Sentences with phrase «own coherent narrative»

Thus the whole to which his thought is dedicated is a temporal whole: reality is now unified only because it will be a coherent narrative when history is brought to its conclusion in the Kingdom of God.

For all that the neoconservatives have said publicly about their vision of American power, a coherent narrative of the development of their policy has been needed, and Dorrien provides that account impressively He reveals that the purported reasons for the Iraq invasion (defending America from weapons of mass destruction and spreading democracy and freedom) were a mere gloss intended for public consumption.

The book is surely the more «coherent narrative,» but the movie might be the Coens» least nihilistic effort ever (as if they couldn't quite negate all of the Christianity and the Southern Stoicism of the book, and maybe of the South itself.)

Alter's artistic sense requires and permits him to reject two staples of conventional criticism: the Deuteronomic hypothesis that has never been easy to sustain in regard to Samuel and that constricts the power of the narrative; and the breaking of a unified and coherent narrative into sources, a long - established method of historical criticism.

That is; it is imperative to develop a coherent narrative about what happened to you as a child.

«So it will be important for us to have the platform every week to bring the issues together in a coherent narrative and give better illumination on them.

So Labour was left trying to protect the victims of the Tory cuts agenda while accepting its underlying premises, also depriving itself of a coherent narrative linking together popular individual policies.

The DVD even contains the oft - forgotten «In Search of Dr. Seuss», a full 90 - minute film which is basically a series of set - pieces linking a whole bunch of Seuss's stories together into something approximating a coherent narrative.

By then you realize that the filmmakers are ticking every incident in the life off a checklist rather than shaping a coherent narrative, an approach that leads far too often to the dreaded Artful Montage and scenes of the writer typing away while murmuring in voice - over ``... it was a perfect day for bananafish.»

Hurly - burly activist sessions spin off in multiple directions, seemingly without a single line of coherent narrative purpose.

It remains to be seen whether Manifesto works as a coherent narrative feature, but one thing we're sure of is that it will boast 13 stunning lead performances.

Ultimately, these digressions circle back on one another, and Linklater forms them into a coherent narrative that resembles an updated American Graffiti for a new generation.

The opening sequence is breathtakingly edited, combining past present and future into a coherent narrative that doesn't follow any kind of logical order.

But the film awkwardly trades off between strong characters and a coherent narrative, and rarely provides both at once.

The multi-criminal blueprint worked fantastically in GTA 5, but spinning a coherent narrative with double the playable characters would certainly be a challenge.

Bagging on a film like this for not adhering to the standard filmic understanding of narrative seems to me like bagging on something like Leaves of Grass for not having a single coherent narrative.

Andy Weir's literary experiment - channeling hardcore speculative astrophysics into a coherent narrative - was a surprise bestseller when it was first (self) published in 2011, thanks in large part to the self - deprecating and affable lead character, marooned astronaut Mark Watney.

Many others will be underwhelmed without a coherent narrative or clear characters to latch onto.

However, there are certain aspects to the film that are an improvement on the 2004 offering, namely the more coherent narrative structure, which indicates a desire on the part of Ferrell and McKay to properly develop the trajectory of their numerous creations.

In fact, it comes across as a movie that's somehow all connections and no sequence — at least, little coherent narrative, not as we usually understand coherent narrative to be.

Falling into same the pratfalls of Ayer's previous effort, Fury, Suicide Squad is another case where story elements are continuously piled on in the hopes that a coherent narrative arc will emerge.

Aviv identies compelling characters, weaves a coherent narrative, and includes some incredible details, like how exactly teachers and the school principal at Parks Middle School in Atlanta were able to successfully pull off a years - long cheating scheme.

For those unfamiliar, books are a collection of words that form some sort of coherent narrative, printed on paper and bound together.

Welding disparate worldviews from history into a coherent narrative is no easy task, but Kassinger manages this with aplomb, contextualizing even the most outlandish theories (such as the above - mentioned borametz) in its time and intellectual perspective.

