Sentences with phrase «make narrative sense»

In a statement about the eyewitness testimony, the trial judge found that «Each of three women, no matter how well intentioned, tried to make narrative sense of the events by working backwards from their consequences.»

This isn't to put down the film's first half, which sets up a genuinely distinctive near - future world (where Johnson's retro trappings make narrative sense, rather than feeling tacked - on), introduces two tremendous sides of the same coin in the performances from Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon - Levitt, plenty of intriguing philosophical dilemmas, and a grisly hall - of - fame demise for Paul Dano «s character.

Lil» Mikey bangs his expensive toys together, not because it makes narrative sense, but because he likes the sounds they make.

But the «Marvel Studios: The First Ten Years — Connecting the Universe» gives viewers an even clearer picture of how much work went into making sure everything in the MCU, from Iron Man to Avengers: Infinity War, connects and makes narrative sense.

It made narrative sense, but it was no less infuriating to go through an entire Avengers movie without a single Hulk smash.

Not exact matches

That makes sense to entrepreneurs like Sankhla, who say they see their fate tied with the larger American Dream narrative of the U.S. and its immigrant culture.

The narrative that developed at that time — «The US is printing money; we are going to end up like Weimar Germany, in hyperinflation» — made sense to me.

The life of the individual Christian, on this account, makes sense and achieves meaning through participation in this communally recounted narrative.

It also places it in continuity with the experiences of the early church, and within the continuing narrative of the development of Christian thought — as people have struggled to make sense of and articulate their lived experience of God — which produced the great ecumenical creeds (with their clear progression of understanding about God, Christ and the Holy Spirit)- and which continues on today.

It was a matter of setting out the larger story, the narrative framework, which makes sense of and brings order to God's world and God's people.»

and certainly the narrative makes perfect sense with the omission of vv.

The grittiness of Lent, and the «intransigent historical claims» without which Easter makes no sense at all, should remind us that Christianity does not rest on myths or «narratives,» but on radically changed human lives whose effect on their times are historical fact.

Sometimes the most secular of scholars found that what Frei was doing, with his attention to narrative and his interest in the language that shapes a particular community, made more sense to them than the work of many theologians much more systematically concerned to address other academic disciplines.

«It is more like a collection of narratives poking around a theme that attempts to make sense of this world in all of its mystery and complexity».

You have an overall premise that you have worked hard and studied to make sense of an fit that narrative.

Wesley identifies six streams of this narrative that give him a context in which he can see how his commitment to celibacy makes sense.

I have studied many other theologies and the theology of the cross that Luther took directly from Paul pretty much (in my mind) makes thebest sense of the entire biblical narrative.

This model can make good sense of many of the biblical traditions, but not of all: God's particular involvement in human history, his apparent lack of knowledge concerning the future in some of the earlier narratives, his suffering, his willingness on occasion to change his mind.

This makes perfect sense, given the divorce of sexual activity from any kind of moral framework or personal narrative.

While it might make some sense to call Ball a «winner,» it is a false narrative to say Fultz is a loser.

Making Sense of Motherhood: a narrative approach.

Open - ended questions may lead to a whole narrative that will give you insight into how your child is making sense of the world.

When making sense of campaigns, people often search for overarching narratives, and Comey's letter provides a ready - made story.

There are a number of cases where this narrative makes sense — for instance, Health chair Sarah Wollaston and Defence chair Rory Stewart were elected with less than one full parliamentary term under their respective belts, and are generally regarded as among the more independent and effective chairs.

It's not the narrative that makes the most sense to me at this point, but it is certainly feasible.

Social network proximity was also associated with neural response similarity within areas involved in attentional allocation, such as the right superior parietal cortex30, 31, and regions in the inferior parietal lobe, such as the bilateral supramarginal gyri and left inferior parietal cortex (which includes the angular gyrus in the parcellation scheme used32), that have been implicated in bottom - up attentional control, discerning others» mental states, processing language and the narrative content of stories, and sense - making more generally33, 34,35.

Look back to your childhood narrative and make sense of your story.

