Sentences with phrase «less a story about»

The way people communicate and get acquainted has changed, and now you can hear far less stories about meeting someone at library, cafe, or park.

This is less a story about tennis, then, and more one about money, power and sex.

Less a story about a prostitute, it's a series of variations on the theme of a film about a prostitute.

For educators and education policymakers Cohen's lengthy misadventure should be read as a cautionary tale: If anything, the controversy about Moynihan's 40 - year - old report — and the subsequent «comeback» — is less a story about political correctness than it is about intellectual lethargy.

I would also like to see less stories about Black pain and how awful it is to be Black in general, but I think it's going to be a while before we get there.

If that mindset took hold, I suspect I would hear less stories about limo rides, flying first class and staying at the Peninsula Hotel than I have of late.

Not exact matches

«While Americans have become less judgmental about working mothers, this is a story about taking one step forward and one step back,» she says.

The actress was vocal about her treatment in the 2005 blockbuster and its sequel, saying director Tim Story more or less restrained her to nothing more than the dimwitted girlfriend to Reed Richards» Mr. Fantastic.

«Sharknado had 13 times more tweets - per - viewer than one of the most tweeted - about shows on TV,» the story said, but it got less than a fifth of the viewers.

On your desk, have a story about someone's life that is less fortunate than yours to put everything into perspective.

But there's a story about Schultz that suggests he's less Machiavelli than mensch — told by Billy Etkin, 55, who runs a mergers - and - acquisitions investment - banking boutique in Manhattan.

The State Department and a number of Washington think - tanks have long indicated that the real story about Keystone XL is a lot less exciting than most of its supporters and opponents seem to believe.

A New York Times story about the company's internal culture makes for a good read, but the truth is likely far less inflammatory.

Kurt Bardella, a former spokesman for Breitbart News, said the story was more about how Facebook allowed the data scraping to occur and less about how Trump won.

You've heard the story before — the one about the entrepreneur who stays up all night, sleeps less than four hours, then gets up at the crack of dawn to crush another 80 - hour workweek.

We see more stories written about straight - out harassment, which thankfully is less common.

If the screenshot is accurate, then Fusion had less than 700 people on its website reading any of its stories, and the top story — about the dark side of amateur pornography — had just 32 people reading.

Yet as the story progresses, she proceeds to do a number of terrible things in her conviction about the righteousness of her cause, in a way that makes her less sympathetic.

So it's not surprising that our top five financial stories were less about issue - oriented hard news and more advice - driven, positive stories on how advisors can take advantage of the bull market.

With easy growth behind us and waves of uncertainty coming from all sides, investors and businesses seem less assured than before about the prospects of the Canadian growth story.

Bottom line: Europe is an attractive investment story this year, with a narrative more about valuation and fundamentals, and less about late - cycle euphoria, than in other regions.

Think of what we learn from the stories of Flannery O'Connor, a lesser writer than Twain, certainly, but one who knew something very important about the world he didn't.

I know that I've shifted in what I blog over the years — less blogging about my tinies experiences / lives, for instance, less burn - down - the - Internet soapbox rants, less day - in - the - life blogging with simple stories from daily life — but that means that when I do write, it's with more thoughtfulness and intention, I hope.

It wasn't just about the subject matter — although it's tricky to write about such a tender and intimate time in a person's life, to tell your own story while still holding space for stories that are so different than your own, to attempt to shepherd people well in the liminal spaces of their faith journeys — but it was also just the season of life with being pregnant with our fourth and then giving birth and suddenly having four tinies between the ages of 9 and newborn meant I had a lot less time with a lot less energy (and even less sleep!)

So when Kim shared a small piece of her own story about leaving the institutionalized church and connecting to a less traditional community of believers, I mixed the well - meaning, thoughtful critiques in the comment section with some of the messages I've been getting from critics lately, and this is what I heard:

As I've listened to the stories of numerous wounded and hurt pastors I've realized that the less we talk about failure the more we feel it, but the more we can talk about it the less we feel it.

That aside, my question would be does the story say less about G * d's nature or more about ours?

