Sentences with phrase «fable about»

It is a fable about the value of the materials with which we design.

Slow and steady wins the race if you know the fable about the turtle and the hare.

[imagebrowser id = 33] Slow and steady wins the race if you know the fable about the turtle and the hare.

It's like Aesop's fable about the sun persuading a traveler to remove his coat after the wind fails to do so, despite blowing mightily.

It is a children's book that is a fable about the wonder of creativity.

We find reincarnations of the bawdy Wyf of Bathe, a narrative cycle devoted to the Merchant's Tale (in which the lustful Januarie is struck blind and cuckolded by his young wife May), and allusions to the Pardoner's Tale — a fable about seeking to «kill Death», told by a sly and unctuous cleric.

Brought to you by Funomena's uniquely diverse team of veteran developers (Journey, Flower, Boom Blox, The Sims 2) Luna is an interactive fable about learning by the light of unexpected mistakes.

Larry Chester and Jen Lawrence, author of Engage the Fox: A Business Fable about Thinking Critically and Motivating Your Team

It's a fable about love, a warning about war, and a nod of the cap to the real people of this world, the ones who never get their name in lights.

«For want of a nail,» begins the old fable about small actions with disastrous consequences.

The Lorax is the original eco warrior and his message still rings loud today, in this fable about the dangers of destroying our forests, told in the trademark rhyme of the irrepressible Dr. Seuss.

It is no longer a fable about the importance of honesty.

Instead, it is a fable about the villagers unjustly accusing the shepherd boy of dishonesty.

The movie is also a moral fable about how anger, violence and vengeance tend to repeat themselves.

One involved Hermione Granger reading a sort of fable about three men meeting death, which utilizes some really nifty animation, though this sequence would've probably been enhanced by some music, as there is none during this segment.

Bringing an end to one of the most wide open best picture races in years, «The Shape of Water» — a fantastical fable about a mute woman who falls in love with an aquatic creature — claimed the top prize Sunday night at the 90th Academy Awards, beating out a strong field of eight rivals that included box office hits such as «Dunkirk» and «Get Out» as well as smaller, more intimate fare such as «Call Me By Your Name» and «Lady Bird.»

Hers came for playing a revenge - seeking mother in «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,» Irish playwright Martin McDonagh's lacerating and controversial fable about a small town racked by grief and anger, which also won a supporting actor prize for Sam Rockwell as a racist police officer.

When a jazz trumpeter is taken to the desert and a gun held to his head, we are at the beginning of a delightful fable about romance and dreams.

The film is a contemporary fable about a cast of poor people, mostly kids, whose transient lives are lived in Kissimmee, Florida against the looming backdrop of Disney World.

Anyone who saw Alps, a vicious, uncanny fable about stand - ins for the dead, knows exactly how Lanthimos manipulates the camera so that characters who are fixedly separate are still held captive together in the frame, lurking in the small silences that in his films herald a particular sort of tragedy.

Director Andy Milligan's cult art - house curio about a young girl going to pieces in the big city is a fable about young flesh turning rancid.

Yorgos Lanthimos takes the piss out of the Michael Haneke - style allegory of bourgeois guilt with this demented dark fable about a heart surgeon (a bushy - bearded Colin Farrell) cursed into making an unconscionable decision by a teenage creep (Barry Keoghan) and his own unwillingness to take responsibility for his failings.

It's a vicious, surreal little fable about a family whose young - adult children live under the thumb of their incestuous, megalomaniacal patriarch.

By far Reitman's most accomplished film to date, both in terms of craft and its stealth avoidance of typical Hollywood flight patterns, Up in the Air is not (early indicators to the contrary) a redemptive fable about a soulless corporate shill who gets his comeuppance by seeing how the other half lives, or by falling into the arms of a good woman.

At any moment the whole «Abscam,» within a scam, within a scam feels like it's going to implode, but this script just won't let go, taking yet another screwy turn into murky, mafioso - infested waters, while micro relationships brew among the four leads threatening to boil over, and Louis C.K. propels a run - on fable about ice fishing into deeply fatuous waters.

Clark Gregg will direct from his screenplay the noir fable about a loser agent for young actors - and washed - up child star himself - who stumbles upon a brilliant 13 - year - old prodigy (played by newcomer Saxon Sharbino) and then tries to close the mega-deal that will make her a star while managing her drunk volatile father, the poaching attempts of a more successful nemesis and a growing awareness that his innocent young starlet may not be at all what she seems.

However, the big winner on the night was Guillermo del Toro's fantasy «The Shape of Water», a romantic fable about a janitor who falls in love with a sea creature.

A minor comedic fable about the power of body image, I Feel Pretty by first time directors and long - time rom - com writers Marc Silverstein and Abby Kohn has a couple of worthy assets.

