Sentences with phrase «story about a dozen times»

He tells this story about a dozen times every year, and because I'm simple, I laugh every time.

Not exact matches

And I don't know how Wendy does, but when I read these children's stories that I've read a dozen times before, I find that even as I'm reading, my mind is off thinking about something else.

Although the plot, once the filmmakers get around to revealing it, suggests that world - altering plans are afoot, the film still feels like a small - time crime caper, with a tongue - in - cheek attitude, and a lackadaisical delivery that explores about a half - dozen cool features of the theme park attraction (3D holograms, dream readers, etc.) that have no bearing to the story at large.

Every time a writer sits down to draft, they have to make choices about what's going to happen, the words they're going to use, and a dozen other factors that will impact how the story is told.

From # 1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a heartwarming story about childhood friends, broken lives, and a long ago promise that just might offer the hope of love for today.Dubbed the «Queen of Christian Fiction» by Time magazine, # 1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Karen Kingsbury is arguably America's favorite inspirational novelist with a dozen bestsellers to her credit.

Looking to their contemporaries and racing movies for inspiration, Need for Speed Payback tries to tell a revenge story we've seen almost a half - dozen times already — it's just missing Vin Diesel giving some stupid speech about family.

I've beaten Cave Story easily about, eh, let's say half a dozen times, with all the various endings, of course.

And, in general, Davidoff is spending a ton of money trying to get people like me and The New York Times to write about its arts initiatives, and I guess it's working because here's a story in the Times that mentions that Davidoff is «selling humidor boxes designed by the French artist Lison de Caunes, at 19,500 euros apiece» at Art Basel Hong Kong this week, and quotes a Davidoff executive at a lunch at Art Basel Miami Beach saying some mindless PR nonsense like «Art is part of corporate social responsibility» — and here I am writing this thing about Davidoff where I mention Davidoff a dozen or so tTimes to write about its arts initiatives, and I guess it's working because here's a story in the Times that mentions that Davidoff is «selling humidor boxes designed by the French artist Lison de Caunes, at 19,500 euros apiece» at Art Basel Hong Kong this week, and quotes a Davidoff executive at a lunch at Art Basel Miami Beach saying some mindless PR nonsense like «Art is part of corporate social responsibility» — and here I am writing this thing about Davidoff where I mention Davidoff a dozen or so tTimes that mentions that Davidoff is «selling humidor boxes designed by the French artist Lison de Caunes, at 19,500 euros apiece» at Art Basel Hong Kong this week, and quotes a Davidoff executive at a lunch at Art Basel Miami Beach saying some mindless PR nonsense like «Art is part of corporate social responsibility» — and here I am writing this thing about Davidoff where I mention Davidoff a dozen or so timestimes.

In my first four years at The Times, I wrote dozens of stories about efforts to preserve the quality of New York City's water supply — 19 reservoirs surrounded by 2,000 square miles of rapidly developing exurbs — without having to build a giant filtration plant.

Mike Frisch at the Legal Profession Blog posts about this rather pathetic story of a candidate for admission to the D.C. Bar who flunked the exam a dozen times before passing (he'd also failed the Virginia exam six times)..

Dozens of feature stories were written about us, from Crain's and the Chicago Tribune to The New York Times and most of the legal trades.

That's an increase of about three dozen people in the time it takes to read this story.