Sentences with phrase «actual setting of the story»

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Indeed, it might plausibly be argued that the essential and universal meaning of this ancient story can be grasped most profoundly only when the story is set free from any connection with an actual occurrence in time and space.

The story is much the same as in past games: you're stuck in a zombie - infested city, under threat by weapons of mass destruction that will hit in a set number of days (though, that's really handled by chapter progression now and not an actual countdown).

The main location was an actual house from the 1890s that had been built into the side of a hill, providing the perfect setting for a story in which the hard - scrabble pioneer lifestyle is central to character motivations.

Setting the stage is what you do in the first reel of a movie, not for the first 99 minutes before you take us to the actual story.

Set between the two World Wars and inspired by actual events, «Bitter Harvest» is the first major dramatic film to convey the untold story of the Holodomor, the genocidal famine engineered by Joseph Stalin that killed millions in Ukraine.

Not much has been said about the actual story, though we can expect river - set action and some comedy, with Variety ferreting out that the team want to channel the spirit of 1951 adventure drama The African Queen, which starred Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn.

While stand - ins did a fairly great job in past Play Sets and do so for other characters in «Toy Story in Space», having the actual voice actors for these two characters adds a certain sense of authenticity that simply can't be beaten.

Half of the film is presented dialogue - free like a silent movie with a lovely score by Carter Burwell, including most of the story set in 1927 which follows a girl named Rose who is played by an actual deaf actor named Millicent Simmonds.

The actual story of Captain America lurches a bit from set piece to set piece, and its third act — like so many of Marvel's third acts — is a mess.

The remaining extras on the packed second disc are skewed toward the younger set: a «Disneypedia» nature segment on actual forest animals; a read - along story with Thumper; eight set - top games; and, rather horrifyingly, a look at the making of a forthcoming straight - to - video follow - up, Bambi and the Great Prince of the Forest.

It's an eye - popping art extravaganza, with Anderson's detailed sets devoted to actual mountains of trash, as most of the story takes place on an actual trash island.

Usually this amounts to story expediency, minor historical details are modified to make for a more compelling narrative, as is the case in, say, The Lion in Winter, which depicts a family gathering of the Plantagenet nobility that likely never took place but that nonetheless sets an effective the stage for exploring the actual conflicts and interactions within that remarkable family.

While stories and games set in the outdoors can be both great fun and full of material for learning, the simple fact is that virtual reality (as yet) is unable to compete with actual reality.

«I created a cosmos of my own,» William Faulkner said about Yoknapatawpha County, the setting for most of his novels and short stories, patterned upon his actual home in Lafayette County, Mississippi.

Is the magic — whether the sense of magic, or actual magic — limited to the part of the story set in 16th century Venice setting, or is it in the...

It was actually very fun that the serene British countryside setting at the beginning lulled the reader into a shocking sense of false security about where the story was heading, with the greatest problems being a young and shamefully unwed mother in the family and whether to break with convention by calling the cook by her actual name rather than her household position.

If you should decide to write a novel about a topic you know almost nothing about, a scholarly discipline requiring years to master, if you feel compelled to set the story in a land you've scarcely visited, during an era you can only dimly conjure from childhood reading and yellowed clippings, if you have followed your hyperactive and petulant imagination down a rabbit hole and there gazed at glowing, magical projections of inverted pyramids and pith - helmeted lunatics and pharaohs with unconventional appetites, but found little by way of actual knowledge, rest easy, because at the British Museum you will make a new friend: an expert who not only knows everything, but who is required — yes, required — to answer all your e-questions, no matter how many, how foolish, how wrong - headed, fantastic, or...

The actual meat of the story — the characters and settings — are almost without fault, though.

But they did, and by making the reservation and tribe itself a central part of the story — part of a story set in the real Washington — they made the decision to involve the cultural specifics of an actual people.

The setting and story hits all the marks of catching interest, but playing through the actual campaign doesn't really give any sort of satisfaction if you're playing it for a story.

If you use actual stories to provide that sense of «touch» in the otherwise antiseptic environment of the Web, you'll set yourself apart in a most profound and human way.