Sentences with phrase «middle of stories like»

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Instagram's Stories could well surpass Snapchat in active users by the middle of the year, while Facebook is already testing similar Story - like features for its Messenger and Facebook platforms.

I read somewhere, maybe Rick Perlstein's Before the Storm about Goldwater's 1964 campaign, that newspapers simply didn't report about the John Birch society in the 1950s — the owners, people like the Chandlers, wouldn't allow it — or they buried the stories in the middle of the paper.

Instagram's Stories could well surpass Snapchat in active users by the middle of the year, and Facebook is already testing similar, Story - like features for its Messenger and Facebook platforms.

Think of your case study like a story — it needs a beginning, a middle, and an end.

He draws conclusions from Darwinism and modern astronomy, freely invoking decidedly un-Islamic names like Voltaire and Dominique Aury, a pseudonym of the author of the pornographic Story of O. Rediger's domestic situation also appeals to the middle - aged Frenchman.

Again, while many Christmas carols and stories seem to indicate that Joseph and Mary entered Bethlehem late at night while she is in the middle of birth pains, and he frantically knocks on doors seeking a place to stay, the text says nothing like this.

You believe that «god» is so irresponsible that he not only killed his son in the Middle East when there was no technology to prove anything (like video cameras and Internet), but that this «god» would also make everyone WAIT 19 centuries to actually get the story clarified by «prophet» Joe Smith, who allegedly found golden tablets with the alleged «real version of the story,» though no one can find these golden tablets to corroborate the story?

Sometimes that's because the Bible contains puzzling details (like when people start swapping sandals in the middle of a love story, or holding each other's thighs when they're agreeing a deal).

Complete with villas, a restaurant and a spa situated in the middle of 63 acres, his story continues to grow, much like the vines he first planted.

Another factor that adds to the credibility of the story is that Lemina is Wenger's kind of player — a technically gifted and versatile midfielder who likes to sit back and conduct the game from the middle of the park.

The 2016/17 EPL has been very exciting so far and while we have not had a big story like last season's Leicester City story, we have seen many great matches and some fantastic performances from the likes of Tottenham and Arsenal and are looking at an exciting and packed middle of the table.

They may have some hormonal ups and downs, but just as women don't appreciate being grouped together and defined by exaggerated stories of PMS and men don't like every decision they make in middle - age to be labeled evidence of a midlife crisis, teens don't deserve that kind of disrespectful stereotyping, either.

If your daughter wakes up in the middle of the night she may have to use the restroom or need to be changed sleeping in a soiled pamper or pull up runs a great and high risk for unnecessary rashes that in turn in to yeast infection then your doctor will have to prescribe something like nystatin its a topical ointment that immediately solves the problem however a warm bath bedtime story and a good healthy meal before bed should be a regular routine and depending on age they should sleep comfortably through out the night but never neglect your child's basic needs because your hard up for a nap or in need of sleep

By now, you've no doubt lost a night or two's sleep over when and where it will happen — because you've heard or seen on TV horror stories about an inconvenient (no, make that humiliating) time and place (like in the middle of a busy sidewalk at lunch hour or at a jam - packed mall on a Saturday morning).

«These are stories of people who once had good middle class jobs, like my parents had, but lost ground when big employers like GE and IBM left the area,» Delgado said.

The comments send me back to night runs when I felt like I needed to head home early and get off the road, to stories from my friend, a track runner, who had to stop jogging in her old neighborhood because she didn't feel safe doing so, even in the middle of the day.

Summary: Nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, MONSIEUR LAZHAR tells the poignant story of a Montreal middle school class shaken by the death of their well - liked teacher.

There's a big surprise in the middle of the story that pops like a box of fireworks, and a big celebrity cameo that will please those fans.

Wells treats his story like it's a set of bullet points about the perniciousness of stockholder - driven business decisions, never letting a single «the upper - middle class has it tough, too» or «our families are the real wealth» moment slip past him.

The film is shot in Greengrass» signature documentary - like style that puts the audience right in the middle of the action, and he brings shades of grey to a story that could have — in the hands of a lesser director — been a straight good guys / bad guys /» hooray USA» story.

