Sentences with phrase «seemingly endless stories»

By the end of awards season, we've heard seemingly endless stories about how Gary Oldman transformed himself into Winston Churchill, how Greta Gerwig drew on her own high - school experience to create Lady Bird, and possibly everything Timothée Chalamet has ever done in his life.

After a summer of heavy turbulence in global financial markets, the new season starts with the seemingly endless story of when the Federal Reserve Board will raise interest rates.

Not exact matches

Both systems have caused their more wealthy inhabitants to look closely — and jealously — at the seemingly endless success stories created under the U.S. system.

I'd already glanced through two Newsweek cover stories about her, read a lengthy Time piece, suffered through seemingly endless TV news coverage... and now here she was on the front page of the Dayton Herald.

It is a strange and engrossing work, written in a manner that many have compared to Tolstoy: stories within stories, huge chunks of raw material gleaned from the newspapers and agitprop pamphlets of the time, seemingly endless speeches by would - be rulers in the doomed Duma, and all against the background of a weak and ineffectual Tsar dominated by his wife and «our Friend,» Rasputin, with Lenin seething and scheming in Switzerland, waiting for his time to come round at last.

Though the subway tunnels themselves were another story, seemingly endless, but once I got use to the tunnels, the mass transit became my friend.

Going through these stories and looking at old photos, I can't help but consider how the young Ali's seemingly endless energy had promised that he would never get old, and how in many ways he is now older than just about everyone his age.

For each of those who queued up in a seemingly endless reception line Sunday at Arlington Heights Village Hall to bid farewell to departing Mayor Arlene Mulder, there was a story to tell.

With its movie - like presentation, engaging stories, and seemingly endless quest potential, this is one RPG that gets harder to put down the longer you keep playing.

While Deadpool might appear to be yet another comic book movie in the series of seemingly endless comic book origin stories, this movie truly stands alone as unique and laugh out loud funny.

The story follows two groups of travellers, both of whom crisscross the bleak Nordic landscape, attempting to stay alive in a world ravaged by the deadly dredge, a seemingly endless army of black - armoured warriors that are wrecking everything in their path.

We've come to know each other through essays, poems, short stories, and seemingly endless piles of outlines and rough drafts.

The author has chosen a great premise — a world in the shadow of war, prime time for a burgeoning form of public entertainment — but never seizes the seemingly endless possibilities for intrigue and story development.

I began to think about The Meaning of Night over thirty years ago, though its roots go back further, to my early love of The Arabian Nights (I had — still have — an illustrated Victorian edition, which I pored over constantly) and of Scheherazade's ability to spin a seemingly endless skein of stories.

Aira, known for the frenetic energy of his short stories and his seemingly endless imagination (he's published more than 80 books!)

Set in the Onechanbara universe and taking place at the prestigious Kirisaku High School (known for its balanced curriculum of sports and academics), this is a story of survival: five students cut off from the outside world and surrounded by a seemingly endless flood of zombie hordes.

Though the game has a few quality of life issues and some wonky pacing, Yakuza 6 is an overall fantastic action game that boasts exceptionally polished combat system, a seemingly endless amount of side - content, and a genuinely moving story.

Witness the origin story of Handsome Jack with four new Vault Hunters and a seemingly endless stream of sweet, sweet loot.

Everything I had ever expected from a modern day JRPG is still present in Final Fantasy XII - the open - ended exploration, well - designed interconnected areas, sprawling cities with various NPCs which change as the story progresses on, and seemingly endless side - quests and optional enemies, dungeons and hidden treasures.

Crimsonland is a standard top - down twin - stick shooter without story, and the fairly nondescript square levels are simply a place for the seemingly endless hordes of enemies to bleed without any other distractions.

For MGS fans who enjoyed 2010's Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (or the 2013 HD remake), The Phantom Pain follows that template almost exactly: half the game is spent in the field executing operations (split into Story Missions and the seemingly endless Side Ops) and managing resources, manpower, and mission dispatches at Mother Base.

For Hinkle, this horrifying case is compounded by the mainstream media's reporting of a seemingly endless stream of stories about African American men being killed by police; one could be forgiven for thinking that black women are not victimized to the same degree.

At the end of a winter, still in the early stages of a seemingly endless U.S. presidential campaign, and in a time when the media is constantly reporting on war and gun violence, a cute story about a stealthy and elusive unicorn provides much needed relief.

This year, the awards will be given out on March 4th, and once again, they'll be shadowed by controversy: not just the diversity struggle highlighted by the #OscarsSoWhite movement, but the lingering effects of the Harvey Weinstein scandals and the seemingly endless sex - abuse stories that followed.