab in the middle of the ninth century (I Kings 22) The Word through Micaiah works its radical historical effects, and another prophet is instrumental in the efficacious juxtaposition of divine life and will upon human events.

Just as the Virgin Birth, and the physical Resurrection of Christ are and were requirements of his literal Divinity and uniqueness upon the human scene, so also this type of development to which we appeal can not take place, except in a Church which claims the infallible magisterium on earth of the same Jesus in the name of his Divinity, and can manifest a line of consistent and coherent, definition because she has done so.

When first the tribes of Joseph met him at Sinai and he came down in «thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount,» nothing remotely like the interior practice of the presence of God was suggested by the scene.

If positive values tend to confirm relationships and negative values to fracture them, then the particular ways in which changes take place in the human scene will depend upon the systems of value which pertain.

Upon this orderly, ecclesiastically manageable scene burst the lay activists of the «30s, «40s and «50s, including Dohen and her colleagues in the Grail movement.

Intelligent agency brings something new upon nature's scene in the course of its own functioning.

The demands constantly being made upon us in business and family life, the world scene, and the precarious state in which we all dwell compel thoughtful people to consider the nature and destiny of man.

If by God's «glory» we understand a majestic court scene in which God is seated upon a great throne, lording it over the creation and gloating in his divine magnificence, then the phrase suggests ideas that are the exact opposite of the «Galilean vision» of the Love which is self - giving, gladly receptive, utterly ungrudging in generous openness to all that occurs in the created order.

In one way or another they refer to what Jesus was doing, and to the effect of what He was doing upon the total scene.

Imagine some scene where Roman armies fall upon a little country, sure in time to be crushed under the heel of the conqueror.

i remember now seeing this one movie with mid-east people drama in it — don't remember to much about the movie except this one scene of men in mid-east dress advancing in protest in mass upon these soldier guards over something these people in mass thought was rightfully theirs (a freedom from violence was one of these things they thought was rightfully theirs).

But taken together, these stories, told from many different points of view, converge to give a distinct impression of a real person in action upon a recognizable scene.

The incongruities themselves illustrate the manner in which through trial and error men came to apprehend the truth; and the defects and limitations of which we are aware serve as background to the growing light which, as if evoked by them, shone upon the human scene.

Suddenly hitherto illiterate populations were equipped with a written Scripture for the first time, and from the wonder and pride of possessing something new that is also strangely familiar, they burst upon the scene with confidence in the whos and whys of their existence.

Then the fields of Esdraelon slope up toward Galilee in an immense checkerboard of green and brown, while through a break in the hills distant Hermon looks down from its snows upon the idyllic scene.

In brief, social change — this rapid, turbulent, accelerating scene — is more than a professional challenge; it is a total human challenge, and to deal with it as human beings, be we professionals or nonprofessionals, we must unashamedly call upon the full range of our human capacities and interests — scientific, artistic, and religious.

Mead calls this rather absurd scene — that of filming people watching film — the ultimate manifestation of Bridezilla culture: «an exercise in self - regard so grandiose that it has collapsed in upon itself.»

Pop music critic Simon Reynolds, in his book Retromania, and style - writer Kurt Andersen, in his «You Say You Want a Devolution» essay, have their finger upon a certain pattern in our contemporary cultural scenes of recyle - ment, repetition, and lack of forward motion.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

We accept these victories over injustice in former days as assumptions of the position of the Church in our own day; it is harder to see in our contemporary scene just what it is that the Church is called upon to do.

The impact of Wieman in the American scene has sometimes been compared with that of Barth upon Continental theology, 17 and a parallel does exist at the point at which both men direct attention away from humanity and human values to the work of God which is understood as prior to and sovereign over human endeavors.

