Sentences with phrase «powerful stories there»

Her obsession with finding each root, each branch, stripping the bark and turning over every hidden leaf and stem of her family tree consumed her, until she had accumulated such powerful stories there was no choice but to write about the amazing people with whom she had made acquaintance.

... there's a powerful story there, and it's a story that resonates with people, this story that the tobacco industry misled people about the link between smoking and lung cancer, and the same techniques are being used today about climate change.

Not exact matches

Data can help you tell a powerful story, but there are many ways to visually present that story.

But this is also about a mind - set: although we think there are powerful civic and commercial reasons for allowing very extensive free access to Times journalism — our pay model is far more porous than others — we believe that every story we do should be worth paying for.

There are two answers to this: first, because the film is released on DVD this month and is expected to challenge all - time sales records, and second, because the central story contained within it is remarkably, profoundly and intentionally stuffed with powerful theological messages.

At its core, however, there's a powerful story being told about how extreme, religious dogma can both shape and ruin us.

It might all have made for quite a grim little horror story, even a powerful morality fable» if only there were an actual novel somewhere in this novel.

When Christians relay their stories as if their original «conversion» moments didn't actually count, just because there was a more powerful turning point that happened later along the road that makes for a better story, the truth is being infringed upon.

Within the human race the people of Israel pioneered the way of faith which is our heritage, and there is no more powerful myth than the story of the Christ of faith.

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Especially when I hear other birth stories and there are many obvious signs of distress, long and drawn out in a rough labor, and the baby comes out kicking and screaming... Now that we can look back on her birth day, while holding a healthy, resilient little one, I'm still trying to figure out a way to disconnect the wonderful, powerful, redeeming qualities of my experience, from the terrifying experience at the very end.

But there is another side to the neutron story — they have also become a powerful research tool that can reveal the structure of matter.

Depending on your first bleed experience, this may feel traumatic; or it may feel like a total non-event but know that your menarche story is a powerful insight into the woman you are now, so dare yourself to really go there.

Amazingly powerful story, that's all that's there to be had here, no real innovative gameplay, but the story is more than worth it.

The insistent crosscutting suggests there is something powerful between the two stories, but apart from vague connections of jealousy, emotional tension and conversations that constantly dance around the real issues, they don't resonate across the years.

There's definitely some re-tread going on with Batman: Arkham Origins, but the combat, the relatively good story (B - list villain aside), the powerful feeling of being Batman in video game form has only muted my enthusiasm for the franchise by the smallest of margins.

There are more than a dozen big names attached to this purposeful and often powerful war story, but perhaps the one with the biggest impact is behind the scenes, Jerry Bruckheimer.

As the movement grows larger and more powerful, Heineman discovers this is not just a story about good against evil — I came away thinking there is no difference between the knights templar and the defenses.

There's a tormented man in a position of authority, a deeply religious story about a church community, and a powerful performance from an underrated actor.

With that minor quibble aside, there is no denying that the story of Noah's Ark remains a powerful tale, and frankly a more enjoyable one under Darren Aronofsky's masterful direction.

Had there been an actual cohesive film, offering context, character, story and history, it could have been one of the most powerful movie's I've ever seen.

The different messages overlap each other and clutter up the story a little but there is a powerful twist in the tale toward the finale that leaves a strong impression.

There's no balance, no epistemology, no other side of the story: there's the insular, protected, heedlessly destructive world of the super-rich and powerful (right and left) and everything else is the maThere's no balance, no epistemology, no other side of the story: there's the insular, protected, heedlessly destructive world of the super-rich and powerful (right and left) and everything else is the mathere's the insular, protected, heedlessly destructive world of the super-rich and powerful (right and left) and everything else is the margin.

Suffice to say, clearing up the Zorah Magdaros story isn't the end of Monster Hunter World; there are a number of powerful monsters that only make their presence known in the game's High Rank quests.

Gore's message still resonates, but for every powerful moment or example of incontestable scientific fact there's also one where the point of all this gets diluted as it focuses on the former politician - turned - activist and not the story he is eager to tell.

