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...Unlike the impulsive and volatile gods in Babylonian myths, this God is wholly committed to “flawed and alienated” humankind made in the divine image, despite human folly bringing chaos to a world created...
...couple are well served by supporting players, especially Simon Russell Beale, who is at his coolly conniving best as Catholic bishop Stephen Gardiner, oozing sadistic glee at the prospect of inflicting divine...
...Giovanni Bellini’s vast and original “Transfiguration”, blending human, divine and landscape elements — the stunned apostles curled up on the ground, Jesus magnified in bright white robes, the distant city...
...“He sang like an angel,” recalls one classmate; videotape reveals less than divine vocals....
...Then, deputy arts editor Raphael Abraham recommends the top films to look out for this summer....
...In The Fate of Abraham, journalist Peter Oborne offers a lengthy excursion into Islamophobia and the treatment of Muslims by European powers and in western societies....
...It will come as no surprise to anyone familiar with Sorrentino’s previous work that the film draws on both the divine and the decidedly unholy....
...It may not have the propulsive flair of Houda Benyamina's Divines or the bittersweet tang of Deniz Gamze Ergüven's Mustang but its own voice is still distinctive and well worth hearing. ★★★☆☆ In UK cinemas...
...Chazelle is, you might say, the first man, setting the tone for the series with the opening two episodes before handing over to France’s Houda Benyamina (maker of 2016 Cannes prize-winner Divines), Moroccan...
...There is no one I admire more than Franklin Roosevelt, and no one I would rather spend an hour talking to than Abraham Lincoln. But this is not conversation or a trip into history: it’s dinner....
...Francisco Ribalta’s “Christ Embracing St Bernard”: the vision of a saint who, kneeling before a crucifix, felt Christ descend and embrace him, is similarly a gesture of hands, human and divine — ecstatic...
...But it’s a positively divine Hugh Grant who steals the show, hamming it up deliciously as a loathsome luvvie who comes over like the unctuous evil twin of Roger Moore, ensnaring Master Bear and setting off...
...When the sinful Old Testament character Jacob was down on his luck, his divine creator told him: “Jacob, I like your boldness. I like the fact that you shook off the shame. You got rid of the guilt....
...It was divine. If I didn’t live in London, the city I would live in is Trieste, a place I’ve fallen slowly in love with....
...Co-housing groups that follow the same model as Tonic are “brilliant”, said Caroline Abrahams, director of charity Age UK....
...In the Bible there is Abraham sitting outside his tent, waiting for passers-by so that he can wash their feet and show them hospitality....
...Owen Lovejoy, who became the close friend and confidant of Abraham Lincoln, was a Congregational minister and a passionate anti-slavery man....
...He begins with victims from a Milwaukee school for deaf children who were not content just to rely on divine retribution, but the shameful trail of culpability and cover-up leads all the way to the Vatican...
...We begin with Abraham baying about and laying about Isaac, and then various bizarre characters – a woman in a crinoline, men wearing ibis horns, a sacrificial girl badgered with applications of white chalk...
...In particular, Mr Bush says he found solace in reading history while he was busy making it, devouring 14 biographies of Abraham Lincoln during his time in the White House....
...“Buddha, Jesus, Abraham, Mohammed, they’re all OK by me – I like Buddha, though, and I quote him more often than the other guys,” he says....
...New kids on the block The Venice Biennale hosts a record 89 countries this year, up from 77 in 2009, writes Raphael Abraham....
...In Muslim Spain, relations between the three religions of Abraham were uniquely harmonious in medieval Europe....
...In parts of the western world it has matured beyond the concept of sin, which means “disobedience to divine command”, which in turn means that if the biblical Abraham had refused to slit his son’s throat...
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