Sentences with phrase «story as a springboard»

But a visionary director should have something more to offer: Either twisting the plot or the characters in an unexpected direction, or using the story as a springboard for the sort of weirdness or kinkiness or personal idiosyncrasies that were missing from past versions of this tale.

In his new book, After Alice, he works his customary magic, using Carroll's story as a springboard for his own inventive novel.

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What I liked best about this format for presenting information was the «360 degree» perspective it offered: Casey gave the issue a framework, with useful advice on how to persuade principals and administrators to implement in - classroom breakfast programs; Nora followed, sharing her personal story with using free / reduced programs when her children were young, and stressing the importance of taking care of «the whole child»; Rosario charmed the crowd with her experiences implementing in - classroom breakfast in her district, sharing a story about how excited her kids got about breakfast after a power outage — not how excited they were about the return of electricity, but about getting breakfast; Barry inspired the group by explaining how he took his successes as a school food director as a springboard to a new career as a consultant, replicating and spreading that success in other classrooms.

There's not a great deal of story to delve into here, with the plot merely used as a springboard to showcase a cast of character actors getting to do some kooky things along the way.

However, rather than catalog the entirety of the riots and the various factors at play, the movie uses that as a springboard to get to the central story, which happens at the Algiers Motel.

It's a familiar setup and effective enough as a springboard for an action story, but generally uninspiring.

Jonah Hill developed the story with screenwriter Michael Bacall («Project X») and uses the musty premise as a springboard for a raucous post - «Superbad» comedy with action.

The dullest book adaptations are those that cling too literally to their source: the best ones use the novels they're based on as inspiration and a springboard, while making the changes and omissions necessary to lift the story off the page.

Social action projects: Use the stories from class discussions and student writing as springboards to discuss issues of bias and injustice in your students» schools or communities.

Use this printable as a springboard to help you conduct a lesson on one of the most important concepts in journalism - the who, what, when, where and why in of a story.

When principals share their concerns, explain how they address them, and discuss the personal qualities that enable them to work toward instructional improvement for all students, their stories serve as a springboard for others to share as well.

As a story it successfully springboards off traditional adventure fantasy and vaults off elsewhere.

Having clarified this initial springboard, we can immediately disregard it inasmuch as the artist is not interested in the song per se, but in the structure of the music and the story: the tragi - comic death of a virile man with a lust for life and love.

The jobs listed in this CNBC story can act as a springboard for your remote job search!