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Sentence Examples Therefore the soul falls below its own level and disintegrates, like the prodigal son reduced to feeding on pigswill. In Jesus' story of the prodigal, the father welcomes his boy home be redefining what it means to belong to the family. The Mighty alone can afford to be merciful and therefore where else can the prodigal son return but to the parental doors of the Government? Renouncing these prodigal sons and attempting to lay them at the door of the west is shirking responsibility. And what has brought about the return of the prodigal son more than a year after he stepped out of the limelight? The mythological god of riches guards the fourth circle, which holds the prodigal and the greedy. Team coach Tim Murphy had no doubt that their prodigal first half wastage was critical in determining the outcome. Epstein, an internationally exhibited photographer with half a dozen previous books to his credit, is a prodigal son. In the end it proved to be, but only after the Londoners had threatened to spoil the party and upstage the return of the prodigal son. And it looks as if we will have a long wait before the prodigal son returns again to play in Scotland. Go hard on those sugar farmers, or should I say, go hard on that prodigal federal government. The Tories are non-starters as a party of government and the Lib Dems aspire to be more prodigal spendthrifts than Gordon Brown. Retaining the centralized banking systems that prevail worldwide today with their monstrously prodigal paper instruments is no answer. Even the sport most apt to have a prodigal star, tennis, rarely has a 19-year-old dominate in the men's game. Call me reckless, prodigal even, but I've been spending up big on electricity. The film revolves around a prodigal father figure, Royal Tenenbaum, played by Gene Hackman auditioning for the Oscars. In it were their letters of obligation, acknowledging her latest distribution of money and clothing and prodigal advice. A Danish composer whose catalogue contains almost 700 works, Niels Viggo Bentzon was a dynamic creative artist of prodigal talents. In a book so prodigal of riches one finds, unbelievably, neither an index nor a glossary. Nature is prodigal in its approach to fertility, but we no longer need that prodigality. Show More Sentences In their midst stood the prodigal son returned, the towering figure of Sajid Mahmood, built for bowling fast if ever anybody was. But the 21-year old heroin-addicted punk rocker from southern England wasn't the only prodigal. As a prodigal, Tom is forever annoying Sid, his priggish, elder half brother. Did I think I'd find a ticker-tape parade laid on for the return of the prodigal son? As Mauss perceptively noted, the gift economy enhances the authority of the most prodigal giver, not of the most aggressive hoarder. Nearly everywhere there are signs that the prodigal economy is staggering home from its three-year slough of despond. This is the homecoming, the return of the prodigal sons to the family fold. The parable Jesus told about the prodigal son shows us what love means. Our team once attended a talk given by Cardinal Martini on the prodigal son. For Rilke, the father's all-encompassing love is what drove the prodigal son away in the first place and what threatens to overwhelm and destroy him on his return. For none of us can truly find our rest in God until all of our brothers and sisters have also been welcomed home like the prodigal. Jaded by the excesses of a prodigal youth in English society at home and on the Continent, he is at first merely anxious to relieve his ennui by touring the countryside. That night, having effected a cure, the alluring Eva is discovered in delecto flagrante with the young prodigal and promptly repudiated by the elders. Epistle III, to Lord Bathurst, deals with the use of riches, which is understood by few, neither the avaricious nor the prodigal deriving happiness from them. This is the perfect time for the prodigal daughter to return to her roots. Slowly, as the prodigal sons returned from the West, galleries began to develop, new painters emerged, and some kind of climate was created for art. But, in a dramatic reversal of fortune, the singer ended up appointed as a government adviser shortly after his prodigal return. It was like an experience of the prodigal son or the finding of the lost sheep. This is the bitter compassion of the Father who is unable even to embrace at the last moment the much desired prodigal son. To see what has happened to the Alliance, makes the story of the prodigal son look somewhat tame. Show More Sentences In the parable of the prodigal son it is through the love of the father that the younger son regains his former status. But the elder son, this prodigal son's brother, came back home after working all day outdoors. Man, being the prodigal son, has made bad use of and dissipated the goods which he received from his heavenly Father. There are many instances in the community of young people who have come back, like the prodigal son, to loving