Sentences with phrase «play than novel»

Not exact matches

This makes fiction based upon Scripture peculiarly problematic, at least for those who regard the work's underlying source as more than mere raw material: Is the novel, play, movie to be judged to some degree in accordance with its piety?

The sheer length and complexity of great novels, their patient playing out of the consequences of our moral choices, make them infinitely more useful than the brief schematic narratives that are commonly employed by moral philosophers to illustrate their claims.

These include a fantastic sequence in which Scout and Jem and Dill play the main parts of a revivalist meeting that culminates in Dill's grandly appearing as nothing less than the Holy Ghost, but not before the children have a pointed argument about denominational differences — Methodist vs. Baptist — and related liturgical practices (how's that for dating the novel?).

Emily spends more time playing with her sons Sebastian and Walter than she does working on her in - progress novel and editing photos, but since children are only small once, she's willing to let everything else slide.

In vivo tests on mice then confirmed the presence of more than half of the predicted metabolites, including two novel metabolites, which play a role in the pathways that regulate microbiota metabolism as well as host immune function.

Now, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine report that a novel laboratory tool that lets them find virus mutations faster and more efficiently than ever before has identified a biological mechanism that appears to play a big role in helping HCV evade both the natural immune system and vaccines.

Indeed this was the appeal, for Burns, of writing a play, rather than a novel, say.

The fields of personal representation are actually a bit more novel than most dating sites, asking things like where you're most likely to be found, the most played song on your iPod, and your favorite board game.

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In a lifetime of movie - going I've been happier with movies adapted from short stories than movies adapted from novels, and movies adapted from novels more than those made from plays.

This young century alone has seen Finding Neverland dramatizing the play's creation, no fewer than nine stage adaptations, NBC's live television special, Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson's Starcatchers series of bestselling prequel novels, the major 2003 filming, and the Syfy miniseries Neverland.

This Is Where is completely unlike Osage in that it is based on a novel rather than a play and doesn't have a full - on brawl between Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts.

Transformers the new movie by Michael Bay, is based not on a novel, play or screenwriter's inspiration but on a line of Hasbro toys that have been hot tickets for young boys such as myself for more than 20 years.

It crosses the Atlantic trailing legends: reportedly it's already made more money in the United Kingdom than any other English movie except Four Weddings and a Funeral, and a dark, less comic play derived from the same novel has had very successful productions in Edinburgh and London.

It's a clinical treatment of its subject matter that plays out in a wholly external world with an impossibly introspective delivery that might work well in the inverted storytelling of a novel, but in a movie where things should be shown rather than said, the quotable - but - less - than - notable The Counselor would rather say everything it has to say in words, while showing us as little as possible.

Based on the 12th novel in James Patterson's long - running series, the studio is clearly hoping that «Alex Cross» can reboot the film franchise that stalled out after 2001's «Along Came a Spider,» but surely there was a better option to play Cross than a man whose biggest claim to fame is dressing up like a fat black woman.

Her vividly sensual prose may make the novel a production designer's dream — and given what we've seen of the film thus far, it seems a likely awards contender in the design categories — but there should be more at play here than simple visual splendor.

He has some big shoes to fill, following in the footsteps of Clint Eastwood (who played the role in the first film version of the novel), but he more than holds his own, wielding his Irish brogue like a saber as he cuts these ladies to ribbons.

SEE THIS MOVIE IF: you are the type who likes to play six chess matches at a time OR your addiction to spy novels leans towards the most realistic of the genre, rather than the most action - packed

Colin Farrell is capable of delivering great work with the right material, and Terrence Howard is an excellent choice to play the silky - smooth villain, but more than anything else, this could be Oplev's coming out party as a director now that he's no longer stuck in the shadow of Stieg Larsson's popular novel.

I have to admit right now, I've never read the graphic novels and so going into the screening of this action movie I knew absolutely nothing about the story of these four men and the lovely, mysterious Aisha, other than they were being played by actors I enjoy seeing on screen and that they were on a mission of revenge.

Rather than kick Lewis Carroll's famous novel off from scratch, Tim Burton has chosen to return Alice (played by Mia Wasikowska) to Wonderland after a hopeless marriage proposal.

The only novel thing here is that the game is played in the portrait orientation rather than landscape, a change that makes it resemble Square Enix's iOS Dragon Quest games in what I'm sure is a total coincidence.

It's an intriguing matchmaking exercise, but the pairing of St. Aubyn with Lear seems predestined — who better to reckon with a play about frustrated power and familial resentment than the author of the Patrick Melrose novels, a five - book exorcism of ancestral demons?

But in between he returned to Britain to play a vicious record executive in the blacker - than - black comedy Kill Your Friends, based on John Niven's novel about 1990s Britpop.

