Sentences with phrase «grand tale»
A grand tale is a story that is told in an elaborate or impressive manner, often with exaggerated details and dramatic elements. Full definition
It takes a very personal journey into the unknown, and by nature of its design, makes it a social experience to tell grand tales of the monsters you defeated and the weapons you reaped as reward.
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That's what happens when so much of the story is told through close - ups and two - shots: you lose the sense that there is a bigger, grander tale unfolding.
In a story - driven universe, Destiny's saga unfolds through grand tales and epic adventures by immersing players in a bold new universe filled with cooperative, competitive, public, and social activities, all seamlessly connected.
But The Life of Pi also asks to be the latest in the long line of grand tales about India, novels that seek to capture what Martel himself calls «the rich, noisy, functioning madness» of the place, and a great deal of the novel's flaws rest in that ambition.
More difficult is the tedium that often accompanies the addiction / recovery / relapse narrative — a problem currently up for deconstruction in Leslie Jamison's new memoir, «The Recovering,» in which the author frets that stories of sobriety get the literary equivalent of short shrift, unable to compel us the same way that stories of addiction do, with their manic highs and grand tales of misbehavior.
Fight the Fallen, burn back the Hive, and clear a path that leads straight into E3, Beta, and beyond,» announced Bungie, which also described Destiny as a saga that «unfolds through grand tales and epic adventures by immersing players in a bold new universe filled with cooperative, competitive, public and social activities, all seamlessly connected».
The truth is that there would be no Moses, no crossing of the Red Sea and no grand tale of liberation if it weren't for the women woven throughout Exodus.
So begins a grand tale in which two people with the commendable desire to marry are thwarted by craven clerics, absurd legal judgments, and the malice of the powerful.
(That's especially problematic when the bigger, grander tale that's supposed to be the backdrop — the French students» revolution — wasn't that compelling on stage to begin with.)
Originally known as Utawarerumono: Itsuwari no Kamen in Japan, Mask of Deception is a grand tale meant to enchant the hearts and minds of players in search of incredible journey.
How do you work drama into these grand tales?
He's a bit of a «let me tell you a grand tale» type of guy, which makes his stories even more intriguing.
Yup, Tyranny is not concerned with painting you as the hero of a grand tale, rather it prefers a much more interesting and nuanced world where morality isn't always quite so clear.
It's not exactly a grand tale of adventure, given its length, but it's cinematic and written well enough that you want to help these characters.
Thousands of years ago, a grand tale of adventure and heroism was born.
Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception is a grand tale that will enchant the hearts and minds of players as it takes them on an incredible journey.
A Grand Tale Ends: The 70 + hours adventure contains more lore to discover, secrets to be revealed, relationships to build with old and new characters, the climactic finale to the series, and more.
It tells a story of a young man swept up into adventure and a grand tale of saving the world.
Credit where credit's due, conspiracy theorists certainly have the uncanny ability to take the mundane and weave it into a grand tale full of surreal twists and turns.
The game's saga unfolds through «grand tales and epic adventures by immersing players in a bold new universe filled with cooperative, competitive, public, and social activities, all seamlessly connected».
The trading of fixed upgrades for the flexibility of bone charms, streamlined energy system and dialing - back of Chaos / Order seem a foundation worthy of a grander tale, one that tugs a little harder on some of the dangling threads here - Billie's ability to listen to rats, for example, a promising rewrite of the Heart of Dunwall narrative mechanic that never really goes anywhere, or the mournful profundities of Dishonored's whales, which are referenced but not dwelt upon in the final area.
While the narrative does eventually build into a grand tale as expected of most Ys experiences, the bulk of the games story is anything but.
I wanted to get caught up on the grand tale of Master Chief so I'd be well versed in the series before Halo 5: Guardians released to the masses this fall.
A grand tale indeed.
No grand tales are woven in this series, so I won't dig much deeper into the plot.