Sentences with phrase «human interest stories for»

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Nevertheless, by virtue of our collective human powers — our capacity for complex symbolic thinking, the sophistication of our tools, our ability to steward nature, and our demonstrated interest in telling both nature's story and our own — human beings also transcend nature.

Typically messed up people and messed up middle class lives make an interesting story when there is no revenge for which one needs to make retribution, or when there is no obvious injustice to which human dignity requires courageous defiance in defense what is right.

In some of the greatest historical narratives of the Bible the specifically religious element is quite in the background and the secular human interest is to the fore; for example, in the moving story of David and Absalom.

We can certainly say that his real climax is in the Passion narrative, for the tomb pericope which now ends the Gospel has little of the Easter joy and human interest that are to be found in John's tomb story.

My rule was always to look for at least three hooks in the actual story that was to be used for the cover: significance, human interest, timing.

However i didn't care for the humans, the humour was pretty lame and the story was not very interesting.

Apatow produced Rogen and Goldberg's first forays into screenwriting, but they've gone separate ways, with Apatow clearly preferring to tell conventionally romantic human interest stories and Rogen - Goldberg displaying more of an appetite for genre - infused comedy.

Depressed in his unemployment, he's asked to write a human interest story about Philomena Lee (Dench), a woman who, as a teenager in Ireland, fell pregnant, was sent to a convent, and forced to give the child up for adoption.

Ian and Frank decide their story needs characters, and so they create a noble folk hero to generate human interest, a rebel fighter bravely sacrificing his life for his people.

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.

YA / General Interest: An absorbing story for all teens, not just those concerned with human rights.

For media, their audience is the general public, in which case you should use a pitch that ties your book to a human interest story, event, or trend their audience would be interested in.

I started my writing journey with a family humor column for a small town paper, then moved to human - interest stories, and later wrote feature articles.

There, she reported and produced human interest and sports stories and an academic game show for high school students.

It's a broadly interesting story concerning the struggle for survival on a near - future Earth ravaged by an inconclusive war between humans and an alien alliance called Votans.

And too current for inclusion in Blawg Review # 74, but still consistent with the impact of Sept. 11 on law, Volokh posts an interesting story in today's Washington Post, reporting that an increasing number of CIA counterterrorism officers have signed up for government - reimbursed, private insurance plans that cover liability for suits related to abuse, torture or human rights violations.

Phil Shiner of Public Interest Lawyers has been celebrated by fellow lawyers and, for his contribution in exposing serious human rights abuses that would otherwise been hidden, rightly so — but he also became a hate figure, the Mail ran a front page story claiming Shiner had «caused anger and revulsion».

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.

As Feature / Marketing Writer, developed and wrote human - interest feature stories for weekly Venture (outdoors) section and annual Wish Book (philanthropy) section.

My own concentration on lifestyle and human interest stories makes for engaging copy and I have been prided with the Journalist of the Year award by the state two times in two years.