Sentences with phrase «described as a story»

The Disaster Artist is about the the friendship between the eccentric Tommy Wiseau and naive Greg Sestero while they make The Room, a film about... the honest truth is - it's actually hard to say what it's about because there are so many story lines that are brought up and never revisited, but the IMDB describes it as the story of «Johnny, a successful banker who lives happily in a San Francisco townhouse with his fiancé, Lisa.

Lawless, which is scheduled to be released in 2013, is described as the story of «two intersecting love triangles, sexual obsession and betrayal, set against the music scene in Austin, Texas».

The title is being described as a story - driven adventure with a mysterious setting full of strange creatures and ominous architecture.

Each level within each world is linked in a way that ties them together in what could loosely be described as a story.

Action Squad describes itself as a story - driven transmedia studio that aims to develop across platforms and media, including games and film.

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.»

Countless stories shared on World AIDS Day by survivors and patient family members describe Americans who, ignored by the political class and facing a dearth of treatment options, simply accepted HIV and AIDS as a death sentence just three decades ago.

The main feature of the movement, as described in the story, is an attempt to eliminate or at least minimize the role of middlemen by reconnecting producers and consumers.

IT»S easy to get excited about what's happening in the fast - moving world of currency values but it's wrong to describe what's happening as a «war», because it's not; what's going on is simply economics at work, and it's telling a story of changes in the wealth of nations.

Whereas other formulas describe the situation and tell stories, this one acts more as a diagnosis: This is what's happening, and this is how it affects you.

In the post about the report, the company described the type of requests they get as pertaining to «serious criminal records, embarrassing photos, instances of online bullying and name - calling, decades - old allegations, negative press stories, and more.»

A Fortune story published in 2015 about Silicon Valley health initiatives described Apple's Crossover center «as more of an Apple Store than a doctor's office,» regarding the center's decor and environment.

His yarns about famous and infamous pitches, success stories and burnouts, describe the end of Madison Avenue as a stuffy bastion of WASPiness and the beginning of its golden age.

That's the story told by Trey Harris, who describes himself as a former worker at both Google and Amazon.

So on Thursday, when the New York Times published a story alleging that Hollywood mega-mogul Harvey Weinstein has been sexually harassing women for decades — essentially confirming what has long been described as an «open secret» among those who follow the entertainment industry — I knew that no one would understand the story better than Lui.

Legendary marketer, Seth Godin, describes marketing as «the art of telling a story that resonates with your audience and then spreads.»

She added that the Gamergate incidents, as well as the stories of sexism in the industry described by many female game developers, have spurred some women to tell Edwards that they're thinking about leaving the industry or discouraging their daughters from working in it.

In 1988, Roger Cruz was described in passing in a New York Times story as a partner with sports agent Irwin Weiner in a $ 40 - million - a-year printing business in Mount Vernon, N.Y. Cruz appears to have moved the business to Boca Raton, possibly after Weiner died in 2001, federal court records in a pension case suggest.

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».

Michelle describes funny and poignant stories she experienced while one of the top female media professionals, as well as from her work with influential female executives at companies including Google, Microsoft and Bank of America.

Soon it branched out, with the launch of Big Hollywood, Big Government, Big Journalism and Big Peace, all designed to counter what Breitbart described as the «bully media cabal» that ignored stories at odds with prevailing liberal orthodoxy.

During the 2016 presidential campaign, the company paid McDougal $ 150,000 for, among other things, exclusive rights to the story of what she described as a 10 - month romance that started in 2006 with the married Trump.

But the human mind is made to fall for stories and miscalculate the odds when a good narrative is in place, as has been usefully described by the work of Nassim Taleb and Daniel Kahneman, among others.

And she was concerned about her family's safety after what she described as a scary episode in a Las Vegas parking lot in 2011, shortly after she first tried to sell her story to a tabloid magazine.

Wells describes his massive tome as «an attempt to tell, truly and clearly, in one continuous narrative, the whole story of life and mankind so far as it is known to - day [sic].»

Evolution shows that mankind was not produced as described in the bible, no one has ever seen a talking snake; so how likely is it that the garden story is not a myth?

The order and timing of the creation week does not match evolution and the fossil record, a global flood as described is not evident in the geologic record as would be expected, the stopped sun in Joshua's story would have caused major destruction that would be apparent in archaeology, etc..

Only one passage describes hades as a place of torment, the story of Lazarus and Dives (Luke 16:19 - 31).

That story has been described by the literary critic Harold Bloom (himself not the least Christian) as one of the great stories in world literature.»

You can't just read the news, which is largely sensationalism, and extrapolate the stories to assume that they describe the country or the world as a whole.

I didn't see the word «pound» anywhere in this story as you describe it.

Aronofsky, who describes himself as culturally Jewish but not especially religious, said he respects how important the Noah story is for believers.

Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country could be described as a «Protestant» novel; it comes closer than any other novel I know to telling a story of justification by grace through faith.

Anne Tyler is listed as a member in category IV: 4, described as «Literature (Fiction, Poetry, Short Stories, Nonfiction, Playwriting, Screenwriting).»

Hopewell describes a failed course of study at his church — Trinity: «Thus in characterizing Trinity, the absentees recounted its story as its history, the rest of us accounted for its story as its metaphor, and both we and they witnessed the story transformed as gospel.»

So the Coptic Church is not really part of one of those «three main branches» as they are described in this story, although it does share the same history with them up until the 5th Century.

The publisher's promotional material appears to build on the expectations associated with this sort of story, describing Mariette in Ecstasy as «a powerful portrayal of the disturbing world beneath the placid daily life of an American convent.»

Being with many pastors as they tell me their story, one of the main words I would use to describe their lives is loneliness.

If you've followed my z - theory at all, you will understand that I see the story of the incarnation as a powerful metaphor that attempts to describe reality.

One could interpret the story in non-literal terms, as Freud or Jung might have, and simply describe it as a teaching story on how parental favoritism can lead to sibling rivalry.

Dominic Crossan particularly has developed this point of view; he describes myth as the form of story that functions primarily to form world, and parable as the form of story that upsets and transforms world (DI).

In considering the Easter story, for instance, Cox describes the biblical accounts of Jesus» bodily resurrection as the confused ramblings of disciples who knew no other way to express their feeling that their rabbi remained somehow present in their lives.

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.

He has been missing for four days, and Wendy found him perched 30 feet up in the air on a telephone pole, and... well, take all the events I described above and fit them together into some sort of story (any crazy story will do) and you pretty much have what happened today as she tried to rescue Christmas.

By means of the story of the great flood, in which things were described as being so bad that the human race was all but annihilated, Israel was taught to see in the rainbow a sign that God would never again send such a catastrophe to blot out mankind.

The story describes Bachmann's influences - including figures like Francis Schaeffer and David Noebel, who most Americans have never heard of but who are superstars in conservative Christian circles - and I found them all familiar faces from my childhood as a culture warrior.

Over lunch they played what one member described as «the s ***** t game of Top Trumps ever» as they shared their stories of loss.

The message was a part of the pope's work on World Day of Communication, though some have interpreted the remarks as criticism of Donald Trump and other world leaders who have used the phrase to describe certain stories in the media.

The story of how Catholics have «made it» in America is endlessly fascinating, and pieces of the story are very nicely told by the author, a Jesuit at Fordham University who describes himself as a «historical theologian.»

The control / trust dilemma implicit in Miller's story might be described in Christian terms as original sin — the absence of trust in others and in God.