Sentences with phrase «life as a short story»

David Mitchell's novel Slade House first came to life as a short story delivered in 140 - character bursts on Twitter.

Many famous novels started their lives as short stories, including Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, The Virgin Suicides by Jeffry Eugenides, The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen and The Hours by Michael Cunningham.

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everything in the universe evolves, not only life forms but also memes, Religion is a meme so it also change in conformity to its era or time of its conception as faith.Because in pre scientific times thousands of years ago, the scientific method of approach or philosophy has not existed yet, myth or merely story telling is considered facts, The first religion called animism more than 10,000 years ago believed that spirits or god exists in trees, rivers, mountains, boulders or in any places people at that time considered holy.hundreds of them, then when the Greeks and Romans came, it was reduced to 12, they called it polytheism, when the Jews arrived, it was further reduced to 1, monotheism.its derivatives, Christianity And Islam and later hundreds of denominations that includes Mormonism and Protestants flourished up to today.So in short this religions evolved in accordance to the scientific knowledge of the age or era they existed.If you graph the growth of knowledge, it shows a sharp increase in the last 500 years, forcing the dominant religions at that time to reinterprete their dogmas, today this traditional religions are becoming obsolete and has to evolve to survive.But first they have to unify against atheism.in the dialectical process of change, Theism in one hand and the opposing force atheism in the other, will resolve into a result or synthesis.The process shall be highlighted in the internet in the near future.

His first novel, Morte D'Urban (1962), won the National Book Award, as did a third short - story collection, Look How the Fish Live (1973) Although more uneven than the first two collections, this book still contained the requisite number of outstanding pieces.

To make a long story short, his first job was with the Dodgers where he was used as a guy who lived with the Japanese players and got them accustomed to the USA.

Alas, the euphoria was short - lived, as Woods, needing another bird on 18 to reach Casey, came up short with his approach shot and a birdie putt from 39 feet, which was pretty much the story of his day.

In short, Nia Jax and Alexa Bless, in real life, are advocates for body positivity and loving who you are who have admitted issues with body image in the past, and Alexa, as the heel in this story, leaned about as hard into those image issues as she could in order to put down Nia Jax in storyline.

As U.S. Rep. John Katko testified before a House subcommittee Wednesday, he shared the stories of young central New Yorkers whose lives were cut short due to opioid or synthetic drug overdoses.

As Rep. John Katko testified before a House subcommittee today, he shared the stories of young central New Yorkers whose lives were cut short due to opioid or synthetic drug overdoses.

It is bad enough when hacking is used as a short cut to easy stories about the private lives of celebrities, but in the Dowler case, the hacker gave false hope to Milly's family and could have jeopardised a police murder investigation.

The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, From Stardust to Living Planet, written by the Geophysical Laboratory's Bob Hazen, has been chosen from books released in 2012 as one of the five titles on the short list for the current Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, one of the three book awards given by Phi Beta Kappa annually.

I thought this was a wonderful idea when I read that it helps heal digestive problems, my fiancé has gastroperesis and he has a hard time digesting food, I also want to live more healthier and I love gummy candies, I also thought they would be perfect for the kids, but long story short, my fiancé (him being picky as he is) doesn't like the sour ones!

To make a long story short: Just a small percentage of all bloggers can live as a full - time digital influencer.

Well making this story short, i decide to brake up with my partner and he was going to brake his relationship as well since i was the love of his life.

Well my name is Donny thomas im sorry i cant chat or message i do nt have a upgrade and as you know I'm a gamer I also draw and write songs and short stories I practice martial arts and weapon training I'm a bit on the dark side of life and try to satu indoors sports are not my thing but I'm up...

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Jackson is often remembered for her short story «The Lottery» and is also the author of the novels «The Haunting of Hill House» and «The Sundial» as well as the memoir «Life Among the Savages,» among other work.

After the film, the solitary viewer enters a long dark hallway that features short video installations introducing the real - life Latinos who inspired the story and depicting the struggles they face as immigrants today.

