Sentences with phrase «folks stories»

The book offers a lively sampling of urban folk stories held together only by a sentimental rejection of all things Irish.

Others have been preserved in regional folk stories and folk customs.

It has elements of the above, yet it is truly a spiritual exploration, a stunning folk story capture in film.

Her drawings relate dark and whimsical tales from childhood folk stories and her own imagination and have been a constant way to share an inner dialogue that is not easily communicated in words.

I had always read the story of Genesis as sort of a folktale by a people trying to understand the world they live in and not as exact truth, sort of like folk stories of why zebras have stripes or where does the sun go at night.

Great for a unit on folk stories / folklore or as an activity around St. Patrick's Day.

He waxes lyrical about seeing the «most incredible butterflies» in the garden at home and hearing captivating folk stories from the Yoruba people, a Nigerian ethnic group to which he belongs, about the power of twins to bring fortune or calamity upon their household.

Great drama it isn't, but the «Star Wars» trilogy - like folk stories - has a mythological timelessness and universal appeal that doesn't leave much room for aesthetic objections.

Folk stories told how she would bathe in the blood of virgins to preserve her youth and beauty.

Chinese folk stories also relate the power roosters have over supposed ghosts.

It sees two local teams, blue and red, compete in re-telling folk stories in vibrant carnival - style dancing, singing and parade floats.

Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel and Toby Jones star in the Gomorrah director's wonderful carnival of black - comic bad taste based on 16th - century folk stories

Based on an old Russian folk story, Corpse Bride is set in the 19th century but has nothing dreary or stodgy about it.

Over the last few weeks a pair of very different films that both center around folk stories have arrived on Blu - ray in the US.

The way to address this isn't to drill seven - year - olds on SAT words, but to teach them about dinosaurs and other animals, the history of the United States and the world, cultures here and abroad, key folk stories and works of children's literature, and so on.

Use as a glyph to demonstrate data handling or make as an enrichment activity for retelling the Mitten folk story.

So in one day you can spend an hour on a beachfront massage table to the sound of waves rolling in, then head off to watch ancient religious / folk stories about playful gods acted out in a nearby temple (there are no fewer than 20,000 temples on the island).

I'm thinking of a game that's based on worldwide folk stories / fairy tales where Mario can collect different power - ups based on them, whether it's mythical Japanese creatures, Dracula, ect.

Whilst it's admirable to attempt to pull off a retelling of a classic folk story, Volume's main storytelling is done through the mission select screen, which I found to be a bit of a letdown.

Her aunt, an English teacher, and her grandmother, a teller of Irish and Welsh folk stories, cultivated Hartigan's love of storytelling.

Neri's larger ceramic figures «Untitled (dark sitting girl),» «Untitled (seated figure)» and «Walking Man (yellow face),» reminiscent of some of Kiki Smith's figurative work, point to some unexplained narrative, as if they are characters in a ancient folk story.

Los Angeles based artist Paul McCarthy «s recent interest in the German folk story Snow White takes on its latest shape in his new exhibition with the Hauser and Wirth.

Folk stories aside, this painting reveals his miraculous and mysterious power to render the world in oils.

Folk stories claim that as Father Christmas pushed presents down the chimney, they would often become entangled with hanging socks that were drying over the fireplace.

It is a living tradition influencing the ordinary people through its symbols, folk stories and myths.

As the name depicts some cultural era, Nautanki Rani is based on inspiration from a folk story or fairytale in exact words derived from folklore set predated Derawar and Multan fort.

Read a folk story from India to the students such as «The Elephant and the Blind Men».

I don't want to speak for everyone, but as an immigrant child myself, my own relationship to my heritage was necessarily mediated by stories all the time, both folk stories and family stories.

Naomi Novik, author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed Temeraire novels, introduces a bold new world rooted in folk stories and legends, as elemental as a Grimm fairy tale.

This principle was developed based on the folk story of John Henry's competition with the steam engine, and how John Henry stopped at nothing, even death, to beat his competition (comparison).

Joining me this week are USTA's Roger Dow, talking about the current open skies controversy (and argument) between U.S. and Gulf airlines, Dan Cottrell, fireman and smoke jumper, who talks about the differences in fighting mountain and city fires, Kristen Snavely, head wrangler at Triple Creek Ranch, and Jack Gladstone, Blackfeet singer, lecturer, and writer (and Rose Bowl Champion), who tells (and sings) the folk story of a young orphan boy and his elders tracking a bear.

Take a guided stroll over the hill from our resort to the neighboring Nauea village where your escort explains the wonderful murals on the village temple's walls - they tell folk stories and show Buddhist concepts — and introduces everyday life in northern Laos.

Many artisans recreate fables and folk stories, as well as work on traditional Balinese calendars.

The purchase capped Maezawa's lightning - fast shoot to the front of the global collecting rat race, and the folk story of the sky - high total soon became a crossover sensation.

Saya Woolfalk is a multi-disciplinary artists who often works in the tradition of the fable or folk story, mapping the desires and ideas of people while creating contemporary narratives.

Tuulikki's performance in the work cloud - cuckoo - island (2016), retells the folk story of Mad Sweeney, an Irish king who wanders the wilderness deranged, mimicking the cuckoo's insistent call.

Elena Polenova was part of the generation of artists who rediscovered the folk traditions of the Moscow region — its wooden architecture, furniture and children's toys; its icons and peasant decorations; and its vibrant tradition of folk stories and fairytales.

Her latest exhibition, at Marlborough Fine Art, is a triple bill: pastels inspired by Manuel II, a series based on The Relic, the 1887 novel by José Maria Eça de Queirós which tells the story of the devious Teodorico Raposo and his visit to the Holy Land, and a set of watercolours for a new version of the folk story Stone Soup by her daughter, Caroline Willing (published by Enitharmon Press).

The San Francisco - based artist playfully draws from American craft traditions, country - western aesthetics and classic European fables to create worlds reminiscent of folk stories and fairytales.

You're probably familiar with the folk story of «stone soup,» in which a hungry traveler tells an inhospitable community he can make delicious soup from just a pot of water and a stone.