Sentences with phrase «as simple narratives»

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The study's analysis «challenges a simple narrative that the internet as a technology is what fragments public discourse and polarizes opinions,» the authors say.

I suggest that the whole biblical narrative, including Jesus, as well as all subsequent theology, is one vast story illustrating the simple fact that, in the end, we are all one, connected to each other and to our common Ground of Being.

Life isn't as simple as the dichotomous «virgin or whore» narrative our society often chooses to project on women.

But there are two necessary dimensions to achieving effective strategic communications: crafting emotive, resonant messages that speak to the immediate concerns of voters and — just as necessary — positioning your campaign so as to have ownership of the simple narrative.

The trick for a movie of this type, at least one that is aspiring to be more than just a simple - minded exploitation film (such as the original Charles Bronson «Death Wish,» a far more complicated work than usually given credit for, especially in comparison to its tacky sequels), is to create a narrative that somehow justifies such actions without completely overdoing it.

A scene in which Abdellah shares a cigarette with a kind, genial stranger on a park bench would have been cut from most films, as it serves no specific narrative function, but here it's an unexpected reprieve and a simple opportunity to watch Abdellah smile.

Giving nothing for the audience to grasp onto or connect with is always a risky strategy especially in a film with such a simple narrative and although our protagonist has one redeemable quality, being a loving family man, it is only when Kuklinski's world starts to collapse around him that we are shown little pieces of reason, logic and humanity as he becomes emotional, desperate, abusive, and even panicky.

It is presented as a fairy tale told to children, so it makes some amount of sense that its narrative would be relatively simple, but even considering that, the script of

We wanted it to feel Grindhouse in that way, not Grindhouse in a comedic way but Grindhouse in the down and dirty simple, narrative, you appreciate it, you could pair it with an A film and see it as a double feature.

Hopefully, this will be improved as the gameplay is focused on simple puzzle solving and eliciting narrative cues from the other characters.

As for the plot movement of the film, Aloha is fairly simple in terms of its narrative gait although the emotional beats are perpetually complex.

But recognizing this willingness to embrace change would clash with the narrative — unions exist to protect the bad teacher, simple as that.

NYSED describes the implementation planning requirements as «relatively simple» and requiring «only a few paragraphs» of narrative.

Set in 1940s Los Angeles, this tale about an insurance agent lured into a housewife's plan to murder her husband is a model of narrative sheerness as Cain uses ordinary vocabulary and simple sentences to evoke a dark mood.

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Yellow received high praise when first published in the UK in early 2004, with The Times Literary Supplement saying, «Simple but highly effective, Yellow sets the net curtains of one's mind a twitch,» and The Daily Mail describing it as «a taut, maze - like narrative that will entrap you within pages.»

In rapid, simple free verse, the first - person narrative gradually reveals his secrets: his memories of mines, flames, screams, helicopters, bombs, and guns, as well as what the war did to his little brother («He followed me / everywhere, / he follows me still»).

Unraveling the story behind this is not simple and the lines of narratives are not linear, as the mooted closure of Penguin Random House's Rugby distribution centre and the continuing decline in library numbers show.

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Captivating narrative: discover the fascinating story of Wei Cheng and follow him as he rises from a simple fisherman to the master of Shaolin martial arts.

The simple puzzles act as great pacing guides to keep the tone and cryptic narrative moving.

The reviewe went on to describe the game as «a simple, yet fun narrative driven game that brings time and space together.»

The result is a game with very little camera cuts, allowing you to follow Kratos and his son Atreus from start to finish without missing a single interaction.Without going into too much detail (my intention is to keep this as spoiler - free as possible), the premise of God of War's narrative is incredibly simple.

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I imagine how a low budget narrative game could use that kind of stuff to great effect (with simple, interconected puzzles as a sort of skeleton group of activities to do while most of the story is visualized in one's mind).

It was a map with simple quests and places to go, trusting in its size and emergent narrative to work as a game.

[112][136][137] Edge noted that while it did not do enough to make up for the opening chapters, at Gran Pulse the game «hits a sweet spot» as the narrative offers «hunting side - quests and the simple joy of exploring to see what visual marvel is around the next corner.»

A relatively simple game, but an extremely engrossing and unique narrative as well as some delicate but distinctive twists on gameplay and visual design made for a wonderful experience.

