Sentences with phrase «settings of a story world»

But they are more: they paint colorful pictures from the action, people, and settings of a story world.

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One student told me that he thought college students tended to ramp up their privacy settings and change them more frequently because «we're getting closer to being in the real world and we've all heard these horror stories of prospective employers mining applicants» Facebooks.

One of them was the mid-1990s hit Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace by Ricardo Semler, in which the author, a Brazilian CEO, describes running a democratic, open - book company in which people set their own salaries.

It was a matter of setting out the larger story, the narrative framework, which makes sense of and brings order to God's world and God's people.»

Set in the turn of the century, it tells the story of a girl who is fascinated with the natural world and is trying to find her way.

In the present section the focus is the setting of parish story, its world view.

That faith, plus other perceptions about our personal lives and the course of human history, provided a dimension to our stories that I call their setting: the world the story sets in which story's plot can credibly unfold and its character develop.

Rather, the setting of my story and the congregation's portrays my own body and that of the local church essentially in human terms, but my factual portrait of the world is darkly shaded by the tragic inevitability of God's inexorable plan.

The setting of the empiric story shows an often anomalous world in which signs of the sacred are belied by their link to folly and injustice.

Through the discourse of its members the congregational story establishes its world setting.

Telling the story develops the identity and mission of a congregation by establishing the setting of the story of a local church, its picture of the world; narrative proclaims corporate nature.

Stories that define a community different from the world around us because of the way these stories shape our self - understanding, a community that may sometimes be wildly radical politically and on other issues seem conservative, but will not let anyone else's vision set its Stories that define a community different from the world around us because of the way these stories shape our self - understanding, a community that may sometimes be wildly radical politically and on other issues seem conservative, but will not let anyone else's vision set its stories shape our self - understanding, a community that may sometimes be wildly radical politically and on other issues seem conservative, but will not let anyone else's vision set its agenda.

Wrestle as we may with the problem of pain in God's world, there is still a meaning in the refrain of that story, «And God saw that it was good,» which neither philosophy nor science can set aside.

When I used to attend (evangelical christian) church there was always a vocal strain of folks who wanted to think they were persecuted, they told made - up stories about christians being persecuted in various parts of the world (at the time a lot of them were set in the U.S.S.R.)... it was so obvious that they LOVED thinking of themselves as some small group of martyrs, that they NEEDED to imagine themselves to be a persecuted minority... holding on to some secret truth that the rest of the world had turned its back on.

Some attention to the story form in apocalyptic can show us some of the reasons why the narrative form is in trouble, while process theology has some fundamentally useful hints about how we may re-imagine the story, or grasp a new narrative vision of the world, which will enable us to set the new into a meaningful framework and respond to it with hope.

If we engage in the «de-mythologizing» of the Revelation to St. John the Divine, as we must also «de-mythologize» the creation stories in the book Genesis in the Old Testament, we realize that what is being said is that as human existence and the world in which that existence is set has its origin in the circumambient, everlasting, faithful Love that is nothing other than God — we recall Wesley's hymn, quoted a few paragraphs back, that «his nature and his Name is Love», and Dante's great closing line in The Divine Comedy about «the Love that moves the sun and the other stars» — so also the «end» toward which all creaturely existence moves is that very same Love.

While the content of this brief excursus into the basic tenets of process - relational thought will be familiar to most readers of this journal, it sets the stage for my development of an ethics of character and virtue, of the understanding of the Christian story, and the church - world relationship from a process perspective.

The setting of her stories is a world from which human beings have generally eliminated mystery (grace) and only discover the power of that reality in sudden, startling, and unexpected ways.

A major function of parish story, therefore, is the formulation of a larger setting for the self, one that situates the individual as part of a society and a world.

Huffington Post: Evidence Suggests Flood, Noah's Ark Existed, Says Robert Ballard, Archaeologist Who Found Titanic Robert Ballard, one of the world's most famous underwater explorers, has set his sights on proving the existence of one of the Bible's most well known stories.

By establishing the setting of the story of a local church, its picture of the world, narrative proclaims corporate nature.

It simply tells a story that is set against the Baals and the Marduks of the then pagan world, a wolrd that claimed that their gods created the world after and bitter battle in which the corpses of the losers were used to from the earth.

Set in the schlock district of rakishly decorated motels built in the 1950s to house Disney World around Orlando, and Kissimmee, Florida, the story follows families who have fallen below the minimum score to rent an apartment and are stuck in a cycle of poverty that includes living indefinitely in cheap rent - by - the - night rooms that have long since fallen out of favor with tourists.

The researchers are demonstrating that television promotes consistent values, attitudes, and beliefs which serve the functional needs of those who control and use the medium: «Commercial television, unlike other media, presents an organically composed total world of interrelated stories (both drama and news) produced to the same set of market specifications.»

