Sentences with phrase «coherent narratives of»

Children of more highly elaborative mothers come to tell more elaborative and coherent narratives of their own experiences by the end of the preschool years.

By the end of the preschool years children of more highly elaborative mothers are providing more detailed, more coherent narratives of their personal experiences both in conversations with their mother and with an unfamiliar adult.

A twenty - six - year - old woman born with HIV, her frank sexuality radically unsettles any coherent narratives of the crisis, be they of triumph or tragedy.

For all that the neoconservatives have said publicly about their vision of American power, a coherent narrative of the development of their policy has been needed, and Dorrien provides that account impressively He reveals that the purported reasons for the Iraq invasion (defending America from weapons of mass destruction and spreading democracy and freedom) were a mere gloss intended for public consumption.

Rather, it was a fail - safe way to preserve a student's dignity, the coherent narrative of an individual future, and the prestige of the social leaders giving the speeches.

When we are able to «make sense» of our lives in a deep, integrative manner, what emerges is a coherent narrative of our lives.

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But despite MacIntyre's eloquent exploration of what makes a human life coherent, theologians tended to find more compelling what he says about the narrative coherence (or incoherence) of whole traditions.

What we need is better and more responsible and more coherent personal stories, not the complete subsumption of all personal narrative into group narrative.

Thus the whole to which his thought is dedicated is a temporal whole: reality is now unified only because it will be a coherent narrative when history is brought to its conclusion in the Kingdom of God.

It is memoria, in this sense, that enables us to think of our lives in meaningfully narrative terms: the whole project of identifying and pursuing a coherent life would be impossible without memoria.

I also wish to assemble from its several expressions a coherent statement of Sacks» notion of narrative as «the science of the concrete,» for it seems to me that he offers important new ways of understanding the philosophic status of narrative.

The book is surely the more «coherent narrative,» but the movie might be the Coens» least nihilistic effort ever (as if they couldn't quite negate all of the Christianity and the Southern Stoicism of the book, and maybe of the South itself.)

Linafelt attributes to the mutual benefits of the two genres the «very best of ancient Hebrew narrative technique: a lengthy, artful and coherent story, with complicated and conflicted characters who grow and change and who... are capable of surprising the reader» (p. 72).

6 the narrative thread is coherent and, with the exception of I Sam.

Alter's artistic sense requires and permits him to reject two staples of conventional criticism: the Deuteronomic hypothesis that has never been easy to sustain in regard to Samuel and that constricts the power of the narrative; and the breaking of a unified and coherent narrative into sources, a long - established method of historical criticism.

Both contain the seeds of a narrative more hopeful and coherent than the technology story.

In the narrative of Israel's experiences at Sinai we find, by and large, a remarkably coherent, instructive account of the faith of Israel as Israel looks at her own past and the meaning of her continuing life.

The rule of faith demands that Scripture be read as a coherent dramatic narrative, the unity of which depends on its principal actor: the God who has forever known himself and who, in the history of redemption, has revealed himself to us, as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

So Labour was left trying to protect the victims of the Tory cuts agenda while accepting its underlying premises, also depriving itself of a coherent narrative linking together popular individual policies.

The DVD even contains the oft - forgotten «In Search of Dr. Seuss», a full 90 - minute film which is basically a series of set - pieces linking a whole bunch of Seuss's stories together into something approximating a coherent narrative.

The best thing that can be said about Bats vs. Supes is that it's rapid collapse at the box office may finally be enough to convince Warner Brothers to remove Snyder from any future DC Comics films and give them to those who've show an ability to deliver movies with coherent character, narrative and emotion in addition to pure spectacle — and preferably all of the above.

By then you realize that the filmmakers are ticking every incident in the life off a checklist rather than shaping a coherent narrative, an approach that leads far too often to the dreaded Artful Montage and scenes of the writer typing away while murmuring in voice - over ``... it was a perfect day for bananafish.»

Rather than collecting a bunch of funny people together on a set and just letting them riff, the film establishes coherent characters and drops them into a twisty mystery plot that's tightly crafted enough to generate some real narrative momentum while never getting too bogged down in its own plot that it forgets to be funny.

Hurly - burly activist sessions spin off in multiple directions, seemingly without a single line of coherent narrative purpose.

