Sentences with phrase «attempt at the story»

The problem with this little one hour feature isn't the singing or its brief attempt at story; those are all wonderful to listen to thanks to some pleasant voices, and wise selection of tracks that range from classics everyone in the whole world is familiar with (Let it Snow), to more obscure carols like Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin, (complete with creepy yet hilarious facial expressions from George Clooney).

When François Truffaut asked Alfred Hitchcock to discern the difference between his two attempts at this story about a vacationing family that gets wrapped up in an elaborate murder plot, Hitchcock famously said: «Let's say the first version is the work of a talented amateur and the second was made by a professional.»

I liked the attempt at story, or at least how it brought the game back down to earth *.

Far Cry 3 makes the best attempt at a story than the previous two games and the story is really good.

Any attempt at a story would only make the game less fun, as it would get in the way of playing.

These, along with Victory Road, dispense with the attempt at a story and instead just throw you straight into the action.

Not exact matches

NPR reported that Rosen sent inappropriate messages through the network's internal message service, attempted to grope and kiss multiple employees over his tenure at the network, and when one staffer rebuffed him, he sought to steal her sources and stories.

«Shakespeare this ain't, and Gears 3 struggles at times with its forced attempts at heart - string pluckery, but I can forgive it as much; gore - starved guns adorned with toothy chainsaws easily atone for any cheesiness suffered along the way... the Gears 3 story continues with what amounts to a blood - drenched tale of woe, suffering, loss and absolution, cathartica that stands out in harsh relief when framed by the»80s era Schwarzenegger - ness of most of the dialogue.

The main feature of the movement, as described in the story, is an attempt to eliminate or at least minimize the role of middlemen by reconnecting producers and consumers.

Special categories including the Top stories module as well as the featured snippets and «Knowledge Graph» excerpts attempt to save you time by directing you to a more curated result, or provide a direct answer to questions without the need to dive into search results at all.

[24:40] Most entrepreneurs attempt too many businesses in the beginning [24:50] Find your flagship, that you will commit everything to [25:20] Business is also about your own psychology [25:30] Master one thing at a time [26:30] Massive focus and big risks [27:00] The 3 beliefs you must have when starting a business [28:00] Learning how to maximize [28:20] The business you're in and the business you're becoming [28:50] The 80 % of what I do [30:00] The business you are in and the business you are becoming [30:20] Intertwining your personal and professional brands [31:30] The importance of intent [33:20] Tony's take on social media [34:00] Why Tony prefers audio over text [36:40] The value of Facebook Live [37:20] Tony's social media director weighs in on Instagram Stories [38:00] Success without fulfillment is the ultimate failure [39:00] Learning how to master the mind [39:40] What's a magnificent life for you?

Pruitt's Press: A staffer at the Environmental Protection Agency shopped negative stories about Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to multiple news outlets in an attempt to divert attention away from Administrator Scott Pruitt, according to two sources with direct knowledge of these efforts.

In the attempt to keep their children «innocent» and «free,» parents tell their children a different type of fairy tale, a modern American story: everyone loves you because you're special, you are good at everything you try, and if you work hard enough and be a good little boy or girl, you'll be successful.

It might be helpful at this point to look more fully at a few novels that have attempted a parabolic portrayal of the story of the human experience of coming to belief.

Obvious attempt at making the Jesus story more believable for a modern audience.

It is an attempt at a fresh interpretation of one phase of the story there narrated.

If you've followed my z - theory at all, you will understand that I see the story of the incarnation as a powerful metaphor that attempts to describe reality.

If you've followed my z - theory at all, you will understand that I see the story of the incarnation as a powerful metaphor that attempts to...

no, I didn't say that's all there was — but much of what is left is not verifiable — some of it may very very well be true and some may be fiction; some may be a best attempt to retain truth where erroneous transmission kept the true story from being relayed forward; but how can it be verified at this point?

While validating your contention that 3 is not the right number (you do appear to be correct), I came across an article for nativity scene costumes — «Jesus, Mary and 3 Wise Men available at Tesco» — even if this is not a serious story (I actually hope it's an attempt at humour — that religious folks don't actually buy this «stuff»), will you be asking them for a correction?

So first we attempt to enter and understand the story as the Book of Exodus relates it, at the stage when it achieved a written form.

And having read it and though about it for decades, I can state that many of the stories are poor attempts at literature or history, unless you like thinly veiled plagiarism.

Now he is trying to slip in an attempt at making his bible stories equivalent to evidence - backed science, which they are not.

At our best, we suffer all this contradiction gladly, in the faith that out of a multitude of human attempts to glimpse, to trust and to obey the Lord of history, that Lord is weaving together a story he means to tell.

