Sentences with phrase «age story with»

The film merges Weissbrod's personal coming of middle age story with her pursuit of the truths behind the legends of Artemisia Gentileschi's meaningful art and dramatic life.

DeWoskin's novel evokes high school life with a kind of biting cynicism while it simultaneously offers a hopeful coming - of - age story with a performing arts setting that will appeal to fans of the television shows Fame and Glee.

By Ruth Reichl Random House • $ 16 • ISBN 9780812982022 In her delightful first novel, the former editor of Gourmet and author of the best - selling memoirs Tender at the Bone and Comfort Me with Apples combines a young food writer's coming - of - age story with an alluring World War II mystery.

A messy and mesmerizing coming - of - age story with an almost stream - of - consciousness flow, «American Honey» tags along with Star (stunning newcomer Sasha Lane) a poor, exploited teenager who regretfully leaves behind her younger siblings (and not so regretfully ditches her confusing array of no - good parental figures) in Muskogee and runs away to join a motley crew of disenfranchised youngsters selling magazines door to door.

Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig, 2017)-- a coming of age story with real depth, compassion, detail and insight; and finally

It's a coming - of - age story with a background of paranormal powers, clandestine conspiracies and a predatory world that enriches but never overwhelms the boy's story.

Though Lady Bird is a coming - of - age story with familiar tropes such as prom night and a disappointing first sexual experience, it's really a film about teenage aspiration.

«A Western with Michael Fassbender»; «A Coming - of - Age Story with Ethan Hawke» — these are descriptors to which people can relate to more easily than films that aren't so easily defined.

I was a great fan of Olivier Assayas» last film, Something in the Air, which gracefully elided a classic coming - of - age story with the student protests of 1968.

A young man coming of age story with the band The Clash and Joe Strummer.

In the last few years we've seen quite a few films that center around a coming of age story with a female character, directed by a female director.

First - time filmmaker Matt Sobel delivers a mysterious, tense coming - of - age story with Take Me to the River, a selection of the NEXT program in...

But after all this window dressing, it's a standard - issue coming - of - age story with the hero Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck) flip - flopping between the girl of his dreams, Stephanie (Olivia Thirlby) and his closest friend, his shrink Dr. Squires (Ben Kingsley, in yet another show - offy performance).

Warner Bros. has given Magic Mike a prime piece of summer real estate, setting up this coming - of - age story with a June 29th, 2012 release date.

A coming - of - age story with a difference, Persepolis follows Marjane as she grows from a feisty, Bruce Lee - loving little girl living in Iran at the time of the Islamic Revolution to a disaffected outsider (first in Austria and then back in the country of her birth), to a young woman who knows too well that freedom and adulthood have their price.

Critic Consensus: It's sentimental, and some viewers may feel manipulated by the melodramatic final act, but The Man in the Moon offers a finely drawn coming - of - age story with an excellent cast — including Reese Witherspoon in her film debut.

Critics Consensus: It's sentimental, and some viewers may feel manipulated by the melodramatic final act, but The Man in the Moon offers a finely drawn coming - of - age story with an excellent cast — including Reese Witherspoon in her film debut.

The graphic novels below tell elemental coming - of - age stories with plenty to offer older teen readers, so it's worth it to reconsider whether they belong exclusively on the adult shelves.

Not exact matches

In the age of social media, an employee or customer with a cell phone can be a company whistle - blower, choosing to trigger a media story and investigation.

Communicating with emojis, mobile videos and filtered snaps is a second language for teenagers, so they are perhaps the most intuitive age group for creating stories with mobile phones.

The Amazon Alexa stories, aimed at children aged 2 to 5 who play with Lego's Duplo building blocks, include The Plane Story and the The Rabbit Story.

(If you're still catching up on this story, start with this look at the whistleblower, via Ad Age's Simon Dumenco.)

In the age of social media, how do you ensure that customers share positive stories about interactions with your employees?

During his time with Ad Age, he has been recognized with the Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award for best range of work by a single author, as well as a Best in Business award for a feature story from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.

«Sometimes, lighter is better» Ad Age's E.J. Schultz looks at the back story on that Heineken campaign everyone's talking about, the one with an ad that Chance the Rapper branded «terribly racist,» where the tagline is «Sometimes, lighter is better.»

«The opioid epidemic is intertwined with the story of declining prime - age participation, especially for men, and this reinforces our doubts about a rebound in the participation rate,» Mericle said.

In the last 15 months, the 77 - year - old has taken positions in and then launched campaigns against 14 companies, a burst that has made him, at an age when he would have long been expected to fade away, the most disruptive individual in business, with a hand in almost every major corporate story in America.

He also used science fiction and children's stories as literary bridges to explore age - old questions about sin, forgiveness, and reconciliation with God.

