Sentences with phrase «great piece of story»

The bible is a great piece of story telling.

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From Royal Baby news to Gossip Girl — style soaps to tabloid magazine pieces about the Hiltons, we love stories of heirs and heiresses and great dynastic families — particularly if those families meet a nasty end.

The O. Henry Prize recognizes great pieces of short fiction and is «intended to «strengthen the art of the short story and to stimulate younger authors.

These collectible stadium miniatures make great conversation pieces and will elicit lots of sports stories from dad's wealth of sports knowledge and trivia.

Dan Vergano, a science reporter for BuzzFeed, called the piece «just tremendous fun, a great story of passion in science that pays off with a remarkable eureka moment.»

My Good Friend Vanessa kindly let me share my story about Hashimoto's on her blog: Healthy Living How To You may be wondering how to regain health after Hashimoto's or Hypothyroidism and it is possible to find a great deal of rejuvenation and piece of mind.

I'm by no means a pro — there are literally tons of Instagram accounts run by people who buy thrifted furniture, fix it up, and sell it, and basically wish I was that talented — but I've had a lot of fun finding great pieces for low prices and sharing my redos via Insta stories.

Piecing together his story uncovers injustice, struggle, and one of the greatest ballplayers of all time.

The game is simply great, with amazing set pieces and a crazy story, but the real highlight of the game is the combat that simply thrives on letting the player figure out the best ways to tackle a fight without holding your hand.

What makes The Great Gatsby such a monumental piece of literature is not just the story or the interesting struggle between characters.

Though it heavily reworks Bissell's story, the film feels as beautifully calibrated as a great piece of short fiction, only with visual accents and emphases filling in for the prose.

Not only does Jolie (and her skilled team of designers) create all of these worlds convincingly, she also manages to make good - to - great «mini-movies» out of each piece of Zamperini's story, keeping them distinct from one another, while also blending them perfectly into one another via the central character story.

All of these action scenes are great fun in the moment, but they ultimately prove to be somewhat exhausting — it feels like there's one set piece too many here — and makes the promising story feel mostly forgettable.

I didn't know if this movie was going to be a throwaway or not to an older audience, but thankfully it really does a great job of putting the pieces together to make sense of the story.

It's a sort of chamber piece, while he has made his name with great ensemble casts and epic stories, but he's still looking for the epic.

-- but one suspects that many of those pieces were written by people who hadn't seen «Obvious Child,» a legitimately great modern comic love story that also managed to include genuinely progressive politics, granting the genre a breath of fresh of air.

Quantum of Solace and now Skyfall continue what is essentially a multi-film origin story, ever so slowly putting together the familiar pieces of MI6 and conferring on our little James the field experience and skills necessary to become the world's greatest spy.

A number of other major restorations will have their World Premieres at the Festival: Carol Reed's atmospheric Graham Greene adaptation of OUR MAN IN HAVANA (1959), set in Cuba at the start of the Cold War, makes timely viewing as US / Cuba relations thaw; Ken Russell's reworking of D.H. Lawrence scandalous classic WOMEN IN LOVE (1970) stars Oliver Reed, Alan Bates and Glenda Jackson and shows two couple's contrasting searches for love, and was restored by the BFI National Archive working alongside cinematographer Billy Williams; A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS (1966) is directed by Fred Zinnemann from a script by great British screenwriter, Robert Bolt from Bolt's play about Sir Thomas More, a perfect companion piece to Wolf Hall; Henry Fonda stars in the ripe - for - discovery WARLOCK (1959), a seething study of vengeance and repressed sexuality in a Utah mining outpost; and Bryan Forbes» THE RAGING MOON (1971) starring Malcolm McDowell and Nanette Newman in a tender story between two young people in wheelchairs which was ahead of its time in its attempts to change attitudes to disability.

The story, cobbled together by the director and young film enthusiasts Dario Argento and Bernardo Bertolucci, plays like a collection of the genre's greatest hits: the tense, real - time set pieces of High Noon; the mysterious hero of Shane; the encroaching antlike forces of civilization as explored in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.

