Sentences with phrase «magnificent stories of»

The first chapter is one of the most magnificent stories of creation in all the literature of the world.

Enchanting, beautiful, and exquisitely suspenseful, The Miniaturist is a magnificent story of love and obsession, betrayal and retribution, appearance and truth.

The Pulitzer Prize — winning author of All Over but the Shoutin» continues his personal history of the Deep South with an evocation of his mother's childhood in the Appalachian foothills during the Great Depression, and the magnificent story of the man who raised her.

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The reason this grim little tale so amuses me (quite apart from the magnificent pun, which one hopes was purely extemporaneous), is that the lives of philosophers are so often oppressively, obtundently dreary that any diverting story — even one as macabre as the ordeal of Schopenhauer's poor old Putzfrau — comes to the scholar as a cherished respite.

My family being Orthodox, I can say that every Orthodox church I've been to is simply magnificent place with beautiful iconography and most of those churches are much more than 500 years old with amazing stories behind it's every piece.

You are on the path... exactly where you are meant to be right now... And from here, you can only go forward, shaping your life story into a magnificent tale of triumph, of healing, of courage, of beauty, of wisdom, of power, of dignity, and of love.»

When Time Shall Be No More is so thoroughly researched and so comprehensive in scope it is difficult to imagine that any critical historian will try to retell the story for decades to come, The only real problem with this truly magnificent book is that Boyer strains to locate the significance of prophecy belief where it does not exist, or exists only inconsequentially: in the realm of secular politics.

The biblical story is a great symphony, whose opening is the announcement of the major theme, the creative love of God in action, and whose grand finale is the magnificent and triumphant re-affirmation of the same theme.

The story does not continue the magnificent theme of cross-bearing that dominates the Gospel, nor does it express the Easter faith.

24); David's magnificent speech, fraught with implications for the story of Israel's faith (26:17 - 20, cf. 24:8 - 15); and Saul's response eloquently portraying not only the deep sickness that possessed him, but the stark tragedy of Israel's first king who would — but could not — realize his intrinsic greatness (26:21 - 25, cf. 24:16 - 22)

But in the midst of that stained - glass story is a peculiar sight: Straddling the magnificent cross in the center of the sanctuary, there are two flags: one Christian, the other American.

The gospel story of abundance asserts that we originated in the magnificent, inexplicable love of a God who loved the world into generous being.

At this point, one should remember that the Bible contains little less than two million words, and that «simple story» is a magnificent understatement of a description of the enormously varied history, poetry, law, prophecy and counsel.

The incredible story of Billy Monger just got even more amazing as he finished a magnificent third in his first race back after injury

IT»S SPRING AGAIN Sirs: As one who in his capacity as track fan registered a mild complaint over your neglect of the Drake Relays last spring, permit me to laud loudly Roy Terrell's magnificent story A Classic Duel of Speed (SI, May 7).

In Magnificent Mistakes in Mathematics, Alfred Posamentier and Ingmar Lehmann relate the story of William Shanks, a 19th - century British mathematician who spent 15 years calculating the value of pi to a record 707 places.

Unfortunately, this summer the Snapchat story you are planning to stalk, goes online from the creepy northern district, Wedding (instead of the magnificent Brandenburger Tor area...).

This game has an incredible beauty, each pixel and well used, the game despite seem boring and a lot of fun, the graphics are very good, the story does not lack, the gameplay is simple and magnificent, my score is 10.

Yes perhaps not a film with a particular story that will suit those cinema - goers who like to know what's going on, although there are those of us who just enjoy the medium, stunning sets and magnificent photography, I'd take this over Avitar anyday!

On the positive side, BlazBlue features complex stories for each of its 12 fighters, magnificent art, special moves mapped to the right analog stick and lag free online play with detailed stat tracking.

Adapted from a well - known short story by Shirley Jackson, The Haunting is also a remake of the modest but genuinely creepy 1963 film directed by workmanlike industry veteran Robert Wise, who counts among his many credits the editing of Orson Welles» Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons and Oscars for the helming of West Side Story and The Sound of Mstory by Shirley Jackson, The Haunting is also a remake of the modest but genuinely creepy 1963 film directed by workmanlike industry veteran Robert Wise, who counts among his many credits the editing of Orson Welles» Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons and Oscars for the helming of West Side Story and The Sound of MStory and The Sound of Music.

