Sentences with phrase «pieces of story without»

The result is pieces of story without context, and the effect is ultimately alienating.

Not exact matches

Hardly a week goes by without a news story indicating some government or public institution is either being sued or has settled a big - ticket piece of litigation.

So, the moral of the story is that you can buy some of fall 2017's chenille pieces without worrying about them getting threadbare.

There's little doubt that Due Date gets off to an almost disastrously underwhelming start, as director Todd Phillips, working from a script cowritten with Alan R. Cohen, Alan Freedland, and Adam Sztykiel, offers up a series of eye - rollingly broad comedic set pieces that are both unfunny and without any basis in reality (ie Peter receives a beating from a wheelchair - bound redneck, Ethan laughs hysterically after Peter tells him a sad story about his father, etc).

The game is simply great, with amazing set pieces and a crazy story, but the real highlight of the game is the combat that simply thrives on letting the player figure out the best ways to tackle a fight without holding your hand.

It may not rise to the level of such a classic, but tonally it's reminiscent of Young Frankenstein, a work that at once parodied the Shelley story in broad comic terms while also being supremely in awe of the James Whale film, right down to using original set pieces and compositions to mirror without any form of irony the source material.

Transformers: Dark of the Moon isn't so much a film as it is a sensory assault for masochists willing to pay top dollar to for their eyes to explode into a million pieces and their eardrums to reverberate to permanent injury by the onslaught of thunderous crashing, thumping, and clanging without any attempt to push forward a story from scene to scene.

It feels as though each individual director / writer built their story without any perception of what everyone else was working on, nor did they seem to concern themselves with tying up their pieces to boost the overall wrap.

It could have done without a few of the «artistic flourishes» when we get unnecessary shots of the protagonist staring into the sun etc, a romantic side - story doesn't add much either and the very end is set up a little awkwardly and obviously earlier on, but overall this is a finely made and quietly powerful piece of intelligent adult filmmaking.

The song is incredibly catchy, a mix of styles just like the film, with a bit of a Beach Boys sound, a bit of Queen's theatrics, a bit new wave and even a bit heavy metal — but it is without a doubt a singular piece, telling a singular story.

Compared to something like A Fantastic Woman, Lelio's intimate, wrenching drama about a trans woman in Chile that is also screening at this festival, Disobedience is a distant chamber piece, a story about hidden passions without much of its own.

Without much in the way of conflict, then, what's left is a piece that relies on every other element of story and craft to convince us that there's a reason we've gathered to watch Malcolm McDowell, self - consciously good as two - fisted octogenarian sports writer O.B. Keeler, or Jeremy Northam, excellent as hedonistic Walter Hagen, the anti-Bobby, if you will — it's unclear what flag they're saluting.

The pack includes: Colour pictures of Percy and the animals in the story Black and white pictures of Percy and the animals - great for colouring and art activities Percy's hut picture in the snow and without snow Snowy trees to add to adisplay to make a great snowy scene A number line to 50 on cute robins Alphabet bunting to hang in your classroom - each piece has a picture of one of the animals in the story and the lower case letter Winter clothing flashcards - great for discussion about clothes to wear when it is colder Word flash cards with words relating to the story - each card is decorated with a picture of Percy in the snow Question cards with questions about the story - great to add to a display A long display banner with the title and pictures of Percy and the animals A snowy board game to make and play A dice game to collect the pieces of each animal A worksheet to draw the scene from the window Photographs of snowy scenes - a great addition to any display Winter words - Words of snowflakes about winter A collection of rhymes and songs about winter Number rhyme about snowflakes with rhyme cards, face masks and props for singing the rhyme Snowflake alphabet jigsaws - find the two halves of the snowflakes with upper and lower case letters A collection of playdough mats linked to the story Dress Percy for winter - choose the appropriate clothes for Percy to wear in the snowy weather Colouring pictures of Percy and the animals and the snowy hut Stick puppets of Percy and the animals - great for retelling the story and for making up new stories Face masks in colour and black and white of Percy and the animals A colourful bingo game for the story «One Snowy Night» An A4 word mat with pictures and words relating to the story «Welcome to Percy's hut» large banner - great to use as part of a role play area of Percy's hut A game of snap to make and play Animals footprints in the snow - great to add to a display and for discussion Two different word searches with words and pictures relating to the story Please note: The art work used in these resources has been produced by ourselves.

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Stephanie Brower's red - and - brass 1914 Ford Model T Speedster would be a sunny piece of car history even without its heartfelt back story.

The potential for a renewed interest in short stories — stand - alone fiction that will no longer have to wait to be anthologized or published as a collection — as well as timely pieces of non-fiction on current world events means that readers without the time or inclination to tackle longer pieces of literature can now fill their reading needs with shorter and less pricey ebooks.

There's an argument to be made that Tomb Raider has been able to provide plenty of entertainment in the past without a meaningful story, but a truly well - constructed story could be the missing piece that pushes Shadow of the Tomb Raider from being a great to an exceptional title.»

Once you clear the game, various collectible «memories» are unlocked in each chapter which, when found, unlock small little extra pieces of story that help to expand upon the world of Rain and fill in some of the more nebulous bits of the story, but without ruining whatever your previously held interpretation of the game events were.

The game is simply great, with amazing set pieces and a crazy story, but the real highlight of the game is the combat that simply thrives on letting the player figure out the best ways to tackle a fight without holding your hand.

Items dropped yes, but higher rarity items, set pieces and legendries specifically, were so rare that I often went entire play trough's of the story mode without a single legendary loot drop.

It almost feels like a shame this piece of story is tossed so haphazardly into chapter two, but where else could it go in a game without a third chapter?

While I enjoyed Uncharted 3's story and some of its magnificent set pieces, it seemed to be going through the motions at times and felt like more of a refinement of the previous adventure without the care and excitement baked into it.

Quantum Break looks fantastic, Remedy have a knack for writing narrative stories that can twist and unravel into something deeper yet still include action heavy set - pieces without disrupting the flow of the game's narrative so I'm incredibly excited for this one.

The works on view in Rachel Uffner's booth point slyly to her ongoing fascination with mythologies of all kinds, without making any reference overly obvious — if you think the piece above refers only to the Biblical Eve, you may need to look up the story of a certain Aphrodite and a handsome man named Paris.

They spoke last, after the nine coal industry and coal - allied politician witnesses, who bemoaned the burden of following critical clean water regulations and wrongly blamed the Obama administration for its coal - production woes — of course without a single mention of their real problem, which is the subject of a flurry of current news reports: Coal in Appalachia is running out, there is little left to mine (see the AP's report that broke the story, Jeff Goodell's Rolling Stone piece «The Coming Decline and Fall of Big Coal,» and even this energy industry publication story).

Hardly a week goes by without a news story indicating some government or public institution is either being sued or has settled a big - ticket piece of litigation.

The problem that arises in my view is that The Globe (and previously the National Post when she was employed there) often presents her pieces in the context of news without an accompanying dispassionate factual story.