Sentences with phrase «most unlikely story»

That is the most unlikely story I've ever heard.

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D. E. Nineham points out that «most commentators accept at any rate the basic facts of the story, arguing that Christians would have been unlikely to invent a tradition in which Jesus receives hurried burial from a pious Jew, and his own followers have no part in the proceedings ’15 and then goes on to add that «scholarly opinion has perhaps been a little inclined to overlook the possible influence of the Old Testament on the story».16

The Portland Trail Blazers have been the most unlikely success story coming out of the Western Conference.

It sounds like one of the most unlikely transfer stories of the summer, but according to reports from the Daily Star, Real Madrid are interested in bringing Manchester United and England forward Danny Welbeck to the Bernabeu this summer.

Wright has been the team's most unlikely success story.

And when the 2015 French Open finals take place at Roland Garros at the end of next week, and the stories of past champions are told, Raymonde Veber, perhaps the most truly heroic champion of them all, is unlikely to be mentioned.

Any Football Manager (or Championship Manager depending on your age) fan will have at least one story of a marquee signing they made for the most unlikely of teams.

Plus The Hangover is the year's most unlikely success story: It starred no one whom we could name, wasn't an already familiar franchise, and was shot for the same price as Michael Bay's robot - testicle animation budget for Transformers 2.

BLEED FOR THIS is the incredible true story of one of the most inspiring and unlikely comebacks in sports history.

OUR TAKE: Director Bennett Miller (Capote, Moneyball) is known for turning the most unlikely of stories into compelling character drama films.

Will Smith and Joel Edgerton star in David Ayer's fantasy epic, which follows the story of two LAPD police officers — a human named Officer Ward (Smith)-- and an orc named Officer Jakoby (Edgerton)-- who form a most unlikely duo working to keep the mean streets of Los Angeles safe from a sinister underworld filled with violence and dark forces at work.

A bold new action - thriller from director David Ayer (known for such box office hits as Suicide Squad, End of Watch and Training Day), Bright follows the story of two LAPD police officers played by Smith, a human named Officer Ward, and Edgerton, an orc named Officer Jakoby, who form a most unlikely duo working to keep the mean streets of Los Angeles safe from a sinister, fantasy underworld filled with violence and dark forces at work.

Bright follows the story of two LAPD police officers played by Will Smith (Officer Ward) and Joel Edgerton (Officer Jakoby) who form a most unlikely duo working to keep the mean streets of Los Angeles safe from a sinister underworld filled with gang violence and dark forces at work.

With spectacular cinematography, an awesome soundtrack and a superb performance by James Franco, Danny Boyle gives us an inspiring, life - affirming movie from the most unlikely of stories.

A story of four powerful women (two best friends from the 1920s and two unlikely friends from the»80s), this is one of the most badass feminist films of all time.

A lean story with some unlikely poignancy, with director Daniel Barber squeezing the most suspense out of it possible.

While it may not be to all tastes, as the constant envelope - pushing will most likely offend as many as it attracts, credit Ozon for being able to keep all of these off - the - wall elements consistent to his overall story, and deliver some good laughs and an unlikely pleasant time with it.

the 1939 screwball Cinderella story «Midnight» stars Claudette Colbert as a street smart showgirl who pulls into Paris without a penny to her name and lands in the lap of luxury, thanks to a most unlikely fairy godfather (John Barrymore).

Although James Tooley reveals a lively private education sector in the most unlikely of places (see also Tooley's story «Underground Education,» p. 22, this issue), school choice is as uneven and limited in other parts of the world as it is in the United States.

In Hooray Henry, Paul Darke charts the car's difficult gestation and eventual success / David Burgess-Wise shares his personal highlights from the annual London to Brighton Veteran Car Run and the Regent Street Motor Show / In The Little Corsican, Tom Clarke tells the story of Corsica, the enigmatic coachbuilder which produced some of the most exotic British bodywork of the 1930s, clothing chassis from Bentley, Bugatti, Mercedes and others / A disused locomotive works with no road access seems an unlikely location for a car factory but, as Giles Chapman explains in The Brighton Bubble, that's where thousands of Isettas were assembled in the 1950s and»60s / Matthew Bell visits the Frazer Nash Archives, the largest collection of documentation relating to the marque in his article Archie and Aldy's Archives / In Birds of a Feather, the little - known makes Victor, Metro - Tyler and Economic all operated from the same village in Kent during the cyclecar boom.

However, as I well know, sometimes our story doesn't fit the most common cover tropes, so we're unlikely to find one that would work from among a dozen or so pre-made covers made by any particular cover artist.

«Sometimes, the most unlikely and unexpected juxtapositions of frame and focus create the most effective stories.»

The Hungry Tide is a very contemporary story of adventure and unlikely love, identity and history, set in one of the most fascinating regions on the earth.

Virgil Flowers is a most unlikely and immensely likable detective, the novels are readable just for the pleasure of Virgil's company, but John Sandford also imbues the stories with humor, satire and sympathy.

It's a story of unlikely best friends who learn to appreciate each other's unique strengths, but there's something about the colors, textures and, most of all, hilarious expressions that reminds me of all the best parts of spring.

Swimmer Boy is a story about friendship and the kind of love that is found in the most unlikely places...

Boy Meets Boy In A Charming Story That Shows How Love Transcends A Person's Outward Appearance And Blooms Between A Most Unlikely Couple

Assemble a team of unlikely adventurers — each with their own unique personalities and stories — and descend into the heart of a sprawling, sentient cave in order to find that which is most important to each of them.

Is that idea that everybody is hunting for this, and most people know they're unlikely to find it, but I'm going to look anyway and leave my story behind when I go.

The End of Nature (1989) The Age of Missing Information (1992) Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth (1995) Maybe One: A Personal and Environmental Argument for Single Child Families (1998) Hundred Dollar Holiday: The Case for a More Joyous Christmas (1998) Long Distance: Testing the Limits of Body and Spirit in a Year of Living Strenuously (2001) Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age (2003) Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape (2005) The Comforting Whirlwind: God, Job, and the Scale of Creation (2005) Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future (2007) Fight Global Warming Now: The Handbook for Taking Action in Your Community (2007) The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active Life (2008) American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau (edited)(2008) Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet (2010) The Global Warming Reader: A Century of Writing About Climate Change (2011) Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist (2013)

The reasons will most likely have to be left to speculation, as further illumination seems doubtful — even if Russia's ex-secret servicemen are proven to have played a hand in the hacks, given the nation's track record on such matters, the international community is unlikely to ever learn the whole story.

While being a criminal lawyer is unlikely to make you the most affluent guest at a dinner party, it does often mean that you'll have the most interesting work stories to tell.