Sentences with phrase «taken out of your story»

But if they are good in themselves, and if by a «point» you mean some truth about the real world which one can take out of the story, I'm not sure that I agree.

The resulting temporal choppiness from not being clear from the start not only continuously takes us out of the story to try to catch up with it when we're finally given enough information for it to make sense, but it also reveals just how manipulative the device is in order to try to load up all of the emotional beats for whatever version of a climax the story can muster up.

We hope it's not prudishness, but somewhat taking the Soderbergh stance that «as soon as someone gets naked, the film becomes a documentary,» that scene's overlength did in fact take us out of the story: by a certain point we had understood the drama and import of this moment for Adèle, and her revelatory experience of having sex, for the first time, with someone she was terrifyingly in love with.

It just doesn't make sense and, while some people won't care, I found myself being taken out of the story a bit at times because of it.

It eventually picks up steam again but the lull took me out of the story and I found myself disconnected from the characters.

Anyone who's a major fan of the man will be looking for him in whatever newest Marvel film is coming out, taking us out of the story entirely when he appears.

The key is to ask them to do some things that ordinary readers would do: Mark things that take them out of the story, pacing issues, emotional feedback, etc. «Beta reading is not about the reader's knowledge of the craft of writing, but about what works and doesn't work for them as a reader,» she states.

I can see that you have strong feelings about not wanting to be taken out of the story via another medium such as audio or video.

With many books, especially those from small publishers or self - published authors problems with the writing or editing take me out of the story (like a heroin wearing a high - wasted dress).

This takes me out of the story flow and allows me to pick up missing words, typos, etc..

She breaks a lot of writing «rules» that sometimes takes me out of the stories (like changing world facts to cover up plot holes, or overusing the same three adverbs with every dialogue tag), but that doesn't mean I can't enjoy her stories!

They will check for errors in spelling, punctuation, and grammar to be sure that your readers are never taken out of your story.

It offers no new insight or opinion of its own, keeping almost everything deliberately vague so that you can take out of the story what you want.

This got painfully obvious as you have to backtrack a lot in a few of the main areas and that definitely took me out of the story.

You travel down simple corridors for most of the areas in the game which I found got to be a little boring at times and took me out of the story.

Still screens really take me out of the story at times.

Not exact matches

In the beginning, the story in Animal Farm seems quirky at best: When the de-facto leader of the animals, Old Major, dies, two pigs called Snowball and Napoleon take over and see out his «vision», which they interpret to be the driving out of Mr. Jones, the farm owner.

However these two stories turn out, it seems clear that BlackBerry will never again be the world's default smartphone, and that Mark Zuckerberg's vision of an über - Internet has taken a torpedo to the bow.

For example, when Prison Break's Wentworth Miller came out on Facebook talking about his struggle with depression, it created a fabulous opportunity for one of my students Jason Finucan, who speaks about destigmatizing mental illness in the workplace, to help take a celebrity story and parse it in such a way that a lay audience can understand and apply it in their daily lives.

As for the balls, that's where the story takes on the sheen of a Hollywood potboiler: a talented protege oversteps his bounds and is thrown out of the company he helped build alongside a man he considered a father figure.

Take my word for it, if you're not out there and in control of your story, to the extent that it's even possible any more, the vacuum will readily be filled by any number of other people — employees, ex-employees, competitors, advocates for a million causes, etc. — with their own good and bad axes to grind.

It comes clad in a CNC - machined aluminum housing that The SSD Review finds «capable of taking all the abuse you can give it,» while Forbes says they'd be perfectly comfortable with throwing it out a second story window due to its sublime and sturdy build quality.

That might have been the end of the story, but it turned out there was a small side project taking place within Mozilla that until then had received relatively little attention.

The company has taken a number of steps to try to stamp out fake news, including setting up a process whereby it takes fact - checking and verification efforts from third - party outlets like Politifact and Snopes, and shows users when a particular story is being questioned or has been debunked.

They take readers out of the story you're trying to create.

For many, the name Gawker is now indelibly associated with a massive legal judgment for privacy invasion and a host of equally unseemly stories, including one that the site eventually took down that outed a married Conde Nast executive who was cruising for gay strippers.

Take passions and politics out of this story, and the Trump Organization's fatal error was its comprehensive lack of self - awareness.

2) the stair counter doesn't work well — gets very confused when I get on an elevator (I live on the 30th floor of my building and sometimes just taking the elevator up in the morning after a run gives me my full 10 story step goal) 3) the heart rate monitor doesn't seem particularly accurate 4) the sleep tracker doesn't do a good job of figuring out when I go to sleep and when I wake up.

Taking a few moments out of your day to tell your story or set goals for yourself can help you focus on the brighter future you hope to inhabit.

