Sentences with phrase «few of my short stories»

Perhaps this is something Inarritu is very aware of, given that Robert Altman is perhaps cinema's most well - known Raymond Carver fan; he adapted a few of his short stories into the sprawling dramatic opus, Short Cuts.

No seriously, I taught 5th grade writing last year and a few of my short stories were used as «intensive» group editing practice.

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One popular example is the story of DropBox, which through the use of a reward referral program acquired more than 200 million users in only a few short years.

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.

However, a few months following their critique of the Bible, a young man submitted a short story to the group.

But after reading a few «short» stories on the net published by the scientific community, a lot of this seems sensible.

In only a few short paragraphs, Alison provides a compelling account of analogy as God's way of subverting the human story of violence from within» analogy depends on God's refusal to be rejected by his creation.

If you ever attempt (and a few have) to use any of the stories mention in the bible as a test of scientific theory and then use them in court for defense, by invoking the angel Satan made me do it, or God said so, then who are you to say «He's lying», in short mold the fantasy into your reality.

There are even two short stories — Ruth and Esther — which satisfy the criteria of the new criticism, their characters and plot developed and brought to a climax and denouement within a few chapters.

After all, he states in the prologue of his first anthology of short stories (1941): «It is an arduous and impoverishing whim to compose vast books, to extend for five hundred long - winded pages an idea whose perfect oral exposition lasts a few minutes.

a few of my grandchildren deciced they wanted to spend the weekend and while doing so decided to look for something they themselve could make for themand grandma for lunch while i was out doing things in the garden, so to make a long story short when asked if they could make lunch i said sure but no cooking on the stove.thinking that would save them geyying hurt in any way.i half exoecte beanut butter and jelly or ham and chesse sandwiches and chips or something but what got was This wonderful Taco Pizza., I always keep taco meat made up i the freezer along with all the other things in which to make easy fast dishes for them needless to say i was delighted and surprized., when i askes how they did it I was told thats for us to know and you to enjoy.well I did and i think that if a 14,10 and very very smart 3 yr old can make this its simply wonderful.thank you and it took some work but i bribed the 10 yr old into telling my where he found it thank goodness the computer has history, lol, and bookmarking.its something every mother or grandmother should try to make with their little taco lovers.thank you From a grandmother

Thank you for sharing your story of breastfeeding a preschooler — I'll be joining your ranks in a few short months.

Long story short, I realized after a few days and lots of misses there was too much naked time, she was peeing everywhere, and was bored.

I wrote a few short stories, outlined two novels, wrote two chapters of one.

A short story before I comment: A few years ago, before he died I meet the godfather of fitness, Jack LaLanne.

my understanding of regular potatoes any color skin flesh etc. is this... potatoes are on the dirty dozen list... sweet potatoes are on the clean 15... i eat over 50 % of my diet in the form of a few different colors of sweet potatoes... i buy them bulk... peel»em very deeply... at least 1/2 inch all around... i sometimes get them as large as 6 pounds (football sized)... i used to wear out the regular potatoes but after speaking with the safety expert from a huge potato company to find out if the potatoes are grown on soil which had grain crops treated with round - up herbicide filled with atrazine and glyphosate (which most grain crops are... inluding many wheat crops... they get sprayed like 3 days before harvest... then the round - up is in the soil)... problem is... the round - up stays for 7 years... after stayin» off the soil for a couple years... it can have any kind of crop planted on it and get an organic rating... but... whatever was planted on that soil is then full of round - up... so... this crop rotation onto fields which had grain crops sprayed with round - up herbicide etc. is EXTREMELY COMMON IN THE GROWING PRACTICE FOR REGULAR POTATOES... very common practice... so even if you peel»em deeply... they are still soaked with round - up... the glyphosates get in the gut... the aluminum which is all over everything grown above ground and not covered (hot house etc)... gets eaten9ya can't wash it off... unless ya peel everything... but greens etc. ya can not get it out... it gets in the fiber)... then ya eat it... it goes in the gut... mixes with the glyphosate... becomes 10,000 timesmore toxic... inhibits the bodies ability to properly process sulfur into sulfide and sulfate... basically many very smart researchers are sayin'this is the cause of all this asperger's... autism... alzheimer's like symptoms in the elderly... you can only take so much nano... pico... and heavy metal poisoning... the brain starts to act very strangely... so... long story short... i eat lots of sweet pots grown on clean soil... they are non-gmo and basically grown organically... but... the grower doesn't pay for the certification... i make sure to get my omega 3 from fresh ground flax seed in the morning away from my sweet potato consumption... the omega 6 in the sweet pots inhibits the absorption of omega 3 and i only want so much fat daily... i'm on the heart attack proof diet by dr. caldwell b. esselstyn jr....

Long story short, the structure of fatty acid determines how fast and well it will be processed by your body: fewer carbons in fatty acids, the faster they will be absorbed in your body.

It's a book of short stories, so I can at least get through a few stories from start to end and feel rather good about myself for doing so!

Long story short, we were supposed to go to a major nightclub (not exactly my scene), but thankfully, things somewhat worked against a few of us and myself and three of our ROCKSTAR reporters ended up just going to get milkshakes and cheese fries.

