Sentences with phrase «story of mourning»

More than a sci - fi romp, this poignant story of mourning and destructive obsession is a captivating marriage of text, image, and design.

It's a story of mourning for what has become of the world, as the dogs get into scraps over scraps and, in the case of former show dog Nutmeg (voice of Scarlett Johansson), explain how unfair it would be to bring puppies into this world.

Although the film is designed primarily for a young audience, adult themes of love and loss abound in its story of mourning lovers attempting to reach out across the dimensions.

Yet here, it's in a jumble with the Big Bad's tale, the rounding up the team shtick, and a barrage of other short stories of mourning moms (Diane Lane), imprisoned dads (Billy Crudup) and Lois Lane (Amy Adams) getting her groove back.

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If you believe this story in The Guardian, all of China is in mourning.

It reminds me of stories of folks letting people stay in their apartments in New York at the time of 9/11 and how the community came together in mourning ant the Clutha helicopter disaster in Glasgow.

Holiness for me was found in the mess and labour of giving birth, in birthday parties and community pools, in the battling sweetness of breastfeeding, in the repetition of cleaning, in the step of faith it took to go back to church again, in the hours of chatting that have to precede the real heart - to - heart talks, in the yelling at my kids sometimes, in the crying in restaurants with broken hearted friends, in the uncomfortable silences at our bible study when we're all weighing whether or not to say what we really think, in the arguments inherent to staying in love with each other, in the unwelcome number on the scale, in the sounding out of vowels during bedtime book reading, in the dust and stink and heat of a tent city in Port au Prince, in the beauty of a soccer game in the Haitian dust, in the listening to someone else's story, in the telling of my own brokenness, in the repentance, in the secret telling and the secret keeping, in the suffering and the mourning, in the late nights tending sick babies, in confronting fears, in the all of a life.

If the Jesus story ended on Friday, then the disciples can simply be «the eleven,» and after the appropriate rituals and a season of mourning, they can go back to life as it was.

Then she tells him the horrific story of the deal she made with her neighbor and if you read on you will see how he mourned not only for her and her boy but for all the people.

NEWARK, New Jersey (CNN)- As the sun rose the morning after Whitney Houston's death, congregants at the Baptist church where she began her singing career as a member of the junior gospel choir gathered to mourn, pray and share stories of the pop superstar.

Indeed, the entire Christian story is based on that kind of rhythm: from despair to hope, darkness to light, chaos to order, captivity to freedom, mourning to dancing.

PIX 11 story on BP Adams mourning the death of Louis Barbati, the owner of L&B Spumoni Gardens in Gravesend.

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(In fact, none of the songs were used in mourning or to tell a story.

«Hostiles» is the story of how the soldier and the warrior find common ground over the course of their journey and together mourn the passing of a people; it's pitched at a pace that wants to be stately but becomes funereal.

The story begins with Meg Murry (Storm Reid) and her six - year - old adopted brother Charles Wallace (Deric McCabe), and their scientist mother Kate (Gugu Mbatha - Raw) in a state of mourning over the disappearance of the family patriarch, Alex Murry (Chris Pine).

Whereas Phantom Thread and Personal Shopper suggest that ghosts are the psychic projections of the grieving, it is the unmoored souls of the dead who are left behind to do the mourning in A Ghost Story; it parallels Alejandro Amenábar's likeminded The Others (2001) as one of the century's best supernatural films so far.

On a day of mourning for cinema, it is reassuring to see a film like Sugar, an exquisitely filmed, well acted and narratively bold film that takes a smart, and most important, human look at an Illegal immigrant and a story behind so many baseball players we see.

The story of Joshua's search for his missing sons isn't substantial enough to warrant an entire movie, so writers Andrew Knight and Andrew Anastasios have tacked on a romantic subplot between Crowe and Olga Kurylenko's Turkish widow (which doesn't seem right considering Joshua is still mourning the death of his wife), as well as flashbacks of his sons in battle that are incredibly difficult to watch.

According to the featurette, Rachel Weisz as mysterious Rachel of the title arrives into the story with only two dresses — both mourning so obviously black.

Finalists In a Different Key: The Story of Autism by John Donvan and Caren Zucker The Politics of Mourning: Death and Honor in Arlington National Cemetery by Micki McElya

Most immediately, though, it is the story of one man — of a marriage foundering and recuperating in its mystery and ordinariness, of the shallows and depths of male friendship, of mourning and memory.

The stories in A Better Angel describe the terrain of human suffering — illness, regret, mourning, sympathy — in the most unusual of ways.

NONFICTION Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War by Viet Thanh Nguyen The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America by Andrés Reséndez Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson

Look for these audiobook adaptations as examples: Kwame Alexander's The Crossover, Skila Brown's Caminar, Sarah Crossan's The Weight of Water; Helen Frost's Salt: A Story of Friendship in a Time of War, Nikki Grime's Words with Wings and Planet Middle School, Thanhha Lai's Inside Out and Back Again, Lesléa Newman's October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard, Andrea Davis Pinkney's The Red Pencil, and Jacqueline Woodson's Brown Girl Dreaming.

End Notes is a collection of 10 interlinked stories about loss, mourning and commemoration.An English girl uses a Nigerian ritual to mourn her beloved grandmother; journalists in pursuit of a story carry out «the death knock»; siblings discover hidden aspects of their father's life when they attend his two very different funerals; a Spanish woman encounters unexpected tenderness and grace in a London hospice; a collector goes in search of ghost stories at a haunted Finnish manor; 1988, 2016, 2017 - what was wrong with those years?

The game deals with a woman who is mourning the death of her wife, so the story might be a bit too somber for anyone looking for a lighthearted visual novel.

Instead, it's a story of celebrating the dead rather than mourning them.

The trickster coyote character of Native American folklore has met his match in this floral double, «Coyote Stories,» Mourning Dove, a bouquet of flexigrass and love - in - a-mist tangled around one another in a way that is at once playful and violent.

Those are all things you can do at home — tasks like sweeping or ironing — it's just that in this case they're done to black canvases, paying tribute to grief and mourning, but not to something specific... It's a manifestation of an attitude, which is larger than one's own self... Right now it seems that in many parts of the world — or everywhere, even — there is a shroud of darkness... There is always a story under the surface, and those stories are often quite peculiar; they have a strange way of manifesting themselves.»

Each rendition of the ballad tells the story of a drowned sailor returning to a lover as a ghost to mourn the loss of their time together.

And from gorillas in mourning to dolphins saving dobermans, there are enough stories out there to cast doubt on the mechanistic, Cartesian view of the animal kingdom.

The progression has become numbingly repetitive — mass bloodshed unleashed by a gunman, followed by the stories of the fallen, the funerals, the mourning, the talking heads and the calls for change that dwindle into nothingness.

Maude's sole piece of vintage artwork sits on its side, grabbing the eye's attention, and has a remarkable story behind it: Shot in 1968, the photograph is from a series that followed Bobby Kennedy's funeral train from New York to Washington, capturing the mourning public standing in salute.