Sentences with phrase «stories about people whose»

I didn't think of this so much as a novel about the past — I thought of it as a story about people whose normal feelings got swept up and magnified because of a terrible war.

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I realize that they're a necessary evil, but you need to be very careful that you're not saying things or doing things (even worse) to «prove» something to these people because (a) it's never enough to satisfy them in any case and they won't believe you anyway; and (b) it's a fool's errand to waste your time trying to impress people whose livelihood is much more about finding the warts and shortcomings in your story than in celebrating your successes.

«Few people were aware that a sale was in the works for the paper, whose reporters have broken such stories as the Pentagon Papers, the Watergate scandals and disclosures about the National Security Administration's surveillance program in May.»

The story is about Israel's God — the God who lives on a mountain down south somewhere, whose subject are an enslaved people — marching onto the home field of the superpower of the day and beating up their army and their gods.

Those ubiquitous network news stories about the «common people» whose lives are destroyed by out - of - touch policy wonks inside the Beltway do not meet any reasonable criteria for the appropriate political use of emotion and narrative particularity.

We like to think that if we don't have a record of Jesus» teachings on a matter, he must not have said anything about it, but we forget that Jesus healed, blessed, taught, and shared meals with people whose names we will never know, whose stories will never be immortalized in stained glass.

Whenever there are articles in major publications about how more people are choosing to be childfree, from Time's 2013 cover story dedicated to exploring the childfree life to last year's New York Times» article about the childfree, there's a flurry of commentary debating whose choice is more selfish.

Three complete novels that, taken together, tell a single epic story, about an author whose life is shattered when violence and tragedy consume the people closest to him.

In a situation like that, even a small amount of electoral fraud, or a small number of people whose vote was swayed by a negative story about a candidate, could be enough.

Other documents noted that in September 2013, Adam Skelos emailed a person, whose name was redacted, a link to a story about Cuomo appointing a person to head the Nassau Interim Finance Authority.

I'm the kind of person who starts thinking about lunch while loading the dishwasher with my breakfast bowl; the kind whose NYC tour when family and friends come to town consists of a string of food shops and restaurants, with a bit of walking in between (true story: The first time he came to visit, my dad had to remind me that he was also interested in the Statue of Liberty and Central Park).

For some reason, women like to compete about whose birth story is worse... which is unhelpful and scary to the pregnant person listening.

Among the high - profile premieres this year are «Antz,» the new Dreamworks animated film; James Ivory's «A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries,» with Kris Kristofferson playing a character inspired by novelist James Jones; «Dancing at Lughnasa,» starring Meryl Streep in the film of Brian Friel's celebrated play; John Waters» «Pecker,» with Edward Furlong as a fast - food worker whose photos are embraced by the New York art world; Helena Bonham Carter and Kenneth Branagh in «The Theory of Flight,» about a work - release prisoner assigned to a woman with Lou Gehrig's disease; Ben Stiller as a drug - addicted TV writer in «Permanent Midnight»; Christina Ricci in «Desert Blue,» about slim prospects for a teenager in a town of 89 people; «The Imposters,» the new film by Stanley («Big Night») Tucci, starring Tucci and Oliver Platt as cruise - ship stowaways; «Rushmore,» with Jason Schwartzmann as a prep schooler who is a lousy student but hyperactive in campus activities; Cameron Diaz in «Very Bad Things,» about a bachelor party that ends in murder; Cate Blanchett as «Elizabeth,» the story of England's 16th century monarch, and «The Judas Kiss,» with FBI agent Emma Thompson on the trail of the kidnapper of a computer genius.

Hirokazu Kore - eda — who won the top prize at the Cannes film festival Saturday — is Japan's answer to Ken Loach, a director whose stories about struggling ordinary people never fail to touch.

And by the end of Stories We Tell, Polley admits (when pressed by her father) that her Big Theme is kind of bullshit, and may just be a way of avoiding her own complicated feelings about her mother, her father, and the people whose lives they affected.

