Sentences with phrase «much a story about»

The film is as much a story about storytelling as it is anything.

As much a story about a young man and his friends trying to make their way in the world as a profoundly affecting exploration of the nature of truth and storytelling, The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards will appeal to readers of Tom Rachman's The Imperfectionists and Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad with its elegantly constructed exploration of the stories we tell to find out who we really are.

In my view, that distortion is at least as much a story about journalism as it is about social science.

Not exact matches

You won't hear much on the news about the growth of a dry cleaner's down the street or a boutique hiring associates to sell children's clothing, but these are great success stories, too.

It is much more powerful to incorporate mini metrics and statistics along with the story, versus telling the audience about your student's three - million - dollar business.

I realize that they're a necessary evil, but you need to be very careful that you're not saying things or doing things (even worse) to «prove» something to these people because (a) it's never enough to satisfy them in any case and they won't believe you anyway; and (b) it's a fool's errand to waste your time trying to impress people whose livelihood is much more about finding the warts and shortcomings in your story than in celebrating your successes.

They're much more interested in speaking with a founder than a PR firm, because they want to hear your story just as much as they want to hear about your actual startup.

I didn't much care for the 2015 Best Picture of the Year Spotlight; in my view, it was a Lifetime version of the kind of gripping story about journalism that All the President's Men actually was.

Small - business owners often spend too much time talking about the story behind their product and the difficulties they went through developing their business rather than homing in on their milestones and achievements.

Of course, you can learn much more about Airbnb's history, trials, tribulations and triumph in my new book, The Airbnb Story: How Three Ordinary Guys Disrupted an Industry, Made Billions... and Created Plenty of Controversy.

There was a depressing story in the The Globe and Mail the other day about how toy retailers aren't stocking as much product this year because of the economic slowdown.

Media stories about how robots are taking jobs are plentiful, but little actual research has been done to measure how much it's happening or what the real effects are.

The original story focused on how these editorial contractors believed they were simply training Facebook's news - filtering algorithms, and didn't feel that the social network cared about journalism much, except as raw material for its engagement engines.

«It isn't so much about telling your story as it is about trying to find a way to address their needs.

Host Amanda Boleyn went through a similar journey when she quit a corporate job five years ago, and now, she's devoted much of her time to telling stories that will inspire others to stop thinking about their dreams and start chasing them.

I've got a story in the new issue of Canadian Business magazine about the rise of cloud gaming — or online services that act much like Netflix do in that they sell streaming access to the same sorts of video games you'd find on your Xbox or Playstation.

The genius of first - time screenwriter Liz Hannah's script is that she makes the story about Graham's evolution as much as it is about the Pentagon Papers.

Because they know so much about the company, they want to tell the whole story.

How do you go about creating characters and stories that people relate to and feel so much a part of?

Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

Lyne: I didn't think about the prosecution of Patty Hearst as much as I did about the fact that there were a whole lot of people who were talking about the story.

When you're watching «The Incredibles,» it always feels like there's so much more to discover about the story and the history of the characters, which isn't always the case in Pixar movies.

«Our customers are shopping not so much because of a desire to buy something as they are engaged in learning about what's new, meeting interesting people and hearing their stories,» he says.

According to the game's debut trailer, there appears to be a hidden story behind the basics of the game — we expect to learn much more about that when the game arrives later this year, the debut from a Paris studio named Sloclap.

This is again an interesting story in that so much has been touted about the healthcare law and Medicaid expansion providing stability for hospitals and health systems, and it seems as though this may not be the case this far.

I liked her stories about her mother and her family, as she clearly appreciated them very much, but the folksy gimmick of having a business lesson followed by a memory started to grate after the tenth lesson or so.

The most thoroughly reported story (though even this did not go much beyond the CanWest chain) was the revelation that Canada was about to «harmonize» its regulations, setting limits for pesticide residue on fruits and vegetables.

We caught up with Carroll after his on panel and asked about his lawsuit, what the Cambridge Analytica story means for marketers and whether advertisers are putting too much faith in the data they gather.

There were two stories this past week about Fidelity Investments that seem to be very much related and could signal how things may play out in the asset management industry going forward.

> To Architect Chick — First, thank you SO much for sharing your story because this is a perfect example of what we've been talking about in the comments on this post so far.

The fallout from the story concerning Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, the misuse of personal data and how much Facebook knew about all this, has quickly made its way into the halls of government — and with it Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg is getting a lot of invitations in his inbox.

COOPER: There are people who argue that this much ado about nothing, that if this was not a story about an adult - film actress and the president of the United States, no one would pay attention.

As the editor of MIT Technology Review, I spend much of my time thinking about the types of stories and journalism that will be most valuable to our readers.

As a matter of fact, the story behind your startup idea is much more fascinating than anything about the numbers.

Technical indicators are great, but they don't tell the whole story — Again, know the history, financials, and as much information as you can about your stocks.

Every week seems to bring a new story about how much money is flowing into mutual funds.

Subsequently, Mr. Van Doorn resurfaced and is working to make financial amends but the media has yet to say much about this side of the story.

But expense ratios alone don't tell you the full story about how much an ETF really costs.

Without one, you'll find that either you spend the whole day answering questions about the story so that a journalist has enough details to write something interesting, or it just won't get picked up because it's too much like hard work for an already busy reporter.

Of course, Guy gas written about his personal story, but it resonated so much with me that I have kept this book in my must - read book advisory list for any budding value investor.

«There are people who argue that this is much ado about nothing,» Anderson Cooper said on 60 Minutes, «that if this was not a story about an adult - film actress and the president of the United States, no one would pay attention.»

Quantitative tells organizations plenty about what and who whereas qualitative efforts in buyer behavior research can reveal much about why and how - important to understanding the story behind buying decisions.

We laughed about the story and most of my female students were more than willing to get on the mat with this guy and see how much «respect and dignity» they could choke out of him!

Thats pretty much what the story is about.

Our consciousness effectively is a story our brains tell our brains about being aware that they hold information, and that's much more difficult to do with this split model.

Unproven stories about mystical deities such as the Christian god are not a valid foundation for morals, especially when so much of Christian doctrine is so bigoted and violent.

Although much of the Old Testament does have historically verifiable occurances, the lead characters are heads of state or high priests or the stories are about the nation as a whole.

I'll admit that stories about men tend to get forwarded through history as much as society needs them if you'll admit that there ceased to be God stories after 33AD.

So many people who advocate or speak publicly for political or personal reasons aren't acknowledged as much when it comes to religion when someone is wanting to speak out about there faith a light bulb goes off and says we don't want to hear, or talk, or, air any thing that has to do with the mentioning of God but because of the high profile story and because this is the President of the United States it's ok hats off to them for not being ashamed to speak about there faith I agree with Richard some people just because they profess there faith doesn't mean there trying to push there beliefs on anyone people of faith have a right to free speech also.

Whenever a discussion of alcohol comes up among members of my congregation, and someone mentions the story about Jesus turning water into wine for his first public miracle, one point is inevitably made: that the wine back then was watered down so much it had little or no alcoholic content, making it barely more than grape juice.