Sentences with phrase «many of the story beats»

Audiences are extremely familiar with the kinds of story beats that drive not just these «new» programs but the hundreds that came before them; buddy - cop and spy - guy moves have been remixed and repeated for decades, but these derivative works ignore that reality.

Here's something interesting that you do in almost any game: You've got the main story beats, and you've got to make sure that all four characters have a role in getting through each of these story beats.

Beyond the characterization of its complex anti-heroine, though, I Kill Giants doesn't stray too far from an established collection of story beats, stretched thin over a slightly too - long 106 - minute run time.

TDKR attempts to wrap up the trilogy and does address many of the story beats and ideas presented in its predecessors.

They're first - person shooters, fundamentally, but in terms of the vibe and the twists and turns of the story beats — basically, I don't think any other publisher would greenlight these projects.

Sure, some of the story beats and characters are familiar in the super-rigid superior district attorney (played by Alfred Molina), and the play - by - his - own - rules detective, but they've been proven to work over the course of cinema history.

It doesn't help that most of the story beats are presented through mid-level cutscenes that I ignore in order to psych myself up for the difficult road ahead.

So, while Assault on Precinct 13 may call back to classics in terms of story beats, it is 100 % pure John Carpenter to the core.

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.

They're first - person shooters, fundamentally, but in terms of the vibe and the twists and turns of the story beats — basically, I don't think any other publisher would greenlight these projects.

State of Decay is the open - world action version of Sarah Northway's brilliant Rebuild, with that game's same combination of story beats and sandboxing.

The dramatic moments in Fates are largely engrossing, even if many of the story beats are eye - roll - inducing, forcing you to confront tough moral decisions and tactical choices throughout the adventure.

Everything feels fresh, and whilst you can see some of the story beats coming from so far off they might as well be wearing day - glow onesies, it's full of fantastic moments.

Cards can also be upgraded, and the way this ties into some of the story beats is a great little addition.

While the story may not have the writing quality of a Naughty Dog produced Uncharted game you still get all of the story beats you would expect with multiple double crosses, witty banter, and high quality action.

There are some hints of the story beats as things unfold in Guardians, starting with a discussion between Dr. Halsey speaking and Spartan Jameson Locke.

Furthermore, by this point, it should go without saying that the more time invested in previous Yakuza titles, the more rewarding some of the story beats and cameo appearances are going to be.

Final Fantasy 7 is a complicated game, with lots of story beats and probably too many acts.

Fans get to see their favorites, like Ryu and Ken, but what's interesting about the latest Street Fighter V trailer is that it hints at some of the story beats players should expect when the game releases.

Not exact matches

«The bulls were hoping for a clean modest beat on this key growth segment which represents the underpinnings of the IBM turnaround story in 2018 and beyond,» Ives wrote.

Martti Häikiö, an adjunct professor of social history at the University of Helsinki, who wrote Nokia: The Inside Story, argues Samsung is the company to beat.

Instead of imitating the beats of the original, it both continues and enriches the story.

The «confined, ritualistic nature of the White House beat makes it a difficult slog for even the most adversarial reporter,» he says, and with dozens of journalists jockeying for the same stories, very little unique coverage emerges.

For anyone who wants to read the best damn feature out there on this debate — and on the epic story of the effort to find a worthy Alzheimer's drug — I recommend this 2015 Fortune classic by my colleague Erika Fry: «Can Biogen Beat The Memory Thief?»

(Combs» and Weschler's market beating performance was the subject of a recent Fortune story.)

Venture Beat's Evan Blass recently broke the story of how HMD Global Oy, the Finnish manufacturer with exclusive rights to market Nokia phones, is planning to announce four handsets at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, with one very specific highlight.

The site recently presented storytelling guru David Crabb's simple five - beat plan to turn any meandering series of events into a tight and compelling story.

But if all you saw were the breathless tweets and the headlines of the me - too stories, you'd swear that Victoria's Secret models themselves were out in the fields, beating children to work faster, faster, to feed the world's hunger for thongs.

We are hosting another Startup Grind powered by Google, where we have Loren Brill, Founder and CEO of Sweet Loren's coming to share her story beating cancer while disrupting the healthy food space.