The overarching narrative is as simple as it comes, then, but what keeps the entire thing entertaining is the quirky and sometimes downright daft humour exhibited not just the heroes, but also the villains of the piece, such as one baddie who constantly uses the wrong words, leading to several brilliant lines At first the humour is grating, but the game's own desire to avoid taking itself seriously slowly turns into a strange charm.

The story is simple at first, but gradually evolves as the game progresses with a deeper narrative as you push forward.

Accompanied by gorgeous manga visuals and winning voice acting, its simple gameplay and deep character development serve a narrative that is as perplexing as it is compelling.

Even as a direct continuation of the narrative that began in Human Revolution, it's quite simple to jump right into Mankind Divided thanks to a lengthy and well produced cinematic that details the story from its predecessor.

Using comparisons is a simple, if somewhat lazy, way to easily convey a genre or narrative direction of a game, and, much like those games are their own entities, Rime shares as much in common with those titles as it does its own thing.

It wasn't always that way of course, as previous eras saw very simple narratives that played out with little to nothing in the way of narrative or character development.

Platforms: PC Publisher / Developer: Orthogonal Games (Kent Hudson) Genre: Action Narrative Platform Played: PC Our lives are full of choices on a daily basis, from simple ones such as whether or not you should eat that last piece of dessert, to more difficult and life changing decisions like taking -LSB-...]

Not story-wise, necessarily — the narrative is about as simple and lighthearted it gets — but by offering a ton of things to collect and do.

Prior to playing FFVII, all the games I had played kept their plots and characters relatively simple, with gameplay entirely as the focus, so playing FFVII for the first time provided me with my first real experience with a video game narrative, and I really found myself growing attached to the game's world and especially its characters (Tifa is still my favourite video game character to this day).

This 2D run - and - gun shooter won hearts with its classic cartoon aesthetic, challenging boss battles, and charming story, and - perhaps as a surprise to those who proclaimed the demise of the single player - it delivers a simple, straightforward narrative.

It's a narrative set - up anyone with a passing interest in cinema will know, and if there's another thing other than the aesthetic developer Supermassive Games absolutely nailed, it's the simple implication of a cause and effect system known as the butterfly effect.

later on, but as I said earlier, Wing Commander is fundamentally a simple good vs. evil narrative.

However, it seems the game is much more than a simple tree growing simulator and it offers a strangely «zen» experience as a narrative game.

The artist aims to capture content, specifically in search of «giving narrative life to objects, to alter their course, utility, and to amplify their charm; inscribing meanings and stories to these same objects, removing their varnish so as to not be perceived as «the [immutable] originals»; provoking collisions between images and assembling vernacular history with fantasies; fomenting a contemporary prosopopoeia, where a simple leather cushion, a tennis racket, or a lid of a tin biscuit box bare faces and voices.»

Reduced color palettes and the repetition of simple geometric forms, as well as industrial materials that have a symbiotic relationship to architecture, create new mash - ups that mix formal rigor with sensuality, subjectivity, personal narrative, and contemporary sexual politics.

The exhibit runs through his career chronologically, it begins - and ends - as he did, with short films that focus attention on images that range from simple narrative — a pixilated man jumping (The Jump, 1978), a nail being pounded (A Nail, 1971), feathers falling softly onto a chair (The Chair, 1975).

In 1975 Birch moved to New York and began to develop the characteristic style for which he is most known; a breaking down of formal training to create deceptively simple flat narrative surfaces that draw as much from «primitive» and folk styles as from the Western canon.

Incongruous and disparate imagery — a man's tongue probes the mouth of a figure from a painting — create scenes that exist between reality and artifice as O'Reilly stages an often jarring and transgressive alternative to known or simple narratives.

Going beyond simple narrative explication, the artists assembled employ conspiracy and coincidence as a means of amplifying latent meaning and of framing contemporary aesthetic experience.

I think the reason «atmospheric scientists», I'm putting this in quotation marks because I think this refers to «climate scientists» whose basic physics I dispute, are resisting this is really quite simple, it includes condensation and as I've gone to some effort to explain, the Water Cycle is missing from the energy budgets and I give the following as examples of their narrative:

Such ostensible self - deprecation is meant to lament the rugged, barren and often woefully untraversable terrain of the Greek countryside, but the narrative also slyly points to Greek pride in hardscrabble existence — on some level Greeks wouldn't have it any other way finding core pleasures in life's simple offerings such as the enjoyment of food, family, earth and sea.