Sentences with phrase «of short stories while»

I'm struggling to put up a couple of short stories while writing the second book in the trilogy, and promoting the first.

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This collection of short stories by a National Book award - winning writer, «feature telepathic zoo animals, a zealous toy collector and an eavesdropping Abraham Lincoln,» reports the FT.. Other commentators agree it's a whole lot of fun, while still managing to be moving and insightful.

Well, to make a long story short while referencing a great episode from Seinfeld, we employed a special team of people to «retrieve» the reports for us, and «yadda yadda yadda,» we appeared at pretrial with these ultra-damaging reports in hand.

And in even more dire news, the season is likely to be shorter as the Thrones producers begin to wrap up the multiple story threads as well as while fans of the original book series wait for Martin publish the sixth book in the series, The Winds of Winter.

While the stories of bitcoin's dramatic rise in value, from pennies to hundreds of dollars each may seem appealing in the short - run, the majority of its value could disappear in a split second.

And it's unlike any other book I've ever written, for in addition to the memoir, it includes original poetry, short stories, soliloquies, and even a short screenplay — all aimed at capturing the wonder and beauty of Scripture, while honoring the best in biblical scholarship and acknowledging the challenges of its most difficult passages.

make a long story short, he fought the little Prix with the dean of the school and while he left that job was given another in a different department.

While in its simplest version, the Christmas story is nothing short of spectacular, learning the details surrounding the birth of Christ has made me appreciate God's love for humanity that much more.

While drinking my third cup of coffee, and reading all this talk of heroin and Charlie Parker, I got to thinking of James Baldwin's beautiful short story «Sonny's Blues» (1958).

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.

To make along story short, I stood at the corner of this auditorium type room at the end of the service, while my mother stood amongst the crowd receiving prayer.

Hello wellness mama i just want to say thank you for all your great information i have been reading a lot of your articles especially the dental care ones, i have just recently found you while looking for alternatives on taking better care of my teeth since my dentist recently found 7 cavities in my mouth despite the fact that i have always taken care of my teeth by brushing 2x / day, flossing, oral rinsing etc. as a matter of fact too much care maybe thats why im in this situation ok so long story short i need to know if the molars that have been filled or «fixed» (the way dentists like to call it!)

Long story short, for a while (before I really knew any better) I worked out at such a high intensity for so long, while depriving myself of proper food and nutrient intake, that my body totally freaked out and decided not to have a period.

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.

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

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?

And since my son was starting to get sick of the frequent bathroom trips (as they meant he'd have to stop whatever fun thing he was doing to go sit on the toilet), I began offering to read him a short story while he sat on the toilet.

Her blog focuses on lots of personal stories, memes, and the hilarious «The Mommy Shorts Show» web series, where celebrities come to Wiles» NYC apartment for an interview while she simultaneously cares for her daughters.

OK, short break now, while we do up a news story and iron out some of these typos that will invariable have found their way into this.

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 short - story version: after listening to and talking with the founder, it became clear to me that I wanted to become a strategist, to help drive new research directions, to apply my knowledge of science on a broader level and to make a difference while still being in the scientific trenches.

To study empathy, the researchers recruited 66 adults to sit in a brain scanner while listening to 24 true short stories of human distress.

Hey Doc I started training at the age of 13 and literally never stopped ever I have had major knee surgeries 5 or so years ago I have had countless stressful jobs I could not stand I finally said enough is enough and pursued by Personal training career I have an unbelievable passion for the fitness / nutrition lifestyle I'm 26 now at the age of 22 - 23 I achieved body fat percentage of 2 percent while working a back breaking job and literally sleeping 2 - 3 hours a night due to my hormone imbalance I didn't have a spoil meal in 8 months I was finally achieving the look I've been longing for for the 10 years I was already training and it was due to proper training times and nutrition little did i know I was already deep in a over trained zone for years before that I used to spend 3 - 5 hours a day in the gym from the age of 14 through 19 years old i just loved it so much and though more was better as I got older I got smarter I studied non stop this all leads to my decline at age 23 I look back and I know every little thing I did wrong basically al all started at work 3 years ago to make a very long story short I had continued dizziness lack of sex drive for years insomnia all of the above to the 10th degree I know I've abused my body not many can say they have done the work i have done in gyms over all these years I left work one night with sharp pains in my abdomen got blood work done got called back a week or so later and was notified in A very unprofessional way that at the age of 23 I had a testosterone level of 73.6 I have all the blood work to prove it from then on I was treated horribly by doctors none believing what I havenput myself through in the prior years basically going into every appointment and teaching each person endos euros physicians etc..

