Sentences with phrase «many story lines»

Those who dislike cable monopolies are eager to see them toppled, and so the whole «no one watches cable any more» story line has probably been overplayed somewhat.

When I try to design something, whatever the end product is, there's some sort of story line there.

For two decades, globalization has been the world economy's central story line — or so it was until Russia and China sharply changed the narrative.

Further, «they were developed based on input from many team members, which does not fit the story line you are advancing,» they wrote.

But strip Zappos down to the bare bones of its business structure, and the company had been little more than an online retailer employing hundreds of call - center employees (not the most compelling or exciting company story line).

You can't say this story line had much substance: Not only were the investment managers different, but so were the amounts.

How's this for a gripping corporate story line: Youthful founder gets booted from his company in the 1980s, returns in the 1990s, and in the following decade survives two brushes with death, one securities - law scandal, an also - ran product lineup, and his own often unpleasant demeanor to become the dominant personality in four distinct industries, a billionaire many times over, and CEO of the most valuable company in Silicon Valley.

A year and half later, the movie «The Social Network» and the attention that followed have dispelled much of the mystery surrounding Zuckerberg, sketching out the essentials of his story line.

In this week's Trader Poll, we want to know what story line influences your investment strategy the most.

VCs are more impatient than angels; they are strict with their time so don't bore them with unnecessary story lines.

Behind these funds» impressive performances so far this year are a few different story lines: historically low volatility in the U.S. stock market; a mind - boggling rally in bitcoin prices; a forging recovery in emerging markets; and across - the - board strength in the tech sector.

They wind up messaging buyers on factors as oppose to connecting on compelling insights based story lines.

Their story will be out of context to their buyer's story line.

Another aspect of IndexUniverse's data mining that bears mentioning is the divergent story lines from the two major U.S. purveyors of inverse and leveraged funds, ProShares and Direxion.

It is hard to imagine a story line more bullish for 4) gold, given that such a war will almost certainly be nuclear and could swiftly morph into World War III.

They also have ideas that don't pan out, and an overall lack of cohesion — the main characters seem sequestered in separate story lines that don't really mesh.

Ah yes, the Judeo / Christian borrowing from other traditions story line.

The by - now predictable story lines have to do with the bishops» alleged interference in public policy (usually related to abortion) or with the Vatican's alleged suppression of deviant theologians.

Please don't reference the Bible as a source of information — I have no idea what you expect to find there except the story line that man has written.

Catholic history with all flags unfurled, what it may sacrifice in critical nuance it gains in coherence of story line.

The difference, he says, is that the left in this country has a deep stake in the story line that pits enlightened secularists against Bible - thumping theocrats.

Unlike Superman whose creation can actually be traced back to a couple of young Jewish men in 1938 for the purpose of providing a sellable fictional story line to Detective Comics, there is no such evidence in regards to religious belief; especially since in this case being that this is about a God who does not want to be made known but who would rather have us develop our faith.

They took many artistic liberties to compress the story lines while hoping to remain true to the story.

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A film from the perspective of Satan with this story line, from the beginning to Jesus, would be a remarkably great movie.

In the main audiences are provided with entirely plausible story lines.

Add this to the larger story line of human sin and divine judgment.

Last week we praised the film's positives, such as context, doctrine, biblical story line, and biblical details.

Several pastors and authors say King displays a sophisticated grasp of theology in his books, and his stories are stuffed with biblical references and story lines taken straight from the Bible.

Those seven scrolls he's talking about and the fact that he thinks the world is going to end when they're opened are a blatant admission that John knows what really happened... and that his story line isn't going to hold out forever.

One reason the media began searching for a new story line once the issue moved from pedophilia to homosexuality is, of course, the fear of being accused of homophobia.

Though we virtually have to use narrative language, the language of sequential time, to analyze what we mean by an occasion, we must recognize that the basic unit of experience is not a story which can be analyzed into separate sub-events, but a solid unit in its own right, a droplet of time which does not admit further dissection into a story line.

Joseph Smith, who had little formal education, writes a 532 page fiction book with multiple story lines, more than three major ethnic groups that intermingle with one another, creates over 200 new names, many of which have Hebraic origin (Mosiah for instance), writes in chiasmas poetry, accurately predicts latter day pollution, international intrigue, the dispersing of the Gospel message and a host of other fictional and hysterical points was WRONG?

In Tangled, the Walt Disney Company's new animated, feature - length, 3 - D adaptation of «Rapunzel,» critic Armond White finds, sadly, that the story of the girl with the very long locks not only «has been amped up from the morality tale told by the Brothers Grimm into a typically overactive Disney concoction of cute humans, comic animals, and one - dimensional villains,» but also that the film's «hyped - up story line... gives evidence that cultural standards have undergone a drastic change» in the decades since Walt Disney first set out to charm both children and adults with his animated retellings of fairy tales.

We are looking for the symbolic meanings and the underlying myths that are far more important than the surface story line, message, or «content».

On the one hand, one is struck by the copious borrowing of Hindu story lines, mythological characters, and themes.

Yet Wilson's story line does not account for Lewis's reticence in 1955.

So many movies and story lines are based on that myth, it is a part of our popular culture.

If the revelation of God is perfectly depicted in the Pentateuch, why follow the story line of Scripture into the Prophets, Gospels and Epistles?

A disciple is baptized, plugged into a church, prays regularly, reads their Bible, and knows the story line of the Bible.

Gospels, like oral epics, were composed anew at each performance; tellers improvised along story lines and using oral formulas just as the earliest Greek rhapsodes had done with Homeric epics.

The basic story line is about a traveler who sets out on a journey, but gets distracted and somewhere along the way stops, plants a garden and forgets about the journey.

Some of the story lines really cross paths, and some of the technologies actually contradict each other.

In the Bible the main story line being that man rejects God, never follows the God they believe in then when God shows up as man God gets crucified.

The dramatic script or story line of this one has played itself out, or so some believe.

The story line is that God's good creation fell away, that God entered into creation to restore and renew it, and that this restoration will be accomplished in the end of history when Christ comes again.

Other writers want the story line to be true to the character, and still others seek «an omnidirectional assault on anything that is sacred — hypocrisy will be mocked at all times,» he said.

Plots also complicate their story line by recognizing elements in life that counter its simple unfolding.

Such words strike a deep chord in this age of cheap sentimentality and ethics shaped by the story lines of soap operas and sitcoms.

With this device, Eberstadt delivers a gripping story line with a chilling twist at the end and, in the process, administers a smackdown of the New Atheism.