Sentences with phrase «of short stories about»

The company continues to commission new series — one upcoming project is WinkPoke, an ongoing series of short stories about love in the digital age — but they probably won't be exclusive to Amazon.

What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of short stories about a cursed family in Washington state and it's coming partly from Annapurna Pictures (Sausage Party, 20th Century Women, American Hustle, Joy) which goes to show just how cinematic and narrative - focused the game will be.

Released for multiple platforms (each scoring in the 88 - 92 range), the second game from The Unfinished Swan developer Giant Sparrow is structured as a collection of short stories about a cursed family in the Pacific Northwest, taking place at various points in time from the early 1900s to the present day.

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

After much interesting research, I came up with a book that not only highlights interesting political trivia, but also includes hundreds of short stories about bizarre and fascinating political actors, political contests and political events.

This time it's a collection of short stories about scientific firsts — subject matter that Barrett fans love to see her sink her teeth into.

The Last Girlfriend on Earth, Simon Rich's latest collection of short stories about love, sex, commitment and control, is wonderfully funny, insistently clever and light and heavy at the same time.

This is a collection of short stories about Yunior.

But it was an Enid Blyton book, I think it was called The Book of Wonder, and it was just a bunch of short stories about elves and fairies and little animals all having misunderstandings.

In addition to «putting the finishing touches» on a Room screenplay, she's completed a book of short stories about migration and is working on a novel «about a murder among lowlifes in 1870s San Francisco.

Erma Odrach is the author of Alaska or Bust, a collection of short stories about one of the world's last frontiers — Alaska and the Yukon.

Directed by Kelly Reichardt (Night Moves), this film is based on a series of short stories about intersecting lives.

It's a series of short stories about the shop owner, a writer who frequents the shop, and a kid the writer kind of adopts.

Not exact matches

To recap, Hogan sued Gawker for invasion of privacy after the site published a story in 2012 about the wrestler having sex with a friend's wife, and included a short clip from a recording of the act.

This could be writing a handful of short stories, or painting on canvases in your living room, or writing songs, or knitting sweaters, or perfecting a handful of recipes, or volunteering for a cause you care about.

During a panel discussion as part of the South by Southwest Festival's interactive program, Denton admitted that the Hogan story — which was about a sex tape that the wrestler made with a friend's ex-wife, and included a short clip from the tape — didn't have an obvious point to it, apart from embarrassing Hogan.

Long story short, the IRS is more serious than ever about cracking down on cryptocurrency tax evaders, and it has three ways of getting its fair share from virtual token users.

They pitched a story to The Wall Street Journal that ran that talked about this cabal of market - manipulating short sellers.

In retelling the story of Kierkegaard's short career, Garff set himself two goals: «to reinstall Kierkegaard in his own time,» and to separate the facts about the man from the myths created by his several self - depictions.

When I sat for oral examinations in my master's degree in English, where I concentrated in creative writing, one of the questions was about how I approach foreshadowing in my short stories.

It's not like a thousand eyewitness accounts of an event, where they'd vary in the details but generally agree on the most important aspects, it's more like a thousand people who were asked to right a short story about anything they wanted.

If you tell 100 people who observed an event to write a short story about it you'll get 100 different stories, but their stories will share a lot of common elements.

For example, I can talk to my trans - friends about Jesus, and how He RESOLVED to live among the Samaritans for two days; how He RESOLVED to use the Samaritan in His story of what it means to be loving towards the wounded — in short, lifestyle and genetics are soooo minor that the hero is the one that shows and engages in compassion.

There are short Stories: about a traveler who was robbed and lay wounded by the roadside until he was succored by a kindly stranger; about a capitalist who entrusted sums of money to his subordinates for investment, and what they did with it; about the employment of casual labor in a vineyard and the question of wages and hours that arose.

The archive also includes teaching, marriage and death certificates, a script of a play written about Mrs Watson and her husband, silverware and a short story written by a former pupil.

Back in 2012, a short film called Montauk from filmmaker Charlie Kessler garnered some attention at The Hamptons Film Festival for its intriguing sci - fi story about a government research lab conducting strange experiments outside of a small American town (which leads to a bunch of weird stuff happening, including a child going missing and a monster from another dimension being released).

1 There is the New England short story («The Great Stone Face») about the influence of a mountain in the shaping of a human face.

To exploit the part of the story where Sherrod is most vulnerable, most open about the darkness within herself that she must overcome, is nothing short of sacrilege.

