Sentences with phrase «great narrative story»

They enjoy a great narrative story telling aspect but felt that a more needed emphasis on gameplay was also a necessity progressing forward.

Great narrative story written by a Canadian.

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Great CEOs are consistent in the stories they tell, framing their companies» core narratives to connect authentically with different audiences.

For all the great tools available to consumers to enjoy seeing an on - screen narrative, you'd expect that designers for theaters would have a better idea of the consumer's story along their online path to purchase.

The narrative of Epiphany is the story of these two human communities: Jerusalem, with its great pretensions, and Bethlehem, with its modest promises.

Its narratives Contain many echoes of the stories in Mark and some of those which occur in Luke, and the evangelist has modified and added to the earlier traditions (his Gospel is generally agreed to be the latest of the four) in such a way as to make them the vehicle for a great body of deep religious truth.

In some of the greatest historical narratives of the Bible the specifically religious element is quite in the background and the secular human interest is to the fore; for example, in the moving story of David and Absalom.

If through greater sensitivity to its stories a local church better discerns its constitution and mission, the effort of narrative analysis will have a significant result.

The stories from the hand of this great ninth century writer are rapidly - moving narrative, but they are more.

It is worth saying of this god that its first storytellers — Descartes, Bacon, Galileo, Kepler, and Newton, for example — did not think of their story as a replacement for the great Judeo - Christian narrative but as an extension of it.

Indeed (to turn to the second question) it has been proposed that the story of Ruth came into existence chiefly as a genealogical narrative — to preserve or comment upon the ancestry of King David: Ruth is David's great - grandmother (4:17; it is the fuller genealogical table of 4:18 - 22 that appears alien and secondary to the original story).

That is to say, a great deal of new material is introduced into the narrative by both Matthew and Luke, but at the end of a lengthy section of new material the story usually is taken up again where it was left off, and follows the Marcan order.

«That's rolled out in 25 countries and we hear really great stories and narratives on what people are doing.

Weaving a selection of facts into a simple story that builds into a grand moral narrative that speaks to his greater vision.

The story is told in great part by cinematic video sequences and ingame narrative sequences, and while these are fantastic in many ways they can also become a bit tedious.

But these drawbacks are more than offset by the riveting narrative, the outstanding lead cast and a seamless weaving of the greater historical context into the ongoing story.

Impressive visuals and great production design are unfortunately overshadowed by a convoluted plot that struggles to depict its story - a narrative that starts strong but deteriorates as it attempts to balance too many emotional stakes for its own good while including one (or two) too many scenes that unintentionally call attention to itself.

would be great, but as a story that's going to keep you engaged and awake, it fails on every narrative level.

But while the movie's gorgeous visuals do a great job of portraying the distressed state of the town and its characters, Green fails to deliver a compelling story, instead opting for a non-linear narrative that lacks focus or coherency.

Callahan's story is pretty great — and his cartoons can be bleak as f*ck but they're funny — and it's a good counterpoint to the usual disability narrative that we see, which is that a spinal cord injury is the end of all things.

So a story within a story plays out and yet this detailed, layered and sprawling narrative has a lightness of touch thanks to its great sense of humour and Anderson's passionate hand.

Whilst story-wise, it stops short of the best narrative led games like Heavy Rain (or dare I say LA Noire, which story wise is a great achievement), it's a solidly enjoyable storyline which seems to have some thought put into it.

Ross does sometimes struggle to tell Newton Knight's story in the two - plus - hour narrative — his first wife, Serena, comes and goes in the story — so the brief subplot regarding his great - grandson, Davis Knight, raises some pacing and structural problems.

Fuqua's greatest contribution is his pacing, not allowing the narrative to slack and feel boring, while consistently pushing the story forward.

This enlightening eavesdropping is a great delivery method for the story because it not only makes you feel as though you are outsmarting your opponents, but it also keeps your discovery of the storyline feeling more natural and less like you're being beat over the head with the game's narrative.

Partly because there will never be a greater horse race in narrative film than the one in The Black Stallion, but mostly because Seabiscuit knew that the race wasn't really the point, it was the underdog story of this little horse.

