Sentences with phrase «grand story»

In the meantime, I hope you will join me in welcoming Don's words with the love and goodwill of fellow sojourners called into the much grander story of God's redeeming work in the world.

With the story of Days of Future Past being that of a tale of time travel, from the outset and confirmation of the film's subtitle Singer explained that this project would strive to explore the larger X-Men universe and draw from grander stories from the books, taking inspiration with what Marvel Studios has done with their unified cinematic universe.

The veteran Dry Valleys expeditioner is a master, Mackay says, of pulling tiny pieces of evidence together to tell a much grander story.

Fighting History The genre of «history painting», telling grand stories of great events, was Britain's most honoured art form in the late 18th century.

Brownlee has been trying to extract grand stories from tiny space particles since the mid-1960s.

It has the feel that Barghva tried to condense a far grander story into an hour and forty minutes of film.

They always come back with grand stories of gnarly tubes, narrowly escaping killer sharks and recently one Gisele Bündchen sighting in Costa Rica.

Camelot's Golden Sun games feature grand stories, incredible summon attacks, and engaging turn - based combat that makes them some of the most enjoyable adventures out there.

The crucial dilemma for artists is how to convey complex figurative works that depict grand story arcs, while compressing a multitude of thoughts, nuance, ideas and emotions into a static singular image.

And so special attention will be given to books and articles that help us understand the relevant texts within their original contexts and in the context of God's good and grand story of restoration and redemption.

It has been praised as «a terrific read» by Andrew Ross Sorkin in the New York Times, «a revelation» by the Financial Times, «a grand story» by The Wall Street Journal, and «an engaging and informative book» by The New Yorker.

In my family, we see life as a series of grand stories that simply must be populated with larger - than - life characters.

Pixar thrives in drawing a grand story out of a simple, clever, and familiar premise — jealousy between a child's toys, the complicated life of the monster - in - the - closet, a family of superheroes, a fish taken from the sea and imprisoned in a tank, a robot charged with cleaning up the waste - covered earth, a house (and an old man's dreams) carried by balloons.

The opponents, after all, whoever they were, were seeking to establish a way of being, a grand story, a form of knowing, a type of identity, upon the converts.

Your life and the events around you thus will make sense only as they have their place within this grand story.»

Do we watch something to see echoes and reflections of our Creator's character and beauty and His grand story of redemption, no matter how densely veiled they might be?

Taken in isolation, the various battles, massacres, moral lapses and rebellions of the Bible seem chaotic; woven together they become the grand story of God's rescue plan for the world.

It tells a grander story about how explorers find meaning in defying the oft - believed mores of their own civilization by seeking truth from other sources.

From these findings, the researchers are piecing together a grand story linking climate change and cultural evolution.

I need to breathe it all in before the grand stories disappear into adulthood.

The fantastic setting, grand story, exceptional writing and voice acting, engaging combat all coalesce into an exemplar of its kind.

It wants to be a grand story of love and adventure and the call of ever - increasing speed and height, but it's basically just Top Gun, fifty years earlier.

«The Raid 2» is a grander story, though it's not necessarily a bigger movie.

For his grand first film at age 25, Welles chose a grand story, based in part on the life of William Randolph Hearst (his first choice, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, didn't work out).

While I had heard of Nellie Bly I had never heard of Elisabeth Bisland and I did not know the grand story of their race around the world.

Gary Paulsen also takes on Reeves» grand story in The Legend of Bass Reeves (2006).

Purity is a grand story of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder.

A nice twist ending tops off the action here and sets things up for a grand story to come.

It has been praised as «a terrific read» by Andrew Ross Sorkin in the New York Times, «a revelation» by the Financial Times, «a grand story» by The Wall Street Journal, and «an engaging and informative book» by The New Yorker.

Players looking for a grand story ripped from the pages of Borderlands will want to look elsewhere, as the missions themselves feel pretty much standalone, only held together slightly by the premise that a bad dude is trying to destroy the last star in the galaxy and characters across a number of different factions have united to stop him.

Developed by two - man team Fair Weather Studios, the game pits players on a grand story via two fully voiced single - player campaigns spanning the galaxy and around 50 + hours.

If you came to an XBox Arcade game looking for a grand story, you have bigger problems than saving the world from Xolotl.

In this game of grand stories and striking graphics, you play as the prophesied leader of the Graywalkers — 36 Hidden Ones who walk the line between the darkness and the light.

Although 2006's Final Fantasy XII made some pretty radical departures from the main entries in the series by overhauling elements such as the battle system, in - game currency, and character leveling, the game's grand story and memorable characters helped it feel right at home within the rest of the Final Fantasy franchise.

But used in film and suddenly watercolor works its magic of nostalgic or fantastical reminisce in favor of a grand story.

While proclaiming its place among the great canvases and grand story of American art, the work's repurposing of distinctly marginal and vernacular materials effects a majestic critical shift in how the structures of society, meaning and beauty in the streets — and in art history — might be seen.

Many of these painters are leaving behind the grand stories and moral parables of their forebears, however, and are turning instead to stories which are more personal or intimate.