Sentences with phrase «like folk stories»

Great drama it isn't, but the «Star Wars» trilogy - like folk stories - has a mythological timelessness and universal appeal that doesn't leave much room for aesthetic objections.

Not exact matches

Still, the executive had some strong words for high - profile folks who don't like the stories journalists report about them.

Not for nothing do the folk cultures of the world abound with stories like that of the fisherman's wife who was accorded three wishes» and had to use the third to undo the other two.»

«Christians are so loving — so much like the ideal story Jesus (sarcasm)... many of the good Christian folks bash Caitlyn Jenner... Only I spoke out» Sabio «Thanks Sabio for speaking out» David

There are a lot of folks who tell a story of being beaten or abused to the cadence of bible verses just like those deployed by preachers who don't consider consequences of theology.

This is like REALLY WEIRD stories I have read that Catholics «supposedly» write their sins on a piece of paper and the priest burns them... sorry folks, doesn't happen that way either.

One might also say that if the story is about science, like Stephen Hawking's theories, then folks shouldn't post religious comments either, but try stopping them!

And in the case of this story, if the RCC hadn't spent the last several decades inst.itutionalizing se.xual abuse and conspiring to cover it up and protect the offenders, or alienating folks with their stance on reproductive rights and birth control which is decidedly misogynistic and has contributed to the spread of HIV and other STDs, or if agents of the Church hadn't kidnapped and effectively sold thousands of Spanish, Irish, Australian and American children from the 1940s to as recently as 1987 — then folks wouldn't be leaving the Church in droves and you wouldn't be seeing stories like this one either.

I loved the story, characters, and writing in Americanah, but like a lot of folks, found the ending anticlimactic and a tad disappointing.

(Boz Tchividjian of G.R.A.C.E. has graciously agreed to an interview, and folks like Mary DeMuth, Elizabeth Esther, and Sarah Moon will be sharing their stories.)

Booty, the reason you don't comprehend His love, is because those life stories are about folks like you.

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Story for the gods... they don't need Van Persie to beat us, just get some kids off the streets in a Man U, Chelski or hell, even Monaco kit, top it up by putting the moaning one [or just about any brash folk like Berbatov] in the picture and we are in deep s ** t, our players will quake in their boots and lose the plot; we only beat Man City «cos their manager is almost as studious and gentlemanly as our prof. kindly remind me of one feisty game we've won in recent times, ok maybe Stoke [it took a broken leg to Ramsey and constant harassment before our players thought it was necessary to stand up to Stoke].

Some of the stories — like the one about the 1940s — are true folk history.

Owen Paterson may not have created his own personal railway but he must certainly take much credit for a small, independent new «Wrexham & Shropshire» line train service that has appeared, like a ghost train in a Thomas the Tank story, to spirit Mid Wales business folk to London direct.

And most of us have stories of folks pretending to be somebody online that they're really not, like the dating married guy, or that single girl who manipulates that lonely single guy into spending big bucks on her.

It's especially good to hear folks like O'Neil and Miller discuss what they wanted to do when they worked on Batman, and I like the notes about specific Bat - stories.

The VFX folks always do a fantastic job at making Marvel movies look slick and uber - cool, but as we learned with superior letdowns like IRON MAN 2, or DC's JUSTICE LEAGUE, a good story is a vital lifeline in making it a true success.

She's also faced with an array of politicos, diplomats, and security folk who don't believe her story, but can't really come up with a good reason for her to have made something like this up.

Likewise it very folk inspired as the game will change like a story changes when told from person to person.

The physical release will contain the actual game along with a handful of retro goodies, like an art book, a double - sided poster, and a «making of» documentary by 2 Player Productions — the folks behind the documentaries Minecraft: The Story of Mojang, Double Fine Adventure!

To date, Fincher has put his name on those BMW ads in the early» 00s directed by folks like Joe Carnahan and John Frankenheimer, Catherine Hardwicke «s «Lords Of Dogtown» and, oddly, the Brittany Murphy vehicle «Love And Other Disasters» (we're sure there's a story there).

