Sentences with phrase «tales told by»

Pearl, released in 2016, stands out among the 360 - degree, mobile VR, and room - scale VR tales told by Google's Spotlight Stories.

Summer is a state of mind that lingers in these light romantic tales told by three popular romance authors in That Summer Place.

Medieval bestiaries were instructional works gathered from the fables and tales told by travelers.

Although the Silver Surfer's stories don't yet reach that million mark, there have been a notable number of tales told by Kirby, Lee, Englehart, Pak, Spurrier as well as the likes of Mœbius, John Byrne, John Buscema, Ron Marz, J. Michael Straczynski and others.

The real beating heart of the film is its collection of wild war tales told by the company's former employees, who regarded Tower as more than just a paycheck gig or a commercial proposition.

The warriors are following tales told by the local Toltec tribes of a place in the mountains, just 25 miles from their new home, where the gods once lived.

From outrunning a sprinter to jumping as high as cornerbacks and more, here are some tales told by those who have coached him and those who have played with him.

Here, kids ages three to twelve can enjoy crafts and activities that immerse them in the Southwestern experience, such as making Indian headbands and pinch pots; hearing tales told by cowboy storytellers; learning about local culture, geography and indigenous plants and animals; or splashing around in the Water Playground.

Your blind following of tales told by farmers and goat herders has imprisoned the intellect of humans on a global scale.

The blood - and - guts tales told by the ancestors of today's journalists gradually evolved into more civilized literary forms, to provide more complex characterizations, to describe more universal human experiences, to explore more sophisticated levels of conflict.

Tales told by many different people.

Of course you can be proven wrong... your holy book was written by man, no god involved; thus your belief is based on the fairy tales told by men who saw a gullible fool a mile away - see, how easy that is??? As for the actual number being only 1.6 billion, sorry the stats say different and your opinion on who the actual number includes is moot.

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.»

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.

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 does not fear sinning against charity by suggesting that many of these extravaganzas (in which the international ruling class cavorts, off - hours, in the sybaritic style to which it has become accustomed) are, in the Bard's familiar words, «a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.»

Oh and additionally... you need to study REAL history concerning the crusades because the notion of converting Muslims to our faith by the sword is nothing but a fairy tale told by revisionist historians who desire to create a history that meets their agendas rather than report truthfully.

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»

Human life is not «a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.»

The metaphor is the primordial closer of rifts; its dramatic promise is that unexpected and significant connections will continue to be possible, and its implied threat is that when we can no longer believe in that promise we will have to use another metaphor to express our loss of faith: something like Macbeth's «tale told by an idiot.»

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.

When Macbeth in the well - known speech is forced to confront the shattering reversal of all his expectations, he sees life as a «brief candle,» a «walking shadow,» an actor «that struts and frets his hour upon the stage / And then is heard no more» and as «a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing.»

This notion of a God that cares about individuals and humanity is a nonsense fairy tale told by people who can't accept not knowing why what we call «bad things» happen.

The story line itself, which sounds like a stream of consciousness tale told by a 3 - year - old, is about some businessmen who get an electric jolt from a telephone they have invented and then are saved by a team of doctors.

«The Shape of Water» is many things — a visionary act of production design, a fairy tale told by a masterful genre junkie — but fundamentally, to me, it's a beauty - and - the - beast tale in which the beauty is a soulful, ferocious mute sprite played with a Chaplinesque twinkle by Sally Hawkins and the beast is... a reptile - man with almost nothing in the way of characteristics.

(Although, perhaps as an indicator of this particular work's weight, Allen alludes to Shakespeare's famous line from «Macbeth» about a «tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing» early on.)

Allen, who's plenty familiar with peaks and valleys, is at a low point here, struggling to spin a «tale told by an idiot» into something worth watching.

It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.»

This person knows about the problems of the characters, knows they hope, knows they lust, knows they dream and knows that life is a tale told by an idiot, filled with sound and fury, signifying nothing.

And by restoring the book's ending, with a jump forward to Mattie's one - armed spinsterhood, the Coens acknowledge Portis's perspective, which is that of a girl's tale told by the woman she became.

In this remake, though she's no less unpleasant, she's as much a victim as anyone, and a fitting narrator for our film, a tale told by a lunatic.

Franco's frequent co-star Danny McBride is also on board in an as - yet - unspecified role that probably isn't Benjy, because that role is almost assuredly going to Franco himself — an illustration of the book's paraphrased Shakespeare soliloquy, «Life is a tale told by Franco, full of Franco, signifying Franco.»

Even though an unnecessary narrator reminds in what is now the 4,687 th film to use the line (unofficially) that, «Life is a tale told by an idiot filled with sound and fury and signifying nothing,» and reiterates this point later on that this film is just such a meaningless tale, that hardly seems an excuse for two - hour examination of relationships to offer us little with regards to real comment.

One of the most fruitful results of such an analysis might be a weakening of the artificial, historically contingent connection between progressivist concepts of education and the views on education adopted by the Democratic party, which has unwisely bought into the tale told by the victors.

This is a peculiar tale told by two narrators - two boys, both stolen by changlings.

We've been anticipating Ian McEwan's Sweet Tooth for a few months now, so it was a relief to dive in recently and find a delightful adventure tale told by a protagonist readers will identify with right away: Bibliophile and Cambridge grad Serena, who is recruited for the British secret service.

Eight fantastic short stories featuring magically realistic young adult fiction, a tale told by a dog, literary fiction, and much more.

This was tied up in a great overall vibe, the cell - shaded aesthetic combining with the light - hearted nature of the story, a tale told by a grizzled veteran who claimed to have fought many of the most of the most notorious bandits in that period of time, like Butch Cassidy and Billy the Kid.

Within the tale told by the Great Deku Tree, Nayru is depicted as one of the three goddesses to have created the land of Hyrule.

Rare's newest trailer is a little light on actual details, merely hinting at things to come, and takes the form of a tall tale told by «grizzled old soul Merrick» - the pirate whose portrait recently appeared in the ship wreck found on the uncharted island at map coordinates L14.

Klodi, produced for this exhibition, is based on a touching, dramatic and at times absurd tale told by Klodi, an Albanian man Paci met.

Whether we look at the steady increase in global temperature; the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to the highest level in a half - million years; the march of warmest - ever years (9 of the10 hottest on record have occurred since 2000); the dramatic shrinking of mountain glaciers and Arctic sea ice; the accelerating rise in sea level; or the acidification of our oceans; the tale told by the evidence is consistent and it is compelling.

Are you, somehow, personally insulted by a hypothetical tale told by someone else which does not mention you are anyone associated with you and if so, why?

I will show another tale told by someone, a quite similar one, to show how this sort of hypothetical tale is done.

Our policy agenda is a difficult sale to many on the Right given their conviction that global warming is — at best — a wildly overwrought problem and — at worst — a fairy tale told by a corrupted scientific community for those that want to shut - down modern industrial capitalism.

CO2 is a very weak GHG — it is but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more, it is tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Shakespeare's Macbeth is probably best known for lamenting his wife's death: «Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.»

My friend and colleague Bob Denney says the issue of AFAs reminds him of a quotation from Shakespeare's Macbeth: «A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying (almost) nothing.»

Not exact matches

There are and will continue to be death kick strategies and tell - tale signs of life; smaller more narrowly focused funds, deal - by - deal funds, and a focus on trendy categories like life sciences and alternative energy.

That a 15 - year - old girl would be targeted and shot by the Taliban, live to tell the tale and then continue to fight for the education of women in Pakistan is the kind of story that cuts through cultural and geographic boundaries.