Sentences with phrase «compelling stories of our times»

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Many nonprofits are created from a story of change, growth or pain and telling that story compels people to give their time and / or money to the cause.

Neither is geologist Liz Hajek, but she makes an exception for this book: «I don't generally gravitate toward fiction, but this collection of short stories, set in a variety of compelling places and time periods, is so creative and rich, it's been really fun to read.»

Similarly, if you engage them with hard calls to action from the very beginning of the process, you probably haven't spent the time developing a compelling enough story for why they should heed your CTA.

They need a compelling growth story, which Kvisle hopes to give them in the fullness of time from several hot North American plays combined with «terrific opportunities» in Colombia, Southeast Asia and Kurdistan.

The more time we spent trying to answer this question, the more evident it became that of all the paths we had contemplated, the most compelling next step in Maple's story involved a shift from our current approach,» the letter reads.

He demonstrates time and time again the unequivocal power of storytelling with, not surprisingly, dozens of compelling stories of his own.

Interestingly, the Times story does not mention the North American Man - Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), an organization that has the merit of being utterly straightforward on a subject about which the Times, at least at this point in its political evolution, feels compelled to be somewhat coy.

In the same story in which this comment appeared, the Reuters correspondent felt compelled to add that Benedict «has devoted considerable time in office to writing a major study entitled, «Jesus of Nazareth» rather than administering the Church.»

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.

Our podcast features interviews with some of the most compelling people whose stories represent the changing face of family, as well as top parenting experts with great insights to share on the challenges of raising kids in these interesting times.

Such crossings of expectations make The Missing a thorny and even compelling story, for a time.

This is the kind of story that builds over time, so it's difficult to tell — Discovery made only one episode available — whether the rest of the series will stay as compelling as the pilot.

It's a distinct change of pace after the first section of the film, which is, I think, why I didn't like it as much the first time I saw it, but in fact this part of the story is well done and quite compelling.

So compelling is writer - director Joel Potrykus» unnerving scenario — with its largely ambiguous tone of horror dramatically offset at times by explicit frights — that a viewer isn't necessarily bothered by a lack of basic story information about who, what, when, where and why.

Willems spends a good amount of time praising the Wachowskis» divisive 2008 film Speed Racer for its strict adherence to formalism, which places the viewer in a world nothing like reality and yet still manages to deliver on an emotionally compelling story.

If you were fortunate to have been alive at the time, as I was, and witnessed both on circuit and the BBC's feable coverage of the season you would appreciate why this is such a compelling story.

The film takes it's time in relating the story, but patience will reward those who stick it out with a touching and compelling tale of healing and overcoming anything that ails you.

The truth is, no matter how much time we spend with people, the evolution of the characters and story aren't compelling enough to transcend its shotty material and poorly constructed product.

The story of the central relationship in the film is nothing we haven't seen a hundred times so it isn't particularly compelling or exciting.

A thrilling interpretation of the dramatic realities of the times and a reimagining of what wartime must have been like for one of literature's most famous and compelling characters, a story of all - consuming passion and ambition set in war torn Scotland.

You could make the argument that his habit of producing low - brow comedy makes it a total surprise every time he delivers something like Punch - Drunk Love or Funny People, but the truth is that Sandler's always been great — and we should stop acting like compelling performances like The Meyerowitz Stories are the only proof we have that he doesn't suck.

It is easy to tell that the narrative would compel more with the additional detail and lesser time constraints afforded by print, as well as the layer of truth from actually getting the author's story in his own words.

As a series, Bioshock was easily one of the best story - driven first person shooters of its time and as a fun fact, it was the «spiritual» successor to System Shock which gave the player some compelling characters and very entertaining gaming.

Despite these issues, a riveting central performance from Matthew McConaughey combined with stunning visuals, a compelling story and Nolan's unique ambition come together for a satisfying and, at times, moving journey to the end of the universe and back.

The Post — This is a moving story of a shy socialite finding her voice (Meryl Streep as Katharine Graham in one of her all - time best performances) as her small, local paper, The Washington Post, discovers its voice, too, the compelling, inspiring story of journalists who will risk everything to make sure Americans learn the truth about their government.

Across the original radio broadcast's hour - long running time, reporter Anya Bourg managed to not only tell the compelling story of Carl King's years - long quest for justice for his wrongly imprisoned friend, Colin Warner, but also pull us into the lives of these individuals, sketching in personalities with just enough detail for us to feel like we have a sense of who they are as people.

