Sentences with phrase «familiar type of story»

It's a familiar type of story, and it is deliberately aimless for long spells, which may frustrate viewers into not sticking with it.

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

Oh my this story sounds so familiar, as having a nephew and niece myself, I've seen first hand some of these type of tantrums myself and how «they always want their own way»!

Told in cumbersome flashback as the onetime NSA contractor relates his story to journalist Glenn Greenwald (Zachary Quinto) and Citizenfour director Laura Poitras (Melissa Leo) in a Hong Kong hotel room, the movie paints him as a more familiar type of righteous protagonist; in the process, it divorces itself from anything an audience might recognize as present - day reality without offering the juicy pulpiness that would at least qualify it as a «fun» Oliver Stone movie.

It feels like an assemblage of parts from other, better sci - fi stories, and while the strong roster of character actors gives it their all, they're mostly stuck playing familiar types (the stressed - out lead scientist, the shifty Russian, etc.).

However, despite the familiar story here, Walk the Line does emerge as the better picture, mostly because it does manage to give us a better understanding as to the man behind the music, and what drove him to write the types of songs that he does.

This is the type of cinematic history lesson that's both socially relevant and highly entertaining, and although «Hidden Figures» hits a number of familiar beats, there's nothing ordinary about the incredible true story at the heart of it all.

I've been receiving their newsletter for a while now, so I'm familiar with the types of stories they post.

The Book Creator app motivates these types of students and many others to publish a digital story to a world that is very familiar to most children, the Apple iTunes store.

At $ 10 it has a lot of value for the amount of play time packed into it with familiar missions types but all new weapons and story plot.

In 1840, Edgar Allan Poe published his seminal short story «The Man of the Crowd,» in which he introduced a character type that would become a familiar plot device of 19th century literature: the flâneur («stroller»).