Sentences with phrase «smaller scale stories»

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It will be full of stories about how companies both large and small are adopting Lean Startup methods to scale successfully and operate in conditions of extreme uncertainy.

From the WBE who doubled her business after meeting a supplier at a WBENC conference, to two small women - owned businesses partnering to scale up to meet the needs of a large corporation, these stories help showcase the benefits of certification and being a part of the WBENC network.

Something to consider with going after local coverage is that it is easier to land than national or large - scale publications and blogs as they have a smaller pool of stories to pull from and are more likely to read and accept your pitch.

The same story holds true on a smaller scale.

Cycles are seen as a small chapter in the big - bang story of the universe, which on a macro scale is traveling in a single temporal direction from past toward future.

On a much smaller scale, Torii Hunter and Astros pitcher LaTroy Hawkins recall the story of a former major leaguer from the Dominican Republic whose adviser took care of all his financial matters.

Like a baby book but on a smaller scale - tell mom just to write stories about everyday life instead of big events.

On Friday, outgoing Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner gave her own farewell address that, while smaller in scale, similarly felt like the definitive end of a chapter in an increasingly complicated story.

While Nso values and parenting techniques generally characterize small - scale farming populations, especially in Africa, hunter - gatherers are another story, says anthropologist Barry Hewlett of Washington State University in Vancouver.

Small - scale, multilevel farms have sprung up in Britain and Wisconsin, and an organization called Growing Power hopes to break ground on a five - story project in Milwaukee within 18 months.

I have felt uplifted by its purity, reading the stories that surround Ballagarh and their diet makes me think positively about producing this small scale for mental health care.

That could be the motto of JDate, a notable, small - scale success story in the online dating industry and the prime asset of obscure Spark Networks (ticker: LOV) because of its status as the main venue for single Jews searching for Jewish spouses.

Sun Choke succeeds in telling a small - scale story with tons of interest, abandoning typical plot structures in favor of genuine discovery.

James Mangold (3:10 to Yuma and Knight and Day), a late replacement for Darren Aronofsky, directs this smaller - scale story that takes Logan / Wolverine to Japan, where he confronts his past and a possible new future with love interest Mariko Yashida (Tao Okamoto).

Personally, I think they should have just stuck with the Doc, because his addition, to my mind, bumps up the story from simple fable to genuine science fiction, albeit on a small scale.

And it is set apart from the X-Men universe by its story that deals with crime on a much smaller scale.

Reflecting the decades in which the story unfolds, the assured narrative beats captured by Bernstein recall the thoughtful, expertly rendered, small - scale dramas (such as Resurrection with Ellen Burstyn or Testament with Jane Alexander) that were once produced by studios and shown by major theatrical chains.

Catching Fire presents mostly the same story as the first film, but speedier and with a slight twist as previous Hunger Games winners Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (the grim - jawed Josh Hutcherson) cause trouble for the capitol of Panem, the post-war-rebellion version of the United States, after their previous victory, which inspires small scale rebellions across the nation, mostly evident via graffiti.

If this sounds like a lot of exposition for a willfully small - scale story, that's because it is.

And though Akira seems like an even darker story, with its dystopian techno - horror themes and grand - scale action, Waititi has proved that he knows how to dig for the humanity of movies big and small.

The story of a garbageman named Simon Grim (James Urbaniak) who becomes a celebrated poet after meeting the garrulous, frustrated title character (Thomas Jay Ryan), Henry Fool remains Hartley's most commercially successful film (on a very small scale), but it didn't exactly appear to be the launch of a franchise.

Love Is Strange — Back at the Tribeca Film Festival I saw and very much enjoyed this small scale love story.

This is no sweeping, big - budget epic; rather it's a small story with bearing on the experiences of millions more, and it gets that across without ever losing sight of the personal scale on which it's being told.

An amazing counterpart to the big budget epic Everest is the true story of a small group of adventure - seekers who looked to be the first to scale one of the massive mountain's more difficult peaks.

The IMAX format, however, gives moviegoers a chance to see the movie as Nolan intended — epic scale to tell the epic story, set at the outset of World War II, when British civilians in small vessels crossed the English Channel to rescue more than 300,000 British and Allied soldiers surrounded and stranded on the French beach of Dunkirk.

The Dolby TrueHD 5.1 mix provides subtle but crisp ambience for this small - scale story.

I'm not convinced either has the presence for the big screen, although Aniston was terrific in «The Good Girl» (a small movie) and Parker, who strikes me as more of a character actress than a leading lady, was suitably kooky and vivacious in Steve Martin's «L.A. Story» and hilarious as Johnny Depp's exasperated wife in Tim Burton's low - scale «Ed Wood.»

