Sentences with phrase «certain story points»

Although the shows generally aren't scripted, they're strictly formatted, requiring the featured players to hit certain story points, says Jauregui.

Streams can show people what other players did with their experience, how they reacted to certain story points or tackled certain bosses, and that's allowed for by the temporary nature of the ban that essentially waits for people to finish the game before streams are allowed.

But still, as usual we have a few questions about certain story points and character decisions.

Not exact matches

We finally decided that it would be most loving and protective of certain family members who are ashamed of this part of our story to remain anonymous at this point.

For the period from 1914 to the present, Blumhofer switches to the developmental model used by William Menzies in an earlier work, Anointed to Serve: The Story of the Assemblies of God (1971) She illustrates many of the points with fresh anecdotal material and brings into greater focus certain aspects of the history, such as the denomination's response to the New Order of the Latter Rain.

Particularly at certain points, we sense the oral quality of the stories: this, or this, or this strikes us as something told, even though we read it now.

The unique person and moment can be seen as unique because the story does not have to return to a certain point; but on the other hand, the end symbolizes closure, the cessation of the intolerable new, and the little story of the believer's life is subjected to these same tensions that appear in the overall story.

The whole story was crafted to get certain points across, and there is no need for factual accounting when creating fiction.

On this latter point various views were bound to develop, and these views, as well as the legendizing tendency, which is never absent from a growing tradition, were certain to affect the way in which the story of the resurrection was told.

Some people dedicate a lot of time and energy watching Joss Whedon's «Buffy the Vampire Slayer» and debating the finer points of that story, debating what Whedon's intent was with certain images, what philosophy is supported by that storyline.

«The Bible,» writes Enns, «is the story of God told from the limited point of view of real people living at a certain place and time....

Here is undoubtedly close parallelism to the Old Testament story at certain points.

Two things the story shows: first, that man can not maintain the cause of God merely up to a certain point, so far as may be without disturbing himself; rather the will of God claims the man completely.

Different genres of movies portray information differently, and so just as you would not expect accurate history and science to come from a love story, even documentaries, which often do portray accurate history and science, reveal history and science from a particular perspective, carefully selecting material to make a certain point, or tell a certain story.

The story provides a history and meaning, and points open - endedly in a certain trajectory.

If we claim that He «showed up» at a certain point of our story, are we saying that He was absent until then?

What this blog is doing is picking certain parts of certain stories to prove a point.

One person starts a story and stops at a certain point.

If our personal identity is a story we tell about our bodies and certain brain activities that occur in them, and I think it is, then locating the self at a single point serves a central purpose: It separates the storyteller from the story.

But Somerset points out that weighted squats are a different story: «For some people, their squats fall apart under a certain amount of loading,» he says.

Despite the lessening of madcap energy, Shrek the Third is still quite funny in parts, with some fresh throwaway gags to produce chuckles now and then from characters you'd think they probably should have jettisoned long ago, but are secretly glad they've kept around (the Gingerbread Man, Pinocchio, etc.) The fact that they are keeping in nearly all of the characters introduced in the series thus far is a bit of a double - edged sword, as they do provide a certain respite from the main characters that are already cycling through the same jokes all over again, but on the other hand, it's getting to the point that the high overhead of injecting scenes for all of these characters takes away from the focus of the story at large.

While both installments were treated as thematically and stylistically separate entities, as opposed to a single finale story that was just split in half and to be continued, the exclusion of certain plot points from both books made both film adaptations feel as though they were lacking in emotion.

(But Richard Schiff does excel...) While the movie may have had a chance if it had been a play (Where the speechifying would have worked better), it is still hard to believe the story progressing beyond a certain point.

In conclusion, there are melodramatic spells, as well as some focal unevenness, spawned from hurrying past certain plot aspects that really aren't all that needed in the first place, being not much more than supplements to the rather repetitious bloating that makes this overambitious effort too overblown for its own good, though not to the point of completely dismissing its engagement value, as there is enough sharpness to the production designs, cinematography and score work to provide striking style, as well as enough story value, brought to life by inspired writing, direction and acting, - particularly by leading lady Halle Berry - to make «Alex Haley's Queen» a rewarding near - epic study on the struggles faced by the mulattoes who struggled to fit into a post-slavery society that was rich with racial tension and plenty of other life challenges.

Where «Roots» and «Roots: The Next Generations» were extensive studies on, not one character, but a series of members in a bloodline that spans about a century or so, this series centers around one character, thus the unevenness that plagued this series» sisters has been thinned out tremendously, though unfortunately still not quite to the point of dissipation, because as generally comfortable as this story's flow is, Halle Berry's titular Queen Jackson character extensively faces several dynamic events and characters, yet still doesn't take the time that it should to meditate upon the full exposition and depth of this story's range, thus leaving certain key story aspects to come off as unnecessary and, of course, supplementary to focal inconsistency.