Hunter, once - upon - a-time New York City roommates with fellow Oscar winner Frances McDormand and most recently co-star of the short - lived, single - season Alan Ball series «Here and Now» on HBO, acquired the four - story mid-block townhouse in July 2014 for $ 3.3 million, as noted by the eagle - eyed celebrity property gossip at the New York Post.

The short story «Story of Your Life» by Ted Chiang serves as the basis for the film, which has been expanded by screenwriter Eric Heisserer (The Thing, Lights story «Story of Your Life» by Ted Chiang serves as the basis for the film, which has been expanded by screenwriter Eric Heisserer (The Thing, Lights Story of Your Life» by Ted Chiang serves as the basis for the film, which has been expanded by screenwriter Eric Heisserer (The Thing, Lights Out).

Young and brash, Karlson described his job as «washing toilets and dishes and whatever the hell they gave me» 4 and talked his way into a number of short - lived assignments as an assistant to directors Arthur Lubin, Henry Koster, Tay Garnett, William Wyler, Stuart Walker and John Ford, and successfully pitched a story idea to Will Rogers, who unfortunately died in a plane crash before the film could be made.

Life is too short and there are too many good video games for me to want to spend another 10 - 15 hours of my life repeating a shooter's story campaign that's best described as «fine.&raLife is too short and there are too many good video games for me to want to spend another 10 - 15 hours of my life repeating a shooter's story campaign that's best described as «fine.&ralife repeating a shooter's story campaign that's best described as «fine.»

Ever since she was first asked to audition for the play «The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs» in 1982, which brought her to George Moore's short story about a woman living as a male waiter in male - dominated -LSB-...]

Although the series lives on in shorter form, the final 20 minutes of Toy Story 3 is something of an emotional trip through the wringer (that is, if the film works as intended to the audience).

She is in the running for her role as the late politician Mo Mowlam in the Channel 4 drama Mo, and for her performance in A Short Stay in Switzerland, the BBC1 drama inspired by the story of Dr Anne Turner, who took her own life in Zurich in 2006.

Then again, last year's winner, Searching for Sugar Man, told the story of Rodriguez, a folk artist who, contrary to rumors, wasn't as short - lived as his American career.

Denis Villeneuve (Story of Your Life) is confirmed to be directing the screenplay by Hampton Fancher (who co-wrote the original) and Michael Green, based on an original idea from Fancher and Scott, and starring Ryan Gosling (The Big Short) and Harrison Ford (Star Wars), who is reprising his role as Rick Deckard.

Tracy is a misfit college freshman who quickly latches on to the much more exciting life of Brooke, and sees her as a combination mentor and limitless source of material for her short stories.

Pretty - boy wizard Howl (voiced by Christian Bale, who is not, as it happens, known for his vocal expressiveness) lives in the film's titular ball — itself perched atop four chicken legs like a mechanized extrapolation of the Russian Baba Yaga myth (married to Harlan Ellison's «Shoppe Keeper» short story), eternally wandering a mist - shrouded wasteland as silly townsfolk speculate that he's out to eat the hearts of pretty women.

On the short side, the story mode took around four hours to complete, but after all that, there was still the arcade mode that has players taking on short levels with the goal of getting the highest score possible, as well as the duel challenge where players take on a string of showdowns in a row using only five lives.

Finding all three of these loosely interlocking vignettes of Montana women living lives of quiet desperation equally shattering, I concede to the consensus favoring the final third insofar as it is predicated on a simple yet ingenious change to the Maile Meloy short story Reichardt adapted.

Based on the short stories of Sholom Aleichem, and receiving recognition first as a stage play, Fiddler on the Roof chronicles the flood of change that pours into this humble milkman's life, eroding much of what he took for granted, and reshaping his future.

The movie follows James as he takes off on a tropical vacation («When I come back, I will be ready for life,» he insists), has a frenzied romantic fling with a teenager, and tries to parlay a few sloppy hand - written short stories into a regular gig writing for a magazine edited by one of his dad's old business associates.

