Sentences with phrase «sweeping story of»

Some games will tell an epic, sweeping story of an inner struggle that an ancient, medieval - like society faces.

Caryl Phillips's The Lost Child is a sweeping story of orphans and outcasts, haunted by the past and fighting to liberate themselves from it.

Fleming's sweeping story of the dramatic decline and fall of the House of Romanov provides both intimate portraits of the family members and a beautifully realized examination of Russia in a state of increasing social unrest and turmoil.

History comes to vivid life in Fleming's sweeping story of the dramatic decline and fall of the House of Romanov, which provides not only intimate portraits of Tsar Nicholas II; his wife, Alexandra; and the five Romanov children but also offers a beautifully realized examination of the context of their lives....

Here is a sweeping story of five women at once intimately relatable and yet entirely new.

The Man Who Loved Chinatells the sweeping story of China through the remarkable life of Joseph Needham's, a brilliant Cambridge scientist.

A sweeping story of love and danger - a continuation of the Earth's Children ® saga that began with The Clan of the Cave Bear.

History comes to vivid life in Fleming's sweeping story of the dramatic decline and fall of the House of Romanov.

Wolf's expertly researched masterpiece of free - form poetry tells the haunting, sweeping story of the Titanic disaster through a multi-octave chorus of two dozen real - life voices.

From Japan's famed Studio Ghibli comes is a sweeping story of friendship, mystery and discovery that delivers stirring emotions and breathtaking animation as only Studio Ghibli can.

PASSAGE TO MARSEILLE (1944)-- Bogart reunites with director Michael Curtiz and other key «Casablanca» talent for a tension - and controversy - swept story of a French patriot who escapes Devil's Island, survives a dangerous freighter voyage and becomes a gunner in the Free French Air Corps.

Not exact matches

In between all the stories about drug use, police surveillance, and city councillors getting tackled by the mayor, there have been a few reports of otherwise innocent businesses getting swept up in the Ford scandal.

Cloud computing, the buzzword sweeping the tech world, claimed the top spot in the most recent Hype Cycle report put out by Gartner Research, while a BusinessWeek cover story compared the technology's impact to the introduction of electricity.

The reason that stories work so well on us is that we are susceptible to getting «swept up» in both their message and in the manner of their telling.

The story of another start - up also included in the July issue, JB Sweeping in Houma, Louisiana, was told in the form of a first person account.

The China Hustle features the story of the wave of Chinese reverse mergers that swept the market a few years ago.

The 11 - year lease covers nearly 10,000 square feet on the top two floors of the 18 - story building, which offer sweeping views of the Hudson River.

In Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination, he devises an elaborate framework to categorize passages from the whole sweep of Western literature: poems, novels, short stories, plays, essays, memoirs, and letters - whether in Latin, Greek, Italian, French, Spanish, English, German, or Russian.

I am just horrified that the other people in your story swept abuse under the rug but given my own family history, that is exactly what they do and I am still being punished for «breaking the code of silence.»

In L. Frank Baum's story, The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy is swept away by a tornado to Oz, a land very unlike Kansas, Dorothy's home.

Since all of these pedo priest stories can no longer be swept under the rug, the rules have changed.

These stories and others like them seem to indicate that a new and different type of political conflict has swept the nation.

The answer lies in this story from Luke and our belief that God validates the work of sweeping every bit as much as the work of shepherding.

If we could learn to indwell the stories about these actions and allow them to sweep our own present lives into their schematizing of historical existence, then we too could more consciously become children of the promise.

If we suspect there is an execution behind this story, we can see many telltale signs: typical marks of the victim (he has a physical deformity, he is a foreigner), indications of social conflict (fire sweeping the city), traces of the accusations (incest, profaning holy things), the unanimity of the mob violence (stoning and burying the «seed»), and the positive benefits of the death.

At the center of the story stands religious freedom and separation of Church and State, which posed problems undreamed of during the previous centuries of Christendom, and the sweep of «evangelicalism» which enabled the denominations to triumph in a world of regnant individualism.

The big story coming out of Week 2 is certainly Team Feldman and their complete Double Header sweep on Sunday afternoon.

When the history of 2015 is written, when the confetti is swept up and the championship T - shirts are all sold, we'll get a chance to reflect on all the special baseball stories and sort them in order of importance.

The Vegas Golden Knights were the most incredible story in hockey before they finished off a sweep of the Los Angeles Kings in their first playoff series ever.

