Sentences with phrase «around good narrative»

I found this book to be entertaining, to the point and an all around good narrative of dating online.

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You could pick any single data point that aligns with your current positioning and build your narrative around it to make yourself feel better about your investment stance.

The most expensive and technically ambitious film ever made, James Cameron's long - gestating epic pitting Earthly despoilers against a forest - dwelling alien race delivers unique spectacle, breathtaking sights, narrative excitement and an overarching anti-imperialist, back - to - nature theme that will play very well around the world, and yet is rather ironic coming from such a technology - driven picture.

«Apple has found a narrative revolving around capital allocation,» analyst Neil Cybart, whose well - regarded Above Avalon newsletter focuses on Apple, wrote last month.

If you don't have a good business then you can't really afford to go out and get the best players, unless you just want to rely on other sources of income» Stan Kroenke I like how it's chopped up, to suit someone's false narrative and passed around as truth.

On the whole, across party, it tends to be very good as a space for internal party politics (especially party organisation issues like all women shortlists or primaries), for broad political narrative and argument (what should Labour), personalities and reactive left - right politics around major headline news events, and for some other specific political issues (challenging the far right is a good example).

Marching around saying it's «bullshit» whilst our politicians tour their constituencies in stab - proof vests, our bankers screw society for personal gain, our teachers describe classrooms as battlegrounds, our towns and parks have become no - go zones most evenings, our social workers come across the most appalling instances of abuse, just to name but a few of the most obvious examples - well, I think you need to produce a little more than some statistics and a bit of bad language to turn the narrative around.

The Foreign Office also received an award for this job advert, informing candidates that the role involves: «Maintenance and development of job narrative around FCO and its value proposition, using insights from research and evaluation as well as knowledge of the evolving FCO strategy to inform resonant messaging.»

Take the sex expert who talked about her issue with people who text and ask her if she's OK (fear: she's not a good enough friend) and the comedian who has an issue with the word «narrative» (fear: he's not as sophisticated as the people around him).

When a major publisher expressed interest in re-releasing Deep Nutrition, that was very exciting because it gave me an opportunity to put all the science around nutrition that's come out since the original was published into the context of that larger story, to grow the story into an even bigger and better narrative.

The original Anchorman was not exactly a well - oiled narrative machine — recall that its plot revolved around the birth of some panda bears at the San Diego Zoo.

Su Rynard's feature, with its episodic overview of various interconnected issues around the globe, lacks the unifying emotional and narrative involvement of the best nature documentaries.

The narrative deftly mixes the day to day stories of the characters as well as themes around death and what it means to come back as a ghost.

Though the narrative shares some obvious similarities with the three - act structure of the first movie, «Catching Fire» is superior in just about every way, including stronger, emotionally - charged performances from Lawrence and Hutcherson and better character development for the other tributes, who are more than just numbers and faces this time around.

Its central theme (the danger inherent in our fears) isn't explored all that well, and the central character, Newt (Eddie Redmayne) isn't interesting enough to build a narrative around.

It isn't that Best Picture hasn't always been mostly dominated by male narratives — it's that the strong female - driven movies started to fail to catch fire at the box - office around the mid-90s and once that happened, there has never been much of an economic incentive to get those films made.

These elements are all incorporated within the pulpy narrative, which unfolds with satisfying precision, anchored by a well - constructed script from veteran novelist Lehane, stylish direction from Belgian import Michaël Roskam, and strong performances all around.

This year, the best narrative feature category sees 12 films battling it out for the prestigious prize, while 12 documentaries from around the word will compete to be named best documentary feature.

The narrative basics are there, but this time around, they're rather well - embedded in compelling visuals, hints of drama and loads of action.

For a movie revolving around two plane crash survivors traipsing through snow covered mountains in order to survive, probably not a good idea to take the cliché of «falling off a cliff» so gosh darn literal where it came to the story's more supercilious narrative constructs.

In combining this «straight» Western, with what remains unsaid in the Oedipal narrative Red River shifts from being just a fine genre piece or one of Hawks» better works, into something constituted by a series of intensities collocating around certain moments.

In an effort to address concerns on accountability, the UNCF, National Urban League and Education Post recently released a report Building Better Narratives in Black Education focusing on better engaging communities around K - 12 education and driving substantive policy chBetter Narratives in Black Education focusing on better engaging communities around K - 12 education and driving substantive policy chbetter engaging communities around K - 12 education and driving substantive policy changes.

Third, I have concerns about common narratives around recruiting the «best and brightest» through some alternative certification programs.

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And that's really it for the narrative; Max wanders the wasteland doing favors for the various big bosses scattered around the place so that he has somewhere to hide out and build up his new car, but there's no overarching plot except for the fact that Max has somewhere he wants to go, and to get there he needs a good ride.

