Sentences with phrase «presented as a story»

Some people retain information when it's presented as a story.

It is as charmingly presented as a story - book illustration and as respectful of its audience as a Roald Dahl book.

And that's in part because he's a great storyteller; his greatest teachings are presented as stories.

Admission essays are better presented as a story narrative to engulf the reader.

The book is presented as a story of a multi-generational family that wants to retire and leave a legacy for their future heirs.

Phantom Trigger presents itself as a story within a story.

While there are story quests and events that players can participate in, Warframe has never been and likely never will be presented as a story - driven game.

The book is presented as a story of a multi-generational family that wants to retire and leave a legacy for their future heirs.

In fact, I have yet to work with a retail sales associate, or home health care aide or correctional institution employee who wasn't delighted to see his / her work ennobled by my presenting it as a story of that candidate's employment — of who that person is and how he or she contributes and takes pride in their work.

Not exact matches

Logo, which alongside MTV presented Cox's Daytime Emmy - winning 2014 documentary The T Word spotlighting the stories of seven transgender young people, will again address the issue this fall with the doc Gen Silent, zeroing in on a group of LGBT seniors confronting discrimination as they encounter health care issues.

As the the inside story unfolds on what could have been the real trouble between the suspect and the tech company, our hearts go out for Google employees present at the YouTube headquarters earlier today.

The FT presents the lack of investment capital as a cultural problem, but I think that's only part of the story.

Enter Ghosh's articulation of Husky's current post-recapitalization story and strategy, presented as focused on three growth pillars: its gas business in Southeast Asia, the jewel of which is the Liwan Gas Project in the South China Sea; a Western Canadian heavy - oil foundation, focused on the oilsands Sunrise Energy Projects; and White Rose offshore oil operations on the Atlantic coast.

They found that the proportion of «professional to junk news» was «roughly one - to - one,» and that «fully 46.5 % of all content presented as news» about politics and the election fell under «the definition of propaganda» when unverified WikiLeaks content and Russian - origin news stories were factored in.

I don't quite buy the «tournament» story of CEO's as presented.

The report in The Daily was presented as a non-event, but the data reveal important stories about the winners and losers since the recession.

Drawing on his life story, as well as conversations with ordinary and extraordinary people he has met along the way, Dr. Bob presents a compelling framework that will define and dramatically enhance your experience of what it means to be human.»

VICE Documentary Films Presents SHELTER: SHELTER tells the raw and emotional stories of our brave young people as they seek help and hope at Covenant House.

Real stories from staff in the industry show that the issue is as present here as it is in any other country.

Similarly, lenders — while more focused on the dollar amounts — also need to know the full story as to why your clients present certain financials, what they need, and why they are seeking certain funding.

They will claim perfect compatibility between their story and genuine study by presenting each exposed belief as having never been literal / relevant / real.

This way of telling Luther's story is quite conservative in its effects, even though it presents Luther as a radical, for it makes the present division of the Church seem normal and inevitable to us.

It presents the story of the last days of Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., as she battles the advanced cancer that we know from the outset will take her life.

HOWEVER, if this person was running for public office, instead of the «feel - good» story here, the media would vilianize this church for some inane belief that they would take wildly out of context and present it to the American public as the most fundamentalist extreme church ever to lay it's foundation on our shores.

Many years ago I was added to the listserve for a group of Evangelical pastors, though not a pastor myself, and one day one of them asked the group about using stories or quotes in sermons without telling their people they were using them, that is, presenting the stories as their own stories and the quotes as their own creation.

And so the evidence that Christians continue to present as «proof» of their god is either the earliest fragments of these same man - written stories (proving nothing other than that someone wrote the stories down!)

This story is simply something that the church has no teachings, or story, these things are not taught or discussed at church as the church has no political agenda presented from the pulpit, in classes or meetings.

satans aim was to stop the fulfillment of the seed that would crush satan underfoot.This hybrid between the angels and man created giants abominations in Gods eyes.They also were a threat to Gods people as can be seen by the giants in the land of caanan after the flood.If we agree on that then there is no way that Eve would have had intercourse with satan [false doctrine of the seed of satan -RCB- because the blood lines were still untainted by angelic beings or satan at the time of Noah maybe that is also why the genealogy of Christ is well presented with no surprises apart from Hagar and Ruth these two were gentiles that shows Gods mercy grace was always there to all nations he accepts people by faith not by race.Prior to the flood the mixing of the angels and man must have been widespread after the flood these beings were present but in limited numbers and God told his people to destroy them as they were abominations but they were a threat to Gods people.It would be interesting to hear what the rabbis had to say on this matter as i would think the stories would have been past down from generation to the next.Especially regarding the flood.God promised he would never flood the earth again but a time is coming when the earth will be judged not by flood but by fire Jesus is our ark and we are safe in him.brentnz

At that point I hadn't had as much evidence presented to me, and although I tended to believe the story already, I decided to split the public theology from the private behavior when I reviewed The Didache.

