Sentences with phrase «notes than story»

In fact, in lesser director's and editor's hands it's easy to imagine them left on the cutting room floor altogether as they're more visual grace notes than story beats.

Not exact matches

As the Times story notes, the company now attracts more monthly visitors than Google and is more valuable than tech and media heavyweights like Time Warner, eBay, and Yahoo.
William Blair analysts led by Ralph Schackart noted that «this quarter was a different story» than Yelp's last earnings report, when the company's guidance disappointed Wall Street's expectations and its stock fell 15 % over the following days.
Editor's note: A previous version of this story incorrectly stated that the average tenure of a corporate chief marketing officer is less than two years, according to executive search firm Spencer Stuart.
The silver story carries a precautionary note: silver is far more volatile than gold.
«The marketplace for new ideas has been corrupted by software patents used as destructive weapons,» the story's authors wrote, noting that last year, for the first time, Apple and Google spent more on patent litigation and intellectual property than on research and development, a striking fact that sharply illustrates how incentives have become skewed in the tech industry.
Analyses of media coverage have noted that business sources were overwhelmingly cited in stories rather than labour sources, negative impacts on employers were over-reported relative to positive impacts for workers and research findings were misreported to create the impression of damage to the economy.
Students are still forbidden from booze, and dancing, [Editor's Note: We're being told that students can dance now, so this story is even wilder than we thought] tobacco and comedy clubs remain off - limits...
Possibly, therefore, he moved the story of the lepers, including the geographical note, to a later place than it had occupied in his source, though why he should do this is not apparent.
The Church's «faith story» is more than just a graced subjectivity: it is the response by the redeemed Brideof Christ, of which we are all members by Baptism (note, by Baptism, not by some a-sacramental graced subjectivity), to the Lord who lived, died and rose again in history and whom she awaits to complete all things in His Second Coming.
Note that the OT is so much more than this to a Christian's life as it truly explains our story (humanity) and provides all the knowledge for us to understand ourselves, understand the nature of our God and what he wants from us (love, faith and obedience essentially).
«By the time of the writing of the gospels,» notes C. F. Evans, «it had disappeared, leaving behind no more than an echo, and that not in narrative but in credal form («The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon»), which Luke has some difficulty in attaching as an awkward pendant to his Emmaus story
These marks and concerns painfully complicate the story of man and woman, as Rousseau (more astute than his high - minded «student,» Kant) notes, addressing precisely this same transformation of human love in his Second Discourse:
(Though it should be noted that at times the story is funny and satirical, with hapless characters who seem more suited for a Shakespearean comedy than the Bible.
note: I'm less sanguine than Aiden about the prospect of voting - by - phone in the near term (though I'll note a Larry Niven story from the late»60s in which he describes half of a future Earth population «bothering» to phone in their votes).
The Times Union's story noted Percoco offered to provide draft statements to the commissioners he contacted, including several district attorneys, and in some cases encouraged them to communicate with him through personal email accounts rather than using their government email.
While the presumption is that most of the stories are disliked rather than false, note that some of the stories have been false.
As The New York Times noted in a news story, «the Obama administration is taking a more socially conservative stance on Plan B, one closer to that of the Bush administration than to many of its own liberal supporters.»
Editor's note: This story was updated March 7, 2018, to clarify that researchers predict that goatfish will catch more prey in a group hunt than alone, but the idea has not been shown yet.
The story of the disorder, she noted, is also the story of how the honeybee genome went from basic research to an applied science in less than a decade.
And things have gotten worse in recent years, many stories added, noting the 2014 employment number was lower than the 69 % reported for the class of 2009.
My research indicates that the Siberian peat moss, Arctic tundra, and methal hydrates (frozen methane at the bottom of the ocean) all have an excellent chance of melting and releasing their stored co2.Recent methane concentration figures also hit the news last week, and methane has increased after a long time being steady.The forests of north america are drying out and are very susceptible to massive insect infestations and wildfires, and the massive die offs - 25 % of total forests, have begun.And, the most recent stories on the Amazon forecast that with the change in rainfall patterns one third of the Amazon will dry and turn to grassland, thereby creating a domino cascade effect for the rest of the Amazon.With co2 levels risng faster now that the oceans have reached carrying capacity, the oceans having become also more acidic, and the looming threat of a North Atlanic current shutdown (note the recent terrible news on salinity upwelling levels off Greenland,) and the change in cold water upwellings, leading to far less biomass for the fish to feed upon, all lead to the conclusion we may not have to worry about NASA completing its inventory of near earth objects greater than 140 meters across by 2026 (Recent Benjamin Dean astronomy lecture here in San Francisco).
By Phil Bowhay Flashback Phil's note: Now and then... more now than then... I get stories and mail that should be shared.
The acclaimed poet and critic David Lehman discusses the man, his music and his larger - than - life story with psychologist Gail Saltz, and shares insights from his new book, Sinatra's Century: One Hundred Notes on the Man and His World.
The film feels a little less amateur than «Pusher», - a cheap debut feature for some underexperienced Dane trying to make abstract art - and it's that which brings the final product closer to decency, because many of the missteps that ruined «Pusher» feel more considerable in this superior, but still misguided effort, which has a good bit to commend, but even more to complain about as questionable «story «telling notes that ultimately send the final product crashing into mediocrity.
