Sentences with phrase «pretty good narrative»

H - seems like dogs are individuals, not a brand - name product and a result of their environments is a pretty good narrative for all dogs, don't you think?

Not exact matches

So that when faced with a heady career discussion with my boss, colleagues, wife, or (to be honest) myself, I'd have a quantitative, longitudinal, evidence - based narrative that would beat the pants off of «Pretty good, I guess.»

Entrepreneurs tend to be an action - oriented, onwards - and - upwards lot — a longitudinal study published by the Journal of Economic Psychology in 2014 associated successful entrepreneurs with higher - than - normal levels of hardiness, resourcefulness and optimism — meaning that when their venture fails, there's a pretty good chance they'll be able to rebound quickly, with a nifty second - act tale of adversity to slot into their narrative.

Also in the post is a pretty concise narrative of each mind - boggling event that led up to this sell - off as well as a graph showing where it ranks percentage-wise against other Dow Jones nosedives throughout history.

For a Christian kid in the»90s, this was probably pretty cool, but like a lot of swing - for the - fences decades - old music videos, the ambitious narrative doesn't really age well — especially the twist ending.

There's been a narrative that's starting to be dispelled that the Panthers are the worst 13 - 0 team in the history of the NFL, which is a pretty hilarious thing to say, but the underlying point is that they have some very real and well - documented weaknesses that get covered up by Cam Newton on offense, and All - Pro linebacker play on defense.

Although I've found it very cathartic to speak, vent and end occasionally rant about all things Arsenal, we need to act carefully and intelligently right now or we're going to get played by this club even worse than at present... the pro-Wengerites and the suits, who represent a considerable proportion of the season ticket holders, don't want to believe that there is no plan and that Wenger has mailed it in for several years now or that things are going to get much worse before they get better... why would they... many have spent a considerable sum buying some of the highest priced tickets in the World... they want to have a front row seat to see something special and to be seen doing so, which simply provides ample justification for the expense and the time invested... to many of them, Wenger is the sun in their soccer universe... his awkward disposition, misplaced arrogance and his utter lack of balls makes him a rather unusual cult figure, but the cerebral narrative seemed to embolden those who already felt pretty highly of themselves... many might not even of really liked football that much before his arrival and rarely games they weren't attending... as such, they desperately believe that Wenger, and only Wenger, can supply them with their required fix... if he goes, they were wrong and that's a tough pill to swallow... they would have to admit that they were duped... they will definitely resent whoever made them feel this way, but of course it will be too late by then... so when we go overboard with ridiculous comments bordering of anarchy, it scares the shit out of them and they shift their blame towards us rather than at those who really perpetrated this act of treason... we aren't the enemy... we simply woke much earlier and the reason our comments have gotten more vile in recent years is out of utter frustration... in order for any real change to occur at this club we need to bring as many supporters as possible with us or the big money interests will fade and our ultimate objective will be lost... so it's time to focus on the head instead of the heart for now

After a signature game - winning performance against Arsenal, Paul Pogba's sending - off and subsequent three - game ban creates a pretty easy narrative for Monday morning if the result goes the wrong way: United lost to City because they didn't have their best player!

The tory message is very well established, their narrative on the roots of the crisis, on labour's profligacy and mismanagement, and their habit of tying Ed Balls in with that have been pretty successful, to put it mildly.

But overall, he and the Government have managed the narrative pretty well, and the ONS has kindly helped them out too.

When the dance is finally beat, Robert Baker... or Alabama, there's something endearing enough about the pretty points in cinematography and score work, touching occasions in entertainingly well - paced direction, interesting spots in a colorful story, and across - the - board decent performances - especially the one by Evan Rachel Wood - for the final product to border on decent, ultimately falling under the overwhelming weight of the glaring tonal and narrative incoherencies, flat humor, dramatic contrivances, problematic themes, even more problematic leads, ridiculous story and onslaught of clichés which render Andrew Fleming's «Barefoot» an occasionally charming, but mostly mediocrely misguided romantic dramedy.

Callahan's story is pretty great — and his cartoons can be bleak as f*ck but they're funny — and it's a good counterpoint to the usual disability narrative that we see, which is that a spinal cord injury is the end of all things.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

A film that shows Liberace's male concubines as true expendable assets; it weaves pretty much throughout the films narrative and holds it together - though Soderbergh's take on the glamour and insecurities of the mans life is well executed.

Still, with a pretty solid cast that also includes comedian Jeff Garland, Ellie Kemper, and Gretchen Mol and a director (Lynn Shelton) who has worked on the likes of the film Diggers as well as directing episodes of Mad Men and New Girl, I'm sure the trailer is a bit misleading with its annoyingly upbeat and conventional narrative.

The game is, on the surface, an open - world urban adventure title that fits in pretty well alongside contemporary examples of the genre (GTA, Saints Row, etc); you've got story missions that move the narrative forward and side missions that offer some sort of bonus to your stats or inventory, all conveniently labeled with radar blips on the maps of the sprawling cities you can explore.

If one needed any proof that Trank has always be in the right here, rewatch his Fantastic Four and notice that the movie works extremely well until a pretty clear watermark where the editing and narrative path of the script — two elements of filmmaking that studios obsessively control — collapse into a mess.

Because the novel is written in first - person narrative you get a pretty good feel for who she is.

Largely that's because the narrative is pretty light - weight and not all that well put together, except for a mid-game twist which most people will see coming so long as they're paying vague attention but is still rather fun.

What surprises you at first is that for a fighting game the Injustice series has done pretty well in terms of delivering an A class comic book story that is actually an interesting narrative that keeps you glued to the screen.

However there is still a lot to like about Andromeda once you come to terms with its focus on exploration and side - stories over a single captivating narrative thread, and it ends up being a pretty good experience overall.

It's a good thing that not much stock is being put into the game's narrative because a) The French Revolution as a setting pretty much comes with the narrative pre-installed and b) this means that the developers can focus on pants that make you faster gameplay.

Alpha Protocol ended up being a pretty good Bond simulator with their branching narrative choices.

The campaign could've been something unique and pretty damn good, but ultimately it's the narrative that fails here; the solid voice acting, gritty feel, and overall excellent sound design (pro-tip: Make sure to turn on the audio setting «War Tapes») that Battlefield games excel at can't save the mediocre final product.

For most narratives that come along with a fighting title, I believe the one for Injustice: Gods Among Us was done pretty well and its use of cutscenes helped to further explain events and keep the story well paced.

NBA with career mode seems pretty interesting and if you want to relax you can enjoy the narrative of Gone Home, looks like a good combination of games to me, and ps3 has horror games?

Video Games, at their best, are a kind of narrative that takes place between the gamer and the game makers, and when people give as much back as the fans of the Sonic series have, it can lead to some pretty incredible results.

An unforgettable fusion of narrative, character, combat, dialogue and, of course, a pretty good movie license.

actually, being a pretty good psychologist, that just shows me you nipped, very fast, to try and get a quote and, strangely, it didn't fit into your narrative, so you tried to force it in and you failed, hey, dhogaza, hey?

Although I have seen a pretty good number of former alarmists who say they are now skeptics of the «dangerous MMGW» narrative, due in large part to reading WUWT articles and comments.

It's pretty clear a good section of the rank and file climate research community are at least sympathetic to the warming narrative.

That narrative is still around in the background, but overall the narrative seems to be shifting that Apple is doing pretty good, and it's competition is having trouble competing.