There's always wiggle room in these movies — everything is from a certain point of view — but coming into our story, he is the actual last of the Jedi.

He makes a movie that's unlike anything else in the MCU, and while certain beats and story points follow a traditional pattern, the world Coogler has crafted as well as the people he has constructed to live within it are so uniquely three - dimensional I sat in mesmerized awe for every single second of the film's briskly paced 134 - minute running time.

At certain points during the story, you will be presented with a wheel with various pictures on it.

What's surprising is that this cliche - filled narrative takes a turn at a certain point and begins to barrel towards much more exciting and immediately engaging events — but like what feels like everything in Xenoblade Chronicles 2 it takes a while to get to that point even if you ignore side quests and attack the main story specifically.

In the middle part of Anderson's career (circa «The Life Aquatic» and after), some critics began to complain about the familiar stylized elements of his films being a crutch and formula, diorama - like to the point of aestheticizing the emotions of the story (to be fair, some prescribed elements — the slow motion endings, that Futura font, the expected Kinks or Rolling Stone song — were starting to feel a little mechanical at a certain point).

Where other directors — Allen, for instance — might treat this same setup and characters with a certain eye - rolling absurdity, Turturro's script, direction, and performance all point to a sober, old - school romanticism that suggests Fioravante's sexual prowess and financial success aren't so much an unlikely professional success story as a burden and a barrier to the life he wants to be living.

We hope it's not prudishness, but somewhat taking the Soderbergh stance that «as soon as someone gets naked, the film becomes a documentary,» that scene's overlength did in fact take us out of the story: by a certain point we had understood the drama and import of this moment for Adèle, and her revelatory experience of having sex, for the first time, with someone she was terrifyingly in love with.

Zathura is predictable to a certain point, and the home invasion sequence by the reptilian Zorgons drags on much longer than necessary, but just when you think that the story's ideas have petered out and the movie is going to go into coast mode to the finish, a new story wrinkle emerges to keep us reeled in again.

After a certain point in the story Christine begins taking control, getting a better grasp of what's happening around her, and that works so well onscreen due to the script and also thanks to Kidman's performance.

In single - player, he has a role in the story, but it's diminished to the point of irrelevance, and his presence in and out of certain scenes makes his sudden appearances distracting.

But there is a certain point in the third act when the film takes a turn that seems to betray the story it had been telling so far.

But the game went one step further, allowing players to change job classes once a certain point in the story had been reached.

But at 140 minutes, the story's momentum flattens out at a certain point.

John Krasinski peruses ideas and occasionally melodramatic happenings to have the story come to a certain ending, and with the exception of one point of the story, it's all fairly predictable.

What we do know for certain is that the untitled Avengers movie will mark an ending to what will be an 11 - year - old, 22 - movie - long story at that point (kicked off in the distant past by 2008's Iron Man).

The game switches to and fro between the two lead characters after a certain point in the story, something that was followed again in Revelations 2.

It provides a Rosetta stone for Anderson's career to this point, Pynchon's work serving as a template for an artist crossing genres while holding true to a certain standard of intellectual rigor, a certain florid prosody, a specific interest in telling true the story of whatever the times may be.

Sure the story's essentially the same and the special effects budget has obviously been spent, but the tone here is also a more menacing one than Robert Wise's 1951 film, which points to a certain intelligence to which we're not typically accustomed in these kinds of projects.

There's always wiggle room in these movies - everything is from a certain point of view - but coming into our story, he is the actual last of the Jedi.

The story is not only heart - wrenching for Dan and Diggy, it points to a bigger issue of selectively targeting certain breeds through legislation that not only keeps dogs that would otherwise be rescued from shelters from ever finding homes, but also forces people who have these dogs to leave them behind if this law is put in place.

I did point out to the author of the list that people of color travel too, and i referred them to NOMADNESS I think that it is up to us to share more our own travel stories, through social media, if you do not blog then instagram, twitter, tumblr, whatever But also you have to admit, the media is more favorable towards certain people, this color dominate advertising, and major news stories, that is just a fact we may have to deal with

Not only will you learn about Hawaii's history, landscape and other stories along the way, but your tour guide might point out certain species of trees, animals and more — as one online reviewer pointed out.

There is also a certain armor set that can be obtained through the Deluxe edition and again this can't be accessed until you pass a certain point in the story.

John Calhoun (JC): Well the game isn't truly a very linear story in that there are a number of progressive points that we know all players will go through, and we know that they'll go through them in a certain order.

This special item is not optional so you will get it once you pass a certain point in the story.