Sentences with phrase «sake of a good story»

I stopped using moisturizer in 2016 on a dare, for the sake of a good story.

Let's assume, for the sake of a good story, that you have been blind from birth.

Sherwood thinks this sharp division between that early work and her recent paintings has been exaggerated for the sake of a good story.

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The community does not substitute a new formula or a better story for the sake of innovation but recites this story as faithfully as possible.

When, like most of America, Shelby Steele thought that story was true, he argued that it revealed that Obama had scuttled a long (and promising) relationship mainly for the sake of better exploring and establishing his black identity, a goal that involved a refusal to further explore his bi-racial identity.

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If you ask him to consistently create at the rim it may be a different story... although I think this is the only aspect of his game that I think he can improve on... he'll never be a decent threat from deep and he'll always be a great defender... the rest, I have my doubts but I'll agree to hope for the best for the sake of the team.

Sure to delight X-fans everywhere and thrill action - lovers all around, this movie is most likely the best comic - to - film adaptation produced yet, despite a few changes made for the sake of creating an original story.

But the story is so simple that it's almost unnecessarily long just for the sake of feeling epic, and it's tonally uneven as well, due in part to a few scenes that stray close to parody and some cameos (from Franco Nero, Jonah Hill and Tarantino himself) that are too cheeky for their own good.

Some of the best episodes carried controversy lightly on their shoulders — The Six Southern Gentlemen of Tennessee dealt with race and the Confederate flag; Jeremy Goodwin dated an «adult film actress» over a four - episode arc; The Head Coach, Dinner and the Morning Mail dealt with date rape by a sports star; co-anchor Dan begins therapy, and so much more — not for the sake of controversy, but always in service of telling a compelling story.

Since both films well pre-date the preservationist era of film - as - art - and - heritage — Greed was released in 1925, The Magnificent Ambersons in 1942 — they have suffered the further indignity of being unreconstructible; studios back in those days didn't hang on to excised footage for the sake of future director's cuts on DVD, so the reels upon reels of nitrate film trimmed from the original versions were — depending on which movie you're talking about and which story you believe — burned, thrown in the garbage, dumped into the Pacific, or simply left to decompose in the vaults.»

While most horror movies have horror and gore for the sake of a poorly put together story, Blau has a fully fleshed - out story that creates a much more well - rounded horror film.

Though better films finally did find their way to us, Spring remains a unique and moving story of overcoming one's own environmental and biological defects for the sake of love.

Nonetheless, I did the best I could to set aside memories of the original trilogy and the prequel trilogy, as well as Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and think only about Star Wars: The Force Awakens for comparison's sake.

With winning candor (of the no - nonsense Jewish variety), Gordon brushes off his best stories, like the one about putting a chicken onstage for glammy client Alice Cooper to abuse, then calling the cops on his own show, acting as an incensed parent for publicity's sake.

It's the kind of formula that either wins you over early and you ride the wave of good cheer, suspending disbelief for the sake of the entertainment value, or it doesn't catch you and you suffer through ham - handed contrivances and saccharine sentimentality, and you end up feeling that the people involved in the film were having so much fun together that they forgot they had a story to tell.

Sure, you have a campaign mode with a story that just seems to be needlessly complicated just for the sake of offering missions, but once you are done with the rather short campaign with its multiple missions, you are stuck with just the skirmish mode that lets you play through 50 challenging battles which require a good amount of skills along with trial and error just to get through them.

If anything good comes out of «Mockingjay: Part 2,» it's that it will finally convince studios to stop dragging out these stories for the sake of their own greed.

This immensely wonderful book, full of practical lessons and next steps, as well as of stories by practitioners in the field, kept reminding me of the lessons in that parable, and why I had chosen them as my final words to my students — leadership, like all life, demands mindfulness, not only for the sake of ourselves as individuals, but in order to be true to the purpose of making life better for those we work with and those we lead.

«My tendency to make up stories and lie compulsively for the sake of my own amusement takes up a good portion of my day and provides me with a peace of mind not easily attainable in this economic climate.»

The variety given for the story's sake help weaves a good ball of yarn; taking to the jungles of Vietnam in one moment, then jumping rooftops in Kowloon really shows you how well - made the SP campaign really is when judging it from this standpoint.

Story in Yakuza 0 was amazing, same for this game but for the sake of not spoiling anything... I won't really bother to give a summary of the game... but yakuza is all about over the top stories with tons of drama, betrayal, love, and Yakuza... all that good stuff.

A Pixel Story is entirely unashamed of its attack on nostalgia as it overflows with references to pop culture for the sake of humor, as well as reminding the player that it is notably self aware even if some of the jokes and references seem a little obvious or even easy.

Ultimately, Garcia Torres» has presented his version of a story on the edge of a narrative landscape that has been remixed — not for the sake of accuracy, but for the good of a fiction he wants to tell.

This shows dedication to accuracy and comfort producing content for the sake of creating a well - written and compelling story.