Sentences with phrase «familiar stories such»

This balance of culture and psychology is the underlying theme of this show that continues the artist's exploration of myth, folklore and popular iconography including familiar stories such as Snow White.

My daughter really enjoyed The Barefoot Book of Princesses, and I loved that it was about princesses other than Ariel and Aurora — these are stories from all over the world, with some familiar stories such as The Princess and the Pea and others that we had never heard before.

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The operation of such a ruling group is pictured in the story of Boaz» negotiations for the redemption of Naomi's property (Ruth 4:1 - 12); the narrative is presumably from a comparatively late time, but the councils of elders persisted in the smaller communities right through Old Testament history, so there is ground for believing that the author relates practice with which he was familiar.

The conversion of Saul is such a story — so familiar and pivotal that even those who have never read it often know it by heart and take it to be the paradigm of religious conversion.

By Kndergarten, children are required to retell familiar stories, recall key details, and recognize common types of text such as poems, storybooks, etc..

Liman mines the story for familiar but fun comedy... though it never reaches the comedic heights of rise - and - fall classics such as Goodfellas or The Wolf of Wall Street.

The film follows the usual trajectory of such a familiar tale, but its focus is on the beats in between such a story's big moments.

A low - key but powerfully affecting urban drama that tells a familiar story — of drugs, power and respect on the inner - city streets — with such unusual authenticity and dramatic force that it's as if we're seeing it for the first time.

In piecing together the why and how of the Templars» decline showrunner Dominic Minghella and his writing team lazily paste together a collage of conceits familiar to any sword and / or sorcery fan — and many of those films did a better job at selling such a story.

This giant, gentle bear of a man will surely look familiar to admirers of such exceptional Maori stories as «Whale Rider» and «Once Were Warriors,» though we've never seen actor Cliff Curtis looking quite like this: With a shaved head and a missing - teeth mouthpiece, the Kiwi star appears completely transformed, playing a figure whose potentially intimidating physical presence is offset by a clear awareness of his own frailty.

The story may be a familiar one... but it's told with such verve and an eye for chilling detail that this marks Hardy out as one to watch.

The characters are well written, familiar gameplay mechanics such as the whistling and being able to pick up bodies is back, the story has clever links to the story of the other AC games, the modern day is better and actually goes somewhere (albeit the ending is absolute wank) and the side missions are implemented well into the goal of the main story.

One of the best things about Treasure Planet is that it puts several twists on the original story, such as changing the parrot to being an alien called Morph; the crazy Ben Gunn becomes a robot who lost his memory banks; and the alien characteristics imbedded into the familiar characters also loosened its ties to Treasure Island.

They ease traditional gamers into the experience with traditional story structure and familiar elements such as skill trees (also now available for all Disney Infinity 1.0 figures), fighting combos and super moves.

As such, the first half of Phantom Thread appears to pass along familiar lines: another story of a tortured male creative genius — yes, his gowns truly are gasp - worthy — taking out his art - fuelled frustrations and insecurities on a blameless female victim.

It doesn't matter if you're not familiar with the books, though, because the story is simple and easy to follow: There is a species of intelligent talking bears from «darkest Peru», and no one in the world is even remotely shocked by this, and then one such bear, dubbed Paddington, goes to London and systematically destroys the lives of everyone he encounters.

Though Lady Bird is a coming - of - age story with familiar tropes such as prom night and a disappointing first sexual experience, it's really a film about teenage aspiration.

Asch is content to fit the story into an over familiar mold, and is drawn to blunt, obvious contrasts, such as that between Sam's righteous father (well played by Mark Ivanir) and the unscrupulous Yosef.

Schiffer and director Mimi Leder don't take this story in any new directions; familiar action staples such as car and helicopter chase sequences, running through crowded streets, big explosions, and (would a bomb thriller be complete without one?)

And that right there is why the film features such a loaded cast of easily recognizable faces; the filmmakers know the story is flawed, so they're compensating by allowing you to root for the safety of the performers you're lovingly familiar with instead.

