Sentences with phrase «story line in»

The war in Iraq, the crackdown on civil liberties at home, and the president's strident nationalism combined to create a story line in which Big Oil, imperialism, and global capitalism threatened apocalypse well before Gore warned of a «day of reckoning.»

From an audio perspective, the music isn't accessible if you're hard of hearing — but the fairly large subtitles to keep you abreast of the story line in text form before fights and large text boxes fill you in to the voice work between fights.

The story line in this was great especially utilizing co-op.

ADVANTAGES AND FEATURES OF THE GAME: ★ A completely new approach to the story line in the tower defense ★ High - quality 3D graphics with high - resolution textures.

Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom is the modern incarnation of inspired partnership gaming, seamlessly integrating problem solving, combat and an engaging story line in a fluid cinematic experience like no other!

However, as much as I enjoyed the Dragonborn story line in Skyrim it sort of fell a bit flat.

Each level features up to four playable character and when you start each mission you can choose any character regardless if they have been killed off in the story line which I found a little frustrating as previous Dragon Ball games (excluding Dragon Ball Z Budokai 2) have followed the story line in the anime series relatively closely.

With RPGs like this I don't really like to go back and replay just to complete the story line in another way.

1st April 2014 - Today Activision has released a new trailer for Call of Duty Ghosts showcasing Episode 2 of the Extinction mode which is a story line in itself throughout the 4 part... Read More

He's a hoot, he even has is own running story line in my blog.

Despite critics who have spewed vehemently against the practicality of the story line in Fifty Shades — such as the apparent mental illness and childhood sexual abuse of the male protagonist and the inexplicable naively virginal female lead — there are still reasons to see the title as a success for both its genre and ebooks as a whole.

We live in an era where citizens trust the government possibly less than ever before, and a story line in which a soldier dies in Afghanistan and later manages to contact his son can grab anyone who watches the evening news.

Turpin's hypnotic narration highlights the lyrical prose and richly layered story line in this post-ecological-disaster sci - fi drama in which scavenger Rachel discovers the mysterious Borne.

Contrary to the story line in recent articles and editorials in the local media, the Mayor did not wake up one day and decide to end the SRC.

The story line in the game is fairly simple but it's the atmosphere and the look that makes the game a winner.

It even offers the often effective coming - of - age story line in regards to Duncan (played by Liam James) as a miserable 14 year old stuck at a beach house with him mom, her obnoxious boyfriend and his snobby daughter.

A budding romance, however, is only one story line in this satire that also investigates the social concerns of a growing (in more ways than one) population.

The filmmakers give her an excellent B (maybe B +, possibly A --RRB- story line in which a ditheringly abashed young Hugh Grant type (Hugo Johnstone - Burt) and his wisecracking little brother (Art Parkinson) save her, and (this being 2015, when distressed damsels need to reciprocate) are saved by her.

It is also Hitchcock's most innovative film in terms of narrative technique, discarding a linear story line in favor of thematically related incidents, linked only by the powerful sense of real time created by the lighting effects and the revolutionary ambient sound track.

The story line in non-existent like * caugh * «Fable» and was more a tool to push halo 3 on the next xbox.

As I had mentioned earlier, this game follows a unique story line in an expanded universe of the Huntsman franchise.

Falling in love in paradise is not just a story line in a romance novel.

Narcissists always have a story line in mind about what each «character» in their interaction should be saying and doing.

There's an easily discernible story line in the race for the 49th state Senate District this year: Schenectady County institution Sen. Hugh Farley, a Republican, faces a green Democrat who hasn't held political office.

It featured as a running story line in three soap operas during the sampling period (EastEnders, BBC1, Coronation Street, ITV, and Brookside, Channel 4).

And that, alas, is a tough but accurate description of those revisionist Catholic historians who are working diligently to rewrite the American Catholic story line in order to prop up the sagging cause of «progressive» Catholicism today.

By the mid-1960s, then, the tension that had driven the classic story line in the history of American Catholicism seemed largely resolved.

Hodor provided fatalistic levity to one of the darker story lines in a dark show.

California Governor (D): The story lines in the Democratic gubernatorial race are the stuff of great fiction.

His juxtaposition of three story lines in «Dunkirk,» each unfolding over a different span of time, is strikingly similar to his intercutting of dream sequences in one of his previous Christopher Nolan collaborations, «Inception.»

Though the characters and story lines in Lady Bird are far more subtle, hints of Rushmore's aesthetic and comedic influences are apparent in both the way Lady Bird behaves in class and her sardonic interactions with Sacred Heart's nuns.

It's not really beholden to timelines and story lines in the other movies.

Who should win: With all its focus on Matt Damon, The Martian is overlooked for being a massive ensemble piece, and Goddard carves out so many characters and story lines in a script that still feels fleet and funny.

I also love writing about all the Callaway siblings, so this series lets me keep some story lines in play over several books.

Shonen tends toward fantastic action - adventure stories with awesome fight scenes, epic story lines in fabulous worlds, and a spirit of teamwork.

In an utterly enthralling performance, Lee's narration evokes reverence and awe while subtly building tension through the space opera's multiple and complex story lines in this prequel to Hamilton's Void Trilogy.

SF novel set in an overpopulated future, blending several story lines in a collage structure famously modeled on John Dos Passos» «U.S.A.» trilogy.

Al Simone, senior vice president, Global Marketing for Sierra Entertainment: «Spyro has grown up a lot since his debut, and players are going to notice advanced gameplay, character design and story lines in Dawn of the Dragon.

Either way works and both are compelling story lines in their own right.

There's no doubt that Telltale Games» The Walking Dead series has offered one of the most engaging story lines in games in recent years — arguably eclipsing the TV series on which it's based (which was once memorably described by Dan Maher as a show about «some people arguing in the woods near some zombies.»)

The program, in collaboration with several federal health agencies, works behind the scenes in Hollywood to foster smarter public health choices by, among other things, shaping story lines in scripts for TV shows and movies.

Not exact matches

«So much interchange had occurred across the line by early December» that a general «issued a directive unequivocally forbidding fraternization,» writes Stanley Weintraub in Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce.

A story about putting it all on the line is sexier than a story about a startup founder that worked on his or her idea in the evenings after their 9 - to - 5 job and bootstrapped along without going into debt.

The film featuring an all - Black cast, and a story - line set in the fictitious African nation of Wakanda, has broken so many records in just two months on the market, Disney, the parent company of Marvel Comics, released an infographic to list them all.

Have you ever experienced something cool and, in telling the story, you get so tongue - tied that you end up saying something along the lines of, «well, you just have to experience it for yourself?»

By summer the development staff had working demos of Sammy's Science House, the third in Edmark's early - learning line; Thinkin» Things 2, the second in its critical - thinking line for 4 - to 8 - year - olds; and the first two titles in a line called Imagination Express, a series of interactive story - writing programs for 6 - to 12 - year - olds.

But sudden jumps in other components of his «cost of goods sold» line are a different story.

An apocalyptically - worded story in the latest issue of the New Yorker detailed the devastation that might result from a high - magnitude earthquake along the Cascadia subduction zone, a fault line that runs from Cape Mendocino, Calif., to Vancouver Island, Canada.

«We realized a while ago that if we tied ourselves in knots trying to make all the «story days» line up between all the characters the momentum would suffer,» Cogman concluded.

The mainstream news media caught onto the story while venture capitalists lined up to fund any business with «bit» in its name.