Sentences with phrase «of narrative focus»

As we try to figure out how to reverse this defeat, films like Flow will help inform public consciousness of the need to do so.But as is the case after seeing many (perhaps too many, of late) environmental documentaries, I also wished that the film had had fewer talking heads (especially white male radically professorial ones — and I say that as a white male radical former professor), less of an impulse to be comprehensive (when you try for the universal all the time, you often lose the specific), and more of a narrative focus on particular responses (successful or not) to particular challenges.

A recent eco-doc that provided this kind of narrative focus exceptionally well is The Garden, which I strongly recommend as not only one of the best documentaries I've ever seen but also one of the best films of any genre.

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A title like Digimon Story is likely to give you the impression that this game offers more of a narrative focus than other takes on the digital monsters — and while that's sort of true, it's perfectly in keeping with the spirit of the series.

A first & third person shooter that takes and combines elements from a Massive Multiplayer Online & Role Playing Games with a nice side dish of narrative focus.

Surely this is an element of the overall feeling of detachment from the movie, and the lack of narrative focus drags the front - loaded first act (A subplot involving the identical, bumbling Inspectors Thompson (Simon Pegg and Nick Frost) and a pickpocket (Toby Jones) only provides some stilted comedy; something is off about the physics of this animated world).

True, one of the scenes features a singing Kylie Minogue — always a plus — who plays a female counterpart to Monsieur Oscar, but the constant shifting of narrative focus begins to feel as gimmicky as it is intriguing.

Many of these narratives focus on experiences in school and in youth groups where teenagers received powerful messages from teachers, peers, Nazi officials, and parents about the proper way to act and think.

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The strength of Hasbro's results contradict a narrative that has formed in the retail sector in which many executives have lamented that spending during the holiday season has focused on two periods of time: the Thanksgiving / Black Friday holiday weekend and the final week before Christmas.

He focused on how Comey called Trump and his staff «liars,» saying that Comey «thought so little of President - Elect Trump's first briefing reaction he started documenting everything» and pointing out that Comey «gave a first person account of an obstruction narrative.»

But focusing on one type of narrative can also be damaging if it causes us to limit our career ambitions, especially if the data tells another story.

The pivotal message is to focus on the experiential, «moment - to - moment» self, instead of personalizing situations by attaching it to the «narrative self» (the «ego» self, or who we are).

At Fiji, Robbins offered some insight into what Jones» daily email updates look like, saying, «he sends me a checklist of what we measure, everything from his NAV [net asset value] to his [portfolio] weights, what's happening in his body, to his focus, to ratios of risk - reward that we're measuring, and then he does a narrative for me.»

Much of the narrative surrounding that scandal has focused on what individuals should be doing to protect themselves.

The popular narrative of the February market correction focused on inflation.

We don't know the full damage Harvey has caused yet, but already the media narrative that has emerged seems to be focusing far less on the black and underprivileged populations that suffered the most at the hands of Katrina.

However, my focus in this series is to intelligently discuss the real problems of bitcoin's unknown origins and the many problems with the mass media narratives that have been built and disseminated to not only cover up these unknowns but also to falsely turn these unknowns into knowns.

Templates of buyer personas are very limiting in keeping the focus where it should be — on key insights and narratives that matter to how buyers go about accomplishing goals.

The Church has a narrative of the twentieth century that focuses on the hundreds of thousands who suffered for their faith.

That history, coupled with the generous use of interview narrative from rescuers, the rescued, and non-rescuers throughout the book, more than offsets any fear that the Oliners» project, by focusing on rescue activities, might diminish the horror of the Holocaust.

The focus here, however, will be on one particular form of organic teaching that is unusually full in itself — narrative teaching.

While teaching in Asia I became aware how often Western readers tended to see the truth of Scripture in abstract terms, while Asian readers tended to focus on narrative and concrete images.

And African - American women, to take another example, have complicated the Anglo - European interpretation of the Abraham / Sarah narratives by focusing on the character of Hagar, the ethnic outsider, the slave, the surrogate wife.

In opposition to narrative criticism, with its focus on the supposedly objective and stable text, and in opposition to structuralism's focus on impersonal and universal codes, reader - response criticism arose to argue for the essential role of the reader in the process of making meaning.

Thus, ancient apocalyptic brings into focus some of the issues that a narrative vision struggles with today.

And since the Old Testament word for angel, as that of the New Testament, means also messenger, it is a legitimate suspicion that these narratives preserve reminiscences of the growing significance of the prophetic movement, which comes into clear focus just a little later in First Samuel.

The purpose and focus of the narrative is not the miracle.

What the book does is it helps the reader think of large, and sudden moves in the economy in terms of monetary and banking policy and helps correct for narratives of economic events that tend to overwhelmingly focus on questions of taxation, spending and labor regulation.

