The most popular first - person shooter, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, also relies heavily on money and equipment gathering while decontextualizing
the narrative details of gameplay, which are merely ornamental.
But the film was wonderful, lacking some of the specific
narrative details of the book but so rich with what was really important: the feeling, the atmosphere, the intangibility.
This is
the narrative detail of the gospel story — the who, what, where, and when.
Inverting the normal order of image - making and framing, Brown treats the frames as readymades, creating drawings in response to the particular color, size, design, and
narrative detail of each.
Not exact matches
This wide - ranging work not only evaluates the overarching political and economic framework
of the medical system but also provides rich
narrative detail, examining the political dramas, corporate maneuverings, and forceful personalities that created American health care as we know it.
All
of these stories depend on the
narrative Musk feeds — that he's not into
details, doesn't care if Tesla keeps its short - term promises, and that long - term screw - ups on which short sellers are counting are just a series
of short - term messes the boss is already too proud to clean up.
I have no further
narrative or
details of what else they did to him before he died.
This is especially visible in
details of the passion
narrative, such as the
detail of Jesus's mocking and the wording
of the titulus, but is also evident elsewhere.
Although those versions differ in some
details (scribal, translational and / or interpretational,) they are all concrete on the General
Narrative of God.
Colina — What David said is true — you keep trying to control the
narrative by pulling the conversation back to it being about a «divorce», when nobody really talked about that at all until you initially brought it up, then David addressed it (everyone else ignored it because obviously they weren't interested in the «sordid
details»), and you again directed the conversation (attempted to direct it) right BACK to an over simplification
of it being about the divorce between two people!
Only at the end
of the fourth century do we see anything like a face
of Christ presented alone, without background
details or other figures in a
narrative composition.
Mark's
narrative is again more full and
detailed than those
of Matthew and Luke, with many vivid touches.
Did he remember something that a survivor
of guadalcanal personally experiences and never told anyone and the boy happened to
detail this from his first person
narrative?
The dramatic raising
of Lazarus provided rich
details for the
narrative artist - «Lazarus, come out!»
To try to interpret the meaning
of this
narrative in
detail would require a long chapter to itself.
Yet when that is said and done the
narratives need to be studied not only in the closest
detail but also in relation to the whole problem
of Christ's person and work.
They are no more historical than the set and scenery
of a play are part
of the
narrative of the drama, or than the order in which an artist fills in the pigment and
detail of a painting is part
of the significance
of the painting.
In later chansons de geste, however» such as Les Quatre Filz Aymon, Enfances Roland, and Entrée en Espagne» the
details of Roland's earlier life were filled in, with a variety
of fanciful elements becoming ever more prominent features
of the
narrative, and it was not long before the real Roland (such as he was) had all but disappeared behind the more resplendent figure
of the hero
of legend.
In relation to
narratives, one could say that each character and event is a
detail that can reveal some important aspect
of reality and touch deep feelings in the hearer or reader.
Commercials, MTV (whose music and fast - paced visual rhythms almost hypnotically envelop us), soap operas and situation comedies give us
detailed, visual
narratives of the ups and downs
of the American Dream.
The Adnan Syed Legal Trust has raised $ 93,000 from supporters and is sponsoring the new podcast Undisclosed: the State v. Adnan Syed, which promises to «examine and explore the case in greater
detail, from an investigatory perspective instead
of a
narrative one.»
These bald summaries, in which we recognize already the outlines
of the
narratives in the Gospels, could no doubt be filled in with
detail according to the speaker's ability and the demands
of the occasion; but it was essential to the Proclamation that the plain facts
of the case should be communicated, because it was these that constituted the fulfillment
of God's purpose in history.
It is therefore remarkable that, while they vary in
detail as honest witnesses will vary in reporting matters which have touched them deeply, they follow the same thread
of narrative.
And so I in my turn, your Excellency, as one who has gone over the whole course
of these events in
detail, have decided to write a connected
narrative for you, so as to give you authentic knowledge about the matters
of which you have been informed.1
A comparatively small number
of these units
of narrative can properly be described as «tales» about things that Jesus did, in which our authors spread themselves in picturesque or dramatic
detail.
There are plenty
of new names — like Gwendoline Christie's Captain Phasma and Lupita Nyong» o's Maz Kanata — who don't get fleshed out as much, but half the fun
of Star Wars has always been the deeply
detailed narratives such side characters acquire over time.
This attention to
detail, meant to convey the everyday realities
of the schools, sometimes gives a soap - operaish feel to the
narrative.
The most
detailed Easter
narrative in Luke is that
of the two disciples on the road to Emmaus, and all the more interesting because it is referred to nowhere else.
As always it is the genius
of this
narrative that it leaves the reader quite on his own in the assessment
of motives and the interpretation
of details.
