The final minutes of the episode tie together
elements of each story in a surprising crescendo of hard turns and horrifying revelations.
Brian cites Dark Souls as a touchstone for the kind of game they want to make, where players can approach
the elements of the story in a different order, do different things, and — if they're good enough — bypass areas entirely in the open world.
I had already been using
elements of story in my work, but once the word «story» popped out at me as the connector of all my work, it suddenly made sense how to weave them all together.
Not exact matches
Two essential
elements of any presentation: Put your audience first and tell your
story in a meaningful progression, a logical flow.
With all the end
of the world villainy and brooding masked vigilantes cleaning up the streets, humor seems to be an undervalued
element in superhero
stories.
«There are lots
of elements of the
story that cast doubt on the efficacy
of this law, the way
in which it was adopted, whether it would advance any counterterror objectives — it just all looks bad.»
He asks readers to consider how mirroring the
elements of inspiring
stories will guide them towards meaning and purpose
in their own lives.
While I'll leave it to the pundits to unpack the ramifications
of the current drama, there is one largely overlooked
element of the
story that I'd like to flag for your watercooler conversations: Comey learned
of his dismissal while visiting with FBI agents
in Los Angeles, the purpose
of which was to prepare for a diversity recruiting event later that evening.
«The basic
elements of this
story are repeated
in the lives
of all
of the great Masters
in history: a youthful passion or predilection, a chance encounter that allows them to discover how to apply it, an apprenticeship
in which they come alive with energy and focus.
Increasingly, digital retailers are finding value
in weaving
story elements around their products as a way
of compensating for the lack
of the sensory experience one finds
in brick - and - mortar stores.
Just as the Jews
in Biblical times achieved their dream
of freedom and self - determination, many
of the
elements of the Exodus
story serve as metaphors for how we can achieve our own dreams today.
Stories was launched
in 2016, and within a year this
element of Instagram has attracted more users than all
of Snapchat.
There are still
elements of the secular stagnation
story which are fundamentally true; that is, that population growth
in the world is slowing.
Match has introduced video
elements on a few
of its properties — Match.com now has a «
stories» feature, and Tinder users
in certain countries can experiment with short «loops» — but video is still relatively uncommon
in the online - dating world.
And other than those
elements, the rest
of the
story is, according to the New York Times, exactly the same: Peter Hodgson later discovered Silly Putty
in a toy store and ran with it.
Your ideas might be big, however your ability to present all that information
in a coherent «
story» that grabs the attention
of the investors, along with informing them about the critical information they need to know to make their decision is the most crucial
element in the startup journey.
This is why I spend my time critiquing power and authority, especially religious: because it compromises the most historic
element of our
story... that moment
in time when we crossed over from freely walking
in the garden with God to working on hard ground with thorns and a curse.
In this
story two related
elements of leadership as a spiritual practice are evident: first, leaders lead.
Many other
elements of this particular
story were added much later, including the identification
of Attis as a savior, which began
in the 6th century.
Confident
of his reader's familiarity with the calamity
of the Fall and the
story of Cain, Maine arranges their
elements into quadrants presented
in inverted order: a dolorous meal
of successive missteps where one has to swallow the consequences first.
«Various themes, plot
elements, and characters
in the Epic
of Gilgamesh have counterparts
in the book
of Genesis, notably
in the
stories of the Garden
of Eden and Noah's Flood.
«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.
We not only tell the
story of the first Passover, but we also tell the
story of the Last Supper with Jesus, and talk about how every
element in the Passover meal pictures and represents Jesus Christ and what He did for us.
Further, he insisted, a congregation's particular
story, because it draws from a treasury
of narrative
elements available to all groups
of people as they struggle for survival and meaning, is its channel to participation
in the worldwide mission
of establishing God's shalom.
The principal
elements in the death and resurrection cluster
of the Christian Myth are (A) his death as sacrifice and atonement, and (B) the «magical»
elements of the resurrection
stories.
Finally, a tradition inevitably develops that tells the
story of how these rules were first received, a
story which roots them not
in the common life
of the people, but
in the
element of the divine.
Set
in a not - too - distant future kingdom called Gilboa (the location where the real King Saul died), nearly every
element of the
story is a reference to biblical themes,
stories and characters.
If the resurrection is the true dénouement
of the whole
story and not a «happy ending» tacked on to a tragedy, then there is an
element in the
story itself which brings us to the frontiers
of normal human experience, where experience runs out into mystery.
