Sentences with phrase «characters as the story»

Instead, I shall be focusing on its character as a story.»

The audience needs to be positioned very close to these people so they can see how the camera captures subtle changes in the characters as the story progresses.

The single - player experience chains together a series of fights with characters as the story progresses, culminating with the final fight against Superman.

Baranski will be joined by fan - favorite Cush Jumbo as «Lucca Quinn,» along with the introduction of new characters as the story evolves.

Rudd and Leslie Mann revisit those characters as the story centers on their marriage this time around.

It would have been nice to see a few more levels with this character as her story seemed a little more involved than the segment allowed for.

I couldn't find myself caring about any of the characters as their stories were very cookie - cutter and generic.

You'll start the game with two, and eventually add more characters as the story progresses.

Not exact matches

And Lewis at one point has a character's internal monologue describe the «entire history of Wall Street» as the «story of scandals... linked together tail to trunk like circus elephants.»

«Bennett has become a master of storytelling through character, and while there are clearly no people in these films, it was clearly a very human story, which we knew a director such as Bennett would zero in on and draw out very real human - like emotions from these poor inanimate objects,» Lennon said.

The narrative transportation theory, as it's called, states that people may feel like they have been teleported to the world of their character in a story they can identify with.

«Several unromantic dinners with my girlfriend were spent with her in character, telling me stories about her life as a Nebraska farmer... which I then recalled for her over dessert.»

In their new book, Losing the Signal: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of BlackBerry, Globe and Mail reporters Sean Silcoff and Jacquie McNish document the fascinating story through unprecedented access to company co-founders Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, as well as numerous other important characters.

As reported, the new film will be an origin story for the clown prince of crime, it will be set in the 1980s, and it will be completely unconnected with the Jared Leto version of the character introduced in «Suicide Squad.»

The Iger angle is a counterpoint to the previous day's FT story, which had the character of a trial balloon, mooting Fox CEO James Murdoch, son of Rupert, as a future successor to Iger.

This is what often happens in movies, as our emotions are influenced and affected by the characters and the story as the movie unfolds.

I would not use gratuitous sex and violence — as in Game of Thrones — but make sure the violence, for example, was appropriate to the story, its historical setting, and to my characters.

In reading firsthand accounts of the Waco siege, meant as research for a character in a completely different story they were writing, the Dowdles realized this was the show they should write.

Creating stories about Lattjo's characters not only gives the collection a greater context, but it also serves as a digital gateway as IKEA prepares to roll out its first children's digital experience with a Lattjo - connected app.

This is a small story, as quiet and unassuming as its main character.

Whether through character descriptions straight out of a novel or his look at the way we all construct our own stories, Mulaney's writing stays sharp as ever.

There are plenty of stories that highlight just how mean - spirited Helmsley was towards her employees, and her cruelty and disdain towards the people below her — who she once described as «the little people» — was so ingrained in her character it earned her the nickname the «Queen of Mean».

You have simply asserted allegiance to a character in a story repeatedly while dismissing the work of those genuinely curious as to how the universe works.

Some of the vocal tracks were just recorded onto the computer.For the most part, the whole thing was on four - track, giving it a scratchy feel.The new album will probably cover the whole experience of trying to get my thing off the ground, losing hope and finding hope.So, I think there will be a theme to the whole record, but it won't be as story - driven as the last one.Like in The Novelist, there's a specific «on this song this is happening, and on the next song such - and - such is happening,» along with the character building.

The fact that a novel's narrator must speak as a god from outside the story has always vexed novelists, particularly when the narrator is also a human character in the story.

Israel and the Church are not characters in a larger story called «world,» but rather «world» is a character in God's story as known through the story that Israel is the Church.

Although much of the Old Testament does have historically verifiable occurances, the lead characters are heads of state or high priests or the stories are about the nation as a whole.

Though not many details about Tink have been released yet, initial reports make it sound like a possible origins story: «Like Maleficent, this Tinker Bell tale is conceived as «the story you don't know,» and will offer a new perspective on the character.»

