Sentences with phrase «as a novel rather»

The book reads as a novel rather than a historical biography of the period.

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In 2017, Walmart has also introduced a membership - free, two - day shipping program, a discount for customers who pick up an online order at a order rather than have it shopped, curbside grocery pickup at hundreds of stores and other novel services such as having a Walmart store worker drop off an online order on the way home after their shift.

In effect, he turned the patriotic poster on its head, making it serve in his novel not as a symbol of heroic national resolve but rather of insidious government intrusion into the lives of its citizens.

Prior to the filing, The Boring Company has been raising money in rather unconventional ways, such as selling novel merchandise like hats and flamethrowers.

I am concerned, rather, with the parabolic qualities of their novels as illustrations for my thesis that the experience of coming to belief is a story and novels which tell that story are a source for theological reflection.

rather than viewing each individual character or incident as only an instance of some collectivity or trend, is able to see the specific, the novel... the way even the «typical» diverges from type... [and can] recognize the peculiar dialectic between continuity and discontinuity in tradition.

Rather he serves as a lure for actualization, providing novel possibilities of achievement.

It is certainly not intended as an adequate account, but it does offer a rather novel perspective, and it is one that we shall draw on at other points in the present book.

It happens over generations as later generations stay in many ways quite similar but in certain respects become rather different from earlier generations, especially in small, isolated populations facing novel selection pressures.

[According to William Beckford, author of the gothic novel, Vathek] «Those wild boars that I have seen brought in by the negroes, or the parts of which I have occasionally received as presents, do not in, colour or in size, resemble those in Europe: they rather appear to be the progeny of swine that have strayed into the woods; and which, from having been once tame, partake of the habits of, and now become, wild, but are not, rigidly speaking, of the same species.

Certainly infants sleeping separated from their caregivers at night (solitary room sleeping), infants sleeping on their stomachs (prone) to promote uninterrupted, early consolidation of adult - like sleep, and bottle - feeding with formula or cows milk rather than breast milk were all novel, culturally - sanctioned but scientifically - untested (as safe or best) infant care innovations.1 It is now known that each of these practices has contributed to or led to thousands of SIDS deaths.3 - 5 Many of these infant lives, we can infer, could have been saved had we more carefully examined and come to understand the biological validity of mother - infant safe co-sleeping, breastfeeding and infants sleeping on their backs (supine).

In finding novel ways to commingle church and state, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat, has carved himself a niche as a more inclusive kind of liberal, one who is willing to embrace religious groups rather than treat them as adversaries.

The authors think that dogs likely do not transfer knowledge about physical rules from one physical problem - solving task to another, but rather approach each task as a novel problem.

Rather than rely on V2V communications, Google's novel technology uses light radar and mapping software to guide the vehicle as a completely independent unit.

The study, led by scientists from the University of Chicago, uses a novel method to measure genetic predisposition for telomere length, rather than physiological measures which are confounded by factors such as age and lifestyle.

We've all had the experience of repeating a dramatic story so many times that the events seem dead, as if they came from a novel rather than real life.

The study is investigator led and has therefore focused on clinical need, targeting patients with progressive multiple sclerosis in whom most disability is incurred... The study also reports a predominant effect on neurodegenerative rather than inflammatory outcomes, suggesting a novel mechanism of action that might be suitable as combination treatment with immunomodulatory treatments... Further phase 3 studies to measure the effect of simvastatin on sustained disability, particularly in patients with non-relapsing secondary progressive and primary progressive multiple sclerosis, are clearly needed, but this trial represents a promising point from which to develop trials of progressive disease.»

Rather than simply identifying a cancer by location or tissue type, researchers now use advanced molecular profiling tests to characterize tumors, the proteins they express and the novel mutations they develop — known as neoantigens.

«We demonstrated that quality can be accomplished across the sites, but consider a different approach to the design,» she said, explaining that rather than treating negative symptom patients as one homogenous target, priority should be given to exploring the usefulness of novel mechanisms in separate negative symptom domains to better define the target population and maximize the chance of success before launching large phase III trials.

This novel behavior of topological magnon insulators could lead to new applications in such fields as spintronics, where spin currents (rather than charge current in electronics) could be exploited for energy - efficient technologies and information storage.

These surrogate atoms could one day be used to build novel materials such as semiconductors that carry light rather than electricity.

The test works in a novel way, by isolating fetal DNA from the mother's bloodstream rather than by the older and riskier method of taking tissue from the womb (as in amniocentesis, for example).

It seems formal rating systems encourage «safe» judgements, leading to an emphasis on work that is seen as sound rather than novel.

Rather than try to directly detect your gene of interest, scientists have instead developed novel methods to co-express your gene along with a reporter, such as a fluorescence gene or a resistance gene.

We identified 52 variants contributing to obesity in 2 % of cases including multiple novel variants in GNAS, which were sometimes found with accelerated growth rather than short stature as described previously.

In August, an international group of scientists published a paper in the journal Physical Review D with a rather novel idea — to use DUNE as a scanner to study the internal structure of the earth.

The vocabulary in her novels is also limited, though this is rather understandable for children's literature and eventually advances as the volumes progress.

