Sentences with phrase «right as a novel»

But it can only do this if it succeeds in its own right as a novel.

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ARTIS combines the advantages of its infrastructure such as the Proof of Stake consensus algorithm, with novel proposals in the blockchain space such as Plasma, Raiden and Sharding to solve for the two biggest issues that blockchain faces right now: sustainability and scalability.

HBO recently acquired the rights to Cormoran Strike, the show produced by BBC One and based on the crime novels by J.K. Rowling — writing as Robert Galbraith, according to Deadline.

Whether the issue has been abortion, or euthanasia, or «gay rights,» the courts have taken steps that were noticeable even at the time as novel and portentous.

Who but a madman or a prophet — or an artist who sees more deeply into things than the rest of us — would have imagined, as Percy did in a 1971 novel, that state governments might recognize a right to die, and that arrangements would be made for the sick and elderly to push a button that would waft them away into a «happy death» in Michigan, a «joyful exitus» in New York, or a «luanalu - hai» in Hawaii?

Regarding the novel, Luhrmann's movie gets the basics of plot and symbol right, but then again, it frames its telling as occurring within a mental institution where Carraway (Tobey Maguire), like Fitzgerald, suffers from morose alcoholism, anxiety, and other sundry neurasthenic ailments.

However, Chuck Evans» MONTEZUMA Brand Sauces & Salsas believes that this novel method of public notification of trademark infringers addresses the legal difficulties of maintaining and protecting a registered trademark, as well as the goodwill associated with the trademark, and therefore is constructive for consumer education about the theft of intellectual property rights.

David Silva and Kevin De Bruyne have been unleashed in their novel roles as «free eights», as the Belgian himself has described his new position in the team, while Raheem Sterling has switched flanks to mainly play on the right to make way for Nolito down the left.

The public spat between Trump and Lewis has had an unexpected side effect: skyrocketing sales of «March,» a graphic - novel of the congressman's life as a civil rights activist.

With pulses of light in the right part of the brain at the right frequencies, Brown University scientists induced rats to behave as if things they'd seen before were novel and things they'd never seen were old hat.

«We got these data right around New Year's 2009,» Sabunciyan said one day last August as he scrolled through a file containing 2 billion letters of genetic code, equivalent to 2,000 John Grisham novels composed just of the letters G, A, T, and C (making the plot a great deal more confusing).

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University]-- With pulses of light in the right part of the brain at the right frequencies, Brown University scientists induced rats to behave as if things they'd seen before were novel and things they'd never seen were old hat.

Right now, in our laboratories, our scientists are looking for ways to create insulin - producing cells in the laboratory, engineer blood vessels for heart bypass surgery and apply our regenerative medicine technologies to battlefield injuries through co-leading a $ 85 million federal grant, as well as many other novel research initiatives.

He's only too happy to oblige, determined as he is «not only to clean up everybody else's act, but to make the world safe again by doing so, to make it right once and for all,» as the novel explains.

While not as numerous as the adventures of Burroughs» other creation, Tarzan, Carter's adventures fill twelve novels — plenty of material to fuel a movie series — if done right.

Selznick served John Huston — the right man for this picture — his walking papers early on for correctly identifying the love story in Hemingway's novel as just a metaphor for the tragedy and irony of WWI's carnage, subbing Huston with second - stringer Charles Vidor, who meekly agreed to amplify the alleged love between Lt. Henry and Cat while pushing all manner of hysterical spectacle to the wings of the proscenium.

Over the years, they have adapted novels by such writers as Henry James, E. M. Forster, and Kazuo Ishiguro into sophisticated works in their own right — their multiple - Oscar - winning Howards End (1992) is often considered their artistic pinnacle.

Lionsgate have obtained the rights to R.J. Palacio's novel, Wonder, securing Tremblay as protagonist Auggie Pullman — a young boy born with a facial deformity.

EXCLUSIVE: Endeavor Content has acquired film rights to the David Barclay Moore novel The Stars Beneath Our Feet, which will be developed as a vehicle for Creed star Michael B. Jordan to make his feature directorial debut.