If the last newspaper thriller of note, the Academy Award - winning Spotlight, better than it had any rights to be, focused on the mechanics of reporting and breaking a story, The Post, though it features similar elements, has somewhat different aims.
The story itself isn't much different than similar stories you may have read in recent years about female teachers who have affairs with their teenage male students, but Notes on a Scandal really isn't about the inappropriateness of the affair so much as the nature of lust, trust, and the bedfellows that are brought together through the sharing of a secret that can shatter a life completely should it ever be revealed.
A lot of moviegoers still believe that low quality CGI toon projects should get a pass because they're just «kid movies» but films like Wreck - It - Ralph remind us that superior animated pictures are more than just cheep gags and one - note cliches — considering the film puts a new spin on tried - and - true stories about friendship and heroism.
Home Video Notes: Disney's Pinocchio: Signature Edition Release Date: 31 January 2017 Disney's Pinocchio releases in a Signature Edition (Blu - ray / DVD / Digital Copy) with the following special features: - Walt's Story Meetings: Pleasure Island — The Pleasure Island scene in «Pinocchio» had much more development than what is seen in the film.
I heard that there is a sense that Luhrmann simply used spark - notes, rather than throwing himself into the text and coming up with a faithful take on the story.
In the end, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World doesn't quite hit all the right notes — I'm not sure exactly what the moral of the story is (other than don't be a dick) but it is a nice exaggerated exploration of the baggage people bring into new relationships and male insecurity in the face of female sexuality (something we haven't really seen explored much since Chasing Amy.)
On that note, the gameplay does feel a little dated, however the overall ambience, characterisation and story more than make up for these shortfalls.
It's also worth noting that the film is based on a true story from 1984, when these advocacy issues were unfortunately even more taboo than they are today.
The leads are obviously older than the 17 - year - olds in the story, a nod, perhaps, to the planned sequels, but they have a bouncy sort of verve and a capacity for the emotional depth necessary to make their story work, particularly Garfield, with sleepy eyes and an unruly field of dark hair, finding the exact note of wide - eyed terror and joy to Peter's discovery of his new skill set, as well as to the inner turmoil of re-aligning his moral compass.
Right now as we fight against hate and oppression, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story feels more relevant than ever, a fact noted by this touching CBR article.
Many noted that the story would have been better if it focused on Reville rather than Hitchcock, and previous Oscar winner Mirren became a serious possibility as a Best Actress nominee.
McEwan — doing double duty at the festival with Richard Eyre's film The Children Act — claimed that the notion of a film version was far from his mind while he worked on the original story, but noted that the slimmed - down format of the source made it simpler to adapt than a full - blown novel.
Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone also trafficked in stories loaded with themes and messages that reflected on society, and more often than not they ended on bleak, unforgiving notes.
Washington Post education reporter Jay Mathews noted in a 2006 story how California had a decade earlier authorized a $ 650 - per - pupil bonus to schools with kindergarten - to - third - grade classes of no more than 20 students.
According to the account, the Republicans believe «the [Dept. of Education] is trying to reassert federal control by exceeding its authority with a rule that would require state and local spending in low - income schools receiving Title I funds to be equal or greater than non-Title I schools... and force schools to include teacher salaries when measuring spending between Title I and non-Title I schools...» At the same time, the story notes that «King is facing pressure from civil rights groups who want to ensure the new education law does not deprive low - income students of equal funding.»
Their stories noted that they at times spent more hours at school than with their families, paid for supplies out of their own pockets, and cut their own salaries to balance budgets.
[Editor's Note: For more than ten years, Substance he been following the stories about how Michael Milkie, founder of the «Noble Network of Charter Schools,» has been forcing his «failing» students to return to the city's real public schools based on rules which no decent public school — or teacher — would impose on children.
AUTOMOBILE's All - Stars criteria is weighted more on subjective attributes than instrumented testing — although the editors found the Z / 28 more than adept on the track, noting in their story: «Chevy didn't build the Z / 28 for the logical buyer.
Though perhaps a small note in the story, the engine is over 2.4 inches shorter front to back than Subarus 2.0 - liter four cylinder gasoline EJ20.
Side note: Anytime you see a book cover where the author's name is bigger than the title, it's the author's name that sells book, not the story inside.
Note: In my experience, it takes me less time to indie publish a short story than it does to look up a market, get the manuscript ready, do a cover letter, do stamps and SASE, and go to the post office to mail it.
Discussion: Installing PrintFriendly extension on your browser https://www.printfriendly.com/extensions/chrome Note tabs for browsers other than Chrome Discussion: How Not to Open a Short Story; Darin Ramsey Discussion: In Which Steve Lays Bare His Soul and Shares Editor Comments with Us; Steve Wallenfels (Maybe Maureen too?
Yet, as Dvorak also notes, the Kindle seems particularly friendly to shorter works, including novellas and short stories, rather than the ever - longer books publishers have been pushing for the past decade or two in an attempt to equate value with tonnage.
Susanne Lakin presents The Sound of Sound in Novels posted at Live Write Thrive, saying, «Few fiction writers think much about sound in their stories, other than the obvious, like noting a car honking or a baby crying.
Note: While we accept up to 7,500 words, stories at the 4,000 - 5,000 word mark are more likely to be accepted than those that are longer, simply due to space constraints.
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