Sentences with phrase «story fit the narrative»

Not exact matches

If oil is all that really matters in the economic story of the Harper years, I'm not sure how to fit certain staggering sums into the narrative.

We learn to grasp the plot of God's story, and how we might fit into this ongoing narrative of heaven.

During the long period when these narratives were regarded as historically accurate, based, as it was thought, on the memories of the apostles, all kinds of ingenious explanations were offered in an attempt to fit all the stories into one composite and complete picture.

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).

But their stories fit a larger narrative.

Lots of folks running around making up stories with no factual basis because they fit a certain narrative.

Nor did the judges see any truth in these stories; to them they fit a stereotypical refugee narrative, most likely sold to the refugees by asylum narrative specialists so their claims were not approved.

In reality, Sputnik tends to publish stories that Western media would not because it does not fit their narrative.

Stages also fit well into a chronological sequence where stories have set narrative patterns.

Choose the variation on the pose, ranging from gentle to fiery, to fit the narrative of your personal story on the mat today.

Hormonal stories are hard to fit the human desire for narratives.

It's a lot of fun to play in the open world and the gameplay mechanics are fantastic, but the story kidnaps you and railroads you into a very strange narrative which doesn't really fit all that well with the rest of the gameplay experience.

Though it does have its own version of a three - act structure, this film is not a conventional narrative that will fit into a tidy box and it's not a story so much as an experience.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

It's those narrative conveniences that make «In Darkness» feel slick and worked over - the sense that an immensely powerful story of survival has been cut to fit the cloth of a by now well - established genre.

The use of certain tropes in the narrative are also glaring given the film's inertia — when Dovid starts to read a succession speech from a piece of paper, only to go off - script in a fit of frustration — one can't help but wish that Lelio had taken more time to craft his love story adaptation by thinking through the enormity of every small artistic decision.

In the case of Nebraska, while it's no journey to Mt. Doom or Battle Royale, Woody Grant (Bruce Dern)'s mission to get to Lincoln, Nebraska to claim his prize money of one million dollars in any way possible is very much a moving story that uses actors who don't necessarily jump off the screen but are perfect fits for the narrative at hand.

Where so many docs are content to fit into simple categories, often attempting to mimic the narrative formulas of fiction films, Stories We Tell embraces the form and then reaches beyond its usual confines.

The initial challenge, and this involved going back to the drawing - board on some songs, was to find the right people to help us find a lyrical language that was poetic enough, that was unfussy enough to fit with the naturalism we were going for, and craftsmanlike enough to do what theatrical lyrics do, which is continue to tell a story, so that musical numbers aren't just pauses in the narrative.

I'm obsessed with this character and this story right now, and I think it's going to be very unique and still fit into the overall narrative that they're establishing.»

The game is, on the surface, an open - world urban adventure title that fits in pretty well alongside contemporary examples of the genre (GTA, Saints Row, etc); you've got story missions that move the narrative forward and side missions that offer some sort of bonus to your stats or inventory, all conveniently labeled with radar blips on the maps of the sprawling cities you can explore.

Debut co - writer / director Michael Carney doesn't have much of an eye for any of this saga, which includes a «Blind Side» - like narrative that transitions into a weepy sickness tale fit for Nicholas Sparks that I won't spoil, but the true story aspect is a type of preservation itself.

Determined to fit some morals into the story, we spend some time with the amusing bee colony and then shake up the narrative by introducing the humans.

The Lord of the Rings trilogy benefited greatly from characters being dropped from the story because they didn't fit the narrative arc of the project but in this case Jackson and his screenwriters raided Tolkien's notes and appendices from other stories to pad out what is essentially a very simple tale into a sprawling epic.

Despite some acknowledgement that the storyline has been contorted to fit a traditional narrative story arc, and the fact that we know where the story is eventually going to lead long before all of the pieces come into play, Belle hits the right notes at the right times to please fans of «hoity - toity» period piece dramas.

First off, the writers modify the parent trigger law to fit the story's narrative arc.

At the same time, his story fits neatly into another master narrative, one about the decline of federalism in the United States.

I thought the author failed to take advantage of the culturally established traits of the golem and jinni, changing their natures to fit her narrative rather than sculpting the story to fit the characters.

The prologue's narrative content could not fit within the structural context of the story which made a prologue necessary — in a speech before the story began.

Thirty Flights of Loving turned the first - person game narrative on its head with no expository dialogue, telling its story entirely through its actions and environments, and employing enough jump cuts to make Godard have a fit.

The story in a sandbox game is always the toughest thing to balance, as a strong narrative usually fits a open world as snugly as a supermodel in a over-sized muumuu.

Rather, it's an alternate take on the events of that game while telling a new story with new characters and ideas, done in a way that fits fairly well with the existing narrative.

Bungie also expands on a small part of the Destiny universe in its story of the Iron Lords, how Lord Saladin and the Iron Banner Tournament fit into the scheme of Destiny's narrative.

If you look at just the gameplay that's been shown so far, you may think of it as a reboot at first, but the story and narrative have shaped up to fit the series as a numbered title.

With Paul's ability to look into the past, the game eschews traditional linear narrative structures, instead encouraging you to explore the environment at a more methodical pace, piecing together the story as you see fit.

It's a bit of everything I feel, and that should hopefully fit in with the narrative and pace of the game — as I feel this could have a great story due to the cold war feel to it.

While the HD systems are receiving a new Prince of Persia title that fits into the narrative gap between last generation's The Sands of Time and The Warrior Within, the Wii version of The Forgotten Sands is a stand - alone story with its own unique mechanics.

«Minerva's Den is a substantial addition that will give players more of what they're looking for: more story, more narrative, more gameplay and more of Rapture.Minerva's Den will be a fitting conclusion to the BioShock 2 saga.»

Stimulated by existential queries and investigations into what - ifs, each one of his artworks acts as a vessel to tell a new story, all collectively fitting into an overarching narrative where fictions and realities collide.

5) Ditch your story if it isn't actually there: Sometimes people have an idea for a data story and try to retroactively make their data fit that narrative.

Meleko Mokgosi (b. 1981, Botswana) makes figurative paintings that fit together to form «chapters» in large installations that suggest stories or narratives.

Because we're hardwired to interpret facts in terms of a story, Mr. Taleb explains, we erroneously exclude information that doesn't fit our preferred narrative.

I think filmmaker Josh Fox is exactly right to say, as he does in «The Sky is Pink,» that gas industry denials of harm fit into the narrative template of the tobacco story.

Those things are important in showing that you're qualified to practice, but they should fit into an overall narrative that tells the story of who you are, how you approach your practice, and why you're the right person to handle that client's case.

But if verbal sworn evidence is self - contradicting does rise to the level of proof to show that not only does the narrative not fit but that the story was fabricated?

This idea that we make our own truth and tell our own stories to make sense of the world is an excellent fit for narrative therapy.