Sentences with phrase «story about language»

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HugChina is a very popular English - language website about China, covering China stories, China pictures, China Facts, Learn Chinese, Sexy China, Chinese beauties, food, medicine, China forum, etc..

This could help us to think about the language we use in out Facebook adverts as well as the story we tell.

We do not know anything about the days of Noah other than remnants of a symbolic picture language that brought the story forward and was recorded by Moses in about 1,400 BC.

It is this naïveté that The Handmaid's Tale addresses with its appended «historical» commentary, challenging us to think about something otherwise difficult to see: the relationship between the crises of our civilization and its historic textual politics — the continuing story of who controls, legitimates, engenders and eliminates whom and what through the power of authoritative language, grounded in the Word.

Thus such traditions become kerygmatic, not by appropriating the traditional language of the Church's kerygma, but in a distinctive way: They retain a concrete story about Jesus, but expand its horizon until the universal saving significance of the heavenly Lord becomes visible in the earthly Jesus.

But Williams reports that being an observing participant is both possible and rewarding.3 Diligent members of a local church can learn a great deal about its language and story.

The story of creation and the story of the fall, for example, like the account of the last things in the Book of Revelation, may properly be called myths, since they are concerned with absolute beginnings and endings or with universally predicable truths, about which no precise conceptual statements can be made and which are best expressed in pictorial language.

So Luke, drawing on this Old Testament material, tries to heighten the Elijah story to stretch his language sufficiently to speak about Jesus.

Children are not capable of theological reflection about the meaning of stories, because all theological language is abstract.

The songs and stories sung about him attribute to him omniscience, the judgment of children's behavior, and the free dispensing of gifts — all sung in the language of faith.

A third story I read was about a lonely man from a foreign country who walked by and heard someone pray in his language, obviously praying in tongues.

The thing had a faintly»70s flavour — Daily Mail headlines sounding appropriately shocked etc — and the story, as it emerged from the layers of cliché, was not particularly impressive: something called the «Transformations Steering Group» had announced that Anglican bishops should promote more «expansive language and imagery about God».

Giving orders, and obeying them — Describing the appearance of an object, or giving its measurements — Constructing an object from a description (a drawing)-- Reporting an event — Speculating about an event — Forming and resting a hypothesis — Presenting the results of an experiment in tables and diagrams — Making up a story; and reading it — Play - acting — Singing catches — Guessing riddles — Making a joke; telling it — Solving a problem in practical arithmetic — Translating from one language to another — Asking, thanking, cursing.

In the words of Richard Bauckham, the biblical story is about nothing less than the whole of reality, and thus it can not be «reduced to an unpretentious local language game in the pluralism of postmodernity.»

The deflated body language of Monaco's young side told its own story and any doubt about the outcome disappeared a minute before the interval.

* Preliminary results from an Oxford - based study suggest a higher proportion of infant - directed negativity in the way depressed fathers talk about, and to, their infants (Sethna et al, 2009) * Depressed fathers are less likely to read, sing songs and tell stories to their babies than other fathers — and than depressed mothers (Paulson et al, 2006), which may explain why fathers» depression has a more powerful negative impact than mothers» depression on their infants» language development in the first year.

If you're looking to encourage more dads to value their role in reading with their children, do also check out our Youtube video channel, which includes Celebrity Story Time videos and testimonies from dads who have participated in FRED; and our research summary about fathers» impact on young children's language and literacy.

Warning Label: This story contains all kinds of foul language that I'm usually careful about excluding from my articles.

David's language skills developed almost daily, helped by his increasing appetite for stories - including simple chapter books - and he was enthusiastic about everything, the only one of us who seemed not to notice the intense heat.

Now I'll tell you a little story about this gem of a book... Bright Eyes has a language -LSB-...]

Caputo worked to build public sympathy for MercExchange by reducing an arcane legal case to «kitchen table language,» painting eBay as a corporate monster and finding reporters and opinion writers to publish stories about the matter in the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal.

Funny story:) language is definitely something tough to deal with - my boyfriend is Turkish and I have yet to meet his family but language barriers are always so scary for me to even think about!

I realize my «language taking in school» story was a totally, random, roundabout way to talk about the word serape.

A majority of communication is nonverbal, so your body language is telling your date more about yourself than your stories are.

Marietta, GA About Blog StreetLeverage spotlights practitioners & industry stakeholders rethinking the way we understand, practice, & tell the story of the sign language interpreter.

The way your romantic relationships play out in life is deeply rooted in your story of love — your attachment style, love languages, patterns, behaviours, choices and key decisions you've made about yourself and your place in the world.

Here's a look at the top stories people are talking about now across our network of CBS Welcome to the Home Page for Ghostscript, an interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF, and related software and documentation.

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I don't want to say anything about the story: it is obvious that the language used in game is worthy of a writer, yet there is no story - and the reason is obvious: it is a parody and a homage (all in one) to Classical RPG, so a deep Story in this game would probably be spoiling it rather than giving something tstory: it is obvious that the language used in game is worthy of a writer, yet there is no story - and the reason is obvious: it is a parody and a homage (all in one) to Classical RPG, so a deep Story in this game would probably be spoiling it rather than giving something tstory - and the reason is obvious: it is a parody and a homage (all in one) to Classical RPG, so a deep Story in this game would probably be spoiling it rather than giving something tStory in this game would probably be spoiling it rather than giving something to it.

