Sentences with phrase «narrators of stories of»

Maguire's work is difficult to accomplish, and as Ed Vulliamy of The Guardian of London has observed, «Narrators of stories of this kind, if they care, have a fear of exploiting grief as they walk the high wire between narrative and voyeurism.»

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It moves the story forward, but highlights the humor and absurdity of what the drunk narrator is saying.»

The narrator tells a story of Sharon and Russ who put their life savings into two tiny technology stocks.

In Edwin A. Abbott's story Flatland, A Romance of Many Dimensions, the two - dimensional square narrator encounters a three - dimensional sphere that changes his perception of reality.

Although going up the mountain, as the narrator stressed twice, «they went both of them together,» at the end of the story, the narrator reports pointedly, «Abraham returned unto his youths, and they rose up and went together to Beer - sheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beer - sheba» (22:19; emphasis added).

In «King Billy Is a Gentleman,» an early story of Mantel's that covers some of the same ground as her memoir, the narrator learns of this neighbor boy's death from a yellowed newspaper clipping.

Bercier, however, defends the university as the primary narrator of the American story, at least in part, because that story is exceptional, and permits America «to be and stand in the world» as a matter of «right and duty».

In what is ostensibly a coming - of - age story, the narrator never really shows psychological development.

As our narrators told the story of what we did in our group, we pulled out basins, towels and jars of water and washed one another's feet.

The narrator tells the story of his life as a barber living in the mid-2Oth century in a tiny Kentucky town called Port William.

For to all the other arts and skills of the Hebrew narrator the story of Joseph adds two qualities that lift it into the class of modern story - telling.

The narrator is using them as the recipients of the divine message so that the reader of the story may hear the vital message, viz, that Jesus is risen.

It was important to establish the fact that they knew who was crucified and where he was buried, before their discovery of an empty tomb could be of any significance, but the narrator has introduced these references in such a way as not to disturb the already existing forms both of the Passion narrative and of the burial story.

This is a fact that the narrator of the discovery story was certainly aware of when he knew that not even several women could have rolled it away.

It is not a double narrator, a double subject of the word that we need to think about, but a double actant and consequently a double object of the story.

It is not surprising that the man who wrote a pseudo-review about a nonexistent book, a man who spent three years writing a biweekly on foreign books and authors, should write «Pierre Menard,» a story (composed in the form of an obituary) whose narrator is the reviewer of a nonexistent author's life works.

What I didn't realize until years later is that I actually loved the story and the writing itself, I simply hated Nick, the narrator, who in my mind takes the passive stance of the casual observer when he could have intervened.

But when they are challenged because of their disobedience they respond, to the great delight of every narrator and hearer of the tale throughout the history of Israel, in the competitive key in which the whole story is played: You've asked the impossible!

The narrator of the sermon on love observes near the outset that the story of the Prodigal Son is a «simple little story.»

For example, both employ some of the devices Suleiman discusses for creating an identification between the audience and either the narrator or characters in the story.

One of the most beloved holiday traditions at Epcot, the Candlelight Processional, inspires guests and instills the Christmas spirit through the retelling of the Christmas story by celebrity narrators, accompanied by a masterful orchestra and choir, Disney says.

Narrator and actor Sergio Castellitto («Don't Move,» 2004; «The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian,» 2008; «Twice Born,» 2012), is a symbol of Italy's tradition of fine filmmaking, expertly revealing the secret of the young Luigi Lavazza and telling the story of an Italian who is full of curiosity and courage.

The Boss Baby is a hilariously universal story about how a new baby's arrival impacts a family, told from the point of view of a delightfully unreliable narrator, a wildly imaginative 7 year old named Tim.

Grandma is the narrator of this cute story about love.

In the story, the narrator follows the movements of the hummingbird.

Voeterg, Julie I AM A HOMESCHOOLER Albert Whitman & Company, 1995 The narrator of this story is a nine - year - old homeschooler.

