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.
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.
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.
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.