I've been writing stories since I was a kid, and have been fortunate enough to get two novels and a variety of short stories published over the last few years.

The singer wearily hangs up as Tomlin leaves, and we realize Altman has told a short story of amazing impact in just a few minutes.

There's more to Nostalgia, of course - as even Hamm's dealer is dealing with a few emotional losses of his own - but Pellington and Perry (whose script lacks the talkative confrontation of his previous work) inject every short story with a forced yearning for poeticism that's never really earned.

The combat system is fast and sharp, but also repetitive, and because there is so little in terms of story and characters, there are few reasons to replay the game once the short adventure is over.

The fact that the stories contradict one another allows the movie to do a few other things that put it in the same category as a movie like The Big Short: It breaks the fourth wall, gives multiple perspectives on the same events, and occasionally employs a split screen in order to emphasize how mushy the concept of «facts» are in any sensational news story.

A few unexpected minor pleasures: the time - travel flick Predestination, an adaptation of a Robert A. Heinlein short story that's one of those rare sci - fi movies that feels like it was made by people who read sci - fi; the horror Western Bone Tomahawk, which feels, in the best way, like someone filmed a first draft script and didn't cut anything, all its little quirks of character kept intact, narrative expediency be damned; and In The Heart Of The Sea, the cornball sea adventure of which I enjoyed every minutof a Robert A. Heinlein short story that's one of those rare sci - fi movies that feels like it was made by people who read sci - fi; the horror Western Bone Tomahawk, which feels, in the best way, like someone filmed a first draft script and didn't cut anything, all its little quirks of character kept intact, narrative expediency be damned; and In The Heart Of The Sea, the cornball sea adventure of which I enjoyed every minutof those rare sci - fi movies that feels like it was made by people who read sci - fi; the horror Western Bone Tomahawk, which feels, in the best way, like someone filmed a first draft script and didn't cut anything, all its little quirks of character kept intact, narrative expediency be damned; and In The Heart Of The Sea, the cornball sea adventure of which I enjoyed every minutof character kept intact, narrative expediency be damned; and In The Heart Of The Sea, the cornball sea adventure of which I enjoyed every minutOf The Sea, the cornball sea adventure of which I enjoyed every minutof which I enjoyed every minute.

From the short story and flaccid combat to the poor technical skill in the music and visuals, a few scattered collectibles and a handful of Achievements / Trophies are not enough to justify a sixty dollar purchase.

She advocates for the children of short term 12 like few around her can, as their story is, in fact, her own.

It's a decidedly mixed bag here, and the handful of truly worthwhile pieces is far outweighed by a couple of shorts that seem completely out of place, some that fit the mold of a «little love story» a bit too obviously, or a few more that escape the mind more quickly than it takes to watch them.

The news came just a few weeks after we learned Bob Peterson had been removed from the film as director and a brain trust consisting of John Lasseter, Toy Story 3 director Lee Unkrich, replacement Brave director Mark Andrews, and Party Cloudy short director Pete Sohn were put in place to take over the project.

Matt Craven — «X-Men: First Class,» «A Few Good Men» Terry Crews — «The Expendables» series, «Draft Day» Warwick Davis — «Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,» «Harry Potter» series Colman Domingo — «The Birth of a Nation,» «Selma» Adam Driver — «Silence,» «Star Wars: The Force Awakens» Joel Edgerton — «It Comes at Night,» «Loving» Chris Evans — «Captain America» series, «Snowpiercer» Luke Evans — «Beauty and the Beast,» «The Girl on the Train» Fan Bingbing — «I Am Not Madame Bovary,» «Cell Phone» Elle Fanning — «The Beguiled,» «20th Century Women» Golshifteh Farahani — «Paterson,» «AboutElly» Anna Faris — «Scary Movie» series, «Brokeback Mountain» Tom Felton — «A United Kingdom,» «Harry Potter» series Rebecca Ferguson — «The Girl on the Train,» «Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation» Lou Ferrigno — «The Incredible Hulk,» «Hercules» Gal Gadot — «Wonder Woman,» «Fast & Furious» series Charlotte Gainsbourg — «Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer,» «Melancholia» Jeff Garlin — «Safety Not Guaranteed,» «WALL - E» Spencer Garrett — «Public Enemies,» «Thank You for Smoking» Domhnall Gleeson — «Star Wars: The Force Awakens,» «Ex Machina» Sharon Gless — «The Star Chamber,» «Airport 1975» Donald Glover — «The Martian,» «Magic Mike XXL» Judy Greer — «Jurassic World,» «13 Going on 30» Rupert Grint — «Moonwalkers,» «Harry Potter» series Noel Gugliemi — «Lowriders,» «The Fast and the Furious» Jon Hamm — «Baby Driver,» «The Town» Armie Hammer — «The Birth of a Nation,» «The Social Network» Naomie Harris — «Moonlight,» «Skyfall» Leila Hatami — «A Separation,» «Leila» Anne Heche — «Rampart,» «DonnieBrasco» Lucas Hedges — «Manchester by the Sea,» «Moonrise Kingdom» Chris Hemsworth — «Thor» series, «Rush» Ciarán Hinds — «Silence,» «Munich» Aldis Hodge — «Hidden Figures,» «Straight Outta Compton» Bryce Dallas Howard — «Jurassic World,» «The Help» Bonnie Hunt — «The Green Mile,» «Jerry Maguire» Jiang Wen — «Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,» «Let the Bullets Fly» Dwayne Johnson — «Moana,» «Central Intelligence» Leslie Jones — «Ghostbusters,» «Masterminds» Keegan - Michael Key — «Don't Think Twice,» «Keanu» Aamir Khan — «3 Idiots,» «Lagaan» Irrfan Khan — «Life of Pi,» «Slumdog Millionaire» Salman Khan — «Sultan,» «Bajrangi Bhaijaan» Rinko Kikuchi — «Pacific Rim,» «Babel» Zoë Kravitz — «Divergent» series, «Mad Max: Fury Road» Sanaa Lathan — «Out of Time,» «Love and Basketball» Carina Lau — «Infernal Affairs 2,» «Days of Being Wild» Tony Leung — «The Grandmaster,» «Lust, Caution» Rami Malek — «Short Term 12,» «The Master» Leslie Mann — «Funny People,» «Knocked Up» Kate McKinnon — «Ghostbusters,» «Office Christmas Party» Sienna Miller — «The Lost City of Z,» «American Sniper» Janelle Monáe — «Hidden Figures,» «Moonlight» Michelle Monaghan — «Patriots Day,» «Gone Baby Gone» Viggo Mortensen — «Captain Fantastic,» «The Lord of the Rings» series Ruth Negga — «Loving,» «Warcraft» Franco Nero — «The Lost City of Z,» «Django» Elizabeth Olsen — «Avengers: Age of Ultron,» «Martha Marcy May Marlene» Deepika Padukone — «xXx: Return of Xander Cage,» «Piku» Sarah Paulson — «Blue Jay,» «12 Years a Slave» Robert Picardo — «Hail, Caesar!

