Sentences with phrase «as storytellers by»

This can be a stressful practice for authors as storytellers by nature, but it's good to learn to speak about your book concisely.

Not exact matches

Martin Zwilling mentioned Howard Schultz, founder of Starbucks, and Chad Hurley, founder of YouTube, as examples of great storytellers because they each turned» «me» into a «we,» by being able to tell a story that shined the light on an interest, goal, or problem that both the teller and the listener shared.»

Over last 8 or 9 years I have read a fair few books on this topic, but none as good as The Storyteller's Secret by Carmine Gallo.

A powerful storyteller, Evans captures transformative moments, such as leaving a church full «of kind, generous people»; investing wholeheartedly in a new church that «collapsed slowly, one week at a time»; and witnessing healing at the Gay Christian Network's conference, feeling «simultaneously furious at Christianity's enormous capacity to wound and awed by its miraculous capacity to heal.»

Here, kids ages three to twelve can enjoy crafts and activities that immerse them in the Southwestern experience, such as making Indian headbands and pinch pots; hearing tales told by cowboy storytellers; learning about local culture, geography and indigenous plants and animals; or splashing around in the Water Playground.

PAHJ calls upon the insights of Joseph Campbell's Great Monomyth Wheel — the universal structure of storytellers — that helps us as individuals and communities to create and understand the personal and collective stories / mythologies we live by.

By contrast, women rated good storytellers as more attractive as a potential long - term date.

The attendee described part of the gathering as a «brainstorming session,» including how to involve storytellers in regions afflicted or threatened by ISIS, as a way to counter the narratives promulgated by the terrorist organization.

«Memoirs of a Geisha,» however, found the director cramped by conflicting aspirations of art - film stateliness and the old - Hollywood pizzazz of his previous effort — if not the catastrophe that many critics enjoyed declaring it, it was nonetheless a misfire that awkwardly showed up his limitations as a storyteller.

Over a speedy narrative arbitrarily marked by the passing months, Kelly sharpens his two main performances into actual human beings: Plemons evolves from frustrated eye - rolling and seething to articulated anger, while SNL's Shannon, always brassy as a storyteller, has a major scene when her voice has been stolen by the disease and she must pass the baton.

As a storyteller he has long made a habit out of extreme personalities, a preoccupation that during the 1990s was matched by one of the most playfully expressive styles in American mainstream pictures.

An ever adventurous and acutely observational storyteller who has cinematically explored live volcanoes, Antarctica, and the menacing company of Klaus Kinski, Herzog is also a highly self - aware creature, as evidenced by his self - satirizing participation in the 2004 mockumentary Incident at Loch Ness and his later stunt casting as a villain in Jack Reacher.

Described by MK2 as an «unpredictable documentary» from a «fascinating storyteller,» Varda's next film will shed light on her own experience as -LSB-...]

Described by MK2 as an «unpredictable documentary» from a «fascinating storyteller,» Varda's next film will shed light on her own experience as a director, bringing a very personal insight on what she calls «cine - writing,» traveling from rue Daguerre in Paris to Los Angeles and Beijing.

This is perhaps explained by the man behind the camera: Jim Sheridan, who proved his chops as an insightful, emotional storyteller on films such as My Left Foot and In the Name of the Father.

Anderson is often referred to by admirers as a storyteller above all.

The script, cowritten by Iannucci with David Schneider, Ian Martin and Peter Fellows, doesn't so much joke about dictatorship as find the very existence of authoritarianism to be one of humanity's sickest, saddest, oldest jokes — a fine distinction, but an important one, because it prevents the film from feeling exploitative, instead lending it the feeling of a lament in which the storyteller laughs so that he won't cry.

Narrated by David Wenham as Dilios, in a bizarre mix of his Van Helsing and The Return of the King accents hardly befitting a great Greek storyteller, 300 is one long and dull fight sequence after another.

As I watched auteur Pedro Amodovar's Bad Education, I was reminded of another film I had just seen a week before, Woody Allen's Melinda and Melinda, which is based on the theme that one's life can be comic or tragic, depending on the way it is presented by the storyteller.

In the pilot, written by Tig Notaro and Diablo Cody (Juno), Notaro's character is introduced as Tig, a radio storyteller and DJ who, not long after undergoing a double mastectomy, returns to her Southern hometown to join her brother Remy (Noah Harpster) and stepfather Bill (John Rothman) in seeing her dying mother taken off life support.

by Walter Chaw J.K. Rowling is more plotter than writer or editor, more rambling fantasist than disciplined storyteller — explanation there as to why her Harry Potter novels aren't classics so much as very popular stories for children.

