Sentences with phrase «yet is the writer»

He may not yet be a writer - director double - threat, but this is an elegant first film from Hossein Amini.

And yet you are a writer and the query is the first bit of writing an agent will see.

Not exact matches

To read Flash Boys — or really any Lewis book — is to be constantly entertained yet constantly bothered by the nagging wonder of what the writer might have left out.

It's a swift kick in the pants for any «artist» (entrepreneur, writer, actor, dancer, singer, you name it) who has yet to fulfill his or her purpose.

The writer of the Fusion piece, Kevin Roose, admits he has been taking nootropics on and off for a month, yet he isn't totally sure they are working.

«It's not exactly a flood yet, but 2017 is not a bad start for tech IPOs,» Bloomberg Gadfly writer Shira Ovide said.

He hasn't quite made it yet, but he has carved out a place for himself as a senior editor who is also a gifted writer, the author of some of the most memorable pieces we've published over the years.

Yet another website has come to the wholly unoriginal conclusion that Florida is the worst state based upon cheeky rankings by writers who presumably have never lived here.

Yet I'm still not quite prepared to give up my part - time business as a personal finance writer.

Although the films Alibaba Pictures Group has invested in like So Young (by actress - turned director Zhao Wei, who is also a major shareholder of the company) and Tiny Times (by popular writer Guo Jingming) have recorded remarkable box - office revenues, the company has yet to turn a profit, with a net loss of HK$ 443.54 million for the first half of last year.

This is why I am trying to understand how you and Dawkins both take a work that you both claim to be fiction yet you reject the main character (God) as defined, accepted and understood by the writer and the audience of that day.

(If your article is actually about a writer's failings — if the whole point of the piece is to ask how a man could be so perceptive in some ways and yet so moronic in others — then that of course is something else entirely.)

To many he is known as one of the most courageous opponents of the bloody war in Indo - China, to others he is known as a leader in the civil - rights movement, yet to others he is known as a popular writer and speaker, and to yet others he is an enterprising young politician who will someday hold political office.

Yet they were able to achieve a great deal with focus and discipline, and by allying themselves with an unusually talented generation of writers and scholars.»

That is why Jesus, Paul, and other NT writers keep telling us to persevere», yet Jude 1 tells us we are preserved in Jesus Christ and then in verse 24» Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy».

From writers who are creatively exhausted from managing a constant stream of online feedback, to readers who can't seem to pull themselves away from their smartphones, to activists who are burned out from responding to yet another crisis with a social media campaign, to foodies who can't enjoy a meal without snapping a photo for Instagram, our writing, reading, and sharing habits consume more of our time and mental energy than ever.

And yet, in book after book, Glancy also offends many of her fellow Native writers — whose books she reads, as they read hers — by insisting that this absurdity, this intrusion of the Gospel, writ large in the history of Native Americans, is the experience of every tribe and every nation, everything and everyone human.

Yet it seems that the writer feels he can not say often enough that Christ was and is one with the people.

Yet he is neither among the great English - language prose stylists nor a writer of nuanced or profound moral vision.

There are uncanny parallels to the account of creation in Genesis (covered in water, separation of the waters (atmosphere formed)-RRB-, yet, the writers had no idea about those things at the time.

It is precisely here that John, the writer of this Gospel, leans over the pulpit and begins pleading with all those who have not seen the risen Jesus but may yet come to believe.

The movement from Nazareth to Galilee is followed by one from Galilee to Jerusalem; and in his sequel, the Acts of the Apostles, the Evangelist will continue the progress to Rome itself again, if the writer of the Fourth Gospel radically departs from the topographical scheme of his predecessors, his whole presentation is dominated by references to an hour «that is not yet come», but which controls and directs by its ever hastening approach the sequence of events he sets forth.

Yet it does not seem likely that her audience is as uniform as all that; and even those readers who do not share this writer's commitment to traditional religion may still wonder whether, if we are going to create our own object of worship, the exchange of a personal, loving God for an impersonal, unresponsive Good is an appealing trade.

if no one has pointed out to the writer yet, the law on the sabbath was given to the nation of israel in the books of exodus and leviticus not genesis.

And the religious experience of such a writer as the apostle Paul bears naïve yet eloquent personal witness to what we are discovering about the brain.