The movie explores the lack of empathy for one another, while at the same time operates on many levels including as a suspense thriller, a character - driven piece, a musical (there's a even great dance number) and finally a story of love, grief and loss.

I haven't read the book but from the information I've pieced together from the net, Jackson and regular fellow screenwriters Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens have taken out great chunks of the story.

The great adventure story flies by and creates no dull moment as immaculately executed set pieces and magnificent scenery (I'm always partial to a bit of foliage) give the film it's major flashes of brilliance.

To help with the story, Rogue Continuum does feature a great intro which puts the pieces of this game together.

This may not be Baumbach's greatest film, but The Meyerowitz Stories is one of his strongest pieces of work, top to bottom.

It's a very tough movie to watch (it's violent, intense, unbelievably sad and even infuriating at times), but like the crime novel at the center of the story, it demonstrates the power that a great piece of fiction can have on you, even one as polarizing and challenging as this.

The fact that one of those characters appears bored as the story is related is a great piece of inadvertent commentary on how we're feeling.

For those interested in the finer points of education policy, I'd also recommend: Alyson Klein on helping long - term English - language learners, Chad Aldeman on the difficulty of «raising the bar» for teacher preparation entry, Mike Petrilli's Education Next piece on a schools agenda for working - class families, Kathleen Porter Magee on a great - news story for Catholic schools, Nat Malkus on the Title I funding fight, and Paul Peterson on the «Bush - Obama» approach to reform.

Display pictures - Large A4 coloured pictures of things to do with bonfire night and the story of Guy Fawkes Colouring pictures - Large black and white pictures Display border - Each piece is decorated with pictures and can be printed as many times as you need for a display board of any size Songs and rhymes - Six decorated songs and rhyme cards related to Bonfire Night for the children to learn - 2 of these rhymes are number rhymes so would be great for your maths lessons A4 border - Individual A4 sized page with a border - great for adding work to ready for the display or for the children to use in the writing area Questions - Question cards each decorated with colour pictures Topic words - Words about Guy Fawkes and Bonfire Night each decorated with fireworks Fireworks - Colour photos of fireworks - great for discussion and displays Houses of Parliament - Colour photos of The Houses of Parliament Counting card - Rocket counting cards Dice game - Two different sheets with a black and white firework picture - roll the die and colour the correct part of the firework Literacy Worksheets - Various worksheets such as completing the sentences about fireworks, true and false worksheet about Guy Fawkes, describing fireworks, writing safety instructions Maths Worksheets - Make the rocket symmetrical, complete the addition and subtraction sums on the fireworks plus blank calculation sheets so you can differentiate the sums Ideas - An ideas sheet with lots of ideas to cover different areas of the curriculum when teaching about Bonfire Night and the Gunpowder Plot Cutting skills - Cut out the parts of the firework and assemble - there are two different sheets Safety Posters - Eight posters about firework safety for the children to colour Picture dominoes - A colour dominoes game Guy Fawkes pictures - Pictures from old documents about Guy Fawkes and the plot Draw the fireworks - A colour and a black and white worksheet Size worksheet - Cut out and order the rockets in size order - in colour and black and white Matching pairs game - Match the coloured Bonfire Night pictures Rhyme - «Remember, Remember the Fifth of November» - A decorated rhyme card