After collaborating on comedies like Tammy and The Boss (both starring McCarthy and directed by Falcone), the pair is at it again with Life of the Party, co-writing this story of a middle - aged mother who returns to college after her husband asks for a divorce.

In the middle part of Anderson's career (circa «The Life Aquatic» and after), some critics began to complain about the familiar stylized elements of his films being a crutch and formula, diorama - like to the point of aestheticizing the emotions of the story (to be fair, some prescribed elements — the slow motion endings, that Futura font, the expected Kinks or Rolling Stone song — were starting to feel a little mechanical at a certain point).

At a seemingly lean 105 minutes, the film feels more like 205 minutes as it chugs along to its big twist ending (ahem, Señor Shyamalan at your service), and though the story gains some momentum in the middle with the introduction of a group of ghost hunters, the random change in direction doesn't quite fit with the rest of the film's tone.

Like The Handmaid's Tale, the story starts in the middle of Grace's imprisonment, after she's been incarcerated for more than a decade in Kingston Penitentiary.

After seeing the story, I like him a lot and he's one of the most endearing and positive portrayals of a Middle Eastern character I've seen in games.

With a plinky - plonky Thomas Newman-esque score, a middle - aged protagonist seemingly losing his mind and an interwoven story of troubled and artistic teen characters, The Beaver frequently feels like American Beauty with a glove puppet thrown in.

The cinematography is gorgeous as always, and the performances are pretty good across the board (particularly newcomer Ni Ni and Christian Bale as the Westerner caught in the middle of the conflict), but the real star is the story itself, which earns its emotional beats without feeling like it's pandering to the audience.

As the story shows T'Challa as a king in the middle of a power struggle in an African setting, it feels a little like The Lion King.

Like Christopher Guest's «Best in Show,» this is a story about middle - class Americans passionately seeking to outdo each other, with a gallery of brilliant improv actors making small fights into a cutthroat competition.

Somewhere around the middle of last season, you started to feel like the exuberance was a distraction, avoiding an overly familiar story about a misfit self - actualizing towards heroism.

Like a Pascha / Som en Pascha (Sweden) Director: Svante Tidholm Welcome to the biggest brothel in Europe, a clear blue eleven story high house in the middle of Cologne, Germany.

Sufficed to say that Robert Englund appears in fright latex, affecting equal parts Dr. Strangelove and Lionel Barrymore's Mr. Potter as Mr. Gartley, the decrepit, despotic owner of an old industrial steam laundry that features as its centerpiece the massive, four - story long Hadley Watson Model - 6 Steam Ironer & Folder, which sits in the middle of his brick sweatshop belching steam like the boiler in The Overlook Hotel.

They figured wrong, as first - time director Fangmeier lacks genuine inspiration, proceeding forward in his story without much in terms of natural exposition, with the exception of a short intro which drops us in the middle of the story (also like Star Wars).

Despite my middle - of - the - road reaction, I would actually like to see more - if this was a franchise with a new story every time, I'd be down for each new episode.

Like the first film, this movie throws us right into the middle of a mysterious place, about which we have as much information as the story's hero.

Creed feels like a perfect loop - closer on the series, returning to dependable story beats that feel more surprising and heartfelt because of the middling movies that came before.

Smile tells the story of Raina, as she handles the many stresses of being an adolescent like fitting in, friendships, middle school, younger sisters, and just being you.

Like the parents at West Lake Middle School, where I started this story, these parents believe in a version of the American Dream that includes a guaranteed access to a school that will accept their children for who they are and provide a benchmark of education quality that is expected in a country that professes to «lead the world» in all aspects of human enterprise.

According to Presonia (Lynette) Alexander, «When I was appointed as principal to Westlawn Middle School [in Huntsville, Alabama] three years ago, people wanted to tell me all kinds of stories and rumors about what it was like here, about the bullying, the fighting, the despair, but I tell our teachers and our students, «We write our own story, we get our own messages out.

