Sentences with phrase «older writers like»

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But Davis, who is a technical writer, said she can't afford to go all out like she used to, especially now that the three older ones are 11, 13 and 15.

There's a solution I like, and it comes courtesy of Hollywood — specifically, from actress - writer - producer Mindy Kaling, whose impressive success as a young woman of colour in a town run by old white men routinely spurs people to ask where she gets her confidence.

Well, if you thought it was going to be just like the old season, think again, because Splitsider is reporting that Arrested Development has a new writer on board in George Michael Bluth himself, Michael Cera.

Here we see unknown writers in the hills of ancient Judah, seated in simple homes that from the point of view of our present - day luxury might be regarded as little better than hovels, surrounded with furnishings more bare and austere than those of a medieval monastery, equipped with simple reed pens and rolls of papyrus, or perhaps with broken sherds of old pots, as they slowly indite in awkward, ancient Hebrew characters, words that have run like fire and are potent at this distant day.

So it follows that the notion of God's revelation, as Christians believe it, must be understood always through the great Hebrew affirmations — this, in fact, is why the early Church refused to cut the Gospel of Jesus Christ loose from its moorings in the Old Testament, and why such thinkers as sought to do this, like Marcion and other Gnostic writers, were condemned as perverters of the faith.

In this regard, Coover is like this Old Testament wisdom writer.

Frank Bascombe, a 38 - year - old feature writer for an unnamed sports magazine (like the defunct Inside Sports, where Ford once worked), narrates the three - day action, mixed with flashbacks, in the present tense.

Like the Old Testament wisdom writers, Updike believes that God's signature is written on the patterns of life for the person who will look.

Like the Old Testament wisdom writers, John Updike sets before us the choice of life or death; and like them, he challenges us to seek lLike the Old Testament wisdom writers, John Updike sets before us the choice of life or death; and like them, he challenges us to seek llike them, he challenges us to seek life.

I do not struggle with the old testament or other writers of the new testament like John or Peter.

But I care not a jot, just like the other almost as old ancient history this pathetic article writer is dredging up to interest anoraks.

A writer's word, so that older fellas like yourself can pound a keyboard and wear Dockers and have a job.

«It's weird to me, a little bit, that officials and writers joke about it good - naturedly, like they're talking nostalgically about an old sitcom: coming up after «Happy Days,» it's «Three Men in a Room,»» he said, to laughter and applause.

Krissy Brady is a women's health + lifestyle writer who's so out of shape, it's like she has the innards of an 80 - year - old.

And hers was one of the first blogs that I really became invested in — you know, one you read every week because the writer has become like an old friend and you want to catch up with them.

bit slower then the old series, i think the writers need to rethink with the long drawn out stories abit, and be abit like the old classic ones, alot more fighting scene's with laser guns would be good to start with, but over all i think its alot better then the long drawn out battlestar galactica the new series,

Like the book on which it's based, a memoir by Wiseau's «The Room» co-star Greg Sestero and writer Tom Bissell, the events of «The Disaster Artist» unfold not from Tommy's point of view, but from the perspective of Greg (Dave Franco), an aspiring 19 - year - old actor who meets the 40 - something Tommy in a San Francisco theater class.

Like the movie's young, confused hero Jamie — played by newcomer Lucas Jade Zumann — the writer - director grew up in the Southern California during the end of the Carter era, listening to punk records pilfered from his older sister.

Bursting with the same charismatic, comic book energy that skyrockets through most of his movies, old crime reporter, novelist, war hero, writer - director and sometime producer Samuel Fuller, almost 69, still moves and talks like his daffy action flicks — like the wild man from Borneo — in quick, short, blocky punches, like two - fisted slabs of socko headline type.»

Does the writer want the Academy to embrace the new (3D) or stick with the old (recognisable faces like Herzog).

At the Saturday night world premiere of his new movie, the writer - director crossed the stage of the Ryerson Theatre in signature jersey and shorts, playing to his constituency — many wearing plastic walrus masks, for reasons I'll get to shortly — liked an old pro.

It begins to feel like Old Home Week in Telluride: when I look up Andrew Haigh's «Lean on Pete,» I remember that its star, Travis Fimmel, appeared in «Maggie's Plan,» directed by Rebecca Miller (here with «Arthur Miller: Writer»), which co-starred Ethan Hawke (who's in «First Reformed») and Greta Gerwig, who directs, in «Lady Bird,» Saiorse Ronan, who is one of the voice actors in Loving Vincent.

The title is perfect: «Distant Voices, Still Lives» writer - director Terence Davies's adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbons's 1932 novel of life in the Scottish countryside is like an old familiar tune, a lusty ballad of love and heartbreak sung with passion and power, and just a handful of off - key notes.

Just like you wouldn't expect comedy super-pros Sarah Silverman and Giovanni Ribisi to play straight - men to Seth MacFarlane in the writer / director / star's Old West send - up A Million Ways to Die In the West, you can't exactly expect straight answers from them at a press conference, either.

Like a deconstructionist chef, writer / director Peter Strickland (Katalin Varga) has taken an old favorite recipe, broken it down to its essential ingredients and then re-presented it in a fresh and unexpected way.

With a legendary director like Scott at the helm, the highly touted first original screenplay from Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Cormac McCarthy (writer of No Country For Old Men, The Road and Blood Meridian amongst other modern classics) and that cast....

