Sentences with phrase «tell hopeful stories»

After a long standing ovation, Obomsawin confided how elated she is to have lived long enough to tell a hopeful story about flourishing, after so many years of dire prognoses for First Nations societies.

Though she doesn't yet possess the skills of a Jason Reitman (very few do), Cody proves capable of being able to tell her hopeful story in a relatively compelling manner.

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She and her ex-husband, Joe Cobb, have co-authored a book entitled Our Family Outing, which tells the riveting, heartbreaking, and hopeful story of a family that must face the reality that their husband / father is gay.

I poured into those pages my best writing and my best effort to tell a story about Church that is at once honest and hopeful, imaginative and dusted with the earth of everyday life.

It's Democratic mayoral hopeful Bill de Blasio's first campaign ad and he's using his 15 - year - old son, Dante, to tell the story.

A member of the audience pointed out this difficult balance between telling a story with «home truths» whilst keeping a hopeful message and at the same time not falling into the trap of romanticising the homeland.

One of the hopeful highlights to come out of Toronto International Film Festival is Joachim Trier's supernatural thriller Thelma, which tells the story of (you guessed it) Thelma, young woman from a religious family who goes to college and meets Anja, for whom she develops very intense feelings.

Funny, touching, and surprising, this short, fast - moving novel tells a realistic, hopeful story about Benjamin, a 16 - year - old with cerebral palsy who strikes up a startling friendship with the school's infamous druggie.

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Other neurological research tells us that a happy ending to a story triggers the limbic system, our brain's reward center, to release dopamine which makes us feel more hopeful and optimistic.

The cascading flurry of paper patterns emerging from origami pipes suspended from the gallery ceiling will tell the story of a community ensnared in a five - year drought, but is still hopeful for a reemergence of vegetation.

That doesn't mean hopeful stories about Detroit haven't been (or still aren't) worth telling.

You can tell an individual story that further positions you as the best hopeful.