Sentences with phrase «of a familiar story»

But the strong appeal of his prints is not due solely to our pleasure in encountering illustrations of familiar stories.

Apart from the trademark hand - drawn style and grotesque creatures, its mishmash of familiar story beats feel more like a Hollywood production than the more eccentric Japanese visions we've come to love.

● Relive the classic with a good laugh - retelling of a familiar story with a humorous twist of a parody.

You can create an awesome replica of a familiar story or film scene with easy - to...

This 1994 version of the familiar story by director Abel (The Bad Lieutenant) Ferrera is perhaps the least known or seen of all the versions, but is by no means the worst.

The film has a plethora of these familiar stories about crooked politicians, war - mongering defense contractors and journalists grappling with the quandary of everything from the «fair and balanced» slogan to gossip Web sites like the Drudge Report.

But on top of these familiar story lines, the primary is partially about the normalization of the Independent Democratic Conference.

This is not a new or especially interesting dramatic thesis, and not even Moverman's ability to find nuance in the cracks of a familiar story can quite offset the sense that we are watching an artificial construct, a cleverly rigged parlor game that fancies itself a moral lament.

Although Ordinary World hits a number of familiar story beats, a real heart appears to be beating behind the material, allowing Armstrong and his castmates to maximize the emotional impact it has.

He cobbles together the idea of the familiar story via a series of interactions and stories, pitching the basic outline of A Christmas Carol to his publishers who reject it outright because Christmas simply isn't marketable.

Unfortunately, the screenplay by relative newcomers Geneva Robertson - Dworet and Alastair Siddons (from a story by Evan Daugherty and Robertson - Dworet) is a mostly tired rehash of familiar story beats and largely uninteresting backstory.

Regardless of its familiar story beats though, directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller — who helmed the brilliant Lego Movie earlier this year — realize the potential of sequel jokes and use that to elevate the material.

works as both an adaptation of a familiar story and as its own entity.

Based on the theme of familiar stories, this unit of work would link to your English curriculum and culminates in the children creating their own story mat for Bee - Bot.

By reimagining the poem and setting it firmly in the oral tradition, Lombardo captures both the sense and rhythms of the familiar story, and as reader of this epic, he is without peer.

The tools used by the Islamic Republic of Iran to retain power, like other totalitarian states — the silencing of political dissidents, torture, and the twisting of religious notions to ensure compliance — becomes the backdrop of a familiar story.

Nevertheless a crowd - pleaser of the first order — even on par with the «80s films from folks like Spielberg and Zemeckis that inspire it — «Real Steel» is an effective retelling of a familiar story, albeit one that it might help being ten years old (or having the same mindset) to fully enjoy.

You can create an awesome replica of a familiar story or film scene with easy - to - follow instructions, and you can use the bricks to build, well, whatever you want, however weird, useless, or oddly juxtaposed the result (Cinderella trapped with Darth Vader in a castle that is part Hogwarts, part Death Star, and part Little Friends Dolphin Cruise Ship?

The new feature American Made similarly fits into the genre but rather than finding its own unique identity, this drama feels like a muddled version of a familiar story.

The paintings featured are not simply «new works,» nor do they constitute yet another presentation — albeit in condensed, potent form — of the familiar story about how Kusama has contended with the perils of life through art.

Like its repetitive title, Runner, Runner offers up a bland retelling of a familiar story that lies in the shadow of smarter and sleeker films like The Firm.

We draw on some of those familiar stories like the Israelites» journey from enslavement in Egypt to the promised land to illustrate recovery principles.