His name has been used in the game's promotion by its developers and publisher, Microsoft, to trade both on the renown for his classic novel, Ender's Game, as well his 2006 book, Empire, which was based on the same fiction as Shadow Complex: a Right - Wing - vs.

Right from the moment we first saw her at age 13 in Atonement as the worryingly precocious younger sister at the big house, she's always seemed someone set apart, which makes playing an ordinary Irish village girl in this adaptation of Colm Tóibín's noted novel the sort of challenge which might just set the agenda for the rest of her career.

Vilmos Zsigmond's sensual cinematography renders the remote Irish countryside of Cathryn and Hugh's getaway estate as an evocative wonderland right out of a fantasy novel.

Hollywood bought the film rights to Grevioux's graphic novel and developed the project as an Australian - American co-production.

Novel based movies always seem a bit longer which is necessary but with LA Confidential, I felt as if I was reading James Ellroy's book word for word right down to epilogue.

The «Select Scenes Commentary with Sally Potter» is not an audio commentary track but a ten - minute featurette of Potter discussing a few elements of the film in detail, such as the scenes of Orlando's asides to the camera (her cinematic version of the direct address sequences from the novel, but pared back through the shooting until there are only a few, very brief addresses, «a sort of complicity» she calls it) and the casting of Quentin Crisp («He is the true queen of England, he's my idea of royalty,» she confesses, as she describes his presence as way to turn the idea of sex and gender on its head right from the beginning).

Featuring the best work from Carrey and McGregor in years (and a reminder of Carrey's phenomenal and chameleonic talents when given the right material), a smart and witty script adapted by the directors from McVicker's novel, and a cracking pace that neither hurries nor languishes, it combines the highlights of the heist and escape genres with dashes of dark humour and irreverence to create a film best described as a wicked delight.

The plot, from the book by John Le Carré, may seem difficult to believe, but with Hossein Amini's adaptation of the le Carré novel of the same name, directed smartly by Susanna White, we in the theater audience would pronounce the at - first incredible story as one that slides right over our natural, cynical resistance.

Right from the beginning — or possibly the end — Roger Michell's adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's novel expresses doubt and ambiguity, as narrator / protagonist Philip (Sam Claflin, «Me Before You») asks «Was she?

Based upon John le Carré's 1974 espionage novel of the same name and directed by acclaimed Swedish filmmaker Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In), the acclaimed thriller Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy stars Gary Oldman as George Smiley, a former British Intelligence operative called out of retirement to track down a mole within the agency.

Of course, most of that is because his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye came at just the right moment and tapped into a sense of angry disillusionment that hadn't been as clearly and popularly spoken until that point.

Colin Farrell is capable of delivering great work with the right material, and Terrence Howard is an excellent choice to play the silky - smooth villain, but more than anything else, this could be Oplev's coming out party as a director now that he's no longer stuck in the shadow of Stieg Larsson's popular novel.

It seems Netflix is as afflicted with The Witcher fever as the rest of us, and has snapped up the rights to make an eight episode the Witcher Netflix series based on the source material - The Witcher novels by Andrzej Sapkowski - with Daredevil, The Defenders and The West Wing veteran Lauren Schmidt Hissrich as the show runner.

As previously reported by Deadline, Snowden's Russian lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, sold film rights to his upcoming novel Time Of The Octopus to Stone and longtime producing partner Moritz Borman.

3:45 am (14th)-- TCM — Fahrenheit 451 François Truffaut's first foray in English - language film was this adaptation of Ray Bradbury's classic dystopian novel, following fireman (that is, book - burner) Montag as he comes into contact with a group of fugitives intent on preserving the knowledge in books even as the government tries to destroy them, and he begins to wonder if perhaps they are right.

When I learned that Tangle would take place in an adjacent setting and revisit some of the same characters, I was uneasy about the prospect of yet more anthropomorphic musings — worries that were justified right out of the gate, as the book's framing device is a man telling the novel's story to a squirrel, and getting some cheeky squirrel answers in return.