She sat across from tech bloggers, reporters, and TV cameras who slurped up her delectable story — that she had come up with Theranos, her blood - testing company, as a Stanford freshman who was fearful of needles — and they largely regurgitated it, sometimes beat for beat.

Tolkien says it best: «It is the mark of a good fairy - story, of the higher or more complete kind, that however wild its events, however fantastic or terrible the adventures, it can give to child or man that hears it, when the «turn» comes, a catch of the breath, a beat and lifting of the heart, near to (or indeed accompanied by) tears, as keen as that given by any form of literary art... In such stories, when the sudden «turn» comes we get a piercing glimpse of joy, and heart's desire, that for a moment passes outside the frame, rends indeed the very web of story, and lets a gleam come through.»

173 Beats a Minute: On one surprising little baby and the possibility of miracles:: This is our miracle baby story.

Open Doors's new report follows a string of horror stories collected from Christians resettled in Germany, from a Christian convert beaten unconscious to a family who returned to Iraq to escape abuse from fellow refugees.

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.

The story is about Israel's God — the God who lives on a mountain down south somewhere, whose subject are an enslaved people — marching onto the home field of the superpower of the day and beating up their army and their gods.

We see those consequences beating upon the Christ in the story of his life and death.

Washington (CNN)-- The killing of Osama bin Laden was voted the top story of the year by the Religion Newswriters Association, beating out Rep. Peter King's hearing on the radicalization of U.S. Muslims and Catholic Bishop Robert Finn's failure to report the suspected abuse of a child.

The poem, titled «Spare the Rod» and addressed to his father, begins with the story of his sister's beatings, and continues:

CNN write a story about what we care about: When will justice be done for ANASTACIO HERNANDEZ, the migrant beaten and tasered to death by a pack of rabid border patrol guards.

Id agree with you, except that even today theres a story about a Muslim actress from the Harry Potter movies being beaten by her father and brothers for the sin of — having a boyfriend.

Actually fred, your ass hole of a god of your horrid holy story book AKA the bible is presented as being a strong supporter of beatings even of human slaves, and doing other horrid deeds.

It prepared me for moments of chaotic conflict, prepared me for the beating heart of the ministry where there are no dispassionate analyses, only the passion of real life in God's messy salvation story.

Instead, he relates the story of the stranger who fell among thieves on the Jericho road and was stripped, beaten and robbed.

Instead of a richly ironic story in which even Jesus» enemies are caught up in the symphony of grace, we get a Manichean morality play, in which evil is not so much transformed by God's love as merely beaten by it.

I'm so saddened by the stories lately of homosexuals being beaten up and harrassed.

I've felt sick listening to true stories of girls being beaten and raped because they did not submit.

ive been wrestling since i was 9 years old and when i went into high school i had to wrestle a girl... growing up learning to wrestle i had ended up having violent style, i never was dirty or broke rules but i was taught to do anything in your power to win whehter it was to club down the head or grab the throat to gain position etc. unfortunately i was in the postion to wrestle a girl once and at the time i did nt care who you were boy / girl, white / black / purple it did nt matter im was going to go out there bounce your head of the mat and bury you, so i went out there and wreslted the same way i always wrestled, 110 % and always to put your oppenents back through the mat i dditn change my style at all bc she was a girl i wrestled the same against everyone but after i pinned her in the first minute i did nt even realize that i broke her ribs when i power doubled through her, now after that for the rest of the tournament i was heckled and berated for forcefully beating a girl ppl were telling my parents «hey, looks like you raised a wife beater» etc. etc.... ever since then i refused to wrestle girls and thank go i eventually grew out of the lower weights, moral of the story is that is great and all that girls are wrestling but they shouldnt wrestle boys even if they know what they are getting into because 1.

Moreover, two of the troopers soon backed out, the other two bargained for a sizable payoff, and Brock warned that someone else would beat him to the story.

oooh this beats any airline's first class hot plate... cant wait to hear your stories of your trip... and soo jealous youre going to san fran... go to Boulettes Larder, best restaurants in the Ferry Building, tell them Aubrey sent you and they will treat you like a queen!

The Crown is there for our winning, the only other competition is leicester and fortunately we happen to be the only team to beat them, it will be the same story at the end of the season.