Sentences with phrase «stories akin»

Our students did not write papers, they published essays and short stories akin to what real writers produce for their readers.

Again, Singh promised national attention for the story akin to the death of Johnny Storm based on a key decision a character makes within the course of the crossover.

They promised «national attention for the story akin to the death of Johnny Storm based on a key decision a character makes within the course of the crossover.»

Part of me is inclined to unravel a jumper, which I'm sure is in an old story akin to this, in order to find my way back.

Bend Studio are clearly trying to tell a road story akin to The Last of Us, with a huge Pacific Northwest setting and plenty of post-apocalyptic beards to keep those cold winter nights at bay.

It's an overhead, 2D, turn - based, role - playing style game with a story akin to a moving Spielberg movie; a well written, cartoony but serious plot about a young psychic boy who joins a party of diverse characters (a cowboy and a princess, to name a few) who are fated to stop an evil cabal from corrupting and destroying the world.

The game features a constant narration of the story akin to Prince of Persia Sands of Time and Bastion, however unlike the previous games in the Call of Juarez franchise, Gunslinger does not take itself too seriously and the delivery of narration is done wonderfully by John Cygan and the banter accompanying it is both colorful and witty.

Not exact matches

Most of the time these regulations are just background noise, but at the heart of most passenger horror stories lies some rule that transformed an ordinary service interaction into something more akin to a police stop.

And the angst on conservative talk radio about the Akins story is almost palpable.

To suggest science «compliments» the Biblical creation story is akin to suggesting the science investigating the mammalian physiology of Rangifer tarandus «compliments» the story of Santa Claus and Rudolph.

After hearing countless stories of how pornography has affected the lives of others, I've come to realize that the consequences of porn use are akin to flying bits of shrapnel: painful, unpredictable, and in some ways, fatal to our lives.

The way this story is written is akin to writing a story «about» Football that mentions the tail gate parties, the various jersey colors, etc but wouldn't say anything about the BASICS of the actual sport itself.

In my opinion, taking either of those guys with to Puerto Rico would be done as a human interest story, akin to when the Marlins gave Adam Greenberg an at - bat in 2012 after his career was derailed when he was beaned in the head in his first career plate appearance years earlier.

One such story came for Thompson a little more than a decade ago when Glens Falls Mayor Roy Akins Jr. remained in office during his lengthy battle with terminal brain cancer.

This emphasizes the downsides of not integrating all data sources, and reveals a situation perhaps akin to that of astronomy and experimental physics in the pursuit of cosmology: Together, palaeontology and development can come much closer to telling the whole story of evolution — this integrative approach resolves previous disparities that have challenged the support for the dinosaur - bird link and reveals previously undetected processes, including loss of bones, fusion of bones, and re-evolution of a transiently lost bone.

«They are akin to Rudyard Kipling's «Just So Stories» about how giraffes got their long necks.»

Carver, like Dubus, shies not away from difficult situations, but his open - eyed starkness is not to be confused with indifference; at the core of his stories is a softness akin to the coziest of reading nooks.

It seems akin to stories of sibling

And so, yes, Southside With You is the story of the first date between the now President and First Lady of these United States of America via the lens of something akin to director Richard Linklater's Before trilogy.

Judging from the pictures and trailer, which you can check out below, we're expecting a tone more akin to Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat than The Book of Mormon, but we're always excited by a contemporary re-telling of a classic story.

However, Maddin's films are not themselves examples of silent cinema, and are, rather, akin to how Peter Greenaway's films often become moving tapestries of visual innovations, telling stories with enhanced detail that lends the material a «handcrafted» sort of feel.

There's a supposed love story among the explosions and the dead spots somewhere, but acting in a film as effects - heavy as this one is akin to doing voice work for animation: long hours of sitting by yourself in a fake cockpit as you scream your lines at nothing while gyros toss you around tends to hinder human tenderness and connection.

This story could have unfolded in many different ways; Marlo's initial fear is that letting a stranger into her home at night will engender something akin to the trashy thriller The Hand that Rocks the Cradle.

So in a sense the new film is fan fiction of the original from the start, akin to later James Bond films when producers had run out of original stories to adapt.

