Word: belief
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...train, knocking its cars into nearby houses and trees. Rescue workers think that few of the 1,500 people on the train made it out alive. Among the dead were five children of a local friend of Hantke's, placed by their father in the train in the belief that it was safe...
...Christianity. But that may not be the most important point. "What jumps out at close readers," he says, "is Matthew's and Luke's different roads to performing the vital theological task of their age: fitting key themes and symbols from Christianity's parent tradition, Judaism, into an emerging belief in Jesus and also working in ideas familiar to the Roman culture that surrounded them." Thus the Nativity stories provide a fascinating look at how each of the two men who agreed on so much--that Jesus was the Christ come among us and was crucified and resurrected and took...
...Belief in cultural mirrors has devastating consequence in our hyper-visual culture. Appearance and self-hood are stickily entwined,” Gullette said. “The exhibit was modeled on a dominant cultural assumption that the body declines as if with no cultural intervention.” Hence, the title of the book...
...plot’s trademark characteristic is its incongruity; the movie has no sense of proportion. All three main characters keep secrets, and the series of swift and dramatic revelations at the end of Mei and Jin’s journey pushes the bounds of belief. Their exaggeration makes the film utterly unbelievable, but admittedly fun to watch, especially with Yimou’s adept directorial flourishes. In one memorable example, a summer day surreally turns into a winter snowstorm over the span of a few hours...
...reflect the commercial filmmaking world’s ravenous need for specialty workers. While we do value and teach technique, we do not offer stand-alone courses in, for example, cinematography and editing as do most film schools. At the core of what we teach is a belief that, like writers writing or painters painting, film authorship can also be derived through the act of handling the expressive tools of production oneself...