«When Tarell shared his powerful story with us there wasn't a dry eye in the room,» said Oprah Winfrey.

There's such a powerful story about a mother buried inside of this film, and it's quite enchanting to see that portrayed with a thoughtful delicacy.

But there is something deeply powerful about hearing a classroom of your peers read life into a text by reading it with passion and understanding and inflection and... Instead of thinking when you're reading silently, «I wonder if anyone cares about this book,» seeing that every other kid in the class loves this book, wants to bring it to life, enjoys it, is relishing the fiction and the words in the story.

But sometimes, there is a lot more to the story than surface numbers — and the numbers underneath tell a much more powerful story.

The 50 stories gathered here, along with hundreds of others, were submitted as part of the Rethink Learning Now campaign, a national grassroots effort to change the tenor of our national conversation about schooling by shifting it from a culture of testing, in which we overvalue basic - skills reading and math scores and undervalue just about everything else, to a culture of learning, in which we restore our collective focus on the core conditions of a powerful learning environment, and work backwards from there to decide how best to evaluate and improve our schools, our educators, and the progress of our nation's schoolchildren.

There's the story of his miraculous birth, that he came into the world already circumcised, with a full head of hair all long and silver and already combed, and at the age of three could stand and deliver speeches on the virtues of his all - powerful moral authority in the sky.

There are always ways of making that story more powerful through improved craft and subtler changes, rather than big ones.

In Book Creator, you can easily make a voice recording of the child telling the story but often having the written text there can make that story even more powerful.

There's a great dynamic between the classical composition and the asymmetric woman's face that creates a powerful pull into the story.

Saying goodbye to a pet is never easy, but there is something powerful about having people all over the world share your pain and contribute their own stories about pets they have lost.

The opening of the game's primary story that focuses on Artyom and the Dark Ones is strong, but then it vanishes for a large of the chunk of the game, only to re-emerge later in powerful fashion before fizzling out once again with a weak final third of the campaign and endings (there's two available) that will likely leave quite a lot of people feeling a little unsatisfied, something which is becoming horribly common in games these days, although others may quite enjoy it — it's a hard call to make.

Even IF Final Fantasy VII WAS a story of unrequited love, (which it's not, because Aeris didn't love Cloud, as I've gone over) it certainly isn't a «powerful» one in the least... unless you connect a whole bunch of dots that aren't really there, which is what you guys seem to be doing.

In our experience, there are two kinds of gamers drawn to open world games: the completionists that like to tick off every objective, climb every tower, and collect every item they can, and the story - driven players that like to push through the main game, get powerful, and finish off the main side missions when they're good and ready.

Gone Home understand that if there's one thing more powerful than tension in a story, it's release.

There's even a story assist button as a shortcut to easy and powerful moves.

While the controls can be troublesome and there are a few gimmicky moments, this is probably one of the most emotionally powerful stories of the year.

The story follows this premise pretty closely until you find out that there is an all - powerful warlord named Nobunaga out there who hopes to rule all kingdoms in the Ransei region through terror.

There are a ton of platformers available on the Xbox One, but few can match the mix of great controls, powerful story, and gorgeous graphics that make up Ori and the Blind Forest.

There's also a neat Story Assist feature that lets you perform powerful special moves without having to worry about complex commands.

There's a story here that basically pits an initially small force of troops and hired mercenaries against a powerful nation's military after their president's plane is shot down over enemy territory and the mission is to find out if he, along with a great military hero traveling with him are still alive.

While there isn't a rare costume / armor collecting component, there is a chance to find and use powerful offerings, which will bring players back time and time again, and the online multiplayer creates a group hunting dynamic that gives the game a life long after the story mode is completed and Magusar is finally defeated.

There hasn't been a more powerful narrative in the Halo games than the humanizing story between Master Chief and Cortana of Halo 4.

Even though there is a lack of nuance or a grey area in what constitutes good and evil, Persona 5's story is still powerful.

Data can help you tell a powerful story, but there are many ways to visually present that story.

, 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,