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With indicators such as mortgage lending and retail sales showing signs of recovery, even one quarter's growth gives Labour a powerful narrative for this autumn.

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And the thing about narratives is that they drive behavior in ways that are more powerful and profound than people readily acknowledge — for good and bad.

Blogging is a powerful medium particularly for those of us who are outside of the usual power narratives and structures either because of location or religion or gender or orientation or race or political leanings, let alone all the odd combinations therein.

For Americans, America's Founding is a singularly powerful unfolding of the Whig narrative, and with it the Whig narrative jumps into hyperdrive.

Almost from the moment Luther called for a debate on the practice of indulgences, the Reformation has been subject to two types of powerful and antithetical narratives.

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Labour has had a successful party conference, Ed Miliband made a powerful speech with a strong commanding narrative of Labour's objectives for government, but the only let - down was in the crucial area of economic policy.

Wale Adebanwi, en route to a new professorial chair at Oxford University, England, had gathered a lean but powerful assemblage, for a select reading of his new book, The Nation as Grand Narrative: The Nigerian Press and the Politics of Meaning (NY, USA: University of Rochester Press, 2016).

Those were the two narratives presented to jurors today in the Manhattan federal courthouse where Mr. Silver, still an assemblyman and once among the three most powerful men in the state, is standing trial on charges of honest services fraud, extortion and money laundering for allegedly taking more than $ 4 million in bribes and kickbacks.

The biographical drama is not only noteworthy for Hanks» sentimental and powerful portrayal of the title character in a well - crafted narrative, but also for its stunning cinematography.

«We have chosen a film that we believe encompasses the beauty, aesthetic, as well as the powerful themes of love, struggle, life, death, and womanhood that are the spirit of this year's festival,» said the jury for best narrative feature.

Such specific praise indicates, however, that what there is of narrative functions as little more than sparse captions for the powerful images.

Three powerful African - American narratives could also pull votes for a serious movie that would make a statement about race in America.

HBO Films will premiere The Tale, Jennifer Fox's powerful narrative memoir about her own reckoning with childhood sexual abuse, on May 26th, and Fox joined castmembers Laura Dern, Isabelle Nélisse, Jason Ritter, Ellen Burstyn and Common for a moving panel after Sunday night's AwardsLine screening of the film at LA's Landmark Theatre.

It's becoming commonplace to hear actors, writers and directors claiming that TV is now the place to be for powerful drama with narrative scope and rounded characters.

Because your colony's development is connected to these choices, it also creates a powerful emergent narrative throughout, not unlike ones found in The Sims, for instance.

After decades of documenting powerful women and their stories, docu filmmaker made the jump into narrative for her first time in May of 2016.

Taken as an allegory for a powerful man who doesn't entirely understand the scope of his power and its consequences, the picture's disregard for coherence and narrative linearity make some sense as well.

«Leadership stories (or «narrative research») is a powerful tool for connecting the privileged discourse of universities with the smart hands of experience — of connecting theory to practice,» adds Danzig.

With powerful prose and poetry, his narrative as student and then later, NYC teacher leader, loving father (and husband), and advocate for children paints a portrait of what public education can and must be for American society.

The teachers speak as advocates and ambassadors for sound education policy, for Read more about 2016 Teachers of the Year Share Powerful Narratives in «Leading from the Classroom» Podcast Series -LSB-...]

- Publishers Weekly «The search for this killer feline serves as the narrative thrust for John Vaillant's fascinating exploration of the deteriorating relationship between humans and these menacing, now seriously threatened creatures... Whether read as an adventure story or as documentary about delicate ecosystems, The Tiger is a powerful book.

Sarah's cutting, honest first - person narrative is studded with powerful images, and her restrained tone is a captivating vehicle for her roiling thoughts and feelings.

In his first book for young adults, Mosley deftly weaves historical and speculative fiction into a powerful narrative about the nature of freedom.

In his first book for young adults, he deftly weaves historical and speculative fiction into a powerful narrative about the nature of freedom.

It was powerful, even at an early age, because unconsciously I'd already bought into that narrative about running to the wild to heal yourself, and I think the same can be said for the subjects of those other, older stories in the book.

Visually powerful, poetically mesmerising, Myers elevates love and darkest desires to their proper place in the narratives we construct about why we love and yearn for the ones we do.

This dominant narrative surrounding the inevitability of female objectification and victimhood is so powerful that it not only defines our concepts of reality but it even sets the parameters for how we think about entirely fictional worlds, even those taking place in the realms of fantasy and science fiction.

For Storm Casters Ultra, we've upgraded every aspect of the game, with dozens of new and amazing cards, a new narrative, new prestige modes that quadruple the amount of gameplay, unique and powerful Ultra Cards, and more stability and performance fixes than you can shake a stick at.

«Gathering this level of talent together for this role speaks to our studio partner's drive to deliver a powerful narrative in Call of Duty,» said Tim Ellis, chief marketing officer, Activision.

RiME does have some minor frame - rate issues and it lacks challenging or even original gameplay but it largely makes up for this with a powerful narrative, stunning visuals and a near - perfect soundtrack.

Even though it lacks a true single player experience — disappointing considering its potential — Titanfall's actual gameplay, featuring massive, uber - powerful mechs, more than makes up for the half - baked narrative that exists to give you a reason to kill the opposing team.

Umberger seemed circumspectly optimistic about the broader implications of this growing receptiveness to vernacular art: «[The] more often public audiences encounter powerful art made by minority demographics, the more lopsided old narratives appear, and the mandate for inclusion continues to grow.»

Best known for large - scale interiors, landscapes, and portraits featuring powerful black figures, Marshall explores narratives of African American history from slave ships to the present and draws upon his deep knowledge of art history from the Renaissance to twentieth - century abstraction, as well as other sources such as the comic book and the muralist tradition.

The idea of appropriation, of taking images and transforming or re-contextualising them, has proved a powerful tool for artists, allowing them to reveal and challenge social and media narratives around, for example gender, sexuality and race.

A believer in the collective unconscious, Garabedian gravitated intuitively to the imagery and narrative of his ancient Armenian ancestors and, as in Harlow, to those icons that shine in his hometown of L.A. Garabedian is well known for this unique and imaginative subject matter: beautiful woman, powerful men, beleaguered women [Clytemnestra & Iphigenia] and chained men [Prometheus Chained].

The two narratives in the show — his unwavering artistic position and the persecution he faced for it — were a powerful manifestation of this complicated period in Chinese culture.

Kerry James Marshall: Mastry at Moca Los Angeles was an elegant and triumphant finale for an exhibition that received praise for its spare installation and powerful narratives regarding painting, history, family, violence, and race.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

A powerful moment occurs when a narrative is cracked open, when something one expects to be presented simply for what it is, or even more, for fact, is left unguarded as one possibility among many.

The new space has curated a powerful induction ceremony for many deserving artists and their estates into the blue - chip art - historical narrative.

Hamon compares the powerful lunar pull that prompted so many millions to look skyward Sunday night to a sustainability researcher's comment about the lack of a human «cultural narrative» for planetary care in my coverage of Pope Francis.

However, narrative can also be very powerful when engaging the wider community, who in turn will be useful advocates for you.

EMDR is a powerful tool for catalyzing integration in an individual across several domains, including memory, narrative, state, and vertical and bilateral integration.