Aizawa Riku Yoriko Hoshi This little - known manga short chronicles the story of a middle school girl, whose fake tears can be turned on like a faucet.

Indeed, movies and the wonder they inspire, «like seeing dreams in the middle of the day,» are central to the story, and Selznick expresses an obvious passion for cinema in ways both visual (successive pictures, set against black frames as if projected on a darkened screen, mimic slow zooms and dramatic cuts) and thematic (the convoluted plot involves director Georges Méliès, particularly his fanciful 1902 masterpiece, A Trip to the Moon.)

His website has the most helpful list of tutorials this side of Middle Earth for making comics from the beginning to the end, covering classic questions like «How to Break into Comics» and «How To Find an Artist» as well comic writing and how to pitch your story to indie publishers.

At times, it almost felt like the author was determined to make sure no one confused her story of Pagford and its sad emergency town council election with the Harry Potter series for middle grade and young adult readers.

One of the things that might jump out at you is that stories nowadays start off, like movies do, with someone in the middle of something.

Some days when I'm writing, I wake up in the middle of the night and can't fall back to sleep because I feel like an entire swath of my story — a scene, a chapter, sometimes even more — has just been downloaded into my head.

It certainly does not take much imagination to expand this story and its message to the entire Islamic Middle East - especially when we combine this work's portrayal of Afghanistan with the other New Orientalist works on the Islamic Middle East, such as Azar Nafisi's popular Reading Lolita in Tehran, Asne Seierstad's The Bookseller of Kabul, Geraldine Brooks» Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women, and even scholarly works like Bernard Lewis» What Went Wrong?

Toriyama: «The part I like best is the back and forth banter that happens in the middle of a story.

- Iizuka has received a ton of requests from fans to have their own original characters appear in Sonic games - while that couldn't happen, Sonic Forces» custom character recognizes that fan desire - the avatar was created with the idea of «making straight high - speed action» - this time the concept is that all three styles (Modern, Classic, Avatar) would be high - speed based - make selections for the face, mouth, body color, and gender of custom characters - each species will also have their own unique skills, such as wolves being able to pull nearby rings - you can't change custom characters in the middle of the game - there is some sort of feature that's unlocked after you've cleared the game once related to this - the new avatar style will have a speedy and rhythmic style like Modern Sonic, but also different vectors from Sonic - this includes differences in timing for pressing buttons, or the Wisps giving the avatar trickier movements - the story aims to depict heroes that would feel like Sonic - by controlling different characters, the devs hope to show a story that extends to explaining the world setting as well - the story concept has been «Hero Army vs. Eggman's Army» from the start - when wondering who should be made playable among the heroes, the idea came up for Classic Sonic - the character setting for the avatar is a civilian in an area occupied by Eggman who stands up and fights together with Sonic - during stages, you'll hear radio contact from partners like Tails and Amy - Sonic and the rest of the gang form a resistance to stand against Eggman's army, so they relay information from headquarters - boss characters like Chaos and Metal Sonic will appear in Eggman's army - details on the new character (Infinite) are being kept secret - the main part of the storyline is that Eggman gathers strong enemies in the past to form an all mighty army - some people might be wondering why Shadow is on the enemy's side, but they can find out more by experiencing the story - the team thinks Japanese fans are taking a liking to the serious story and character customization features - there were some struggles with the new engine in early stages, but now they've moved to a smooth development process - the team knew they wanted to bring the game to Nintendo's new console before they even knew it was the Switch - the Switch info came to them during the middle of the game's development - SEGA knew Nintendo fans would want to play Sonic's new game, which is why they personally worked to bring it to Switch - SEGA plans to show the game in Japan at Tokyo Game Show 2017 in September - the team is also working on providing new information, including news that would be unique to Japan

So far Minecraft: Story Mode seems to fall in the middle of the pack, closer to Back to the Future than a modern adventure classic like The Walking Dead.

The gameplay is buttery smooth and it's nice to be able to work alongside new Spartans like Olympia Vale, Fred, and even Buck (of ODST fame), but lets be honest here, Halo 5 is and was always set up to be the middle story in a three game arc.