Sentences with phrase «middle of the story»

Use primary news sources to explore with students the beginning and middle of stories like the Hindenburg disaster or the flight of Apollo 13.

Ms. Sanders's statement put the White House in the middle of a story that Mr. Trump and his lawyer had been trying to keep quiet for well over a year.

«We're thrashing around in the middle of this story right now.

We will see ourselves as living in the middle of story, so we will seek to tell, interpret and participate more fully in that living story.

It is here in the middle of the story, when we confess the confession, that its meaning arises and unfolds and moves us from death to life.

But we first meet the radical, life - transforming power of the Christ in the middle of the story, not at the close.

We're in the middle of the story, and there's an ending that goes down the Bob Horner path, and there's an ending that leads to Cooperstown.

It's okay to pause in the middle of a story to answer your child's questions or to let her get up and move around a little.

But in each round of interviews, «it was so clear that we were in the middle of the story.»

The challenge was that the intermediate steps, the middle of the story, occur exceedingly fast.

So apologies, but we'll start this series in the middle of the story.

As Catching Fire is that rare second in a series that equals or betters its original — an amazing accomplishment given that it's the middle of the story and neither has a true beginning nor a true ending.

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.

It makes for one doozy of a final act, but shortchanges the middle of the story, where Besson seems unsure of what Lucy should be doing.

Surely there's a reason for the lengthy dance number performed by an eccentric child in the middle of this story about a man coping with the realization that he can't cope with the idea of his mother dying.

Basically it starts from the middle of the story (Pegg, who plays an assassin for hire, following a couple who are kidnapping a woman), then gets back to the start, to how it all begun and afterwards the grand finale, where the story unfolds.

How does starting the narrative in the middle of the story change the focus of the plot?

We enter Roman Polanski's harrowing Repulsion as if in the middle of the story, but it's actually the beginning of the end.

The buildup in the first act is great, with Govaerts creating a dark brooding atmosphere and showing us characters that are more than his biggest mistake is opening the film in the middle of the story, which robs the film of suspense by letting us know that scene is coming.

Though Northup's memoir is strictly chronological, Ridley's screenplay shrewdly starts us in the middle of the story, with Northup well into his new identity as Platt the slave deep in the bayous of Louisiana.

Hence, we have the forty or so minutes of exposition in the middle of the story.

Also, this happens right in the middle of the story.

This section comes from somewhere in the middle of the story, and it's designed to throttle us instead of gently taking us by the hand.

The analogy I would use is this: If a reporter left a assignment in the middle of the story, it would be considered shirking their job duties.

Unfortunately, pacing issues are still in the game, with the middle of the story dragging considerably.

, based on the legendary literary journalist George Plimpton, who put himself right in the middle of his stories, like the time he joined an NFL team and told the story in a way no outsider could.

His citing of Margaret Atwood's lines in the film's prologue --» when you're in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all... it's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all...» — suggests, however, his simultaneous suspicion of any claims to total accuracy in the narrative rendering of experiences.

The director usually gets away with such bits because they are situated in the middle of stories that show genuine care and regard for fully - developed three - dimensional human beings.

The stats back this statement up but Levitt chooses to explore this modern day issue in dramatic fashion putting himself right in the middle of the story.

«[Akiva] said, «Why don't we start in media res, in the middle of the story?»

And as he did in Hunger and Shame, filmmaker Steve McQueen puts us right into the middle of the story so we live it ourselves.

«When you're in the middle of a story, it isn't a story at all but rather a confusion,» says Sarah Polley's father in her third film, Stories We Tell.

As the movie dumps us right into the middle of a story that is already coming to an end (we never see the heist that fell apart), it is up to the actor's to bring their own charisma and the audience to piece together their back - stories from their manner and chemistry with other characters.

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).

«There, in the middle of the story we had so carefully worked out, was a nut on some sort of flying surfboard,» Lee recounted in the foreword to the 1995 book The Ultimate Silver Surfer.

This is a plan for a Christmas RE lesson, with a focus on the middle of the story, when the shepherds visit Jesus.

«It puts the kids right in the middle of the story,» Burg explains, «rather than at a desk as the teacher teaches the story at them.»

«I'm thinking,» she said, tapping her temple with her index finger, «that this happens in the middle of the story.

Make sure your endings match up with the beginning and middle of your story.

The middle of the story, on the other hand, is a yawning blank... Fortunately, if we pay attention to solid story structure, we'll find that the middle of the story has a checklist all its own.

Somewhere in the middle of the story, I was drawn into the lives of Janey and Nean.

But Prem — the way he grew still at the sound of her voice, the way he butted her ribs with his head if she paused too long in the middle of a story — She told Prem about the old house, that white elephant of a mansion that had been in the Chatterjee family for generations: its crumbling marble facade, its peeling walls, the dark knots of its corridors, the brick terrace where she and Sudha went secretly at night to watch for falling stars to wish on.

Because I love so much being in the middle of a story and carrying these people around, who you can control, but who also start to have lives.

Your ending should come about because of the actions and events we see in the beginning and the middle of your story.

Endings tend to fall flat if there isn't plenty of conflict in the middle of the story, with all sorts of decisions and actions the main character faces before he's able to solve or resolve the overall problem.

If you want to have another character help the main character at the end, we need to see this character in the middle of the story, not just the ending.

It should be obvious that if you are writing in the first person present or past tense, there will be only one point of view unless, as a literary device, you choose to switch points of view (and even tense) in the middle of the story.

and changed character names in the middle of the story (also ruins my read).

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