Sentences with phrase «for narrative stories»

«While most people recognize James Franco as a talented actor, we are excited to highlight him as a director with a keen eye for narrative stories.

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In public relations, setting a narrative for a brand's story or a company's announcement is just as important.

For two decades, globalization has been the world economy's central story line — or so it was until Russia and China sharply changed the narrative.

For all the great tools available to consumers to enjoy seeing an on - screen narrative, you'd expect that designers for theaters would have a better idea of the consumer's story along their online path to purchaFor all the great tools available to consumers to enjoy seeing an on - screen narrative, you'd expect that designers for theaters would have a better idea of the consumer's story along their online path to purchafor theaters would have a better idea of the consumer's story along their online path to purchase.

He calls the story of massive switching by iPhone fans every year a «false narrative,» noting that the fourth quarter — when Apple's new phones typically are on sale — accounted for just 26 % of customer defections the past few years.

Companies similar to Agolo include Automated Insights, which is using automation to analyze big data and transform it into stories, like sports reporting, while Narrative Science focuses on business intelligence for the enterprise, or «data storytelling,» as it puts it, enabling automated earnings reports created from data.

Most importantly, Trump himself contradicted this narrative almost immediately after Comey was fired, telling NBC's Lester Holt: «And in fact when I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said, «You know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made - up story, it's an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should have won.

But the human mind is made to fall for stories and miscalculate the odds when a good narrative is in place, as has been usefully described by the work of Nassim Taleb and Daniel Kahneman, among others.

«And if there is no comparable development and celebration of the English story in which creative effort is made to weave new strands into the national narrative and national rituals then the field will be left empty for the xenophobic and the terminally nostalgic.»

Missouri Synod theologians had traditionally affirmed the inerrancy of the Bible, and, although such a term can mean many things, in practice it meant certain rather specific things: harmonizing of the various biblical narratives; a somewhat ahistorical reading of the Bible in which there was little room for growth or development of theological understanding; a tendency to hold that God would not have used within the Bible literary forms such as myth, legend, or saga; an unwillingness to reckon with possible creativity on the part of the evangelists who tell the story of Jesus in the Gospels or to consider what it might mean that they write that story from a post-Easter perspective; a general reluctance to consider that the canons of historical exactitude which we take as givens might have been different for the biblical authors.

'' «The Voice» considers the narrative links that help us to understand the drama and passion of story that is present in the original languages,» according to the website for the book.

Everyone who offers their story, adds to the wider narrative, and shines light on things that have been shoved into the dark for far too long.

If the story of Jonah should not be a fact, even if Jonah had never lived, still would the profound truth of this narrative, the love of God for Nineveh and the so - called heathen, be none the less precious in the eyes of all those who love their fellow men.

Further, he insisted, a congregation's particular story, because it draws from a treasury of narrative elements available to all groups of people as they struggle for survival and meaning, is its channel to participation in the worldwide mission of establishing God's shalom.

Among these stories and events the one that stands out most dramatically and normatively for Christians is the Jesus story, and within that story the narrative of his crucifixion and resurrection is all - important.

Its narratives Contain many echoes of the stories in Mark and some of those which occur in Luke, and the evangelist has modified and added to the earlier traditions (his Gospel is generally agreed to be the latest of the four) in such a way as to make them the vehicle for a great body of deep religious truth.

For example, they work within an industry, a business, that defines most news stories in terms of conflict narratives.

So we worked for months on a cover story looking at the conflict in the Holy Land — why it's happening, peacemaking efforts, the (forgotten) story of the Church there and the eye - opening narratives our generation has to grapple with.

The narratives of the Bible report those acts for the same purpose and even prescribe ritual events for the telling and retelling of the sacred stories.

As in the Abraham stories, so too in the Jacob narratives, the sacredness and often the very name of ancient Canaanite sanctuaries are attributed to the visit of a patriarch to the scene, as witness, only for example, the stories of Bethel (28) and Peniel (32) This too contributes somewhat more subtly to the validation of Israel's claim.

Since we can not survey history from some universal, purely rational point of view, narrative theologians argue, we have no choice but to operate out of the historical narrative in which we find ourselves — and for the Christian theologian that means the Christian narrative, shaped by the story (ies) of Jesus Christ as found in the Bible.

The story, however, is his own graphic narrative, written probably between 85 and 95, and for the express purpose, he says, of giving an orderly and accurate account of what had happened.

The narrative moves quickly now through the death of Sarah and the purchase of the cave of Machpelah (chapter 23) to the altogether charming story of Isaac's successful quest for a wife (24), the last days and death of Abraham (25: in ff.)

Another way of getting at what is at issue is to say that apocalyptic narrative is instructive for us because it shows the difficulty of working both God and man into the same story.

This is an infinite which expresses itself in a narrative vision, not a predetermined narrative nor one which intends to include only a particular kind of people or a particular reality, but a story which is much more open than the old story used to be — a story, indeed, with many strands rather than with one, and a story which is not going to any predetermined place but which is constantly open to the best possibility that is relevant for it.

