Sentences with phrase «familiar story»

Its problem, simply, is that the larger, more familiar story of the painting of this period has yet to be told.

It's an all - too - familiar story in a country that has already seen more than a dozen school shootings in 2018 alone.

My son loves those books, so it was a very familiar story line.

By the movie's end, we've seen several very familiar story elements amid the new.

For many, it's an all too familiar story.

Yet the moving twists and turns of the love story and the bright comedy elevate an otherwise familiar story line.

This lesson uses familiar stories and the writing process to teach story structure and demonstrate student comprehension.

It's a sadly familiar story to any dog trainer.

Its twists and turns toy with your emotions and despite its largely familiar story conventions, it never comes across as predictable.

Twist familiar stories and come up with something new.

All pretty familiar story lines, which have been told separately with much greater success.

One of the pleasures of the science fiction movie genre is how it allows for new social constructs within familiar stories.

Black Panther shows what can happen when a new perspective is used to examine familiar stories, when a new voice is invited to participate in the conversation.

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

All of these are familiar story tropes in video games and beyond.

It is an all too familiar story to anyone who has been following the binary options industry recently.

In the film, the whole Ya - Ya concept doesn't really hold much significance at all; it's just a side quirk in an overly familiar story about mother - daughter understanding — or, should I say, misunderstanding.

We could not even stop the early spread of foxes into London, let alone reduce numbers, an all - too - familiar story with foxes generally.

Apart from the trademark hand - drawn style and grotesque creatures, its mishmash of familiar story beats feel more like a Hollywood production than the more eccentric Japanese visions we've come to love.

In what has become an all too familiar story for Arsenal fans, Manchester City could be about to raid the Gunners for one of their star players.

«This Close» Review: Deaf Best Friends Make Familiar Stories Fresh Again in Charming New Series — Sundance 2018

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

Unwary city folk get caught up in creepy local customs and beliefs in this nicely made but overly familiar story of things that go bump in the dark.

Otherwise, the musical appears to be following the film's familiar story arc, with Muriel Heslop (originally played by Collette) feeling stuck in her sleepy town of Porpoise Spit, dreaming of the perfect wedding, complete with white dress, church, and loads of much - needed attention.

About 30 minutes of the game was shown to attendees at E3 last week, and it promises to keep the experience fresh for longtime fans of both the comics and movies by taking familiar stories and turning them on their head.

Despite a heavy reliance on familiar story beats, «Star Wars: The Force Awakens» shines with fun and charm that's impossible to resist.

The resulting drama showcases a remarkably strong vision in the confines of more familiar story beats, but it's a testament to Cummings» maniacal performance that he manages to keep us engaged.

It's a sadly familiar story though, as Rodriguez lost his life in a sportscar accident at the Norisring later that year, and motor racing lost a true great.

In fact the feel of the film is not dissimilar to Abrams» work on the Star Trek reboot, where familiar characters went through familiar stories to reboot a franchise in need of a kickstart.

Coma patients who heard familiar stories repeated by family members four times a day for six weeks, via recordings played over headphones, recovered consciousness significantly faster and had an improved recovery compared to patients who did not hear the stories, reports the study.

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.

We so firmly believe in this identity, it becomes the driving force of our life, causing us to re-enact familiar stories over and over.

In other words, it's a sturdy foundation: an origin story that cares more about who its hero is than what he can do, the outline of a generic plot that goes a bit deeper in exploring the reasons its characters arrive at familiar story beats, and a surprising amount of humor (A lot comes from the doctor's sentient cloak), which doesn't undermine the serious moments (The Ancient One pondering the relative nature of time in a moment that seems frozen within it is especially potent).

Since Shaddai and El Shaddai appear frequently in Genesis and Exodus in many familiar stories, the idea that the biblical God is chiefly characterized as almighty became deeply entrenched in the imagination of Christendom, especially in the West.

However, it is gleefully nihilistic, and it takes a different approach to what has become a fairly familiar story form at this point, right at the moment when it feels like superhero movies either have to evolve or die.

This conspicuous placement demonstrates the exhibition's willingness to tell a less familiar story, highlighting aspects of Minimalist art that are sometimes obscured.

Sure, there are plenty of loose ends and logic loopholes to have to contend with, but with fine performances, a nifty plot, and solid production values all around, Deja Vu overcomes familiar story elements to deliver a lively and interesting thriller for those who enjoy mysteries mixed with fantasy and science fiction elements.

(Though more than a few of them have also pointed out how familiar the story feels, following all the other antihero dramas we've seen lately.)

Teaching students of other cultures may require that you look past familiar stories and narratives to find school materials that resonate with your students» experiences and lives.

Now the director, who was raised culturally Jewish, has made a full - fledged biblical epic with Noah, a $ 125 million - budget film that puts an unorthodox spin on one of the most familiar stories from Scripture.

You'll also discover that when you read familiar stories, if you pause at certain points in the text, your toddler will fill in the blank.

A new Northwestern Medicine and Hines VA Hospital study shows the voices of loved ones telling the patient familiar stories stored in his long - term memory can help awaken the unconscious brain and speed recovery from the coma.

This is a depressingly familiar story: bulk carriers are lost all too frequently.

3) How do familiar stories told by familiar voices heal the brain?

-LCB- Familiar story ---RCB- I am astrong believer of strenght training and have been searching for a perfect routine.

Instead, Early Man is just a bog - standard triumph - of - the - underdog sports comedy that we've seen a million times before, one deployed with no seeming awareness of all the stereotypes it is full of, or of the tediously familiar story it is telling (no matter its fantastical setting).

It is also a dramatic triumph, its taut and somewhat familiar story being more than enough to deeply invest in.

With too many stock horror clichés and overly - familiar story angles, The Reaping doesn't sow enough new, interesting ideas to reap anything more than our occasional interest.