fathers. The race is at a point where the prodigal son is conscious of the husks and of the futility of earthly life. I told him it was the story of the prodigal son and asked if he wanted me to read it to him. You can be sure that, just like the Father in the story of the prodigal son, Jesus welcomes you with open arms. Remember the parable of the prodigal son:' while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was moved with pity. The prodigal ex-hippie who returns to an Essex village after blagging his way through eight years on the scrounge is still as charming and feckless as ever. Already in the ancient Rome the patricians gave cups and plate of silver to their own guests in sign of prodigal hospitality. Like so many of his post-war predecessors, both Labour and Conservative, the man from the Scottish manse has played the part of the prodigal son. It's true the SDLP has developed a powerful empathy with the prodigal son's brother. At this Seder table, he seemed to himself a prodigal son returned to his own people. But this is not every family's Seder. This is a prodigal century, probably the most prodigal in the history of the world. Life under any conditions is filled with idiotic excursions, false goals, prodigal waste, disappointed loves, galling personal insufficiencies, half-witted associations. At this point, Leih Tseih reveals his prodigal past to Ku Yum. Above all, the Executive must curb its own prodigal spending. How this will play out, especially given the frequency with which Americans and other prodigal consumers already clog more modern equipment, is one big unknown. It is short-sighted and a prodigal use of limited resources. When he returned after winning the contest to his one-bedroomed home in a government building in central Dharavi, he was treated like a long-lost prodigal. Show More Sentences It was billed as the return of the prodigal son, the homecoming that would put fire in the bellies of the young Borders recruits and bums on seats at Netherdale. The prodigal returns home to marry his high school sweetheart and to mind the store, but the lure of rock and roll ultimately calls him away from responsibility. They haven't exactly killed the fatted calf but they have been buying in an awful lot of Guinness for the return of their prodigal son on Saturday. No one knows, but on the 4th of July he began bellowing that the prodigal Son would, in fact, return. In going to the Cleveland Cavaliers, he was the prodigal son playing in his homeland. It is this divine something which makes of mankind the prodigal son, torn between desire for the worldly life, for possessions and experience, and the attractive power of that centre, or home, from which he has come. It may seem at times as if no filmmaker was as prodigal with his own genius as was Orson Welles though the difference between prodigality and liberality is merely in the quality of the reception. The wicked wolf that for a half a day had paralyzed London and set all the children in town shivering in their shoes, was there in a sort of penitent mood,and was received and petted like a sort of vulpine prodigal son. Ames is a lobsterman in Stonington, Maine, and his scientific study is ghost and remnant schools of fish, mainly cod… In the Gulf of Maine, cod was once so abundant that it was pursued with a kind of prodigal abandon. The antimetabole of the first line does not merely reflect but establishes the logic of prodigal love. He's both the fallen angel and prodigal son of dance. This world shall be like the prodigal son of my parable, and like him, it shall find its Father in his place, waiting to embrace him with love and seat him to sup at his table. Ted and I have Javerts in our lives, those who will not accept the fact that God the Father has welcomed his prodigal son home. Thirdly, it regrets the lack of application, the lack of diligence of those prodigal governments which, while running the risk of excessive deficit, do not appear to want to make any effort to reduce structural deficits. There are some prodigal practices within the distribution businesses, many of them responding to consumers' demands for competitive goods closely resembling one another. Levi pointed out further that most criminals are prodigal, so the notion there is large amounts of profit susceptible of either staging takeovers of legitimate business or being available for forfeiture is misleading. It is the Father running to meet the scruffy and hungry prodigal. In other words, under existing rules, Mr Boubakeur could well be swept aside in favour of more militant groups. In this section A knight in tarnished armour A prodigal returns Pyrrhic victory In the tent or out? Simon Hart of the Daily Telegraph has tweeted that the prodigal triple-jumper has come home, in preparation for tomorrow's qualification round. In the parable of the prodigal son in Luke chapter 15, we can understand very well that we can cultivate goodness only when we have spiritual love. Show More Sentences He found himself guilty of prodigal spending during the holidays. At the instigation of Colbert, whose