Sentences with phrase «own narrative sense»

When a parish lacks a narrative sense of its corporate identity, it will probably assume that its nature is the aggregate of personal stories of individuals prominent in its life.

The problem with Love Liza, however, is that its script, smart in its characterizations, doesn't pay off in a narrative sense.

It really reminded me of MGS5 TPP in some ways, of coarse not in the narrative sense but more from a gameplay loop sense.

It also sets up a development later in the film that makes perfect narrative sense but smacks of contrivance.

Lil» Mikey bangs his expensive toys together, not because it makes narrative sense, but because he likes the sounds they make.

So the homework assignment given to the Russo Brothers is worthy of its own recognition, because making any kind of end - product with even a lick of narrative sense out of this intellectual property grab - bag is, frankly, awe - inspiring.

Cianfrance's first - rate script, co-authored with Ben Coccio and Darius Marder, keeps you guessing even while making total narrative sense.

Although not linked to the Wii's Xenoblade Chronicles in a narrative sense, Chronicles X carries over much of the gameplay elements of its predecessor — but now couples on - foot exploration with flight via weaponized, giant robots.

This isn't to put down the film's first half, which sets up a genuinely distinctive near - future world (where Johnson's retro trappings make narrative sense, rather than feeling tacked - on), introduces two tremendous sides of the same coin in the performances from Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon - Levitt, plenty of intriguing philosophical dilemmas, and a grisly hall - of - fame demise for Paul Dano «s character.

Ultimately, not only is the film rather irresponsible but it also makes little narrative sense.

But the «Marvel Studios: The First Ten Years — Connecting the Universe» gives viewers an even clearer picture of how much work went into making sure everything in the MCU, from Iron Man to Avengers: Infinity War, connects and makes narrative sense.

But there just isn't any narrative sense to doing so, and the weapons just aren't varied enough to really care about the loot.

A crusader of nostalgic tendencies, especially as it pertains to the innocent yearnings of childhood which eventually evaporate into the ether of disappointing adulthood, Anderson returns to stop - motion animation with what stands as his messiest (at least in a narrative sense) output to date, the Japanese themed Isle of Dogs.

The directorial pyrotechnics keep «Solace» from «dragging» in a narrative sense; the very real boredom it nonetheless elicits is more existential.

It would have made more narrative sense if he would have lost the fight but won his daughter.

It made narrative sense, but it was no less infuriating to go through an entire Avengers movie without a single Hulk smash.

Wright and Pegg astutely ground their wistfulness in middle - age malaise, and smartly furnish their machinations in a statement about inevitable change and unwelcome homogenisation, in a narrative sense, at least.

Or obesity, social injustice, human slavery, gun violence... These are not wars we «win,» in the traditional narrative sense.

As frustrating as it is to plod backwards through environments you've already tackled the game does at least manage to justify it from a narrative sense, and some of the levels are open enough that going through them again can feel quite different.

To be honest, though, most of the time it doesn't make all that much narrative sense — exactly why was the Library being dusty classified?

There is no «player character» in Destiny in a narrative sense.

«I was after a kind of effort that would build up an epic of forms and shapes that then begin to have their own narrative sense.

«Rather than have a human presence in the work in a traditional narrative sense,» Monk explains, «I want the viewer to be aware of their own presence in front of the object.

In a statement about the eyewitness testimony, the trial judge found that «Each of three women, no matter how well intentioned, tried to make narrative sense of the events by working backwards from their consequences.»

Not exact matches

That makes sense to entrepreneurs like Sankhla, who say they see their fate tied with the larger American Dream narrative of the U.S. and its immigrant culture.

And it's not just America's oil companies that are at risk here and asking for some common sense to be injected into this process, contrary to the narrative being spun up by House and Senate Democrats.

The narrative that developed at that time — «The US is printing money; we are going to end up like Weimar Germany, in hyperinflation» — made sense to me.

Thus, in a compelling sense, the Christian narrative» indeed all of history» is a story appreciated most fully when read «backward,» in the exegetical light of that resurrection.

The historian said: «Familiarity with the biblical narrative of the crucifixion has dulled our sense of just how completely novel a deity Christ was.

The life of the individual Christian, on this account, makes sense and achieves meaning through participation in this communally recounted narrative.

