Sentences with phrase «relevant stories of our times»

About MOCCA: The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA) was founded from the former Art Gallery of North York in 1999, with the mandate to exhibit, research, collect, and promote innovative art by Canadian and non-Canadian artists whose works engage and reflect the relevant stories of our times.

Not exact matches

This toolbox should consist of relevant and thought - provoking stories that you can tell at any time when you're with people.

The story of one person who would have found them relevant is described in Harry Emerson Fosdick's A Faith for Tough Times.

This column often has, by the time it is in print, a certain retrospective air about it: it has usually discussed the media coverage of some story which was topical when written, and which may still be relevant, but is no longer of overriding current interest.

You may remember, Jacobs was featured on the cover of RELEVANT at the time, where he detailed more of the story.

«A lot of people... after they retire or they're looking for a job or they want to be relevant... they go back in time and kind of... make sure their importance is really known...... when one guy has a million highlights of himself... as if he was the leading scorer and all the stories are embellished, it's hard for me.»

It called on the management of the relevant newspapers to call the journalists in question to order so that the news organisations would not be subjected to retracting stories at all times.

Anthony Browne, who wrote The Times» story, obviously does not pay enough attention to ConservativeHome as he makes no mention of our hugely relevant Monday finding that UKIP was the favourite choice of party activists when it came to mentioning the other political party closest to their views.

This time, they read a story told by the target, which was either told well (retelling a detailed and humorous story about a friend), or poorly (the same story, but told with a lack of relevant detail and irrelevant filler information).

«It's very relevant because at a time when some want to take us backward, I think we need stories of liberal values that people can see a reflection of themselves in.»

Franco's The Disaster Artist tells the true and outrageous story of the making of The Room, one of the most notorious and unaccountably relevant bad movies of all - time.

The problem is exacerbated by the fact that he keeps dropping out of the story completely for long periods of time, only to be awkwardly shunted back into the plot while the film nervously assures us that he really is relevant to this story, and on top of that, there's also an incredibly forced and out - of - place romantic subplot which the film really would have been much better without.

It's a coming of age story that is relevant in every period of time.

At the same time, the movie borrows the classical structure of the Faust story, but still manages to feel immediate and relevant.

We had lessons on keeping our eyes on the speaker, using engaged body language (sitting still, not playing with a pencil, etc.), and thinking of follow - up questions (if time allowed) that still focused on what the speaker had shared (in other words, this was not a time for the listener to share a personal story that may or may not be relevant).

Power Point presentation on the Balfour Declaration, its history, legality, relevance to today, consisting of colourful, balanced slides which give both sides of the story, and include maps, photos and quotations of relevant international declarations, and quotations from relevant players of the time.

And some people won't explore new book promotion opportunities because «new» requires energy and enthusiasm and experimentation, and they'd rather rely on what used to work and hope that, one day, we'll all snap out of the Web 2.0 world and go back to stuffing envelopes, bringing them to the post office, making phone calls, and trying to convince 100 media contacts to please, please, please pursue a particular story angle (that may have been relevant when those envelopes were stuffed but, surely, will be have no relationship to anything going on in the news by the time they land on the media's desks).

Many doubted NetherRealm's ability to make the ageing series relevant again but not only did NR succeed in delivering a great MK game, they delivered one of the best Mortal Kombat games ever made, innovating with a story mode that put all other fighting games to shame and for the first time ever for the franchise, made MK a worthy competitive title that would have a presence at professional tournaments.

On election night, Peter Dykstra, writing for The Daily Climate, had posted a thorough critique of false equivalence in stories (including in The Times) equating the two efforts to influence races in which coal, climate change or related issues were relevant.

«At this critical time, local communities worldwide will get stories relevant to their local situations about what is going on at the conference, not just from international wire agencies,» said James Fahn, Global Director of Internews» Environmental Programs.

It won't work every time, but there are tons of people who have gotten jobs by relating their experience in video games to management or turned their biking habit into a relevant story about why they'd be a great teacher.

Even gaps can be part of a unified story if you find something you did during that time that speaks to relevant skills.