Sentences with phrase «life narrative becomes»

As Caden is admitted to a mental hospital, his real - life narrative becomes intertwined with an imagined counterpart tale where he is sailing the pirate seas.

Not exact matches

A popular narrative lately is that people are becoming unhappier because we're all narcissistic and grew up being told that we're special unique snowflakes who are going to change the world and we have Facebook constantly telling us how amazing everyone else's lives are, but not our own, so we feel all like crap and wonder where it all went wrong.

The problem is not just that we have become consumers of our own lives, but that we can conceive of no alternative narrative since we lack any practices that could make such a narrative intelligible.

In later chansons de geste, however» such as Les Quatre Filz Aymon, Enfances Roland, and Entrée en Espagne» the details of Roland's earlier life were filled in, with a variety of fanciful elements becoming ever more prominent features of the narrative, and it was not long before the real Roland (such as he was) had all but disappeared behind the more resplendent figure of the hero of legend.

Modern moral philosophy becomes part of the problem, for its stress on autonomy, like its corresponding attempt to free ethics from history, produces people incapable of living lives that have narrative coherence.

Tolstoy, for instance, is an epic writer, whose books overflow with physical details and frequently threaten to overflow their own narrative structures and become as vast and as inconclusive as life itself, while Dostoevsky is a dramatic writer, whose books are full of fraught and urgent voices, at times almost disembodied, trapped in situations of immediate and pressing crisis, and surrounded by a physical world usually having no more substance than a collection of painted canvasses or pasteboard silhouettes at the back of the stage.

The story of what happened on that January day in 1956 - first told in newsweeklies and Life magazine and then in numerous books and documentaries - became a primary narrative for the young evangelical movement, reinforcing and illustrating to the world our core ideals.

Soon this knowledge will be absorbed into the narrative of my life; it will become just another part of me.

given the fact that the all encompassing area claims KC as their representative home until it comes to actually voting for things to happen in KC then it becomes the narrative oh well I live here not there so it's not my problem.

Exaggeration of otherwise innocent and irrelevant soundbytes taken out of context to fit a particular narrative, hoping they'll take a life of their own and become actual news (i.e. «the throw shit on the wall and see what sticks approach»).

Though fears about the impacts may be exaggerated, the pro-technology forces will not be able to erase fears from the public because genomics is becoming integrated into the collective narrative we share about technology and its place in our lives.

If that (simplified) narrative is accurate, and if we live in a society that is becoming increasingly insensitive to the effects of insulin (and that seems a sure thing giving increasing Type 2 diabetes rates) then heart disease would also have to be on the rise.

Life is Strange is becoming more and more interesting, and might turn out as one of the best narrative experiences of the year.

While it never quite becomes the twin narrative of Versace's and Cunanan's lives that's hinted at in the early episodes, it continues using them as mirror images of one another: creator and destroyer, mother's apprentice and father's favored child, doting brother and prodigal son.

The «that's life» solemnity that throbs in Vestiges quickly fizzles into a series of narrative incoherent niceties, and becomes a far more rewarding listen when lyrical fragments are taken out of context.

As every story becomes interwoven with the next, the boundaries between fiction and real life starts to blend in this cerebral thriller pushes the limits of cinema narrative.

We become immersed in the narrative, almost as if a video - camera were chasing real life.

The final twists pack a nice jolt, but I couldn't take them seriously: They remind me of nothing so much as a silly narrative stunt from «Days of Our Lives» circa 2003 — which makes sense, considering the MCU has become Hollywood's most endlessly renewable big - screen soap opera.

This is horror at its finest, a movie that takes the raw agony of pain most of us can't even bear thinking about and forces us to live — if barely — through it, all in service of a narrative that has something both disturbing and profound to say about what we become in our lives» darkest hours.

She may be the last relatively untapped figure in British heritage cinema's well - worn library of queenly narratives, but she has once more been passed over for the privilege of fronting the latest middlebrow, true - life royal drama, fast becoming an annual fixture on the UK film calendar.

by Bryant Frazer Before Krzysztof Kieslowski became the standard - bearer for the latter - day European art film with ravishing portraits of unspeakably beautiful women living their lives under unutterably mysterious circumstances, he was a gruff but adventurous chronicler, in both documentary and narrative films, of lives lived in the rather more drab surroundings of communist Poland.

And that's exactly what's great about it: I never felt like I knew where it would go, or that it was straining to fit a traditional narrative structure; I just became absorbed in the daily (and nightly) struggles of this one human life, an almost invisible man in New York City.

Masterpiece: Little Women: New adaptation of the classic brings to life the narrative of the four sisters who grow and change, while the world around them becomes divided.

We Can't Live Without Cosmos, a clever, heartbreaking and efficiently told story of best friends and possible lovers training to become cosmonauts, is easily the best of these silents, all clean visual and narrative lines.

