Sentences with phrase «tale told with»

«The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future,» is a tale told with sound and fury by a historian living in the year 2393 who looks back on global collapse caused by global warming.

Millions of enthusiasts enjoy the game of Jenga, and millions more will enjoy this rollicking business tale told with wit, grace, and inspiring intuition.

But credit most of all the enduring power of a familiar tale told with conviction and skill.

THE BLACKCOAT»S DAUGHTER is a strikingly original horror tale told with an eerie and elegant style.

By the time the game was over, The Evil Within 2 weaved a terrifying tale of obsession and morality, a tale told with much more subtlety than in the original.

Nightjohn is a PG - 13 Disney movie, but it's also a full - blooded Charles Burnett film: family - friendly fare that doesn't shrink from showing slavery's horrors, an adolescent's coming - of - age tale told with an adult's sense of historical reality and moral complexity.

It may not bring a lot of originality to the table, but The Fighter is a tale told with the deft precision of a talented filmmaker and the enthusiasm of a lead who cares about his subject.

Criterion releases two other Max Ophuls classics this week as well: the delicately sweet and sour La Ronde (1950), a roundelay of chance meetings, secret trysts, hopeless courtships and cuckolded lovers where everybody and somebody's fool on the romantic merry - go - round, and Le Plaisir (1952), a trilogy of romantic tales told with mix of sweet generosity and a wistful sense of regret.

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Also, he realized, it would make a good tale: Maybe one day he'd create a limited - edition bag with leopard print on the inside, and could tell this story as a way to explain it.

In clinical trials the treatment — which involves extracting individual patients» immune T - cells, modifying them to seek out tell - tale biological markers associated with blood cancers like aggressive lymphoma, and then pumping those modified killer cells back into the body — has shown major promise, in some cases eliminating all signs of the cancer in patients six months after treatment.

Clients who have become friends tell countless tales of meeting him at the end of one of his 12 - hour seminar days — Robbins exhausted from giving out as much energy as a nuclear power plant to a room of thousands of acolytes — because he wanted to help with a project or problem, even at 2 a.m. «The secret sauce with Tony is that he recognizes that he's not in the transaction business,» says Guber.

I told Warren, too, and she responded with her tale of Gus.

We've always been told to be careful about what we post on the Internet, with cautionary tales stretching as far back as the «Numa Numa Guy.»

And that's how Coca - Cola gets away with telling sappy tales about young love.

Recently several media outlets have dug up a handful of business owners with worrying tales to tell of Trump's bullying, unfairness, and failure to pay.

Bogle describes the increased daily volatility and trading with a quote from Shakespeare, «a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.»

A currency - hedged take on German equities, the iShares Currency Hedged MSCI Germany ETF (HEWG D - 42), helps tell that tale, with gains of 15.4 percent in less than two months.

As they tell it, the Mast Brothers story is a tale of creativity and invention, an American dream with a hipster twist.

In «The Third Day» Graber tells the familiar tale of Augustine and the stolen pears with poetic precision:

You have no idea what you are talking about with your fairy tale illusion of what you THINK salvation is all about... it's a ridiculous concept based on flawed foundations right from the get go... here is my EVIDENCE... The record in Samuel tells us that it was the Lord who tempted David to do the numbering; that in Chronicles says it was Satan.

With the premiere of her directorial debut, A Tale of Love and Darkness, Natalie Portman tells the story of the State of Israel, which illuminates a topic deeply important to Portman: her Jewish faith.

With the premiere of her directorial debut, A Tale of Love and Darkness, Natalie Portman tells the story of the State of Israel, which illuminates a topic deeply important to...

When finally confronted with the truth, groupthink becomes fiercely defensive because there's been too much investment of time / energy to risk a demoralizing tale told by a long - gone outsider.

Based on the best - selling book of the same name, the film tells the real - life story of Colton Burpo, a 4 - year - old boy who awakens from surgery with eye - popping tales of the great beyond.

By executing murderers, we are trying to tell a different story: a story with poetic closure, a tale of punishment that fits the crime.

Many stories, however, partook of neighboring categories in the circle, and, possibly in consonance with the tale I came to tell myself, most told me tragic ironies.

While the Knight's Tale tells of the demise of Creon the tyrant, it ends with ambiguity concerning whether or not Theseus will himself become just another tyrant.

With their followup, 2006's Nacho Libre, the Hesses scored a big - time movie star for the lead in Jack Black, and landed a solid $ 32 million budget to tell the tale of a single Mexican man who works in an orphanage yet feels the call of stardom via wrestling.

The numbers tell the tale, from Gallup; The United States remains a predominantly Christian nation, with 78 % of all adults identifying with a Christian faith, and more than 9 in 10 of those who have a religious ident.ity identifying as Christians.