Another day, another big shift in the Jose Mourinho to Manchester United story... Last night, a series of sensational tweets exploded out of Manchester as the highly regarded United forum Red Issue, made some sweeping statements about the twisted power struggle currently going on behind the scenes at Old Trafford.

Perhaps most difficult to sweep under the rug are the individual stories of homebirth deaths such as those recounted in The Daily Beast or on personal blogs.

The tragic story of an 11 - week - old boy who suffocated after sleeping in a car seat for two hours has swept the nation, as Shepard Dodd's parents prepare to take legal action against the Oklahoma City daycare center where it happened.

Because doctors can't sweep this information under the rug, there are public records of what happen, but you read those Hurt by Homebirth stories and see how many times a perfectly nice wonderful BFF of a midwife then turns into a complete bitch when the birth goes wrong and they fear that there might be some sort of legal repercussion or bad press for them.

TheLittle Bear and Little Tiger stories of Janosch − when I read them to children I'm swept up in their almost unbearably, beautiful portrayal of innocent joy, fun and expectation − paradise lost!

On Saturday night in Hampton Bays, as a cold rain fell on a large crowd of the broken - hearted, speaker after speaker told deeply personal stories about how the opioid epidemic that is sweeping America has changed their lives forever.

It's a day to feel small, as history overwhelms us with its awful sweep — one unbearable morning frozen in a dense web of action and reaction dating back centuries and stretching forward until... well, others will get to tell that story.

Phoenicia, NY — When Hurricane Irene struck the Hudson Valley, the media rushed to cover the story from the «devastation angle» — a handful of locals in the Ulster County hamlet of Phoenicia are trying to get the word out that their little town has NOT reportedly been «swept away» — Hudson Valley Bureau Chief Dave Lucas reports.

Before British politics got swept up in a whirlwind of Brexit, leadership challenges and a change of cabinet, one of the biggest stories was the allegations surrounding Conservative general election spending in 2015.

WASHINGTON — The Senate approved a sweeping immigration overhaul Thursday in a strong bipartisan vote after an afternoon of emotional speeches as senators told personal stories of family journeys to the United States while visitors filled the galleries...

Geneticist and writer Rutherford takes a sweeping new view of the human evolution story, using the latest science of DNA as the central guide.

A fever has swept over American energy observers in recent weeks as they compete to write the most optimistic story of impending energy independence.

Now they finally run a major story on the devastating drought sweeping the nation, one they compare to «the Dust Bowl of the 1930's,» but again, no mention of global warming — even though increased risk of drought is a well - known prediction from climate scientists.

I melt for flowing tulle skirts, and timeless love stories, for the Groom who isn't afraid to sweep his Bride off her feet and the Bride who gets butterflies when she realizes she has found the man of her dreams.

You have heard about the epic love story set against the sweeping vistas of Wyoming and Texas, Brokeback Mountain tells the story of two young men — a ranch - hand and a rodeo cowboy — who meet in the summer of 1963, and unexpectedly forge a lifelong connection, one whose complications, joys and tragedies provide a testament to the endurance and power of love.

In spite of some «horror stories» that have sprung from adult dating online, that doesn't mean that it's not worth giving it a shot, all it means that while that «perfect stranger» is trying to sweep you off your feet — never let your guard down until you really know the person.

Although old sugar tits just can't help but put his Christian values and themes of religious devotion into this, it's hard not to be swept up in the combat and the man behind the astounding true story.

In this way it's a game of compelling opposites; cutscenes infiltrate the great gameplay, fourth - wall hammering innovations subvert the dominance of the sweeping story, and even though the game ends the tale of Solid Snake with such bold finality, I expect nothing more than his triumphant return.

It's not hard to picture J.K. Rowling reading The Little Broomstick as a child, getting swept away by the story of a regular kid (who's really not regular at all) attending a boarding school run by witches and warlocks.

Joy doesn't work entirely, and the structure set up so clearly in the opening sequence is dropped early on for no apparent reason, but I'll be damned if I didn't get carried away at the story of a mop sweeping the nation.

It may not be especially unique, even in concept, and its scripted interpretation may be a mess of contrivances and fat around the edges, but this story is a thoroughly intriguing one, which juggles epic sweep with rich intimacy as a study on the man behind Christ's crucifixion's coming to embrace the sacred man he killed through a guilt which drives him into dangerous circumstances, thus, there is a rewarding potential that would have been lost if it wasn't for Henry Koster.