Beyond that, the game would benefit from more visual detail and polish, and a coherent narrative that placed the matches in context or part of an arc and while the levels are well designed and the weapons and toys are satisfying to use, the game wildly and incongruously strays here and there from its realistic roots.

Aveline's sensitive role within the hot - button racial issues of the time is fascinating, but without a strong, coherent narrative, much of that potential is wasted.

«To organise delirium» might also be understood as an apt description of the formidable task of putting together this exhibition, of constructing a coherent narrative from Oiticica's artistic journey.

Rather, it was a fail - safe way to preserve a student's dignity, the coherent narrative of an individual future, and the prestige of the social leaders giving the speeches.

His paintings» continual slipping between these modes demands sustained attention from each viewer of each canvas, making it difficult to hang them together in a coherent narrative or group.

Zangewa's original silk tapestries, each have their own coherent narrative and luminous aura.

The selection from both the Guggenheim and the Thannhauser Collection at Tower Level 2 lacks any coherent narrative - except for being modernist - and the works by Brancusi, Picasso, Chagall, Malevich and Kandinsky look disordered and hastily hung, reminiscent of the traditional salon - style presentation of the first Armory Show in 1912.

Her intimate universes meet the public realm through her original silk tapestries, each with their own coherent narrative and luminous aura.

A woman's heel next to a broken glass; a young man about to enter a wood; the bloodied mouth of a reclining woman — when contemplated in sequences, these frames form open, interpretable stories, although Devriendt establishes no clear - cut script or coherent narrative that might explain their connection.

Disquieting scenarios defy realism or even coherent narrative readings but, as in fairy tales, are psychologically convincing and treat life's big themes: destiny, endeavour, power, betrayal, fear.

With each artist given the chance to display a portfolio of work it was like 20 small exhibitions held together with a coherent narrative.

Museums show old things arranged into a coherent narrative, such is their charge, but a problem arises when they show old things and...

Museums show old things arranged into a coherent narrative, such is their charge, but a problem arises when they show old things and market them as new things.

All of these series revel in the way in which relabeling or recontextualizing can subvert the most anodyne images and create something unsettlingly resistant to any coherent narrative.

A twenty - six - year - old woman born with HIV, her frank sexuality radically unsettles any coherent narratives of the crisis, be they of triumph or tragedy.

Zangewa's intimate universes enter the public realm through her original silk tapestries, each with their own coherent narrative and luminous aura.

Ofili seems to evoke what might be a coherent narrative or at least a metaphor, only to dissolve it into ambiguity.

It may take them some time to parse it — I'm certainly still parsing it — since Paradiso is a fractured, ultra-spare artwork, moving nimbly from nearly abstract action to heart - felt monologues to the barest snippets of coherent narrative, but it is also one of those rare artworks that is more than the sum of its parts.

And I started to see signs — new coalitions and fresh arguments — hinting at how, if these various connections were more widely understood, the urgency of the climate crisis could form the basis of a powerful mass movement, one that would weave all these seemingly disparate issues into a coherent narrative about how to protect humanity from the ravages of both a savagely unjust economic system and a destabilized climate system.

... Some time later... OK, I started to review the relevant comments in the recent Climate Audit thread, and assembled some into a fairly coherent narrative that addresses many of the issues that DeepClimate may be interested in.

The urgency of the climate crisis has formed «the basis of a powerful mass movement, one that would weave all these seemingly disparate issues into a coherent narrative about how to protect humanity from the ravages of both a savagely unjust economic system and a destabilizing climate system,» says Klein.

Hoping it would tell a clear and coherent narrative that leaves one with a singular take away message.

The Andean Community, the Keck case law and the precautionary principle simply do not really fit together in any coherent narrative.

The picture changes considerably when you lay out the evidence you have to work with and try to assemble a coherent narrative to sell to a jury or audience.

They cover constructing a coherent narrative and why that's not really enough, and what needs to be added to the equation.

By the end of the preschool years children of more highly elaborative mothers are providing more detailed, more coherent narratives of their personal experiences both in conversations with their mother and with an unfamiliar adult.