The Jeremy Lin and Tim Tebow stories in my opinion, are less about their God given talents and more about their success despite adversity.

But Degaev's story doesn't actually need any immediate application to make it sell» for it is a fairy tale less about revolutionary politics than about what happens to revolutionary politics when it encounters someone like Degaev.

Free of the contraints of reality, the story teller can show us truth about ourselves in a less direct and therefore more digestable way.

But there is one recurrent story from which, if I am honest, I have repeatedly averted my gaze when considering what to write about in these columns: the seemingly never - ending story of the world - wide pandemic of paedophile scandals among the Catholic clergy, and the apparently universal practice of episcopal cover - up, involving as it did (I use the past tense hopefully) a - to put it mildly - less than adequate concern with the sufferings of the victims.

It's a story about bigoted believers and the next generation of less delusional believers who don't get their panties in a knot about gays, and don't want to continue to deny them their rights, regardless of what religious shamans and charlatans and The Babble says.

Perhaps in this process we have some hint as to the way in which the mind of ancient man, less adept in handling abstract concepts, was led to express the conflicts he felt among the unseen forces about him in the form of stories of the gods and spirits.

There's a torrent of comments on our story this week about most Americans scoring 50 percent or less on a Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life quiz measuring knowledge of the Bible, world religions and what the Constitution says about religion.

It also tells lesser - known stories about Alinsky's parents, his lifelong ambivalence toward the university, his prison work, his acceptance by mob figures, and his marriages.

I thought about how the story of a church in need was followed by a story of another church's windfall — kind of transparent by CNN, but none the less — I'm going to drop a quick email to Phyllis Brill, the sisters» communications director and make a suggestion.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

I find all of them to be less inspiring than the stories about Jesus and the truths contained in Scripture, even if these things are lies.

Along the way he tells a less fantastic but more important story about loving God amid both fear and suffering.

In the words of Richard Bauckham, the biblical story is about nothing less than the whole of reality, and thus it can not be «reduced to an unpretentious local language game in the pluralism of postmodernity.»

With no match this weekend for Arsenal, there is less stories to throw about, so why not bring you an update of the latest speculation regarding our club's future transfers...

If there's been a bit less of that, or if James's catch had stood, we'd all be telling a very different story about that game.

Set primarily in hardscrabble Canadian and New England towns, the stories are less about the particulars of the game and more about the moods that envelope the characters.

With no match this weekend for Arsenal, there is less stories to throw about, so why not bring you an update of the latest speculation regarding our club's future transfers...... Read the full article here

Well where are the similar stories about the magical Jose Mourinho's failure to make the mega money splashing Man United even top four contenders, or the untouchable Liverpool of Jurgen Klopp's capitulation against the bottom club Swansea (at home no less just a week after they were tonked by Arsenal on their own ground)?

Whether it's Gazidis making ridiculous claims about our supposedly successful transfer window, even going so far as to suggest that everything went according to plann, or it's Wenger having the audacity to speak about taking a much more proactive approach to the re-signing of players with less than 2 years left on their current deals; which on it's own is a nothing story, it's football management 101, but let's not forget just a few weeks ago he was proudly championing his «ingenious» plan of having his best players playing in the last year of their respective contracts.

Same tactics, 1 - 0 then again 1 - 0, then again 1 - 0 and the story continues while playing 25 % less games that the other teams in Europe with less injuries from far less games to worry about.

am not getting excited about all these stories, look inward and go for realistic target with less agro....

Media seems to be attracted to shiny objects and less about the grinders, the stories of the individual fighters, where they came from and how they got there, the real fighters who don't make noise because they aren't off acting a fool all the time.

* Preliminary results from an Oxford - based study suggest a higher proportion of infant - directed negativity in the way depressed fathers talk about, and to, their infants (Sethna et al, 2009) * Depressed fathers are less likely to read, sing songs and tell stories to their babies than other fathers — and than depressed mothers (Paulson et al, 2006), which may explain why fathers» depression has a more powerful negative impact than mothers» depression on their infants» language development in the first year.