Sentences with phrase «story decades in the making»

Featuring uber - d - bag Billy Mitchell and affable science teacher Steve Wiebe, The King of Kong is a story decades in the making, and presents a riveting glimpse into a bizarre sub-culture based around a game most gamers have long forgotten.

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And so what better place to teach persons personally than in a congregation where you have access to everything that makes up their personhood — their families, their work, the weather, their neighborhood, their sins, their stories — and over a period of years, sometimes decades.

What they did not know is that this was not the story they were made to believe... but was rather a broke hulk was all rapped up in protocols and agreements that froze their move and had to plan and allow the happening of some thing big that would allow it break the chains wrapped up with to do what it had done for the last decade...!?

Much has been made in the past decade or so of the historical - redemptive narrative: the belief that the story of God and His interactions with His people fit into four categories (or stages) we call Creation, Fall, Redemption, Consummation (or shalom).

Here is my evil plan — Create a fictional character, have him born into poverty in a part of the world full of strife with no recorded history, cast some doubts on his conception (that will keep them guessing), leave a decade or so gap in his life story, re-introduce him in the middle of nowhere and tell everyone he has all these amazing powers, he confounds and confuses all his followers and tells them not to tell anyone about what he does or where he is going and Oh yeah, they are all prostiitutes and tax cheats and lepers and the really lowlifes of society, deny them the chance to follow him, set him at odds with both the government and the church powers of his time, cast doubts on his seexuality and intelligence, make it so he refuses anyone to come to his aid and kill him in the most horrible way imaginable, then hide his body, make it so nothing he does can be historically proven.

Arsenal has been the same for the past decade and probably this season gonna be same all same old stories — to make my story short, right now we are way behind teams say Real Madrid they way they dominated Bercelona on those three games i do nt know about Arsenal if we can stand a chance and biggest problem facing Arsenal has been recruitment of quality players — when we need atleast 5 new players we always brings in 1 or 2 and starting convincing ourselves we gonna win championship if we loose those two of our new players is the same old Arsenal i just do nt know what to say any more

As someone who has been educating sports parents about head trauma in sports for the past seventeen years, and about the very real risk posed by chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) for the last decade, it is not surprising that I receive emails from parents all the time expressing deep concern about stories in the media that have led them - wrongly - to fear that playing contact or collision sports, or suffering a sports - related concussion, especially one slow to heal, makes it inevitable that their child will develop CTE and is at greatly increased risk of committing suicide.

My breastfeeding story is a few decades old, and some things have changed (at least in many hospitals) that would have made a big difference today.

While impoverished families and those inside the school food world have known about lunch shaming for decades, the intense viral reaction to those two Times stories made clear that most Americans had no idea that kids with meal debt are stigmatized every day in school cafeterias around the country.

The whole story is a decade in the making and is as ugly as betrayal, neglect, and love can be.

Some 20,902 concussion claims were made in the decade from 2001, across seven sporting codes, the study... See all stories on this topic»... read more

Lana Del Rey is the kind of artist that can make you feel like you're in another decade while weaving in such amazing stories with powerful lyrics.

Even now, two and a half decades later, I've learned a lot more about the undertaking from watching «Behind the Ears: The True Story of Roger Rabbit,» a making - of documentary imported from the DVD (and not upgraded to high definition), which includes pre-production test footage and shots of Charles Fleischer (the voice of and on - set stand - in for Roger) performing in a rabbit costume alongside his non-animated costars.

Who could have guessed that a serialized story published six decades ago in a magazine would have such staying power that it would be made into four films, at least one of which has been released repeatedly on Blu - ray and DVD?

In the 1960s, the top earners that centered around a female character were: The Sound of Music (which was the highest grossing film of the decade), Dr. Zhivago, Mary Poppins, My Fair Lady, Funny Girl, Cleopatra, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (debatable), Bonnie and Clyde (debatable), Let's Make Love, West Side Story.

A coming - of - age story set in 2002 Sacramento, the film could very easily have fallen into the trappings of a subgenre that has been expanding for decades, but Gerwig's film is littered with pitch - perfect drama, humor, and emotion that makes it far greater than the sum of its parts.

The life of notorious drug smuggler Howard Marks hits the big screen in a lively, fiercely well - made biopic that never condemns drugs as its story spirals through the decades.

