Sentences with phrase «lack of a story in»

One of the downsides that I thought took away from the game was the lack of a story in the game.

Paper Mario was once a beloved series and lately that is not the case as many weren't really happy with the lack of a story in Sticker Star and although we did get to see Color Splash at E3, not everyone liked what they saw.

Paper Mario was once a beloved series and lately that is not the case as many weren't really happy with the lack of a story in Sticker Star and although we did get to see Color Splash at E3, not everyone liked what they saw.

You would think a movie starring a super hottie playing an even more super fictional super hottie would divert you from the lack of story in the film, but not even all the tissue packed down Angelina Jolie's bra could pad this flick out into a decent effort.

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Nijjar says his lack of entrepreneurial experience actually works in his favour when he's looking for investment opportunities and closing deals — he doesn't have personal success stories to «pattern match» potential investees against or operational dogmas to foist on them under the guise of help.

They don't need to have any connection whatsoever to Oliver himself; their impact lies in making the story relevant and giving words to the thousands of North American mothers who struggle with a lack of support and the resulting guilt from not being able to do something so «natural».

Something that might have seemed like a risky bet in the past because of a lack of historical data can end up being an incredible success story, and change the way that people view an entire industry.

Increasingly, digital retailers are finding value in weaving story elements around their products as a way of compensating for the lack of the sensory experience one finds in brick - and - mortar stores.

If Amazon, which is the leader in public cloud infrastructure — where servers, storage and networking is pooled and shared among customers — has an Achilles Heel it is its lack of a hybrid cloud story.

«While communities like Englewood have been plagued by crime, poverty, and a severe lack of opportunity, there is in fact a long - term movement underway to revitalize these neighborhoods and return the story to one of hope, resilience and progress,» said Rodney Hines, director for community investments for Starbucks U.S. Retail Operations.

Also, on a personal note, dozens of friends have shared with me countless stories of their elderly loved ones dying as a result of the lack of electricity in their homes, hospitals, and care centers.

On a microeconomic level, the positive story will be that the lack of discovery of new gold reserves by the struggling gold mining industry which, absent a significant rise in the gold price, will lead to a supply crunch.

They also have ideas that don't pan out, and an overall lack of cohesion — the main characters seem sequestered in separate story lines that don't really mesh.

It is the grace, or lack of, in traversing the change that tells the story of what we harbor in our hearts and it is what we harbor in our hearts that creates our story.

Compare the lack of mainstream media interest in this story with the many media insinuations that the Arizona shooter was or....

In reference to non-historical figures, Gary Habermas states «In each of these cases we find numerous problems such as a decided lack of historical data, reports that are far too late or stories about mythical personages who never lived.»

The author (s) of this story lacked perspective on their calendar, or maybe they wanted to debunk astronomical principles of order in favor of making the statement that God made all that is in the universe in one «work» week a nice juxtaposition between divine and human potential to get things done.

Can we, now that poverty itself is a condition in need of eradication or amelioration, when its stories, revolving around some type of failure, stress the lack of conscious choice?

The lack of evidence for her, and an understanding of how her story came about, make genuine belief in her rather silly, and exceedingly rare among adults.

I was interested in how novelists, some committed to free will, others to determinism, succeed in communicating a sense of freedom or lack thereof through the shaping of a story and the description of their protagonists» decisions.

A friend of mine who teaches on the collegiate level recently told me, «I don't meet any young adults who've grown up in the church lacking at least one story of spiritual abuse.»

It is vulnerable because it lacks «plausibility» in a culture that defines women's identity and story in terms of love and attraction rather than power, thought and accomplishment.

Tough - guy New York newspaperman Pete Hamill praised the book as a scathing indictment of the «culture of poverty» (yes, he really uses this phrase) fostered by «Eamon de Valera's Ireland,» while the literary critic Denis Donoghue, writing in the New York Times, presented the book in much the same way (though he clearly lacks Hamill's enthusiasm for the story).

In another place, an article offered that the «real story» was the «lack of backlash» from the many counties within the United States.

Technology — «what works» — has become our god, expressed in all the most powerful myths of the most powerful media, while the God of justice and love is relegated to the sidelines of life, expressed in antiquated language and obscure stories lacking both clarity and relevance.

I lwould ike to see you show you aren't so biased and provide either equal time to showing a positive story about the Catholic Church or show the statistics or stories on other faiths which are suffering equally or more in lack of attendance and in people leaving the church.

This may be due to a lack of evidence, a firm hold on reason and logic, or simply the view that no sane person could believe in the fairytale - like stories told in these texts.

In an effort to produce more creative writing on the de-conversion website (and stir the able minds of our readers to seriously consider their faith (or lack thereof (wow, I'm not sure a triple parenthetical is good grammar)-RRB--RRB-, I hereby present to you: the gospel story in its entiretIn an effort to produce more creative writing on the de-conversion website (and stir the able minds of our readers to seriously consider their faith (or lack thereof (wow, I'm not sure a triple parenthetical is good grammar)-RRB--RRB-, I hereby present to you: the gospel story in its entiretin its entirety.

