Sentences with phrase «shaped by stories»

The very word «narrative» points to the ways in which our identities are shaped by the stories we tell about our lives.

Since childhood, the young men have been shaped by stories that their late father was a Traveler, one of a small band of prophets who have vastly influenced the course of history.

In the United States, family histories are shaped by stories of immigration.

«Students talked deeply about how their motivation to read is shaped by stories, characters, problems, and situations that resembled their lives and experiences,» she says.

In our digital age, society is increasingly shaped by stories told with moving images.

They were righteous, devout and profoundly shaped by a story that was yet to be completed.

To see belief not as a set of beliefs but as a story, an experience of coming to belief, means that theological reflection ought itself to be shaped by the story, take to itself, both in form and content, the story.

Since we can not survey history from some universal, purely rational point of view, narrative theologians argue, we have no choice but to operate out of the historical narrative in which we find ourselves — and for the Christian theologian that means the Christian narrative, shaped by the story (ies) of Jesus Christ as found in the Bible.

Such words strike a deep chord in this age of cheap sentimentality and ethics shaped by the story lines of soap operas and sitcoms.

Since the church is that institutionalized community whose awareness of God's redemptive and creative activity is shaped by the story of Jesus, it is a community that is constituted by memory — namely, its memory of Jesus.

Not exact matches

For those who don't often discuss characterization and story world over dinner, Weinschenk's post kicks off with a great primer on storytelling theory, explaining the basics of Campbell's thinking (famously exemplified by the journey of Star Wars» Luke Skywalker), as well as the roughly bell - shaped story diagram every writer learns in her first class on structure.

The news about Mr. Thiel funding the suit against Gawker broke just as the previous contretemps about Silicon Valley and the media — how Facebook shapes the news that its users see, sparked by a story in Gizmodo, another Gawker property — was dying down.

Second, the traditional story implies that lending volume has something to do with the cost of funds. There is some truth in this proposition but I would argue that the greater truth is that lending is a demand - driven process shaped by expectations and changing asset valuations (or at least perceived valuations), which is why borrowing in the US is currently in the toilet. Demand just isn't there.

The Nominees: The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor; story by Guillermo del Toro) Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig) The Bick Sick (Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani) Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonagh) Get Out (Jordan Peele)

As he made clear in a Fortune story three years ago («The Rainwater Prophecy») he believes that the world is facing a future shaped by scarce natural resources.

Somehow, Meloy and Co's crazy ambitions (the amorphous story is something about a maiden [sung by Lavender Diamond's Becky Stark] who falls in love with a shape - shifting forest being — and somewhere in there is an evil forest queen and a Rake, whatever that is) don't overshadow the incredible music they produce.

The latest episode in this long and continuing story was frst fully broken shortly after the Synod's decision in July by The Catholic Herald, who had a long news piece, an article by «fying bishop» Andrew Burnham (who had just returned from discussions in Rome), and an opinion piece by Damian Thompson containing «well - informed» speculation as to the shape of any agreement over some form of corporate solution to the Anglo - Catholics» problem.

It is a continuously developing organism, so the history of the church — indeed of any religion — is a story of continuity and change and the church today has been shaped by the past.

If the Abraham stories are shaped by the first phase of Israel's history, that phase in which Israel became Israel, and if they are read and interpreted in Israel as a personalized account of her formative faith in her formative event, we may well wonder whether there is not a corresponding relationship between the Jacob stories and the middle phase of her history, the era of her autonomous existence in her own land, on her own soil.

But there is nothing in the scientific picture of the cosmos that forbids our envisaging the story of the universe, in its modern scientifically established character, as simultaneously a story shaped by the same promise that becomes explicit in historical revelation.

But this was a dim and vague affair, presumably taken to be a way in which the «spirit» breathed into human life when God shaped the «dust of the earth,» as the legend in Genesis tells the story, would never be utterly destroyed — after all, it had been breathed by God and hence must be indestructible even if largely irrelevant to whatever the future, beyond death, held for men and women.

The church, to be itself as it is shaped by the Christian story, needs to be separate from the world.

Once we take into account the capacity of the ancient Jewish mind to create a story as a way of expounding and showing the relevance of a Biblical text (this practice will be described in Chapter 9), it is not at all difficult to see how the story of Joseph of Arimathea could have been partly shaped by Isaiah 53:9, «And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death,» found in the famous chapter on the suffering servant, which was certainly interpreted by the early Christians as a prophecy of the death of Jesus.

I'm shaped by this place, as Luci Shaw wrote about poets, the slender antennae of awareness is always combing the world, and I am shaped by the people here, by their stories, by our becoming - shared histories, what I pick up here matters for my work, my voice, my faith, my family, perhaps it's not so prideful in this context, to say that it matters for the world.

