Sentences with phrase «strong narrative around»

Not exact matches

Though the narrative shares some obvious similarities with the three - act structure of the first movie, «Catching Fire» is superior in just about every way, including stronger, emotionally - charged performances from Lawrence and Hutcherson and better character development for the other tributes, who are more than just numbers and faces this time around.

It isn't that Best Picture hasn't always been mostly dominated by male narratives — it's that the strong female - driven movies started to fail to catch fire at the box - office around the mid-90s and once that happened, there has never been much of an economic incentive to get those films made.

These elements are all incorporated within the pulpy narrative, which unfolds with satisfying precision, anchored by a well - constructed script from veteran novelist Lehane, stylish direction from Belgian import Michaël Roskam, and strong performances all around.

If you look at the actual story, which has one of my strongest narratives... the trade - off of one abduction for another... it becomes less about plot than about these two women travelling around together against a swirl of corruption.

This passion can be recreated in online learning by building the content around a strong narrative and adding heaps of

The chapter - based game is draped around a narrative skeleton that involves the mysterious Bounty Hunter, a man of renown and many a fascinating anecdote, who finds himself back in his hometown's saloon, telling tales of his (mis) adventures to those who care to maybe buy him a fifth of something sharp and strong.

Now if you handed me Watch Dogs 2 with a true focus on manipulation and control over the city as you ran freeform around this slick environment with better narrative, a stronger focus and an enjoyable character.

Declan love playing games that base themselves around detailed and interesting systems, he also enjoys strong narrative.

Its sporting mechanics are arguably strong enough to carry Golf Story but Sidebar Games has built a wonderful narrative around its world with 8 unique characters to meet and interact with.

His thesis works revolves around the engendering of emotions in video game especially within ludic situations and without strong narrative context.

Now to get me to play a JRPG it has to be doing something really formally ambitious (like Live - A-Live), be an undisputed classic that I never got around to (like when I played Chrono Trigger in college), or have such a strong tone and artistic and narrative direction that it transcends its mechanical JRPG conventions (the Mother series does this for me — Ni No Kuni might).

World of Warcraft made hotbar - oriented, cooldown - based «just stand there and take it» combat the norm for MMOs and while other games have tried to mask that through various hooks (such as The Old Republic's strong narrative), there just isn't getting around the tried, true and tired combat mechanics.

NICOLE BRAY: My personal art collection centers around the idea of Warrior Women, strong female artists who are redefining sexuality, identity, and personal narratives.

With a career spanning almost three decades, Francesca Fuchs is a well - known Houston - based artist whose paintings draw from art historical and personal references, evoking a strong sense of narrative around themes of memory, family, and home, and how they define our sense of place and self.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

«There is such a strong narrative going around that this is just a problem for the coasts and cities like New York and San Francisco.