Part of me wonders if our resistance to telling the story is our lack of confidence in recognizing that just because Christians practice the faith incorrectly and inappropriately at times doesn't mean Christianity is false.

When a parish lacks a narrative sense of its corporate identity, it will probably assume that its nature is the aggregate of personal stories of individuals prominent in its life.

You'll use things like «faith» and find all kinds of justifications for your belief, but in the end, you lack any concrete evidence that your story is true.

you'd think if god was truly the god spoken of then faith would be unneeded and belief a thing of the past — yet — people will believe whatever they wish no matter the proof or lack there of and its truly sad to consider that this delusion type mass brainwashing is going on right now and has been for over 2000 years... please don't let the time in which this sm.ut has been around make you think its worth its wieght in salt — i bid Lot's wife its not — in ALL early man stories from around the globe people have created GRAND stories about the start and end of times — its that simple.

It is difficult to present the early history of St. Thomas Christians in India as a connected story due to lack of sufficient historical records.

Since the basic definition of an Atheist is a lack of belief in any religion, why is this story here?

So in the story of Abraham, unless as some think the text at this point is corrupt, the patriarch's plea for a son is based on the fact that, if he lacks a child as heir, Eliezer of Damascus, a bondman born in Abraham's house and apparently an able manager of his estate, will inherit his property.

Sharing a link / video / story from known conspiracy theorists — who frequently lack any actual evidence or facts — shouldn't be a default reaction in the wake of tragedies.

The interplay between Eisaac and Jacob does produce a number of fresh insights into isolated features of the text, but what lacks is a clear notion of Jacob's purpose in re-reading the stories.

I'm not certain where she has studied or what views she has that bias her against the accepted interpretation of biblical scriptures, but she has misinterpreted the creation story and seems to lack the language background in Hebrew and Greek to truly appreciate the original meanings of the biclical texts.

Updike presents the reader of his novels and stories with the pseudo — wise men of today's society — with Jimmy, the big Mouseketeer who quotes Socrates; with the neon owl that advertises pretzels; with Ken Whitman, the scientist living in Tarbox who is considered intelligent in his field but who lacks a basic understanding of life; with Bech the writer, honored in direct proportion to the decline of his literary production; with Connor, the efficient, well - trained administrator of the old people's home who fails to comprehend as much of life's mystery as his simple and sometimes senile wards do.

Because it is so ambiguous, we make up all sorts of stories about sex or the lack of it in Eden (Augustine says one thing, Milton says another, and so on) but the important thing to realize is that we are making it up ourselves.

Such reliance could be explained entirely by our alienation and disbelief, and I think that is part of it; lacking a sense «of the unity of the Christian universe of symbols and stories, and of how such a universe might be ingredient in our universe, juxtaposition is the only alternative.

A few things come to mind: it's temporal, over against the promise of eternal life; it serves a purpose in personal sanctification and in the larger scheme — the big story that God is orchestrating; and, it's part of the fallen creation and points us to the missing wholeness and beauty we know is lacking in our experience.

Certainly few stories are more calculated to hold the interest of boys and girls than those of this Hebrew strong man who, though singularly lacking in desirable moral and spiritual qualities, is a most excellent example of what not to be — selfish, wilful, lustful, proud, lacking in loyalty, weak in self - control.

While I can't make it exactly like she did, because I lack some of the fresh ingredients, the very process of making it reminds me of her and the stories of life in Ireland.

Many of the stories we hear from the region are about a dire lack; but they are also connected by a sense of the pride that people have in relation to the food of their home country, as well as the humility and hospitality that goes into making and sharing it.

Arsenal fans were clearly expecting the manager to do a lot more in order to give us the best possible chance of reclaiming the Premier League title, but Wenger is sticking to his story about the lack of players available that would actually make the squad or the first team better, as reported by The Mirror.

The attorney, who confirmed her story in a telephone interview with The Times on Wednesday, said in her email that she was concerned with the lack of confidentiality and «the cavalier discussion of this young man's future being tossed about for everyone to hear.»»

Mourinho was aware that he needed those players to win the bpl, same story with us this coming season, we need to replace our gk (last night ospina let in another soft goal due to his lack of height) peter cech / kondogbia or wanayama / cavani or benzema or higuain.

Lol, now the pundits are clutching at straws, the story of having a weak spine, lack of spending bla bla bla looks to have been thrown out the window and interstingly, I think we have Mourinho, Pogba and everyone involved in paying that ridiculous amount of 90 million pounds to thank for the most decent window we've had in a while.

While it is a great personal story for the Frenchmen if not for an injury crisis at Xmas he would be a free agent right now, yet we are suddenly meant to believe he is the answer to our lack of physical strength in the truly big games.