In a story that is playful, funny, violent and horrifying in tone, these apparently normal parents treat child - raising as something akin to rearing a dog: at one point we literally see them on all fours, barking.

It's not far removed from Shannon's first part for Nichols, in his debut Shotgun Stories (which sits with Mud as the Nichols film most akin to the work of fellow indie Southerner David Gordon Green, who also produced Shotgun).

His commentary is akin to watching a film sitting behind a guy who likes to spoil the story throughout.

One of the stranger films of a year of strange films, Personal Shopper is a ghost story mystery by way of Olivier Assayas, an odd combination on the face of things that turns out something akin to magical.

My favorite trailers are the ones who set the world, the tone, the voice of the movie, without telling you too much about the story... It's totally different from what the previous movies had done, and it's much more akin to what the «Ultimate Fantastic Four» series did.»

The filmmakers are aiming for a cynical and ironic tone akin to that found in Joseph Wambaugh stories about harassed and corrupt cops on the take.

If war, as the movie suggests, is akin to a game, then what does that mean for these characters and this story of revolution?

It organically blended the free running and assassination mechanics from Ubisoft's open world games, a counter-based combat system akin to Rocksteady's Arkham series and its own Nemesis system, which created personal stories between you and individual enemies as they would level up and progress just like you.

As I've recently discovered, reading some of the stories on Usable Knowledge can be akin to reading WebMD; the more I learn, the more I think that one particular set of symptoms pertains to my own aches and pains.

Akins Dodge will be providing up - to - date information on any new models or breaking stories.

You see more of the story on a single page and the reading experience is a little more akin to reading an actual newspaper.

There's a wonderful foreignness to the story, akin to Cornelia Funke's Thief Lord, which will appeal to readers yearning for an exotic experience.»

But writing historical romances can be akin to, oh, say, writing a haiku or a sonnet, in that you're conscious of needing to craft a story and create characters within a specific framework — in this case comprised of period - specific mores, strictures, references and norms.

The word he uses is akin to vermin, and a cleaning woman late into the story refers to Gregor as a dung beetle.

Creative nonfiction, on the other hand, uses a more personal voice, and takes the flavor of story, akin to fiction.

~ William B «The brilliance in this trilogy is that the story unfolds through numerous perspectives, akin to Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles.»

So very long, I found myself rushing and cutting and cramming the story into something akin to a bad 90 - minute TV adaptation of a multi-volume series.

All stories are written by Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray with Wonder Woman art by Amanda Conner and Tony Akins, Batgirl art by Sanford Greene, Duela Dent art by Ted Naifeh, Power Girl art by Mike Bowden and Supergirl art by Santi Casas.»

Early stage exploration requires a story that can attract investment and investors who are more akin to gamblers.

Adoption isn't the answer, but it's a start akin to a humanitarian deed for the furry kind and the beginning of a chapter to a new story, your own story about second chances.

Given that Toy Story Land is akin to Andy's backyard, where everything has been left strewn about, you'll also see plenty of oversized loose dominos, checkers, and Tinker Toys around you.

Your accommodation is in one of only five guest - rooms at the beautifully restored 1850's Arkaba Homestead whilst hosted dinners and sharing stories with field guides and fellow guests provide an atmosphere more akin to staying with friends in the country or a private safari lodge, than a typical luxury hotel.

As a newbie to travel blogging, I find your honesty, approachability and generosity akin to listening to senior leaders at work share their stories of success.

With award - winning stories: The story «Silk from Ashes» won a Lowell Thomas Gold Award from the Society of American Travel Writers — that's the premier competition for travel writing, akin to the Pulitzer Prize for travel journalism.

Should you go into Bound by Flame expecting strong world - building or a massive, open environment waiting to be explored then disappointment will strike on both accounts as Spiders have opted for a structure akin to the Witcher 2, with a series of hubs that also contain side - missions, which like the primary story quests never deviate from the trusty «kill everything and grab that thing» formula.

Personally, I'm tired of killing humans (or enemies akin to humans) in various ways being the overwhelmingly dominant mechanic of games with stories that are not about the act of murder.