Loving is Jeff Nichols «fifth feature film outing in less than a decade and while Michael Shannon makes it five for five, this item, which is based in part on the Nancy Buirski's documentary «The Loving Story» is toplined by Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga.

Where Perfect Blue is the first film in decades to use Hitchcock correctly in a sentence, it still fails for the most part to jump from horror to hilarity on the turn of a heel, making its story of an actress being stalked by a doppelgänger brilliant, no question, but also relentlessly grim.

The rapport between Parham and St. Clair has been well developed over a decade - plus of working together, and even though the stories in «Playing House» rely on fairly typical domestic farce, the quality of the dialogue and performances makes even the weaker episodes a treat.

Too bad, because I have no doubt that a movie about Newton Knight, the rebellion he led, the founding of a biracial community in the deep south, and the marriage trial of one of his descendants decades later would have made compelling stories... they just shouldn't all be told in one crowded movie.

Woody is addled with dementia and has settled into a kind of leave - me - alone stasis, but he's dead set on making the trip from Montana to Lincoln to claim it, which in turns leads to a stop in a place where he hasn't seen old acquaintances and relatives for decades — and which opens up the story to all sorts of narrative and thematic possibilities.

A story about infidelity, prostitution, racketeering, and murder set in the swinging, «free love» decade of the 70's is one that can make for a deliciously trashy melodrama.

After decades of documenting powerful women and their stories, docu filmmaker made the jump into narrative for her first time in May of 2016.

What You Need To Know: Arguably the most famous scientist in the world, Stephen Hawking's story has been brought to the screen before (Benedict Cumberbatch played him in a television film a decade ago), but «The Theory Of Everything» marks the first time the story's made it to the big screen, and has some hefty names behind it: an adaptation of Hawking's ex-wife Jane's memoirs «Travelling To Infinity,» it's backed by «Atonement» producers Working Title and is helmed by Oscar - winning «Man On Wire» and «Shadow Dancer» helmer James Marsh.

In this wonderfully stylized mixture of sex, pornography, voyeurism, gore and overwhelming suspense, in which he makes the audience totally immersed in the bulletproof story and the occasionally overtly creepy atmosphere with the generous help of his main character, shaped into a helpless pawn we can so easily project ourselves onto, Brian De Palma offers us one of the most distinguishable pictures of the decadIn this wonderfully stylized mixture of sex, pornography, voyeurism, gore and overwhelming suspense, in which he makes the audience totally immersed in the bulletproof story and the occasionally overtly creepy atmosphere with the generous help of his main character, shaped into a helpless pawn we can so easily project ourselves onto, Brian De Palma offers us one of the most distinguishable pictures of the decadin which he makes the audience totally immersed in the bulletproof story and the occasionally overtly creepy atmosphere with the generous help of his main character, shaped into a helpless pawn we can so easily project ourselves onto, Brian De Palma offers us one of the most distinguishable pictures of the decadin the bulletproof story and the occasionally overtly creepy atmosphere with the generous help of his main character, shaped into a helpless pawn we can so easily project ourselves onto, Brian De Palma offers us one of the most distinguishable pictures of the decade.

In reality, what began development feeling highly original late last decade, before either Richard Linklater (Waking Life, A Scanner Darkly) or Robert Zemeckis (The Polar Express, Monster House) had dabbled in computer - aided rotoscoping, ultimately registers less than groundbreaking in terms of technique and the gritty postmodern story isn't strong enough to make up for thaIn reality, what began development feeling highly original late last decade, before either Richard Linklater (Waking Life, A Scanner Darkly) or Robert Zemeckis (The Polar Express, Monster House) had dabbled in computer - aided rotoscoping, ultimately registers less than groundbreaking in terms of technique and the gritty postmodern story isn't strong enough to make up for thain computer - aided rotoscoping, ultimately registers less than groundbreaking in terms of technique and the gritty postmodern story isn't strong enough to make up for thain terms of technique and the gritty postmodern story isn't strong enough to make up for that.

«It's the perfect match for our story about three film crazed kids spending their entire childhood recreating the all - time classic, Raiders of the Lost Ark.» «Alamo Drafthouse and Tim League were instrumental in these kids» adaptation being discovered over a decade ago,» said director Jeremy Coon, «And they have been so supportive as we made our documentary over the last two years.

69, wrote a decade ago in 2003, making Massachusetts the first state in the country to recognize gay marriage, is only one part of Marshall's story.