And yet since their letters show clear indications that professional letter - writing skills were used, the true historical situation was probably that John, Peter, James, and Jude hired professional letter writers to write the letters for them.

Yet the most popular modern guide in any language is Steven Runciman, a refined British private scholar of medieval Balkan and Byzantine history who insisted that he was «not a historian but a writer of literature» and argued that «Homer as well as Herodotus was a Father of History.»

Yet in spite of these limitations the writers of the Bible had some most remarkable insights concerning the nature of God and how he was seeking to bring his erring children to fuller obedience to his holy will.

Yet all fiction writers (and playwrights and filmmakers, for that matter) must make similar imaginative leaps, and will be judged — as Styron has been judged — by how convincingly they portray the characters whose points of view they've done their best to assume.

And yet, my contention is that they are not accorded the same courtesy of other historical writers.

Yet there ought to be a clear distinction in our thinking between a critique of the effects of this genre, with its deceptive promises of liberation, and a more empathic inquiry into the writers and especially the readers of this literature, those searching for some kind of encouragement and relief that they have failed to find elsewhere.

My church had succumbed to writer Richard Rohr's prediction, «When the church is no longer teaching the people how to pray, we could almost say it will have lost its reason for existence,» Yet in the congregations I have visited, silence, meditation and contemplation were commonplace, and many new members testified to the spiritual attraction of prayer.

These individuals best qualify as Catholic writers, and yet they are currently the least visible in a literary culture where at present only the third group, the dissidents, has any salience.

This is just one of many such stories of songs that were penned when the writer was going through an incredible trial in their life, and yet they something had a peace through it all!

Fanny Crosby one of the most prolific hymn writers was blind, yet in my opinion she knew more about sight than many people.

He appears «unlikely and exotic,» a colonial seeking to depict larger reality, yet threatened with being seen as a regional, West Indian writer; his writings...

It could be said that almost all of human nature is here, yet the writer tackles her subject with charity, attempting to be fair to everybody, while being honest about the problems.

But the Christian experience of the risen Lord is of being confronted by an external reality that is both of God (and not simply from God), yet also distinct from God the Father: as he cries «my Lord and my God,» the Christian feels as all the New Testament writers emphasize — that the living presence which confronts him is that of Jesus.

Vann's faith isn't central to his professional career as a writer for The Atlantic and you won't see him tweeting about it often yet his writing is essential.

There is a school of thought that advises us to «think biblically,» and yet neglects «the social consciousness of the meaning of words,» and «the exact contribution made by a word in its context and communicated between the speaker and the hearer, or the writer and the reader.»

I wish that all your readers were cognizant of this, yet in my own experiences as a writer who advocates for the full and equal inclusion of women in the church, I am all too familiar with the push back.

There is no mention of the passage by earlier Christian writers who were familiar with the writings of Josephus and cited his passages yet never reference one that, if it had existed in their time, they would have referenced as support for Christianity.

It may be that the omission is due to circumstances which rob it of significance, yet the fact that the older sources in Samuel manifest the same oversight and that one goes on as far as the prophetic histories and then to the writing prophets for indubitable evidence of belief in a common ancestry strengthens the suspicion that things were not what later writers would have us believe.

As a writer involved in online writing social media groups I can be thrilled by news of another writer's success — but also floored by how it makes me struggle yet again with a sense of unworthiness.

Even accepting this presumably lesser view, complications are not yet at an end; for it was freely recognized by Hebrew writers that this theory was threadbare; we are told in no uncertain terms that the nation was not of common ancestry.

11:9, R.S.V.); yet respond with full assurance when we find the same writer saying, «There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus» (Gal.

He interpreted their dreams, and matters came out as he had foretold; but his long affliction was not yet ended, for the Pharaoh's butler, in the quaint phrase of the Hebrew writer, «did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.»

The writers tell us, too, of Abraham, «the prince of God,» who yet was so frightened in a crisis that he had his wife screen him with a lie — or was it only half a lie?

But all this is subordinated to the intense expectation of glory yet to come, which absorbs the writer's real interest.

Yet like the slight things left by other major writers, these brief prayers and ruminations cast fresh light on O'Connor's literary vision as it was just beginning to develop.