Sentences with phrase «focus on stories rather»

But like how the show focuses on story rather than the things pro-athletes spend money on follows the ups and downs of the NFL Vegas deal.

Paul Serene's moments in the game are shorter and more focused on the story rather than gunplay.

Neither being a damsel in distress, a quirky pixie dream girl or a sex symbol, Faith has been praised by all for the focus on her story rather than her appearance.

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He wants all eyes on the American viewpoint, with marketing campaigns over the next few years mostly focused on the U.S. athlete rather than telling the Adidas story from a global soccer perspective.

Focus on meaningful stories based on data rather than high volume news.

Journalists focus on crafting a well - written story that appeals to readers rather than search engines.

Rather, it is in the very manner in which he develops and emphasizes the distinctiveness of the Christian story — focusing on its own internal criteria for truth without reference to publicly accessible criteria of common human experience and rational inquiry — and the relation between the church and the world.

Rather than begin with Mary as representative of Jesus» female disciples and first witness to his resurrection (as in John 20), he focuses on Luke's story about Jesus driving demons out of her (8:2 - 3).

Rather than focusing on heartwarming stories, Tough chooses to spend time detailing the types of interventions that show promise.

My patient Liz's story is a cautionary tale of what can happen when we focus solely on managing pain of endometriosis with medication, rather than getting to the root causes.

This semi-autobiographical story is an occasionally harrowing but sometimes also surprisingly warm and funny tale that, while the characters focus a lot on eating (or, rather, not eating), is really more about finding the will and self - love necessary to live rather than about dealing with an eating disorder.

It is best to go into this movie as blind as possible because it is better to experience the film rather than read about it later, but the story focuses on biologist Lena (Natalie Portman) and a team of scientists who venture into a strange force - field - like area that mysteriously appears on Earth.

With The Legend of Hercules (2014) or Dracula Untold (2014), studios seem to have been banking on the name of the titular characters rather than focussing on an original way of telling their stories.

The premise is surprisingly human; rather than using the ghost - story which accompanies the apartment that the protagonist (Jennifer Connelly) and her daughter (Ariel Gage) move into as its main focus, the film concentrates more on a custody battle between she and her ex-husband (Dougray Scott).

Luckily, Holland's film focusses on a rather unusual true story from Poland during the atrocities of the Second World War rather than the well - told tales of the concentration camps (as obviously important and powerful as they are).

The writer Bennett takes the high road and claims he would rather write spy stories than focus his pen on the odorous, obnoxious transient living in his front yard.

His masterful composition of muted colors and tense but understated score, his visual focus on the characters rather than their actions, and his subtle but powerful use of camera elevate this story above its exploitative trappings.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

10:00 PM — 11:00 PM» focused a lot on the characters and story rather than pulse - pounding action, though the final few minutes -LSB-...]

The narrative is actually rather brief, clocking in at about 7 hours and possibly much less if you simply focus on the main story missions.

Keeping the story to a rather anonymous «Suffragette» rather than focusing on Emmeline Pankhurst etc works well and when sections from history do appear (such as Emily Davison's death) it adds an extra power.

Though it isn't the first time that the recession has been used as the backdrop of a movie, director J.C. Chandor at least makes his story unique by focusing on the cause of the crash rather than the aftereffects.

EA is also promising new modes and experiences, changes to the core gameplay, and a campaign that once again focuses on multiple «War Stories» rather than a single longer narrative.

Director Stephen Frears has enjoyed a long career by focusing on the interesting stories of people, rather than the salient specifics of history or politics.

Award - winning director and Missouri native Tracy Droz Tragos sheds new light on the contentious issue by focusing on the women and their stories, rather than the debate.

Final Verdict: Stallone's best work, the true underdog story, surprisingly more focused on character and acting, rather than a glamorous build - up to the main boxing event.

The cooperative mode shares the predictable progression system, but compensates with a character - driven side - story campaign focusing on entertaining moments rather than depth.

His interactions with the school teacher, Na'omi, (Nondumiso Tembe) are also an important part of both of their stories, and the focus on Boko Haram rather than ISIS is admirable as a change of pace for a modern war story.

Based on the true story of French law enforcement's battle with the heroin - dependent drug traffic among France, New York and the rest of the world, this award - worthy film focuses more on the characterization of key players in the battle rather than rely on hyperviolence.

