Sentences with phrase «more than genre»

Often authors focus on genre and forget that their book is about more than genre, pages, or cover art.

What started as a way to use leftover «pulpy» paper to create cheap stories evolved into a style (more than a genre, says Tommy), with purple prose and «over the top antics, characters, and resolutions that made readers believe in the amazing, the fantastic, and the incredible.»

Steve also believes effective storytelling more than genre captures reader attention.

So, what we have here is more than the genre's trademark indulgence in misogyny and scatology.

«Red Sparrow» has the nudity and sex of an erotic thriller and the stomach - churning gore of a slasher flick, but it also strives to be more than a genre movie.

But the U.K. - Jordanian - Qatari coproduction, directed by Iranian - born Babak Anvari, has more than genre tropes on its mind.

Not exact matches

Twenty - eight percent of U.S. music listeners cite country as their favorite genre, more than any other format, according to The NPD Group.

Based in San Francisco, Udemy offers more than 20,000 courses in every topic or genre you could possibly think of.

Isaac Asimov, a legend in the science fiction genre, authored more than 500 books.

Connor Schell, executive producer of ESPN Films, told reporters on a conference call earlier this week that, when he first discussed the project that became Made in America with the director Edelman more than two years ago, they had no idea to what extent the Simpson trial would reassert itself into American popular culture after two decades — not to mention the surge in popularity of the true crime genre, as seen recently with documentary series like Netflix's Making a Murderer and HBO's The Jinx.

Scorsese has built his career on iconic gangster movies, from «Goodfellas» to «Casino,» «Mean Streets» and «The Departed,» so his return to the genre after more than a decade is cause for celebration.

If the H1Z1 Pro League doesn't last more than 10 weeks and is not renewed for a second season, then these gamers who have spent countless hours practicing and perfecting their skill for the particular game played will be required to learn a brand new game in the same genre or otherwise.

Owned by 21st Century Fox, FNC is available in more than 90 million homes and dominates the cable news landscape, routinely notching the top ten programs in the genre.

His genre movie is more realistic — more capable of expressing contemporary Iranian - ness — than much of Iran's celebrated social - realist cinema.

It reads more like poetry than spiritual memoir genre (which makes sense since Wiman is a poet).

Perhaps more than any other biblical genre, prophecy wakes us up.

Readers unused to contemporary trinitarian theology may find this book hard going, though it is more lucid than many examples of the genre.

Here the genre of the gospels points to the very heart of the gospel: God calls us to be more than we are but never gives up on anyone.

The former camp were highly concerned with packing as much theological and biblical knowledge into each song as possible, while the latter adopted the strategy of reaching hip - hop culture by fitting into it, and there's more great Christian - focused hip - hop being made, which will appeal to more fans, than at any point in the genre's history.

We'd been blithely unaware that there is more than one genre in the Bible, or that literary context profoundly matters to meaning.

Despite my temptation to condemn such music immediately for its ugly perversity, a moment's reflection reveals that the issue is much more complex than declaring an entire genre off limits because the lives of its artists aren't godly, or because many of the songs contain profanity.

Clearly, traditional Christmas carols can't be sung (there's a large university near where I live that attracts graduate students from all over the world, as well as a substantial local Jewish community, and probably not more than 60 or 70 percent of the children at the school are from even nominally Christian households), so most of the singing is of songs of the saccharine - secular genre — songs like «White Christmas.»

Women journal writing has become a genre of its own in the 20th century, but I can not imagine that O'Connor speaking to herself in diary form could give a reader any more insight into her character than O'Connor in dialogue, which is, essentially, what these letters present.

While it may seem counterintuitive, there probably isn't a film genre (excluding movies produced by Kirk Cameron, anyway) that more consistently or explicitly references Christian ideas and iconography than the...

It's been ages since we had a proper release from Modest Mouse — the undeniably odd but frequently brilliant band who did more than almost anyone to legitimize indie rock as a viable genre.

Moreover, it is more than just an «ancient collection» of different literary genres; it is God's potent revelation of redemption.

This week I am appropriately traveling to Hollywood, a town that owes its fortune to the Western more than to any other genre, for the Western Political Science Association meeting, where I will be presenting a paper titled «Cowboys and Corpses: The Moral Perils of the State of Nature in the....

But even more than that, absolutely no other film genre is premised on the conviction that there is such a thing as absolute morality.

Others have pointed out how horror, more than any other genre, deals explicitly with issues of good and evil.

While it may seem counterintuitive, there probably isn't a film genre (excluding movies produced by Kirk Cameron, anyway) that more consistently or explicitly references Christian ideas and iconography than the horror genre.

Not to demean the genre of intellectual history, but Carter's Revolt Against Destiny is a good bit more engaging than much that passes under that banner.

It always seemed to me that Superstar was more of the oratorio or passion genre than that of the musical or even «rock opera.»

Local jazzman Michael Paulo, a sax player and music producer, says the musical genre is more fun than ever.

But Mark Reinfeld has raised the bar on the genre with his latest, bringing together his training as a chef with a masters degree in holistic nutrition for a cookbook that's about more than health and more than cooking.

The question remains that do Arsenal have more than enough of that genre in the squad already?

If you drilled me down, I'd probably say fantasy, but in reality I read from every genre and literary / nonfiction so just the generic «I like to read» is probably more accurate than trying to get specific.

The intimate venue has been hosting performers from across all the genres of music for more than 50 years, and was a launching point for the careers of Joan Baez, Tom Rush, Regina Spektor, and others.

I'm not saying there is anything wrong with «sticking cogs on stuff,» but the genre is more than cogs» Glenn talking about the Edwardian Faux Marbling that inspired his beautiful Razors — read more...

The Library System currently has more than 13,600 eBook volumes in all genres available for borrowing.

His genre - defining book, A Brief History of Time, has sold more than 10 million copies since its publication in 1988, and has been translated into more than 35 languages.

More than 400 participants evaluated poems of the genres Haiku and Sonnet.

It has always been a big part of my life, I find constant inspiration in music and am more than vocal about my disinterest in other musical genres (I can not handle rnb or anything dance or too pop oriented!).

As the music scene moves farther from genre center, and we find ourselves with more hyphenated Frankenstein tags for bands than we know what to do with, more and more bands are going to crop up on the outskirts, and Campfires in Winter is a solid place to make camp before trekking farther into the unknown.

RB and other genres addressed dating and love more than half of all songs.

I love to sing and play guitar, write music and poetry, and have been doing music of various genres more than half my life and love music.

Written by Dominic Wright, October 18, 2016, at 12:24 a.m. Tweet to: @Groovycap One genre stands out to me more than others, and that is hip - hop.

Clichés dominate visual novels, but there's so much more to this genre than just steamy romance or mundane slices of Japanese students» lives.

You don't need to know the ins and outs of American Football to enjoy it, it's infinitely more accessible than others in the genre and it manages to keep the whole «Urban - Extreme» aspect to a tolerable level.

Critics Consensus: The Transfiguration tells a quieter, more deliberately paced tale than genre fans might expect, but for those with the patience to let it sink in, it offers its own rewards.

Critic Consensus: The Transfiguration tells a quieter, more deliberately paced tale than genre fans might expect, but for those with the patience to let it sink in, it offers its own rewards.