At root, Isle of Dogs is a universal fable about the dangers of totalitarianism.

2 «The Shape of Water»: Master cinematic chef Guillermo del Toro whips up a Michelin star charcuterie plate of genres — horror, romance, drama and political commentary — for one gorgeous fable about the movies of yore and society's «outcasts.»

The queasy result is a sexploitation premise shoehorned into a cutesy romantic fable about growing up.

The dependably distinctive and rewarding Jim Jarmusch returns with a lovely episodic fable about the fragile, fruitful and sometimes tricky relationship between creativity and everyday life.

Duke Johnson and Charlie Kaufman) Charlie Kaufman, the celebrated screenwriter of Being John Malkovich and Adaptation and director of Synecdoche, New York, ventures into the world of stop - motion animation with this fable about a motivational speaker seeking to transcend his monotonous existence.

It turns into your basic fable about warring street gangs, with a superman (Michael Pare) and his tough female accomplice (Amy Madigan) breaking into the headquarters of the rival gang and bringing Diane Lane back alive.

It's described as «a complex mother - daughter tale and a frightening fable about our darkest desires.»

Bringing an end to one of the most wide open best picture races in years, «The Shape of Water» — a fantastical fable about a mute woman who falls in love with an aquatic creature — claimed the top prize Sunday night at the 90th Academy Awards, beating out...

«Buy Me a Gun» Review: A Precocious and Arresting Fable About the Violence of Mexico's Drug Cartels — Cannes 2018

The story of a grieving mother's high - profile attempt to get justice for her daughter's murder plays as a fable about the toxicity of chain - reaction hate.

I can't think of very many debut films as austere and accomplished as this southern fable about the sleepy lives of young African - American dreamers.

THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY Ben Stiller stars and directs in this fable about the shy titular photo editor at Life Magazine who is prone to elaborately staged daydreams wherein he battles his demeaning boss (Adam Scott with a fake beard) or seduces his dream girl (Kristen Wiig, who is dreamy and, um, a girl).

Instead of a fable about empowerment of the feminine, The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag offers appeasement of the masculine.

What's even odder is that the Wachowskis think their bug - eyed Grand Prix hoo - ha functions as a fable about the importance of family.

«Tower Heist» is a modern comic fable about working stiffs (the serving class of a cushy NYC high - rise) stung by Wall Street excesses (the penthouse billionaire, the lost pension fund) trying to stick it to «the man» in some soul - satisfying ways.

Other highlights are ADAMA a deeply moving animation about the life of a young boy in West Africa in 1914; Mamoru Hosoda's THE BOY AND THE BEAST, an exquisitely animated fable about a boy who has run away from home and is alone in the human world following the passing of his mother; Jury Feting's CELESTIAL CAMEL, a fascinating and thrilling tale about a 12 year old herder whose father has sold a young colt who may be the fabled «celestial camel»; Academy Award ® winner Gabriele Salvatores» THE INVISIBLE BOY, a charming coming of age tale about a shy boy, picked on by his peers, who gets his wish to hide from the world when he discovers a Halloween outfit that makes him invisible; Alexandre Heboyan and Benoît Philippon's hugely enjoyable CGI animated adventure MUNE, about a faun who lives in a faraway world; Studio Ghibli's beautiful drama WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE, directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi; and the World Premiere of Tim Clague and Danny Stark's WHO KILLED NELSON NUTMEG?

Directed by Stacy Peralta, a member of the legendary Zephyr Skating Team that almost single - handedly defined the modern X-Game at the 1975 Del Mar Nationals Bahne - Cadillac Skateboard Championship, Dogtown and Z - Boys accomplishes several tasks at once, evoking the ethic that captured the imagination of American punks, portraying the dangers of stardom, and telling a rags - to - riches fable about how boys (and a girl) from the wrong side of the tracks sometimes make good on their own terms.

Moonrise (1948) A small - town fable about violence and redemption,» «Moonrise» is the final triumph of Frank Borzage, one of Hollywood's most neglected masters.

It's a fable about the complexity of seeing others clearly, but one that relies more on imagination and surprising details than workaday moral revolt.

That would be the otherwise tediously ordinary Jake Lawson (Gerard Butler), who headed the international team that designed the satellite system, popularly known as Dutchboy (after the fable about the kid who plugs a hole in a dike with his finger).

From that, Saint - Exupery spun a fanciful, faintly ethereal fable about a downed airman who finds himself face - to - face with a curious, blond - haired young boy who claims to be the sole inhabitant of a distant asteroid (# B - 612), and who regales the pilot with tales of the interplanetary travels that eventually brought him to earth.

For the movie itself, the concept of «downsizing,» then, is the means of telling a modern - day fable about our collective failures.