Sentences with phrase «rambling story»

My point in this long, rambling story is that love tends to find you.

Piggie is very concerned about his best friend, Gerald the Elephant, who has broken his trunk, as Gerald tells him a long, rambling story about how it happened.

«Tartt's much bruited first novel is a huge rambling story that is sometimes ponderous, sometimes highly entertaining.

That said, it is a charming work that in spite of a rambling story manages to delight thanks largely to wonderful characters and a healthy dose of lighthearted fantasy.

Nostalgia Director Mark Pellington tries to create a sense of loss and mystery, with this rambling story of various people suffering from grief or catastrophe, but while the attempt is occasionally effective, the story becomes grim and lugubrious.

How many of us have gone out for a round of films, and gone back to the house or driven out to a bluff overlooking the town and just started rambling a story together.

WELL, long, rambling story short, I snagged these blush pink jeans and this aztec printed top you see before you.

Well, long, rambling story somewhat short, I get introduced to Stacy and we're talking and chatting about the day and whatnot and she says, «Honey, I have to ask, WHERE is your completer jacket?»

And then, when he finally appears to have been backed into a corner, he tells this long rambling story about a man on the way to Jericho being mugged and someone crossing the road to help him — and then has the temerity to ask the interviewer what it means.

I am going to miss going fly - fishing with him, listening to his rambling stories, and watching with amazement as he talks with complete strangers at the mall or in the park as if they were long - lost friends.

After pantsing for ages, I suffered with rambling stories that meandered and had no shape.

But she starts out nervous, fidgets, and tells rambling stories that get far away from the original question.

Not exact matches

Rambling Another way that people squander their influence, says Morgan, is by not telling good stories.

It really bothers me how many people out there are so closed minded that they dismiss reality and evidence in exchange for the ramblings of a 2000 story written by men.

Walking the Wall told the story of his «extreme ramble», walking the entire length of the Israel / Palestine security wall.

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.

Unlike Western narratives that strive for a balanced, formal structure, talk - story is a rambling way of remembering the past so as to create it anew in the changing moment.

An utterly fascinating ramble through the constituting stories of Jewish and Christian tradition, combining solid scholarship and intellectual liveliness with a winsome style that makes the book a delight for both the specialist and the general reader.

But what will be a big deal for the media and the football pundits to start rambling about is if Arsenal lost the match, a shocker punch by Lincoln doing a giant killing act to the Gunners will be loved by the media and the football pundits as they will have a selling story to start writing another round of anti-Wenger articles and do another round of anti-Wenger punditry.

I had the honor of guest posting on my friend and fellow Occupational Therapist, Michelle Bowman's blog - Ramblings With Mama to spread the word about Tongue - Ties, share our story and offer some lessons we learned through our year with a tongue - tied baby.

Anyways sorry for that long, rambling running - life story.

Oh well, enough of my sentimental ramblings, let's hear the story of her shoes!

Durham, NC About Blog Thoughts, stories, ramblings, and reflections on living with polyarticular juvenile rheumatoid arthritis in a world that expects me to walk and write a whole lot faster.

You may share personal experiences, your life story, what makes you like or dislike people, or anything you want to ramble about.

Durham, NC About Blog Thoughts, stories, ramblings, and reflections on living with polyarticular juvenile rheumatoid arthritis in a world that expects me to walk and write a whole lot faster.

In an extremely strange and rambling blog post, PlentyOfFish CEO Markus Frind tells his side of the story.

This second expansion for Neverwinter Nights got a lot of praise, even though the story feels like a bit of a rambling mess compared to

Rather than a story arc that follows the tried - and - true concepts of Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey, this one's turned into a rambling struggle to follow the growth of Tris from run - of - the - mill teen to leader.

The story rambles from one locale to the other, failing to gain traction anywhere with its relentless flitting.

The problem, aside from the lack of originality, is that while TRAINING DAY may have rambled, it had an identifiable story arc.

The story, as structured by Hawke, plays like a series of extended flashbacks within flashbacks, and that's a very smart strategy, because it keeps the rambling scenes poised and alive.

But, because this is a film about characters rather than narrative, the story — such as it is — is rambling and often feels untidy.

As previously reported, Anderson has been working for a couple of years on his adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's quirky, rambling detective story, which concerns a pot - smoking private eye at the tail - end of the psychedelic «60s who gets swept up in a kidnapping case involving his ex-lover and a shadowy organization that bears no resemblance to any modern churches, so Anderson's safe there.

The story concerns Greta (Lauren Cohan), a young American woman who's taken a job as a nanny to an eight - year - old boy in a rambling mansion in the remote British countryside.

Adapted from Jon Raymond's short story «Train Choir,» what looks like a rambling movie about some gal in search of her dog also happens to be one eerily relevant movie about contemporary economic hardship.

by Walter Chaw J.K. Rowling is more plotter than writer or editor, more rambling fantasist than disciplined storyteller — explanation there as to why her Harry Potter novels aren't classics so much as very popular stories for children.

But inside this rambling narrative are delicate curlicues of story, whether it is Abbie introducing Jamie to the joys of Devo and dancing, or Dorothea smoking and checking her stocks.

The 15:17 to Paris is so rambling and unfocused in its telling of this story that, shockingly, we even start to wonder if there's any reason to tell it.

But good stoner comedies like Pineapple Express have a rambling, shaggy - dog nature that can make quirky little detours and non sequiturs more essential than story itself.

Six - wheeled Austin Seven — Paul Shinton on the background to this conversation / Norwich Union RAC Rally — We report on an event that drew / Flat racing and hill climbing — Tom Threfall on the VSCC events at Curborough and Wiscombe Park / History of McKenzie cars — Part two of the article by Ian McKenzie / The story of a London Garage — Fred Hislop recalls his memories of working at Delaney and Sons / Ramble in an Edwardian Rover — The Editor drives a 1912 model on this month's «excursion» / The Anderson specials — Brian Demaus tells the story of the pre-war Humber - based specials / Restoration of the Charabus — Mike Sutcliffe's saga of the rebuild of this dual purpose vehicle / Sandwell Parade and Manchester - Blackpool run — We report on two popular events — one in the Midlands the other in the North.

Reviewers consider this collection exceptional, although some feel that a few of the stories are uneven and tend to ramble.

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Writing became a way to release the never - ending ideas, thoughts and sentences that rambled around in my mind; waiting to find a place in a story.

Once I had a plot worked out, I went back and cut, trimmed, relocated and added until I had something that held together as a story while still having that odd, rambling sense about it.»

I have an obsession with it, and this is for those who either want to promote their story, ramble about one they're reading or recommend some to others

Each chapter brings another element into the plot with expansive, even rambling description that does nothing to move the story along.

ABSOLUTELY FREE, from Tuesday April 24 through Thursday April 26: my buddy Edd Voss's charming short - story collecting RAMBLING is available as a free Kindle ebook.

On the one hand, Oldshue's style seems to ramble along, going off on what seem like tangents and getting overly involved in back stories.

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Over the course of this series Nath Jones's writing style develops from the raw, associative, tyrannic rambles of cathartic non-fiction, flash fiction, and rant in The War is Language and our digital domains, to the delightful rough - hewn vignettes of 2000 Deciduous Trees, into the compact characterizations of the fictionalized tellings in Love & Darts, and finally toward How to Cherish the Grief - Stricken's fully - crafted short stories that use literary devices and narrative elements to reveal a world well - rendered.