The parable
in barrenmind's post (7:01 pm) could be quite easily be read as the
story of men who have rejected different
elements of the teachings
of God, yet have not given up faith.
Although the vivid details
of this
story give it a ring
of plausibility, there may be
elements of folk legend
in it that attached to it before it came into Mark's hands.
As they tell their conversion
stories, an essential
element was the identification
of mistakes
of reason
in the secularism they had previously embraced.
In some of the greatest historical narratives of the Bible the specifically religious element is quite in the background and the secular human interest is to the fore; for example, in the moving story of David and Absalo
In some
of the greatest historical narratives
of the Bible the specifically religious
element is quite
in the background and the secular human interest is to the fore; for example, in the moving story of David and Absalo
in the background and the secular human interest is to the fore; for example,
in the moving story of David and Absalo
in the moving
story of David and Absalom.
The history
of art is,
in one sense, the
story of the effort to keep searching for new ways to bring together the most different
elements imaginable.
The use
of the women as the characters and the mention
of the anointing
of the body may be
elements suggested to the author
of this legend by the
story in Mark 14:3 - 9,
in which an unknown woman, and the only woman «disciple» mentioned elsewhere
in Mark's Gospel, anointed the feet
of Jesus with costly perfume.
But none
of the apostles figure
in this
story, and whatever historical
element may reside
in it, it was not the finding
of the empty tomb that brought the apostles to faith
in the risen Christ, and if Paul ever heard the
story he never thought it worth a mention, even when he assembled the evidence
of witnesses
in I Corinthians 15.
It is altogether consistent with John's emphasis on exaltation that «resurrection» is referred to only once
in Chapter 20, and that
in an
element which marks a further development
of the tomb
story.34
There are also mythological
elements in the
story of Jesus.
Recent studies
of the miracle
stories in the Gospels
in comparison with those told
of Jewish and pagan saints and sages or «divine men» have brought out the fact that the emphasis on faith as a condition
of healing is a distinctive
element in the Gospel narratives.
The gospel
story recorded
in Mark 12 includes the
elements of the uses and misuses
of religious speech.
But if there is a hard core
of authenticity, and if the process
of transmission has been largely an expansion
of this tradition by, and its accommodation to, the influence
of parallel
stories in other traditions, then the unique
element in the tradition
in comparison with its parallels is that which has the highest claim to authenticity.
Numerous
elements in the
story of Jonah (including his own words
in chapter 4) indicate that Jonah wants to die.
The second
element of the gospel
story that Wesley says puts his celibacy
in perspective is a God who is «known by his threat to our going on with «business and usual.
In terms of faith, apart from his love of the Mass, the time at the Oratory also gave him a strong grounding in Thomist metaphysics, and certainly this was a key element in the way he portrayed evil, death, immortality and many other things in his storie
In terms
of faith, apart from his love
of the Mass, the time at the Oratory also gave him a strong grounding
in Thomist metaphysics, and certainly this was a key element in the way he portrayed evil, death, immortality and many other things in his storie
in Thomist metaphysics, and certainly this was a key
element in the way he portrayed evil, death, immortality and many other things in his storie
in the way he portrayed evil, death, immortality and many other things
in his storie
in his
stories.
Second, because the anthropological account has a moral - political intention, the
stories introduce us to human life
in all its moral ambiguity; we are meant to learn which human
elements cause what sorts
of moral or political trouble and why.
-- that plot's thickening,
in stories of both congregations and poor societies, describes a society's labor to acknowledge alienated
elements or members, whose activity now repudiates any orderly incorporation?
But the suggestion is this: that secularization is rapidly bleaching the Catholic character out
of that church's universities and colleges, with all the
elements we saw typified
in the Vanderbilt
story.
By «mythological» I refer to the suprahistorical
elements in the
story which came into being within the Christian community as the only possible way to express this transcendent and redemptive meaning
of the event.
Peoples
in different parts
of the world invented different gods, thousands
of them, each god with specific personality traits, rules, and
stories, though,
of course, when cultures came into contact with one another there was an interchange
of elements from one religion to another.
It is
in any case a fact that Israel's creation faith — certainly a basic
element of the structure
of Yahwism from early times — receives scant specific mention (apart from the J
story of Gen. 2:4 b ff.)
Every
story in Descent offers a correction to some
element of American Christian norms around sex and love: Wentworth's affair with his fantasy / bride / child / demon exposes a cultural fetish for «manly strength,»
in spite
of a religion that should force all
of us to confess our need and weakness.