Sentences with phrase «compelling human story»

It's a very funny, very sad and utterly compelling human story.

The film doesn't approach it with an agenda and thus makes for a more compelling human story.

Sundance Institute looks for original, compelling human stories that reflect the independent vision of the theatre artist.

The film is Brooklyn, directed by John Crowley, a veteran of the London stage who has slowly put together a filmography of disparate yet compelling human stories.

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«We can't lure people from point A to point B without a compelling story,» says Snyder of Human Resource Group.

Drawing on his life story, as well as conversations with ordinary and extraordinary people he has met along the way, Dr. Bob presents a compelling framework that will define and dramatically enhance your experience of what it means to be human.»

I advise business people to begin every presentation with a compelling, human - scale story.

In this book, Robert Bellah and his coauthors deployed a fascinating and compelling range of stories testifying to the damage American individualism has done to countless human lives and their communities.

It is notoriously hard to make goodness compelling, whereas the human imagination is gripped by stories of evil.

To slip into Whiteheadian technical terminology, I understand Jesus as a figure the story of whom we objectify with peculiar vividness as a result of his power to grasp the successive subjective aims of generations and generations of men by the sheer massiveness and compelling weight of the ideal vision which he has presented as a lure promising richness and depth of feeling in human satisfactions.

In only a few short paragraphs, Alison provides a compelling account of analogy as God's way of subverting the human story of violence from within» analogy depends on God's refusal to be rejected by his creation.

«What better way to motivate a church audience that can sometimes be sheltered and not want to walk into situations or topics like human trafficking but with a story, a story that they can hear, that they would understand, that would compel them to get involved.»

What remains are the stories that reveal major shifts in human knowledge, reflect science's biggest challenges and highlight the compelling and intriguing ways that science can illuminate the world around us.

It's a compelling story, offering a simple explanation to the mystery of why mammoths, mastodons, and Clovis humans vanished.

He can be reached at Waubansee Productions, LaGrange Park, IL, at: [email protected] His latest film, From Billions to None: The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction, is a compelling look at the forgotten story of a super-abundant bird species driven to extinction by humans in a matter of decades.

Loading Human is an episodic, VR adventure game that blends a deep story, interactivity, and physical gameplay within a compelling sci - fi universe set in the 22nd century.

One of the most cinematically compelling recent films in any genre, the enigmatic horror story by director Konstantinos Koutsoliotas, The Winter, depicts the porous boundary in the human imagination between fantasy and reality, past and pre...

One of the most cinematically compelling recent films in any genre, the enigmatic horror story by director Konstantinos Koutsoliotas, The Winter, depicts the porous boundary in the human imagination between fantasy and reality, past and pre... more

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.

«The Theory of Everything» is about the power of the human spirit, and while the first half makes for more compelling viewing compared to the generic story beats that encompass Hawking's later years, Redmayne and Jones are so good that even if their performances overshadow the movie itself, it's still very much must - see viewing.

««HHHH» is a utterly compelling story which juxtaposes two antagonist forces — the worst and the best of human nature — as did «The Connection» in its depiction of Judge Michel's heroic journey to bring down the French Connection,» Goldman told Variety.

It raises compelling moral issues about aggression, genocide and mercy in the context of what appears, at first, to be just another humans - vs - aliens story.

Shyamalan's films have transcended genre constraints, as the director has made use of intelligent stories and compelling human characters rather than gore.

It's really a pity because as you can see, there is a compelling story that's heavy on human drama, which is as far away from a frivolous action flick.

Bringing you compelling stories of human development through the lens of travel.

VanderMeer marries bildungsroman, domestic drama, love story, and survival thriller into one compelling story centered around complex, vulnerable characters struggling with what it means to be human.

«In Donna Leon's sure hands, the crime novel becomes an instrument for exploring social justice and universal truths about human behavior while beautifully telling a compelling story.»

With this opening line of Naslund's compelling new novel, a very human Marie Antoinette invites readers to live her story as she herself experiences it.

A good story is still a good story, and a compelling nonfiction travel tale will not just evoke a strong sense of place, it will contain the same human themes and narrative elements as a good work of short fiction.

There's something inexplicably compelling about becoming a Pokemon in a world where humans are just bedtime stories, and interacting with an adorable society run by the critters themselves.

Instead of revisiting the characters and stories from the comics and TV show or, mercifully, watering the experience down to a simple first - person shooter, The Walking Dead does something utterly unique: it echoes the «humans are the real monsters» theme of the series with a whole new cast of memorable and compelling characters.

The Missing Link propels players into compelling gameplay, beginning with Adam being temporarily stripped of his use of augmentations, new, visually stunning environments and the continuation of DEUS EX: HUMAN REVOLUTION» s conspiracy rich story.»

Despite our sincerest aim of using science as an objective and unbiased tool to record natural history, we are reminded that science is a human construct, often driven by human needs to tell a compelling story, to reinforce the positive, and to compete for limited resources — publication trends and communication bias is a proof of that.

This is such a dramatic and perversely entertaining story (whose subtext is, ease and pleasure and wealth is inherently destructive, which has always been a popular belief among a large cohort of human beings) that many people are compelled to believe it right from the start, and the news media love it and hype it, and extol you as a solon whose special knowledge will save mankind.

Human beings love stories; the better story you can tell, the more compelling you will be.

Write and produce compelling investigative and human interest stories about celebrities and iconic news subjects.