Sentences with phrase «of stories work»

Typically, however, those kinds of stories work best when they're short, and as the series has progressed, the games have become increasingly focused on these little vignettes to the point that they're generally more interesting than the main plot.

«Deadline is inspired by a series of stories I worked on as a reporter about the murder of an African American teenager that goes unpunished, uninvestigated and unsolved until the press and the public step in.

But overall the magisterial marshalling of the story works extremely well.

The set up of the story works suitably well in The Nice Guys.

Much of the mechanics of the story work better over 150 minutes, and perhaps more importantly, one continuous sitting.

Somehow, despite the wide left turn the film takes in the last act, both halves of the story work.

These scenes do lessen the effect of the film and prove that jingoism in any country is still jingoism, but the rest of the story works too well for them to do too much harm.

The aim is to ensure the pacing of the story works, your characters are solid and believable, and that your story is logical with no obvious problems or holes.

So you have to understand how the bones of a story work, how you are going to put that together.

Not exact matches

It's the story of a prince who goes looking for dragons to figure out why magic is disappearing from his kingdom, only to find a princess working happily as the cook / assistant to the King of Dragons.

I started blogging about it at first, just telling stories of things I had seen or things that worked for me and trying to work out some of this theory on a very basic level.

Melinda shared that while Bill may ask for more data to support an idea or story, she knows he always trusts her judgement about whether a problem is something the foundation should be aware of and working to solve.

He has rarely taken formal action on the very regular publication of fictional stories that are written about him and he has worked hard to develop a professional relationship with the media, focused on his work and the issues he cares about.

From the CEO of a Texas - based shop who sent his regards to the selection committee via video from his yacht, to the mesmerizing story spun by a strategist from New York using nothing but a Sharpie and a pad of paper, there was never really any doubt about what these teams would be like to work with.

So I think it's a really tough seat and for me, it's really more about how you work with your business partners, how you share the data, how you get on key messages, consistently tell those stories, and how you put bravery out there and really drive the agenda of the company forward.

IBMers interviewed for this story who worked there starting in the 1960s,»70s, and»80s are still intensely loyal, even when they criticize some of the changes in recent years.

But this is also a story of non-energy companies refusing to put their money to work.

«We're creating a lot of structure that wasn't there before, but it is by no means a long - term solution,» Dalton Hesley, a scientist working on reef restoration in the Caribbean at the University of Miami, told Business Insider for a recent story on coral restoration efforts.

Nijjar says his lack of entrepreneurial experience actually works in his favour when he's looking for investment opportunities and closing deals — he doesn't have personal success stories to «pattern match» potential investees against or operational dogmas to foist on them under the guise of help.

So it was no surprise when, eight days into our experiment, one of our editors, Graham F. Scott, proposed a story idea at a staff meeting: exploring the case for not being pals at work.

But the stories of the people who created these acclaimed works are just as fascinating and inspiring as the ones we see in theaters, ranging from partnerships between newfound friends, finally getting to yes after years of hard work and the remarkable work ethics of idiosyncratic minds.

As the stories of Okamura, Natori and Ganahl teach us, If you're willing to work hard and take action, anything is possible.

After working in five different countries for several of Procter & Gamble's brands, Davis notes that Orabrush's story is «really, really unique.»

For Grant, working on his own resume of failures is a reminder that his extensive CV doesn't tell the whole story.

By summer the development staff had working demos of Sammy's Science House, the third in Edmark's early - learning line; Thinkin» Things 2, the second in its critical - thinking line for 4 - to 8 - year - olds; and the first two titles in a line called Imagination Express, a series of interactive story - writing programs for 6 - to 12 - year - olds.

As my dad tells the story, because he had a gas station uniform on and came out of the garage with greasy hands after working on a car.

Al Gurg says that the Baidu story is a testament to the type of foresight that Dr. Tan has, including his approach to being focused on the scrupulous curation of potential investees to ensure that they are the right fit, as Toubayly explains and adds, «He doesn't go around investing in startups and then seeing which one will work.