I won't go into the big long story of the events of why I was married on such short notice... because I did a separate post explaining that ordeal a while back (you can click here to read that story).

While this anorak isn't part of their current collection -LCB- amazing story on how I snagged this jacket later -RCB-, this one is the same in a different material, this one is the short sleeved version and this one is very similar.

This short - sleeved, fit - and - flare frock sports a pleated collar, while a row of buttons accents its center, bringing out a confidence that will express both your story and your style.

And while the story of makeup artist Kevyn Aucoin ended much to early, in his short life he managed to give us three legendary books dedicated to his true love, and mine, makeup.

he didn't delete either, feigned being computer «challenged» and that he just never got around to deletiing them... well, long story short, he had messaged a couple women while being with me (I was his girlfriend according to him), of course these are just the women I saw by accident.

By the end of our phone call, I'd pare down what they'd said into an enticing short story while marketing their date - ability in the process.

While it did raise the energy level a bit, Len Wiseman's remake of Paul Verhoeven's 1990 film (an adaptation of a Philip K. Dick short story) was sorely lacking in the fun department.

While short, this game is worth every dollar, thanks to fantastic writing in terms of story.

But while «On Chesil Beach» offers the conventional pleasures of an engaging story and handsome production values and actors, this debut feature from Dominic Cooke falls short of its potential.

There's little doubt, as well, that Shyamalan's expected emphasis on stylish visuals plays an integral role in confirming the film's mild success, while the story's coda is nothing short of jaw - dropping in its unexpectedness and audacity (ie it forces the viewer to rethink and recontextualize everything they've just seen)- which ultimately ensures that Split continues the momentum established by Shyamalan's comeback endeavor, 2015's The Visit.

«Split into chapters, replicating short stories, The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) is top - tier Noah Baumbach and it's really beautiful to see Sandler giving it his all and crafting such a warmhearted but damaged character,» we wrote in our review of the movie when it premiered at Cannes this year, «while Stiller — a Baumbach regular — is very funny as the youngest Meyerowitz, doing his best to distance himself from his father and siblings, but realising home is where the heart is.stories, The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) is top - tier Noah Baumbach and it's really beautiful to see Sandler giving it his all and crafting such a warmhearted but damaged character,» we wrote in our review of the movie when it premiered at Cannes this year, «while Stiller — a Baumbach regular — is very funny as the youngest Meyerowitz, doing his best to distance himself from his father and siblings, but realising home is where the heart is.Stories (New and Selected) is top - tier Noah Baumbach and it's really beautiful to see Sandler giving it his all and crafting such a warmhearted but damaged character,» we wrote in our review of the movie when it premiered at Cannes this year, «while Stiller — a Baumbach regular — is very funny as the youngest Meyerowitz, doing his best to distance himself from his father and siblings, but realising home is where the heart is.»

For the supplemental materials, there's an excerpt from the documentary Michelangelo Antonioni: The Eye That Changed Cinema; Blow - Up of «Blow - Up», a new documentary about the film; two interviews with David Hemmings, one on the set of Only When I Larf from 1968, and the other on the TV show City Lights from 1977; 50 Years of Blow - Up: Vanessa Redgrave / Philippe Garner, a 2016 SHOWstudio interview; an interview with actress Jane Birkin from 1989; Antonioni's Hypnotic Vision, featuring two separate pieces about the film: Modernism and Photography; both the teaser and theatrical trailers for the film; and a 68 - page insert booklet containing an essay on the film by David Forgacs, an updated 1966 account of the film's shooting by Stig Björkman, a set of questionnaires that the director distributed to photographers and painters while developing the film, the 1959 Julio Cortázar short story on which the film is loosely based, and restoration details.

