Sentences with phrase «very much a story»

Lila is very much the story of her baptism, perhaps even her conversion, and her struggle both with and against the possibility that she is among the elect.

Thompson wrote about Peru's struggles to overcome a powerful political oligarchy, for example, and that's still very much the story of Peruvian politics today.

This is still very much a story in progress and the closest things we appear to have from an official channel are some tweets from the BA Twitter account... but the news isn't good.

To be sure, there are dozens of major Henri Matisse works in the show, but Matisse / Diebenkorn is very much the story of Richard Diebenkorn and his decades - long engagement with the older artist.

Design is very much the story for the Bravia A1, as it includes a unique built - in sound system.

Not exact matches

I realize that they're a necessary evil, but you need to be very careful that you're not saying things or doing things (even worse) to «prove» something to these people because (a) it's never enough to satisfy them in any case and they won't believe you anyway; and (b) it's a fool's errand to waste your time trying to impress people whose livelihood is much more about finding the warts and shortcomings in your story than in celebrating your successes.

So we rely very much on stories.

Vast wealth is a feature of the stories of both Hollywood and Wall Street, but the role of greed in generating such wealth is very much in question.

I liked her stories about her mother and her family, as she clearly appreciated them very much, but the folksy gimmick of having a business lesson followed by a memory started to grate after the tenth lesson or so.

The laws of competition and competitive strategy are now very much at work within the private equity industry, and we can see the best funds putting their real endeavors behind that, not only so they've got a good story to tell at [the] time of next fundraising, but also to deliver the great returns that their investors are expecting.

There were two stories this past week about Fidelity Investments that seem to be very much related and could signal how things may play out in the asset management industry going forward.

The CharityProfits binary options automated system is not a safe program and is based very much on fake stories and misleading details.

There were much more advanced civilizations (thousands of years before) with very similar stories than the nomadic tribes wandering the desert.

I used to like CNN very much for their journalism, but now it seems to be on a mission to putting up false stories from no name historians, where are the historians with a lifetime of credentials?

I think I'm too simple in my thinking that; if you don't like it, DO N'T WATCH... if you don't agree with it, DO N'T CHOOSE TO LIVE YOUR LIFE THAT WAY... Seems like a very simplistic way of thinking, but I have personal opinions on EVERYTHING, but I don't force others to live their lives according to my moral fiber... i don't judge people for living their lives the way that makes them happy... And i believe that IGNORANCE is the basis for INTOLERANCE... people are famous for HATING things that they don't understand... again, if it MORALLY offends you, don't read stories on things that you don't agree with, don't watch shows that portray choices that you don't agree with... The Brown family seems close knit, almost like extended family living under one roof... the kids work together and get along much better than a lot of «mainstream» households i see...

In this sense, Wesley's story is very much like Justin's.

That's a nice story but you are very much generalizing.

They and their children will not «melt» into the American pot all that much, but their grandchildren and great grandchildren will probably be a very different story.

no, I didn't say that's all there was — but much of what is left is not verifiable — some of it may very very well be true and some may be fiction; some may be a best attempt to retain truth where erroneous transmission kept the true story from being relayed forward; but how can it be verified at this point?

So my original question very much speaks to what it is we SHOULD be learning from the story.

I'll bet the thief on the cross probably thought he wouldn't have much of a highlight reel, but how about all the people who come to faith at the very end of their life because of his story and testimony?!

To Ken Margo: I am totally agree with you about this evil thing going around the earth... this evil minded people is there everywhere regardless of faith... that was not what i was trying to say... my point was to be able to recognize the One True God who is Unseen and who has no partners as He is not in need of any partners but we the creation is in need of Him... thats all... I wish I could do something to stop all these taking place around the earth... I think we human fear the fed laws more than we fear the laws of our Creator, for example not to associate any partner with Him, taking the life of others, drug dealing, human trafficking, believing in hereafter and so on... I remember a story that I was talking with one of my friends... I was telling him look we all obey the law of the land so much like for example when we drive and no one moves even an inch when there is a school bus stop to pick / drop kids as it is a fed laws but when it comes to the laws of our Creator, we don't care... like having physical relationship outside of marriage and many more... then he said something nice... he said that its because we see the consequence of breaking the law of the land but we do not see the punishment of hereafter even though it is mentioned very details in Quran, it even gives pictures of hereafter....