Vincent Ward's visually magnificent love story Map of the Human Heart (1992, R) stars Jason Scott Lee as an Inuit boy taken from his Arctic home to the city for medical attention by a British mapmaker (Patrick Bergin), where he falls in love with half - Indian girl Anne Parillaud and spends the rest of his life trying to reunite with her.

Steven Spielberg finally hits his stride as a mature filmmaker with the autobiographical (and sharply auto - critical) Catch Me If You Can while new directors Sam Jones and Todd Louiso offer, respectively, a magnificent music documentary (I Am Trying to Break Your Heart) and a story of grief and loss (Love Liza) just to the south of true.

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Stockard Channing, Donald Sutherland, and Will Smith are magnificent in this brilliantly compelling and startlingly affecting story of high - minded pretensions and heart - rending realizations.

Since both films well pre-date the preservationist era of film - as - art - and - heritage — Greed was released in 1925, The Magnificent Ambersons in 1942 — they have suffered the further indignity of being unreconstructible; studios back in those days didn't hang on to excised footage for the sake of future director's cuts on DVD, so the reels upon reels of nitrate film trimmed from the original versions were — depending on which movie you're talking about and which story you believe — burned, thrown in the garbage, dumped into the Pacific, or simply left to decompose in the vaults.»

As in The Magnificent Ambersons — another of Baumbach's movie models that has an impersonal narrator — the seeds of the story are planted in the opening moments: we're told that Lester (played as an adult by Eric Stoltz) becomes obsessed with the previous sex lives of all his subsequent girlfriends.

Starring Patrick Wilson (The Conjuring 2), Eddie Marsan (The World's End), Jessica Biel (Hitchcock), Haley Bennett (The Magnificent Seven) and Vincent Kartheiser (Mad Men), the movie features fine performances, high production value, and a production design that plunges us effectively both into the late»50s era of the story and the murky world of the characters» fragile psyches.

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.

Synopsis: Screen legends Gregory Peck (On the Beach) and Richard Widmark (Road House) co-star in this brilliantly cast western epic featuring an unusually fine story and magnificent direction by the great William Wellman (The Ox - Bow Incident)-- unleashing dramatic power seldom found in this type of film.

The rest of the cast is magnificent, and also expansive: Bob Odenkirk as Ben Bagdikian, the lead reporter on the story; Carrie Coon as Meg Greenfield and David Cross as Howard Simons, other top scribes; Bruce Greenwood as Bob McNamara, former Defense Secretary and personal friend of Graham; Tracy Letts as Fritz Beebe, Graham's right - hand man and rock; Bradley Whitford as the (overly) timid voice of caution; Matthew Rhys as Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower who leaked the papers; Jesse Plemons as the young lawyer brought into defend the Post; and Michael Stuhlbarg as Abe Rosenthal, fierce competitor at the Times, and another Graham friend.

Topics such as immigration and varying cultures clashing together due to sitcom - style antics (in this case a confusing manner of apartment leasing) have been well - trodden indie subjects for years now, yet The Visitor wrangles this oft - used story to magnificent heights.

It is a story that asks what benefit there is to always knowing or always telling the truth, and the results are nothing short of magnificent.

James Gray's personal epic of magnificent obsession in the Amazonian rainforest tells the story of a British explorer's dogged search for proof of an advanced civilization deep in the wilderness, and the lengthy pursuit that will consume him.

Sewn into the story is the debauched Grand Guignol behind - the - scenes world of rock star excess, compete with promiscuous groupies assailed by roadies and moguls, and somewhere in there is the wide - eyed, and well - intentioned ingenue Phoenix (Jessica Harper, magnificent), the beauty to Winslow's beast.

Newton Howard's magnificent opus came with this mid-nineties adaptation of Rose Tremain's layered and complex novel, the story of 17th century English doctor Merivel (Robert Downey Jr.) in the court of King Charles II, his romantic tribulations and eventual suffering during the Great Fire of London.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of transcendent filmmaking in the The Lost City of Z and A Ghost Story, it was the age of foolish Spider - Man remakes / reboots / regurgitations, it was the epoch of a magnificent enquiry into belief by the evergreen Martin Scorsese, it was the epoch of the incredulous return of Mel Gibson in a box office hit, it was the season of Michael Haneke shining a light on our uncaring societal malaise, it was the season of manifold more people watching Baywatch, it was the spring of Aki Kaurismäki's warm - hearted but politically pressing The Other Side of Hope, it was the winter of despair at the box office results of masterpieces like Certain Women, Aquarius and The Death of Louis XIV, we had Yorgos Lanthimos» Kubrickian masterpiece before us, we had a new Kingsman film before us, we were all going direct to cinematic Heaven, we were all going direct the other way.