Several stories are fantastical, darkly magical: the humorous «Talk of the Town», where Daventry speaks to the youthful narrator and «Happy Hour», in which an ancient power, now dwelling in an air extractor fan in a country pub, becomes hungry.

This is the story of a very slow death of the narrator.

In A Soldier's Sweetheart, adapted from a story by Vietnam - vet writer Tim O'Brien, he played the narrator of the flashbacks, in 1998.

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There's a narrator, but only to deliver a couple of lines at the very beginning, and it's Anthony Sadler, introducing what is mostly Spencer Stone's story.

And even then, it's not that we're intended to laugh so much as we're meant to see the deployment of bleak humor by the narrators of their own stories as a way to distance oneself from things too terrible to consider full on.

The story isn't really innovative; unreliable narrators abound, as a tale of murder and mayhem is unveiled, little by little.

The narrator of the story helps to keep the player tuned into what is happening in the world around them.

But, as the narrator of the 1960s Batman TV Show used to say at the start of each second episode of the two - part stories: The worst is yet to come.

A narrator (Richard McGonagle) tells us the story of two young lovers, Tom (Joseph Gordon - Levitt) and Summer (Zooey Deschanel).

The finale of the story is largely upbeat, but then we are back dragged back through time, through literary devices, through narrators, interpretations and dreamworlds and back into the snow - swept reality of the girl stood alone, clutching the hotel key.

The film features country singer Travis Tritt as the narrator of the story and Olan Rogers plays Walt Disney, who doesn't a decent job in the role.

No less important, this film relies on a variety of storytelling devices and narrative forms, such as narrative painting, the gothic tale, the incest story, the letter, the dream, the flashback, the omniscient narrator, and the horizontal wipe.

Where Annihilation was told from the first person perspective of the Biologist, Authority jumps out to the third person for Control, telling a broader story that helps to put Annihilation into a bit more context, revealing that Annihilation is a good demonstration of an unreliable narrator — of course, how reliable can a narrator in a place such as Area X be?

As in The Magnificent Ambersons — another of Baumbach's movie models that has an impersonal narrator — the seeds of the story are planted in the opening moments: we're told that Lester (played as an adult by Eric Stoltz) becomes obsessed with the previous sex lives of all his subsequent girlfriends.

This is rather precious, to be sure, but blurring the lines between stories and narrators, or between the story on the page and the written material itself, is an element of storytelling that grabs me every time, and I was charmed immediately.

But what initially seems to be just a literary framing device, tying the film we're about to see to A.A. Milne's original tales, turns out to be a much more involved conceit, as Pooh and the other characters talk back to the narrator and the actual words on the page of the book often become part of the story.

The titular antihero is a narrator of sorts of his own story, repeatedly addressing the camera directly Ferris Bueller - style (showing off a cloudy contact lens McKellen worn on his left eye).

Whilst protagonists and omnipresent observers are often placed in the role of the narrator in cinema, few features cast an injured feline as the guiding voice of the story.

Aaron Taylor - Johnson returns as the movie's main hero and the narrator of the story.

The narrator is a famous scribe named Fong, and he'll tell us the story of how he briefly became a part of a story about this wuxia world.

The film is animated, which allows for a stronger emotional pull to the story, while not sacrificing the incredible openness of the narrator.

In the case of Wuthering Heights the main body of the story, told in flashback, is filtered through the consciousness of two very square and relatively uncomprehending individuals — the narrator, Mr. Lockwood, and a nurse called Nelly Dean — so its romantic fury is supplied to a large degree by the imagination of the reader.

In Rome - occupied Jerusalem circa 25 A.D., Judah Ben - Hur (Jack Huston), a Jewish prince, and his adopted brother Messala Severus (Toby Kebbell), who is of Roman heritage, have formed a bond, which — our trusty narrator informs us, as the narration does in the early stages of the story to hasten things forward — could signal unification.