Based on short stories by Maile Meloy, as adapted by Reichardt, Certain Women is a series of vignettes following three different women in Montana, whose lives are only tangentially connected.

Tracy idolizes Brooke, using her wild social life as inspiration for a new short story, while Brooke loves that someone so intelligent could look up to her.

«Witness for the Prosecution» (1957, Billy Wilder) From the famous Agatha Christie short story, Billy Wilder expertly fashions one of the screen's trickiest trial - drama / murder mysteries — with Charles Laughton as the wily, wheelchair - bound barrister, his real - life wife Elsa Lanchester as his long - suffering nurse, and Tyrone Power and Marlene Dietrich as the incendiary couple caught up in a legendary triple - reverse surprise ending.

Along with games (Fun With English and Briar Rose Enchanted Dance Game), song selections and a music video (Emily Osment croons an updated version of Once Upon a Dream), there are two additional Disney productions: The Peter Tchaikovsky Story (a dramatization of the composer's life which aired as an episode of the Walt Disney TV show to introduce the studio's upcoming release of Sleeping Beauty) and Grand Canyon (the award - winning short film featuring panoramic vistas that accompanied Sleeping Beauty's theatrical run).

In this lesson, students read a short story, then create a one - page newspaper depicting the facts of the fictional story as real - life events.

Students read a short story, then create a one - page newspaper depicting the facts of the fictional story as real - life events.

As an author and television journalist, Cheryl Wills ventured into the nation's largest public school system after years of reporting on thousands of tragic news stories surrounding the killings of minority children whose lives were cut short before graduating from High School in New York City.

Albrecht Goertz's gorgeous 503 could not have come at a worse time for BMW, as Douglas Blain explains in Drama Queen / In 1966 and All That, Steve Welsh reports from the unrivalled Goodwood Revival historic race meeting, which this year marked 50 years since Australian driver Jack Brabham won the Formula One World Championship in a car of his construction / Kit Foster tells the story of the American Underslung, the first American sports car, and examines one of the prized survivors of this pioneering but short - lived marque in Swing low, sweet chariot / In his article, Cross-Channel concours, Jörg Sierks chooses his favourites from two prestigious concours events, held on the same weekend on opposite sides of the English Channel / With the help of rarely seen archive photographs, D'Arcy Lever looks back at the highly effective trials specials built by Sydney Allard before World War Two.

Or are you willing to publish a book under the name (perhaps a short story or something), claim it to get the profile, then unpublish that story as soon as the author central profile has gone live?

Junot Díaz won the Pulitzer (and a pile of other awards) for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, but I've always been all about Drown, his first collection of short stories and the book that singled him out as the most promising literary voice of the Dominican - American community.

The dabbling poet and short story writer, who'd been raised in the same mining village as D H Lawrence, and who had made his living in the oil industry, broadcasting, banking, and as an international management consultant in fields ranging from parliaments to law enforcement, suddenly found himself struck by the idea that this fascinating country — in such a complex state of temporal and national limbo — would make an extraordinary setting for a crime thriller.

Inspired by newspaper stories from the last four centuries, Donoghue's masterful short story collection explores the unexpected in people's lives in such varied settings as Victorian England, Civil War — era Texas, and early twentieth - century New York City.

Most often, those panels, conferences, and workshops were taught by professional writers, with «professional» being defined as anything from one short story sold to one novel sold fifteen years ago to making a living as a writer.

Live: Fiction is a stream of short stories and novellas (published as ebooks) that are inspired by current events.

Vulnerability: Poems and Short Stories will tell you that as the Portugal native with Chinese heritage reaches deep down into her well of emotions and touches on a variety of subjects, ranging from love, life, to humanity.

As the story progresses and Shannon's anxiety becomes more evident, each chapter focuses on a pivotal relationship and movingly demonstrates the shifting loyalties, petty jealousies, and tiny moments of short - lived triumph common to childhood friendships.

The music and legacy of this short - lived post punk English band is an emblematic recurring theme, as essential to the story as any of the characters.