In Olivier Assayas's English - language film Personal Shopper, Stewart's haunted look comes mesmerizingly into its own in a story about a young woman hoping to communicate with the beyond.

The comedy here leans heavily toward the filthy end of the spectrum, but once you get past the sex comedy and dirty language (and be in no hurry to do so) there's actually a very sweet story about a man trying to find true love while being told that casual sex is all that matters.

Arrival's ideas about language prove to be related to the question of the reversibility of time; and there's a fundamental deception in the film's telling that makes the story not quite what it seems, resolving in a twist perhaps a little less wham - bam than, but certainly as sneaky as, one that M. Night Shyamalan might have attempted.

While King the writer tends to express overblown anxieties about more or less mundane problems through grotesquely exaggerated stories, DePalma the director employs cinematic language to evoke the visceral intensity of such fears, however absurd they may seem.

DVD Releases for January 20, 2009 The Express Rated PG - 13 for thematic content, violence and language involving racism, and for brief sensuality Available on DVD and Blu - ray Based on the true story about Ernie Davis, the first black college football player to win the Heisman Trophy, The Express follows Ernie's life from his childhood to its sad conclusion.

Rules Don't Apply PG - 13 for sexual material including brief strong language, thematic elements and drug references Rotten Tomatoes Score: 55 % It's been nearly twenty years since Warren Beatty has written, directed and starred in a movie (the last time was 1998's Bulworth), and this time he's back with a story about a young actress and her chauffeur (Lily Collins and Alden Ehrenreich) who work for the reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes (played by Beatty).

But this one shot of an anguished Sullivan, using the visual language of tragedy in a light romantic comedy, gives the story the emotional weight needed for the audience to care about the outcome.

Yet, even with the storyline lulls, the fact that it jumps from story to story every few minutes keeps you from falling asleep, as your interest will pick right back up again once you see Hugh Grant (Two Weeks Notice, About a Boy) as the Prime Minister, Colin Firth (What a Girl Wants, Hope Springs) attempting to break through a language barrier, Liam Neeson (Gangs of New York, K - 19) encouraging his young son to be a fool for love, or Bill Nighy (I Capture the Castle, Underworld) chew up scenery with an outlandishly fiendish burnt - out rock star performance.

«The Tillman Story,» the documentary about the military cover - up of the death of Corporal Pat Tillman in Afghanistan, was similarly rated R for «language.»

He just needs to learn about visual language and using film not as a medium for performance but for stories.

The End of the Tour Rated R for language including some sexual references Available on DVD and Blu - ray From The Spectacular Now director James Ponsoldt comes this based on a true story about the five day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) and David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel) which took place after the release of his novel Infinite Jest.

Straight Outta Compton Rated R for language throughout, strong sexuality / nudity, violence, and drug use Rotten Tomatoes Score: 88 % Available on DVD and Blu - ray Biopics can be very hit and miss but this critically acclaimed story about the rap group NWA found a way to not only tell one of the pivotal stories of rap music, but managed to do so in a way that has the power to change the perspectives of its audience.

While Traffic is essentially about the war on drugs in America, the film's starting point is the almost - exclusively south - of - the - border (and nearly all Spanish language) story of Javier Rodriguez (Benicio Del Toro, doing away with his annoying tics and delivering a career performance), an average Tijuana State policeman who is given the opportunity for greater prestige by working for General Salazar's (Tomas Milian) efforts against the drug cartels.

So the probability arises that Mamet wishes his films to be seen as a kind of populist avant - garde cinema, full of ideas about the role of language in visual text and in the interim disdaining the menial task of telling a story that has some semblance of respect for internal coherence.

Trance Rated R for sexual content, graphic nudity, violence, some grisly images and language Available on DVD and Blu - ray Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle tackles this story about a UK art auctioneer who foils an art heist only to be taken prisoner by the thieves until they can figure out how to clear up his amnesia and find where he hid the painting.

Tomorrowland Rated PG for sequences of sci - fi action violence and peril, thematic elements, and language Available on DVD and Blu - ray In the hopes of giving life to a theme park attraction, Disney created the huge tentpole Tomorrowland and threw one of Hollywood's biggest stars, George Clooney, into the mix with a story about a young girl on a mysterious journey to find the future.

For example, a related English language arts project was writing a fictional story about the balloon's journey.

The story was about how God tried to stop people building a tower that was reaching up to the sky by scattering people around the world and confounding them to speak different languages.

This item includes: 4 page story in French 8 comprehension questions - English and French versions answer key infographic about the language of flowers resources to videos about Valentine's day and the language of flowers

A ten - minute clip (or shorter) from a film like The Story of the Weeping Camel from Mongolia might suffice to create a powerful discussion prompt on geography and language, on different perspectives about material luxuries, survival, family, how loved ones are cared for, being kind and considerate, what different living environments look like and how they are built, and how kids play or entertain themselves in different settings.

The visually engaging, comprehensive PowerPoint presentation guides students through the following learning journey: - Learning about the cultures of different countries where the short stories originated; - Reading and understanding the short stories; - Collaborating in teams in order to analyse the stories in terms of content, language, and structure; - Understanding the key term «recreations» and evaluating two recreations of a famous fable; - Planning and writing their own recreation of one of the texts from different cultures; - Peer - assessing the recreation attempts of their partner.