Peopled by flapper - era caricatures partaking in white - collar social orgies fuelled by selfish hedonism, Luhrmann's interpretation of Fitzgerald's oft - debated novel emerges as grotesque melodrama that plays more like a Mexican telenovela than a respectful reinterpretation of 1920's New York high society.

Rhys - Meyers will play Valentine Morgenstern, a less - than - warm presence in the novel.

In the novel, we get the impression that Amelia is much more shallow than Garai plays her.

Based on Janet Fitch's best selling novel of the same name, White Oleander plays more like a four part drama on life - lessons than as a cohesive, conventional thriller.

Chilean - born Ruiz is a director whose love of storytelling and narrative play is often more engaging than the films themselves but with Mysteries of Lisbon, an epic based on a classic Portuguese novel (one yet untranslated into English), his engagement with the characters and their defining stories guides his direction, and his graceful camerawork and unerring eye for images both classical (like paintings in a cinematic frame) and fluid (his camera moves with purpose and grace) are in the service of the trajectories of the characters.

Its story - within - the - story, starring Jake Gyllenhaal as an everyman whose wife and young daughter are abducted on a Texas highway late one night, is far more compelling than its framing story, in which Amy Adams mostly reads an unpublished novel (which tells the abduction story; it was written by her character's ex-husband, also played by Gyllenhaal) and looks miserably rich.

I love it when smart people who think differently than me play with complex data sets and come to novel conclusions.

Many critics have misinterpreted this as a requirement that high school English teachers spend no more than 30 percent of their class time on poetry, short stories, novels, and plays.

The timepieces that play a role in Honig's fictional novel were offered as tributes to Putin the autocrat, a bribe for attention or favor, a more corrupt intention than the Cloisonné liqueur set given to Richard Nixon by Brezhnev during the May, 1972 SALT talks.

Jiles includes carefully chosen background details — Model Ts, saddle shoes, number three washtubs, Disney's Snow White, Movietone news shorts and the songs that play on the family's console radio — giving the reader a real sense of time and place that makes Stormy Weather seem more like a novel written in the 1930s than a historical novel about the 1930s.

So I stayed with the book, and was engaged in how the various storylines played out, that is, until I got to the end: I am afraid that the novel just stopped rather than ended when it came to the resolution of some of the plotlines.

I've been reading romance novels since I was twelve and I've got to tell you that in my traditional asian family with five brothers and a dad who loved to play around outside his marriage with other women, reading romances taught me better and healthier relationships than in real life!

I will, however: — write in my blogs about things other than publishing — work on my next novel and story collection — play lots of sims — write and share a short illustrated story, to see if I can — tweet whatever I want — read and review books when I want — make art, if I feel like it — make some new things for my Etsy shop — upload multitudes of unsorted travel photos from this summer — clean my house and get ahead of my laundry situation — help my son learn addition and subtraction — get away from the internet sometimes — experience daylight

Yeah, I'm too old to play that sort of game (even 2 - 3 years is way longer than I'm willing to sit on a finished novel, now that there are alternatives).

The author of more than 40 novels, his Devil In A Blue Dress was made into the 1995 film starring Denzel Washington; he's currently adapting the book for a Broadway play.

It has an upgraded 800 MHz processor that is markedly faster than the Novel's, most notably it can play video without any lag (more on that in the video section of the review).

I think short stories are a harder sell than novels as it is, so that will have played some part.

He has more than 10 years experience writing articles, poetry, novels, and stage and screen plays.

With its sharp dialogue and philosophical digressions, Chatwin's evocative account reads almost like a novel — some people he included in the book, in fact, accused him of playing fast and loose with the facts, writing more fiction than fact.

Whatever way you play, the larger than life personality of the hit series is brought to life on DS with dazzling style, while the unique features of the handheld ensure there are plenty of novel ways to gain the edge in battle.

The only novel thing here is that the game is played in the portrait orientation rather than landscape, a change that makes it resemble Square Enix's iOS Dragon Quest games in what I'm sure is a total coincidence.

Playing as some other characters, more like a short story with multiple endings than a full sized light novel, I think will add a lot of color and fun to the game as well.

More Marvel is never a bad thing, but Disney Infinity makes this more than a novel addition with great looking figurines and engaging ways for younger gamers to play.

For Sachs, a bricoleur is one «who hobbles together functional contraptions out of already given or collected materials, which he re-tools and re-signifies into new objects with novel uses, but more importantly, which he regenerates into a new, oscillating syntax: one of loss, gain, and more than anything, one of play.»

Over more than five decades, she has made paintings (politically electric Pop compositions incorporating collaged figures from movie poster and newspaper images isolated in bold, graphic space) and penned multiple plays, novels, and articles.