Sentences with phrase «power of a great novel»

A heavy diet of movies can make you crave the immersive power of a great novel, the sense of being plunged deep into another person's consciousness, that so few filmmakers promise and even fewer deliver.

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In the Williams novel, it is a stone of great power, rather than a ring, but it has the same effect on those who bear it: They become its possession, not its possessor.

Its experience of the extent to which human brutality can go, of the fury that can be unleashed when the human animal is attacked, its acceptance in wry cynicism of the venality of great and small; its acceptance, too, of a psychological analysis that tends to show how slight the power of reason, how great the strength of obscure passions; how corrupting of children the possible love of mothers and the wrath of fathers; its portrayal of men and mankind in bitterly disillusioned novels and in shuddering chronicles of man's inhumanity to man — in all this the 20th century has perhaps gone beyond anything that Edwards said in dispraise of men, individually and in the collective.

Gracefully describing the behavior of fish and butterflies and humpback whales, spinning out extended metaphors of great explanatory power, and conveying it all in a voice that was both familiar yet rigorous, Dawkins not only achieved a superb, lay - friendly exposition of Darwinian evolution but pushed the science into novel conceptual territory.

«The Fugitive» — based on Graham Greene's great novel «The Power and the Glory» and one of Ford's own favorites of his work — qualifies as Western noir just as much as Raoul Walsh's «Pursued» or William Wellman's «The Ox - Bow Incident.»

It's a very tough movie to watch (it's violent, intense, unbelievably sad and even infuriating at times), but like the crime novel at the center of the story, it demonstrates the power that a great piece of fiction can have on you, even one as polarizing and challenging as this.

Time - travel movies remain popular in the genre world, but none of them can match the weight and cumulative power of what Linklater managed here, making the simple story of a single family into a Great American Novel by letting it unfold at its own pace.

But they didn't fail him, so if it's been a while since you've experienced the power and transcendence of a great novel, read this one.

Rich in historical detail, the novel explores the immense challenges faced by women in the arts (past and present), provides a glimpse into the seedy underbelly of the art world across the centuries, and illustrates the transformative power and influence of great art.

Although the novel is unfinished (what we have is an extract from hundreds of manuscript pages), the dreamlike narrative possesses great power, drawing on Ellison's signature theme of racial identity.

From one of Israel's most acclaimed writers comes a novel of extraordinary power about family life — the greatest human drama — and the cost of war.

Winner of the 2016 BookBrowse Debut Novel Award A novel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana and along the way also becomes a truly great American nNovel Award A novel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana and along the way also becomes a truly great American nnovel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana and along the way also becomes a truly great American novelnovel.

In his heartfelt, heartbreaking novel, translated from the French, award - winning writer David Foenkinos proves that he knows a great deal about men, women, love lost and love found.At the beginning of Delicacy, young, beautiful Natalie appears to have it all: a high - powered job at a growing corporation, an exciting life in...

The last novel Dickens completed, and perhaps his most angry, it sounds all the great themes of his later work: the innocence and venality of the aspiring poor, the hollow pretensions of the nouveau riche, the unfailing power of wealth to corrupt everyone it touches.

THE GREAT AMERICAN READ is an eight - part series that explores and celebrates the power of reading, told through the prism of America's 100 best - loved novels.

The main difference here is that there's a far greater emphasis on the visual novel elements — with a huge section of the pitch page devoted to the background of your crew of «companions», and only a few mentions of the tactical RPG system that powers your more typical duties as commander (though, the stretch goals rebalanced this somewhat).

... Crash is the first great novel of the universe of simulation, the world that we will be dealing with from now on: a non-symbolic universe but one which, by a kind of reversal of its mass - mediated substance (neon, concrete, cars, mechanical eroticism), seems truly saturated with an intense initiatory power.

Only time will tell if Bitcoin can overcome the almost novel, speculative light in which many see it, but it is the visibility of the currency across public life that ultimately has the greatest power to influence greater use.

However, there is great power and potential in strengthening your beginner's mind as you seek out novel experiences as a couple, or engage in familiar experiences with a fresh set of eyes.