The pack includes: Colour pictures of Percy and the animals in the story Black and white pictures of Percy and the animals - great for colouring and art activities Percy's hut picture in the snow and without snow Snowy trees to add to adisplay to make a great snowy scene A number line to 50 on cute robins Alphabet bunting to hang in your classroom - each piece has a picture of one of the animals in the story and the lower case letter Winter clothing flashcards - great for discussion about clothes to wear when it is colder Word flash cards with words relating to the story - each card is decorated with a picture of Percy in the snow Question cards with questions about the story - great to add to a display A long display banner with the title and pictures of Percy and the animals A snowy board game to make and play A dice game to collect the pieces of each animal A worksheet to draw the scene from the window Photographs of snowy scenes - a great addition to any display Winter words - Words of snowflakes about winter A collection of rhymes and songs about winter Number rhyme about snowflakes with rhyme cards, face masks and props for singing the rhyme Snowflake alphabet jigsaws - find the two halves of the snowflakes with upper and lower case letters A collection of playdough mats linked to the story Dress Percy for winter - choose the appropriate clothes for Percy to wear in the snowy weather Colouring pictures of Percy and the animals and the snowy hut Stick puppets of Percy and the animals - great for retelling the story and for making up new stories Face masks in colour and black and white of Percy and the animals A colourful bingo game for the story «One Snowy Night» An A4 word mat with pictures and words relating to the story «Welcome to Percy's hut» large banner - great to use as part of a role play area of Percy's hut A game of snap to make and play Animals footprints in the snow - great to add to a display and for discussion Two different word searches with words and pictures relating to the story Please note: The art work used in these resources has been produced by ourselves.

One of the pieces of the story that is consistent throughout, say the last 25 years of school improvement and reform, is the scale of the challenge in Los Angeles is just significantly greater than practically any other area in the United States, and, therefore, the challenge and the urgency are huge.

Unable to communicate through speaking or writing, the invalided Rose reveals her story through a series of great art pieces, which she sends downstairs to the gallery.

While I think stories like Watchman and The Sandman are great pieces in the graphic novel library I was having trouble seeing a correlation between their philosophical and literary approach (and in the case of Alan Moore a sometimes incredibly dense text) and what most manga readers are picking up.

Since my undergraduate degrees were in Psychology and English Literature, and having started writing stories at the very young age of 8, I always tried to fathom what it was that made a piece of fiction a great work of art.

In the rules are great pieces of useful information such as genre (s) they accept, length of story, who to mail it to, how to mail it, what to mail, what happens after you send it, and many other things.

Scholes packs several characters into each chapter, showing bits and pieces of the greater story going on at once.

Like a great piece of classic literature it works on many levels — a simple story of two strangers who will transform each other's lives, a page - turning psychological thriller and a story about faith, doubt, and love.

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So while she was going on and on with her random facts -LRB-»... and Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote this story about it, called «The Great Stone Face»...»), I just cleared my throat and said really loudly, «It was just a piece of rock.»

For everything going on here, Luffy is still the heart of the story, a hero who puts others first because he has a big heart, although he has his own goals, and being a great character himself is enough to make you always come back and read One Piece.

Going toe to toe with DD, their fight is close quartered, brutal and one of the smartest pieces of action we've seen for a long time, allowing Waid to draw inspiration from the great Daredevil stories of the past.

Story 2: A great piece of crime fiction, beta readers love it.

this is my input and closing, i say to all these anti-playbook people to keep a low tone because the power and potential of the tablet are great and when rim delivers the updates and patches necessary (and up to now they have always delivered) this little tablet will demonstrate is capacity in full and then lots of people will have to edit or ammend their blogs or articles or invent other stories and lame exfuses for their precipitated slamming of what in my opinion is a wonderful piece of hardware!

If you think you have a piece of useful information, a great story to tell, or an idea that other people might want to know, then writing about it is the most productive thing you can do.

The Story of Shareware, the original in - app purchase (Motherboard) Great piece of history here.

Titled «The Great College Loan Swindle» Taibbi's piece told the story of two distressed student - loan borrowers: Scott Nailor and Veronica Martish.

What an amazing story with so many great insights and pieces of advice.

«The story about Ed Schaefer, the retired Laurel postal worker who received a heart transplant, was a great example of a piece about someone who made a difference in the community just by being themselves.

In particular, the second of these two moments around three - quarters of the way through the story is a piece of writing excellence that is perhaps one of, if not the, greatest moments in the trilogy, creating a truly tense moment between two races that can have horrible, heart - breaking, spine - chilling outcomes.

I don't want to give too much away because the story does a great job of building the mystery, slowing allowing the pieces to come together as you search for clues.

There are videos of the original version of Apocalypse, too, and this is an awesome piece of gaming history, now fairly well documented (though it'd be great to hear all sides of the story, not just the Neversoft - predominant version.)