Honestly, the whole film feels like it might have originally been about Alec Baldwin and Jesse Eisenberg's tale but then ran out of steam too quickly, necessitating a few other short stories to be added.

The Variety story notes that Howard has directed a few short films and a music video in the past, with her first short, «When You Find Me,» making it to the short list of Oscar nominations.

He wrote: «There are very few people who fundamentally understand the way a Star Wars story works like Larry, and it is nothing short of incredible to have him even more deeply involved in its return to the big screen.

A delightful debut that's all the more valuable for giving a voice to an underrepresented segment of the female Turkish population, Erguven's debut directorial feature (she has a few credits as an actor and a couple of short films prior to this) is a lovely story of spirited girlhood and rebellion.

Raymond Carver set a few short stories along the banks of the Sacramento River, and Sam Mendes panned the city's tree - lined suburbs in a shot from «American Beauty,» but besides the rare cameo, the state capitol is oft overlooked as a suitable setting for cinematic and literary ventures.

The next highly anticipated episode of Minecraft: Story Mode — Season Two is only a few short days away.

- The Lonely Island guys, who have given «Saturday Night Live» some of it's best shorts in the last few years, tell the story of a former boy band member trying to remain relevant.

The movie follows James as he takes off on a tropical vacation («When I come back, I will be ready for life,» he insists), has a frenzied romantic fling with a teenager, and tries to parlay a few sloppy hand - written short stories into a regular gig writing for a magazine edited by one of his dad's old business associates.

About a big - game hunter who longs to take a shot at human beings, «the most dangerous» of all game «animals,» it's been adapted every few years since Richard Connell's short story...

Gia Coppola's directorial debut adapting a book of James Franco short stories has no end of pedigree behind it, and while it features established actors like Franco and Val Kilmer in roles, they share the screen with quite a few up - and - comers, the best of whom is Nat Wolff's Fred.

For example, begin each day with you or your students sharing a poem, a few lines from a play, a paragraph from a short story — any snippet of literature that communicates something they believe or are feeling deeply.

Long story short, pretty much everyone expected deliveries early in December had to sit on their hands for awhile — we did get a report of a few that cancelled and / or re-ordered — perhaps also enticed by the newly minted heated steering wheel option that went live in December.

If you need convincing that Mantel is as able a short - story writer as she is a novelist, there are a few samples of her short fiction online:

My almost - year of Kindle Unlimited represented over $ 350,000 worth of earnings on a catalog that was largely hundreds of short stories, a few short serials, and the occasional novella / novel.

Sure, send work to traditional publishers, but all of us have books that haven't sold, or books that have been reverted, or short stories that have sold and reverted after a few months.

A few months ago someone sent me a link to a short story a friend of his had written and posted online.

So why some writer who has written a novel or two or a few short stories thinks they should be famous and sell millions of copies is beyond me.

Flash fiction is the term used to describe very short stories of anything from a few words up to 1,000 words.

I've been pounding away on novel revisions for a few weeks, while at the same time still trying to get a couple of short stories out the door.

One moment I have nothing but a few Star Trek books being sold in the UK, the next moment I have twenty - some of my short stories that have been recently put up by WMG Publishing.