So narrative gravity is very much a force in the January 17 - premiering ACS, and despite a vivid aesthetic reminiscent of the slain fashion designer's work — and some great performances from a cast led by Edgar Ramirez, Darren Criss, Penelope Cruz, Ricky Martin, Judith Light and Jon Jon Briones — the second installment of Ryan Murphy - and Nina Jacobson - executive produced anthology series simply doesn't have enough story to justify its length, as I say in my video review above.

It's even got some great thematic nuggets in there about the romantic nature by which we view the past (as evidenced by the nested narrative of flashbacks and stories, with the outer layer being literally the Death of the Author), and the cold - hearted and ruthless nature of war.

I didn't really expect a deep narrative, but it would have been a great opportunity to flesh out the story more and add more to the lore of what is happening on SR388.

(T) ERROR unfolds with the narrative kick of a great TV show — perhaps Homeland, which Shariff recommends to his mark, in a moment of comical fecklessness — but Cabral and Sutcliffe also make startling moral and ethical choices that shape the story they're telling.

The potentially great performances by the cast remained untapped because the story's narrative never rose to the emotional heights that the subject matter demanded.

Delicately adapted from Willy Vlautin's 2010 novel, it follows classical narrative arcs of both the coming - of - age story and the great American road movie, yet with precious little of the romanticism and sentimentality that tends to accompany them: Haigh, rather like his stoic protagonist, keeps his eye quietly and pragmatically on the destination.

If you're a neophyte (like me) to the story who is still going to give this a go as your introduction, just know that this quality production delivers the essence of a beloved work, but not the narrative grit, glamour and gusto; it's a respectable effort, but, chances are, great expectations won't be met.

«Genital Jousting's story mode is the greatest narrative ever created for the medium of video games.

«Sundance has truly great mentors from around the world who helped me explore a multitude of perspectives to my story, while also keeping the narrative strongly rooted within an Indian perspective.»

A game jam is a great opportunity to teach fundamentals of game design, from story line and narrative to the actual mechanics.

Uccelli and Paez found that, on average, first - grade English narrative quality scores were higher among children who, at kindergarten scored higher on the English vocabulary test, used a greater number of distinct words in their English narrative, and had higher story structure scores on their Spanish narrative.

Her book, The Story of Science, published by Smithsonian Books, is the first of a six - part narrative series about the evolution of scientific thought and some of the great minds of science.

The produced serious game was based on a collection of «sea stories» illustrating real - life leadership challenges and included a healthy combination of narrative, challenge, meaningful choice, achievement, and other great elements of gameplay.

«There's some great research that helps us see that young people, even when they've experienced traumatic events, if they have a sense of their family narrative, their family story, that can help them develop some resilience and some ability to move forward through those marginalized feelings.»

It curates news stories from all over the internet and has a great blend of short and long narratives.

Personal and passionate, Giovanni's short narrative talks about the sacred songs first sung by slaves, tracing how people in bondage created the great spirituals to tell their stories, and what the songs (presented in full at the end of the book) still mean to us today.

The Great Northern Express is the story of how, as I traveled from coast to coast and border to border in the summer of my sixty - fifth year, two journeys seemed to meld into the narrative of one writer's search, in his life and work, for the true meaning of home.

Brilliantly conceived, gorgeously written, this mesmerizing narrative, a free imaginative rendering of the lives of New York's fabled Collyer brothers, is a family story with the resonance of myth, an astonishing masterwork unlike any that have come before from this great writer.

From Pulitzer Prize - winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty - first century's great, unequal cities.

The Pulitzer Prize - winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure young German princess who traveled to Russia at fourteen and rose to become one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating women in history.

«Byliner's mission is to bring readers great stories by great writers, and we're thrilled to be collaborating with The New York Times on this series of original narratives,» said John Tayman, Byliner's founder and CEO, in the statement.»

Consider your narrative personal story essay as a bargain with your professor and you are going to get great dividends in the shape of an A + grade.

And so I think that linear narrative, where somebody has really put a lot of work into guiding us along in a great story — a great storyteller, that's what they do.

I can craft stories as long as I wish (for instance: the first The 33 adventure is a four - part story, to accommodate the high stakes, larger - than - life narrative), or as short as I wish (one - shots are great for smaller, more contained tales).