Sentences with phrase «as narrative driven»

As a narrative driven experience there is only one specific order in which tasks must be accomplished, but the player still has quite a bit of freedom in exploring the environment.

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The juicy narratives driving Kipnis's four archetypal cases — lovelorn astronaut Lisa Nowak is featured, as is disgraced judge Sol Wachtler, memoir fabulist James Frey, and the dynamic duo of Tripp and Lewinsky — keep things on the zippy side, but the subject matter is worth taking seriously.

Whether it be Wieman's general appropriation of James's «knowledge by acquaintance» in Religious Experience and Scientific Method, Meland's «appreciative awareness,» or Loomer's more narrative forms of gathering evidence, each purports merely to describe, but then evinces that the description is driven by rather specific personal and / or contextual definitions of what counts as religious experience.

This section of the book represents history as it should be written — with a sagacious use of sources, a strong narrative drive, and an authentic whiff of the charged atmosphere of the times.

What drives his narrative, however, is a vision of the Persian Wars as a clash of civilizations, which he presents as possessing significant parallels to the conflicts of our own day.

How Character - Driven Labels Are Driving Wine Sales: As the wine aisles swell with an ever - rising sea of brands, wine producers are looking to increasingly rich and imaginative narratives on which to build their brands...

By embracing a rather partial interpretation of the country's problems, this narrative strongly stresses Italy's virtuous conduct as an accountable member - State and a force able to drive change.

Democrats supporting Mayer see the race as the next chapter in a narrative in which liberals mobilize an unprecedented amount of energy and involvement driven by a desire to combat President Donald Trump's agenda.

Down a catwalk planted with up - ended mannequin legs, the collection itself continued the kind of character - driven narrative that Westwood is built on, as diverse bodies owned a chaos of ruffled prom gowns, buttoned «habit» hoods, floral and flowing hair prints, and wonky tailoring.

Especially when this layering of luxury is depicted via Louis Vuitton on six young, up - and - coming models as they act out the narrative of a woman leaving her hotel room and steps — along with her pet pooch — into her chauffeur - driven limousine.

You can tell that it's a game that comes from a studio that has had minimal need to develop narratives previously, and on the Nintendo Switch, the game's mobile roots hurt it, but then the Nintendo Switch is also a portable console, and as a game that's best played in short bursts, it's a good one to have sitting on the hard drive or memory card.

Based on R C Sherriff's 1928 play, you can see how the narrative drives the story as Sheriff himself was on the front - line in WWI and survived to write about it.

Though the scribes don't stop the narrative from being as chaos - driven as the first, they spare the slow start and allow the visceral thrills to take over more quickly.

It adds a few unique gameplay elements, such as isometric camera movement, but the game lacks in categories like speed, strong personality and a compelling narrative to drive it above a game like Hotline Miami.

The narrative drive of the game sees you playing as a new student who quickly gets involved with a Japanese version of Ghostbusters, called Gate Keepers.

Many critics felt that, due to lack of genuine conviction, Spielberg failed to give Walker's folk tale a narrative drive or emotional push, resulting in an overly fractured saga, devoid of the pop - folk religiosity that served as the glue that held the episodic book together.

The film's awkward structure posits Victoria as the pivotal figure in two power triangles, neither one having any discernible bearing on the other, and both insufficiently powered to drive the narrative alone.

With an actor such as Mulligan, always dependably watchable and interesting in even lesser narratives like Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps or when given less to do like in Drive, we as the audience want to connect with her, especially granting that we know she's our protagonist.

Its main concern isn't with the narrative momentum, or character - driven actions as it should be, but rather with big, hulking action set - pieces.

Story missions are separated by location, with the narrative being driven via journal pages that act as the story progression between levels.

It is as much a colossal void as the vacuum that serves as its backdrop, so relentlessly plot - driven that it resembles a video game not only in its near - total animation but in its stage - oriented narrative movement.

But a lot of weight is given to whether a game's creative director came from a writing background, as many of the best narrative - driven franchises, like BioShock, feature creative directors in that vein.

«Project Diva X is driven forward through a narrative which centers on Miku and her friends undertaking various requests as they explore the five Clouds that make up their world,» SEGA and Atlus PR Manager John Hardin wrote.

Project DIVA X is driven forward though a narrative in which centers on Miku and her friends undertaking various requests as they explore the five Clouds that make up their world.

Nevertheless, if we interpret this conflict as the main narrative drive (which is generous) then that does at least makes some sense, as the finale brings the two rivals together for one last showdown.

Ford's cinematic influences are overtly placed — everything from the iconography and satire of DR. STRANGELOVE (as shown in the war room scene), to the narrative drive of STRAW DOGS (as shown in the grippingly tense scenes with fictional Tony's harassers, led by a perfectly - cast Aaron Taylor - Johnson), to the tangible feel of David Lynch's oeuvre, to the cunning bite of Michael Haneke's FUNNY GAMES.

