Sentences with phrase «simple narrative like»

Dubus's subject matter can be rough around the edges — so don't read «Killings» for a sensation of peace — but instead try a quiet, simple narrative like «A Father's Story» and «Miranda Over the Valley.»

Not exact matches

In its simplest form, the standard narrative goes like this:

yes, i can see your problem with that narrative; it doesn't exonerate the steelers from choking, much like the patriots choked by allowing an 80 - something yard play on a simple 8 - yard crosser moments earlier.

But unlike the rigorous skepticism of films like Blood Simple, Fargo, and Burn After Reading, I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore uses its allegorical narrative to further a simplistic political message meant to give it an aura of timely social commentary.

The main narrative of «The Breadwinner» has been drawn in a simple, shallow, frieze - like style.

The way the game manages to weave simple RPG mechanics on top of the narrative works surprisingly well, even if, ultimately, it all feels like a curious throwback to the days when even the most basic graphics were something of a luxury.

Director Ariel Vromen has given us is a simple A to B gangster movie that moves forward in a straight narrative without any grandiose objectives like that of The Godfather or Goodfellas.

It seems like a fairly simple plot, but Cave Story packs a lot of emotion and thought into its relatively short narrative.

Yellow received high praise when first published in the UK in early 2004, with The Times Literary Supplement saying, «Simple but highly effective, Yellow sets the net curtains of one's mind a twitch,» and The Daily Mail describing it as «a taut, maze - like narrative that will entrap you within pages.»

Like all effective Narratives it's simple: central bank policy WILL determine market outcomes.

With no narrative Nectaris can begin to feel like a creative version of a simple game of chess, rewarding players with nothing more than the feeling of besting their opponent.

It seems like a fairly simple plot, but Cave Story packs a lot of emotion and thought into its relatively short narrative.

Using comparisons is a simple, if somewhat lazy, way to easily convey a genre or narrative direction of a game, and, much like those games are their own entities, Rime shares as much in common with those titles as it does its own thing.

Platforms: PC Publisher / Developer: Orthogonal Games (Kent Hudson) Genre: Action Narrative Platform Played: PC Our lives are full of choices on a daily basis, from simple ones such as whether or not you should eat that last piece of dessert, to more difficult and life changing decisions like taking -LSB-...]

Small considerations like that, when combined with the central narrative, the exquisite sound - design, strong voice work, and hilariously accurate atmosphere of a 90's home, are what elevates Gone Home beyond the simple «walking simulator» it may at first appear to be.

Like most of these purveyors of fantastic narratives — any discussion is at the level of abstractions without obvious links to simple descriptions, precise details.or academic sources.

So getting some clarifications from DeepClimate on the last post, I've tried to distill the Briffa controversy to a simple narrative with some key takeaways for laypersons like myself.