As Søren Kierkegaard noted in perhaps his most influential book, Fear and Trembling, if the story of Abraham's attempted sacrifice of his son means anything it must signify that God transcends the categories (or at least our categories) of good and evil and that to follow the way of the Lord will eventually, at least for some select chosen ones, mean to renounce those norms.

I've answered your question about authority with reason giving authority and your attempt at making out that I am not interested in rationalising the «real story» about Jesus.

A strong case can be made that historically the Christian story is not at all unique, he suggested: «This being the case, I shall not attempt to evaluate the historical reliability of the Gospel story of Jesus or argue the unique truth of the story on grounds of a true, factual «kernel» in it.

Using fictional stories about my attempt to become the world's greatest fisherman, I reveal some of the flaws in the church's attempts at world evangelism.

Michael Behe (in The Edge of Evolution) points out that there is abundant evidence for «microevolution» (smaller population change), but there is a boundary at which the evidence for microevolution stops and evidence for macroevolution either doesn't exist, or any clues that do exist are beset with problems so serious that explanatory attempts boil down to «just - so - stories.»

Fact is this modern trend to turn these «stories» from actual event to simple moral tales is just a desperate attempt at keeping this nonsense alive.

A little story about my cookie experiences — I have made so many failed attempts at cookies, of all kinds... especially when I have decided to be brave and try my own recipes.

All eyes in Australia are on the unfolding story at Treasury Wine Estates, as multiple bidders attempt to purchase the company.

I was in the mood for burgers and discovered we were out of ground beef, but we do have a ton of quinoa in the freezer (from an abortive attempt at a special diet for our puppy — long story), so I thought I would search for a quinoa burger recipe, and found this.

My first two attempts at this recipe, inspired by Sarah's Life Changing Loaf and Green Kitchen Stories» bread, were a hot mess.

The jambalaya looks wonderful, but your story about the horrific attempts at office solidarity had me both laughing and a little horrified.

i agree we also need to get rid of Arteta, Diaby, Podolski and Campbell probably.This story worries me because the squad is overloaded with midfielders, yet we still need a top DM, the guys i've mentioned in midfield clearly don't come up to scratch imo.Another worrying developement is Wenger talking up Theo playing thru the middle, i sincerely hope this isn't another attempt at trying to get out of buying a top CF, Theo's a useful player but hes not a real CF

So I will now attempt to tell that story — over the last 60 years, at least — through classic versions of 2017's Rivalry Week matchups.

It's the same old story with AW and the board and always the cheaper option, despite the fact that we COULD actually challenge for trophies next season as other issues have now come into play, Wenger will say «well we would buy Suarez but he's not available, Benzema does not want to leave Real Madrid» ect ect ect, but these are always excuses after the event these players would move if the right offer was made we could have got Higain two seasons ago the attempts at getting Suarez were truly farcical AND Im not convinced that it wasn't done that way so as to make it look like we tried when really we had no intention of paying 40 million for him.

The Sun claimed Arsenal and Liverpool were both in for Butland, valued at around # 40million, but the 24 - year - old himself tweeted about the speculation in an attempt to put the story to bed.

It seems a poor attempt at taking a different slant on a story in order to pull readers in, and a pointless one at that.

A story in Chile reported that Alexis Sanchez received a personal phone call from Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola, in an apparent attempt to convince the Chilean superstar to join him at the Etihad.

My own story starts with an attempt at a vaginal birth and ends up with an emergency c - section.

They also follow several women's stories — both those who succeed and fail at attempting a VBAC — including that of filmmaker Abby Epstein, whose first c - section delivery was depicted in the dramatic, final moments of The Business of Being Born.

For instance, one child may be more invested in the story of Santa and carry on her belief even into age 10 or beyond while her sibling may become suspicious and attempt to sniff out the truth at a young age.

Once I realized that nursing was not the path our story was taking (my son refused to latch and attempting to nurse was too emotionally stressful for both of us), and that it was not the only way to feed my baby my breast milk, I felt at peace with exclusively pumping.

Today's Post has an interesting look at Gannett's new emphasis on the web, with local newspapers attempting to drive traffic to their websites by focusing on very local stories.

For a look at one of the real stories of the 2008 campaign, check out this NY Times article about attempts by the top Democratic presidential campaigns to cut back on the amount of money siphoned off by political consultants, bringing them more in line with their Republican opposites.

«The attempt to link the chairman's name to the $ 115 million Slush Fund with Fidelity Bank is not only mischievous but disingenuous handiwork of adversaries who will stop at nothing to concoct stories no matter how ridiculous about our chairman.

Had Silver's lawyers made any attempt to portray Silver as a man of character at the trial, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara would have undoubtedly seen to it that the Sheldon E. Silver farce had made it into the court record, probably during the testimony of Michael Whyland, Silver's spokesman who led the media attack on the Times story.

I know at least one Tory press officer has been attempting dishonestly to smear me personally as a result of this story: a seperate tale for another time.