Relate those concepts to something familiar to the students; you might use a children's story, such as «Three Little Pigs,» «Cinderella,» or «The Emperor's New Clothes,» or a TV show.

This might have worked had reading such high - interest, familiar stories led students to increasingly challenging works.

and poems like Marchetter Chute's Drinking Fountain provide students ample opportunity to practice their reading skills and to meet reading standards in literature such as being able to «ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text» and «With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.»

Yours are too used to your writing, too familiar with the story and will not catch the simplest of things such as a backward quotation mark.

If you're familiar with the biblical story of the tower of Babel, you may recall that the attempt of humanity to do such a thing resulted in their language being garbled by God.

Organizing a novel in such a familiar jump of story - telling helped move the story along realistically for me.

But readers who are familiar with Stead's approach to story writing from her previous novels such as the Newbery Medal — winning When You Reach Me will know enough to just sit back, relax, and let the story run its satisfying course, as the two narratives gradually merge and illustrate that even older kids don't always have all these questions figured out.

Seven years after her mesmerizing first novel, The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield returns with Bellman & Black, a ghost story that's both terrifyingly familiar and unlike any such tale you've ever read.

*** This is not to say that all rejected books deserve such a fate, and we are all familiar with stories of spurned genius, but please understand that I'm speaking in generalities here.

Interesting, how this riches - to - rags - to - riches story is such a familiar thread among many financial gurus (Robert Kiyosaki, anyone?).

Sadly, Alex's story is all too familiar — with tens of thousands of animals saved each year, some in need of extensive medical care and long - term support — Animal League America would never be able to accomplish such lifesaving rescue feats without the generous support of our donors.

If you have ever played Kairosoft's «Story» series of sims, such as Game Dev Story, you will be familiar with the basic premise of Punch Club from the get - go.

From what has been indicated by the company, it will not be a new game as such, but will follow the same story we already saw on Xbox One and PlayStation 4, but with a big difference and that is all characters, including enemies, will adopt a chibi style to give them a more friendly and familiar touch.

Key creative parts of the Dollhouse production staff (including series creator Joss Whedon at least one member of his familiar stable of writers such as Tim Minear or Jane Espenson) would have to be a part of shaping the story, and if matched with a talented developer (Konami's Silent Hill experience could be ideal, or even Eidos's recent Tomb Raider efforts could work depending on the gameplay genre) that can combine the story to the proper gameplay elements, we would be in for a fascinating and entertaining gaming experience.

I had plenty of reasons to be excited for the upcoming game to, such as: how Mania's ending would tie in to its story, how I could create my own playable Avatar, how familiar villains would return alongside a deliciously edgy newcomer, and how I enjoyed my time with the PAX West demo.

Looking back at it, I have to agree that it's a smart move to kick off the game in such a familiar setting with story mechanics that are easy to understand.

A number of key works, such as the sculpture I Was Thinking of You and the two series of drawings An Icelandic Saga and The Story of Bern, are combined with less familiar works ranging from an early abstract painting, over a series of collages with Japanese paper and gold leaf, to a self - portrait in the shape of a polaroid, and a cooking diary from 1969.

Such information — illness, tragedy, inspiring creative defiance of physical impairment — effectively forecloses on criticism — and that painting grows on me while remaining naggingly familiar, but, also, as Jerry Saltz wrote, his «heart broke a little,» not, I suspect, as much because of the work as because of the story.

This is a reprise of an increasingly familiar story: human - induced climate change, along with other human bequests such as pollution and habitat destruction, have begun to threaten the wild things everywhere.

With such a diverse audience and the campaign working in every continent except Antarctica (while penguins are intimately familiar with the realities of climate change, their lack of opposable thumbs makes them not so great at signing petitions), numbers tell an important part of the story, but only part of it.

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As Toy Story Land at Disney World nears its opening date, cranes are dropping huge versions of familiar toys such as Woody into their new homes — and an Imagineer says it's like Andy's reaching to put them in place.