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The great adventure story flies by and creates no dull moment as immaculately executed set pieces and magnificent scenery (I'm always partial to a bit of foliage) give the film it's major flashes of brilliance.

Darkest Hour — Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Ben Mendelsohn are magnificent in this story of Winston Churchill, from the day he became Prime Minister to the evacuation of Dunkirk.

Cinderella Rated PG for mild thematic elements Available on DVD and Blu - ray Disney's latest live - action remake of its animated classics brings the story of Cinderella to life in a magnificent way.

The final scenes atop some familiar Philadelphia Museum of Art steps are the ideal coda to a new underdog story that by all rights shouldn't be this magnificent, Coogler's Creed a thunderous success that doesn't just fly, it positively soars.

-- B + (Review) The Handmaiden — A -(Review) Hell or High Water — C Hello, My Name is Doris — C + (Review) Henry Gamble's Birthday Party — C + Hidden Figures — B High - Rise — C - How to Be Single — C Hunt for the Wilderpeople — B - I Am Not Your Negro — A - Indignation — B + The Intervention — B - The Invitation — B (Review — The Film Experience) Jackie — A The Jungle Book — C + Kate Plays Christine — B (Review) Keanu — C + Knight of Cups — B - Krisha — A (Review) La La Land — A -(Review) The Light Between Oceans — B Lion — B - Little Men — A (Review) The Lobster — A - Lolo — C Love & Friendship — B + Loving — B -(Review) Maggie's Plan — B - The Magnificent Seven — C -(Review — The Film Experience) A Man Called Ove — D + Manchester By The Sea — B + (Review) Me Before You — D + (Review — The Film Experience) The Meddler — B + (Review — The Film Experience) Midnight Special — B -(Review) Miles Ahead — C - Miss Sloane — B (Review) Miss Stevens — B Moana — B + Money Monster — C A Monster Calls — C Moonlight — A (Review) Morris From America — B My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 — B - Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising — B (Review) The Neon Demon — B -(Review) The Nice Guys — C Nocturnal Animals — D (Review) Other People — B (Review — The Film Experience) Paris 05:59 — C (Review — The Film Experience) Pete's Dragon — B (Review — The Film Experience) Queen of Katwe — A -(Review) Race — D Rogue One — A Star Wars Story — B (Review — The Film Experience) Rules Don't Apply — D -(Review) The Salesman — A - The Sea of Trees — D The Shallows — C Silence — A - Sing Street — A -(Review) Southside With You — B Spa Night — B - Star Trek Beyond — B Sully — D -(Review) Swiss Army Man — B + (Review) Tanna — B - Things to Come — A - Toni Erdmann — B + Triple 9 — C - Under the Shadow — B Viva — C Weiner — B + Whiskey Tango Foxtrot — C The Witch — A -(Review) Women Who Kill — B + Zoolander 2 — D + Zootopia — B

In composing the song, Stevens says he felt a «conviction to write something with dignity and grace, to pull back the ridiculous tabloid fodder and take stock of the real story of this strange and magnificent American hero».

More than anything else, though, I would never have guessed before seeing The Fly that Goldblum, a magnificent jester, would be at the center of one of the most moving love stories ever filmed, as ardent as any lover in cinema history.

Watching it, I was reminded strongly of Krzysztof Kieslowski's magnificent Red, in which the relationship between a young model and her own emotionally insecure boyfriend echoes a story from the distant past of a reclusive judge (played, as it happens, by Amour star Jean - Louis Trintignant) whom the model meets when she runs over his dog.

It was the story of one tormented man — the lonely and driven oil prospector Daniel Plainview: a magnificent performance from Daniel Day - Lewis whose masterpiece this was, too.

A worldwide success upon its release in 1954, the tale of seven warriors fighting against impossible odds caught the eye of acclaimed director John Sturges, who traded in katanas for revolvers, porting the story to the wild west with 1960's The Magnificent Seven.