[01:10] Introduction [02:45] James welcomes Tony to the podcast [03:35] Tony's leap year birthday [04:15] Unshakeable delivers the specific facts you need to know [04:45] What James learned from Unshakeable [05:25] Most people panic when the stock market drops [05:45] Getting rid of your fear of investing [06:15] Last January was the worst opening, but it was a correction [06:45] You are losing money when you sell on corrections [06:55] Bear markets come every 5 years on average [07:10] The greatest opportunity for a millennial [07:40] Waiting for corrections to invest [08:05] Warren Buffet's advice for investors [08:55] If you miss the top 10 trading days a year... [09:25] Three different investor scenarios over a 20 year period [10:40] The best trading days come after the worst [11:45] Investing in the current world [12:05] What Clinton and Bush think of the current situation [12:45] The office is far bigger than the occupant [13:35] Information helps reduce fear [14:25] James's story of the billionaire upset over another's wealth [14:45] What money really is [15:05] The story of Adolphe Merkle [16:05] The story of Chuck Feeney [16:55] The importance of the right mindset [17:15] What fuels Tony [19:15] Find something you care about more than yourself [20:25] Make your mission to surround yourself with the right people [21:25] Suffering made Tony hungry for more [23:25] By feeding his mind, Tony found strength [24:15] Great ideas don't interrupt you, you have to pursue them [25:05] Never - ending hunger is what matters [25:25] Richard Branson is the epitome of hunger and drive [25:40] Hunger is the common denominator [26:30] What you can do starting right now [26:55] Success leaves clues [28:10] What it means to take massive action [28:30] Taking action commits you to following through [29:40] If you do nothing you'll learn nothing [30:20] There must be an emotional purpose behind what you're doing [30:40] How does Tony ignite creativity in his own life [32:00] «How is not as important as «why» [32:40] What and why unleash the psyche [33:25] Breaking the habit of focusing on «how» [35:50] Deep Practice [35:10] Your desired outcome will determine your action [36:00] The difference between «what» and «why» [37:00] Learning how to chunk and group [37:40] Don't mistake movement for achievement [38:30] Tony doesn't negotiate with his mind [39:30] Change your thoughts and change your biochemistry [40:00] The bad habit of being stressed [40:40] Beautiful and suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to live in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out of suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom for you?

This story fits in so well, what you said Stalin did, was exactly what Blockstream people did, they all kicked out the real people that supported and promoted the actual original idea and system (in this case Bitcoin system) and then using censorship, propaganda and army of USEFUL IDIOTS to fight their dirty wars, try to take out the original idea, and replace the system with some other shit that will benefit them.

Whether that was an attempt to make her soften or retract her story, or just a supreme example of thoughtlessness, the survey turned out to be an effective way to get a company with an entrenched «bro» culture to begin taking sexual harassment and gender discrimination more seriously.

Ed takes us into his existential crisis after megahit Toy Story, behind the storytelling scenes of The Incredibles, Ratatouille, and Inside Out, and around the risks, triumphs and failures that led to his building a massively successful and creative culture.

I have heard stories of people taking out second mortgages and buying Bitcoin.

I tend to be shameless (and some would say, desperate) when it comes to taking to social media to shamelessly plug positive stories coming out of Pakistan.

Given that oil is down at the moment with the news out of Middle East, what would take oil to move materially to US$ 50 would be some supply outage coming out of this story, or a military conflict between Iranians and Saudis.

HOWEVER, if this person was running for public office, instead of the «feel - good» story here, the media would vilianize this church for some inane belief that they would take wildly out of context and present it to the American public as the most fundamentalist extreme church ever to lay it's foundation on our shores.

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.

I open with my story of experiences with the movement, where I was burned out with it before Brian McClaren's book really took the publishing world by storm.

And we have all watched you boldly take the way of abundance — no matter how it seemed like it didn't matter — because God makes meaning out of messes, because He is the God who can make all our brokenness into abundance, because, you and I say this back to each other over and over again: The Writer of the story has written Himself into the hardest places of yours and is softening the broken edges of everything with redeeming, abundant grace.»

You can dismiss my views as unfounded or wrongheaded or unbiblical, but dismissing my journey in arriving at them as simply «taking the easy way out» or «capitulating to culture» makes a lot of unfair assumptions about me and my story.

Mark Greene, executive director of the London Institute of Contemporary Christianity (LICC) tells a story about an office worker who took the time to find out what kind of tea people liked to drink, and when she next made the tea she produced bags of each kind of tea.

One such story involves one of the residents forgetting to take his meds, bumping into a young mom on her way to a workout session, and saying something wildly inappropriate (and very funny — you should definitely go out and get this book).

Interestingly, the first thing that jumped in my head from the bible, about how to pray, was the Tax Collector and the Pharisee... it took a Google search to come up with verses, and it also jogged my memory to the song «Pride (In the Name of Love)» by U2, in which I thought the lyrics «one man come in the name of love, one man he come and go» in part was a call - out to that story.

Most of all, the experience has been gratifying, as God has taken the story he first caused to be lived out in my experiences, and now is blessing others by its retelling in this first - class feature film.

The author of this modest but rewarding volume sets out to examine these and four other stories that have taken the form of conventional wisdom regarding history, Christianity, and Western culture.

But if we take out the story of Joseph in Potiphar's house we lose something more than a morality play.

The challenge now becomes to see my own story, with which I began, in terms of God's story which has now grasped me and taken me out of myself

To front - load the story by saying people were being treated in animal stalls, and only later point out it was a free clinic held in a county fairground (rural area, large crowd... likely the only suitable place that passed health and safety requirements for such an event), and to not mention that many if not most of those taking advantage of the free medical care were likely farm workers and not here legally... is beyond poor reporting.

Gay «No» campaigners Keith Mills and Paddy Manning pointed out that such was perfectly possible without undermining family structures completely since extensive Civil Partnership legislation was already in place, and they did make a difference, but the softening up of the electorate by years of sob - stories would have taken far more time and effort to overcome.