In the surrender of faith we allow ourselves and our consciousness to be shaped by a set of revelatory images and stories.

In Christian theological ethics, the constancy of the distinctive Christian character shaped by the distinctiveness of the Christian story is stressed.

The Evangelical commitment to the Bible means shaping consciences of people by the doctrines and propositions of Scripture, of course, but also experiencing the world with a sense of one's place in the biblical story.

But the Christian knows that stories are not bound by their linear shape, that the meaning of stories goes beyond the facts they portray.

The story of our faith — whether it comes directly from the Bible or from the story of the Church that followed — keeps our focus on God and shapes our identity by reminding us of who we are and who we are called to be.

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Mouse Shapes by Ellen Stoll Walsh is a fun continuation of the cat and mouse story started in Mouse Paint.

The heart of this book is the story of how David Cameron wrested the party from its losing streak to shape authentic Conservative values into a genuinely popular narrative, characterised by a stronger society and a more efficient state.

«This exhibition is just the beginning of our work in telling the story of New York's colonial history and how our settlement by the Dutch has shaped not only our local character but aspects of state and even national character that we think will surprise and delight our visitors,» said Deputy Commissioner of Cultural Education and State Museum Director Mark Schaming.

Democrats and Republicans are mounting a fierce battle to shape voter impressions of Congress during August's political lull, convinced that they must define the story line of the 2008 congressional election before voters are swamped by the presidential campaign.

«These stories are all exactly what you would expect from the survivors of a celestial impact,» Masse says, leafing through 2,000 - year - old drawings by Chinese astronomers that show comets of all shapes and sizes.

The Thing Universal Studios John Carpenter's 1982 cult thriller The Thing tells the story of an American research outpost terrorized by an elusive shape - shifting creature.

They innovate and apply the Scientific Method, but such innovations and inspirations were shaped by those relationships and life stories.

I touch on my recent Grand Solar Minimum debunking videos; on a new book that I am reading by Hector MacDonald called «Truth; How the Many Sides to Every Story Shape Our Reality», and also on Cambridge Analytica's successful hacking of democracy based on deep and dark manipulations of the on average 5,000 data points on each persons Facebook profile that they illegally hijacked from a Russian psychologist; as exposed by the guy from Canada with pink hair.

Traditionally, Tibetan Yoga has been shrouded in secrecy, explains Baker, and marked by fantastical stories of yogis in the mountains who keep their naked bodies warm through esoteric breathing practices or who can jump, contort midair into shapes like Lotus Pose, and land in seated meditation.

Meng Zhang's vision is to inspire by bringing psychedelic bursts of colors and shapes to unique oriental prints, allowing each and every piece to tell a story that defines her world of modern luxury living.

Indeed, one of the best things about Sunless Sea, apart from its beautifully crafted elder - horror stories, fantastically drawn artwork and generally creepy atmosphere, is the feeling that the decisions you make within the game are shaping the narrative, and that by playing, you are writing yourself into that story.

Where the 1998 movie, also directed by Shekhar Kapur and starring Cate Blanchett, painted a compelling portrait while also telling a riveting narrative, the sequel simply takes a chunk out of Elizabeth's life and says, «Here's what happened during these years,» without bothering to shape it into a story.

Best Actor in a Supporting Role The Florida Project: Willem Dafoe Call Me by Your Name: Armie Hammer The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected): Dustin Hoffman Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri: Sam Rockwell Dunkirk: Mark Rylance The Shape of Water: Michael Shannon

Check back for some of our favorites and / or highly - anticipated scripts, such as Phantom Thread, Call Me by Your Name, The Shape of Water, A Ghost Story, Get Out, The Post, and more.

Hollywood has always been a famously middlebrow place, but the grand irony of «The Shape of Water» taking best picture is that it's a love story, and Hollywood is virtually defined by love stories, yet this one is decorated in so much magical - realist bric - a-brac that it gets you to do everything but swoon.

The Shape of Water, the critically acclaimed film co-written by Del Toro and Vanessa Taylor, tells the story of a cleaner who works in a Baltimore laboratory in the 1960s and falls in love with a sea creature whom she attempts to rescue.

«Films like The Shape of Water, A Fantastic Woman, Lady Bird, and Call Me By Your Name not only have complex, detailed, and moving portrayals, but prove that audiences and critics alike are hungry for stories which embrace diversity.»

Critics Consensus: The Shape of Water finds Guillermo del Toro at his visually distinctive best — and matched by an emotionally absorbing story brought to life by a stellar Sally Hawkins performance.

The script (by del Toro and Matthew Robbins) anticipates problems and corrects them before they can take shape, too; just as it seems his story may get bogged down with exposition, the action shifts into a hallucinatory high gear.

Linklater uses era - defining music as a sort of bookmark for time, shaping his stories around cultural happenings as defined by what was playing on the radio.