Tiny
details that strike Wilson's fancy, like the «cooked fish»
of John's feeding
narrative, are used to reconstruct not Jesus» teaching, for there is nothing to be said about that, but his public ministry.
Technical
details pursued through books could not be similarly pursued in an oral presentation, but the minister may be surprised at the mental ability
of his people to chase an idea through paradoxes, dilemmas, myths, history, and dramatic
narratives if the movement
of the chase corresponds to the way they think through the issues
of daily life.
Tolstoy, for instance, is an epic writer, whose books overflow with physical
details and frequently threaten to overflow their own
narrative structures and become as vast and as inconclusive as life itself, while Dostoevsky is a dramatic writer, whose books are full
of fraught and urgent voices, at times almost disembodied, trapped in situations
of immediate and pressing crisis, and surrounded by a physical world usually having no more substance than a collection
of painted canvasses or pasteboard silhouettes at the back
of the stage.
In the traditional manner
of mythic - heroic
narrative, this setting is a lively, well -
detailed physical place that nonetheless reverberates repeatedly to the moral and psychological dimensions
of the hero's development.
In The Art
of Biblical
Narrative, Robert Alter suggests a key to characters» inner thoughts and motivations which would be helpful even to the inexperienced reader
of Scripture: first, external
details (appearance, clothing, gestures); second, «one character's comments on another»; third, «direct speech by the character»; fourth, «inward speech... quoted as interior monologue»; and fifth, «statements by the narrator about the attitudes and intentions
of the personages» (pp.116 - 117).
Yet, against this larger
narrative, Short portrays in poignant
detail the human cost
of these Victorian religious struggles to individuals.
Certainly, if the idea
of Jesus» risen life started with any factual element associated with an empty tomb, that element was never clearly visualized, even in the imagination
of the first disciples, and is now confused for us in
narratives that contradict each other on every important
detail.
And I assure you that my knowledge
of biblical controversies is miniscule, but the one were discussing I have spent some time looking into, it's very intriguing to me that these things exist alongside each other... as I said earlier, John's gospel is a good example
of historical
detail (with respect to the synoptics) seemingly playing second fiddle to a developing
narrative (the Johanine tradition).
When we turn from this to the late addition to Mark's Gospel and to the
narratives of the later Gospels, Matthew, Luke, and John, we find a florescent growth
of story, full
of irreconcilable
details.
The Eclipse
of Biblical
Narrative offered a richly detailed survey of the ways 18th - and 19th - century theologians overlooked the narrative character of scripture, but fundamentally, Frei argued, there were two main strategies by which modernist (and modernist - influenced) theologians reconstrued scriptural
Narrative offered a richly
detailed survey
of the ways 18th - and 19th - century theologians overlooked the
narrative character of scripture, but fundamentally, Frei argued, there were two main strategies by which modernist (and modernist - influenced) theologians reconstrued scriptural
narrative character
of scripture, but fundamentally, Frei argued, there were two main strategies by which modernist (and modernist - influenced) theologians reconstrued scriptural meaning.
the context
of the whole
narrative suggests to me that Jesus is saying in effect...» get a sword, becuz without one, what is about to happen will not be fulfilled»... these
details seem to be important to the gospel writers... as well.compare Matthew's version
of the story where the response suggests more non-violence...»» Put your sword back into its place; for all who take the sword will perish by the sword.
We find it difficult to accept at face value all the
details of the
narratives about Samuel.
A long
narrative poem appears here describing in some
detail the ascetic practices
of the Master Mahavira himself.
To understand the focus
of the
narrative here we need to consider verse 11 with the preceding verse, which
details Moses» name.
The complete
narrative of Israel's experience offers a number
of explanations for the long delay in the occupation
of Canaan; but, for all the variation in
detail, there is the emphatic understanding that Israel was, in leaving Egypt, totally unprepared for the difficult and highly hazardous task
of entrance and occupation
of a new homeland.
That the gospel has preserved
details of great historical worth in its
narrative is certain, and although its framework supplements rather than replaces that
of Mark, it makes plain much
of what is obscure in Mark and the other gospels.
The issue
of inheritance in general also carries theological overtones which Steinberg does not discuss, but her focus allows for a clear reading
of the
narrative that puts many confusing
details in their place.
In keeping with the movie theme, Miller quotes at length from Robert McKee, the Hollywood screenwriting guru whose book Story (1997) is at once a
detailed guide to the principles
of narrative and a primer on the principles...
«While the brute fact that
of Jesus» death by crucifixion is historically certain, however, those
detailed narratives in our present gospels are much more problematic.»
It consists in the fact that what we have here is not consecutive
narrative, but simply individual stories — and these are told in the manner
of the people — pious people, who marvel at God's doings rather than ponder over questions
of purely human
detail (§ 3).
It is arrived at by inventing far - fetched rationalistic explanations
of the most obviously legendary
details in the biblical
narratives.