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n. direct and obvious intervention by a god in the affairs of humans.
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Divine Intervention is the sixth studio album by American thrash metal band Slayer. Released on September 27, 1994, through American Recordings, it was their first album to feature Paul Bostaph, replacing the band's original drummer Dave Lombardo. The production posed a challenge to the record company, as its marketing situation drew arguments over the album's explicitness. The band used the Decade of Aggression live album to give them time to decide the album's style. Since it was released nearly four years after Seasons in the Abyss, vocalist Tom Araya said that there was more time spent on production compared to the band's previous albums. The cover was painted and designed by Wes Benscoter as a re-imaging of the group's early "Slayergram" graphic.
Even though so much time was spent on production, Kerry King said that the mixing and mastering should have had more attention. The song's origins came not only from television shows, but were also inspired by various other things, including Rush Limbaugh, and serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. In 1998 the album was banned in Germany due to the lyrics of "SS-3", "Circle of Beliefs", "Serenity in Murder", "213" and "Mind Control". Divine Intervention received mixed reviews by critics. The album sold 93,000 copies in its first week. It peaked number eight on the Billboard 200 and charted at number 15 on UK Albums Chart. It was rewarded gold in the United States and Canada. An EP entitled Serenity in Murder was released shortly after the album.
Divine Intervention is a 2002 film by the Palestinian director Elia Suleiman, which may be described as a surreal black comedy. The film consists largely of a series of brief interconnected sketches, but for the most part records a day in the life of a Palestinian living in Nazareth, whose girlfriend lives several checkpoints away in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
One lyrical section features a beautiful sunglasses-clad Palestinian woman (played by Manal Khader) whose passing by not only distracts all eyes, but whose gaze causes Israeli military checkpoint towers to crumble. The director features prominently as the film's silent, expressionless protagonist in an performance that has been compared to the work of Buster Keaton, Jim Jarmusch and Jacques Tati.
The film is noted for its minimal use of dialogue, its slow pace and repetition in behavior by its characters.
Divine intervention is a term for a miracle caused by a deity's active involvement in the human world.
Divine Intervention may also refer to:
- "Divine Intervention", a 1991 song on Matthew Sweet's album Girlfriend.
- Divine Intervention (album), a 1994 album by Slayer.
- Divine Intervention, a 1986 album by filk musician Julia Ecklar.
- Divine Intervention (film), a 2002 film by Elia Suleiman.
- "Divine Intervention", a 2001 song on Pennywise's album Land of the Free?.
- "Divine Intervention", a song recorded by Backstreet Boys for their 2005 album Never Gone but it didn't make the cut.
- "Divine Intervention", a 2006 song on Taking Back Sunday's album Louder Now.
- "Divine Intervention", a song on Autopilot Off's album Make a Sound.
- " Divine Intervention Tour", the 2015 headlining tour by recording artist Bette Midler to support her album " It's The Girls".
Usage examples of "divine intervention".
As knowledge of medicine improved since the fourth century BC, there was more and more that we understood and less and less that had to be attributed to divine intervention - either in the causes or in the treatment of disease.
The historians, in accord with the old habit of acknowledging divine intervention in human affairs, want to see the cause of events in the expression of the will of someone endowed with power, but that supposition is not confirmed either by reason or by experience.
It's relatively simple to put these six ingredients together and deduce that new species can arise without divine intervention - provided we can justify each ingredient.
In a way, it had about it the aspect of a mystical experience, almost as if there had been a kind of divine intervention on his behalf.
It is possible to read the statement in Luke I:35 as implying divine intervention of the same type as is found in the Old Testament accounts of the births of Isaac or of Samson, although the words in Luke 3:23, in the genealogy of Jesus, 'being, as was supposed, the son of Joseph', show that Luke himself believed that Jesus had no human father But the Matthaean statement is unequivocal.
The only way to dispel this effect is through a wish or divine intervention.
This divine intervention caused the Hojo regency to reconsider his punishment.
Clearly I discern their divine intervention in these extraordinary circumstances.
This judgment, these judicial or police gods, are utterly in contradiction with the primitive Buddhist conception of Kharma, according to which every action in itself implied the just and necessary retribution, without any divine intervention.
He wished, at that moment, he could have David Ben Ami's faith in divine intervention, but Ari was a realist.
They say that the old indunas decided to wait for the divine intervention of the spirits, to leave the road southwards open for the white men to leave Matabeleland and to sit upon their shields until these things come to pass.
Gerin said, which was both true and in large measure beside the point: when it took divine intervention to bring back what had been destroyed, the restoration was on the face of it worth seeing.
It had to be divine intervention, because that helped to keep everyone talking about safe subjects, like retrofitting the new location into what they'd need to survive in the future….
Nothing short of divine intervention could have given us such an opening.