The modern individual has too often subjugated the spontaneous to the orderly, the possible to the necessary, the enthusiastic to the reasonable, the wonderful to the regular.9 In yet another description, Keen identifies our current «dis - ease» as our inability to view life as a «story,» to integrate past, present, and future into a meaningful whole.10 The metaphysical myths of our tradition no longer confer identity upon us today.

«Whether or not one accepts his description as entirely accurate, it is impossible to gainsay that AA — past and present — provides a thrilling spiritual story.

The present - day methodology of history and science as an accurate accounting of historical events and an objective description of physical processes simply didn't exist when these stories were composed.

It's always fascinating that people will scoff at 800 pages of ancient manuscripts now called the Bible, but as soon as any scrap of ancient manuscript comes along that presents a different story, that scrap is revered as more significant than the 800 pages.

It was rather that whether you take the story literally or as a mythical description of what we mean by the Resurrection (namely, that the living presence of the crucified Christ is present with us now), the idea is better forgotten, or rather is better not entertained at all, that the Resurrection is parallel to the raising of Lazarus from the grave in the Fourth Gospel.

I am the Lord your God» (19:3), reverence before parents and reverence before God are brought into explicit alignment, as they are in our present story.

American history has usually been presented as a great «success story, and much in that story is true.

For the period from 1914 to the present, Blumhofer switches to the developmental model used by William Menzies in an earlier work, Anointed to Serve: The Story of the Assemblies of God (1971) She illustrates many of the points with fresh anecdotal material and brings into greater focus certain aspects of the history, such as the denomination's response to the New Order of the Latter Rain.

You believe in Jesus because someone made up a story with a guy named Jesus as the hero and presented it to others.

As Paul tells his story, he draws a number of symbolic parallels between his own past and the present situation at Galatia.

In considering the Easter story, for instance, Cox describes the biblical accounts of Jesus» bodily resurrection as the confused ramblings of disciples who knew no other way to express their feeling that their rabbi remained somehow present in their lives.

Presented as a novel, the book is really a collection of short stories revolving around Margaret Sargent, a lightly fictionalized version of McCarthy.

Tough - guy New York newspaperman Pete Hamill praised the book as a scathing indictment of the «culture of poverty» (yes, he really uses this phrase) fostered by «Eamon de Valera's Ireland,» while the literary critic Denis Donoghue, writing in the New York Times, presented the book in much the same way (though he clearly lacks Hamill's enthusiasm for the story).

Otherwise we are back where we began: with officially exorcised but practically, dominant programs of Western and modern stories of progress; with monological forms of rationality and increasingly brittle notions of a self seemingly coherent but actually possessive and consumerist; with «others» present, if at all, only as projections of our modem selves, our desires, wants, needs.

Since I am working from a collection of Jesus» sayings, I have to abstain from the narrative part of his biography, the stories of his birth, healings, Holy Week, and Easter, for, as we will see, they are not in the Sayings Gospel Q at all, or at most, present in a very indirect way.

The story doesn't present either spiritual style as better than the other; it presents a Savior who can love and use them both.

For example, the Yahwist version seems to be present in the story where Moses is elected, chosen, and authenticated by God himself, where Moses is appointed by God as the intercessor on behalf of the people.

If we read this story carefully and take in its finer points, we realize that the visit of the three men is presented as a cultural event.

To slip into Whiteheadian technical terminology, I understand Jesus as a figure the story of whom we objectify with peculiar vividness as a result of his power to grasp the successive subjective aims of generations and generations of men by the sheer massiveness and compelling weight of the ideal vision which he has presented as a lure promising richness and depth of feeling in human satisfactions.

And in Buddhism, the story of Gautama's Great Renunciation — in which he abandoned home, wife, and child is presented as an exemplar of the kind of detachment essential for enlightenment.

Making the question about a stories creation (by a god or a man) is a complicating a more basic question about a gods existence, and attempting to present a lack of belief as a belief.