There are times when Infinity War feels more like a patchwork quilt of moments to tickle the nerd bone than it does a coherent feature, particularly in a first half that is a muddled selection of vignettes and episodes, barely connected by narrative sinews that are doing an awful lot of heavy lifting and often crack under the exertion.

It remains to be seen whether Manifesto works as a coherent narrative feature, but one thing we're sure of is that it will boast 13 stunning lead performances.

The opening sequence is breathtakingly edited, combining past present and future into a coherent narrative that doesn't follow any kind of logical order.

Bagging on a film like this for not adhering to the standard filmic understanding of narrative seems to me like bagging on something like Leaves of Grass for not having a single coherent narrative.

It's quite an ambitious project for Ford in only his second film but he's able to keep command of all the narratives and manages to combine a reflective drama with a mysterious, psychological thriller while bringing it all together to make a complete and coherent whole.

However, there are certain aspects to the film that are an improvement on the 2004 offering, namely the more coherent narrative structure, which indicates a desire on the part of Ferrell and McKay to properly develop the trajectory of their numerous creations.

In the director's chair, Johnson appears unfazed by the daunting task of having to weave these narrative threads into a single coherent tapestry, evolving the developmental arcs of characters both new and old.

The Darjeeling Limited felt more like a string of sometimes interesting moments, but the film lacked the requisite transitions necessary to create a coherent feature - length narrative.

Falling into same the pratfalls of Ayer's previous effort, Fury, Suicide Squad is another case where story elements are continuously piled on in the hopes that a coherent narrative arc will emerge.

Previously available as a single disc release, the new 2 - disc is an excellent presentation of arguably Ferrara's best film - a work where the obsessions of the director and writer Nicholas St. John gel into a coherent, exciting narrative of brutality, and the downfall of a vicious thug.

In a chapter we published in 2008 and in a later chapter of my book with Dennis Shirley on The Global Fourth Way: the quest for educational excellence (Corwin 2012), we were able, for the first time to provide one of the first coherent and globally known narratives of the reasons for Finland's success.

For those unfamiliar, books are a collection of words that form some sort of coherent narrative, printed on paper and bound together.

The sample, the representative chapter will give a prospective agent and editor or both an idea of your narrative writing and your ability to communicate your ideas in a coherent, cohesive way.

The overall narrative structure of Knack 2 is coherent for the most part but may be hard for someone to follow if they aren't paying attention.

Beyond that, the game would benefit from more visual detail and polish, and a coherent narrative that placed the matches in context or part of an arc and while the levels are well designed and the weapons and toys are satisfying to use, the game wildly and incongruously strays here and there from its realistic roots.

The action sequences in Uncharted 2 look as if they were shot by a team of cinematographers, then edited into a coherent and thrilling narrative.

, the game ends up displaying a far less coherent or decisive leftism than its contemporaries like Final Fantasy VII or Metal Gear Solid 2 that were, through an insistent application of text, managing to tackle much more complex systems of oppression than Dragon Quarter's systems and minimalist narrative could ever hope to achieve, which leaves the game feeling tonally coherent much more so than it is thematically coherent.

The unfocused nature of both the narrative and the designs make it seem less like a coherent horror experience and more like a hodgepodge of different tropes.

Aveline's sensitive role within the hot - button racial issues of the time is fascinating, but without a strong, coherent narrative, much of that potential is wasted.

It's hardly a gripping narrative, but it at least does a serviceable job of piecing together the gameplay challenges into a somewhat coherent series of events.

For that matter the game doesn't suffer from bad gameplay either, but what it does lack is a coherent and engaging narrative to keep you immersed in the world of Aiden Pearce, and that's a problem that plagues the game throughout, especially during the opening Act.

But then they decide to launch a prequel instead of a proper sequel to the second entry, a prequel that focuses on the evolution on one specific character, and Tales from the Borderlands shows how much potential a proper Borderlands narrative contains when telling a coherent, original story.

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Each of his skillfully rendered drawings informs the others and all are subsumed by a coherent, total experience that is motivated by the imaginative narrative Caivano has constructed.

«To organise delirium» might also be understood as an apt description of the formidable task of putting together this exhibition, of constructing a coherent narrative from Oiticica's artistic journey.

His paintings» continual slipping between these modes demands sustained attention from each viewer of each canvas, making it difficult to hang them together in a coherent narrative or group.