Misher's previous credits include It's Kind of a Funny Story and The Scorpion King, while Muschietti is coming off his feature directorial debut with Mama (after first directing a short film of the same name).

The movie feels less like a cash grab than a thoughtful continuation of Dory's personal journey, staying true to what makes the character unique (her short - term memory loss) without being hampered by its limitations, all while finding creative ways to progress the story and further develop Dory as a character.

While the story is short and sweet, its multiple modes of play are also the cause of the bags underneath my eyes.

All the while, a budding romance between Joe and a journalist (Stacy Edwards) is given short shrift — Driven is, after all, already a love story between men and men, and men and their machines; Joe's ex-wife (Gina Gershon) is so appalling a burlesque of womanhood that one can hardly blame Driven's asphalt gladiators for preferring their own company.

Where Avatar falls a little short is in the romance between Jake and Neytiri, which while compelling doesn't resonate as strongly as the emotional cores of many of his previous films, whether the traditional romantic love stories of a Titanic, The Abyss, or The Terminator (or even True Lies); or his dual epic sequel tributes to maternal love, Aliens and Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

Of course, that doesn't excuse the fact that «On Stranger Tides» has just as many problems as the last two films, because while it may be the shortest movie in the series, it still feels overly long at 137 minutes and packed with subplots and secondary characters that aren't really necessary to the story.

Adapted from a John O'Hara bodice - ripper by chronic adaptor Ernest Lehman and released during the gap between the Lehman - scripted marvels North by Northwest and West Side Story, the picture drips with the charged sexual innuendo of the former (and of Robson's Peyton Place, come to think of it) while falling short of the caustic social commentary of the latter.

Considering Branagh's history for adapting classic literature and Shakespearean plays, I was impressed at his grasp of handling the amount of sheer action while telling a fun, engaging story — even if it could've been about 10 minutes shorter.

1/2 * / **** Image A Sound A - Extras B starring Ben Affleck, Uma Thurman, Aaron Eckhart, Michael C. Hall screenplay by Dean Georgaris, based on the short story by Philip K. Dick directed by John Woo by Walter Chaw At the end of John Woo's latest Hollywood misstep, Ben Affleck, as brilliant «reverse engineer» Michael Jennings, hefts two bags of manure on his back and stumbles around with them for a while, effectively defusing anything cogent I could say about Paycheck.

Spain auteur Pedro Almodovar's adaptation of several Alice Munro short stories, «Julieta» (Sony Pictures Classics), is in the competition, while Albert Serra's «La mort de Louis XI» is an out - of - competition entry.

Baumbach is one of cinema's sharpest writers of naturalistic dialogue, capable of ringing out layers of meaning from casual exchanges, and here he's at his pithy best: Bernard's offhand categorization of his student's short story to his teenage son as «very feminist but very interesting» belies depths of misogyny and elitism, while his graceless romantic counsel to Walt leads the teen to ditch his perfectly reasonable girlfriend, Sophie (Halley Feiffer), with the same projectiles of secondhand rhetoric that he unveiled to initially charm her.

Where Doctor Strange falls short is in the recently troublesome superhero «big bad» and despite the presence of esteemed actor Mads Mikkelsen (who sadly has become a bit of a villain typecast in recent years), the purple eyed Kaecilius, who wants nothing more than to meet a world destroying entity is anything but the adversary the unique Stephen Strange deserved, while the previously mentioned nature of this following the playbook origin story isn't breaking much ground in the way it tells the story of a man at his lowest finally realising his true potential.

While the trailer is largely short clips and montages, not revealing much of the film's story, there are a number of images which are striking and memorable.

Miguel Arteta's «Beatriz at Dinner» is like a short story that was written last week, staring directly at issues of class, race and privilege while leaving an open ending.

Our objective for most of the story missions, which are usually short, revolve around running on the world map from point A to B, while occasionally stopping on the way to fulfill objects.