Englander, author of a new book of short stories called «What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank,» has roots in many of these worlds.

Olson was cast in a short film about the 1931 kidnapping of Fred Blumer, then owner of Blumer Brewing Co. in Monroe, Wis.The story goes that after realizing they wouldn't get much ransom money, the mob members released Blumer, charging him a week's worth of room and board.

There's so much to love about avocados but the short story is that ounce per ounce, they contain more beta carotene, vitamins and minerals than any other fruit, plus higher levels of potassium than a banana.

Long story short, I get very cold / lonely / scared at night, and my new bedtime routine is to cocoon myself in the bed and fantasize about being koala hugged by Logan in front of a fire while eating a piping hot bowl of Stuffed Poblano Quinoa Bake.

I already addressed lethality against modern tanks - but can go deeper about Kinetic Energy, Armor slope, target size, Ph and Pk percentages (Probability of Hit / Probability of Kill) missile warhead design, effectiveness of russian ERA packages (very good), but long story short, the gun just doesn't have the power to punch through modern tank armor, and the missiles lack the warhead to kill modern tanks.

Arsenal has been the same for the past decade and probably this season gonna be same all same old stories — to make my story short, right now we are way behind teams say Real Madrid they way they dominated Bercelona on those three games i do nt know about Arsenal if we can stand a chance and biggest problem facing Arsenal has been recruitment of quality players — when we need atleast 5 new players we always brings in 1 or 2 and starting convincing ourselves we gonna win championship if we loose those two of our new players is the same old Arsenal i just do nt know what to say any more

The site is called ArsenalShorts, the idea is to save you trawling through the same old stories across all of the various papers and websites, you come here and six days later, you read all about the stories in succinct little nuggets, or... «shorts».

AG: The shorter version of my story is that I'd been working as a freelance food writer for about a decade but felt called to do something different.

Since I'd had a midwife for routine check ups during my last pregnancy & it was the physician who I felt didn't medically take care of me well, (my midwife wasn't available during the birth, but long story short she was on the money about a problem I had which had caused me to be hospitalized during the pregnancy) I truly had no trust in any OB.

A short story by Lydia Davis about trying to calculate the cost of a love affair.

Developing grit — that quality of pushing through obstacles as we pursue something about which we're passionate — depends on the child working hard to accomplish her own goals, whether that's mastering a jump shot, short story, recipe or camping trip.

This collection of thirteen short stories is about the everyday lives of Mexican - American young people in California's Central Valley.

(He hated needles and wasn't wild about the sight of blood, or pain, etc.) Well, long story short, he changed his mind and gave it a try, and was so awed and grateful to participate in all nine births eventually.

Take «Late Carnations,» a short story about a young employee of China Datang Corporation, a large state - controlled power company, whose gruelling work ethic causes him to miss the final hours of both his parents.

Kelly Liyakasa from the Westchester County Business Journal has a story about the short sale of the luxury Altelier Suites in White Plains.

A third Democrat said Mr. Grimm's story seemed preposterous, though they stopped just short of accusing the congressman of lying about the incident.

About the speaker Rebecca Goldstein has written five novels, a number of short stories and essays, and biographical studies of mathematician Kurt Gödel and philosopher Baruch Spinoza.

And now she gets all outraged when we camp outside her house waiting for her to emerge for a pint of milk without makeup so we can flog it to some copy - short hack who will write a story about how she's either a «fresh faced beauty» or «causing concern with her bedraggled appearance» depending on how he's feeling.»

It is bad enough when hacking is used as a short cut to easy stories about the private lives of celebrities, but in the Dowler case, the hacker gave false hope to Milly's family and could have jeopardised a police murder investigation.

He is editor of a collection of short stories and essays about science written by Puerto Rican scientists and is currently piloting a project engaging K - 12 students in learning and conveying, through podcasts of their own, the concepts taught in the book.

The site is a potpourri of useful material: audio files telling the story of Snow's investigations; an exhaustive collection of Snow's original writing; a vast library of articles written about Snow's legacy; annotated maps of London, including Snow's famous map of the Soho outbreak; short biographies of the major figures in Snow's life; excerpts from books that mention him; dozens of photographs, including images of Snow and landmarks in London related to his life; modern - day scientific explanations of the cholera bacteria; and much more.

The new work is also an incomplete draft, but is more like an anthology of 1,421 genetic short stories, averaging about 73,000 base pairs long.