Then the psychedelic path will lead over the bridge of cybernation; and with Herbert Marcuse as guru emeritus, Norman O. Brown as classicist in residence, and William F. Buckley, Jr., as anti-utopian court jester, we will establish the new - consciousness Camelot, telling the little ones tales of old Greenwich Village, the Haight, Millbrook, the Peanut Butter Conspiracy, of all the lotus - eating cadres of the leisure class....

In Tangled, the Walt Disney Company's new animated, feature - length, 3 - D adaptation of «Rapunzel,» critic Armond White finds, sadly, that the story of the girl with the very long locks not only «has been amped up from the morality tale told by the Brothers Grimm into a typically overactive Disney concoction of cute humans, comic animals, and one - dimensional villains,» but also that the film's «hyped - up story line... gives evidence that cultural standards have undergone a drastic change» in the decades since Walt Disney first set out to charm both children and adults with his animated retellings of fairy tales.

One tale that never grows tired of the telling is the one about how Bruce Springsteen — two albums into his career and with nothing but disappointing sales to show for it — was...

If someone was born in Saudi Arabia, they would be Muslim and if they were born in the US, they would be Christian... It's up to them to figure out that religion is a crock before they waste their whole life worshiping a non-existent friend in the sky and believing in a book full of fairy tales... My favorite fairy tale is about the guy who was told not to look behind and was turned into a block of salt when he disobeyed the command and took a peak... lol... I was raised christian but I had too many doubts and questions especially after our scandalous pastor took the money that was raised to build a new church building and disappeared into thin air with the loot... lol... After I ditched religion, I had a peace of mind and I am still at peace...

Doomed people, pray tell, what are people with open inquiring minds doomed to precisely, some fariry tale hell, just a guess?

But the critics were all telling me how extremely feminist this comic book - derived tale of Diana (Gal Gadot), the Amazon princess with her magic lasso and bulletproof bracelets, is supposed to be.

In Tangled, the Walt Disney Company's new animated, feature - length, 3 - D adaptation of «Rapunzel,» critic Armond White finds, sadly, that the story of the girl with the very long locks not only «has been amped up from the morality tale told by the Brothers Grimm into a typically overactive Disney concoction... Continue Reading»

Anyone familiar with most of the notable versions of the tale from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries will recognize almost all the standard elements here, however much names and details may shift about in various tellings.

It's a difficult tale to tell in a single sitting, especially when the documentary was made with the dual purpose of reaching both a believing and unbelieving audience.

The opposition to the correspondence theory of truth has been the opposition to the idea that correspondence could be anything more than the most suitable tale, with suitability determined by the context in which it is told.

These tales had been preserved by the women as they gathered with their water bottles at the wells, by the men as they chatted around the campfires and as they told the stories of the great past to their young sons.

I think they're all fairy tales, but I can live with their followers if they just stay out of my life and quit telling me what to do.

Mankind has always believed in the spiritual world, every fairy tale ever written (or told orally before the written word) only serves to show our deep longing to reconnect with something that has been lost.

If they lived to tell a tale then they weren't really dead to begin with, right?

So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too — Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out — And take upon's the mystery of things As if we were God's spies...

Producers of literature, when they are not themselves wracked with doubts or preoccupied with taking a postmodern revenge on traditional expectations of order, speak out of a prescientific discipline of expectation — a school of faith that models the need to bracket with ironic reservation that information which, if not bracketed, would insist simplistically that life is only a bracket - defying tale told by an idiot.

tell stephen hawking to go to the big red one with the horns and spiky tale.

And their strategy, as an intellectual party, includes two lines of attack: to uproot the Shea / Guilday / McAvoy / Ellis standard account, and to replace it with a telling of the tale more congenial to their own current ecclesiastical concerns, which involve the catalogue of «progressive» causes flogged weekly in the National Catholic Reporter — disentangling the American church from «Rome» (meaning, from the program of Pope John Paul II and Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger), «women's rights» in the Church, the «democratization» of Catholicism, and so forth.

We tend to concur in the wise comment that «if the author had an ulterior motive, he concealed it more successfully than is common to story - tellers who write with a purpose»; and, from another source, that the writer «set out to tell an interesting tale of long ago, and he carried out his purpose with notable success.»

One tale that never grows tired of the telling is the one about how Bruce Springsteen — two albums into his career and with nothing but disappointing sales to show for it — was on his label's chopping block.

We've all puzzled, after following someone's can't - fail advice, over less - than - perfect hard - cooked eggs — the eggs with rubbery whites, chalky yolks, and that tell - tale green - gray film between yolk and white.