Sentences with phrase «rollicking stories»

The text is a tangle of rollicking stories laced with technical information and insights.

Wonderful for reading aloud, this picture book, illustrated with energetic collages, tells a rollicking story of a girl's sly barnyard game with feather - flying action.

*** FIRST PLACE WINNER of the Florida Writers Association 2014 Royal Palm Literary Award for Biography - Published *** Begotten With Love is a sometime turbulent, sometime rollicking story spanning 150 years of American history and five generations of an immigrant's family.

I turned it into a rollicking story.

Not exact matches

The story gets off to a rollicking start.

and with the latest stories coming from the training ground, He is either going to crack and step down from his managerial duties at the club or he will start being more ruthless and aggressive with the team, Hopefully the rollicking he gave them demanding more passion and desire will have hit home and it will inspire our players to respond in a positive way, Wenger is not known for showing his anger at the players, So if this rollicking doesn't work!

With a rollicking black comedy set in a war zone, the tone necessarily goes plural, as the story careens from the abruptly tragic to the blithely, weirdly funny and back again.

But an admirable go is Steve Rash's rollicking The Buddy Holly Story: Despite being riddled with inaccuracies, it manages to portray the delirium of Holly's horn - rimmed, blue - eyed soul thanks in large part to Gary Busey's dedication to performing Holly's songs himself.

Afterward, the film's star Dennis Hopper and screenwriter (and Austin author) Bud Shrake had a rollicking good time onstage telling crazy stories about shooting the movie in Mexico.

Well now, a new documentary has captured their epic story and is by all accounts a rollicking yarn.

The Disaster Artist is a rollicking, satisfying comedy about one of the weirder stories in Hollywood, and Franco talked with me by phone about it, as well as his love of Sunset Boulevard and the ways he and Wiseau are kind of like Spider - Man and Venom.

Craig Gillespie's rollicking retelling of infamous figure skater Tonya Harding's rise and fall might take several dramatic liberties (peep the new trailer for a bloody - faced Margot Robbie mugging for the camera in one shot while brandishing a shotgun in pursuit of Harding's ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, in another), but, at its core, I, Tonya is a film rooted in the rich, real - life story of a deeply troubled athlete fighting for her place in the world.

The result is a rollicking rollercoaster ride from obscurity to infamy, and the moving, memorable story of a father and son whose spiritual symmetry transcends all their many shortcomings.

I love this description of Homicide Survivors Picnic and Other Stories, from fellow writer and critic Heather Sellers: «An amazingly original Flannery O'Connor / Loretta Lynn collision, this collection lets us witness the indomitable spirit and forces us to take pure joy in all we really ever have a chance at: flawed, gorgeous, weird, rollicking, screwed survival.»

Out of this encounter spins a story of revenge, counterpoint, and rollicking foolishness, ending on a railroad platform by the Russian - Finnish border in September, 1993.

Annyrose hooks up with a band of outlaws in this rip - roaring story told with rollicking humor and containing a strong message about bigotry.

An African American girl proudly shows off her favorite barnyard game and discovers compassion in this rollicking, well - told story.

O'Neill's rollicking genre blend, mixing SF, detective story, and noir thriller, boasts a delightfully dark and smart sense of humor, making for an incredibly entertaining read.

A Fraction of the Whole is an uproarious indictment of the modern world and its mores - a rollicking rollercoaster ride from obscurity to infamy, and the moving, memorable story of a father and son whose spiritual symmetry transcends all their many shortcomings.

The rollicking fun appears on sturdy, colorful pages with foldout flaps that invite toddlers to participate in the story.

Set against the fascinating backdrop of Los Angeles show business culture, with an insider's ear for writer's room showdowns and an eye for bad backstage behavior and set politics, Jennifer Weiner's new novel is a rollicking ride on the Hollywood roller coaster, a heartfelt story about what it's like for a young woman to love, and lose, in the land where dreams come true.

Read on in Generation Rx for: — exclusive interviews with the strategists, scientists, and current and former heads of GlaxoSmithKline, Eli Lilly, Merck, Roche, and more — a first - ever, inside look at the rollicking business story behind pharma's rise to power — the dramatic effects our drug culture is having on our major organs, from the liver to the heart to the brain — why old bodies and young bodies are the biggest, and riskiest, arenas for our great American prescription pill party — how the largely uncharted terrain of polypharmacy (various drugs taken together) has unleashed unanticipated, often deadly, consequences on unwitting patients Generation Rx will make every American who has ever taken a prescription drug look anew at what's in our medicine cabinets, and why.

I've always loved this rollicking memoir by a baseball player, which in 1970 became the best - selling sports book of all - time for its wild and funny stories about the major leagues.

Perfect for fans of Jackaby who are desperately awaiting the release of its sequel, Beastly Bones, this novella - length story follows the rollicking events of Abigail Rook's birthday celebration.

Serving as the centerpiece of Disney's forthcoming 11 - acre Toy Story Land, the rollicking ride within one of Andy's favorite toys is sure to create plenty of incredible new memories.

The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King by Rich Cohen is a biography and a rollicking good (and true) story of the man who built the United Fruit Company.

Most of us were still congratulating McNamara for MEEM 4 Miami: A Story Ballet About the Internet, his rollicking performance piece that was restaged at Art Basel Miami Beach this past December after it premiered with Performa 13 in November 2013.