Gorgeous luxury interiors have been a significant part of Audi's success story of the past decade; the sparse A3 and now this plasticky A5 make me suspect something has changed for the worse in Ingolstadt's purchasing department.

For my first 40 years in publishing, I chased only traditional and made my living through traditional publishing for over two decades and hundreds of short stories and over a hundred traditionally published novels.

For the first time in decades, it's possible to write short stories and make a great income.

Eight years in the making, backed up by Massie's decades of research on the Russian family, Catherine the Great is an expertly crafted page - turner of a life story.

In her third novel, Sullivan looks at the idea of marriage and how it has changed — or not — over the decades, tying her story in to the 1940s De Beers ad campaign that made the diamond engagement ring a touchstone (pun intended) of American culturIn her third novel, Sullivan looks at the idea of marriage and how it has changed — or not — over the decades, tying her story in to the 1940s De Beers ad campaign that made the diamond engagement ring a touchstone (pun intended) of American culturin to the 1940s De Beers ad campaign that made the diamond engagement ring a touchstone (pun intended) of American culture.

Vinciguerra chooses to narrate this decades - crossing story in chapters devoted to particular themes, which makes for some awkward repetition at times.

Gail Simone will make her first return to Marvel in over a decade with a story for Savage Wolverine

I can't remember where I first heard this, but here it is: «Most overnight success stories were a decade in the making.»

It's by taking in the disheartening news that people's hearts will be opened to hearing about all of the exciting discoveries about how stock investing works that we have learned about in recent decades and have been keeping secret out of a concern than telling the true story will make the Buy - and - Hold advocates look bad.

I disagree, I still think turn based RPG's are pretty niche, Persona has been around for decades and is STILL considered niche, simply because unlike Final Fantasy it isn't mainstream, i'm hoping that in time JRPG devs or devs in general would look towards games like Persona 5 as their influences vs games like Final Fantasy 15, which while good in it's own right had a lot of issues and seemed to be rushed to the point where an entire story chapter had to be added, and new features are still being added to make the game better.

It's at least the best game to follow in Metroid's footsteps in a decade (if you want more games in this vein, make sure to play Cave Story).

But the impact of the neighborhood has been etched into the collective memory of New York's history and is still one of the reasons that, year after year — decades after the people who made downtown have disappeared — artists come to Manhattan, in pursuit of their own SoHo story.

Notwithstanding Ian Rankin's clever short story, it seems clear that Douglas Gordon will not be dragged down by the ghoulies, but that he will come back again in strength even if he takes a decade to make this further marker.

This story is complicated, however, by figures like Roy Colmer (1935 - 2014), who in the early part of the decade made paintings inspired by video feedback and who claimed inspiration from Arshile Gorky and Jackson Pollock as well as Bruce Nauman and Nam June Paik.

In contrast to earlier decades when art students relied on their professors to connect them with the New York gallery scene, the new crop of success stories made it without the old (white) boys» network.

Hopefully before too long someone will tell the whole story, make sense of it, and see it as a continuum in culture exploration that has spanned decades of artistic and societal change.

After being largely known for her story quilts made in the 1970s, the exhibition brought to the fore Ringgold's bold political paintings made in the previous decade in response to the civil rights and feminist movements.

In reviewing events in Bali for this week's story, I reflected on nearly two decades of efforts to use treaty - making as a means of curbing heat - trapping emissions from the burning of fossil fuels and forestIn reviewing events in Bali for this week's story, I reflected on nearly two decades of efforts to use treaty - making as a means of curbing heat - trapping emissions from the burning of fossil fuels and forestin Bali for this week's story, I reflected on nearly two decades of efforts to use treaty - making as a means of curbing heat - trapping emissions from the burning of fossil fuels and forests.

By the way, this story is an awesome illustration of the point I frequently make — that is, the hubris we have of declaring some weather pattern to be «abnormal» when in fact we only have been observing climate in any depth for a few decades.

humor to the interviews that make up most of The Farthest, which features two dozen members of the original Voyager team eagerly telling the story of the first spacecraft to leave the Solar System, starting with how they got the funding four decades ago, and moving forward in time to the present.

After decades of abrasive stand - up comedy, acting roles in both teenage - beach - girl and serious movies, and contributing to making the «Toy Story» films huge box office successes as Mr. Potato Head, Don Rickles left the world stage at the age of 90 when he passed away suddenly at his home in Los Angeles.