Believing exegetes who would interpret the gospels theologically, for instance, usually seek what the evangelist was thinking or, using a narrative hermeneutic, what the story suggests about God and the work of the Church.

The simplistic gospel of being saved from earth for a home elsewhere in heaven has been replaced by a grand narrative of God's redemption story that encompasses social justice, creation care, and a fresh vision of the mission of the global Church.

Since I am working from a collection of Jesus» sayings, I have to abstain from the narrative part of his biography, the stories of his birth, healings, Holy Week, and Easter, for, as we will see, they are not in the Sayings Gospel Q at all, or at most, present in a very indirect way.

All through the narrative we are aware that men are coming up for judgement before Him; nowhere more clearly than in the story of His arrest, trial and execution as a criminal and a rebel.

As long as anyone is alive to play a part or talk about it afterwards, the sacred narrative continues — at least until the day we wake from sleep to find that there is room in God's story for us all.

In some of the greatest historical narratives of the Bible the specifically religious element is quite in the background and the secular human interest is to the fore; for example, in the moving story of David and Absalom.

For just as we alone among the creatures are given the difficult gift of imagining our own death, we are also uniquely endowed with the ability to tell our stories to one another, to give ourselves away in narrative.

Unfortunately, other than the voiceover narrative as therapy motif, we see no representation of the audience for whom the story is told.

But the process of ecumenical and interreligious dialogue that Pope Benedict XVI has repeatedly endorsed may cause participants to question whether any canonical story of violence — such as the conquest narratives in Joshua and Judges, or functionally equivalent texts in the history of Islam — may legitimately be claimed to offer a religious warrant for continued violence in today's world.

Those ubiquitous network news stories about the «common people» whose lives are destroyed by out - of - touch policy wonks inside the Beltway do not meet any reasonable criteria for the appropriate political use of emotion and narrative particularity.

This story, as I say, is a familiar one to students of art history, church history, or dogmatic history; and for the most part Besançon soberly follows the main contours of the narrative, adding to it only his prodigious learning and a pleasing narrative style.

The operation of such a ruling group is pictured in the story of Boaz» negotiations for the redemption of Naomi's property (Ruth 4:1 - 12); the narrative is presumably from a comparatively late time, but the councils of elders persisted in the smaller communities right through Old Testament history, so there is ground for believing that the author relates practice with which he was familiar.

Luke valued these synchronisms not only as a means of giving his narrative a chronological and geographical orientation, but also as a way of expressing his conviction that the story he is about to tell has a meaning for this world.

Let us set down three observations: (a) Mark 15:40 - 16:8 possesses several features which divide it so sharply from the Passion narrative that it could hardly have been the natural continuation of that in the stage of oral tradition, (b) this pericope, however, could not have existed in its present form as an independent tradition, (c) the pericope itself falls naturally into two parts, the first of which can exist as an independent story, but the second of which can not, for it depends upon the first.

We can certainly say that his real climax is in the Passion narrative, for the tomb pericope which now ends the Gospel has little of the Easter joy and human interest that are to be found in John's tomb story.

Apart from the possibility that the Transfiguration story may have originated as an early resurrection narrative, the earliest Easter narrative is that of the empty tomb, for it is the only one included in Mark's Gospel.

How do you account for the presence of two discrete forms of the oral tradition (a healing story and a conflict story) in a single narrative?

Myths, poems and even semi-historical narratives, for example, tell truths that can only be expressed in story and metaphor.

Although the historicity of the whole gospel narrative is under serious scrutiny, and has been for a long time, the thrust of the story I believe, orbits around the themes the cross represents.

Pentecostals who begin with Acts 1:8 often conclude their testimony by inviting their audiences to experience for themselves the Spirit's presence and activity as recorded throughout the Acts narrative, and to continue to expand the early Christian story into — as it were — an additional chapter of the book of Acts.

Unlike Western narratives that strive for a balanced, formal structure, talk - story is a rambling way of remembering the past so as to create it anew in the changing moment.

Furthermore, stories surrounding women like Tamar of Genesis, Dinah, Hagar, the dismembered concubine of Judges 19, Jephthah's daughter, Tamar of the Davidic narrative, and so on reveal the profound inequity that characterized day - to - day life for women living in the ancient Near East.

So while Gladwell himself isn't a character in the narrative, its construction proved to be a remarkable personal journey for him.Aside from the section on David, three chapters of the book deal with the stories of people who drew on the extraordinary reserves of their Christian faith to defeat seemingly insurmountable odds.

As for specialties in the individual narratives, Matthew alone records the sealing and guarding of the tomb and he alone introduces an earthquake; Luke expands the story of the revelation on the road to Emmaus, which Mark's addition suggests, and introduces the meal of broiled fish partaken of by Jesus to prove the reality of his resuscitation; John alone, at the end of the century, narrates at length the conversation between Jesus and Mary Magdalene and records the scene between Jesus and Thomas and the appearance by the Sea of Galilee.

This mass media has always been characterized by a more progressive worldview, so left - leaning narratives are the only kinds of stories that we heard for generations.