Sentences with phrase «as the storyteller who»

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.

I think it's symptomatic of a systemization of knowledge, in which knowledge gives value to the role of the curator as a storyteller who has access to a narrative that is not apparent or openly disclosed in the work itself.

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The blog belongs to Jamie Wright — known as Jamie The Very Worst Missionary — a writer and missionary from Costa Rica who I'm convinced is the best new storyteller on the Internet.

I am a storyteller at heart, and right there in the core of my heart is a tall and steady Nebraskan who has loved me as Christ loves the Church since we were teenagers together.

This guy never thought of himself as a storyteller,» says German Urioste, who heads the English department at Cary Academy and has teamed with Polish to teach two short courses there.

The actress, who is serving as a jury panelist for the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, spoke publicly about her disappointment at the depiction of women in this year's films, saying, «I do hope that when we include more female storytellers, we will have more of the women that I recognize in my day - to - day life.

Such minor quibbles aside, «The Breadwinner» proves nothing short of exceptional, celebrating as it does a young woman who faces adversity head - on — and who relies on her own creativity, both as a storyteller and in practical situations, to adapt to whatever obstacles she faces.

When Emmanuelle Riva won the BAFTA for Best Actress it underscored what we've been saying for years — that you have to go all the way to France to find storytellers who are willing to contemplate the idea of women as whole human beings...

Staying back is the gang's odd pal Barry (Tom Green), a seventh year student who serves as infrequent storyteller on an uninformative campus tour, a design that doesn't really work but does maximize Green's involvement at the height of his brief, MTV - fueled fame.

The short section of Volume 3 that deals with the whirlwind romance between the legendary storyteller of One Thousand And One Nights and a beach bum who lives only to reproduce is Gomes at his silliest and most playful, functioning as a self - contained absurdist short.

Whatever Winding Refn's inconsistencies as a storyteller he has a reliably formidable eye, and alongside Director of Photography Larry Smith (who he worked with on Bronson and Fear X) he has created an exquisite nightmare - a tortured, neon - drenched journey into the human psyche.

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.

It's not as coarse and unprocessed as Blue Valentine or as under pressure as Pines but Oceans is the work of a refined storyteller who a masterful command of his performers loosing his inhibitions and running wild with instinct.

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.

Hoffman is a wonderful storyteller who doesn't mind coming off as a heel.

His fifth and most assured film as both writer and director, Legend is not the work of a dedicated stylist, but of a strong storyteller who, like Lawrence Kasdan in the Eighties and Nineties, creates clean, precise images.

As they travel the countryside following mysterious lights that are drawn to and guide Saoirse, they also find singing fairies, who tell of the power of Saoirse's song to revive their kin, and an old storyteller living in an underground cave.

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.

We know director Dean Devlin as the box office - blockbusting, special effects - driven storyteller who blends robust action sequences and escalating dramatic tension into big, crowd - rousing entertainment.

In an unusual casting, Ms. Simmonds is really deaf, which could make directing her difficult, but that was not a problem in the hands of Todd Haynes, who has a reputation as a fine storyteller.

Postwar masterpieces like Stevens's Shane, Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives and Capra's It's a Wonderful Life take on fresh intimacy as the mature works of storytellers who could no longer merely entertain.

Collecting oral histories, or documenting the experiences of people who have lived through a particular aspect of history, allows students to see themselves as storytellers and historians.

All who know him would also wax long about his wit and wisdom, as he remembers practically every race mile he has ever driven, and he is the consummate storyteller / historian for a pursuit that continues to grow in popularity around the globe.

The best bit of advice for anyone who is trying to make it as an author / writer / storyteller whatever you feel comfortable in calling yourself, and that is, never pay to have your story told.

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.

Bulwer - Lytton has an undeserved reputation as a bad writer, but he is a wonderful storyteller who created a lot of the best - known phrases we still use today.

Because of that book, his reputation as an inventive and fluid storyteller who has a unique command of language preceded him.

Laura McHugh proves herself a masterly storyteller who has created a harsh and tangled terrain as alive and unforgettable as the characters who inhabit it.

Born in Alabama, Paula Vauss spent the first decade of her life on the road with her free - spirited young mother, Kai, an itinerant storyteller who blended Hindu mythology with Southern Oral Tradition to re-invent their history as they roved.

To take a man who has lost everything, who has been cast out from society and who may incite disgust in the reader, and allow him to represent himself in his own words defines Yanagihara as a uniquely talented storyteller.

Storyteller and human rights advocate Clemantine Wamariya talks about her life as a child refugee, and her biography The Girl Who Smiled Beads.

Part Three Faces of Eve, part The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, and always pure Robert Littell, Legends — from unforgettable opening to astonishing ending — again proves Littell's unparalleled prowess as a seductive storyteller.

Do you want to be known as preeminent storyteller, an expert in your field, a trusted publishing resource, or someone who helps writers succeed, or is it something else?

The ever burgeoning array of media channels is encouraging a new era of writers, storytellers who see the transmedia evolution as an exciting and promising renaissance.

February 2009 marked the 20th anniversary of the death of legendary storyteller Osamu Tezuka, who was known in Japan as the God of Manga and the Father of Anime, due to the fact that in each medium, he revolutionized the production process for efficiency and... Read more»

Life onboard also reflects the beauty and rich cultural heritage of the islands she calls upon, with a warm, friendly feel, informal setting, and even a beloved troupe of Gauguines and Gauguins — local Tahitians who serve as cruise staff, entertainers, and storytellers.

Verse is one such storyteller; a bard who's drifted from town to town across Albion for as long as she can remember.

The past several decades have ushered in a new era of powerful female visual storytellers, who focus on their own personal experiences as women, and embrace a vision of the nude that is brave and honest.

Danny Lyon: Message to the Future, which opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York this weekend, collects 175 pictures, vintage work prints, never - before - seen films and ephemera from Lyon's archives to take an in - depth look at his work as an immersive documentary storyteller who is just as engaged in writing, filmmaking and collage as is he in photography.

Working under the sign of Benjamin, «Storyteller» curators Claire Gilman and Margaret Sundell grouped together fourteen artists who employ the story form as a documentary mode, setting aside Benjamin's distinction between the subjectivity of oral communication and the assumed veracity of mechanical broadcast in order to investigate the use of narrative across a swath of contemporary art.

The panel painting, which stands at a massive 8.5 feet tall, portrays a West African griot or someone who served as a storyteller, orator, or musician.

Regier, for instance, calls himself «a storyteller at heart,» while British - born photographers Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick, who collaborate as Kahn & Selesnick, construct fantastical journeys to the moon and Mars.

HERAKUT consider themselves as «storytellers» who want to share their thoughts and questions with the public, so their figurative work is always accompanied with text.

It is also a bildungsroman for Ms. Selz, who with this book emerges as an impressive and polished storyteller.

I'm attending COP22 as a member of SustainUS, a group of climate justice storytellers from across the U.S. who were chosen to attend COP22 as «observers» — to bear witness to our own destruction.

Both storytellers reveal discrepancies between how we act as a society, contrasted with idealizations of who we are and how we imagine ourselves to be.

She is a talented storyteller who helps people frame difference as an asset.

As a career storyteller and multi-certified professional resume writer, I help job seekers who are: