Sentences with phrase «element of a good story»

Prepare students for this lesson by reviewing the basic elements of a good story.

It has the typical elements of a good story.

Not exact matches

«12 Robert Neale, Professor of Theology and Psychology at Union Seminary, agrees that attitude is crucial, believing play is distinguished by a sense of «adventure» as well as «by those elements of peace, freedom, delight, and illusion that occur in the modes of story and game.

Then light was liberated, and then gravity created the first stars and galaxies, then billions of years later, a local star went supernova and seeded the local nebula with heavier elements, elements necessary for life, elements that were not created during the Big Bang, then the sun was born, then the planets coalesced, and billions of years later some primate wrote a story about how the Earth was created at the same time as the rest of the universe, getting it wrong because that primate did not have the science nor technology to really understand what happened, so he gave it his best guess, most likely an iteration of an older story told prior to the advent of the Judeo Christian religion.

The skaters are judged on five program component scores: Skating skills, their ability to skate with ease; transitions, what the skater is doing between technical elements (basically, don't skate without a purpose); performance, which is the art of it; composition, which is how the skater tells the story of their performance on the surface; and interpretation, another abstract concept that can be best explained as the skater skating with their soul.

Michael, a Member of the Dudes To Dads Meetup group in Encinitas, shares some elements about his fatherly transition, including the way he deals with tantrums as well as a delivery room horror story.

The Science Media Centre has produced a summary that sheds some light on why many scientists are increasingly dismayed by Antinori's activities: 1993 A British millionairess (59) gave birth to twins boys after fertility treatment by Dr Antinori, who said «The rich women from England.it's a very good story» 1999 It was reported, to the undisguised scepticism of many fertility experts, that Antinori had found a way of had helping infertile men by taking sperm producing element out of human testes and implanting them in rat testes, so that the rats would produce viable human sperm.

So moral of that story is an elimination diet with an autoimmune element that has some rotation pieces to it tends to be a better replacement for any food allergy testing.

UnEpic delivers an unoriginal but well written story, packed with some funny lines; a solid action platform gameplay, full of back tracking and respawn; and some hardcore RPG elements.

As the struggle with Voldemort suggests, the premise of the story is allegorical — good / light against evil / dark — with obvious revivals of the genre traditions of British heroic legend and medieval romance, even though the films have modern elements.

the new V begins with an entertaining, well - made pilot that tweaks aspects of the original story but generally retains many of the show's familiar elements.

It's a harsh, unsanctimonious picture with none of the feel - good elements that Spielberg inevitably injected into his story.

They've still got to catch up to the rest of the development world when it comes to technical elements, and a better story with more interesting characters would vault this franchise into the 8 + realm.

The story is simple — too simple, in fact — and some of its more intriguing elements could use further developing, but the presence of Huppert makes Souvenir well worth a look.

Despite the story, the overall good RPG elements are questioned because the majority of the game is decisions.

There's a lot to love about The Alliance Alive: a well - paced story in an interesting world, a meaty mashup of unique combat elements, and a fantastic soundtrack that keeps you pumped and eager to explore.

Co-writer and Director Ryan Coogler (FRUITVALE STATION, CREED) is three for three, and I have a gut feeling these numbers will always match — the man can tell a good story, an essential element for a film of this caliber.

If the last newspaper thriller of note, the Academy Award - winning Spotlight, better than it had any rights to be, focused on the mechanics of reporting and breaking a story, The Post, though it features similar elements, has somewhat different aims.

Dunwall is an amazing place in terms of the way it incorporates elements of steampunk with a victorian feel and setting a pace that wouldn't normally suit a 1st person action game but it just flows so well and the artwork on the characters is stunning but sadly let down by a bit of collision detection which is hard to ignore, combine all this with a satisfying story you get a really decent game with plenty to get stuck into.

One surprising element of The Interpreter is that it is good despite having three people credited with the screenplay, Charles Randolph (The Life of David Gale), Scott Frank (Minority Report, Flight of the Phoenix), and Steven Zaillian (Gangs of New York, Hannibal), and two with story credit, Martin Stellman (Tabloid, For Queen and Country) and Brian Ward (Tabloid).

Excellent and original visuals, well - implemented metroidvania elements, interesting mythological concept story, fast paced, varied battle and intriguing boss fights form the main assets of APOTHEON.

Embracing all of these well - known story elements and creating a fresh take on this genre is really what this film does best.

While it deviates a little from the original concept of the franchise, Dead Space 3 still delivers a great sci - fi experience with some horror elements, a good story and some superb graphics.

It's clear almost immediately that the horror elements within the proceedings don't fare quite as well as moments of a more overtly dialogue - based nature, as director Karyn Kusama generally proves unable to infuse the story's horrific moments with any real sense of dread or terror.

Essentially inspired by elements of the Motown story and the real - life rise of The Supremes, the musical tells a cynical tale of how Black music broke through to a mainstream audience, but lost its soul (as well as its Soul) in the process.

I wouldn't mind to see a story mode added in a future iteration but as it stands, Master League mode offers a good chunk of gameplay and strategic elements for playing the role of a manager and building your team.

«One of the things I'm proud of with the story is that we have been able to splice in comedic elements even better than before,» Inafune said through a translator during a press event last week.

There are elements of the story that push the believability of Andrew's obsession a little too far, but overall, how Chazelle is able to craft a psychological thriller out of this simple, off - beat premise, is one of the best cinematic accomplishments of the year.

While the subject matter is the stuff that good films are made of, and the quality of the direction and acting are worthy of admiration, where The East fails is in the contrivances involved in the farfetched plotline and the unevenness in the thriller elements (such as a scene in which the cell dresses up to the nines to infiltrate a party for pharmaceutical bigwigs that would feel more at home in a Mission Impossible movie) that undermine what could have been a chilling and realistic story of corporations run amok.

It has all of the elements necessary for a good animated film, but is missing a good story.

Neither of these games are terrible by any stretch, but in both cases the gameplay and story elements you'll encounter are simply handled better in other games.

That would be all well and good within the confines of a made - for - TV drama, but Perelman sees this story more as a somber thriller, ditching the humanistic elements for some hyperbolic confrontations that escalate feverishly until only tragedy can result.

The story, with its opposing elements of character drama and action, is blended so well that, as I said before, it feels like an old Hollywood film from some 60 - odd years ago.

All three DLCs released for DARK SOULS II (Crown of the Sunken King, Crown of the Old Iron King, and Crown of the Ivory King) will be included in the package as well as new story elements and a new NPC found in the latest content update available for current DARK SOULS II players.

As long as you know that you're going to see plot elements, story backgrounds, and characters similar to other, better films, you will be in the right frame of mind to enjoy Doom strictly as b - movie entertainment and nothing more.

Many elements of this story ring true, from the way the men in the Hollar family are all a bit lost without their women to the unexpected decency of the banker who rejects Don's request for a loan, which turns what might have been a standard rant against rapacious bankers into a more resonant story of a good neighbor reluctantly doing a tough job.

One of the things that makes the series work so well is that every album in it has its own distinctive feel — you never get the same story told twice, and while there are entries that share common elements, they're always handled in different ways.

It just had elements of an interesting movie, a good story, interesting people were attached and so many weird contrasting elements — romance, action, a heist... It just seemed like a mixture of a bunch of different movies, like a lovechild of Clash of the Titans meets Ocean's Twelve.»

And, this can't be stressed enough, not only has Guerrilla crafted a fantastic looking game, but the mixture of familiar open - world gameplay elements as well as the game's new and unique world and story make it feel both exciting and refreshing.

Film Editors Niels Pagh Andersen — «The Look of Silence,» «The Act of Killing» Joe Bini * — «We Need to Talk about Kevin,» «Cave of Forgotten Dreams» Bettina Böhler — «Phoenix,» «Barbara» Pernille Bech Christensen — «The Salvation,» «In a Better World» Raúl Antonio Dávalos — «The Amateurs,» «Meet Wally Sparks» Marie - Hélène Dozo — «Two Days, One Night,» «L'Enfant» Amy E. Duddleston — «Elegy,» «Laurel Canyon» Suzy Elmiger — «Lola Versus,» «Mighty Fine» Sim Evan - Jones — «Shaun the Sheep Movie,» «Shrek» Sarah Flack — «Away We Go,» «Lost in Translation» Affonso Gonçalves — «Carol,» «Winter's Bone» Matthew Hamachek — «Cartel Land,» «If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front» Chris King — «Amy,» «Exit through the Gift Shop» Pedro Kos * — «The Square,» «Waste Land» Sylvie Landra — «Catwoman,» «The Fifth Element» Tom McArdle — «Spotlight,» «The Station Agent» Adam Nielsen — «A War,» «A Hijacking» Kevin Nolting — «Inside Out,» «Up» Nathan Nugent — «Room,» «Frank» Stan Salfas — «Morning,» «Let Me In» Azin Samari * — «Ethel,» «The September Issue» Margaret Sixel — «Mad Max: Fury Road,» «Happy Feet» Mary Stephen — «Blind Mountain,» «A Tale of Winter» Troy Takaki — «Baggage Claim,» «The Bounty Hunter» Camilla Toniolo — «His Way,» «Company Man» Bernat Vilaplana — «Crimson Peak,» «Pan's Labyrinth» Pax Wassermann — «Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me,» «Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer» Julia Wong — «Hercules,» «Extract» Mark Yoshikawa — «The Hunger Games: Mockingjay (Parts 1 and 2),» «The Tree of Life»

Not a terrible one, though its good parts are scattered in a wilderness of discombobulated scenes and disjointed story elements.

He wisely brings the story's Depression elements to the fore, almost to the point of minimizing the in - ring sequences, and wrangles a better performance out of Russell Crowe than he did in «A Beautiful Mind.»

What's less well remembered is that this was merely one element of a whole PR campaign surrounding the release, in which the Coens themselves repeatedly claimed in interviews that the story was meticulously fact - based.

I caught some of the titles: Nugu - ui ttal - do anin Haewon (Nobody's Daughter Haewon) is a delightful film from the South Korean auteur Hong Sang - soo, the story of a female student's «sentimental education» as it were, as she traverses through reality, fantasy, and dreams, we viewers never quite sure what we are watching; Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (TIFF's Opening Night film) is an engaging and drily humorous alternative vampire film, Tilda Swinton melding perfectly into the languid yet tense atmosphere of the whole piece; Night Moves is from a director (Kelly Reichardt) I've heard good things about but not seen, so I was curious to see it, but whilst the film is engaging with its ethical probing, I found the style quite laborious and lifeless; The Kampala Story (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its ficstory of a female student's «sentimental education» as it were, as she traverses through reality, fantasy, and dreams, we viewers never quite sure what we are watching; Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (TIFF's Opening Night film) is an engaging and drily humorous alternative vampire film, Tilda Swinton melding perfectly into the languid yet tense atmosphere of the whole piece; Night Moves is from a director (Kelly Reichardt) I've heard good things about but not seen, so I was curious to see it, but whilst the film is engaging with its ethical probing, I found the style quite laborious and lifeless; The Kampala Story (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its ficStory (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its fiction.

Is it less misleading and a better practice to adapt elements of a comic book story but not title it such - for example, the third Iron Man movie adapting the «Extremis» storyline but going with the title Iron Man 3?

I don't totally agree with that sentiment, but I definitely think that Quantum Break is one of the year's best titles, and it does this by striking a fantastic balance between story and gameplay elements.

There's also a new TV Spot that highlights the action elements of the story as well as offering viewers a chance to be in the sequel (were one to be made) by prebooking tickets.

The Myth is full of so many different elements, most of them which would work well enough on their own, but tend to cancel each other out when presented within the context of the same overall story.

12 Strong looks to be resurrecting a few of those elements (well, the military fetishism and jingoism, at the very least), telling the «true story» of a small band of American soldiers in Afghanistan joining forces with local Afghan troops to fight the Taliban on horseback, navigating the unforgiving terrain with World War I - era tactics.

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner works best when the disparate elements of detective story, alternate history, and mysticism come together, but the somewhat clumsily - applied combat system hampers the overall effect.