Sentences with phrase «narrative driven by»

His practice in a sense can be viewed as an ongoing narrative driven by material curiosity and anchored by a constellation of people and moments from his life.

A Hard Day — Somewhere the dominant strain of the crime movie genre morphed from Woovian tales of moral codes in unjust societies (ala A Better Tomorrow) to Rube Goldberg narratives driven by slapstick escalations of violence.

Not exact matches

By taking blood draws before and after the narrative, we found that character - driven stories do consistently cause oxytocin synthesis.

«The beneficiaries of Open Skies driven by the likes of us has been the US economy and that's kindly marginalized in the US3's narrative,» Clark told us.

We know it's a narrative - driven game created by acclaimed indie developer Lucas Pope, the same man behind «Papers, Please» (among other games).

A Moody's analyst said the finding by Moody's questions the political and industry narrative that Medicaid expansion lowers bad debt and drives financial improvements for hospitals.

«You're [sic] obsessive drive to prove a false narrative, one that has been rebuked by all parties, must come to an end,» Cohen wrote.

More analysis (below) that shows conservative narratives were driving pack journalism in Canadian media to attack Trudeau with false premises... again I'm no Trudeau fan, but the Canadian MSM reporting and editorials are largely being driven by conservative partisans.

But Canadians are being misled on this one by «pack journalism narratives» driven by conservative BS.

If you only want to hear your preferred narrative then by all means don't read anything that isn't blessed by your pastor who drives that $ 70k caddy parked in his reserved spot in front of the church.

But Ross Douthat, equally brilliant and reasonable, had already proven himself unable to resist the siren song of the narrative being pushed by agenda - driven journalists, activists, and politicians.

Madden's narrative is driven by conquests and construction.

Whether it be Wieman's general appropriation of James's «knowledge by acquaintance» in Religious Experience and Scientific Method, Meland's «appreciative awareness,» or Loomer's more narrative forms of gathering evidence, each purports merely to describe, but then evinces that the description is driven by rather specific personal and / or contextual definitions of what counts as religious experience.

I believe this is absolute nonsense and driven more by personal emotional narratives rather than analysis.

If Dems can turn the national narrative around even by a small amount, margins will be close enough that their data - driven campaigning can swing some tight races.

By embracing a rather partial interpretation of the country's problems, this narrative strongly stresses Italy's virtuous conduct as an accountable member - State and a force able to drive change.

Democrats supporting Mayer see the race as the next chapter in a narrative in which liberals mobilize an unprecedented amount of energy and involvement driven by a desire to combat President Donald Trump's agenda.

Thus far, UKIP and Tories have been blamed for driving Britain into international isolation, but by using negative stereotypes and punitive language to describe the EU and Europeans, Labour and the Liberal Democrats are helping the Europhobes to validate the narrative that will eventually drive Britain out of Europe.

Driven by personal narratives of patients, researchers and allied health workers in the field and exploring the multidisciplinary science that is transforming wellness across the world, LIVES informs a huge swath of health stakeholders.

Marxism and neo-liberalism were both driven by an «end - of - history» narrative.

Earnestly presented and well acted, particularly by newcomer Nicole Beharie in the central role, the film shares with many other such agenda - driven dramas a complete lack of narrative surprise, merely connecting the dots.

Story missions are separated by location, with the narrative being driven via journal pages that act as the story progression between levels.

Sequences occur in contained rooms, recalling the claustrophobic, object - driven narrative environment established by the physicality of the stage.

With «Frances Ha,» Noah Baumbach's directing career entered a new stage emboldened by his work with co-writer and partner Greta Gerwig, though the scrappy nature of that narrative and Gerwig's vibrant performance led to the impression that it was more her voice than his driving the proceedings.

Each film owes a great deal to its source material: the action is largely confined to a single setting over the course of a few hours, and the narrative is driven almost entirely by dialogue.

By moderating the driving force within the core narrative and littering the film with sexual metaphors in its place, leaves the film with very little in the way of plot development and it has simply nowhere to go.

Most of the stuff I find myself creeped out by no matter how many times I see it (e.g., Cure, the Winkie's scene in Mulholland Drive) is just on the border of the irrational, but slasher movies — in which the narrative is almost always a process of elimination — are really easy to rationalize, which is probably why there's so much academic literature about them.

Gainsborough portrayed Joe in the elder stages of her life and by that point in the narrative, the character had been hollowed out by her sexually driven lifestyle.

