Sentences with phrase «story detract from»

So while I bid my fellow writers a fond adieu, don't let my personal story detract from the critical importance of what Corina and Carla discuss in their invaluable article on editing.

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The creation story is, because it is nothing but magical thinking that detracts from empirical reality.

I even got questioned for detracting from the thread, though my intent was to offer my personal struggle with what the thread eventually evolved into, while feeling for genuinely for Julie (based upon her willingness to divulge to a public blog her side of the story), and while questioning all along what really happened given others» pov on all this.

The short version is: I don't think the Exodus did happen in historical time, but that doesn't at all detract from its powerful spiritual truth, or from the ways we've constituted our community through telling this story in the first person plural, and through embracing the teaching that the Exodus didn't just happen then but unfolds even now.

The conclusion, then, that one of these narratives is legend is by no means intended to detract from the value of the narrative; it only means that the one who pronounces it has perceived somewhat of the poetic beauty of the narrative and thinks that he has thus arrived at an understanding of the story.

Other reports have nitpicked details of the story, most of which are addressed in the book and none of which detract from her mother's telling of the life and death of Cassie Bernall.

As much as possible, do not correct your child's mistakes unless they detract from the meaning of the story.

I've heard so many stories of women who couldn't or even didn't want to breastfeed and were subsequently racked by guilt about it, and I think that just detracts from the joy of raising a baby.

This is all about detracting from that story and I'm afraid I think it's a smear tactic that won't work.

Still, a flurry of negative news stories could not detract from Mr. Heastie's momentum.

You are manufacturing a story where one might not exist and thereby detracting from your credibility.

It helped me stand in front of a room full of college kids and tell my story, knowing that how I look isn't detracting from what I'm trying to say.»

What's more, you may feel that testosterone levels can't be responsible for the whole story - the biological reductionism that pervades this line of reasoning detracts from the fact that many men may cheat due to psychosocial and emotional pressures, while also ignoring the fact that many men do in fact believe in monogamy.

Though director Ben Affleck takes a true story and perhaps muddies the details a bit, it doesn't detract from the fact that he has made a terrific and timely thriller based on a classified event that was buried for decades.

It is not a matter of further advancement of the moving image so much as being further enough so as to not detract from the intended experience, i.e. good enough to let the story be told.

The camera is both overactive and acknowledged in the film, a choice made by Penn that actually detracts from the story that he is trying to tell by distracting us from the players telling it.

I'm glad that the movie did not mewl all over Kerrigan as it would have detracted from the story.

This meant chopping out huge chunks of Rowling's tome - sized novel, and rather than detracting from the story, it enabled a more concise and enjoyable film to be made.

I think that the way the movie was cut reinforced the themes of the movie but it also detracted from each individual story as much as it emphasized the overall story.

The key difficulty that has to be overcome with «Azkaban,» however, is that there is too much standard Harry Potter stuff the film seems compelled to include, material that both swells the running time to that counterproductive two hours and 21 minutes and detracts from the story's intrinsic drama.

Eventually, doing these tasks become a bit repetitive, but thankfully the story remains engaging enough throughout that it doesn't detract from the overall experience too much.

The complexity of the historical conspiracy first conceived detracted from the characters and their reality, I felt, and those characters are ultimately what have to shape the world and story.

Gillespie has imbued his film with black humour, while never undermining the authenticity of the characters or detracting from the abuse that runs through the story.

It detracts from the weight of the subject matter, reading more like neglectful treatment of Page's life story.

Fortunately, the power of the story is such that these minor flaws do not detract from its emotional impact.

Cage's matter - of - fact, lackadaisical voice over certainly does little to draw us in to his peculiar world philosophy, and colorful villains and wacky side characters also detract from the feeling of authenticity in the story.

The further the film progresses, the more the obviousness looms large over the story, detracting from the otherwise elegant characterisation and intelligent presentation.

Macbeth's dramatic action is also unusually streamlined, with no romantic subplots or lesser court intrigues to detract from the central story.

Telling the plot of the story as if the audience can't figure it out visually is insulting and detracts from the scene.

And how he is determined not to let his worthy film be defined by that case, lest it detract from his mission to use Turner's story as a catalyst for discussion on the turbulence between blacks and whites that has roiled major cities across the country this year.

Usually, due to the skill and dedication of the developers, that approach didn't detract from the quality of their games — just look at Red Dead Redemption and the previous GTA titles — however after GTA Online became favored over story mode, largely due to the huge amount revenue being brought in by microtransactions, fans are concerned.

Bradley Cooper also appears in a fun cameo as a notorious arms dealer who does business with the two guys, though it's one of those cases where having an A-list actor suddenly pop up in your movie detracts from the story.

This doesn't detract from that other - worldly quality that are his trademark; it means that their story is more easy to relate to.

Ultimately, the children are doubly absent, both from the characters in the story and the story's deepest concerns, and this detracts from our ability to invest deeply in the film.

A couple of holes in the plot did not detract from the great acting and interesting story told here.

Casting choices aren't just problematic, they detract severely from the film - and not just because it is full of American, European and Australian actors playing as Middle Eastern, all adopting a variety of accents that aren't of their native region, neither in the story nor in real - life.

There might be a few flaws that detract from the gameplay, stories, controls, presentations, or value, but the game is still an enjoyable experience that justifies a full playthrough.

Too many kooky supporting characters are given the spotlight for reasons unknown, and while they might be funny at times, the constant asides do detract from the dramatic momentum of the emotional story at its core.

«Being able to translate that to images, to handle that responsibly to make sure that both aspects of the story came across and it was a movie that felt real — it was a movie that felt colorful, as Oakland does — but that it also didn't feel like the lighter elements were subtracting or detracting from the stronger thematic ideas that Daveed and Rafa wanted to get across.»

The efforts to add gravitas and depth to Brother Bear's story do detract from it a bit, and make the film's ending disappointingly witless.

However, it doesn't detract overall from Lewis's obvious passion for delightful turns of phrase (as in the «thin, wintery smile» of Station Warrant Officer Meade, who is the disciplinarian of RAF Honington), his respectful attention to detail, and his love of this remarkable true story.

Multiple narrators would have detracted from the story.

I think chapters of switched narrators would have detracted from this story, and that literary device simply was not needed.

Rest assured, these characters play very small parts and in no way detract from the historical aspects of the story.

Hammon «broke» both rules in Five Days in May, yet in such a way that it didn't detract from the story.

There are the kinds of digressions and repetition that one would expect from a master storyteller, the asides adding to the story's interest rather than detracting from it.

The device of using a child's narration to describe something he can not understand, but that is perfectly clear to the adult readers, is a clever one, but some glaring inconsistencies make this story less credible than it could have been, and perhaps detract from its strength.

Yes, it was interesting stuff, but an info dump is still an info dump and it detracted from the flow of the story.

Some of the character names made it slightly confusing at times, but didn't detract from the pure fun of the story.

I did not want the details of his story to detract from its heart.