Sentences with phrase «riches tale told»

Based on a seriously half - baked 80s cartoon about a rock band that runs an orphanage and goes on superhero - y adventures coordinated by a prescient synthesizer, Jem And The Holograms attempts to ground its source material in a by - the - book rags - to - riches tale told mostly through the lens of YouTube videos.

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In a new book, The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty, Nina Munk tells a rich tale of one man's hubris.

This weekend, over 100,000 new Coinbase accounts were opened, presumably by people who had an overzealous nephew at their Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday, telling tales of unbridled riches and the wholesale changing of the world that is most assuredly imminent thanks to crypto currency.

There is an extraordinary passage in Ezekiel 16, where the history of Israel is told in the form of a romantic tale about a foundling child who was adopted into a rich family and then went to the bad.)

By the end of Freed, Christian and Ana are no longer a rich man and his middle - class girlfriend, but two rich people telling the tale of how and why they got rich to each other.

In fact, its character and rich emotional layers are what elevates the film from a precisely - told absorbing thriller into something much more potent and powerful: a breathtakingly harrowing tale of survival and grueling desperation that redefines the term «nailbiter.»

But just when the movie reaches its natural stopping point, it continues onward and finds a deeper, richer tale to tell about what it means to be in love.

Disney veteran, Byron Howard, last seen creating some of the most detailed animated hair in the history of the medium in 2010's Tangled, teams up with Simpsons staffer Rich Moore to tell this tale of a world populated by cute animals.

Themes of retirement and aging might seem an odd fit for a children's film — and they are — but there's something uniquely universal therein, allowing screenwriters Kiel Murray, Bob Peterson, and Mike Rich to tell a classically Disney tale of mortality without getting into the guts of what it means to get old and die.

After lucidly presenting a family drama on an Indian reservation in her debut feature, Songs My Brother Taught Me (Songs My Brothers Taught Me reveals rich, deeply empathetic eye of first - time feature filmmaker), the talented indie filmmaker Chloé Zhao returns to the Badlands of South Dakota to tell another neo-realist tale about a different Native American family.

«The new film does indeed tell the same tale as J. R. R. Tolkien's lean «Rings» precursor, charting the exploits of Frodo Baggins» uncle Bilbo (Martin Freeman) some 60 years before the quest to destroy the One Ring, but the narrative soars because it also operates as something tangential to the almost - decade - old movie trilogy, setting the stage while also expanding this rich universe.

John Boorman's magnificent and magical Excalibur is, to my mind, the greatest and the richest of screen incarnation of the oft - told tale.

This literary text by Mary and Rich Chamberlin tells a tale of community, friendship and sharing.

You are doing them an excellent service if you are suggesting that they should refine and craft their work to the point that they are telling their story in a rich and enjoyable tale, before publishing via any route.

A rich yet simple tale of love, madness and spirit, told by the three women in a family on the verge of mental illness.

Daddy's Girls is a rich yet simple tale of love, madness and spirit, told by the three women in a family on the verge of mental illness.

Six fictional characters tell their tales on this historic day in cycles of linked poems alongside the perspectives of historic figures and other march participants for a rich tapestry of multiple points of view.

Structured as Parker's (60,209 words too long) college application essay, punctuated by Parker's clever and thematically rich fairy tales, the novel not only examines Parker's retreat from and rapid reentry into real life, it also continually questions who Zelda is, whether she's telling the truth about her past, and if it even really matters in the end.

Five voices tell the tale: Jacob's own; his brother, Theo's; his mother, Emma's; his lawyer, Oliver's; and the investigating police officer, Rich's.

This book is a definite must read for anyone looking for a well - told tale that is rich in atmosphere and multi-layered story lines.

In it, Rich tells a timeless tale about a Jewish immigrant who is preserved for a hundred years in a large vat of pickle juice and then reanimated.

This serenely spooky puzzler executes every move perfectly, twisting you around its finger to tell a tale both rich and abidingly direct.

No matter where you may venture on your travels there's always people with that tell - tale exclamation point above their heads willing to trust you, a complete stranger, with tasks of great importance which will see you rewarded with loot and riches.

A rich animated tale told through the lens of a viking themed strategy game!

The holidays are a festive time of fun and fantastical fairy tales told to young people, which explain the windfall of riches bestowed upon them.