But when the fists and roundhouse kicks aren't flying, there's lots of down time in «Wild Card,» during which the film tries to make a compelling character study out of Escalante (here rechristened Nick Wild), a compulsive personality drawn equally to the blackjack table and to sob - story underdogs in need of a helping hand.

This is a pretty compelling true story and for a lot of the time, the movie plays it straight.

Lots of interesting visuals dominate much of the screen time, some fascinating to behold, and if there were a truly compelling story to go along with them, this could have been an all - time classic.

Readers follow the car, in nonlinear fashion, from its birth to death; what comes in between is compelling, although the story takes a bit of time to rev up.

In his new book, A Place Called Canterbury: Tales of the New Old Age in America, Dudley Clendinen, a former national reporter and editorial writer for the New York Times, chronicles the compelling life stories of the residents at a Life Care center in Tampa Bay.

For the three lucky finalists of The Story of My Life contest, however, their stories are being publicized nationwide as Simon Spotlight Entertainment, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, teams up with ABC - TV's Good Morning America to discover a first - time author of a compelling American memoir.

The most compelling data point from the Times story is the return of bookstores, writing, «The American Booksellers Association counted 1,712 member stores in 2,227 locations in 2015, up from 1,410 in 1,660 locations five years ago.»

I loved how nimbly Atkinson maneuvered time, jumping from past to future to deeper past to present to further future, so that there were no back stories, were no front stories, there was only Teddy's story, full of minutiae and import, and all of it as compelling a story of one person's life as I've read in some long time.

Unique characters and a compelling plot drive this story along as you feel immersed in a distinctive accounting of the time period.

From the author of the «big - hearted... inspiring» (Vogue) New York Times bestseller Kabul Beauty School comes a fiction debut as compelling as real life: the story of a remarkable coffee shop in the heart of Kabul and the women who meet there - each with a story and a secret that will lead them all to an extraordinary friendship.

While Tartt crafted very compelling characters and a story line that gripped readers, the pivotal painting on which so much of the story relies actually disappears for hundreds of pages at a time, only to be casually mentioned later.

I really don't have the time to learn what amounts to a thousand dialects of the same language after I spent God - knows how many man - years of my life creating a compelling story.

Carly Phillips is the N.Y. Times and USA Today Bestselling Author of over 50 sexy contemporary romance novels featuring hot men, strong women and the emotionally compelling stories her readers have come to expect and love.

The Confabulist is the story of an ordinary man, Martin Strauss, who in his waning years feels compelled to tell the truth about his connection to Harry Houdini, the most famous magician of all time.

The chapters fly by - a compelling story, well - drawn characters, believable dialogue, fantastic sense of place — all work seamlessly together to make one of the most enjoyable books in a long, long time.

Such great social upheaval allows for the strange and unusual to emerge and a time of intense emotions can, to the writer of fiction, provide ample fodder for a compelling story, especially one concerning criminal acts and issues of guilt and innocence.

A bold and poignant play on the traditional story of Scheherazade in The Arabian Nights, Greenberg's tale follows Cherry and her quick - witted maid, Hero (a star - crossed couple secretly in love) through their 100 - day ploy to distract a diabolical man by regaling him with with stories so compelling that he loses track of time altogether.

But this isn't your grandmother's Jane Austen; The River of No Return combines the mystery of a time - traveling cabal with a compelling love story in a twisty page - turner that's the planned start of a new series.

New York Times Bestselling Author Deborah Smith says: A compelling story of family loyalty, love, loss and strength; as warm and fertile as the rich red clay of a Georgia field.

This inspiring memoir following the Author from age twelve to twenty - two, illuminating a complex, dark time in China's history as it tells the compelling story of one girl's difficult but determined coming - of - age during the Cultural Revolution.

-- New York Times Book Review «There are some novels that take you by the hand with their lovely prose alone; there are those that pull you in with sensual renderings of time and place and a compelling story; and there are still others that seduce you solely with their subject matter.

Therapy animal handlers can tell many compelling stories of the powerful effect of their work: people in memory care that talk to the therapy animal after months of silence, a child in the hospital that doesn't appear to feel pain while the animal is visiting, autistic children who speak for the first time after petting a therapy animal.

The route offers such a compelling cross-section of the nation that Time magazine once devoted an entire issue to telling the story of the road it called the «Backbone of America.»

There are a lot of ways to tell compelling stories in video games, but for a long time, that came second to presenting a worthwhile gameplay experience.