rigid honesty was scandalised by Fouquet's large-handed and prodigal corruption, Louis determined to curb these soaring aspirations. How can he be so prodigal with money on such a tight budget? The theme of the prodigal son recurs later in the third act. Prodigal servings of pure saturated color are fattened further with a rich welter of tints, tones and shades. The parable of the Two Brothers, a popular story among the Sukuma of Tanzania, has interesting parallels with the Lucan Prodigal Son. Abercrombie weaves the tale of Prince Yarvi in a tale part Captains Courageous, part Revenge of the Nerds, and part Prodigal Son. He said if there was a twp more twp than me he would rather be Son Prodigal. Sullivan's last major work of the 1860s was a short oratorio, The Prodigal Son, premiered in Worcester Cathedral as part of the 1869 Three Choirs Festival to much praise. A few attributions of anonymous plays, such as The London Prodigal, have been ventured by individual researchers, but have met with cool responses. The Fear of passing for a Prodigal makes this Man so wretchedly covetous and strait-handed, that he will not assist the sincerest Friend on the most pressing Occasion. Examples from Classical Literature Swine were the natural companions of the prodigal, and the sooner he was with them the better! She read of the prodigal son, and of Him who would not condemn the woman that was a sinner. All this makes us chary of believing that Nature is prodigal of new organs. The largesse of which he was so prodigal has but an arbitrary and conventional value. I was received there with all the welcome it was possible for a prodigal son to be. It is the love of a mother to her prodigal son that makes her pray for him. But for her Paula would not have returned, like the prodigal son, to the father's house. The white alder at this time of year is prodigal of rich and delectable odors. Then it equally concerns them both to be painstaking and prodigal of toil in all their doings? I am prodigal enough at times, but I will not part with such a treasure as that. A man, he judged, of spendthrift generosity, a prodigal of himself. Here, too, are the ironies whereof departed life is prodigal. He figured me out as the prodigal son, and wa'n't goin' to knuckle. These are angels' delights which He lavishes upon the prodigal. In her proper person she is prodigal if she unmask her beauty to the moon. According to certain doctors, heat on the left side denotes a prodigal heart. The Sheriff was will to pluck a prodigal with the next man, and he was moreover glad to have a guest who promised to enliven the feast. Tarwater arrived home a true prodigal grandfather for whom the fatted calf was killed and ready. Baseball's prodigal son Giancarlo Stanton put pen to paper on a contract that will place him in the record books. She conveyed an atmosphere of softness and repentance, a general suggestion of prodigal daughters revisiting old homesteads. Show More Sentences I have not seen my mother this long time, and it lies upon my conscience, for it's something to be loved as she loves her prodigal son. This must be some prodigal who hath sold his father's land, and would fain live merrily while the money lasts. Leaving the ground with the air of a father mourning over some prodigal son, he encountered Mr Jacob Dodson, of Manchester. Fouquet, who is prodigal, I could recite, figure by figure, all the money that is spent in France from Marseilles to Cherbourg. And Nature, ever prodigal to her lovers, repays their favours in full measure. Gluttony is a prodigal consumer and devourer of the creatures of God. Who, think you, does more injustice, a prodigal man or a saving man? Your beautiful picture of the prodigal son is Mr. Barton's work. Here was the flora of the tropics in its rankest and most prodigal growth. She read from the New Testament, and he took keen interest in the prodigal son and the thief on the cross. And the questions go as we anticipate the farewell return of more prodigal sons. Have you never thought of marrying your prodigal son Anatole? Luxuriant vegetation spread in wild profuseness over this prodigal soil. Hystaspas is rather like the sons of Zebedee or the elder brother of the Prodigal. If you had just run away and come back again with a headache, I'd have treated you like the Prodigal Son. She leans forward and leers up into the face of her Prodigal. When I walked into the L'Arche home six years ago, I saw the reproduction of Rembrandt's The Return of the Prodigal Son on the wall. A timorous Singer is unhappy, like a Prodigal, who is miserably poor. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of prodigal? Words that rhyme with prodigal What is the plural of prodigal? What is the adverb for prodigal? What is the adjective for prodigal? What is the noun for prodigal? Translations for prodigal Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words prodi prodemocracy pro-death prodding prodder prodded prodigality prodigally prodigal son prodigies prodigious prodigiously 8-letter Words Starting With p pr pro prod prodi prodig prodiga