He directed the films Zapata: The Dream of a Hero, Like Water for Chocolate ( adapted from the novel written by his ex-wife Laura Esquivel ), A Walk in the Clouds with Keanu Reeves and Anthony Quinn, and the Hallmark Hall of Fame production A Painted House, adapted from the John Grisham novel of the same name.

Like several other stars such as Denebola and Deneb, it is named for the Arabic word for " tail " ( deneb ); its traditional name means " the tail of the kid ".

The name Cuāuhtemōc ( Nahuatl pronunciation: ) means " One That Has Descended Like an Eagle ", commonly rendered in English as " Descending Eagle " as in the moment when an eagle folds its wings and plummets down to strike its prey, so this is a name that implies aggressiveness and determination.

Like the name of the group of gods to which Freyja belongs, the Vanir, the name Freyja is not attested outside of Scandinavia, as opposed to the name of the goddess Frigg, who is attested as a goddess common among all Germanic peoples, and whose name is reconstructed as Proto-Germanic * Frijjō.

Like many other colors ( orange, rose, and violet are the best-known ), indigo gets its name from an object in the natural world — the plant named indigo once used for dyeing cloth ( see also Indigo dye ).

* The name of a physician who becomes the protagonist's fiancée in Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate

Molokans themselves did not completely reject the name — even adding words like " drinking of the spiritual milk of God " ( according to I Peter 2: 2, " Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation ").

In the 1980s, Crowe, going under the name of " Russ le Roq ", recorded a song titled " I Want To Be Like Marlon Brando ".

Like the gram and the kilogram, the tonne gave rise to a ( now obsolete ) force unit of the same name, the tonne-force, equivalent to about 9. 8 kilonewtons: a unit also often called simply " tonne " or " metric ton " without identifying it as a unit of force.

In an unpublished memoir, Mars later explained the band's choice of name: " Like maybe the main act doesn't show, and instead the crowd has to settle for an earful of us dirtbags.

Like the Great Bear, the tail of the Little Bear may also be seen as the handle of a ladle, hence the name Little Dipper.

Like many elements in Belgian folklore, this is mainly based on the French " La Marseillaise " which is also both an anthem and the name of a monument-the sculptural group Departure of the Volunteers of 1792, commonly called " La Marseillaise ", at the base of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

Like cellulose, chitin is an abundant biopolymer that is relatively resistant to degradation .< ref name = Akaki1 > It is typically not digested by animal, though certain fish are able to digest chitin.

Like Miller, the Creedence and Axton lyrics probably use the word " Kalamazoo " as an oblique reference to Gibson Guitars, which made various models named " Kalamazoo ", all prominently adorned with the city's name as their origin.

Like the United States the requirements for a formal name change varies from province to province.

Like most of the legendarium's characters, Varda has a different name in each of Tolkien's invented languages.

Like other radio services, satellite radio also transmits program-associated data ( PAD or metadata ), with the artist and title of each song or program and possibly the name of the channel.

Like its male counterpart, the given name Julia had been in use throughout Late Antiquity ( e. g. Julia of Corsica ) but became rare during the Middle Ages, and was revived only with the Italian Renaissance.

Like knights, baronets use the style " Sir " before their Christian name.

Like many other figures in Greek and Roman mythology, Plutus ' name is related to several English words.

Like the words " acetaminophen " and " paracetamol ", the brand name is derived from the chemical name for the compound, N-acetyl-para-aminophenol ( APAP ).

Like Napoleon, he was the worst of losers.

Like his volume on Wycliffe, the work was accompanied by the publication of a selected group of documents, in this case illustrative of the history of Queen Anne's reign down to 1707.

Like all Russians he was an emotional man, and in him the emotions warred.

Like the bell at Mass, the doorbell was pitched too high.

Like a particle drawn to a magnet he returned to that which was pressing so hard in his mind.

Like Eliot, in my fantasies, I had a proud bearing and, with a skill that was vaguely continental, I would lead Jessica through an evening of dancing and handsome descriptions of my newest exploits, would guide her gently to the night's climax which, in my dreams, was always represented by our almost suffocating one another to death with deep, moist kisses burning with love.

Like many others, he had to work hard, long hours in a struggling family business which, though it was allied to art of a kind -- the design and production of engraved seals -- bore no relation to the painting of pictures.

Like a wise gardener, Hardy pruned away the Shakespearian sonnets and songs, and the elements of meter and poetic diction to which his personal style was not suited, and let the main stock of his talent flourish.

Like many regular army officers from the South he was opposed to secession, but resigned his commission soon after he heard of the secession of his adopted state Texas.

Like Achilles in a later generation, he was trained by the centaur Chiron.

Like Emerson, Alcott was always optimistic, idealistic, and individualistic in thinking.

Like the historical Absalom, Absalom Kumalo was at odds with his father, the two fighting a moral and ethical battle of sorts over the course of some of the novel's most important events.

Like his father, Alboin was raised a pagan, although Audoin had at one point attempted to gain Byzantine support against his neighbours by professing himself a Catholic.

Like other children of the rich Meccan merchant families, Abu Bakr was literate and developed a fondness for poetry.

Like many ancient historians, Ammianus had a strong political and religious agenda to pursue, however, and he contrasted Constantius II with Julian to the former's constant disadvantage ; like all ancient writers he was skilled in rhetoric, and this shows in his work.

" Like his brother Baldwin III, he was more of an academic than a warrior, who studied law and languages in his leisure time: " He was well skilled in the customary law by which the kingdom was governed – in fact, he was second to no one in this respect.

Like his mother, neither he nor Christine sought a divorce for the next thirty years and it was only in 1997 that they formally divorced ; Ayckbourn married Heather Stoney.

Like the BBC Micro, the Electron was constrained by limited memory resources.

Like the previous, this Aeolus was said to have had had twelve children-six sons and six daughters.

In 2010, the Australian a cappella Quartet The Idea of North was nominated for an ARIA for their seventh studio album, " Feels Like Spring ", bringing a cappella music back into pop culture.

Like all early Germanic rulers, he was heavily involved in ecclesiastical disputes ; in 895, at the Diet of Tribur, he presided over a dispute between the Episcopal sees of Bremen, Hamburg and Cologne over jurisdictional authority, which saw Bremen and Hamburg remain a combined see, independent of the see of Cologne.