Based on Reif Larsen «s cult novel «The Selected Works Of T.S. Spivet,» the film, which seems to be right in Jeunet's quirky wheelhouse, is toplined by young newcomer Kyle Catlett, with Helena Bonham - Carter, Callum Keith Rennie, Kathy Bates and Judy Davis also on board, and marks the Gallic helmer's first time shooting in 3D, which, as with Martin Scorsese and Ang Lee in recent years, is surely worth the price of admission alone.

He also discusses the history of the project itself: He had wanted to adapt the novel as his first film in the mid-1980s, and wasn't able to secure the rights (and Huppert) until almost 15 years later.

Likewise, in the capitalist United States it was as late as 1977 that Ossesssione received its first limited release (after a short festival run the year before), as Visconti did not attain the rights to the original Cain novel.13 Accordingly, it was not until much later that Ossessione's historical importance to the story of Italian Neo-Realism was acknowledged, with directors such as Roberto Rossellini — himself coincidentally having a close relationship with Italy's ruling Fascists14 — privileged historically instead.

Let Me In Premise: Based on the Swedish cult horror hit Let The Right One In — which itself is adapted from the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist — this English - language version stars Kodi Smit - McPhee as a bullied middle - schooler and Chloe Moretz as the like - aged (in appearance, anyway) vampire who befriends him.

Warner Bros. also bought the rights to «The Given Day,» another Lehane novel that shares the same characters as «Live By Night,» but there are no definitive plans for the movie.

But the production company that owned the rights to the novel was unsatisfied with the «really dark» draft it had originally commissioned, and eventually met with Coppola, who pitched her version as having «a lighter touch.»

For Let the Right One In, director Tomas Alfredson and screenwriter John Ajvide Lindqvist (who adapted his 2004 novel) employ most of the usual vampire «rules,» as well as some overly familiar plot arcs, but they present them in a unique, surprisingly beautiful manner.

He supervised the production of films including George Clooney's 2005 Best Picture nominee Good Night, and Good Luck; the critically acclaimed family film and 2006 NAACP Image Award nominee Akeelah and the Bee, starring Laurence Fishburne and Angela Bassett; dark thriller Turistas, for which domestic rights were sold to Fox Atomic in a pre-emptive bid within hours of the film's first screening; James Gray's crime thriller We Own the Night, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, Robert Duvall and Eva Mendes, which ranked as the largest - ever domestic sale at Cannes; and The Road, an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize - winning novel starring Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron and Robert Duvall, which pre-sold to The Weinstein Company in a multi-party bidding war.

Use skateboarding as a novel way to teach acute, obtuse, reflex, right and straight angles.

The Shadowed Road is a graphic novel that connects to themes such as global citizenship, human rights, democracy and access to education.

Undeterred by the bills that stalled or died in 2013, Parent Revolution spokesman Derrick Everett said that «laws as novel as the parent trigger process have often taken multiple legislative sessions to both get the law «right» and get it passed.»

MM: The answer to that is a novel by itself, but one of our primary focuses for 2011 is cross-platform options, as well as doing some innovative things with our current apps that we're not seeing anywhere else right now.

In the book (at least in the uncorrected proof), the painter of her coronation portrait is called Hayden; the TV version corrects this — it was Hayter — but their version of the portrait itself has Victoria's head turned way too much to the right, apparently trying to fit the novel, which describes her pose (p. 142) as «standing and looking back over her shoulder.»

In other words, you're arguing that someone who — before uploading their novel to Amazon Kindle — had their manuscript professionally edited and formatted; had the subject matter fact - checked by industry professionals; then later had the cover image professionally designed; and who owns all the legal rights to their novel; then unless the person earns a living from the sales of said novel, then they can not be considered as a genuine author.

Far more than just a vehicle for a cosmology, this inventive novel slices right to the bone of human yearning, offering up an indelible vision of life and death as equally rich sides of the same coin.