Sentences with phrase «remarkable first scene»

And like Genesis, it is a story told not out of academic interest in recovering the distant past and retelling that past for its own sake alone, but because the subsequent scenes of that history, including every «present» scene, are given sense and meaning only when viewed against this formative, exciting, and in every way remarkable first scene of the Exodus events.

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But when he goes to arrange the second, in a scene also remarkable for the ridiculous lengths to which the doctor resorts to euphemism to speak of anything but «baby, «birth,» and «abortion,» he learns that the first was never done.
In the otherwise newfangled world... At first glance, there seems to be a remarkable advantage to being multiracial on the online dating scene.
As he does, «The Little Prince» makes a remarkable stylistic leap from the accomplished but familiar CG environs of these opening scenes (big - eyed, bobble - headed humans; modernist - futurist design influences) into 2D stop - motion animation, bringing the world of Saint - Exupery's original story to life in beautiful handcrafted images based on the author's own crudely elegant watercolors (seen in the book's first printing and all subsequent editions).
The remarkable scene when the boys» father first tries to instill in them — abruptly, even shockingly — the magnitude of the dangers ahead will stay with you.
«Since the Kia Soul first arrived on the scene in America in 2009, it has established a very real and remarkable connection with music,» said Michael Sprague, executive vice president, marketing and communications, KMA.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie burst onto the literary scene with her remarkable debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, which critics hailed as «one of the best novels to come out of Africa in years» (Baltimore Sun), with «prose as lush as the Nigerian landscape that it powerfully evokes» (The Boston Globe); The Washington Post called her «the twenty - first - century daughter of Chinua Achebe.»
After having forged his place on the British art scene as a remarkable emerging artist in the late 1980s, a key protagonist of the Young British Artist phenomenon, he gained his first international acclaim at the 1993 Venice Biennale.
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