Sentences with phrase «stories of the twentieth century»

With that, one of the most passionate and unusual love stories of the twentieth century begins.

From the two - time Man Booker shortlisted author of The Secret Scripture comes a magnificent new novel that is the story of the twentieth century in America.

With The Sportswriter, in 1986, Richard Ford commenced a cycle of novels that ten years later — after Independence Day won both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN / Faulkner Award — was hailed by The Times of London as «an extraordinary epic [that] is nothing less than the story of the twentieth century itself.»

The Inspirational Story of the Twentieth Century's Greatest Evangelist Billy Graham has preached -LSB-...]

This exhibition, and the recently published book of interviews of the same title, highlights the role of the artist's assistant in the story of twentieth century British sculpture.

Not exact matches

Martyrs and Martyrologies edited by Diana Wood Blackwell, 497 pages, $ 64.95 The story of Christian martyrs of the twentieth century is yet to be told, and one of the merits of this collection of learned essays, consisting of papers read at the Summer 1992 and Winter 1993 meetings of the Ecclesiastical History Society, is that they not only deal with early, medieval, and early - modern martyrs (and ideas about martyrdom), but include several original essays on latter - day martyrs.

Ralph Adams Cram» the twentieth - century church builder, neo-medieval social critic, spinner of ghost stories, and modern knight - errant» is ready to take on a whole new century.

The Architecture of Ralph Adams Cram and His Office by Ethan Anthony W.W. Norton, 176 pages, $ 60 Ralph Adams Cram» the twentieth - century church builder, neo-medieval social critic, spinner of ghost stories, and modern knight - errant» is ready to take on a whole new century.

Black Narcissus (1947), one of the twentieth century's most visually stunning films, tells the story of nuns in northern India struggling with isolation and temptation.

One could almost tell the story of American public theology during the latter half of the twentieth century through the prism of Williams's scholarship and activism.

Divinings: Religion at Harvard From its Origins in New England Ecclesiastical History to the 175th Anniversary of The Harvard Divinity School, 1636 — 1992 tells the story of religious life at Harvard from its founding in 1636 through almost all of the twentieth century.

In any event, those who during most of the twentieth century were weaving statistics and theories into a grand and confidently told story of the secularization of the world are now having to cope with a quite different story that seems to be writing itself.

Anyone interested in the twentieth «century story of traditional Judaism and its arrival in the United States or who desires to know more about non «Hasidic Jewish religiosity will enjoy and appreciate these books.

Before I tell my stories, however, perhaps we should think a bit about those of Clive Staples Lewis, the pre-eminent English author of the twentieth century.

The story of Phyllis Schlafly, as Critchlow, a professor of history at St. Louis University, tells it, is a story of conservatism operating far from centers of political and cultural power but crucial to the most important domestic political event of the second half of the twentieth century: the ascendancy and triumph of the once - moribund American right.

Those early experiences sparked Gilbert to chronicle the central events of the twentieth century and to recover the stories of people who lived through it — especially those who had suffered most.

He says that «even the scholars of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries... were still caught in the mental fetters of thousand - year - old errors, because the way back would inevitably have called in question parts of the biblical story» (p. 50).

None of the twentieth - century revisions of the story made any actual contributions to the legend.

(The story of who we are as twentieth - century Presbyterians, for instance, includes the story of the Council of Trent and of the Second Vatican Council.)

Although they are largely unknown outside the American Catholic community (and scarcely better known inside it, for that matter), John Gilmary Shea, Peter Guilday, Thomas T. McAvoy, and, preeminently, John Tracy Ellis were old - fashioned historians of genuine accomplishment who, in the late nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, created the classic story line of American Catholicism.

It's a story about the Catholic Church in the second half of the twentieth century, and it goes something like this.

It is no exaggeration to say that we will not know the full history of the twentieth century until we know the stories of its martyrs.

This quiet story of an elderly preacher's coming to terms with his life and the lives of his fathers - from the Civil War to the twentieth century - is told with such intimacy that it can be painful in its beauty.

Evan Davis, BBC Economics Editor Free Trade Nation is history at its best: far - reaching and authoritative, its story of the rise and fall of free trade as a widely - held belief marked by justice, fairness and peace provocatively refashions the history of early - twentieth - century Britain, reminds us of an age when popular politics exerted real power, and forces us to rethink our contemporary views of consumers, markets and morality.

