Sentences with phrase «of short stories which»

To accompany the exhibition and catalogue, Adian has written a collection of short stories which demonstrate the emphasis of narrative structure in his paintings: «I have been thinking of the pieces as participants in the same activity.

A debut collection of short stories which sympathetically explores some of the toughest dilemmas we face in our struggle though life.

Each time one of these stories is told, Seven Psychopaths breaks away from reality and shows us sort of a short story which is narrated by either Billy or Marty.

Not exact matches

Google is up for an Oscar for Best Animated Short for its virtual reality film Pearl, which released this spring on its YouTube channel as part of its Spotlight Stories program.

Invisible Cities is a series of very short stories in which Marco Polo describes — in gorgeous prose — imaginary cities to Kublai Khan.

One popular example is the story of DropBox, which through the use of a reward referral program acquired more than 200 million users in only a few short years.

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.

All of these stories depend on the narrative Musk feeds — that he's not into details, doesn't care if Tesla keeps its short - term promises, and that long - term screw - ups on which short sellers are counting are just a series of short - term messes the boss is already too proud to clean up.

A short chapter on the following 10 years, among the most volatile since the early»70s, credits Teck with «a classic recovery story which deserves a full chapter in the next edition of Never Rest on Your Ores.»

Long story short — she insisted we sell everything the next day (which was also a significant down day); we eventually re-entered the market; I retired at age 53 in 1995; and today, my IRA is 3.5 times greater than at retirement (in spite of zero new $ $ $, 2 more market crashes, and 2 significant RMDs).

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).

Man, the creation story says, has capacities and powers which raise him far above the rest of creation and make him capable of fellowship and of conscious cooperation with his Creator; but, says the story of the fall, not only is he actually falling short of the glory of God for which he was created, but his very spiritual capacities have been corrupted and perverted, so that whereas on the one hand he is infinitely above the beasts, on the other he is infinitely beneath them.

There are even two short stories — Ruth and Esther — which satisfy the criteria of the new criticism, their characters and plot developed and brought to a climax and denouement within a few chapters.

These biblical stories, while not being accounts of actual incidents, nevertheless have a connection with actuality which stories of the ordinary kind do not need to have, Thus the creation story is true only if God is in fact the Creator of the heavens and the earth and of man in his image, and the story of the fall is true only if man is in fact alienated from God and thus actually falling short of the glory of his own true nature and destiny.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

a few of my grandchildren deciced they wanted to spend the weekend and while doing so decided to look for something they themselve could make for themand grandma for lunch while i was out doing things in the garden, so to make a long story short when asked if they could make lunch i said sure but no cooking on the stove.thinking that would save them geyying hurt in any way.i half exoecte beanut butter and jelly or ham and chesse sandwiches and chips or something but what got was This wonderful Taco Pizza., I always keep taco meat made up i the freezer along with all the other things in which to make easy fast dishes for them needless to say i was delighted and surprized., when i askes how they did it I was told thats for us to know and you to enjoy.well I did and i think that if a 14,10 and very very smart 3 yr old can make this its simply wonderful.thank you and it took some work but i bribed the 10 yr old into telling my where he found it thank goodness the computer has history, lol, and bookmarking.its something every mother or grandmother should try to make with their little taco lovers.thank you From a grandmother

long story short, we are doing good, but others are doing much better, so i hope that Wengers deos something smart which would be: Getting Song back (cheap and he is one of our own), gets Cavani, (gues he would transform us into beast).

Worth noting that when this story first broke on the Daily Mail website a short while ago the headline stated «Four Premier League Players», however this has since changed to «Four Millionaire Footballers» which would lead one to believe that one of these players is in fact no longer plying their trade in the English top tier, does that help move us nearer to the truth?

Long story short a secret government lab in the US can't contain an accidental exposure to a weaponized virus by one of their staff members, which leads to people calling zombies, walkers just to sound original and all.

Alas, the euphoria was short - lived, as Woods, needing another bird on 18 to reach Casey, came up short with his approach shot and a birdie putt from 39 feet, which was pretty much the story of his day.

Our finding, In short, is that the Allison version of Arsenal's history simply doesn't ring true - which has left us with the question: how could someone so closely connected with the club get such an important story so wrong?

Long story short, Spacey learns some important lessons on fatherhood from the family cat, which got us wondering what kind of feline best embodies all the different parenting styles.

They may have minor anxiety or low social skills but sometimes the exposure to new technology in which they're flooded with sexual images or sexual text stories, or the opportunity to be sexual in ways that they never could have imagined, sometimes the opportunity by itself can be addictive like we saw with crack cocaine many years ago, so people got addicted to crack cocaine who did not have a typical profile, just the exposure to the drug was enough to flood the brain and get people hooked in a very short period of time.

I find myself reading again and again Scott Chaskey's This Common Ground ~ Seasons on an Organic Farm which is a series of seasonal short stories.

The show, which runs a short and sweet 50 minutes, tells the story of a grumpy giant who restricts children from playing in his garden.

She told me her story — she'd had breast reduction surgery, which left her with a medical diagnosis of Insufficient Glandular Tissue (IGT for short).

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.

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.

Cameroonians have turned out to be like a bunch of stage clowns who bump their heads into the same obtrusive obstacles again and again because they are too dumb to remember what hit them only a short while ago», he forgot to take into consideration the conscious erasing of resistance stories by the regimes in power — a disappearing that began during colonialism, which continued during the Ahidjo regime and which continues under the regime in power today.

The book, a collection of short stories, includes a final tale in which Diaz's alter ego, «Yunior,» details the five years of extreme despair he suffered after being caught cheating on the former associate labor commissioner.