The second - best Spidey flick (behind Spider - Man 2, natch), Spider - Man: Homecoming manages to do what Ant - Man did as a superhero flick, only better: tell more personal story on a smaller - scale with a focus on fun and depth.

This is the biggest Marvel Studios film to date — the story plays out on a global scale and the main cast reaches double digits — but many of its best moments are small, throwaway beats: Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), who is cramped in the back of a small car, asking a surly Falcon (Anthony Mackie) to move his seat up; a starstruck Ant - Man (Paul Rudd) so giddy about meeting Captain America (Chris Evans) he practically asks for a selfie; Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) teaching the synthetic Vision (Paul Bettany) how to properly use paprika in a recipe; Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) casually flirting with Aunt May (Marisa Tomei), to the alarm of her nephew Peter Parker (Tom Holland).

A coming - of - age story for the Age of Ultron, «Homecoming» is the smallest chapter of the MCU since «Ant - Man,» but this script — credited to six different writers — takes much greater advantage of its scale.

The small scale intimacy of the story about a teenage girl on the cusp of womanhood in Sacramento feels raw and real, its cozy focus creating a universal anecdote that relives (with bittersweet affection) a part of life that's filled with constantly fluctuating highs and lows.

As it turns out, Kicks proves there's no reason a small - scale story of poverty can't be just as massively depressing as something more sweeping in scope.

As ever with a Davies season finale (I know there hasn't been an actual season this year, but the principle's the same), this isn't the place to look if you want a small - scale, tight - knit, self - contained story.

Yes, much of Deadpool's humor came from the improvisation of its stars, but nonetheless, Reese and Wernick were able to craft a story that jam - packed with spectacle despite being small in scale, and which managed to subvert the typical superhero movie tropes while also embracing them.

The only data they have are anecdotal stories, like the ones presented below, or the few small - scale reports, like Matthew Chingos and Guido Schwerdt's study of Florida Virtual School (FLVS), which found no evidence that quality is poorer in the online environment.

Activities include watching a short film clip and looking at a photo - story of how small - scale rice farmers are changing their lives through irrigation.

On a smaller scale, when I wanted to introduce my 3rd grade students to creating stories in Storybird, I had to first make sure they knew basic word processing skills.

Great things are happening on a smaller scale — now we need to find a way to bring these empowering stories into the limelight and build some powerful momentum in a larger undertaking.

Because of that structure, critique groups are often better with writing craft issues on a smaller scale (clarifying sentences or paragraphs, scene goals, immediate motivations, dialogue passages, etc.) than on a story - sized scale (character development, plot flow, story goals and motivations, themes, emotional arcs, etc.).

Work on the large scale (structure, voice) and small scale (style and language choices) to get your story ready for the world.

The # 2 app store gets a few developers success stories (although on a much smaller scale than in the # 1 app store).

The magazine «Country Life», in the 29 April 1899 takes up the story: «Some five - and - thirty years ago in fact, [i.e. about 1865], the small - sized or light - weight Bulldog was common in this country; so much so that dogs of the breed that scaled over 28 lbs were not encouraged at such shows as Birmingham, which was at that period the most important exhibition of its kind in England.

Modern Warfare had a trilogy, sure, but the story Infinity Ward was trying to tell was much smaller in scale and spread across half a decade, taking turns with stories told by other studios.

What follows is an often grotesque and always entertaining adventure that, while much smaller in scale than Deadly Premonition «s sprawling Pacific Northwest setting of Greenvale, is equally engrossing with its varied cast of eccentric characters, exciting motion - controlled action, and bizarre but ultimately compelling story.

It was a change for the franchise but introduced a nice mix up to the series» traditional style, with smaller vignette - type stories as opposed to full - scale adventures.

Though you will make many small - scale decisions over the course of the game, on the whole, the story follows a very linear path.

With so many high - profile games these days revolving around saving the world or saving the universe, I always find it refreshing when I see a big - budget title that deals with a story that's on a smaller scale and more personal in nature.

In chasing that scale the bigger picture can sometimes get a little obscured, but importantly Final Fantasy 15 retains that love of smaller stories, the ones that often prove to be so much more memorable.

This new Chapter in The Elder Scrolls Online saga introduces a massive new area to explore, a new character class: the Warden, a new small - scale, fast - paced PvP mode with Battlegrounds, a new 12 - player Trial in the Halls of Fabrication, and more than 30 hours of quests and exciting story content.

Bioware, being more known for their story abilities than ability to construct raid encounters or balance servers for world PvP, could then focus on something more small scale that I feel many MMO fans who enjoy story would be able to purchase and play with their friends (both fellow MMO fans and general gaming fans).