Sentences with phrase «recounting events»

Cutscenes between missions feature supporting characters being interviewed and recounting the events of the story before the player begins to play them out.

Perhaps the best way for me to explain the problem is by simply recounting the events that led to the discovery.

Simply recounting events, which newbie fiction authors tend to consider a «plot», is unsatisfying to readers, because you're only telling half of the story.

Mama bear and child reflect on the day, recounting its events in reverse order.

SYNOPSIS: Recounting the events of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings and the subsequent investigation and manhunt to find those responsible.

The Loving Story (Unrated) Civil rights documentary recounting the events leading up to the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision in Loving vs. Virginia, the historic 1967 case declaring interracial marriage legal under the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause.

India's Daughter (Unrated) Women's rights documentary recounting the events surrounding the murder of Jyoti Singh, the 23 year - old, medical student gang - raped on a moving bus in Delhi in December of 2012.

Marshall (PG - 13 for sexuality, profanity, violence and mature themes) Chadwick Boseman plays Thurgood Marshall in this profile recounting the events surrounding a high - profile case the future Supreme Court Justice handled early in his legal career.

Once the war begins, though, the screenplay goes into a mode of simply recounting events.

Struck by Lightning (Unrated) Coming - of - age comedy narrated by a socially - ostracized, high school senior (Chris Colfer) recounting the events leading up to his untimely death in a parking lot.

Fred, the jokester, who was in part helpful in getting Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milošević extradited for war crimes in 2001, sits in his Berlin apartment recounting the events, but lapses into jokes and asides to enliven the proceedings.

Unlike some works of true - crime literature, which play up plot elements to build the story's tension, Serial isn't just simply recounting the events surrounding a murder.

This «surprise and delight» attitude is an integral part of Dropbox's culture, chief operating officer Dennis Woodside told Business Insider while recounting the event on Friday afternoon.

First of all, as we saw above, in that time period the use of paraphrase, even for memorization of sayings, was considered acceptable in recounting an event.

Old Testament history recounts events, the lives of great men, prophets, priests and kings, migrations, wars, political decisions — everything affecting the exterior life of the nation, the observable course of her turbulent history.

When the adopted child repeatedly asks her parents to recount the events surrounding her adoption, the story must remain the same.

The narrative genre invited us to displace onto the recounted events that revealing light that proceeds from their founding value and their instituting function.

He can recount the events of 1941 as if they occurred yesterday.

In an interview with CBS after the second tape was released, Goodell said that Rice was «ambiguous» in recounting the event.

An attack ad, released by Democratic candidate Dan Maffei, recounted an event in Katko's time as a federal prosecutor.

The officials recounted the events that transpired in the days before, during and after the storm, repeatedly admitted mistakes and failures the administration, introduced ways to ensure they do not take place during future storms, and found themselves defending their jobs.

Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, has recounted the events that took place when the Republic of Biafra was declared.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009 Science historian Michael D. Gordin recounts the events leading up to August 29, 1949, when the Soviets detonated an atomic bomb in the deserts of Kazakhstan — a test explosion that brought the U.S. monopoly on nuclear weapons to a close.

History books recount the events on PT - 109 that earned JFK a medal for heroic conduct.

The participant regretted her action and was weeping tears of remorse as she recounted the event.

In this fictionalized biography, Cicely Tyson stars as the 110 - year - old Jane Pittman, who recounts the events of her life as they relate to a century of racism in America.

Landing in a lowly 14th place is Clint Eastwood's The 15:17 to Paris, which recounts the events on the titular train travelling from Amsterdam on 21 August 2015.

A canny move by the filmmakers, this extended sequence recounts the events of the earlier movies for anyone unfamiliar with them while making it clear that Jesse and Céline have arrived at a stage where they can analyze their progress in greater detail.

recounts the events of the film as they allegedly happened back in 1960s Point Pleasant, West Virginia.

Much of the film merely recounts events in Sestero and Wiseau's story, without delving into the weird psychology of the book's core relationship.

But for as extraordinary as the story may be, «The 33» recounts the events in such a disappointingly ordinary manner that it doesn't really do it justice.

Even though this drama is based on a 115 - year - old novel, it feels powerfully timely today in the way it recounts events surrounding a particularly grim divorce.

Directing duo Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Little Miss Sunshine) have recounted these events in new film Battle of the Sexes, a disjointed biopic that frustratingly settles for pleasing the crowds rather than wowing them.

At Gustave's side is his loyal apprentice, Zero Moustafa (newcomer Tony Revolori with a drawn - on pencil moustache), who decades later (now played by F Murray Abraham) recounts events over dinner to a writer played by Jude Law.

Werner Herzog wrangles Michael Shannon and Gael García Bernal to recount the events of a fictitious ecological disaster in South America.

After Trent covers his padded cell, face, and clothing with black crosses (an image featured in the trailer and which hooked me, proving that while a picture may be worth a thousand words, it may not be worth 95 minutes of one's time), he recounts the events leading to his current state, and the film proceeds in flashback.

For example, Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 began and recounted the events leading up to and including the Fourth Great Ninja War, which was the story arc the anime was currently airing at the time and had largely completed.

But this dramatic thriller, which recounts the events surrounding the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, is a startlingly visceral experience, allowing for a lot more humanity in the characters.

Using exhaustive research, they recount the events surrounding the Detroit riots for the first time, with characters who feel achingly real.

This film recounts the events of April 2010, when a drilling rig off the coast of Louisiana exploded, creating the biggest oil - spill in US history.

Chappaquiddick recounts the events of the 1969 car accident involving Senator Ted Kennedy (Jason) and a young, female campaign worker (Kate) who died at the scene.

A joint effort between American and Japanese filmmakers, the movie recounts the events leading up to the WWII attack of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec 7, 1941.

Written and directed by Matt Ruskin, Crown Heights is a riveting courtroom drama which recounts the events surrounding the shameful case.

Harriet recounts these events forty - five years later, writing as an old woman in her London flat, a memoir very deliberately entered into the historical record of a minor painter («It would appear that I am to be the first to write a book on Gillespie») and quite self - conscious in its address to its audience («The astute reader will, of course, realize that I was employing irony»).

Some years later I read one of the very few books that recounted the events of 1883 in detail — and I realized as I was reading that the writer (the book had been published in 1965) had not the faintest idea of just why Krakatoa had exploded, and why it had done so with such unimaginable ferocity.

Teaching young people about events in the past that shaped our world requires the exploration of various layers simply recounting an event isn't enough.

Hope recounts the events she loves most from these visits, like Aunt Poogee's stories and the marketplace where they run into old friends like Mr. Stewart (whom Aunt Poogee calls Stew - pot because of his big potbelly), and Miss Teacup Hill (so - named because when she was born, she was so small her...

Elena Gorokhova recounts the events of her life in a style that's both frank and intimate.

After immersing us in life on the island, our young heroine takes us back to Boston to recount the events that brought her here.

Share the good times at the outdoor eating area as you recount the events of the day and swap stories of chance discoveries.