Sentences with phrase «in human interest stories»

All the good works done by religious organizations of all kinds (Christian and otherwise) might get a mention in a human interest story sometimes, but decades of this media treatment have skewed public perceptions of what faith is about.

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Because most of us are stuck in responsibility and are touched by these human interest stories.

But where the post really gets interesting is when Weinschenk explains what happens in the human brain throughout this classic story structure.

Over his 34 years in daily newspapers, he has traveled overseas and around the nation, covering wars and natural disasters, writing both breaking news stories and human - interest features.

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 AbsaloIn 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 Absaloin the background and the secular human interest is to the fore; for example, in the moving story of David and Absaloin 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.

Even I had to admit the force of faith in human history, high art, and ethical codes and to have no interest in them was to reject outright an essential portion of the human story.

Regardless of geography, the story of Martha and Mary is one of the richest in the Gospels in human interest.

Her unlikely partner in this venture is a washed - up journalist named Martin Sixsmith (played brilliantly by British comic actor Steve Coogan) who somewhat reluctantly finds himself chronicling this «human interest story.»

We read up on our squad, learn the strengths and weakness of the teams in our pool, and even watch a human interest story or two on an American footballer.

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.

In my opinion, taking either of those guys with to Puerto Rico would be done as a human interest story, akin to when the Marlins gave Adam Greenberg an at - bat in 2012 after his career was derailed when he was beaned in the head in his first career plate appearance years earlieIn my opinion, taking either of those guys with to Puerto Rico would be done as a human interest story, akin to when the Marlins gave Adam Greenberg an at - bat in 2012 after his career was derailed when he was beaned in the head in his first career plate appearance years earliein 2012 after his career was derailed when he was beaned in the head in his first career plate appearance years earliein the head in his first career plate appearance years earliein his first career plate appearance years earlier.

Her feature stories on area businesses, human interest, and health and fitness appear in her local newspaper.

At the end of July, Southern Weekly was stopped from printing an in - depth human - interest story about the fatal rainstorms in Beijing.

Such judgements and gossip share and thus legitimise the idea that prime ministers should indeed have the power to manipulate us in this way - while the media delights in the personalisation of power and the human interest stories it generates, and dreads dull rules.

As in the past, this column will provide you with interesting information that can include human interest stories, historical events and perspectives, happenings in the county or controversial pondering.

Dear Readers, As in the past, this column will provide you with interesting information that can include human interest stories, historical events and perspectives, happenings in the county or controversial pondering.

It was an interesting story that I never had really heard of before working on this issue, which was that there was, in the U.S. you couldn't patent, kind of, a naturally occurring organism, or a human part of an organism.

Since the theory was first suggested more than 55 years ago, huge advances have been made in the study of human evolution and our story is much more interesting and complicated than suggested by the catch - all aquatic ape hypothesis.

But Tim finds a distraction — while scratching around on the hilly property, he finds a gun and what looks like a human bone, and can't interest the L.A.P.D. in the story.

He reluctantly takes on a human interest story that entails him helping Irishwoman Judi Dench locate her illegitimate son, who was sold off to an American couple as a baby over 50 years ago by the nuns running the convent in which she was confined at age 18, à la The Magdalene Sisters.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

«I am interested in making human stories with characters that are either, full of grace or flawed,» states Elba.

Following a single father who works as a human billboard in Taipei, and his left - to - their - own - devices kids, with the presence of their mother represented by three different actresses, the film has the barest thread of story (Tsai has admitted that he no longer has any real interest in narrative), and seems determined to provoke less patient audience members into walking out, with a series of shots that last upwards of ten minutes without all that much movement in them.

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.

All very interesting, no doubt, but this film tells its story in stilted fits and starts, and is oddly tasteful and decorous in its treatment of what one presumes was a human triangle born of deep passion.

When writing the story, Kazuo was «interested in something that paralleled the human lifespan».

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.

He adds, «I was interested in exploring the world, but as always I'm most interested in the story and the human dynamics that take place in the movie, which here are pretty intense.»

Crown Heights plays like a human - interest story in which all of the humanity has been gutted in favor of deadening narrative efficiency.

It's very easy to lose the story of Batman in the midst of more interesting villains, and that certainly seemed the case with The Dark Knight, but Rises puts Wayne right back under the microscope, and Bale finds new depths of emotion with the character, making him more vulnerable and ultimately human than before.

Our plan is grounded in the following two premises: 1) When purposefully synchronized with one another across multiple forms of media («cross-media»), children's and adolescents» exposure to high quality youth - oriented social and ethical story content, i.e. stories of substance specifically about character development, compassion, and courage (CCC), is a powerful way to promote youth academic achievement and ethical values; 2) Especially if these stories, told and «read» across media, in their various genres (human interest, biography, history and historical fiction, civic engagement, coming of age, social change, spiritual awakening, moral issues, etc.), are «taught» by «educators» (broadly defined) using an «evidence - based» pedagogy that A) makes use of peer to peer, and adult facilitated group discussion and debate as a primary form of instruction, and B) takes advantage of access to the texts of the story that are made available cross-media (narratives, scripts, videos, etc.) to foster students» critical thinking and ethical reflection skills.

I recommend this book to all readers, even if you're not interested in China or Pearl S. Buck, because it's a dramatic story filled with the human emotions that are the same across all cultures (Loretta F).

I have no idea how long this sale will last, so if you're interested in an emotional and deeply human story wrapped in a paranormal mystery, you will not be disappointed.

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.

This memoir should be read by everyone interested in human rights (Donna N); it is a great story and I believe book clubs will love it (Anita S).

And while this is a story that no one in the media is covering, it is without a doubt the most critical and interesting development in the modern publishing landscape: More people are earning a living with their writing than at any other time in human history.

Study both human interest and hard news stories in periodicals and on the Internet.

They're more interested in the essence of the story and how the pet rescued the human.

Real - life can still be full of interesting stories and constantly feeling like a vulnerable human in a brutal time like this really adds something.

While i wasn't as big on «Human Revolution» as most everyone else was but it wasn't bad and i was very interested in seeing where the story went.

- Engaging Audiences: Denis Dyack Deconstructs The Industry»... this «wide - ranging interview» with Silicon Knights» Dyack (Eternal Darkness, Too Human) includes a whole bunch of interesting points, and we split two of them out into individual news stories - Dyack: Game Industry Should Shun Movie Biz «Free Agency»», and Dyack: Will Wii Hold Public's Attention In Long - Term?.»

In this Whitney Stories series, artists choose portraits that inspire them from Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney's Collection.

Chung is interested in the imbued histories that materials carry and how they also carry with them the stories of human transmission and the long lasting effects of colonialism on tropical «post-colonial» societies such as the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean.

The artist recently commented, «I feel that I'm in a very interesting position, where I'm standing back to look at this change, at this moment in history of human beings... I want to witness how this big story of humans ends.

When I was interested in mixing colors in the air, I worked in fireworks; when I wanted to explore women's history, I decided to tell women's story using women's techniques, i.e. china painting and needlework; when I became interested in the subject of the Holocaust, I worked with my husband, photographer Donald Woodman, to fuse painting and photography, the photography to root the images in the historic events and painting to express the human story.

The idea is to present works that will intrigue the interest around human culture and will promote the diversity found in the synthesis of various personal stories, the intersection of «private» and «public», and the comprehension of the «historical truth» through everyday life experiences.

And, there might be a great «human interest» story wrapped up in this, which might be what some people need to pay attention.