Sentences with phrase «simple tale of»

It isn't a simple tale of over-confidence in algorithms in the face of black swan events, but rather a tale of poor communications and siloed researchers that slowed down the ability of the wider community to see and interpret what was going on.

Those overwrought reactions are less instructive than what the trade had to say about the sale which is a simple tale of supply and demand:

A simple tale of a woman who wants to become the greatest video game hero takes to the top ten list to vanquish those that held the title to become the...

What started out as a simple tale of conspiracy, lead to the borderline supernatural, and even though that would usually excite me, I was left feeling empty and unexplained.

Stardew Valley tells a very simple tale of a customizable person who inherits a farm from their dead grandfather.

These graphics are used to tell a simple tale of a cop whose wife leaves him due to his commitment to the job.

Story: 7.5 it's not deep, and it's not complicated, but get past the swearing and this simple tale of redemption and revenge is compelling enough.

With fine writing and a wonderful sense of story, Davis corrals a sweeping saga with an unwieldy number of characters and delivers a remarkably simple tale of redemption and perseverance.

Daddy's Girls is a rich yet simple tale of love, madness and spirit, told by the three women in a family on the verge of mental illness.

A rich yet simple tale of love, madness and spirit, told by the three women in a family on the verge of mental illness.

July 7, 2013 • Austrian writer Adalbert Stifter's 1845 novella Rock Crystal is the seemingly simple tale of two children who get lost in a snowfall on Christmas Eve.

Their experience enables them to tell a fairly simple tale of love through local mythologies and taboos in a quite unique and un-patronising tone.

Obviously still hurting from the poor reception of his period epic, «Alexander,» the veteran director has decided to play it safe by telling the simple tale of two men trapped beneath the rubble at Ground Zero.

It doesn't help that this simple tale of enduring — and resonantly frustrating — love hasn't a prayer in the technical categories, but it does help that its Adapted Screenplay nomination is basically set in stone.

Set in the early 1980s, when Steven Spielberg's simple tale of a boy and his unconditional love for an alien was wrenching hearts across the land, In America is not the tale of Irish perseverance - over-racism you might expect.

On another it's a simple tale of a boy and his dog, a heartbreaker with overtones of the much - loved Hachikō story.

A deceptively simple tale of the doomed love affair between an ageing cleaner (Mira) and a young Moroccan gastarbeiter (immigrant worker) which exposes the racial prejudice and moral hypocrisy at the heart of modern West German society.

It's a seemly simple tale of guy meets girl but keeps you guessing until the very end.

It is simple tale of selfishness and love.

It's a simple tale of harsh reality intruding on two gorgeous young lovers (Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo).

Despite some hiccups, Strouse constructs a simple tale of mature relationships that certainly could benefit from some expansion but it's the emotional depth that lifts the film several feet above forgettable.

While Frank Sinatra made the song of the same name famous, opera is writer / director Leon Marr's music of choice to accompany this sweet and simple tale of late - in - life love.

What at first looks like a simple tale of the friendship between a human and a mermaid quickly diverges into so many subplots that it's nearly impossible to keep up.

A simple tale of two unlikely folk heroes ends being one of, if not the most likable film of the first half of 2016, indubitably launching its writer - director onto bigger (if not better) things.

The story strikes a similar balance — as withheld information comes out, a simple tale of revenge becomes much trickier.

Despite it, the story feels like small potatoes in comparison to other war epics to grace the silver screen, more a personal quest to solve a mystery and redeem the family name, and along those lines, the film does work so long as you see it as a simple tale of valor.

It's simple tale of a man stranded on a deserted island — and the red turtle that destroys his raft every time he tries to leave — has been hailed as a masterpiece at film festivals around the world.

Still under the production company name of Vulcan films, they, along with first - time director John Llewellyn Moxey, put together this simple tale of a Satanic coven of witches in a small village, led by the reincarnation of Elizabeth Selwyn, who sacrifice virgin outsiders to Lucifer.

Going far beyond the illusion of a simple tale of big magic, Leterrier includes almost everything a film audience wants — high speed foot and car chases, wild brawls, romance, twists and turns and witty humor.

The duo plans a great escape, but this isn't a simple tale of heroes and villains.

On balance, the message McKinnon is trying to communicate is not unwelcome — it's a simple tale of a community rallying together to break the rules and resist pompous authority.

It's a fairly simple tale of a few kids defeating an evil empire looking to exploit the world's Mana energy: good vs. evil, machines vs. nature, you know the drill.

Very few films have ever delivered as much emotion and heart as this sweet, simple tale of a young elephant triumphing over circumstance.

A deceptively simple tale of a group of strangers trapped in a farmhouse who find themselves fending off a horde of recently dead, flesh - eating ghouls, Romero's claustrophobic vision of a late - 1960s America literally tearing itself apart rewrote the rules of the horror genre, combined gruesome gore with acute social commentary, and quietly broke ground by casting a black actor (DUANE JONES) in its lead role.

The story is a simple tale of reclaiming your honor through revenge with some predictable twists here and there, but the story is great and regardless of bringing the city to the brink of destruction or keeping it and yourself under control, every ending is

And it fails to develop a consistent tone that would enable viewers to suspend their disbelief and be carried away by a simple tale of two people falling for each other.

A simple tale of injustice and female empowerment, the book has sold some 2 million copies worldwide.

Sweet and simple tale of springtime treats - gardening, animals, flying kites - all in simple rhymes.

Moreover, none of the four Gospels tells the story of the Passion in such a way as to make it a simple tale of injustice done by the bad Sanhedrin to the good Christians.

However, most of the online dating «horror» stories I found were really simple tales of disappointment.

My stories are simple tales of emotion.»

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Far from a mere libertarian fairy tale or a simple Silicon Valley exercise in hype, Bitcoin offers a sweeping vista of opportunity to reimagine how the financial system can and should work in the Internet era, and a catalyst to reshape that system in ways that are more powerful for individuals and businesses alike.

Based on Marjane Satrapi's auto - graphic - novel, Persepolis is the simple and bracingly beautiful tale of Marjane growing up in 1970s Iran, where her curiosity, imagination and love of Western pop - culture trash gets her in trouble with the police state imposed after the revolution.

Or should it be fore the most easy and obvious of your many flaws, your complete cowardice in refusing to addrerss this simple central philosophical problem in your fairy - tale faith?

On the face of it, this simple fact would appear to confirm the common tale of Western progress from medieval religious barbarism to modern, more secular and therefore less violent, civilization.

All an evolutionary storyteller has to do is to start with the apparently simplest version, ignore the neural equipment that has to be present for an organism to make any use of a «photon receptor,» and spin a charming tale about how a tiny primitive light - sensing cell might grow up to be a full - fledged eye.

A simple I'm sorry for my part in the sordid tale can wrap this up, otherwise I have more stories... how about the one where the Edina police chaplain throws his wife across the room tearing her shoulder and her 7 year old helps her up and moves the furniture from off of her?

Julie McMahon September 16, 2014 at 8:39 pm -LSB-...] A simple I'm sorry for my part in the sordid tale can wrap this up, otherwise I have more stories... how about the one where the Edina police chaplain throws his wife across the room tearing her shoulder and her 7 year old helps her up and moves the furniture from off of her?

Is it not simpler to explain these stories of miracles psychologically as tales recounted by those who wanted to redress their religious and political disenfranchisement?

Paul Lake's political fable, Cry Wolf, is on one level a simple tale about the unraveling of the idyllic Green Pastures Farm and on another, a bold statement against many of the values that have come to define America.