Even when I taught a course at Vanderbilt University divinity school in 1971 called «Forms of Religious Reflection,» in which we looked at the limitations and possibilities for religious reflection of various literary genres (parables, autobiographies, novels, poems, etc.), I did not know that a movement was aborning concerned with story and autobiography in theological reflection — a movement of which I was soon to feel very much a part.

appears very much like an insertion into the traditional story of Peter's confession.

When we return to the story of Saul in Acts 9, his violence is still very much a problem.

This sounds very much like what communication theorists have been saying about media image and metaphor and story.

So, either they were not very much impressed by YHWH (which makes you wonder what the Egyptian gods were showing them beforehand), or this just isn't a story that happened as literally as some people would like to believe, right?

The fact that such a simple addition made it suitable for Matthew's purpose, and its own natural balance, has preserved the story in what must be very much the form in which Jesus taught it.

The story goes that a young girl was very much troubled by some passages in the Old Testament where God, for example, commanded Saul to smite the Amalekites, and «not spare them, but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.»

The tone is so different in the last poem, that one can not help wondering if it may not have been the thought of one who lived later, interpolated into the total poem, very much as seems to have been true in the case of the Biblical story of Job and Ecclesiastes.

The essence of the story is that a servant for whom the master had canceled a very large debt threw into prison a fellow servant who could not pay him a much smaller debt, whereupon the master delivered the merciless servant to be tortured until he should pay his own debt.

Then there's Christianity, where the gospels seemed oddly very much like earlier pagan stories.

«In a way, I want to take some of these Richard Rohr depths or, in the case of the new record, L.A. Divine, the writer John Fante's Ask the Dust or his L.A. stories that are 100 years old but very much deal with the same stuff.

Or is it not much more sensible to assume that mentality appears only very late and very locally in the evolutionary story?

When we read Genesis in an awareness of what is to follow, we know that these stories of origins were created and preserved through the centuries not so much to inform ancient Israel about the past as to inform about the present; not so much to speak of what once was as to make clearer what now is; not so much to show interest in what had gone before the history of the people of Israel as to make that very history clear in its significance and meaning.

N.T. Wright, a New Testament scholar and former Bishop of Durham, concurs with Allen that the story is very much about John the Baptist.

We note in any case, and emphatically, that it is, like so much in the patriarchal narratives, a very good story indeed especially in the graphic portrayal of Tamar, in its deft integration of plot, and in its fine suspense.

Their story is very much like Lisa's and mine when we moved here 15 years ago.

His story is very touching, and he isn't asking for much.

Thank you so very much for sharing your stories and little pieces of your family in this book.

It is very clear from her products and Farzana's story that she recognises that much of what fills our supermarket free from aisles is anything but a good basis for a diet.

But yachting's greatest trophy is very much alive, as this inside story reveals

Very much a non story.

Their story is very much not done yet, and where things go next is up in the air.

u are drunk... and quintero, i like him, he has a really good shot, something we are missing so much, someone who can make the long shot or save us from free kick (vs hull we open the game with a free kick deflected... some of u does nt take that too much to analize our situation with ramsey on the wing and our problems to fight with a strong defense... without thats freekick maybe would be a very diferent story... we need to change tactics with teams who dedicates to defense... but about quintero, i do nt think porto allow us to get him for 8.5 m

Now, when I think about it, there isn't very much to that story.

Jan 04,2016... Re Cycling I very much enjoyed your story on Lance Armstrong (Magnifique!Aug.

A recent story by British daily Independent claiming that Luke Shaw might be on the way out hasn't quite gone down very well with a reputed Man United news Twitter account, so much so that the journo working on the story was accused of having «fabricated» the news.

But then, they took us both back - she, perhaps to the time of the photograph itself, and I, to her telling of the stories that meant so very much to me.

They very quickly got the hang of how to press the corresponding button to the book, and can easily follow the story (you pat Violet's head so she knows you've turned the page) without much input from me.