In the mid -»30s, Leonard truly hit his stride as a director, making the fine «A» pictures A Tale of Two Cities (1935) with Robert Donat and The Great Ziegfeld (1936), which took the Best Picture Oscar for that year; his version of Pride and Prejudice (1940) starring Laurence Olivier and Greer Garson also remains highly regarded, despite its rather heavy - handed adaptation of Austen's novel.

As obvious a candidate for screen treatment as Dicken's classic novel is, there rather surprisingly hasn't been a traditional theatrical version of the story since David Lean's 1946 adaptation, a peerless achievement in the eyes of manAs obvious a candidate for screen treatment as Dicken's classic novel is, there rather surprisingly hasn't been a traditional theatrical version of the story since David Lean's 1946 adaptation, a peerless achievement in the eyes of manas Dicken's classic novel is, there rather surprisingly hasn't been a traditional theatrical version of the story since David Lean's 1946 adaptation, a peerless achievement in the eyes of many.

It's a clinical treatment of its subject matter that plays out in a wholly external world with an impossibly introspective delivery that might work well in the inverted storytelling of a novel, but in a movie where things should be shown rather than said, the quotable - but - less - than - notable The Counselor would rather say everything it has to say in words, while showing us as little as possible.

A year's worth of advertising have insisted this isn't Herman Melville's «Moby Dick», but rather an adaptation of Nathaniel Philbrick's historical bestseller; a telling of the true [* cough *] events that befell The Essex whaleship in 1820, the very same that would serve as inspiration for The Greatest Novel In The English Language.

Loosely based on the novel «All the Way» by Andy Behrens, the screen version is a rather raunchy adventure reminiscent not only of Judd Apatow's recent offerings but also of such shock genre staples as The 40 Year - Old Virgin, Road Trip, American Pie, There's Something about Mary and The Sure Thing.

Written by Max Landis (Chronicle, American Ultra), Victor Frankenstein isn't so much a re-imagining of Mary Shelley's iconic 1818 sci - fi / horror novel, «Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus»; rather, it's an origin story for the eponymous character, as seen from the perspective of Igor (who didn't originate in Shelley's source book, but rather in a subsequent movie adaptation).

Droll, dry and ultimately rather heartless, it's clear that Kirn («Thumbsucker») positioned his novel as a kind of «Bonfire of the Vanities» for post-millennial readers, a work that diagnoses the ills of corporate America and chimes in with a wider sense of social malaise.

Both took beloved novels and used them as inspiration, rather than paint by numbers, to build their own haunting worlds.

Interestingly, Allison Janney has been cast as the tough, suspicious, particularly knowing in a woman's way, lead detective, whereas in the novel the investigation was headed by a rather refined gent until he was pushed aside by a woman detective who knew better.

Love & Friendship (Whit Stillman, 2016) Based on Jane Austen's novel, «Lady Susan Vernon», Kate Beckinsale (playing Lady Susan) leads a rather large cast of characters as they lounge over the manicured lawns of rural countryside and London drawing rooms.

But I still struggle to discern a reasonable artistic argument for having Hobbs hit a game winning home run at the end of The Natural rather than deliberately strike out as he does in Bernard Malamud's novel.

Erin Tuttle says she noticed the change in the math homework at about the same time as Heather, and she also noticed that her child was bringing home a lot fewer novels and more «Time magazine for kids» — a reflection of the English standards» emphasis on «informational texts» rather than literature.

Students are able to build working Roman chariots, practice blacksmithing, publish novels, or learn to sew at Joule, as well as attend academic classes at their level of ability rather than their age.

Rather than repeating an academic program or retaking it in a novel way, many of these youth would benefit from the structure, support, and goal orientation of programs such as YouthBuild or the National Guard Youth Challenge.

As a student at UNC Chapel Hill in the 1950s, Godwin yearned to be a published writer, but when scouts from Knopf made their annual visit to the campus (a rather quaint practice, unimaginable today), the five - page sample from her novel - in - progress was summarily rejected.

Alexander McCall Smith's hugely popular No. 1 Ladies» Detective Agency novels are routinely classified as mysteries, yet their strength lies not in the conventions of crime fiction, but rather in their astute depiction of human nature at its best and worst.

As with many translated novels, some of the subliminal beauty of descriptions gets lost when translators may tend to focus on literal meanings rather than implied impressions.

By shifting the seasons, the novel can be read differently, as a story of Grace with her child rather than Grace and her mother.

Try going back to the mother - daughter baking sections of the novel, and reading them as if indeed the mother is Grace, and the child is Grace's child; in other words, as if those sections were the future rather than the past.

It is a rare verse novel that is fundamentally poetic rather than using this writing trend as a device.

Michelle Hoover's The Quickening covers roughly the same timeframe and space as Jane Smiley's Some Luck: from the beginning of World War I (rather than its end in Smiley's novel) to 1950, on neighboring farms in the upper Midwest.

To the extent that dystopian novels depict anxieties about the present rather than predictions for the future, it seems clear that contemporary writers are just as concerned about women's rights as Atwood was in 1985.

Dennis Bock imagines the life of the historical Norman Bethune, keeping the essence of history intact but playing fast and lose with some of the peripheral details, which some readers might consider rather central - such as the fact that the entire novel is addressed to Bethune's daughter who he never met (but historically never had).