And that's what this film becomes: an experience as much in the texture of this fictional life, growing up from first grade to arriving at college, as in the narrative journey.

That's what this film becomes: an experience as much in the texture of this fictional life, growing up from first grade to arriving at college, as in the narrative journey.

The explosion of violence at the end of the film recalls the iconic final sequence from Bonnie and Clyde: violence and death suddenly become much more than a plot point in the narrative of their lives.

As their lives have become more complex, so too has the structure and landscape of the narrative.

Her book, «The Death and Life of the Great American School System,» became a best - seller last year and injected into the country's reform narrative a smart, dissenting voice.

I was interested, too, in how the books we read — those that are life - changing — stop belonging to the author but become our own in a way that has little to do with the actual narrative, themes, or characters.

With this narrative, Abawi brings the stories that have become ubiquitous in the news to life in a way that can not be brushed away as a distant problem.

The stories we consume in youth — whether through books, television, film or song — often become the defining narrative of our lives.

Suppress dogfighting, the narrative goes, and pit bulls will become safe dogs, the pit bulls now flooding shelters will all find homes, and all will live happily ever after.

I'd started a narrative in my mind, every life that had contacted mine becoming an extra detail in a story about how I had been transformed in the unlikeliest of places.

In this sense, the environment became an actual living, breathing place: an interactive playground that served the narrative by rewarding curiosity with a much deeper understanding of its nuance and intricacies for those who sought it.

For composer Austin Wintory, though, the idea of performing Journey's music alongside live gameplay came during the game's early stages of development: «While I was writing the score, it became clear that the game was going to be like a silent film, where the music would have a strong narrative function.

Our narrative driven approach to game audio will also become increasingly important as these characters start to replace TV and movie characters in the lives of our fans.

Weaving Cooper's life into a poetic narrative about humanity's history and future, Aitken's words become a leitmotif of a gradual deconstruction of images and sounds into a dystopian landscape where nature and technology exist.

All aspects of the object — its design, tactile quality, material, history, and the narrative of its maker — become implicated in the ways Hall reanimates it in a second life as sculpture.

By incorporating found and lived - with fabrics, embroidery, fabric appliqué and paper, each with a distinct history, these works weave together new stories from the various narratives that become fused together.

Complementing an exhibition that was on view at the Art Institute of Chicago, the volume includes Parks's black and white images with narrative captions accompanying the plates; Ellison's typed manuscript for «Harlem is Nowhere,» complete with handwritten edits; and the layout pages for «A Man Becomes Invisible,» reproduced from Life.

Speakers include graphic artist and illustration mastermind Jean Jullien, whose iconic» Peace for Paris» symbol became an instant global meme; children's book author and illustrator You Jung Byun, known for her detailed narrative and commissioned work inhabited by strange beasts and lost children; everyone's favourite gif - wunderkind Julian Glander, creator of bubblegum - coloured digital illustration, indie games and interactive artwork, all subsumed under the catchword «digital toys»; animator, writer, and producer Ben Bocquelet, creator of the famed animation series «The Amazing World of Gumball `; Martina Paukova, illustrator with an incredibly fast - paced career, whose jam - packed images in a trademark palette and Memphis - inspired patterns mirror our mundane lives in the digital age; and Jaime Álvarez, renowned for his 3D rendered Mr. Kat (PE) universe, fusing pre-Columbian with contemporary kawaii aesthetics.

The realities of race and class that he experienced there became the foundation — the bass line — of his work, upon which he builds fantastical imagery and complex mythologies, influenced by the imaginative realms of science fiction and larger - than - life narratives in hip hop.

Life became art, fictionalized truth and made - up narrative transmuted into form.

Estranged from their original context, the former lives of these objects and narratives become transparent, yielding their political, social and practical nature to an intimacy between the viewer and the visual experience.»

Once the least respected of the academy's categories — history painting, with its large - scale figures and high - minded narratives ranked highest — still life became a favorite motif of modernists, since inanimate forms, such as bottles, plates, and even fruits and vegetables, permitted an emphasis on purely formal concerns.

Thus a theoretical problem that may emerge thousands of years into the future becomes an immediate danger that can only be dealt with now, and in the way preferred by the alarmist narrative: ceasing the industrial and economic progress that would afford those coastal communities a better way of life, as well as better protection from the elements.

However, I believe that development is a life long journey and the narrative of life stories can be expanded therapeutically through restorative retelling to become your preferred self.

Becoming very clear about what they want in their lives enables women and children to re-frame who they are, and step outside the behaviours they adopted to survive the abuse, and the negative narratives about who they were.

«Lived in by many generations, they become repositories of narrative, which is all history really is: stories.