It strikes the right chords, not only as a personal story of one boy's confusion with his own identity, but also of the confusion of an entire country, whose peoples were conflicted about a war they didn't want, and a bubbling under of anti-immigration sentiment that left foreign newcomers largely unprotected to skinhead gangs like the one depicted in the film.

This film is about more than the story of JFK and Jackie O, the «beautiful people» as Bobbie Kennedy calls them; it's a film about grief and bereavement and a woman whose husband dies in her arms.

«There's so much to explore with a character whose history was as a villain, and you know, Scarlett does such a good job of playing that character and people are so used to that character and people are so used to that character that you forget the character's history, and so there's a lot of compelling stories to tell about someone who has a dark past.»

American audiences have enjoyed a recent spate of documentaries that take us beyond headlines and just - the - facts news stories about the Islamic State, Iraq and Syria, and that give us, instead, a glimpse of the people whose lives have been so viciously upended by militancy's rise in the Middle East.

Then the reporter will write a news story based on the answers to the questions, and the person whose home was destroyed will write a diary entry about his or her feelings.

As we prepare to spend tomorrow thinking about ways to nurture civic participation in young people, we wanted to republish a great story about two Facing History students whose study of history and the choices people make inspired them to petition the Oxford English Dictionary to add the word upstander to its pages.

People whose lives and personalities were as damaged and diverse as one might expect from a mystery about a war criminal, might tell the story in ways that were easier to digest.

Adams's life story encapsulates the history of the founding era, for she defined herself in relation to the people she loved or hated (she was never neutral): her mother, whom she considered terribly overprotective; Benjamin Franklin, who schemed to clip her husband's wings; her sisters, whose dependence upon Abigail's charity strained the family bond; James Lovell, her husband's bawdy congressional colleague, who peppered her with innuendo about John's «rigid patriotism»; her financially naïve husband (Abigail earned money in ways the president considered unsavory, took risks that he wished to avoid — and made him a rich man); Phoebe Abdee, her father's former slave, who lived free in an Adams property but defied Abigail's prohibition against sheltering others even more desperate than herself; and her son John Quincy, who worried her with his tendency to «study out of spight» but who fueled her pride by following his father into public service, rising to the presidency after her death.

From the cold and calculating would - be philanderer of a main character, a man who has worked his entire life to keep his wife and children at arm's length due to the fact that they are women, to the spoiled adult children of this stereotypical New England family of privilege whose mistakes get swept under the rug of propriety, there isn't a single person in this story that I would hold a door open for, let alone care about.

Few people were aware that a sale was in the works for the paper, whose reporters have broken such stories as the Watergate scandals and, in May, disclosures about the National Security Administration's surveillance program.»

Especially with the social media backlash against our new president's conservative viewpoints, you will see the publishing industry double down on their selection of books by and about people of color, the LGBTQ community, and others whose voices and stories we have not heard much from the straight white publishing world.

Ardmore Ceramics is a story about the Zulu people whose sense of rhythm, colour, dance and song, as well as the spirit of the African imagination, is exerting its influence on the other continents of the world.

We enjoy meeting people who are passionate about what they do, people whose stories give us goose bumps; capturing the perfect photograph; experiencing local cuisine; seeing a location through someone else's eyes.

A retrospective (until 2 October 2016) of the American artist whose psychologically charged portraits tell intimate and unconventional stories, as much about people living on the margins of society and in subcultures as about the New York cultural elite and her own family.

Even before young children can read, family members, childcare providers and teachers read them stories about people in far away places, sometimes from the distant past and sometimes about people whose lives are similar to their own.

Updated 13 February, with Age story about the Prime Minister opening his Closing the Gap address in the language of the Ngunawal, the people on whose... Read more

For those unfamiliar with The Notebook (probably only another five people on the planet aside from me) it's about a woman in a nursing home whose husband keeps reading her their love story in the hope it will bring her memories back.