Sentences with phrase «kernel of»

There are parts of this novel that seem like they could have been the kernel of the author's Ph.D. thesis.

With a compulsively engaging tone, lighthearted artwork, and a meaningful kernel of education at its heart, this excellent book will entrance readers and spur discussion.

Yes, it sucks to pay for a negative review — although even negative reviews typically have some kernel of positive content that can be used, or at least absorbed to help you improve your craft.

That little kernel of knowledge that you've given them creates new conflict, ups the stakes, and drives the reader on to the next chapter with more urgency.

I wanted to take the kernel of the idea from I, Claudius — aspiration and its devastating effects on a family headed by an amoral matriarch — and move it into a modern setting.

There is only the vaporous wonder of transformation, and the kernel of a spirit of a thing that can go on, and does.

If your query letter gets a response from an agent, be prepared to send in a completed novel or full nonfiction proposal — and not just the kernel of an idea.

Absent an ember, there can be no smoke; there is a kernel of truth in all such enduring creation stories and they can not be easily, or wisely, dismissed.

Absent an ember, there can be no smoke; there is a kernel of truth in all such ancient legends and, in light of today's astronomical knowledge, they can not be easily, or wisely, dismissed.

The one objection with a kernel of truth is that the overall record of charter schools in other states has been uneven.

These schools started as a kernel of an idea just three years ago, but have grown into the manifestation of their founders» dreams.

I must admit that the kernel of these ideas was not mine; rather, a third grade math teacher from Ohio gave me the idea.

The amount of water inside a kernel of popcorn must be quite precise, as was proven in some of the experiments above.

Of course, these movies were works of fiction, but they were based on a kernel of truth.

His claim has a kernel of truth: Florida requires school districts to keep student information.

This revelation is actually the very old truth that is the kernel of a renewed emphasis on connection and understanding as cornerstones of school community.

A persuasive kernel of common sense, in many cases, lay hidden inside Illich's wild - eyed notions: that students learn a great deal from their peers; that educated people teach themselves or otherwise discover, outside the classroom, many of their most important lessons; that advanced education indoctrinates individuals, teaching them a kind of professional code and knowledge for work that can be addressed in a frank manner using plain facts and everyday language.

This has a kernel of truth but obscures some key points.

Associate Professor Stephanie Jones and her team at Easel Lab's SEL Analysis Project came up with an idea called «kernel of practice» — evidence - based strategies and activities that educators can easily use with their students that are free and flexible.

«That was the kernel of the episode that's premiering tonight, which Evan wrote, called «Anodyne.»»

There's a kernel of a good idea here, but it's executed so poorly that it never has the chance to develop into anything meaningful.

Lynn Shelton: The initial kernel of the film came from Mark Duplass.

She got to the kernel of truth in that movie.

Bound to be one of the more divisive films of Fantastic Fest, Berberian Sound Film takes the kernel of a terrific idea and tries to expand it into a feature.

However, within her, however small, is a kernel of hope that somehow Kevin is redeemable.

There's a kernel of a funny farce in this, but nothing pleasant or funny develops from it (and certainly not a compelling or credible romance, inevitable though it may be).

Similar to NES Remix, indieszero was contacted by Square Enix to help out with a kernel of an idea.

AVC: Mark Duplass came up with the kernel of an idea for Your Sister's Sister.

To say that the movie's premise is intriguing would be to imply that the movie expands on that kernel of a thought to some degree, and this movie certainly does not.

But louche manipulators aside, the kernel of Dragonwyck is inheritance.

Though «Don Verdean» isn't quite as moronic as its predecessor — there's a kernel of a good idea in its mocking depiction of religious commercialism — the film squanders the talents of Sam Rockwell, Jemaine Clement and Amy Ryan.

One truly can compare the watching of how big studios and their hired bigwigs operate as the equivalent of watching how sausage gets made, as many of us to very much enjoy the end product, but we would be less pleased if we were to know how a kernel of inspiration from the mind of a writer can be second - guessed and repackaged due to executive decisions made by relatively visionless empty suits who are in the creation process solely to make money, squeezing out all trace of artistic merit where it interferes with bottom - line profit.

And the paucity of information available about the Spanish family who inspired «The Impossible» might kindle a kernel of skepticism that they really behaved with such unstinting self - sacrifice and grit throughout their ordeal.

The only thing that Clockstoppers doesn't seem to have borrowed from its predecessors is a sense of humour and a kernel of intelligence.

He got to take the kernel of a story where he wanted to, and where he went with it looks like a blast.

At worst, it's the kernel of an idea — which is, on one hand, great, but on the other hand, I know what a nightmare that is.

It's the kernel of writer - director Kenneth Lonergan's epic look at the effect that the fall from another kind of innocence --- uncompromising idealism --- has on Lisa Cohen (Anna Paquin) a smart, self - absorbed 17 - year old in New York City, a few years post-9 / 11.

In 1993, it flopped, but today we can stare into Sonatine's quiet, black little soul and see the kernel of a filmmaking talent unsurprisingly ahead of his time.

The audience is treated to a repeated expository monologue about the Death Queen known as Himiko, whose meagerly implied history suggests a more interesting kernel of storytelling than anything regarding Croft and her muddled family history (relayed through convenient montages reserved for audience members who might have lost interest in what's being presented).

I've seen a few comments joking about it looking like a mobile game since this week's story trailer reveal, and though that's dumb internet hyperbole there's a painful kernel of truth in it right now.

We watch other people revolving around him, all good actors playing decent characters, and they seem convinced, swayed, or seduced by some irreducible kernel of truth in Ben Kalmen.

And having that kernel of evil within you, growing, festering, it was something I was intrigued by as a performer.

There must be some kernel of truth to this, as evidenced by one of the co-writers of Columbus Circle.

As Ray, the haunted hitman sent to cool his heels in Belgium along with his partner Ken (Brendan Gleeson) following a botched job, Farrell is truly terrific: hangdog, self - centered, irritating, explosive but with a kernel of rusty goodness inside him that makes his friendship with Ken and his inchoate hunger for some sort of redemption genuinely affecting.

Subplots such as Fred's troubles with his girlfriend, Willy (Higgins (Evan Almighty) playing Santa's right - hand elf) trying to get together with a lovely fellow helper (Banks, Invincible), Fred's friendship with a precocious African - American orphan (Thompson), and the unendurable dysfunctional family squabbles only add to the feeling that the script by Dan Fogelman (Cars) started with a kernel of inspiration and little knowledge of where to go with it once it is set up.

Often it's a pop standard that she's adopted for her own use, but one never has the sense that she's hijacking the intrinsic emotionality of the music to compensate for an absence in the filmmaking — rather, it's as though the rest of the film has been built out from the kernel of the song.

Blessed with the predestination of lineage, the hero inevitably becomes the hero he or she was destined to be since time immemorial — a revelation that precludes any greater awareness of the world (and effectively quiets the revolutionary kernel of the Robin Hood legend) in favor of a self - centered heroism granted by divine right.

Although the title of this story sounds like a slogan of an average adult site for dating, there's a kernel of good sense in it: dating online can be a really efficient solution for those people who can't do the first step to their own happiness in real life as well as for those who have rather «special» sexual preferences: naughty chat fans, no strings sex seekers, swingers, and other «sweets lovers.»

Groats are the kernel of the oat seed.

Shea butter is produced from the crushed kernel of the nut of the Karite tree, which grows in West Africa.