No doubt the movie wowed them at Sundance because of its unnerving combination of willful sacrilege and religious desire wrapped in the bristling package of Mr. Gosling's muscular performance, delivered with the cinematographer Jim Denault's visual punch.
The Ottomans, left as the major Muslim rivals of Byzantium, attracted masses of nomads and urban unemployed who were roaming through the Middle East searching for means to gain their livelihoods and seeking to fulfill their religious desire to expand the territory of Islam.
It is another thing entirely for some to ask others to sacrifice their created integrity, their God-given need to be in relationship, the social need to have those relationships recognized as legitimate, and the religious desire to have those relationships sanctified as a covenant before the God to whom they have committed their entire lives.
Initial observations indicate that the work environment at the district level and integration of nursing vocation with religious desire to serve others may be important conditions influencing supervisions' orientation in this setting.
Terrence Malick overcomes the nearly insurmountable risks of the long-dreamed-of project to fuse autobiography and philosophy of mind, scientific fascination and religious reminiscences, desires and realities, a receding past and an uncertain future — and to do it with a fusion of dramatic intensity with visionary exaltation.
ANY Western politician, judge or religious leader desiring instant fame or a dose of controversy has an easy option.
In "Caught Between Church and State" (Op-Ed, Jan . 19, Susan Jacoby outlines the history of the conflict between science and religious fundamentalists' desire to have creationism and "intelligent design" taught alongside evolution in public schools.
The tone is sometimes critical, as when civic humanism is presented as a reductive pedagogical ideal relative to a full-fledged religious education desired by some, or found wanting by lecturers at the libertarian Objectivist Center founded to propagate the ideas of Ayn Rand.
A 2001 report revealed that religious groups desired to improve their capacity to contribute to care and support [ 13].
