Sentences with phrase «human interest pieces»

The always - worth - watching Barbara Stanwyck is a magazine columnist who makes up a traditional country home for her column while living in New York, a subterfuge which causes no problems until a serviceman on leave wants nothing more than to spend Christmas on her farm and her editor thinks it's a great human interest piece.

Although initially not interested in a human interest piece, Martin Sixsmith (Steve Coogan) finds himself drawn into Philomena Lee's (Judi Dench) story of her forced labor at a convent decades earlier whose nuns sold her child, and those of several other unwed mothers, into adoption for 1000 pounds.

Nothing like a good (sponsored) human interest piece.

Not exact matches

But what's interesting, especially about that one, and that one [is a] piece written by Larry Greenemeier, was that, you know, all the popular science fiction treatments of that kind have it [suddenly] happening and conflict between humans but through Larry's reporting it seems more likely that we will see it coming; that machine self - awareness will occur in a certain kind of stepwise fashion where they're getting better at certain tasks; [that they'll be able to do] autonomous activities, and from there that you can actually see them develop, and it shouldn't come up as a big surprise as it if finally happens.

This summer: A Midsummer Night's Dream with two of Broadway's very best performers (Danny Burstein & Annaleigh Ashford) and Julius Caesar with Corey Stoll, Nikki M James, Elizabeth Marvel and more Vox interesting piece on Sanrio's most popular character since Hello Kitty Mic new study suggests cats like humans more than food.

Of course, love can make you feel loyal, and at the end of this movie, and I think it's a double - edged sword because you see his response of finally having a human response is he makes a big mistake, which is interesting, and I thought was a really deft piece of storytelling.

It reminds, of all things, of Dan Harris's Imaginary Heroes (also starring Michelle Williams), in that it's a rather meticulously - detailed period piece that fails almost completely to offer up any human interest in its pursuit of human truth.

I also think pets make for more interesting and modern wall art than traditional photos of humans, and having a piece of art on your wall that make you happy every day when you see it is the goal of my sessions.

ARTIST STATEMENT «The piece is a play on simple vaudeville style adverts that toys with the idea of human interest in viewing the grotesque; in this case, a bloody boxer, black man with a west African rhino head, broken horn in mouth, bloody / bruised face + body, in a classic boxing pose.

He is interested in the human condition and showcases pieces that transcend boundaries and work across a variety of media.

It provides an interesting counterpoint to Black Flags: where, in that piece, the viewer watches the robots, in Alignigung the humans are watched by a robot with a camera; we see what the robot sees.

I would just like to pick up on the last sentence in this piece on the wolves, «As human populations expand, there'll be ever more such clashes between human interests and those of wide - ranging wildlife, whether in the Serengeti or Wyoming.»

There's been a range of interesting reactions to my piece on Pete Seeger's question about whether confidence in science as a source of human progress is underpinned by fact or faith.

The piece, «The Nerd Loop: Why I'm Losing Interest in Communicating Climate Change,» is a long disquisition on why there's too much thumb sucking and circular analysis and not enough experimentation among institutions concerned about public indifference to risks posed by human - driven global warming.

Environment groups that have supported the wind industry and taken their thirty pieces of silver, «health professionals» who have no expertise in acoustics and no interest in faraway rural communities, but do have an overblown interest in climate health effects, have jumped on the wind energy bandwagon eager to claim the high moral ground despite the human collateral damage.

Interesting piece in the FT.. It just goes to show what a dim - witted unconscious lot us humans really are!

So, a journalist tries various tricks to make the piece interesting — highlighting conflict (the old science as sporting event ploy), manufacturing a narative (the old pretence of human interest in th sciences), or they oversell the importance or novelty of the research (aka the «read my piece or die» ploy).

There was another interesting piece from that where he points out, it used to be that in order to get anything done, you had to create a checklist or procedure and then have humans go do it.

This then leads to the main point of this piece: #MeToo makes for captivating human interest stories and an empowering political movement, but it is irreconcilable with civil justice under our modern employment law system.

You know how sometimes you look at a piece of research and think, «I suppose it's an interesting technical problem, but isn't teaching an AI to hunt and kill humans a pursuit fundamentally dangerous to the continued existence of mankind?»