It is memoria, in this sense, that enables us to think of our lives in meaningfully narrative terms: the whole project of identifying and pursuing a coherent life would be impossible without memoria.

The longevity of the Genesis story doesn't owe itself to some robust sense of historical accuracy — indeed there is no way to prove or disprove the narrative today, and efforts to prove it are pointless.

It also places it in continuity with the experiences of the early church, and within the continuing narrative of the development of Christian thought — as people have struggled to make sense of and articulate their lived experience of God — which produced the great ecumenical creeds (with their clear progression of understanding about God, Christ and the Holy Spirit)- and which continues on today.

In this sense we say things like, «it is in the nature of human beings» or «it is natural for human beings» to, for example, conceive and be conceived in male - female coitus, nurse their young, employ productive and practical reason, desire to know, live in walkable settlements, think in symbolic narrative, live well, etc..

This show suggests this is a common narrative among our generation — that though Dory longs for a greater sense of purpose, life can turn out to be numbingly normal.

It was a matter of setting out the larger story, the narrative framework, which makes sense of and brings order to God's world and God's people.»

His narrative is interlarded with swift, ejaculatory appeals to God, (E.g., Nehemiah 4:4; 5:19; 6:9, 14; 13:14, 22, 29) sometimes ethically dubious as when he calls down divine wrath on his enemies, sometimes high - minded and devout, but always revealing an intimate sense of the spiritual presence and availability of the living God.

and certainly the narrative makes perfect sense with the omission of vv.

Indeed, as early as Origen in the third century it was being pointed out that we must not think of the Ascension as a movement in space; and in fact Luke seems to have translated into mythical form, i.e. a pictorial narrative, the universal belief of the early Church that Jesus has ascended to the throne of God, not in a physical manner but in the sense that he has been exalted to Lordship over all the world.

The grittiness of Lent, and the «intransigent historical claims» without which Easter makes no sense at all, should remind us that Christianity does not rest on myths or «narratives,» but on radically changed human lives whose effect on their times are historical fact.

Sometimes the most secular of scholars found that what Frei was doing, with his attention to narrative and his interest in the language that shapes a particular community, made more sense to them than the work of many theologians much more systematically concerned to address other academic disciplines.

The Radha - Krishna legend, then, is not a story in the sense of an orderly narrative whose protagonists have a shared past and are progressing towards a tragic or happy future.

Principles of interpretation (Hermeneutics) 1) Literal Principle — Scripture is to be understood in its natural, normal sense, read literally 2) Grammar Principle — Deal with what it says in the way it says it, be it using metaphor, simile, narrative, etc. 3) Historical Principle — Read the Bible in its historical context 4) Synthesis Principle — No one part of the Bible contradicts any other part (Scripture interprets Scripture) 5) Practical Principle — It contains a practical application 6) Illumination of the Holy Spirit — It is the job of the Holy Spirit to enlighten the child of God to the meaning of Scripture, without Him, one is without the ability to interpret Scripture

Unlike the authors of Habits, who give the impression that individualism simply leaves people without communities of memory, MacIntyre correctly perceives that everyone lives within these communities, if only because our personal narratives always depend on a sense of history and tradition.

In the ordinary language of educated people logos might mean speech, narrative, pronouncement, report, teaching, call, sense.

«It is more like a collection of narratives poking around a theme that attempts to make sense of this world in all of its mystery and complexity».

The «wrong» kind of Christian is one who insists on a simplistic, one dimensional narrative at the expense of fact, logic, or common sense.

As both Andreopoulos and Nes observe, Eastern writers viewed the transfiguration narrative as a model of our own spiritual ascent toward God, a process by which our spiritual senses gradually awaken to a perception of the divine beauty.

In the present volume there are repeated and sometimes moving narratives of a sense of «coming home» upon joining the homosexual community, much as Cardinal Newman and other converts have written about «coming home» when they joined the Roman Catholic Church.

And the gospel narratives about the resurrection of Jesus portray a «body» which was indeed very strange — a «body» which in one sense is presented as quasi-physical, to be sure, but, which also can appear without movement from place to place, a «body» which bears the marks of his passion, but which is not exactly the same as the body which hung upon the cross.