Maudie: This real - life story, based on the life of the Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis, is this year's winner of the Vera Drake Award — the awful movie you feel obligated to like if you want to consider yourself a nice person.

Of course, like its console brethren, most folks don't play Modern Combat for its story.

It was written to go along with a series of essays on Lau Kar - leung, which I guess didn't materialize, but it's a kind of timeline of Shaolin - related stories, mapping all the films I could think of into a generational chronology, from San Te and the 36th Chamber through the destruction of the Shaolin Temple, the spread of its various disciples and their fighting styles throughout Southern China, folk heroes like Fong Sai - yuk, Wong Fei - hung, Wing Chun up to Lau himself.

If the goal is to get the story out there in grand fashion, I can't think of a better platform than what they chose and it's a gusty move putting a movie like this into theaters competing with what most folks consider to be popcorn - worthy pictures.

The Martian is for folks who like their science - fiction stories to possess as much science as fiction.

is for folks who like their science - fiction stories to possess as much science as fiction.

Hence, if anybody knows these folks, do let them know I'd like to better understand their stories.

I'm always interested in folks putting out short story collections that, like mine, are «literary and quiet.»

I did that with my short story, The Rumblin» (Smashwords / Kindle store & B&N) and I have received great feed back and have grown my readership, because the folks who read it and liked it are waiting for my next book... a full length novel.What they didn't know was, posting it was a practice round for me!

I'd guess about a third of folks who start Sword and Chant decide it is so not the story they want, and many of the things those readers dislike are the things other readers do like.

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For folks like us in the West, it's a wondrous explosion of stories both unknown and beautiful, all ripe for exploring from the inside out.

It is a game that was specifically designed and put out by a group of game designers that worked with educators and an indigenous tribe from Alaska, the Iñupiaq tribe; made a game that told the story of a bit of their folk lore and it's a really beautiful atmospheric story of side scrolling puzzle platformer where you are a young girl who has to find the source of a sort of villiage ending blizzard - like this blizzard has been going on and it's slowly killing the villiage - with the help of her friend who is an arctic fox.

BioShoch and BioShock Infinite were developed by Ken Levine and Irrational Games but BioShock 2 and it's great story DLC Minerva's Den were developed by 2k Marin which was partially made up from folks who recently developed indie titles like the critically acclaimed Gone Home.

Spidey seems like the perfect fit for the wonderful folks at Insomniac Games, as they're no strangers to telling a great story while properly balancing tone and humor.

We've known for some time now that, just like a bunch of grandmothers who like to meet up and swap knitting patterns and complain how young people «just don't listen anymore», the talented and creative folk from a number of Sony's studios also like to get together and share their stories and experiences.

It often feels like the people at Arkane made the core of this game, i.e environments, story beats and enemies, but then they just made the clever folks in - house play through the game and tag things they wanted to add to each environment to make them diverse and add flavour.

«I often work in obsessive series,» she notes, «retelling the story over and over much like a folk tale is folded over the mouth many times.»

I always remind folks not to forget that what falls from the sky is only part of a story like this.

I've probably told this story to the Climate Crocks folks before but what drew me into the top of climate change was when I was watching a lecture on geoengineering, back in like 2006 or so, on how to cool an overheated planet back down.

In fact, in my experience when you present stories about folks like Rollo, some environmentalists react negatively — arguing that it plays into the stereotype of the green movement as being «anti-progress» or regressive.

I have been getting inquiries from folks asking me what I think about stories like this one, where Paul Homewood has been looking at the manual adjustments to raw temperature data and finding that the adjustments actually reverse the trends from cooling to warming.

You also see white folks who are really just trapped in the story of their time and felt like they were adjudicating in good faith and really felt like they weren't adjudicating from a particular racial lens and yet were, not because they're bad folks or not because they have any intent, but because they were simply reflecting and mirroring the racial realities and the racial understanding of their time.