the Son
noun
: the second person of the Trinity in the Christian religion : Jesus Christ
the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit
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In his breakout year of 1985, Trebor appeared as a reporter in Woody Allen’s The Purple Rose of Cairo, as a copy boy in Bob Clark’s Turk 182 and as the Son of Sam (real name: David Berkowitz) in the TV movie Out of the Darkness.
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Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 4 Apr. 2025
To help set the film apart from other Holocaust dramas, Geller took the Son of Saul and Zone of Interest approach by leaving much of the concentration camp atrocities to the imagination of the viewer.
—Josh Weiss, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
Another theologian noted that, if true, this would make the Son of God functionally a eunuch.
—S. C. Cornell, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2025
In February, the Son Jarocho Music Festival celebrates Mexico’s folkloric music style in the eastern city of Veracruz.
—Meagan Drillinger, AFAR Media, 22 Jan. 2025
Their conversation points to the poem’s second radical choice: God and the Son are neither identical nor coexistent.
—Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
Just a buggy ride or three-minute walk away, the Son Antem golf club boasts two high-quality 18-hole courses: the East Course and the West Course.
—Shea Peters, Travel + Leisure, 30 Dec. 2024
Across most denominations and traditions, Christians believe in the Holy Spirit – part of the Holy Trinity, together with God the Father and Jesus Christ, the Son.
—Dara Delgado, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2024
How could the Son of God take up residence in a life as unkempt and scandalous as mine?
—Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
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Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 4 Apr. 2025
To help set the film apart from other Holocaust dramas, Geller took the Son of Saul and Zone of Interest approach by leaving much of the concentration camp atrocities to the imagination of the viewer.
—Josh Weiss, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
Another theologian noted that, if true, this would make the Son of God functionally a eunuch.
—S. C. Cornell, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2025
In February, the Son Jarocho Music Festival celebrates Mexico’s folkloric music style in the eastern city of Veracruz.
—Meagan Drillinger, AFAR Media, 22 Jan. 2025
Their conversation points to the poem’s second radical choice: God and the Son are neither identical nor coexistent.
—Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
Just a buggy ride or three-minute walk away, the Son Antem golf club boasts two high-quality 18-hole courses: the East Course and the West Course.
—Shea Peters, Travel + Leisure, 30 Dec. 2024
Across most denominations and traditions, Christians believe in the Holy Spirit – part of the Holy Trinity, together with God the Father and Jesus Christ, the Son.
—Dara Delgado, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2024
How could the Son of God take up residence in a life as unkempt and scandalous as mine?
—Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
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