Sentences with phrase «because of a compelling story»

Vice versa, some shows are awarded five star reviews because of a compelling story, no thanks to the dull content it's imposed upon.

Not exact matches

Advisors should give fixed indexed annuities (FIAs) a serious look because FIAs offer a compelling story in an era of low bond yields, according to Roger G. Ibbotson, one of the most recognizable names in finance.

David and Goliath is so compelling because the points are made through the incredible true stories of real - life underdogs and «giants»: the man whose emotionally stunted single - mindedness enabled breakthroughs in leukaemia treatment; the French painters who chose to go outside the established art system that rejected them, and ended up launching the Impressionist movement.

Part of the reason the future looked so bleak was because I couldn't look to many others who were living into compelling stories as celibate men and women, and the future story the church imagined for me hinged on marriage.

Because of a story in the New York Daily News on July 30, 1981 that reported Martina, admitting for the first time that she was bisexual, she and Lieberman felt compelled to set the record straight about their own relationship.

I wrote The Perils of Cyber-Dating because I felt I had a compelling story to share.

For such an intense story the movie ultimately fails because it's so caught up in the process of news gathering that it stops being a compelling movie.

«Shadow Complex wasn't a huge paying gig for me but I took it because I thought the developers were a nice couple of kids, and I found the story of a reluctant warrior being forced to find something worth fighting for to be a compelling narrative.

The characters in this film are compelling and entertaining and because of them and the choice to use the shrinking aspect of the story as a jumpboard rather than an isolated boat with nowhere to go, this allows a very human story to shine through an unrealistic story mechanism.

In a World works because it is not just silly nonsense like many of this summer's comedies, but a compelling father daughter story set in the goofy, yet interesting, niche world of Hollywood voiceover artists.

Too bad, because I have no doubt that a movie about Newton Knight, the rebellion he led, the founding of a biracial community in the deep south, and the marriage trial of one of his descendants decades later would have made compelling stories... they just shouldn't all be told in one crowded movie.

That's not because they realise how rare their service is — it's because it takes more work to create eLearning that performs the dual task of delivering the learning objective and telling a compelling story.

«We — as charter school parents — feel compelled that our side of the story be heard... We are so grateful for the charter school system in Arizona, because we were able to find a school that could meet the needs of our family and the individual academic needs of our children.

I found the story compelling, mainly because of the author's ability to write in great detail about the minutae of Perowne's job or family or uncertainties in such a way as to have me almost always reading something that was both informative and believable.

I don't know if it's because I'm getting older, but I found the story of Dick Diver's gradual decline to be even more compelling than Fitzgerald's earlier novel.

Grant writing appeals to me because of the challenge to tell a compelling story in a limited amount of space.

If you should decide to write a novel about a topic you know almost nothing about, a scholarly discipline requiring years to master, if you feel compelled to set the story in a land you've scarcely visited, during an era you can only dimly conjure from childhood reading and yellowed clippings, if you have followed your hyperactive and petulant imagination down a rabbit hole and there gazed at glowing, magical projections of inverted pyramids and pith - helmeted lunatics and pharaohs with unconventional appetites, but found little by way of actual knowledge, rest easy, because at the British Museum you will make a new friend: an expert who not only knows everything, but who is required — yes, required — to answer all your e-questions, no matter how many, how foolish, how wrong - headed, fantastic, or...

LE: Do you think that at some point the all - text story will be kind of an historical anomaly because the digital editions, the enhanced audio video and all that will just create a more compelling experience of a story than all text?

Advisors should give fixed indexed annuities (FIAs) a serious look because FIAs offer a compelling story in an era of low bond yields, according to Roger G. Ibbotson, one of the most recognizable names in finance.

To illustrate this power, Carlson uses the wonderful example of The Significant Objects Project, in which researchers were able to sell worthless baubles on eBay for surprising amounts because they linked each one with a compelling story.

As a Metal gear solid fan since the 1st one i can say that they are enjoyable because they're not just there for the sake of filler, their compelling and story heavy.

This isn't really a fault as much as it is a fact, because the main purpose of the title is to tell a compelling story, which is something that it does a swell job of.

The series runs very high in my affections because it introduced my Three Pillars of Great First - Person Shooter Gameplay — tight compelling level design, superb enemies to fight, and never letting the story get in the way of the gameplay.

There are still a lot of problems that Blizzard has with characterization, but I feel like so many of the villains, like we talked about at the beginning of the show, are so compelling because there are so many different arcs for them to take that the male villains in the story don't get attracted to.

I wait patiently for your next release and only hope that you eventually get the credit you deserve because there's something compelling about a trip down memory lane with a whole new game... Yeah it sounds odd but to clarify, it's like playing a 10/10 8 bit rpg all over again with a new story and I loved every second of it.

To oversimplify Agee's compelling contention, much of early 20th - century American art history was jettisoned either because it either didn't make a good story for the press, a cohesive argument for historians, or a particularly flattering narrative for those artists who came afterward.

And because of the vested interest in the possible results of that resume, creating a compelling story should be of utmost importance.

This is such a compelling story because it is basically the story of a newborn and a mother — and we never stop yearning to recreate it.