Though, of course, it's also absurd that I'm telling you to ignore parts of the narrative that don't make any sense or are left unexplained.

A lot of scenes in the film just don't make any sense and don't add anything to the thread of a narrative that runs through it, but they are striking and do have an effect on you, which is perhaps the purpose.

That the film makes almost zero sense is besides the point; those worrying about what Frank's job is, how Mitch's nerdy co-workers find out about the fraternity, or why Mitch's standard - issue love interest Nicole (Ellen Pompeo, who looks like a more sandy - haired Renée Zellweger) has any interest in the doofus will be flummoxed by the gaping holes in logic and narrative cohesion on display.

It also sets up a development later in the film that makes perfect narrative sense but smacks of contrivance.

The end result is a head - spinner to be sure — not only does it not make any sense in the traditional definition of the word, it doesn't even attempt to do so — and those who demand that their films offer up some kind of conventional narrative structure will no doubt throw up their hands and leave early on in the proceedings.

With a notable lack of traditional narrative or plot the Director relies on the subtext or theme to pierce through the veil of aesthetics and make make some kind of sense for us.

Scenes bump into one another as the story lacks any real sense of narrative cohesion, but more a collection of scenes meant to move the characters around the landscape in an effort to make sure all their ducks are in a row for the big finale.

In the scheme of Lehane's pulp narrative he is, in fact, a white savior, and while various critics and a few ordinary citizens are busy throwing that condemnation at the Ryan Gosling character in «La La Land,» a charge that makes little sense in the context of the movie itself (vanilla is one thing; white savior is a different flavor) here in «Live by Night» we have a serious case of the white saviors.

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.

It's those narrative conveniences that make «In Darkness» feel slick and worked over - the sense that an immensely powerful story of survival has been cut to fit the cloth of a by now well - established genre.

But there are traitors, both human and metallic, which makes things complicated in the sense that more exposition is required, and plot twists need to be handled with screaming instances of narrative torque.

The many narrative layers of this drama should fit reasonably snug in the context of the plot's progression, but if there is a sense of excess to the material, then it is stressed by a sense of episodicity, which sees the film spending too much time with each segment, yet not enough to flesh them out enough to make the eventual focal shifts smooth.

The title, of course, no longer makes sense, and O.G. «horrible bosses» Kevin Spacey (whose disengagement is palpable long before it's revealed that he's reading his lines off a piece of paper in a closing - credits outtake) and Jennifer Aniston have only an ornamental application in the narrative.

And then, just when you hit your top speed, just when everything's about to make sense in a grand cataclysmic narrative whirl, what do you do?

It's nihilistic sense of pessimism at times feels laboured and Simon's increasingly bizarre decision - making process gradually becomes dictated by the inexorable death - spiral narrative.

So the homework assignment given to the Russo Brothers is worthy of its own recognition, because making any kind of end - product with even a lick of narrative sense out of this intellectual property grab - bag is, frankly, awe - inspiring.

Cianfrance's first - rate script, co-authored with Ben Coccio and Darius Marder, keeps you guessing even while making total narrative sense.

This resulted in two things: firstly that the narrative didn't make a whole lot of sense without said twist, but also it got me wondering as to whether the screenplay underwent some last - minute changes.

Despite being, in a sense, the most straightforward, linear narrative movie the writer and director Paul Thomas Anderson has made in quite some time (perhaps since «Punch Drunk Love» — and this is not the only respect in which the two films resemble each other), «Phantom Thread» could be the filmmaker's most fascinatingly oblique work.

But Ron Howard keeps this piece moving, and sets the perfect tone and pace for this project so that each part of its layered narrative gets enough screen time and makes sense.

It is presented as a fairy tale told to children, so it makes some amount of sense that its narrative would be relatively simple, but even considering that, the script of

It's fantasy hogwash, making absolute zero sense, and insulting to anyone that cares anything about narrative cohesiveness, story development, or even just funny escapism.

Nevertheless, if we interpret this conflict as the main narrative drive (which is generous) then that does at least makes some sense, as the finale brings the two rivals together for one last showdown.