«Hack and slash games tend to not do so well in Europe, so the narrative this time around will make a big difference.

«Huge worlds» and «narrative depth» are apparently major parts of the game, which might well tempt a few nonplussed PS3 owners into sticking around on the somewhat under - featured social platform.

As great as the online competition was, however, considering the narrative revolves around three best friends, it sure does feel like campaign co-op not being included was a missed opportunity.

Items can help the narrative when they really change things around and have impact on the story and the gameworld itself (Gravity Gun in HL2 is a good example).

Competing with The Vanishing of Ethan Carter and This War of Mine for Best Narrative is 80 Days by Inkle Studios, an interactive adventure that takes the player around the world in 80 days.

This might make sense for the narrative, since you aren't playing as Samus, but it didn't make moving around feel good.

Now if you handed me Watch Dogs 2 with a true focus on manipulation and control over the city as you ran freeform around this slick environment with better narrative, a stronger focus and an enjoyable character.

Best - in - class vocal performances (especially from a certain surprise someone) propel the narrative heavy affair, and free - roaming around a spectacularly realized next - gen version of Gotham City is a Batman fan's dream - come - true.

The usual Creeding around is better yet with context, with narrative, with a story.

I enjoy entertainment that provides a great narrative and memorable characters, and although I believe the games medium does this a lot better than movies these days; my default I would have been attracted to films more if gaming wasn't around.

These little touches, as well as The Walking Dead's structure of multiple choices and branching narratives makes each episode's release an event in itself, engendering the same kind of water cooler moments as big TV shows, where people who've played through the latest instalment gather around and discuss their experiences.

I've always thought that people who made good Dungeon Masters also often made really good level designers for immersive sims, in particular, because it's this really magical blend of representing the game rules, the RPG system, but also being responsive to the fact that the players around the table are part of the narrative and driving the narrative.

Meanwhile, Telltale Games has carved out a niche as a specialist developer of episodic narrative dramas, based around well - known TV and game brands.

Having already ran around for the best part of half an hour collecting items across the far corners of the island, I'd done my fair share of exploring for one day, and some progress in terms of narrative felt long overdue.

I'm probably not going to do a good job of explaining this, but the boss fights of Skies of Arcadia really make that one of the best games I've ever played, and it everything to do with keeping a stellar cast of bad guy characters that weren't gone / killed after one fight, but were consistently around a good chunk of the narrative, so not only could they build character off of each successive meeting, but it helped you strategize your giant airship battles against them as you started to learn their fighting style (and of course the game would then use that to try and one - up you).

Well, I think we continue along our path... putting my Worldwide Studios hat on, I think in Worldwide Studios, we have a lot of energy, a lot of devotion, a lot of love around storytelling, around narrative.

The narrative around Land Art — Michael Heizer's Double Negative being a prominent example — is of course well - known, but other major pieces, like Noah Purifoy's expansive Joshua Tree installation and Leonard Knight's Salvation Mountain, remain marginalized, viewed as visions of outsider eccentricity, even though Purifoy was in no way an outsider.

BOOKSHELF Photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier has built her practice around images of her mother, grandmother and great - grandfather «gramps,» as well as self portraits using their generational story in Braddock, Pa., to convey a larger narrative about social and economic conditions in post-industrial communities around the country.

So, as we pass through this collection of around 40 drawings and paintings, we're supposed to look for clues and hints of the later brilliance and construct a narrative or timeline that leads to its blossoming (which, here, comes in the form of At the Edge of Town (1986 - 8), a painting showing a figure emerging onto the kind of semiabstracted landscape for which Doig is best known).

With a career spanning almost three decades, Francesca Fuchs is a well - known Houston - based artist whose paintings draw from art historical and personal references, evoking a strong sense of narrative around themes of memory, family, and home, and how they define our sense of place and self.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

The scholarship produced through this project will contribute to the development of alternate storylines around the dominant narrative of post-war abstraction while at the same time revealing, for the first time, the roots of the body of work for which Bearden is best known.

Experimenting with form, technique and narrative, these filmmakers have utilised iterative speech patterns, dissonant utterances, mute gestures and an array of linguistic propositions to articulate concerns around exile, disorientation, and loss as well as commemoration, celebration and recuperation.

The basic facts of the narrative, which centers around Hitler's grand plan to purify German culture of Modernist, Bolshevist and Jewish influence, are well known, and it culminated in the infamous 1937 «Degenerate Art» exhibition in Munich.

Yet the critical debates around the work of Caro and the New Generation sculptors also levied pressure on the Greenbergian paradigm by foregrounding the experiential dimension of viewing encounters, demonstrating how critical and artistic investments in the Modernist art object became entangled with new ideas about the individual as well as perception, materiality, narrative, and experience.