A focus on monetary history helps undermine a lot of the coalitional narratives that we have inherited.

We are dismayed by interpretations of biblical narratives — like Cecil B. DeMille's epics — that focus on their special - effects potential, such as Jesus» disappearing like some movie ghost.

To understand the focus of the narrative here we need to consider verse 11 with the preceding verse, which details Moses» name.

He intensifies the focus of his narrative on the person for whom death is imminent.

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.

Although I've found it very cathartic to speak, vent and end occasionally rant about all things Arsenal, we need to act carefully and intelligently right now or we're going to get played by this club even worse than at present... the pro-Wengerites and the suits, who represent a considerable proportion of the season ticket holders, don't want to believe that there is no plan and that Wenger has mailed it in for several years now or that things are going to get much worse before they get better... why would they... many have spent a considerable sum buying some of the highest priced tickets in the World... they want to have a front row seat to see something special and to be seen doing so, which simply provides ample justification for the expense and the time invested... to many of them, Wenger is the sun in their soccer universe... his awkward disposition, misplaced arrogance and his utter lack of balls makes him a rather unusual cult figure, but the cerebral narrative seemed to embolden those who already felt pretty highly of themselves... many might not even of really liked football that much before his arrival and rarely games they weren't attending... as such, they desperately believe that Wenger, and only Wenger, can supply them with their required fix... if he goes, they were wrong and that's a tough pill to swallow... they would have to admit that they were duped... they will definitely resent whoever made them feel this way, but of course it will be too late by then... so when we go overboard with ridiculous comments bordering of anarchy, it scares the shit out of them and they shift their blame towards us rather than at those who really perpetrated this act of treason... we aren't the enemy... we simply woke much earlier and the reason our comments have gotten more vile in recent years is out of utter frustration... in order for any real change to occur at this club we need to bring as many supporters as possible with us or the big money interests will fade and our ultimate objective will be lost... so it's time to focus on the head instead of the heart for now

But, yeah, keep pushing that narrative instead of focusing on him being asked to play a position he doesn't seem remotely qualified to play.

To be clear: it's not that Laca's lack of confidence isn't a problem, or that he shouldn't shoulder some of the blame for the defeat, but that we'd be missing just how big our problems really are right now if we focused on that particular narrative.

Focusing on successful models is an attractive approach for a narrative journalist, too, because people generally prefer reading emotionally resonant stories about individuals in pursuit of a worthy goal to slogging through lots of dry research and statistics.

This could be the case because the format of ebooks for toddlers is structured so there is only a sentence or two on each page, letting them focus and fully absorb that message, instead of getting lost in a longer narrative.

Comprised of many stay - at - home moms, this blog genre focuses on product reviews, personal narratives, DIY tips and life - hacks to make daily life easier.

But McDonnell is proving to be more multi-layered than his caricature, seeking late in his career to match expediency with belief, gripped by the need to prove economic competence (he reads the findings of focus groups as avidly as New Labour's leading figures used to do), knows the importance of narrative and how George Osborne impressively framed one about how Labour crashed the car and should never be given the keys again.

The prevailing narrative of the rise of West, which focuses on the importance of the revival of Ancient Greek knowledge following the Dark Ages in paving the way for the Renaissance, the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, has a tendency to portray Europe's rise in self - contained euro - centric terms, often failing to acknowledge debts from further afield.

The focus of the second chapter is not just Anis Sayegh's autobiographical narrative, but also the description of relevant historical information about Tiberias and al - Bassa (the birthplace of his mother).

Quid showed that while the media narrative was focused on corporate control and Washington corruption, people were talking about fairness, diversity of public voices and what it means to be American.

First and foremost, Clinton's «war room» should begin scrapping the headline of the current campaign narrative, which focuses almost exclusively on her experience and political centrism.

A 2005 film would focus on the fact that V, who - like Dredd, his opposite - is never seen without his mask, was a terrorist and used it to chime with the «war on terror» narrative of the day.

This polemic against the American healthcare system benefited from a far more focused approach than his previous films, which covered so much ground they sometimes lost any sense of narrative or coherence.

The problem seems to lie in two longstanding journalistic habits: the tendency to focus on poll leads, rather than shares, and to interpret the poll leads in terms of the prevailing Westminster Village narrative.

At first, the focus on the aged Thatcher's modern life feels like it's getting in the way of the historical narrative.

The demand, from one of the most significant and influential voices on the left of the Labour party, marks a departure from the usual narrative on responsible capitalism, which usually focuses on handing shareholders more power.

«It is not unreasonable to see the Vote Leave campaign, with its central focus on immigration, as a continuation of this politically mainstream, hostile stance towards immigration and xeno - racist narratives.»