Sentences with phrase «like story structure»

Things (to name just a few) like story structure, active voice, and appropriate ways to introduce backstory.

Not exact matches

Attacking the flood story based on science is like attacking Aesop's Fable The Tortoise and the Hare with scientific evidence related to the anatomic structure of a tortoise vs the hare.

That pattern or movement in the stories about Jesus, that structure, functions something like a «depth grammar» in all enactments of the practice of the public worship of God in Jesus» name, by virtue of which all its culturally and theologically diverse instances bear family resemblances to one another.

Welcome to The Countdown, the Scientific American show that counts down the five coolest things happening now in space news.Episode 1: July 26, 2012 Story 5 Galaxies from the early universe usually look kind of lumpy or blobby, but scientists have spotted one with a spiral structure, making it look a lot like our own Milky Way galaxy.See Primordial Pinwheel: Astronomers Spot Oldest Prominent Spiral Galaxy Yet.

Long story short, this week included more rest days (days sans a structured workout) than I would have liked.

I walked into the Oxford store with the goal of structuring a story around how to look elegant and polished without looking like a librarian this summer.

The film is by no means terribly long, at least when you compare it to its 1969 musical counterpart, so it's not like storytelling drags its feet for ages, but make no mistake, the fact of the matter is that plotting's structure is something of a mess that meanders along repetitiously and, well, is to be expected, because, really, where does this story have to go?

By contrast, Garland builds things up slowly, patiently establishing the characters, their realities, and the place they're heading into, structuring the film like a kaleidoscopic, psychedelic detective story.

TV has gone into the anthology structure, with shows like «Black Mirror,» «American Horror Story» and «True Detective,» and people have embraced it.

Does this seem like a harbinger of things that could come in movies, where an existing brand is meshed together with an original story to create a new anthology structure?

As much time is spent on their story arc as any other, which does occasionally blur the thematic resonance of the story to be more about the new culture of India vs. the traditional class and matchmaking structure, but one can also read into this the angle that India, like the building and its residents, is an old country that must also find new life through new ideas, not getting stuck in old ways of thinking at the cost of growth.

seem actually to be fully structured around stories like these.

Its story unfolds like a thrilling TV miniseries, right down to the episodic structure that bookends each plot twist and revelation.

With an approach that emphasises internal feelings and character journeys, over more obvious things like narrative structure and story arcs, this Brazilian - German film challenges audiences to explore a series of important issues in ways movies...

30 Rock did an arc like this («Dealbreakers»), Crashing did it in its first season with its Rachael Ray arc, and shows like Love, BoJack Horseman, and Episodes seem actually to be fully structured around stories like these.

From his attention - grabbing debut with «Reservoir Dogs» (1992), a deviously clever heist film where the heist is never seen and the drama is all in the conversation and the ingenious structure, to his acclaimed «Inglourious Basterds» (2009), his thrilling rewrite of World War II history as a magnificent movie fantasy, Tarantino has gone his own way, snatching up ideas strewn through decades of film history and hundreds of genre movies like a magpie, rethinking them completely, and weaving them into entirely new stories that unfold at a leisurely pace so he can enjoy every word and gesture along the journey.

Superbly crafted and visually stunning from start to finish, Haggis's follow - up to Million Dollar Baby is on par with similarly structured ensemble stories like Robert Altman's Short Cuts, and Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia.

His use of space and time has theatre - like economical sense to it but instead of focusing on the dramatic structure he uses it as a pretext to tell a story of the most toxic and lethal of all human addictions — family.

The story, as structured by Hawke, plays like a series of extended flashbacks within flashbacks, and that's a very smart strategy, because it keeps the rambling scenes poised and alive.

Better construction may have started with the family together and then giving little flashbacks into their days, or maybe had it been structured like a Christmas anthology film we could give our full attention to each story in its entirety.

Drums lacks a smooth linear structure and critics are all too happy to point out that it feels more like a disjointed series of strung - together set pieces than a solid story.

In tone and in story structure, the first triad of the «Hobbit» adventure feels like a further extension of the trilogy from 2001 - 03.

Wolfe structures the story a bit like Citizen Kane, in which the plot - quest of an investigative reporter serves primarily as the vehicle to tell the broader story of a historical figure's life — but this time with all sorts of racial complications and resonances.

