Sentences with phrase «frame the story around»

Sydney Pollack's («Three Days of the Condor» / «Out of Africa») well - made but unimportant political thriller (more a character driven than a plot driven story) is set in New York City and frames its story around an assassination plot of an African leader set to speak at the United Nations.

Jason Chin's lush illustrations frame the story around a brother and sister, their family and friends through all the seasons of one year.

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Then, frame your presentations around those case studies to tell a story that keeps prospects listening and engaged.

Just this fortnight I've got to get the invites printed and packaged, my first dress fitting, do some video training (long story), a craft project (shudder) around the table name holders and more work on the images for the 17 A1 picture frames we need to fill in our reception venue.

Yet even as she and the filmmakers — Mr. Lelio shares script credit with Rebecca Lenkiewicz — thicken the texture, adding realistic details that should energize the scenes, the movie insistently puts a secular frame around its story, leaving little room for the metaphysical.

The story, such as it is, frames itself around a young man's quest to deliver one of van Gogh's final letters to the painter's brother in Paris during the summer of 1891.

Credit goes to Mickey Rourke for the deep psychic pain etched in his face in every frame that makes it easy to forget that the story is revolving around a «sport» where every contest is orchestrated and the outcomes are fixed.

Maybe what most marks Beau travail as a film by a woman is the way Denis uses African women to subtly impose an ironic frame around the story; from beginning to end, they figure implicitly and unobtrusively as a kind of mainly mute Greek chorus — whether they're dancing in the disco, speaking in the market, appearing briefly as the girlfriends of some legionnaires (including Galoup), or serving as witnesses to portions of the action.

The original story's time travel backdrop was a frame to explain a tight chase and rescue story about and raising the stakes around its outcome.

I didn't think the additional back story around Belle's mother added anything to the storyline — it would have been no less sad if she'd died in childbirth as opposed to how she did actually perish and although it served to show Belle's frame of mind towards the Beast when it was shown, the film would have carried on perfectly well had this not been added.

Mann brilliantly directs this ambitious psychological Western framed around a story similar to Shakespeare's King Lear (the cattle baron patriarch Donald Crisp is going blind like Gloucester and is obsessed with who will inherit his kingdom).

Yankee Doodle Dandy is framed around Franklin Roosevelt talking to Cohan after the latter portrays him in a stage musical, and as amusing as it is to think of the president taking hours out of his day to listen to George's complete life story, it's a testament to Cagney's indefatigable charisma that you can believe FDR wouldn't want to tear himself away.

The story framed around the young kid is quite interesting.

You make it clear from the beginning of the book that these students are all different and that each of their stories is unique, yet you identified recurrent themes and framed each chapter around them.

The Seduction of Common Sense: How the Right Has Framed the Debate on America's Schools; Real Leaders, Real Schools: Stories of Success Against Enormous Odds; Mobilizing the Community to Help Students Succeed; School Accountability, Autonomy, and Choice Around the World; The Future of Educational Entrepreneurship: Possibilities for School Reform

Press coverage of the teachers unions is usually assigned to an education reporter, which ensures the story will be framed around education issues.

The «Real As Me» curriculum features interactive conversations framed around on true stories by teens and is already underway with great success in a pilot program at Windsor Terrace Middle School.

For fiction, this is your opportunity to introduce characters, setting, plot, and the overarching themes of the book, usually framed around the main character's driving goal throughout the story.

Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan (2015) Four stories taking place at important historical crossroads intersect around a fifth frame story and the special harmonica that links them all.

Another great indie title that caught my eye was FRAMED, imagine a crime thriller told in a comic book style, but you have to recreate the story by moving the frames around piece by piece while trying to not get caught.

Try rigorously to include context on the overall state of knowledge when framing stories on science around conflict, given that conflict is a constant in science.

Aside from plenty of patent stories on chain links, spokes, metal frames and the like, you can read about English reporter, Thomas Stevens, who on a Penny Farthing style bike with a 50 inch front wheel, rode around the world (without the aid of any Lonely Planet guides, we suspect) during 1884 - 1886.

CLP says each issue will be framed around important themes affecting the legal profession, such as disruptive innovation in legal services and professionalism in the 21st Century, and will include both feature stories and recurring features and columns.

The real story, however, is the design of the phone, which incorporates a metal frame going around the edges of the Alpha.

We did strip the main level down to the studs and we are planning on just building the second story on top, but the house wasnt structurally sound and would have required essentially re-framing around all the existing framing + a whole lot of shimming and leveling, so we decided to take it down to the foundation at that point and went up 3 levels from there.