It's a lot harder, nearly impossible, to infect people with religious stories AFTER they have reached the age of reason.

While many of the news stories about this report focused on figures showing a tendency for numbers of religious believers to increase with age, the figures also showed the overall percentage of religious believers declined in most countries, showing an increase in only three:

Whereas Blankets is a vulnerable coming - of - age and into - doubt story, Habibi» while still a bildungsroman» delves further into the muck of adulthood and back into religion, this time with less hesitation.

As the organization grew, Johnson felt a hunger to step out and share his story with people who are uncertain, or ex-Christ-followers, struggling with belief in an age where evangelicalism seems to have given up its core values in the name of bringing alleged child molester, Roy Moore, into the Senate.

it's in buildings like these that children are systematically mentally abused as parents and priests brainwash them with bronze age fairy stories and the threat of eternal fire and torment if they don't believe.

For my own children, in this video - gaming age, what those fictional children get away with is simply unimaginable, except as the stories themselves seed the imagination, and the lives of the characters work their way into the life of the real child, enlarging that child's world.

It wasn't just about the subject matter — although it's tricky to write about such a tender and intimate time in a person's life, to tell your own story while still holding space for stories that are so different than your own, to attempt to shepherd people well in the liminal spaces of their faith journeys — but it was also just the season of life with being pregnant with our fourth and then giving birth and suddenly having four tinies between the ages of 9 and newborn meant I had a lot less time with a lot less energy (and even less sleep!)

Hauerwas and the other essayists are on firmer ground when they write of the importance of holding on to the Christian story, which gives meaning to individual stories and provides «rich resources to make possible friendship between the elderly and, perhaps most important, becoming and remaining friends with ourselves as we age.»

Such chronicles have always been fraught with ambiguity and the possibility of misinterpretation, however, and such reckonings have generally been disapproved by the church; Origen and Augustine, among many others, both argued that many of the ages chronicled in the OT are simply of unknowable length, and went on to note that the «days» of the creation story simply can not be «days» in the ordinary sense of the term as the sun isn't created until the fourth «day».

No less than other stories in the Jacob cycle, it reflects the background of the patriarchal age — frictions between groups (Hamor and Jacob); a level of sexual morality beyond the reach of our judgment and in any judgment ennobled by the integrity of Hamor and the love of his son for Dinah; the effort on the part of both families to effect a peaceful settlement honoring the religious sensibilities of the abused; the despicable violation of the terms of agreement by two of Jacob's sons; and finally, in perfect consonance with the general character of Jacob, his sharp rebuke of his sons not on moral but on utilitarian grounds:

you do that, personally I'm going with the scientists with the Phds, over stories written by stone age man.

The next decade found Scorsese expanding into directing studio remakes (The Color of Money, Cape Fear) along with passion projects (The Last Temptation of Christ and Age of Innocence), while returning to the stories of criminals in the heralded epics of Goodfellas and Casino.

religious people are some of the smartest people in the world but they still believe in a magical sky fairy and in the wors of a bronze age story book written by goat herders with no concept of science.

How then can you believe a book that is so patently foolish and so obviously a product of bronze age folk with little or no knowledge of the world and so full of inconsistencies and laughably foolish scenarios and notably misogynistic and brutal and racist and intolerant stories?

Then in the juxtaposition of those stories with our stories there leaps the spark of the Spirit, illuminating parallels and contrasts, to give us the grace to see our age in God's light and God's truth in our words.

Are you saying that you no longer have any problem with evolution, the big bang theory, radio carbon dating, the age of the Earth, the scientific unlikelihood of the great flood, and the archeological evidence against the chronology of the bible story?

I will not bore you with my conversion story at age 33, but it had absolutely nothing to do with anyone talking to me about God, Jesus, or the Bible.

If you are educated and living in the 21st century, how then can you believe a book that is so patently foolish and so obviously a product of bronze age folk with little or no knowledge of the world and so full of inconsistencies and laughably foolish scenarios and notably misogynistic and brutal and racist and intolerant stories?

While his separatist understanding of the church - world relationship leads to a lack of concern with the intelligibility of the Christian story for our age, we have seen that Hauerwas» understanding is essentialist.

Time to just admit that it is a collection of stories and opinions written by men (obviously) with a bronze age mentality and understanding of the world.

And to hundreds of millions the most radiant day of all the bright and dark days in the story of mankind is that which saw his birth — no wonder an earlier and more imaginative age made it a day of weird unearthly beauty, when a strange star hung low above the city of David and a multitude of angels broke with sudden glory the silence of the dawn.

The result would be a rather full historical reconstruction of events beginning with historical patriarchs and tracking the Bible story through Solomon's Golden Age and beyond.