Written with the help of a friend and Yale historian Timothy Snyder, the book is a dialogue between the two men on the story Judt hoped to tell in his planned book — the intellectual and cultural history of the Twentieth Century.

He continues, «I want to tell the story of Norma Jean as a central figure in a fairytale; an orphan child lost in the woods of Hollywood, being consumed by that great icon of the twentieth century.»

The undertaking alone is worth commending: a sports drama; a survivalist story (on ocean water no less); a war drama crossed with a prison drama - and all of it set in early - to - mid twentieth century period.

A period piece set in the early twentieth century, The Danish Girl is based on the real life story of Lili Elbe (played by Redmayne), the first trans woman to ever survive sexual reassignment surgery, and her wife Gerda (played by Alicia Vikander).

Based on a James Joyce short story featured in The Dubliners, The Dead (1987) is one of his most exquisite works, a perfect cinematic short story attuned to the rituals and touchy relationships of family and friends gathering in early twentieth century Dublin to celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany.

The bulk of the movie is set in Japan, which neither helps nor hurts the story, but does allow Twentieth Century Fox to court the lucrative Asian market.

The Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment release, also starring Ron Perlman and Charles S. Dutton, tells the story of a Vietnam soldier that becomes a local hero when he saves an elderly black man:

Directed by Peter Cattaneo; written by Maya Forbes and Wally Wolodarsky, based on a story by Ryan Jaffe; director of photography, Anthony B. Richmond; edited by Brad E. Wilhite; music by Chad Fischer; produced by Shawn Levy and Tom McNulty; released by Twentieth Century Fox.

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation is also behind the remake of the Frankenstein story set to release in October.

Fatih Akin — «In the Fade,» «The Edge of Heaven» Adolfo Aristarain — «Common Places,» «A Place in the World» David Ayer — «Suicide Squad,» «Fury» Nabil Ayouch — «Horses of God,» «Ali Zaoua» Siddiq Barmak * — «Opium War,» «Osama» Aida Begić * — «Children of Sarajevo,» «Snow» Emmanuelle Bercot — «Standing Tall,» «On My Way» Martin Butler — «Tanna,» «Contact» Patricia Cardoso — «Real Women Have Curves,» «The Water Carrier» Peter Ho - Sun Chan — «Dragon,» «Perhaps Love» Derek Cianfrance — «The Light between Oceans,» «Blue Valentine» Pedro Costa — «Horse Money,» «Blood» Garth Davis — «Lion» Bentley Dean — «Tanna,» «Contact» Lav Diaz * — «A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery,» «Norte, the End of History» Carlos Diegues — «Orfeu,» «Bye Bye Brazil» Nelson Pereira dos Santos * — «How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman,» «Barren Lives» Nana Dzhordzhadze — «27 Missing Kisses,» «A Chef in Love» Ildikó Enyedi * — «Simon Magus,» «My Twentieth Century» Amat Escalante — «The Untamed,» «Heli» Safi Faye * — «Mossane,» «Lettre Paysanne» Tom Ford — «Nocturnal Animals,» «A Single Man» Goutam Ghose * — «Dekha,» «Paar» Jessica Hausner — «Amour Fou,» «Lourdes» Joanna Hogg — «Archipelago,» «Exhibition» Hannes Holm — «A Man Called Ove,» «Behind Blue Skies» Ann Hui — «A Simple Life,» «Summer Snow» Christine Jeffs — «Sunshine Cleaning,» «Sylvia» Barry Jenkins * — «Moonlight,» «Medicine for Melancholy» Alejandro Jodorowsky * — «The Holy Mountain,» «El Topo» Kim Ki - duk * — «3 - Iron,» «Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring» Zacharias Kunuk — «Searchers,» «The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat)» Mohammed Lakhdar - Hamina * — «Chronicle of the Years of Embers,» «The Winds of the Aures» David Mackenzie — «Hell or High Water,» «Starred Up» Sharon Maguire — «Incendiary,» «Bridget Jones's Diary» Theodore Melfi — «Hidden Figures,» «St. Vincent» Kleber Mendonça Filho — «Aquarius,» «Neighboring Sounds» Brillante Mendoza — «Thy Womb,» «Kinatay» Márta Mészáros * — «Diary for My Children,» «Adoption» Takashi Miike — «13 Assassins,» «Ichi the Killer» Orlando Montiel — «The Son of No One,» «A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints» Jocelyn Moorhouse — «The Dressmaker,» «Proof» Kira Muratova — «The Tuner,» «The Asthenic Syndrome» Héctor Olivera — «El Mural,» «Funny Dirty Little War» Idrissa Ouedraogo * — «Tilaï,» «Yaaba» Jordan Peele * — «Get Out» Mohammad Rasoulof * — «Manuscripts Don't Burn,» «Goodbye» Eran Riklis * — «The Human Resources Manager,» «Lemon Tree» Arturo Ripstein — «Deep Crimson,» «The Beginning and the End» Guy Ritchie — «Sherlock Holmes,» «Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels» Anthony Russo — «Captain America: Civil War,» «Captain America: The Winter Soldier» Joseph Russo — «Captain America: Civil War,» «Captain America: The Winter Soldier» Mrinal Sen * — «The Case Is Closed,» «In Search of Famine» Cate Shortland — «Lore,» «Somersault» Peter Sollett — «Freeheld,» «Raising Victor Vargas» Juan Carlos Tabío — «Guantanamera,» «Strawberry and Chocolate» Rawson Marshall Thurber — «Central Intelligence,» «Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story» Johnnie To — «Election,» «Exiled» Tran Anh Hung * — «Norwegian Wood,» «The Scent of Green Papaya» Pablo Trapero — «The Clan,» «Lion's Den» Athina Rachel Tsangari — «Chevalier,» «Attenberg» Paula van der Oest — «Black Butterflies,» «Zus & Zo» Susanna White — «Our Kind of Traitor,» «Nanny McPhee Returns» Martin Zandvliet * — «Land of Mine,» «A Funny Man»