Avengers: Infinity War, as a production, is a truly impressive moviemaking feat as it is hard to recall a film that has had to weave together so many actors, storylines, and locations while still driving a narrative.

He just uses them in a way so few others still do, as a means to drive the narrative forward.

His stereotypes mean something, offering as Berg does examples of the contrary and the baseline to offset easy categorization and facile narrative drive.

It is slightly jarring as we are so used to the comedic timing of a witty ex-cop John McClane archetype, that here Washington plays a somewhat introverted, more pensive and less charismatic character which takes the film from an average action thriller to a suspenseful character - driven narrative.

In fact it might be more appropriate to describe it as a mature, narrative - driven, traditional point and click adventure game, without the pointing and clicking.

- Bob [LOVED] While not as solid a film as Cloud of Sils Maria, Kristen Stewart continues to demonstrate that she is quite capable of driving a dramatic narrative.

Beginning as science - driven sci - fi, the film shifts gears into horror - thriller territory, before abandoning those narrative beats in favour of an ambitious, «conceptual» final half - hour that scrambles a little to wrap itself up.

More than half the films of my list share stories that focus on women or girls: Mad Max: Fury Road, Brooklyn, Inside Out, Room, Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Far From the Madding Crowd (Additionally, I would argue that Ava's narrative in Ex Machina also drives that film and that Domhnall Gleeson's character primarily functions as a stand - in for the audience).

There was, if not an extinction - level event, definitely a pretty disastrous one driving the narrative here, as Marion Cotillard's severely put - upon, pill - popping worker, Sandra, is subject to the humiliation of having to beg her colleagues to forego their bonuses so she can keep her job.

I AM LEGEND was unique in its character - driven narrative as opposed to focusing on the supernatural monsters hiding in the shadows.

Opening this week at Tivoli Cinemas, Loving Vincent is sometimes a bit flat with its narrative thru - line, yet more than makes up for this with its earnest and engaging approach to discovering what drove Vincent van Gogh as a man and an artist.

11 - 11: Memories Retold will sport a story - driven narrative adventure experience as well as a unique painted style that plans to deliver a uniquely entertaining experience.

Over the last generation, Sony seems to have taken it upon itself to drive the cause of truly adult video game narrative and, as this crusade has continued, certain key tropes have begun to crystalise.

And the unresolved romantic and sexual tension between Black Widow and Hulk creates a weird driving force to the narrative: even the absurdity is somehow recirculated into the film's internal economy as comedy and irony and the cast - of - thousands effect never seems to split the focus: Andy Serkis plays metal trader Ulysses Klaw and Julie Delpy has a blink - and - you'll - miss - it cameo as Black Widow's sinister former controller.

The problem with race as a subject in Hollywood is that the complexities of systemic oppression are fundamentally incompatible with the simplification necessary for narrative - driven filmmaking, where the priority of story resolution often results in laughably...

There perhaps weren't as many female driven narratives as I would have liked but there certainly some powerhouse female performances.»

And throughout, as the story shifts gears between the dryly amusing and the wistfully romantic, first - time feature director Lorene Scafaria struggles to keep the narrative engine on track, as though she were learning how to drive a manual transmission.

She comes with personal passion and drive to ensure that as a nation we start to really rethink what schooling should look like for ALL students and hopes to really be a part of the changing narrative of education for future generations.

By Anthony Cody In the narrative being driven by «education reformers,» the «bad teacher» has emerged as the greatest threat to our future.

Full - service community schools — community - school partnerships that emphasize community - driven, holistic and asset - based school ideals — are increasingly implemented across the nation as a means to assist school stakeholders in addressing racial disparities and countering deficit, dehumanizing narratives of minoritized groups, including Black children.

Stakes are thus important for creating drama, intrigue, and narrative drive in your writing, but creating stakes for yourself as a writer is just as important.

From there an author can begin to learn the bare bones of what goes into writing a book, such as conflict being the main driving force behind plot, the various shapes and positions of the narrative arc, establishing character, etc..

Besides Kunzru, Haruki Murakami clearly falls into this category (especially his 1Q84, 2011), as does Nick Harkaway (in Angelmaker, 2012), but David Mitchell also deserves a seat at the head of the translit table, and his new book, The Bone Clocks, just may become the quintessential example of translit fiction, not only in its complexity and thematic richness, but also in the remarkable narrative propulsion that drives its many - cylindered engine.

While the plot itself is only a brief moment in the book, the rest of the narrative is driven by this event, as Marianne attempts to gather and protect the families of the resisters as a way of honoring their legacy.