The first short story, Snow White is Dead, has 48 different narrative paths, selected automatically based on the results of an EEG brainwave monitor attached to the computer on which the e-book is being read.

Long story short, I got the job and I hosted six episodes of this TV series [Miracle Detectives] in which I was a scientist investigating miracles.

Leaving aside the issue of whether Borges knew of Luria's studies or not — I believe not — I can not help noticing the uncanny lucidity with which he treats a topic as complex as memory in the context of a short story.

Read the story of the fourth match, in which Lee finally wins a game to bring the series to 3 - 1 (a short excerpt is below):

Looking back, my own favourites are simple, short reports, such as, «Last days of the Spike», a feature about the closure of an institution for the homeless, and a page 1 news story, «Schools escape clause 28 in «gay ban» fiasco», which upset a bunch of bigots.

But with yours, you always have the added touch of adding something special, whether it be a extra ingredient to make you feel special, which we all should to your antidotes to short stories.

my understanding of regular potatoes any color skin flesh etc. is this... potatoes are on the dirty dozen list... sweet potatoes are on the clean 15... i eat over 50 % of my diet in the form of a few different colors of sweet potatoes... i buy them bulk... peel»em very deeply... at least 1/2 inch all around... i sometimes get them as large as 6 pounds (football sized)... i used to wear out the regular potatoes but after speaking with the safety expert from a huge potato company to find out if the potatoes are grown on soil which had grain crops treated with round - up herbicide filled with atrazine and glyphosate (which most grain crops are... inluding many wheat crops... they get sprayed like 3 days before harvest... then the round - up is in the soil)... problem is... the round - up stays for 7 years... after stayin» off the soil for a couple years... it can have any kind of crop planted on it and get an organic rating... but... whatever was planted on that soil is then full of round - up... so... this crop rotation onto fields which had grain crops sprayed with round - up herbicide etc. is EXTREMELY COMMON IN THE GROWING PRACTICE FOR REGULAR POTATOES... very common practice... so even if you peel»em deeply... they are still soaked with round - up... the glyphosates get in the gut... the aluminum which is all over everything grown above ground and not covered (hot house etc)... gets eaten9ya can't wash it off... unless ya peel everything... but greens etc. ya can not get it out... it gets in the fiber)... then ya eat it... it goes in the gut... mixes with the glyphosate... becomes 10,000 timesmore toxic... inhibits the bodies ability to properly process sulfur into sulfide and sulfate... basically many very smart researchers are sayin'this is the cause of all this asperger's... autism... alzheimer's like symptoms in the elderly... you can only take so much nano... pico... and heavy metal poisoning... the brain starts to act very strangely... so... long story short... i eat lots of sweet pots grown on clean soil... they are non-gmo and basically grown organically... but... the grower doesn't pay for the certification... i make sure to get my omega 3 from fresh ground flax seed in the morning away from my sweet potato consumption... the omega 6 in the sweet pots inhibits the absorption of omega 3 and i only want so much fat daily... i'm on the heart attack proof diet by dr. caldwell b. esselstyn jr....

Long story short, wheat germ agglutinin blocks important aspects of zinc's metabolism which triggers a whole lot of inflammation.

Long story short is that keto advocates say the body thrives better burning fat for fuel instead of carbs, which can leave you brain fogged and tired.

Long story short, we ended up on the topic of dry skin -LCB- which I severely have -RCB- and he showed me the brand Algenist.

I was reminded of a short story I read in the New Yorker, which follows a couple as they try to figure out how to best take advantage of a perfect day.

About Blog This blog is a collection of short stories and satirical observations by Gil Prowler, none of which is exactly true or false.

That is the short story behind Russian mail order bride, which the advancement of information has simplified to dating and marrying Russian women.

Produced for the USA cable network, Holiday Affair is a remake of the classic 1949 theatrical film of the same name, which in turn was inspired by John D. Weaver's short story «Christmas Gift.»

Their fabricated stories occasionally dissolve into something much more honest; Jack, perhaps the most emotional of the brothers, is a short story writer, with suspiciously familiar plot points and characters he insists are fictitious (from the short, Hotel Chevalier, which accompanies the film at the festival, we know this is not true).

With enough variation of modes to opt for, including the new story - type mode Fight Lab (which is rather short, although it will help gamers learn the game's moves), Tekken Tag Tournament 2 has enough fighting gameplay for single - player and same - console multiplayer entertainment, especially with the strong controls and impressive visuals.

But there's absolutely no flow to the film's screenplay - which is based on a series of short stories by J.T. LeRoy - as it lurches from one vignette to the next, without any thought to keeping the audience engaged.

Issues regarding pacing and structural tightness are among the more considerable in this film, which promises to be rather extensive as a biopic, only to succumb to anything from repetitious filler, - at its worst with the forceful and recurrent insertion of a recital of Oscar Wilde's own short story «The Selfish Giant» - to meandering material whose being backed by steady directorial storytelling by Brian Gilbert leads to moderate bland spells.

Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution 2 is not the best game in this series of fighters, graphically it's good for a Wii game, the sound is good, the voice acting is great, the controls are ok, there is a large number of characters to play as which is great and even some game exclusive characters, multiplayer is ok, the story mode introduces an new and unique story with some interesting characters but kind of falls short, and the difficulty can be down right frustrating at times, there is some good versus modes and a fun survival mode, all in all i would only recommend this to Naruto fans, and people who love fighting games.

The first out of three single - player mission DLCs for Starcraft 2 provides a promising story which may be an improvement on Blizzard's recent stale storytelling.The duration of this pack is somewhat short for its price, but the production values are still top notch.