Sentences with phrase «stories at the heart»

«It's a new way of reading with John Buchan's story at its heart, presented afresh through a TV and gaming - inspired lens.»

At their best, the stories at the heart of the show are not sentimental — or at least not only sentimental or nostalgic.

Nevertheless, in the midst of his reshaping still lies the central story at the heart of the (original) Book of Mormon — that a 19th century treasure hunter called Joseph Smith claimed to have discovered a new revelation of Jesus appearing to South American tribes inscribed on golden plates which only he could translate, and became the self - appointed prophet of a new religious movement (and yes, that whole story comes in for a lot of ridicule along the way).

This isn't Tom Wright writing the definitive history of Israel, but a New York Times chart - topper with 50 times Wright's global influence, choosing to put an ancient biblical story at the heart of the cultural zeitgeist.

There's a great shaggy dog story at the heart of Argo and it's a pity it couldn't be rescued from of all the sort - of, kind - of, inspired - by conventional trappings.

The film, while a touch over-long, is visually stunning, relentlessly gripping throughout and with a truly remarkable story at its heart.

But, no matter how far the director takes the movie visually, the film is bound tightly together by the very unique love story at its heart.

It's like a Transformers film, but with more diversity, more compassion, and a significantly more compelling story at its heart, but one that gets lost amidst the action.

Sarah adds, «What I loved about it is that there's this classic love story at the heart of it.

Surrogate interferences from Love, Time and Death serve simply as Hollywood-esque responses to actual reality, and distract from the possibility of a real story at the heart of the film's intentions.

But for all of the self - aware snark and superciliousness, The Big Short is an underdog story at heart.

Armie Hammer, meanwhile, serves as the other half of the love story at the heart of Call Me By Your Name, a grad student whose wit and tenderness captivates Elio.

Now we finally get an idea of the story at the heart of the film and this looks like the kind of live - action Disney adventure we've been missing, full of originality, amazing visuals and much more.

Instead of focusing on the people and the love story at the heart of «Freeheld,» they turned it into a courtroom drama, spending way more time in a city council room than a hospital room.

That's the beginning of the piercing love story at the heart of Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom, shown in flashback after the two have hatched a plan to run away together.

There's a simpler story at the heart of Gifted, and when the movie focuses on that tale, it's effective (even with the loaded conflict between uncle and grandmother).

Beauty and the Beast dancing together in an empty ballroom is everything the die - hard fans could hope it would be, a wonderfully touching moment that helps solidify the tricky - to - handle love story at the heart of this Disney classic.

This is the type of cinematic history lesson that's both socially relevant and highly entertaining, and although «Hidden Figures» hits a number of familiar beats, there's nothing ordinary about the incredible true story at the heart of it all.

The story at the heart of this new film is both incredibly simple and deeply complex.

«Barnes & Noble has created an ideal platform for developers like Nosy Crow, who create apps with reading and stories at their heart.

The Japanese Lover By Isabel Allende Atria • $ 16 • ISBN 9781501116995 A # 1 Library Reads pick when it was released in hardcover last fall, Allende's latest novel is a rich multigenerational epic with a tender love story at its heart.

As Hearts and Minds director Peter Davis writes, «Pouncey has wrought an almost inconceivable amount of beauty from pain, loss, and war, and I think he has been able to do this because every page is imbued with the love story at the heart of his astonishing novel.»

Like In Leah's Wake, Nowhere is a family story at heart.

Strive for a simple, honest story at its heart, throw some twists into the mix, and everyone will be happy.

The first issue of Trillium began Jeff Lemire's «grand examination of humanity», but it's really just a love story at its heart.

Sure, there's saving the world to be done, but ultimately I always viewed the Deponia games as a love story at their heart The good side to this is that both Argus and Cletus get to have their presence felt more as they play a far more integral part of the story this time around.

-- that articulate the story at the heart of Dishonored.

While there's a surprisingly strong story at the heart of Breath of the Wild — it wouldn't be a Zelda game if there wasn't — the temptation to explore is ever - present and Nintendo feeds this desire with a host of optional side - quests, interesting characters and bonus items placed off the beaten track.

Not exact matches

«Sing, Unburied, Sing journeys through Mississippi's past and present, examining the ugly truths at the heart of the American story and the power — and limitations — of family bonds,» notes Amazon.

At the heart of the story of Kobayashi's success and many stories of innovation is the idea that you often have to try a lot of things — some of them strange — before finding success.

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.

«Shakespeare this ain't, and Gears 3 struggles at times with its forced attempts at heart - string pluckery, but I can forgive it as much; gore - starved guns adorned with toothy chainsaws easily atone for any cheesiness suffered along the way... the Gears 3 story continues with what amounts to a blood - drenched tale of woe, suffering, loss and absolution, cathartica that stands out in harsh relief when framed by the»80s era Schwarzenegger - ness of most of the dialogue.

Japan's Finance Ministry proposed crafting a cover story with a school operator at the heart of a political scandal to justify a discount in the price of public land sold to the school, a ministry official said on Monday.

Give your story the best chance possible by putting it at the heart of your collateral.

As the the inside story unfolds on what could have been the real trouble between the suspect and the tech company, our hearts go out for Google employees present at the YouTube headquarters earlier today.

«At the heart of Westworld is this story of consciousness and oppression and discover,» he says.

This is your why, and it should be at the heart of your startup story.»

«Collaboration is at the heart of many incredible Ontario success stories.

At the heart of the story is Fusion GPS, a Washington - based research firm founded by former Wall Street Journal employees.

One of our public messaging points at the Bitcoin Foundation was the story that bitcoin was a currency with a heart of gold, now freed from unjust association with dark markets.

At its heart, Japan's growth story centers on increased inflation.

Clever packaging aside, Gennette and Shechtman — who met almost five years ago, when he was still Macy's chief merchandising officer and she was still getting Story off the ground — believe that product remains at the heart of what will make their new partnership work.

But there's a serious problem with this assertion that's found at the heart of the Christmas story itself.

This is at the heart of most of the persecution stories that have come down to us.

The two loser kidnappers at the heart of the story begin by thinking that they have no personal significance whatsoever.

As I suspected when I first began following this story, the fight over endowments is, at its heart, a fight over private property.

At the heart of any good story, with or without magic, are things we feel to be true.

Holiness for me was found in the mess and labour of giving birth, in birthday parties and community pools, in the battling sweetness of breastfeeding, in the repetition of cleaning, in the step of faith it took to go back to church again, in the hours of chatting that have to precede the real heart - to - heart talks, in the yelling at my kids sometimes, in the crying in restaurants with broken hearted friends, in the uncomfortable silences at our bible study when we're all weighing whether or not to say what we really think, in the arguments inherent to staying in love with each other, in the unwelcome number on the scale, in the sounding out of vowels during bedtime book reading, in the dust and stink and heat of a tent city in Port au Prince, in the beauty of a soccer game in the Haitian dust, in the listening to someone else's story, in the telling of my own brokenness, in the repentance, in the secret telling and the secret keeping, in the suffering and the mourning, in the late nights tending sick babies, in confronting fears, in the all of a life.

Even if there are elements of the story that we might grimace at, it still reflects the human heart for grace, love, acceptance, forgiveness, and being made new.

Pride and Prejudice has had at least eight re-tellings over the years through that medium and while everyone has their favourite (all the heart - eye emojis for the 1995 BBC version starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle), each version brings something new to the story.