The Apostles has some suspect writing at times and the story makes some logical leaps where it feels like whole cut - scenes are missing, but we get the same great gameplay mechanics of the base game while throwing in a structured three - arc setup that introduces some interesting characters.

Awkward dramaturgy like this is often a hidden (dare I say, phantom) cause of audience dissatisfaction with stories and motion pictures, particularly in narrative modes like fantasy and adventure, where the archetypal structures are so well - worn and unconsciously familiar.

At first, this begins to seem like a grim version of the old «Chorus Line» structure, in which the story can move only laterally, from dancer to dancer, or in this case, from corpse to corpse.

By recycling The Christmas Carol story structure, its main plot construction becomes easily foreseeable, causing it to feel like slots in like a neat bow on a Christmas gift box.

These Seann William Scott hockey comedies blend Disney underdog structures with a story like The Replacements, where even a single win is considered defying the odds.

The story of a modestly successful improv comedy troupe that is pulled apart when one of its members (Keegan - Michael Key) is offered a job on a big, SNL - like sketch show, the film is nicely structured, gently witty, and it boasts an excellent cast (also including Birbiglia, Gillian Jacobs, Chris Gethard, Kate Micucci, and Tami Sagher).

Without a traditional narrative structure, there's no real hook that makes the audience feel like the story is going anywhere.

It's a touch disappointing that the film's biopic structure proves as constraining as it does; most of the story beats play out as you'd expect them to in a film like this one.

That's a lot of story to tell and Infinity War does so by structuring itself almost like a book, with sections that start but then don't continue for sometimes an hour or more.

The story is structured like an elaborate video game and is infused with»80s pop and game culture references, including allusions to arcade classics Space Invaders, Centipede, Joust, and Galaga.

The entire story is structured like a chess game, as Alice encounters living chess pieces like the Red Queen and the White Knight, and the board's squares are fields separated by streams and brooks.

The SAPERE's Philosophy 4 Children (P4C) sessions include stimuli such as a short video clip or story to prompt structured discussions around topics like truth, knowledge and fairness, with the aim of helping children to become more willing and able to ask questions, construct arguments and engage in reasoned discussion.

Like all of Hamid's novels, Exit West is a love story, but one that exists within the structure of a moral thriller.

Told in conversational (and often irreverent) prose, Romancing the Beat is like sitting down to coffee with romance editor and author Gwen Hayes while she explains story structure - the way she does with her clients, some of whom are regular inhabitants of the best - seller lists.

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So my question is, would someone like me, that thinks they have a great story but knows structure and / or grammar needs help, would it be useful to hire a new / cheaper editor to get the main wrinkles out then spend more time on it myself after that AND THEN hire a more professional editor?

The biggest redwoods have trunks up to thirty feet wide and can rise more than thirty - five stories above the ground, forming cathedral - like structures in the air.

The book's identity comes from all sorts of places — the way the story is structured, the characters, the viewpoint it's told from, the setting, the plot, and outward signals, like the cover and the descriptions and the physical feel of the book.

Nothing ruins a great story like weak words and poorly structured sentences that don't make sense.

The story structure, drama, character development and masterfully storytelling from particular movies and television program like The Crown, which are also areas of opportunity for writers

When I reread Decades, an international bestseller for me in hardcover (Simon & Schuster) and paperback (NAL), I still liked the structure and the story — a traditional marriage torn apart by an adulterous affair and the women who must confront the cultural convulsions of the mid-Twentieth Century.

Even though I had been a voracious reader throughout my life, I hadn't thought much about pesky little nuisances like the structure of a story.

Written with raw energy and palpable emotion, this gritty novel covers the disappearance of a teenage boy twin who runs away from his father's «spiritual» commune like structure, leading to exposing the stories of several other characters who are enterwined with one another.The story begins with a naked runner running down the California freeway with and against the traffic.

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Also, be sure to understand the difference between copy editors who correct spelling and punctuation and development editors who work with core issues like story, characterization and structure.

Developmental editing on these projects may address issues like sustaining the original characters but creating new challenges in their private and public lives, points of view, and life cycles, as well as the usual core elements — story, relationships, pacing, narrative structure.

Police procedurals make policemen into heroes, (and I don't mean real policemen aren't heroic, I mean, heroes like in comic books) and that means the structure and the required beats are much like a super hero story, melded with a mystery.