It was the fail story of the Summer, with Twentieth Century Fox's tentpole superhero blockbuster bombing so hard at the box office, it took out a five - mile stretch of Odeons in the Greater Bexleyheath area.

The director of «Blue Valentine» directs Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander in this early - twentieth - century story of a lighthouse keeper and his wife in Western Australia who rescue and raise a baby they find washed up on the shore.

How the Passover / Pesach story of the Exodus inspired Jews in the Twentieth Century: summary of Operation Moses to save Ethiopian Jews; and SS Exodus bringing refugees to 1940s Israel / Palestine.

Inspired by the true story of his own great - aunt, he explores the life of Miss Jane Chisolm, born in rural, early - twentieth - century Mississippi with a genital birth defect that would stand in the way of the central «uses» for a woman in that time and place - namely, sex and marriage.

I got a lot of out this touching story that - despite the plot weaknesses - deals honestly with the ennui that could be an unmarried woman's lot in the early twentieth century.

The Ireland stories are at the heart of the collection, set on rural Irish farms and in small villages in the first half of the twentieth century.

If this second book works out, I'd like to conclude with a third, taking the story up to the early years of the twentieth century and the final demise of the Duport dynasty and the breaking - up of its physical symbol — Evenwood.

The little - known story of a self - taught prodigy and world - class trombone player, composer, and arranger whose music mirrors the black musical sounds of the twentieth century.

The idea never went away and I gradually amassed more and more stories and examples of girls who had been committed in the early Twentieth century for little more that being disobedient or incalcitrant.

This son of Italian middle - class immigrants was a child, too, of turbulent twentieth - century Argentina, the story of which Ivereigh makes the vital and complicated backdrop to his subject's career.

Mix in a love of Victorian ghost stories, together with nineteenth - and early twentieth - century detective stories, and you have a pretty good idea of the novel's fictional foundations.

Set against an Ireland besieged by conflict, The Secret Scripture is an epic story of love, betrayal, and unavoidable tragedy, and a vivid reminder of the stranglehold that the Catholic Church had on individual lives for much of the twentieth century.

Following a handful of remarkable women who led their respective forces into battle, along with appearances by Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, Frederick Douglass, and Eleanor Roosevelt, The Woman's Hour is an inspiring story of activists winning their own freedom in one of the last campaigns forged in the shadow of the Civil War, and the beginning of the great twentieth - century battles for civil rights.

What's immediately apparent from the stories in The UnAmericans, spanning the late twentieth century to more contemporary times, is the reach of America's footprint.

«Our history with Dark Horse has been incredibly successful, giving fans of these characters all new ways to enjoy their stories,» said Jeffrey Godsick, president of Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products.

Although London returned home one year later with only gold dust, Lourie explains how London's real wealth was found in the characters and events that inspired White Fang, The Call of the Wild, and dozens of other books and short stories, making him the first author of the twentieth century to earn a million dollars from writing.