In the words of novelist John le Carre, who has studied the Muslim world extensively and set some of is stories there, «What America longs for at this moment, even above retribution, is more friends and fewer enemies.»

The octet sets the problem in narrative fashion: the speaker tells his story through the metaphor of worlds.

Here is my evil plan — Create a fictional character, have him born into poverty in a part of the world full of strife with no recorded history, cast some doubts on his conception (that will keep them guessing), leave a decade or so gap in his life story, re-introduce him in the middle of nowhere and tell everyone he has all these amazing powers, he confounds and confuses all his followers and tells them not to tell anyone about what he does or where he is going and Oh yeah, they are all prostiitutes and tax cheats and lepers and the really lowlifes of society, deny them the chance to follow him, set him at odds with both the government and the church powers of his time, cast doubts on his seexuality and intelligence, make it so he refuses anyone to come to his aid and kill him in the most horrible way imaginable, then hide his body, make it so nothing he does can be historically proven.

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And before the meat and dairy industries descend upon COP23 to broadcast their «feed the world» narrative, let's set the story straight: their emissions could lead us to a point of no return.

Ostensibly, it is the story of a team of nine - year old hockey players in a Boston suburb, their coach, a former high school baseball coach and local sports hero, the all - male board of directors of the town's hockey club, a hockey mom concerned about her kids emotional well - being, and, at center ice, a set of adorable, identical, competitive, but sensitive twin boys who became, as is all too often the case in the adult - centered world of youth sports, the unintended but innocent victims of a real life power play.

For children already familiar with the Magic Tree House, it can be a special treat for them to experience a seasonal story set in the world of characters they know so well.

Williams managed to hold serve to stay in touch but 23 unforced errors to the German's three told the story of the first set, which Kerber wrapped up in 39 minutes — the first set the world number one had dropped all tournament.

Allegations of sexual harassment and assault by Mr. Weinstein were disclosed this month in The New York Times and The New Yorker, which prompted other women to share their accounts of his alleged abuse, set off criminal investigations, roiled the entertainment world and triggered a social media movement of women from other industries and backgrounds telling their stories.

The story of how I entered the world of materials science is set in Trieste, a city in the northeast of Italy that I like to call Italy's «city of science.»

In the second volume — and, increasingly, in subsequent editions — they set the stories instead in the enchanted world of childhood.

During my survey, the top of the headline charts included a story about an attempt to set a world record for toppling dominoes that was foiled by a wayward cockroach.

As a public speaker and a writer for magazines such as Popular Mechanics and Amazing Stories, he romanticised the natural world, and gloried in the idea of brave explorers setting off into an unknown that awed and fascinated him.

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And before the meat and dairy industries descend upon COP23 to broadcast their «feed the world» narrative, let's set the story straight: their emissions could lead us to a point of no return.

For question 2), I'll share some of the stories I've picked up about vegan muscle builders and general athletes who have been improving their performance and setting world records after going vegan.

This downloadable content will even include an additional adventure with a new side story set in the world of Elysium.

«White Shadow,» the first feature from Berlin - based Israeli filmmaker Noaz Deshe, which plays Sundance this weekend having already picked up the Best Debut award in Venice, mired us deep in this quandary, being a story, bruisingly told, set in the horrifying world of «albino hunting» in Tanzania, where local superstitions have led to a lucrative trade in albino body parts believed by witch doctors to have mystical properties.

State of Affairs is another generic Washington D.C. - set thriller drawing on current events for story points (terrorist threats, hostage - taking, global unrest) in a way that feels opportunistic and, frankly, insensitive considering the real - world tragedies that are showing up in the news.

The rest of the time is spent exploring (only you can't in any type of satisfying manner because after 10 seconds you've got the pointless button pressing combat again) some terribly badly designed maps (on roughly the same tech and inspirational level as Horace Goes Skiing - seriously that lost world of dinosaurs game on the Spectrum 128K had way, way better level design), following a story line that is so shallow it makes Jet Set Willy look like story telling genius, buying weapons and armour and levelling up which is all pointless because the combat is just so useless.

I think Jackson has to be commended for, quite bravely, deciding to jump in at the deep end once more by taking on yet another set of films, where the story is not so much saving the world but helping a band of warriors reclaim their home.

It's a universal story of love and belonging set in a kaleidoscopic world of brilliant apparitions and lively, well - dressed skeletons.

Bruno Barreto gives Shakespeare's classic love story a raucously fresh retelling by setting it in the crazed world of passionate soccer fans.

Adapting a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, also the author of The Secret Garden, the film shifts the story's setting to World War I. 10 year - old Sara Crewe (Liesel Matthews) has been left in a respected New York City boarding school while her British father heads overseas to fight.

Here's a thing about origin stories, they set up the universe of a new world and here, the audience is a blank slate.

You've seen similar stories countless times before, just not set in the world of Los Angeles MCs.