Sentences with phrase «more powerful narrative»

There hasn't been a more powerful narrative in the Halo games than the humanizing story between Master Chief and Cortana of Halo 4.

Not exact matches

And the thing about narratives is that they drive behavior in ways that are more powerful and profound than people readily acknowledge — for good and bad.

Those were the two narratives presented to jurors today in the Manhattan federal courthouse where Mr. Silver, still an assemblyman and once among the three most powerful men in the state, is standing trial on charges of honest services fraud, extortion and money laundering for allegedly taking more than $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks.

And our narratives around politics are always of being the underdog, of fighting valiantly against much bigger, more powerful forces.

Such specific praise indicates, however, that what there is of narrative functions as little more than sparse captions for the powerful images.

While audiences are still cowed by Disney's all - powerful money - printing Infinity Gauntlet, an understated Hungarian narrative is quietly raising some far more provocative ideas than any superhero massacre ever could.

Largely low - key and with a subtle Japanese input befitting the themes of the story, the composer sensibly knows when to hold back and resist imposing on the dialogue - heavy narrative, making the score's more fulsome moments all - the - more powerful as a result.

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- Booklist «Told from the point of view of more than a half - dozen characters, the vignettes that make up the narrative are generally powerful in isolation, but as a whole fail to develop into anything more than a series of snapshots of a family touched by time and tragedy.»

After I have done an initial overall marketing / editorial assessment and developmental edit of a manuscript or proposal, a writer may choose to work with me further in a very close one - on - one mentoring relationship in which I would guide him or her in rewriting and re-envisioning the original material — chapter by chapter — in a new manuscript, to make the narrative voice more resonant; the descriptive prose more powerful and, in general, to increase the book's overall quality, marketing viability, sales potential.

But many of the passages and monologues in his earlier, groundbreaking work, such as «The Electric Kool - Aid Acid Test» and «Radical Chic & Mau - Mauing the Flak Catchers,» are much more poetic in content and vision and much more powerful as poetry than as narrative.

The combat did start to feel quite repetitive as I progressed through the game, but as the narrative progressed and my characters became more powerful, the gameplay definitely opened up more, even if it the combat itself lacked substantial flow.

For Storm Casters Ultra, we've upgraded every aspect of the game, with dozens of new and amazing cards, a new narrative, new prestige modes that quadruple the amount of gameplay, unique and powerful Ultra Cards, and more stability and performance fixes than you can shake a stick at.

Even though it lacks a true single player experience — disappointing considering its potential — Titanfall's actual gameplay, featuring massive, uber - powerful mechs, more than makes up for the half - baked narrative that exists to give you a reason to kill the opposing team.

It was one of the first PC games to combine a powerful narrative with complex mission objectives, and this legacy is carried on today in the more complex first person shooters, which tend to have a good amount of backstory and objectives that are more than «kill the enemies» or «the bad guys are out to destroy the world.»

Librood is a stylish and surreal little narrative adventure in which a girl with a very powerful imagination manifests objects and becomes more secluded with every book she reads.

Umberger seemed circumspectly optimistic about the broader implications of this growing receptiveness to vernacular art: «[The] more often public audiences encounter powerful art made by minority demographics, the more lopsided old narratives appear, and the mandate for inclusion continues to grow.»

A powerful moment occurs when a narrative is cracked open, when something one expects to be presented simply for what it is, or even more, for fact, is left unguarded as one possibility among many.

Disasters encourage powerful and compelling survival narratives (that can overwhelm weaker and more complex climate change narratives).

And I started to see signs — new coalitions and fresh arguments — hinting at how, if these various connections were more widely understood, the urgency of the climate crisis could form the basis of a powerful mass movement, one that would weave all these seemingly disparate issues into a coherent narrative about how to protect humanity from the ravages of both a savagely unjust economic system and a destabilized climate system.

It's not a very powerful narrative, but it does seem to me more accurate than Hockey Sticks.