Sentences with phrase «likes apocalyptic stories»

Not exact matches

Its morally complex stories are rife with blockbuster - ready special effects like locust plagues, apocalyptic floods and talking donkeys.

We could illustrate from stories like Walker Percy's Love in the Ruins that are apocalyptic in the narrow sense; these would raise the question, as old as Hebrew prophecy, of the paradoxical tension between threat of inevitable destruction and summons to new, creative action.

Though the operatic dissonant relationship between Jean Valjean and Russell Crowe's Javert does prove to be compelling opera as it weaves throughout the rest of the story, the film's second act focus on the story of rich pretty boy Marius (Eddie Redmayne, whose singing voice is 45 percent Kermit the Frog) falling for Cosette (Amanda Seyfried) at first sight doesn't register nearly the same amount of urgency, feeling like a silly problem that doesn't fit into the story's near - apocalyptic presentation of revolutionary France.

I like Zarr's work because no matter how many dystopian / post - apocalyptic / paranormal YA books I read — my heart will always be with realistic contemporary stories filled which characters in a world that I recognize.

I guess epic apocalyptic stories like the Noah myth lend themselves to overstaying their welcome.

You obviously want to imply, like Cook et al, that it means that humans are responsible for most global warming, cause if they ain't nobody cares about the apocalyptic stories.