Sentences with phrase «much grander story»

In the meantime, I hope you will join me in welcoming Don's words with the love and goodwill of fellow sojourners called into the much grander story of God's redeeming work in the world.

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I had a terrible cold, and the BBC was beginning to worry about all these stories saying how they were spending too much money, so we weren't staying in the Grand, we were in the Old Ship a few hundred yards down, which of course saved us.

Although it bears traces of the conventional family drama, in its story of two estranged sisters — one a chaotic boozehound at the sharp end of a tragedy, the other a buttoned - up scientist who can't communicate with her son — its focus is much grander.

Taken together, the Sloan results lay out one of the most astonishing stories in science: The visible universe is merely the foam atop a much grander cosmic sea.

That's what happens when so much of the story is told through close - ups and two - shots: you lose the sense that there is a bigger, grander tale unfolding.

It isn't that playfulness has no place even in the grandest of stories, but Rowling's world of pointy hats, nosebleed nougat, and Latin - language shouting had a hard time supporting the weight she tried to place in it — as a result, she resorted to writing much of Deathly Hallows with caps lock on.

Compared to PotC, CutThroat Island's visuals have a much grander scale; its story's plot has actual merit; and it's not all kept afloat by a flamboyant Johnny Depp in pirate garb.

Much of the story centers on the smothering and painfully pretentious art world the trio inhabit and skewers the artistic community's grand delusions of changing the world with impenetrable academic theory, which makes the show sound unbearably dry.

Hollywood has always been a famously middlebrow place, but the grand irony of «The Shape of Water» taking best picture is that it's a love story, and Hollywood is virtually defined by love stories, yet this one is decorated in so much magical - realist bric - a-brac that it gets you to do everything but swoon.

Other highlights in this section include: Pablo Larraín's THE CLUB, a mordant morality tale set in a sleepy Chilean coastal town, which won Berlin's Grand Jury Prize; CHRONIC, Michel Franco's uncompromising study of grief and isolation, featuring a revelatory performance by Tim Roth; brothers Tarzan and Arab Nasser's feature directorial debut, DÉGRADÉ, a smart drama that moves seamlessly between humour and despair, set in a women's hair salon in Gaza; the European Premiere of George Amponsah's intimate documentary THE HARD STOP, revealing the story of Mark Duggan's friends and family following his death after being shot in a «Hard Stop» police procedure in 2011; Jonas Carpignano's engrossing feature debut, THE MEASURE OF A MAN which won Vincent Lindon Best Actor at Cannes Film Festival, MEDITERRANEA, an ultra-topical tale of two young African men from Burkina Faso who, in search of a better life, make the difficult and dangerous trip across the Sahara desert and Mediterranean Sea to reach Italy; the drama MUCH LOVED, Nabil Ayouch's searing, no - holds - barred look at the world of prostitution in Morocco; David Evans» thought - provoking documentary MY NAZI LEGACY, which raises the harrowing question, «What if your father was a Nazi?»

But then Jackson isn't interested in a faithful interpretation of Tolkien's novel as much as backfilling a prequel story to The Lord of the Rings, transforming the novel's story of legacy and destiny warped into greed and hubris, a grand fantasy adventure with dragons and trolls and Shakespearean dimensions, into the initial stirrings of the evil Sauron and a war that will engulf the world and all the races.

There were a few gentle sci - fi films about memory at this year's Sundance, but Marjorie Prime is the most effective, not least because it's as much a small story about family and loss as it a grand discourse on human recollection.

The much - awaited Solo: A Star Wars Story had its grand premiere on Thursday and while the official reviews are yet to come in, many fans have started putting up their reactions about the film on Twitter.

It's a great story and you can have so much fun with these characters so it is a grand choice for a community or school drama group.

The story is very much the same in the Grand Cherokee as the V6 is able to move 4,545 pound vehicle with no problem at all.

If you prefer Fords, you'll find the story is much the same as with the RAM 1500: Thirty grand limits you to the entry - level XL trim with a single - row cab and rear - wheel drive.

-- Also on the story, they're super-hyping the ending, saying that it's much more grand meaningful in ME2.

He was annoyed that the first Mario Galaxy had a story of any kind, so hearing things like that I don't have much confidence in his ability to know what's best on a grander scale anymore.

Players looking for a grand story ripped from the pages of Borderlands will want to look elsewhere, as the missions themselves feel pretty much standalone, only held together slightly by the premise that a bad dude is trying to destroy the last star in the galaxy and characters across a number of different factions have united to stop him.

Grand Theft Auto V is as much a state of mind as a story or a set of gameplay systems.

Boat story time was my favorite part of the game along with just taking in the immersive visual backdrops, imo its more like an interconnected hub world where everything looks and feel much grander in scale then it really is and its done very well in that aspect GOW is essentially to different games at the same time, a great storytelling quiet time with rich lore on the one side and brutal precise hard hitting combat on the other, mixed up with perfect pacing and a couple of epic cliffhangers at the endd

Paired with a great soundtrack and visuals, Destiny 2's story is presented in a much grander fashion.

Rockstar still manages to deliver the story very effectively and while you definitely see and feel similarities to the storytelling of Grand Theft Auto 4 and Red Dead Redemption, this still feels very much like the next chapter of the Max Payne story.

I wouldn't call myself much of a Grand Theft Auto fan (I bought both Grand Theft Auto III and GTA: Liberty City Stories for the PS2 to see what the fuss was all about, but haven't progressed very far in either of them) but I had to admit that I'm interested in seeing more of this next installment.

The lack of a real story in Grand Knights History, beyond the basic one of «go destroy the other countries for the glory of ours», kept me from fully enjoying the game as much as I could have.

(Oh come on, don't act like you haven't spent way too much time at the strip club in Grand Theft Auto 5) I understand the need to set some limits to keep players honed in on the story, but if the opportunity arises, I want to be able to just wander through the amazing world of Westeros and see what kind of exciting side quests I can stumble upon.

The story missions offer much frustration, since they need to be cleared to unlock everything, and unlike the grand prix mode there's no way to «cheat» by pushing rivals out of the race.

Collecting and assembling all the puzzle pieces allows you to reach the game's grand finale, with its final set of puzzles and much discussed conclusion to the story.

Their newest work seems to be much grander in scope but still looking to tell a deep meaningful story.

Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, Matthew Kluber, curator, Jeff Fleming, (brochure), 2011 Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai, China, Animamix Biennial: Metaphors of Un / Real, curator, Victoria Lu, 2010 Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, John F. Simon, Jr. and Matthew Kluber: Hybrid Media (catalog), 2010 Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE, Borderland Abstraction, Curator, Hesse McGraw (brochure), 2010 Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI, Matthew Kluber: Half - Day Closing, 2010 FOCUS09 / Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Cool Stories for When the Planet Gets Hot II, curators, Corinne Erni, New York and Anne - Marie Melster, Spain; traveled to: Valencia Museum of Illustration and Modernity, Valencia, Spain: Pavilion City Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark, UN Climate Conference COP 15, 2009 Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI, So Much Water So Close To Home, (film installation / exterior projection), 2009

It is, after all, one of the grand stories of all time — and nothing else makes much sense unless you understand the evolutionary process.