Stories like these helped me recognize the «good» within people; not the 2 - dementional stereotypical characters that we tend to see in moviesand associate as «bad guys» (dark eyes and a goatee); that is just movie makeup that plays on the social consciences of that era.

In fact, some Jewish scholars are now admitting that many stories from the Old Testament are either outright fabrications, or are stories that were partially true but were embellished and mythologized to create archetypal characters as Jewish heroes.

Ford is correct in maintaining that on the occasion of God's dealing with particulars the appropriate aspects of his purely conceptual, nontemporal decision come into being in time as the character of his propositional feelings, but that can not be the whole story of divine freedom.

His novels often read as though they were stories stitched together, and they make grandiloquent spiritual claims which neither their characters nor plots always justify.

Despite complaints over hard - to - define bias, many shows and movies have made Christianity a part of on - screen characters» lives, portraying the faith as an important element of a bigger story — instead of just a punchline.

I loved Lila as a character and the book is her side of the story but the writing is quintessentially midwestern, simple and straight forward and then staggeringly beautiful.

Join nine wild animal characters as they guide young readers through the story of God's Word one step at a time.

The human link between them is obviously the person of Naaman, and if these acts are all petty, insignificant, and of no evident worth, it is because God respects the independence of Naaman just as he does that of each of the other characters in the story.

In my family, we see life as a series of grand stories that simply must be populated with larger - than - life characters.

That is how Mark ponders and wrestles with and finally solves the problem: Christ had to die — it was the divine decree — but Christ voluntarily accepted his death, as «for many»; and the characters in the tragedy all express, the events in the story all serve, this one overmastering purpose.

What this amounts to from a literary perspective is seeing the story as merely a frame and the characters as useful mediums for dramatizing the ideology.

For my own children, in this video - gaming age, what those fictional children get away with is simply unimaginable, except as the stories themselves seed the imagination, and the lives of the characters work their way into the life of the real child, enlarging that child's world.

Their stories often suggest the appalling extent to which the church tends not simply to ignore sexual, physical, emotional and spiritual violence against women and children as a major crisis, but actually to provide theological justification for this violence in its teachings about male headship, women's subordination, and the sinful character of sexuality.

Character can be construed as a reminder that the moral self is perduring in the way that a story is a narrative.

Laura Bozzone's Celia is a little heavy handed on the earnestness early in the play, but her portrayal mellows alongside her character into a spirited warmth and charm as the story progresses.

The bible is a story book with jesus as its main character.

I have never had a problem with the story of Jesus saving the woman... but that last comment of go and sin no more always struck me as odd... so out of character with Jesus previous statement...» Neither do I accuse you».

The character of Isaac is hardly sufficiently drawn to return an impression of independence; or perhaps it would be better to say that the stories about Isaac appear more as a link between the Abraham and Jacob cycles than as an independent unit of stories.

Hereâ $ ™ s some of the things that grabbed me: important theological / spiritual themes are developed through the story such as good and evil, leadership, courage, love, forgiveness, and unity; good character development; convincing geographical descriptions; it does feel like the same kind of worlds Tolkien, Charles Williams and C. S. Lewis wrote about.

Our story of Judah and his daughter - in - law Tamar, as also in fact the book of Ruth, indicates that in early Israel the levirate obligation might be extended to any near male relative.9 We note finally that this is a good story, not, obviously, in the sense that it is morally elevating (it candidly reflects the morality of the age), but in the remarkably graphic portrayal of character, especially Tamar, the deft integration of plot, and the skillful employment of suspense.

Her saving grace there, as in Out of the Deep I Cry, is her ability to create a story both intensely human and delightfully unpredictable, with events flowing naturally from collisions of character rather than the exigencies of plot.

He describes his work simply as that of making pictures for Christians, and he gives the impression that he works in the spirit of those early medieval artisans who carved biblical characters on capitals and reredos to remind worshipers of well - known stories.