He's the 44 - year - old London - born writer - director who turned comic - book movies on their head with his Dark Knight trilogy, a brooding take on Batman that retained the cocksure intelligence and visionary edge of his earlier films like Memento and Insomnia.

Like Django Unchained, the writer - director reflects modern times on the Old West, but with more scalpel - sliced dialogue, profane poetry, and gore.

The big reveal isn't treated as such, an expert move that shows a filmmaker in more control of a script than its writers, deftly navigating us through a significant tonal shift and a few logical chasms like the old master he is.

Okay, so writers Todd Phillips and Scot Armstrong have had to dream up a ridiculously contrived scenario in order to get things going, and the whole thing is really just an excuse to place four blokes in a series of sketch - like scrapes — but it really would be a miserable old world if we couldn't all appreciate such mindless giggles from time - to - time.

The first is that studio executives and / or director and writers obviously think that after a generation of the violence in video games and blockbuster movies, the old literary institutions like curiosity, innocence, mystery and wonder simply aren't enough to entertain us anymore.

Like the 35 - year - old writer - director's previous movies — District 9 (2009) and Elysium (2013)-- his new work combines a realistically dingy, D.I.Y. look with cutting - edge visual effects and a smart, savvy sense of using science fiction to get at bigger issues.

Cribbing from a popular 1987 action movie might sound like a tribute, were it not that The Nice Guys director Shane Black made a splashy debut as the 22 - year - old writer of said movie.

It needs that — Get Out is already eight months old and few films released in February are ever nominated for Academy Awards, let alone those made by black first - time writer - directors like Jordan Peele, and in the horror genre no less.

And for any whose heads are not yet spinning, writer - director Johnson throws in another loop or two: In the future, Old Joe's wife was killed by a mysterious, Keyser - Soze - like crime lord called the Rainmaker; now that he's back in the past, Old Joe is determined to find this villain as a boy, and snuff him out before he can grow into deadly manhood.

The old guys getting confused for terrorists; going on an excursion to buy something mysterious called a cell phone; breaking down Eminem's «Without Me,» which Sal is stunned to learn is sung by a white guy — these are all regrettable diversions from the truth of the film because they all feel so completely like a writer's contrivances.

Flashbacks trace Cohan's rise, from a childhood performing in his family's vaudeville act to his early days as a struggling Tin Pan Alley songwriter to his overwhelming success as an actor, writer, director and producer known for patriotic songs like «Yankee Doodle Dandy,» «You're a Grand Old Flag» and «Over There.»

Normally I try to weigh movies on their own terms, but director James Wan (Dead Silence, Death Sentence) and writer / co-star Leigh Whannell just steal too much of their style from the works of David Fincher (Se7en, The Game), and the constant reminders to the older, better films makes Saw feel like a b - list knock off.

As Moustafa, played in old age by a wise and reserved F Murray Abraham, regales a young writer (Jude Law) with the entire saga of Madame D's inheritance, we survey the sad legacy of the Grand Budapest itself, furnished now in hideous Eastern Bloc orange, but still clinging on to some of its old glories, like an ageing prostitute who's slashed her rates.

Last year's War and Peace was a ratings triumph for the BBC, Dickensian found a new way of tapping into the world of one of our greatest ever story - tellers (he would surely have started, like Dickensian writer Tony Jordan did, on the staff at Eastenders had he emerged today) whilst the one - off «old - school» Sherlock episode The Abominable Bride was one of the most acclaimed shows over Christmas.

Here's an older post from Writers Quarter with some tips on imagery that was worth a look: Writing Tips: Focus Like a Photographer

I'm a big fan of older SF and I'm glad that works of writers from the 60's and 70's, writers like Brian Aldiss and John Brunner are available as ebooks.

«Unlike myself, my old friend Derek Haines (and a few other writers I know) constantly hop in and out of bed with whichever publisher they decide is the flavour of the month at the time, only to cast them aside later like an ex lover, when they decide they hate them for some reason or other.

I like the idea of using the subscription model for older works, short stories / novellas and promotional bits — same as a lot of indie writers current write an introductory novella to a series they're working on and offer it on the Kindle Store for free or 99 cents to draw in an audience to their universe.

In a sweet voice with an authentic sounding accent, the sophisticated, world renowned writer delivered a more than adequate rendition of a verse from an old Hank Williams tune, «Why Don't You Love Me Like You Used to Do.»

In the recently launched volume of «Invincible Iron Man» writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist David Marquez, who previously collaborated on «Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider - Man,» kicked off Tony Stark's latest quest to construct a better future by reacquainting him with old foes like Madame Masque and unexpected allies like Doctor Doom.

This sounds like old news, but it's odd how many writers agree with this concept, then go out and spam 1,000 folks instead of sitting down and writing a thoughtful or helpful blog post about the experience of being a writer.

It's like that's the one fact about old apothecary practices that writers have picked up, and they toss it into their manuscripts so often, it's practically a ye olde opioid epidemic.

«Reading Leon is like sitting down with old friends for the most satisfying of dinners, replete of course with well - chosen wines... Leon is a wonderful writer, the sentences as beautifully crafted as the puparin Casati's father had long ago built.

«Robert Parker Junior favours big, dark, extracted wines from the New World and Bordeaux, whereas someone like (British wine writer) Jancis Robinson leans more toward old - school European style blends,» says Pieter Van den Weghe, who teaches at Algonquin College's sommelier program, and is also responsible for the wine list at Ottawa's toniest restaurant, Beckta Dining and Wine.