Sentences with phrase «human stories instead»

Much more family information that turns this into the human stories instead of dry history.Can't wait to see the DVD.

Not exact matches

and instead share lessons learned and human stories.

In this novel Atwood does not abandon biblical history to those who have muted female testimony; instead, she imaginatively writes this testimony back into cultural contexts that would destroy it utterly and that fail to do so, even as she reveals the violence in any amputations of human stories and the historical vulnerability of all speech and silence.

Of course, we may be wrong to think that we truly remembered those long - lost almost - humans: Perhaps instead they were only speculative imaginings to explain old bones and arrowheads, fossils and mysterious cave paintings — just as our own stories about Neanderthals are also, mostly, fantasies.

An empiric story rejects examples of supposedly superior piety and proposes instead a reasonable loyalty to God and fellow human beings.

Instead of thinking primarily about the story of Jesus in the gospels and how God is involved in that story, we are offered reflections about how the divine substance and the human substance can be united in one person.

If Chalcedon had preceded Nicaea, or if the Church Fathers had turned to the biblical story of Jesus instead of Nicaea and Ephesus for their moorings, they might have been faced with and had to deal with the mystery, ambiguity, indirection, in other words, the parabolic quality of an actual human life and its growth.

The Bible is not about conveying divine principles for starting and managing a Christian business — but is instead about Christ on the cross triumphing over all principalities and powers and so radically transforming everything we consider to be our business... Scripture then ceases to about teaching about biblical manhood and womanhood or biblical motherhood and fatherhood — and becomes instead the story of how a covenant - making and promise - keeping God took on full human personhood in Jesus Christ in order to reconcile this alienated and wrecked world to the eternally gracious Father.»

But we might want to at least tell stories and show models of love that don't look so predictable, that speak more to the way we actually live and love instead of some idealized and often unsatisfying or unsustainable version of it, stories that recognize that loving relationships are as varied and beautifully complicated as we humans are.

The board originally attributed the black discharge to routine maintenance but later changed the story, calling it human error instead.

And I wouldn't mind that concept, if the film at least had a story to go along with it, instead of segments (or skits) of humans acting like selfish, reactionary assholes.

Baker chooses not to indict the forces that brought these people here — he assumes the audience will make their own moral accounting — and instead thinks the best remedy, or at least story, is a simple human portrait.

Like previous Pixar worlds we've visited in Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Inside Out and Monsters Inc., there feels like there were some good intentions here in terms of creating ideas for the world of The Good Dinosaur The idea that dinosaurs have evolved past the point of humans and are now living in this Western landscape is never explored fully, and is instead sacrificed for the tried and tested «find our way home» story that has been a Pixar staple since Toy Story twenty yearsStory, A Bug's Life, Inside Out and Monsters Inc., there feels like there were some good intentions here in terms of creating ideas for the world of The Good Dinosaur The idea that dinosaurs have evolved past the point of humans and are now living in this Western landscape is never explored fully, and is instead sacrificed for the tried and tested «find our way home» story that has been a Pixar staple since Toy Story twenty yearsstory that has been a Pixar staple since Toy Story twenty yearsStory twenty years ago.

His use of space and time has theatre - like economical sense to it but instead of focusing on the dramatic structure he uses it as a pretext to tell a story of the most toxic and lethal of all human addictions — family.

But the film is never defined by these politics; instead, Hornby feels his ways into the story and resists the urge to turn his heroine into a symbol, an icon, or anything less than a human being.

So when Emily describes cutting as a substitute for creative journaling and as a means to feel «almost human,» Bohjalian's not flouting conventions of YA lit; instead, he's locating his story in an established pattern of others.

Rich in the compassion and insight into flawed human nature that has become a Lippman trademark while telling an absolutely gripping story, The Most Dangerous Thing will not be confined by genre restrictions, reaching out instead to captive a wide, diverse audience, from Harlan Coben and Kate Atkinson fans to readers of Jodi Picoult and Kathryn Stockett.

The characters are familiar, as they are descendants of the first novel's original castaways, yet instead of a struggle for survival, this story deals with humans navigating now thriving communities on the planet Eden.

Those two novels and the MG short - story collection were everything I'd written at the time (that I deemed suitable for human consumption), and I chose to self - publish them all instead of playing the agent - hunt game.

Instead of revisiting the characters and stories from the comics and TV show or, mercifully, watering the experience down to a simple first - person shooter, The Walking Dead does something utterly unique: it echoes the «humans are the real monsters» theme of the series with a whole new cast of memorable and compelling characters.

The details come from Perfectly Nintendo... - game takes place 20 years after Wizard's Harmony - a world of swords and magic, where adventurers can be found aplenty as the result of the development of said swords and magic (instead of science)- led to sudden emergence of a business centered around those very adventurers - protagonist, named Alto, is a Conductor: name given to ruins tour guides, a profession that was born from «adventurers bubble» - story takes places in the city of Kazan, where traces of the magical King of Guranka can be found - mysterious Kingdom was completely destroyed overnight, 1000 years ago - main characters: Alto Traverse (Conductor, Human, voiced by Kengo Kawanishi): a young Conductor who guides adventurers in dangerous ruins.

The story never really concerns itself with a concrete resolution, and instead presents you with a framework of surreal drudgery and a grave look at the psychosis inevitable to anybody who can so flippantly take human lives.

Instead, it offers a set of complex, harmonising stories about human creativity and flaws which bubble and fizz within their ascetic aesthetic.

Instead of the religious and philisophical debates of Xenosaga, or even the man vs. machine dynamics of Xenoblade, a war which was fought on the living bodies of literally titanic Gods, we have a standard sci - fi story of humans settling on a new planet.

Starring Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo as the brothers, and Dennis Hopper as King Koopa, the film had shockingly little in common with the games, and instead told a cyberpunk - tinged story about inter-dimensional travel and an alternate version of New York populated by human / dinosaur hybrids... Or something.

Instead of viewing refugees as a «problem,» a number, or — more tragically — a death count, Castro Garcia creates work that humanises them and puts faces and human stories into each image.

Instead of a sentimental and funny story about singing and dancing jungle animals befriending an abandoned boy in the middle of the jungle, Claerbout's film removes the young human protagonist and dispenses with the anthropomorphism of the animals.

Instead of focusing on the bears, she talks to people on the frontlines of climate change, aiming to make climate change a story about humans rather than nature.

Instead, it focuses on each of these sites to tell the human stories of the people involved.

In the literary work, let's say the characters from the movie are changed, the setting is changed, and the story is flipped (for example, instead of aliens invading earth, the humans invade alien territory).