Sentences with phrase «story at the first attempt»

But it's true to say that not everyone succeeds in finding a healthy balance between hat - tipping and telling their own story at the first attempt.

Not exact matches

So first we attempt to enter and understand the story as the Book of Exodus relates it, at the stage when it achieved a written form.

My first two attempts at this recipe, inspired by Sarah's Life Changing Loaf and Green Kitchen Stories» bread, were a hot mess.

They also follow several women's stories — both those who succeed and fail at attempting a VBAC — including that of filmmaker Abby Epstein, whose first c - section delivery was depicted in the dramatic, final moments of The Business of Being Born.

The stories of Father Carlos and Dr. N'goy, the District Medical Officer who had first identified the epidemic, the reports at the Bumba hospital, the evident fear of the pilots and the townspeople of Bumba and their desperate attempts to flee the town... the apparent virulence of this disease, the high mortality — put together with the poverty and poor organization that characterized Zaire and the potential for contagion in Kinshasa — added up to a picture that Joel Breman, a CDC senior epidemiologist, summarized as «potentially the most deadly epidemic of the century.»

Po, though, is going at this alone, as Tigress attempts to sympathize with him through a story of her own before being interrupted by their arrival at Shen's palace, and the rest of the Furious Five barely have any dialogue once Po has his first flashback.

Instead, she has Cowperthwaite, wading into her first fiction feature and struggling with the limp noodle actress at the story's center attempting a realism she can not achieve.

Jack doesn't arrive for a while, either, and his exploits in an afterlife that seems like a bleached - out acid - trip is the movie's first attempt at cracking the overly serious façade that has taken over the presentation of the story.

Although they have frequently employed Western styles, True Grit is the Coen Brothers» (A Serious Man, Burn After Reading) first attempt at the true Western genre, quite traditional in its adaptation of the classic Charles Portis story, a novel originally published in the «Saturday Evening Post» in 1968, more in the vein of its creation than the comedy, thrills, and snark we've come to associate with their style.

When François Truffaut asked Alfred Hitchcock to discern the difference between his two attempts at this story about a vacationing family that gets wrapped up in an elaborate murder plot, Hitchcock famously said: «Let's say the first version is the work of a talented amateur and the second was made by a professional.»

Tom Green's follow - up to Gareth Edwards» inventive «Monsters» does at least attempt something interesting: Just as the first film fused monster - movie sci - fi paranoia with a gentle indie love story to become an offbeat take on genre, «Dark Continent» basically wants to be a war movie with vague sci - fi elements.

Monahan's script adapts the story of James Toback, whose actual gambling exploits first inspired the 1974 film; only in this 2014 version, the character drama is saddled with an attempt at greater depth, with Monahan relying on lengthy explanations and pontifications where the original film preferred action and implication to convey its deeper themes and ideas.

Jerry Bruckheimer's dusty attempt to reboot the classic vigilante story suffers from a bloated and schizophrenic script, racism, lame attempts at humor, excessive violence, gratuitous vomiting — and that's just in the first hour.

In Seymour: An Introduction, Ethan Hawke's first attempt at making a documentary, pianist Seymour Bernstein proves to be an affably candid subject, sharing the story of his long life and genius - level talent.

They will go to great lengths to eliminate any trace of an abandoned math strategy or the first attempt at an ending to a story.

Proud Proboscis — Ronald «Steady» Barker pays tribute to one of motoring's most magnificent white elephants the 50cv Renault and its successor the 40cv / The Healey Heritage — Malcolm Green traces the development of the big Austin - Healeys from Donald Healey's Riley - powered cars from Warwick to the Mark III 3000 that was built at Abingdon / Back on the Road — Michael Ware reports on some recent restorations by readers of The Automobile / Austin Seven Ulster Rebuild / Batteries — Workshop / Enfield Underslung — Michael Worthington - Williams relates the story of the Adamson cyclecar / Swooping Kestrel — Brian Heath experiences the pleasure of preselector gear changing at the wheel of a 1937 Riley 12/14 Kestrel / Butler's Babies — The American Austin was one of the first attempts to popularise the European small car in the USA Kit Foster tells its story / Commercially Speaking — Panels & Parts

Brooks Brierley tells the sad story of America's most expensive vintage thoroughbred / Driving a boat - tailed AC — The Editor gets to grips with a rare Anzani - engined survivor from the early days of the Thames Ditton marque / Magic Morris Minor — Alec Issigonis's postwar masterpiece is as collectable today as ever — Michael Worthington - Williams inaugurates our new series of expanded and very comprehensive Buyer's Guide / Wizardry in the land of Oz — There may not be many bushes in the Bush but you can trust Nick Baldwin to find a rusting relic / Prescott in 1950 — It's spot - the - celebrity time as Brian Heath pores over a newly discovered hoard of old hillclimb photos / Brighton revisited — Tom Threlfall describes the other Brighton Run while Peter Corrana gives us his driving impressions of one of the most covetable contestants in the main event / Immortal Austin 7 — Bill Boddy (who has owned nine of them) tells what it is about Herbert Austin's little wonder that keeps it at the top of the old - car parade / A summer affair For Vitoria Ainsworth — marriage meant an adventurous initiation into the joys of owning a Roesch Talbot / The real McCurd — Michael Worthington - Williams researches yet another obscure but fascinating UK motor manufacturer of the 1920s / Styled by the Wind — Touring 4 - seater lightweight bodywork on the Alfa Romeo 6C 2300B Mille Miglia was one of the first attempts at introducing aero technology to automotive coachbuilding.

Finding I could write a compelling story, having written a trilogy at my first attempt, was a wonderful surprise to me, although I did nothing with it (published now) and went on to start the Hybrid Series.

With this being my first attempt at writing a short story and publishing it, I certainly can't afford to pay the big gun editors, artists, and designers to help me.

In 2010, I used the story as the basis for my first attempt at the NaNoWriMo (Write a novel in a month).

In this memoir Artis recounts not only the unlikely love story she shared with Miles and her unfathomable recovery in the wake of his death - from the dark hours following the military notification to the first fumbling attempts at new love - but also reveals how Miles's death mirrored her father's death in a plane crash, which Artis survived when she was five years old and which left her own mother a young widow.

it's my first attempt at writing stories this short.

Her first attempt at writing stories was in the fifth grade when she began writing and drawing a cartoon for her friends.

Whether this is your first attempt at writing a novel or a way to put in words the next story in your head, using the momentum of thousands of others just like you can help you realize this goal.

EA's first attempt at rebooting the classic Star Wars Battlefront series, which released in 2015, was heavily criticized for lacking a story campaign.

The Walking Dead Episode 1 is Telltale Games» attempt at telling a story in Robert Kirkman's popular apocalyptic zombified world, well the first part of a five part attempt anyway.

Tried on story mode — found it at first attempt Maybe that will help.

I'm able to soundly trounce the first character in the story mode, but character 2 takes me down easy, as does any attempt at the arcade vs. computer mode, mainly due to not being able to keep a bead on the character.

Taking its title from the name of a fictional, post-iPhone device at the centre of Gary Shteyngart's 2010 near - future novel Super Sad True Love Story, Äppärät is concerned with labor, play and the uncertain zone between the two; with the extension of the body, and the self, through technologies ancient and contemporary; with things (to borrow Martin Heidegger's formulation) «present - at» and «ready - to» hand; with compulsion and with death Äppärät begins with Jessie Flood - Paddock's Just Loom (2015), a wall painting - cum - sculpture based on an illustration of a worker operating a loom from Denis Diderot's Encyclopédie (1751 - 72), one of the first attempts to record and systematize all human knowledge in published form.