Sentences with phrase «just narrative writing»

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She mentions «the redemptive wilderness of the Western imagination,» but her writing undercuts that romantic frontier narrative, just as it reveals the dark side of footloose wandering.

I call this alchemy «narrative theology» because I'm usually just wanting to write what I think and experience about God and the best way I know how to do that is through story - telling.

Inasmuch as many have taken in hand to set in order a narrative of those things which have been fulfilled among us, just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word delivered them to us, it seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write to you an orderly account, most excellent Theophilus, that you may know the certainty of those things in which you were instructed.

«I suspect that when the dust settles,» writes Johnson, «we shall find that the «historical Jesus» is just where he was all the time: in the fourfold testimony and interpretation of the Gospel narratives.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

The order will unseal just the narrative statements written by cops on the more than 850,000 dismissed summonses — and not identifying information about the person it was issued to or the cop involved, which will be redacted, according to the ruling by Manhattan federal court Judge Robert Sweet.

Written as a first - person non-fiction narrative, Born to Run combines the excitement of ultra-racing with very interesting scientific running research, and just a dash of a spiritual journey... it is perfect!

The writing for three episodes I've seen of The Night Of dazzle through extreme competence: clean cause - and - effect narratives, crisp dialogue, and just the right amount of shading in characters» backstories and quirks.

The Overnight Directed and written by Patrick Brice (USA)-- New York Premiere, Narrative Alex and Emily have just moved to LA with their young son.

Sure, it has plenty of edge - of - the seat suspense, but, as written and directed by Alex and Andrew Smith («The Slaughter Rule»), it is just as noteworthy for its terrific, spare dialogue, stunning cinematography, stirring musical score and poignant narrative arc.

Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (genre mechanics with a gift for narrative momentum but weak on story) write and produce but don't direct (Jimmy Hayward gets credit there), and this dull mess could really used some of their hairbrained excess just to make it interesting.

Some of the narrative towards the end is also cobbled together in a jarring manner (a few characters get written out of the movie surprisingly earlier than expected), but again, it's just hard to get to up in arms about it; the movie is so damn infectiously uproarious.

IFMCA member James Southall said that War for the Planet of the Apes was «not just the best film music [Giacchino has] ever written» but that «the manner of the score, the construction of the dramatic narrative, [and] the very deliberate emotional prods... make it stand out as a special achievement».

Written and directed by Kirk De Micco (Space Chimps) and Chris Sanders (How to Train Your Dragon), with comedian John Cleese (Spud) earning a story credit, The Croods plays its safe with its familiar narrative and just as obvious underlying message, promoting the benefits of togetherness along with the acceptance of change.

«What director Brian Percival and screenwriter Michael Petroni serve up is just another tasteful, staid Hollywoodization of terribleness, in which a catastrophic time acts as a convenient backdrop for a wishful narrative rather than the springboard for an honest one,» Abele wrote.

Good science writing requires not just clarity but energy and compelling narrative.

So Mr. Coleman is just plain wrong when he says no one gives a [expletive] about narrative writing.

Just this month, Minnesota Teacher of the Year Tom Rademacher wrote a narrative in the Education Post about his experience with the teachers union that bestowed him such a title.

Most state standards now require teachers at almost all grade levels to ensure that students learn to write not just traditional narratives, but also informational and argumentative pieces.

Stakes are thus important for creating drama, intrigue, and narrative drive in your writing, but creating stakes for yourself as a writer is just as important.

But just as sexuality plays a significant role in YA novels written only in words, it's key to a few of these narratives, too — the only difference is the medium in which it's presented.

And just today, film critic Anthony Lane blasts YA lit in The New Yorker, writing of «the über - mantra of young - adult narrative: everything is a choice — your boyfriend, your college application, your breakfast, your playlist, the color of your scrunchie, and your ontological status.

When you are given an assignment to write a narrative essay, do not just think that all you have to do is to hand in the simple descriptions of events.

This splintered narrative might not be for every reader; it is ultimately effective, however, in exposing just that same characteristic in the lives - and sometimes written words - of those controlled by drink.