The Women Film Critics Circle has chosen Lady Bird as the Best Movie About Women of 2017, also rewarding the film with their Best Movie By a Woman and Best Woman Storyteller screenwriting award.

The three films in Criterion's magnificent box set Three Silent Classics by Josef Von Sternberg may be all the evidence we have of this era but they are more than enough to show his mastery of the medium and the rapid evolution of his style, both a visual sculptor and as a cinematic storyteller.

And according to Michael Atkinson in a new must - read article at Moving Image Source — and as evidenced by the passages from Greene's writing quoted in the piece — he was as mellifluous and cutting a film reviewer as he was a storyteller, in fact «for a short while the best film critic writing in English.»

Black Panther by Hope Madden and George Wolf Ryan Coogler's stunning first feature, 2013's Fruitvale Station, proved his instincts as a storyteller.

The afternoon will be led by Jackter's Library Media specialist and will focus on the student as storyteller.

Joanna Penn is hired by Oculus Rift as a virtual storyteller.

My literary taste has been shaped by these mid-Victorian authors, and by later professional storytellers, such as Stevenson, Conan Doyle, Buchan, and Rafael Sabatini, who followed them.

Infinite Home was named a best book of 2015 by Buzzfeed, Amazon and Kirkus, which praised Alcott as «a first - class storyteller.»

But September (Dahl's birth month) brings a book for adult fans as well: the authorized biography Storyteller, by Donald Sturrock.

My recent experience with Journey re-affirmed my respect for being able to feel as if I am in control of the experience being unfolded by a group of storytellers.

Their first crossover adventure sees the the two eponymous super sleuths spirited away to Labyrinthia, a world overseen not by an androgynous rock star in alarmingly revealing tights, but by a shadowy figure known only as the Storyteller who writes the future of the world with his pen.

As well, if you haven't figured out the theme by now, we'll be back tomorrow with Episode Four of the series where we look at three more awards that you won't want to miss out on; The Storyteller, The Exclusive and The Worst.

Other games that were formative for me as a growing / budding storyteller back in the day are the King's Quest franchise, the Longest Journey series (my monk character was totally inspired by Kian!)

Further narrative details are hard to come by, though Brain & Brain have explained that «you play as storyteller...

By doing something similar here, but in such a radically different context, the team at Yacht Club prove that that earlier moment wasn't just them stumbling upon brilliance, but is a core aspect of their identity as storytellers.

Being a huge Uncharted fan myself, I wanted to be blown away by the complexity as much as by its next generation theatrics and flawless mechanics, after all we are looking at Naughty Dog — the greatest storytellers of our age.

Hello Ruby started in 2009 as an art project by Linda Liukas, programmer, storyteller and illustrator from Helsinki, but was boosted by a widely popular Kickstarter campaign in 2014.

The maps are completely unique and offer up important narratives as told by historians and storytellers about the history of the United States.

Having been ushered through the gates of a Hoxton warehouse (by appointment only) Gander, often described as a storyteller, cast the viewer in the lead role, and obliged them -LSB-...]

As a painter, storyteller, and educator, he was among the first African American artists to be represented by a New York gallery, have his work featured in prominent art museums, and consistently receive recognition.

Very often, she acts as a storyteller in a non-linear way by showing the loneliness of people in a world of mass communication systems.

Thursday, September 24, 8 pm DIGITAL PRIMITIVES Cooper - Moore, diddly - bo + banjo Assif Tsahar, tenor saxophone + bass clarinet Chad Taylor, drum set + m \ «bira $ 12 General Admission Presented by Ars Nova Workshop As a composer, performer, instrument builder, storyteller, teacher, mentor, and organizer, Cooper - Moore has been a major, if somewhat behind - the - scenes, catalyst in the world of creative music for over 30 years.

Tangled Up by Kalup Linzy is an exercise in narrative, where the artist as storyteller weaves fragments of personal and collective memory to inform upon a sweeping, yet localized, account of identity - formation, selfhood and self - fashioning in the current cultural climate.

It will be inhabited by local storytellers, musicians and dancers, as well as visitors.

The quintessential storyteller is fascinated by American quilts, saying it's not so much a story as a question.

It's a voice - controlled smart speaker powered by Xiaomi's in - house smart assistant, which doubles as a storyteller for children.

This blog includes posts created by celebrated storytellers from coast to coast to coast, continues to distinguish itself as a stand - out player in the Canadian travel scene.

Agent as storyteller: Brian Lewis, an executive vice president and real estate broker with Halstead Property in New York, embraces a storytelling approach by turning a listing video into a story about telling a story.