In turning men away from the mythological concepts of the gods to the YHWH who was known through His Word, Israel seized upon the most important phenomenon in the human scene — language — to become the metaphor for faith «The Word became flesh.&raquIn turning men away from the mythological concepts of the gods to the YHWH who was known through His Word, Israel seized upon the most important phenomenon in the human scene — language — to become the metaphor for faith «The Word became flesh.&raquin the human scene — language — to become the metaphor for faith «The Word became flesh.»

Just imagining the master waiting upon the servant relaxing on a couch ready to be served a banquet (Christ like the Romans ate in a reclining position to aid their digestion) would have evoked a scene of luxurious bliss from the listeners.

God manifests Himself upon the scene of our daily living as the Lord and Giver of life: interpreting the divine will to our human hearts, comforting us in our sore bereavements, awakening within us a hunger for the eternal, quickening our souls to repentance for sin, witnessing with our spirits that we are the children of God.

That is why the story comes to have the aspect of a judgement - scene,» in which sentence is passed upon a series of typical figures, not unlike ourselves.

First, they address themselves powerfully and sometimes passionately to the contemporary scene in the characteristic prophetic conviction of Yahweh's impingement upon the sociopolitical institution.

In Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ, there is an arresting scene in which Jesus and Judas come upon the townspeople as they are stoning Mary MagdalenIn Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ, there is an arresting scene in which Jesus and Judas come upon the townspeople as they are stoning Mary Magdalenin which Jesus and Judas come upon the townspeople as they are stoning Mary Magdalene.

In Soweto, south africa, a vast black settlement outside Johannesburg, SI senior writer William Oscar Johnson last week came upon an elemental sports scene.

Less than a dozen have come along in the 100 years professional baseball has been played, less than a dozen, to carry the moving - picture analogy farther, who burst upon the scene as accomplished as young Spencer Tracys.

If you're trying to cut across the back nine, you'll just stumble upon a bar scene materializing in the middle of the woods.

Upon arrival and check - in at the downtown luxury hotel — whose expansive lobby is decked out in holiday cheer — you'll receive a Joffrey Nutcracker gift bag filled with keepsakes: a commemorative program detailing the new version of the show (now in its second season), with behind - the - scenes peeks at set designs, dance rehearsals, costumes and more; a hand painted, wooden nutcracker doll; and, perhaps coolest of all, a real pointe shoe that was worn and signed by one of the dancers in the show.

When Dr. Spock burst upon the stodgy childrearing - advice scene in 1946, he liberated parents from decades of strict infant - feeding schedules and other counter-intuitive advice.

It only applies to you and you are not suppose to make a scene upon being stopped especially with non fraternity members in the car.

In another development, the Invisible Forces of Nana Akuffo Addo nearly lynched on Aboagye a loyalist of Alan Kyeremanteng at the funeral grounds.Aboagye's crime is that he has been offered a contract by the new administration.The Invisible Forces acting upon the orders of one of Nana's henchmen who attended the funeral, pounced on Aboagye and gave him some slaps but was saved by the security operatives of Former President Kufour who rushed to the scene to intervene and whisked him away.

«Upon arriving at the scene, the Genesee County Sheriff's Deputies encountered Mr. Kent in the parking lot.

Imagine the scene: your average bag - carrier, upon firing up the office computer on a Monday morning, finds five hundred identical emails from constituents urging the MP to write to the Foreign Secretary on cabbage farming in outer Patagonia will naturally sigh and get on with it.

I do not wish to be a soothsayer of doom, but unless we actively listen to the concerns of the unions (and their members) then to my mind there is the very real possibility that later in the year we could witness similar scenes upon London's chartered streets.

What I've come upon is just one scene in the massive global picture of deforestation.

«The problem we're solving is that no matter what wavelength of light you use, the resolution of the image — the smallest feature you can resolve in a scene — depends upon this fundamental quantity called the diffraction limit, which scales linearly with the size of your aperture,» Veeraraghavan said.

Crowd scenes in these movies use animation algorithms based on flocking activity, in which each character moves in a preprogrammed way depending upon how her neighbors move.