If you're familiar with the works of Steven Pinker, you'll recognize the incredible importance that language has played in human history in the preservation of information (stories being used to because they were... * SURPRISE!

The reason that stories work so well on us is that we are susceptible to getting «swept up» in both their message and in the manner of their telling.

One part case study, one part story, Contagious might not be a 20 minute read, but it will certainly make you re-think some of your work — in a good way.

When Trump previously considered a White House run, Cohen worked with the National Enquirer in 2010 to promote the website ShouldTrumpRun.com and encouraged the supermarket tabloid to pursue stories questioning President Barack Obama's U.S. citizenship, two former staffers of the publication told The Associated Press.

Yet to my withered hippocampus, a story I wrote two years earlier often seems the work of some other person; the knowledge I gathered in authoring it has ebbed away.

Its 32 stories — among them offerings from Alice Munro, John Cheever, Junot Diaz and Joyce Carol Oates — delve into all aspects of what we do for our paycheques, with work defined broadly «as labour, as chores, as business, as duty, as habit,» inside the workplace and out.

As Caroline Wanga, vice president of corporate social responsibility at Target Corp., explained to me when we discussed the story of Yasir, Dennis and Cathy, «Headquarters works nothing like the stores.

There are many literary techniques and a countless amount of examples, I'm simply serving up this particular one to show you a singular instance of a writer using them to turn a seemingly simplistic story into a extraordinarily memorable and highly controversial work of art.

Create and cultivate a sense of camaraderie, where people look forward to coming to work because they want to be a part of your company's success story.

Hoover says that, unlike at the big tech websites that have to do the work of researching and writing stories about new products hitting the market, about 3,000 whitelisted Product Hunt curators simply post a link to a product's landing page, so products get publicity faster.

When you return to work, keep those stories of hiking the Inca Trail, bungee jumping in New Zealand and wine tastings in Tuscany to yourself — nobody wants to hear about them.

Failure brings you closer to discovering what works, so instead of calling something a failure, reframe it as a pivot or plot twist in your life story.

She worked on a range of projects including CNBC's Emmy - nominated Special Report about the financial crisis, Boom, Bust, Blame: The Inside Story of America's Economic Crisis; CNBC's Marijuana & Money Special Report; and America's Top States for Business.

Some entrepreneurs even accused me of being coy, saying I must really be working on a story about the death of the cupcake trend.

KCNA's top stories Saturday afternoon were — typically — a report about the anniversary of Kim Jong Il's birth being observed last month in Russia, Mongolia and Guinea, and another about Kim Jong Un's work being posted on an African website.

The vision story that you create must define everything that will comprise the future state of your organization from the products and the services offered to the characteristics of the staff that work there and the clientele that they serve.

Timothy Hockey says most of the people who have worked alongside Clark have an «Ed story,» a moment when the chief executive took a personal interest in their lives.

Ultimately, an origin story idea seems to have a lot of people running scared because they just don't always work out really well.

At first, people's reactions are to the beauty of the artwork — then, they start to read and explore through the visual story and see that the content is there, and that they can really use these graphics for their work in a number of ways.

Two journalists, Dawn Gilbertson and Jonathan J. Higuera, writing in the Arizona Republic at the ten year anniversary of NAFTA, summed things up this way: «The Reality of NAFTA at 10 is this: a still - developing story of winners and losers, split largely by where you work and what you make.»

We not only rallied going into the close of the year, the rally at the start of the year has taken everyone by surprise, far surpassing the typical first - day putting - money - to - work story.

Stories like Dar's are newly resonant as a wide swath of industries are confronting the powerful men who harass and abuse women at work.

Whether you see real estate as your side hustle or next career move, stories from guests that overcame odds will reassure listeners that they, too, can make a pretty penny from this line of work.