But readers who are familiar with Stead's approach to story writing from her previous novels such as the Newbery Medal — winning When You Reach Me will know enough to just sit back, relax, and let the story run its satisfying course, as the two narratives gradually merge and illustrate that even older kids don't always have all these questions figured out.

In Just One Catch, the definitive Heller biography, Tracy Daugherty reconstructs the author's life, and as our reviewer wrote, it «illuminate [s] the post-World War II culture of American fiction — from the emergence of Jewish sensibilities as a key narrative element to the influence of mass advertising and television to the corporatization of book publishing.»

That was a good lesson for me, this idea that part of your writing process is talking to yourself about what you're writing and then eventually having to cut it so that you just have the narrative.»

I was expecting this book to be a basic rundown of what went down (it was originally slated to just be a book full of transcripts) but Johnny and Sean always outdo themselves and instead wrote a narrative that retold the story in a much more satisfying way.

Just think about that your professor also does not like to read different narrative personal story essays, as you do not like to write them, so you are in equal positions.

It does not matter, if it is an admission essay or just a narrative one, the essay writing is often considered a very tough and painful experience.

Later, I discovered Elmore Leonard and Nelson DeMille, and it just reinforced the fact that writing was more about telling a story in your own way and not just a mixture of narrative and dialogue.

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And I just started BEING MORTAL, a riveting nonfiction narrative about mortality, written by Atul Gawande and read by Robert Petkoff.

Last year, I wrote about how I want to pursue more narratives instead of just travel guides and itineraries.

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There is a thin plot underlining everything you do, but a mixture of weak writing, crappy characters and just a generally dull narrative mean that the plot doesn't make you want to push onward, a theme which runs throughout the game.

Truth be told the quality of both the writing and main narrative thread is all over the place, bouncing madly from genuinely beautifully written moments with emotional impact and outstanding twists sure to leave you with your jaw on the floor to scenes with clumsy dialogue and ideas that just didn't work out as well as I would have liked, though exactly how much of this inconsistency can be put down to translation issues is hard to judge.

Incursion's well - written story goes deeper than the original, and treats the narrative as if it were more than just action - bait.

And while I'd like to say «if you're going to make a linear narrative, just write a book,» there have been some amazing linear narratives told in video games, and I'm just as happy to experience them in a video game as I would have been in a book or movie.

More importantly than this, however, the relationship between a game design and its narrative content — what I would call, since writing Imaginary Games, its fiction — isn't just peripheral.

This third installment finds just hte right mix of serious and silly, unlike the fourth game, and works as a fine launching point since the whole «they're a street gang gone big time» story is told quickly and the narrative of the first two games wasn't much to write home about anyway.

«Slight Writing: Photography and the Legible World» explores how photography can be used as a tool of persuasion - a way to transmit not just the subject matter, but the ideas and narratives behind the subject.

Much of Cy Twombly's more abstract art was based on language and the process of writing, and he would often write narratives that lurked just beneath the surface elements of his paintings.

Mintz writes that Piotrowski's works «approach the possibility of narrative, though the artist deftly pulls back just in time» Conefry, Mintz notes, investigates «painting as object, something constructed and assembled,» while in Cohen's paintings «organic shapes lean against geometrics to create a push - pull of color and form.»

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

What happens to his narrative if Boston Globe reporter Scott Allen, writing an article just two weeks earlier about Epstein, global warming and the worldwide resurgence of infectious diseases, was not hit with the same fake letter campaign?

Whether at trial or in an appellate courtroom, writing his own superb autobiographical nonfiction, the best - selling Just Mercy, or in his efforts to evoke and acknowledge the historical narratives of the black experience and our legacy of racial injustice in America through the work of the Equal Justice Initiative, Stevenson employs well - told stories to change the shape of the world.

Just as a narrative does not repeat the play, your cover letter must not repeat what is already written in your resume.

If you don't know when you should use bullets or narrative, just look at the company's job posting and the style of writing they use on their website.