Sentences with phrase «powerful story of love»

Players will explore beautiful environments on a deserted island as «a powerful story of love, loss, guilt, and redemption» unfolds before them.

Abandoning traditional gameplay for a pure story - driven experience, Dear Esther fuses its beautiful environments with a breathtaking soundtrack to tell a powerful story of love, loss, guilt and redemption.»

Watson returns to the West with a powerful story of love and loyalty.

A «powerful story of love and survival» (Pulitzer Prize finalist David Gates), Harnett's novel is a must - read for lovers of literary fiction.

With a tremendous cast this powerful story of love and hardship comes to life with a real heartbeat felt by anyone that is willing to watch such a beautiful story unfold.

Maybe it is because I have never read the book, so this was the first time I have experienced the powerful story of love and decadence.

A powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman's point of view.

Bitter Harvest, in theaters on February 24, is a powerful story of love, honor, rebellion and survival as seen through the eyes of two young lovers caught in the ravages of Joseph Stalin's genocidal policies against Ukraine in the 1930s.

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Featuring new stories from Ann's blog, powerful excerpts from the New York Times bestseller The Broken Way, and Ann's signature photography from her farm and family, this gorgeous book will be a profoundly meaningful and needed gift — not only to your own weary soul, but any loved one looking for the relief of a bit of beauty and abundant joy.

Technology — «what works» — has become our god, expressed in all the most powerful myths of the most powerful media, while the God of justice and love is relegated to the sidelines of life, expressed in antiquated language and obscure stories lacking both clarity and relevance.

Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story From Africa by Jeanette Winter — I love finding books that subvert the notion of «hero» to include powerful and influential women like Wangari Maathi.

Modeling your own love of reading is more powerful than making your child sit through a rigid story time.

«A powerful story of loss, love and redemption that will stir the souls of it's readers and remind you you're not alone.»

John Green's novel tells the powerful love story of Hazel (Shailene Woodley) and Augustus (Ansel Elgort), two teenagers with cancer.

Now, at ESPN.com, Coogler's lovely reflection on DuVernay's career charts their parallel paths while also dialing in on the emotional power of DuVernay's filmic retelling of A Wrinkle in Time, a story that is, as Coogler sees it, a powerful and familiar reflection on loss and love, influenced by the loss of DuVernay's father:

Harrison, who joined the project in 2005, said she was drawn to the material because it's a powerful love story and a unique portrait of a relationship that faces an unexpected test.

It's telling that most of the powerful moments in this dramatic love story occur when Lili and Gerda (Alicia Vikander) are not together or when they are interacting with other characters.

In her review of the film for the BFI, my good friend and collaborator Sophie Mayer astutely links Stories We Tell to the feminist classic Daughter Rite (1978) by Michelle Citron, and what I love about this connection is the fact that it perfectly crystallizes how experimental and powerful Polley's examination of female identity — both hers and that of her elusive mother — is.

With their powerful moral undercurrents, minimalist acting and ascetic style, Bresson's films (Mouchette would make an excellent companion piece to The Kid with a Bike) weren't concerned so much with stories and characters as with the ideas they helped to illuminate — namely the continual war between man's baser and higher instincts, between the evils of mistrust and crime, and the virtues of charity, compassion and love.

Liv Tyler is on the top of her game as love interest Betty Ross, and their story is incredibly powerful.

Occasionally a little too sentimental but with powerful performances from Eddie and Alicia, The Danish Girl is a sensitive story of love, friendship, and being true to oneself.

Sure, it's about a guy who swaps a little DNA with a housefly and finds himself transforming into an inhuman monster — but it's also a powerful metaphor for humanity's fear of disease and a tragic love story at the same time.

One of the most powerful cinematic romances in recent years follows the story of a reserved young man who, by falling in love with an outgoing friend, learns to better understand himself and his sexuality.

The Shape of Water movie review: That The Shape of Water has 13 Oscar nominations indicates that the love story largely floats above the problems with the film — buoyed to a large extent by a timorous, luminous, powerful Sally Hawkins.

When it's «The Adjustment Bureau,» an adaptation of the hard - to - describe Philip K. Dick short story about a politician (Damon) whose love for a ballet dancer (Emily Blunt) faces stiff opposition from a mysterious and powerful group known as — you guessed it — the Adjustment Bureau.

Released in 2004, at the height of that propagandistic time, we have the story of a powerful garrison stationed in a faraway land, banding together for no reason other than fellowship and duty, to protect one group of freedom - loving primitives from another, more aggressive band.

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Verdict: Powerful and affecting, DAUGHTER OF MINE is a straightforward but compelling drama that engages and succeeds in delivering an interesting story of love, empowerment and forgivenesOF MINE is a straightforward but compelling drama that engages and succeeds in delivering an interesting story of love, empowerment and forgivenesof love, empowerment and forgiveness.

