Sentences with phrase «rather as a memoir»

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Reading «Disrupted» strictly as a memoir of career transition — rather than as some sort of exposé of life at HubSpot or life «in the startup bubble,» as the title provocatively puts it — will open your eyes to many of of the book's finer points.

The parables, sayings, and anecdotes from the life of Jesus were used as «paradigms,» illustrations, exempla in the early Christian preaching and teaching, rather than as quotations from a finished and complete biography, based perhaps upon the memoir of an apostle.

When Jason Boyett and I realized we had both written memoir - style books about our experiences with doubt to be published byZondervan in the spring / summer of 2010, we decided to team up rather than compete — an arrangement that has probably worked more in my favor than his, seeing as Jason's already published a shelf - full of books and has earned a reputation for being one of the industry's most thoughtful and humorous voices.

Veil always thought of herself as French rather than Jewish and her memoir reveals how ambivalent she felt about the ways in which Nazi criminals such as Klaus Barbie were abducted.

When it comes to his latest directorial effort, an adaptation of cartoonist John Callahan «s memoir Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot, the movie is undoubtedly remarkable, but it's due to the performances Van Sant pulls from his actors rather than the film as a whole.

From a bit of research, it appears that Clark's first diary on the experience paints him as anything but innocent or floored by Monroe, while the second memoir, filling in the blanks forty years later, was rather far - fetched.

But «The Big Stick» is not one of those semi-awful, schematically spelled out conflicts such as the unfunny «My Big Fat Greek Wedding», but rather features a crackerjack script graced with a marvelous ensemble that mixes melodrama and broad comedy, and comes across like a hilarious memoir based on Kumail's actual marriage to Emily in one of the most beautiful stories of love and its conflicts you may run across in the theaters this year.

In this powerful, often lyrical memoir, a woman learns to value herself — as a whole person rather than as a sexual object.

A powerful, deeply personal and often lyrical memoir of a woman learning to value herself as a person rather than a sex object, after years of sexual abuse by her father.