Not focusing on political side of the wars these soldiers are placed - in, but rather focusing on their personal stories that are attributed to conflict and how wars unjust / or just alike impact these people and their families during / after their service.

Much like the still - in - development new Twilight Zone movie, The Outer Limits won't interweave separate stories, but rather focus on one representative tale that embodies the show's themes — in this case, Harlan Ellison's «Demon With A Glass Hand.»

In a brilliant move, the story focuses on a period of just a few months in 1965, rather than tackling the MLK legacy.

Rather than just making a game that followed the events of the story, they focused on the possibility of playing with the Toy Story characters as one would actual story, they focused on the possibility of playing with the Toy Story characters as one would actual Story characters as one would actual toys.

This trailer doesn't show off the new features included in the HD version, but rather focuses on the story and the size of the adventure to give new players a glimpse at what awaits them.

«Hyde Park On Hudson» Synopsis: The story focuses on a rather curious moment in Franklin D. Roosevelt's life, taking place over a weekend in 1939 when Brit royalty visits his upstate New York home for the weekend, while also taking a look at the President's affair with his cousin Margaret StuckleOn Hudson» Synopsis: The story focuses on a rather curious moment in Franklin D. Roosevelt's life, taking place over a weekend in 1939 when Brit royalty visits his upstate New York home for the weekend, while also taking a look at the President's affair with his cousin Margaret Stuckleon a rather curious moment in Franklin D. Roosevelt's life, taking place over a weekend in 1939 when Brit royalty visits his upstate New York home for the weekend, while also taking a look at the President's affair with his cousin Margaret Stuckley.

It's not an uncommon approach, but in its focus on the manhunt rather than the man, it basically turns the greatest story ever told into a Very Special Episode of CSI.

This is a languidly paced biography that focuses on character over plot, allowing the viewer to absorb the story rather than having it trample past at breakneck speed.

It's been on the rise in the United States for about decade, with films like Ramin Bahrani's Chop Shop (2007) and Kelly Reichardt's Wendy and Lucy (2008) employing a natural and semi-observational style that focuses on characters and situations rather than heavy - handed plots to tell their stories about America's downtrodden poor.

SCOTTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD Like the most compelling documentaries, the film focuses more on the person behind these stories rather than the details themselves.

The New World is a movie to get lost in, and from the first few minutes we are thrown into director Terrence Malick s world of complex characters that focus on their emotions and feelings at their current time in this new found place on earth, rather than overweighing us in a story about when Pocahontas met John Smith.

Rather, let's focus on the films that you might not have already known were coming up, from directors worth getting excited about, stories that make you go «ooh» and «aah».

There are countless tales to relate from this tragedy, and rather than focus on several in the schlocky manner of a»70s disaster flick, director Juan Antonio Bayona elected to center on the true - life story of María Belón and Enrique Alvarez, a Spanish couple on holiday with their three boys in Thailand when the tsunami hits.

Rather than focusing on Princess Diana's chest of civil achievements, Oliver Hirschbiegel contents himself with this turkey of a love story.

At the heart of all the chaos though is a rather touching story about trying to preserve the first baby born on Earth in an unspecified amount of years, which is where the film focuses for the second two acts.

On the positive, The Death Cure is probably a lot better than it could have been a streamlined story that focuses on Thomas» fight to get his friend, rather than all of the unnecessary plot junctureOn the positive, The Death Cure is probably a lot better than it could have been a streamlined story that focuses on Thomas» fight to get his friend, rather than all of the unnecessary plot junctureon Thomas» fight to get his friend, rather than all of the unnecessary plot junctures.

I also think there's still an interesting story here about how the process of television news broke down in such a way that people stopped asking if the story that ended Rather's career was true or not, focusing more on the political slant on both sides of the issue.

I love that the story focuses on the advancement of the creature and is treated by Eliza as a human rather than a monster.

Instead of focusing on the rather desultory love story, more tension might have arisen from showing how de Barra came by the unlikely engineering and building skills she demonstrates, and how she broke into this profession when such things were unheard of for a woman, not least one who has been a wife and mother.

The film gets too focused on story, rather than characters or horror.

While there are a few twists and turns, and a handful of aggressively lengthy cutscenes, plot is decidedly not the focus of Xenoblade Chronicles X. Rather than forcing you through a set of linear plot beats, the game lets you decide when to take on any given story progression mission for the chapter you're on.