A ten - minute clip (or shorter) from a film like The Story of the Weeping Camel from Mongolia might suffice to create a powerful discussion prompt on geography and language, on different perspectives about material luxuries, survival, family, how loved ones are cared for, being kind and considerate, what different living environments look like and how they are built, and how kids play or entertain themselves in different settings.

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.

In Grand Tourer, David Burgess-Wise tells the story of a magnificent car and its party - loving first owner / Delwyn Mallett enjoys the sights and sounds at Goodwood's annual Festival of Speed celebration of history's greatest cars and drivers / Pared - down and powerful, Jaguar's XK150S Roadster was the spiritual successor to the celebrated XK120.

In a powerful novel that skillfully overlays its tragic love story with pointed social commentary, Rash effortlessly summons the rugged Appalachian landscape as well as the xenophobia of a country in the grip of patriotic fervor.

Though part of what makes this novel so memorable is the child narrator (the story is told from five - year - old Jack's perspective), it's Ma's resourcefulness, resilience and fierce love for her child that is truly inspiring and powerful.

Arturo Pérez - Reverte is at his finest here, offering readers a bittersweet, richly rendered portrait of a powerful, forbidden love story that burns brightly over forty years, from the fervor of youth to the dawn of old age.

If you have a story of how technology makes you or someone you work with more powerful, we would love to hear it.

Told in the inventive, funny, and poignant voice of Jack, Room is a celebration of resilience - and a powerful story of a mother and son whose love lets them survive the impossible.

In powerful stories, various contributors describe being touched by strangely coincidental reminders of friends and family who have died, receiving «urgent but gentle» commands from unseen voices or finding solace in final gifts from loved ones.

Reads like a travel journal written about an incredible love story containing a powerful message of faith and grace.

Inspired by over two hundred and fifty documented accounts of the women who fought in the Civil War while disguised as men, I Shall Be Near To You is the intimate story, in Rosetta's powerful and gorgeous voice, of the drama of marriage, one woman's amazing exploits, and the tender love story that can unfold when two partners face life's challenges side by side.

Against the backdrop of a rapidly changing Iran, Parisa Reza has written a powerful love story filled with scenes of hope and heartbreak.

Of course, the love affair between Mamah and Frank is central to the story, but Loving Frank is first and foremost the story of Mamah's life, and although the relationship between her and Frank is interesting, it is the exploration of her character and the period details that impact her life that keep the reader enthralled, as she struggles to reconcile her need to be with Frank, her need to be with her children and perhaps most powerful of all, her need to discover who she is herselOf course, the love affair between Mamah and Frank is central to the story, but Loving Frank is first and foremost the story of Mamah's life, and although the relationship between her and Frank is interesting, it is the exploration of her character and the period details that impact her life that keep the reader enthralled, as she struggles to reconcile her need to be with Frank, her need to be with her children and perhaps most powerful of all, her need to discover who she is herselof Mamah's life, and although the relationship between her and Frank is interesting, it is the exploration of her character and the period details that impact her life that keep the reader enthralled, as she struggles to reconcile her need to be with Frank, her need to be with her children and perhaps most powerful of all, her need to discover who she is herselof her character and the period details that impact her life that keep the reader enthralled, as she struggles to reconcile her need to be with Frank, her need to be with her children and perhaps most powerful of all, her need to discover who she is herselof all, her need to discover who she is herself.

Whether home is a small town in Texas or a Regency townhouse in London, going back home again means powerful love stories made more so by the season of love.

The powerful conclusion of The Giver quartet, Son stands alone as a story of friendship, love, loss, and sacrifice.

Spanning the waning years of vaudeville and the golden age of Hollywood, Niagara Falls All Over Again chronicles a flawed, passionate friendship over thirty years, weaving a powerful story of family and love, grief and loss.

Written with all the propulsive tension that made Room a huge bestseller, The Wonder works beautifully on many levels — a tale of two strangers who transform each other's lives, a powerful psychological thriller, and a story of love pitted against evil.

Actress Mounts» penetrating performance intensifies this gorgeously written, powerful story of a transgender teen, her struggles, and her search for acceptance, love, and safety.

- Pat Conroy, author of South of Broad «This is a tender, powerful, and deeply satisfying story about the universal quest for love, forgiveness, belonging, and family.

The result is a modern epic of love and terrorism, loss and reinvention — a powerful, timely story told with the daring and panache that make Salman Rushdie a force of light in our dark new age.

Yet I wanted my stories to be known, for I would not have written them if I did not have things to say, powerful insights from close to five decades of living, loving, and learning.