Ford's cinematic influences are overtly placed — everything from the iconography and satire of DR. STRANGELOVE (as shown in the war room scene), to the narrative drive of STRAW DOGS (as shown in the grippingly tense scenes with fictional Tony's harassers, led by a perfectly - cast Aaron Taylor - Johnson), to the tangible feel of David Lynch's oeuvre, to the cunning bite of Michael Haneke's FUNNY GAMES.

It isn't that Best Picture hasn't always been mostly dominated by male narratives — it's that the strong female - driven movies started to fail to catch fire at the box - office around the mid-90s and once that happened, there has never been much of an economic incentive to get those films made.

It's hard to say whether such viewers will be appeased or even further dismayed by Reichardt's subtly muscular and altogether staggering follow - up, «Meek's Cutoff,» which sees the director taking on a propulsively linear narrative — an ox - wagon road movie driven by the most fundamental of human needs — that nonetheless still finds its greatest dramatic significance in minute human exchanges.

The narrative drive is supplied by a dog named Max (voiced by Louis C.K.).

«One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest» was set in confinement, too, and like that story, the narrative drive of «The Shawshank Redemption» - based on a story by the prolific Stephen King - is a journey of freedom, physical and psychological.

And like the old «Secret Life of Walter Mitty,» starring Danny Kaye (I haven't seen the remake yet), it offers a narrative that's at least one - fourth occupied by fantasy segments — yet there isn't enough variety in those segments or enough revelation of character beyond the «I wan na be famous» impulse that drives Pupkin to make them interesting.

But what it might lack in narrative drive, it more than makes up for in a beguiling, melancholy mood not quite like anything they've made, abetted by photography that's among the directors» most beautiful, despite the absence of usual collaborator Roger Deakins.

It will be yet another year where most of the films in the Best Picture race are driven by the male narrative — give or take a Gravity.

Designed based on the challenges facing those affected by psychosis and created with the help of medical professionals, Debris explores the interplay between perception and reality in an unconventional, narrative - driven co-op format.

Bradford Young, «Arrival» (nominated for Best Cinematography) «[Cinematographers are] there to serve the narrative, and the narrative is always driven by the actors.

The narrative is partly driven by the culture shock produced by Everett's incongruous arrival in the rural Irish outback, a bit like those recent scenes of President Obama quaffing Guinness in the Emerald Isle except transplanted to the set of Father Ted, and partly by the impudent, ambiguous, seemingly indolent figure of Boyle.

by Bill Chambers The Lucio Fulci apologists like to say that gore and general impropriety are the raisons d'être of his work, not storytelling, but there's a built - in fallacy to that implicitly macho challenge: It presumes that his films are light on narrative when in fact it's narrative drive that they lack.

The philosophical vignettes might not have the narrative weight to be anything other than beguiling curios tossed out and then forgotten about but there are enough of them, delivered sharply enough by delightful movie stars at the top of their game, to make Age of Ultron one of the most thoughtfully driven monster vehicles you are likely to see in a summer rammed with powerful, glossy, mechanised beasts.

Stories within stories, with rich supporting characters (including a fantastic portrayal of a photojournalist / Grecian chorus by Reuben Blades) driving the narrative, Wang's film embodies the complexity of the political and social situations of a country in transition..

It is character - driven rather than being driven by narrative.

So, with the teen - driven narratives of «An Education» and «Precious» heading for theaters soon, and with the youth romance of «Bright Star» currently pleasing older arthouse audiences, it seemed an apt moment to celebrate the new guard by ranking the finest talent that the born - after - 1980 generation has to offer.

Describing «Drive» in those words doesn't begin to do justice to the narrative rhythms and visual style that director Nicolas Winding Rehn applies to the screenplay by Hossein Amini, who adopted a novel by James Salli.

Narrative drive is hardly her strong point - what she achieves in this episodic study of a dirt - poor Glaswegian upbringing is tenderness, lyricism and unpatronising humour, which successfully lifts a story inspired by tragedy into something universally appealing.

He's not just any getaway driver, he drives too a killer soundtrack that features BellBottoms, Let's Go Away For Awhile by The Beach Boys, Easy by The Commodores, Brighton Rock by Queen and 26 other songs built into the film's narrative.

Though it's flecked with deadpan humor, the sketchy psychologization of the deterioriating Marina and her family is overshadowed by the film's ruthless narrative drive and violence.

Efficiency Examining the idea of efficiency in a school setting, Stephen Morales, chief executive of NASBM wrote in a recent article: «The notion that a drive for greater efficiency is an attack on precious education resources is a result of a narrative perpetuated by a perception that efficiency translates directly into cost cutting, reduced resources and capacity, and ultimately a drop in a school's ability to improve children's life chances.

eLearning be scripted and driven by a great narrative and characters the learners can relate to.