Sentences with phrase «telling grand stories»

Fighting History The genre of «history painting», telling grand stories of great events, was Britain's most honoured art form in the late 18th century.

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«I'd call this an 11 - year overnight success story,» Raj Nair, Ford Motor's chief technology officer last week told USA TODAY, citing as a starting point Ford's entry into the early DARPA Grand Challenge for robotic cars.

Because this story is so grand, we search for it in the books we read, the movies we see, the tales we tell.

Grand Theft Auto IV tells the story of a criminal and the country that made him.

And then, after the day's reading, fling open the one of the 25 advent doors — and discover that day's Biblical ornament to hang on your very own tree — that will end up telling the grandest Gospel story, from the Beginning to Bethlehem!

In any event, those who during most of the twentieth century were weaving statistics and theories into a grand and confidently told story of the secularization of the world are now having to cope with a quite different story that seems to be writing itself.

When We Were Alone by David Alexander Robertson — This award - winning book tells the story of a grand - daughter asking her grandmother the questions that lead to her learning about her family's experiences in residential schools.

Through these accounts, Schmidt intends to give us a popular, social history of American atheism, one that tells stories of local, concrete fights over religion and the public sphere, rather than a grand history of ideas about belief and disbelief.

We go home at night and escape to foreign lands on Netflix, while the grandest, realest, thickest (like the grass in C.S. Lewis» heaven in The Great Divorce), truest story that has been or ever will be told is a story in which we find ourselves, or — to use theologian Vanhoozer's language — a theatre in which we are not a passive, but participating audience.

By a miracle I am able to tell you the story of my grand crime for which they threatened me with death.

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Four pole positions from 256 Grands Prix isn't a statistic that screams «qualifying master», but Jarno Trulli is one driver for whom statistics alone don't tell the whole story.

For 10 yearsthey'd been telling the same stories — at Immaculata High School in Somerville, N.J., where the legend bookended a grand slam in his first at bat as a freshmanwith a blast in his last at bat as a senior; at the neighborhood diner Jerry «sPlace, where the legend's photo hangs next to one of Mickey Mantle; and here atthis warehouse turned hitting complex, where the legend's newspaper clippingsand old jerseys line the walls.

His FBI Number is 4817958, and he is the only man tied to the noisome Patterson - Johansson fight promotion who has yet to tell the D.A. and the grand jury his story

Mr. Sharpton lamented that the stories of Mr. de Blasio's successes — the implementation of universal pre-K, paid sick days, municipal ID cards, and his ability to manage mass protests in the wake of the Eric Garner grand jury decision last year — aren't being told enough by other Democrats.

As economists and others explore how biomedical research is shifting on a grand scale, Science set out to tell the stories of individuals.

That's what happens when so much of the story is told through close - ups and two - shots: you lose the sense that there is a bigger, grander tale unfolding.

For all the Hollywood obsession with high - concept and special effects, sometimes there's something enchanting about a simple story simply told, and a movie of small rather than grand gestures.

It's perhaps limited as it's focused toward amusement and tallying up the endings versus telling some kind of grand, cryptic story with it.

Easy, it was shot in 35 mm Technicolor, has been newly - preserved with an 8K resolution (7680x4320 pixels) digital master, and tells a classic story in grand fashion.

They show us individual human stories of love, honor, betrayal and survival, told on a grand scale that only the big Hollywood studios could rival.

Since «Iron Man» in 2008, the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) has been using cutting - edge visual effects to tell entertaining stories on a grand scale, and has billions in box office gross to show for it.

«To follow the last film in this first grand story that Marvel has told, to follow the O.G. Avengers into that story is certainly tantalizing for us as story tellers.»

In watching this movie, you get the feeling that Braff set out, not to tell a story, but with the grand intentions of making us feel.

Winner of the 2015 Grand Jury Documentary prize at Sundance this past January, this film — produced and edited by women, and with a mostly - female crew — tells the story of the six young Angulo brothers, who were raised in New York City with little to no contact with the outside world.

That's where the film really disappoints and its many grand artistic touches introduced throughout can't compensate for the libertine spirit that's missing in telling Frida's story.

If it is indeed his final work, it's a fitting one that's in keeping with the actor's career of telling stories of grand, often larger - than - life men whose self - identity clashes with, and often destroys, their relationships.

PARK CITY, Utah — «Personal Velocity,» a film by Rebecca Miller telling the separate stories of three women, won the Grand Jury Prize for best feature film here Saturday night at the Sundance Film Festival.

Filmed entirely in Austin on a low budget and telling a story that takes place over one Thanksgiving, Krisha won a well - deserved Grand Jury top prize at SXSW.

Works from J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of The Rings and C.S. Lewis» The Chronicles of Narnia emphasized the grand scope in which riveting stories with rich characters and solid life lessons could be told.

After years of trying and directing two exceptional films, Frank brought the project to Netflix, where he was finally able to tell his original story on a grand scale.

In case you weren't counting, that makes four levels on which the plot of The Grand Budapest Hotel is told — a story within a story within a story within a story.

Taking over for no less than Stanley Kubrick, Brando retains Kubrick's penchant for wide, low angles in telling an epic revenge story that predicts the grand visions of Sergio Leone, filling it with a mix of veteran character actors and Hispanic talent that would become the hallmark of uncredited screenwriter Sam Peckinpah.

Hooper does not seek to make a grand statement with his film, but sought instead, to tell a great story.

The members of the inner circle drink, eat, and drink some more in Stalin's grand mansion, regaling each other with stories of the war (in Khrushchev's case, telling how he threw live grenades at POWs to watch them dance) and passive aggressively mocking each other for their capital - C Comrade's amusement.

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (Angela Robinson, 2017) Possible to analytically compare with Jenkin's grand epic, fellow female filmmaker Angela Robinson's narrative tells the story behind Wonder Woman as a cartoon character and becomes a refreshing and bold story of polyamorous love between the visual and narrative creator of Wonder Woman and his two leading ladies (his wife, and his open - minded female student).

Produced with a paltry budget of 70 grand, Mike Flanagan «s eerie husband absentee horror tells the story of a wife whose spouse has been missing for seven years.

Isle of Dogs, the new film from Wes Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums, The Grand Budapest Hotel) tells the story of Atari Kobayashi, 12 - year - old ward to corrupt Mayor Kobayashi.

Anderson's intricately choreographed follow - up to 2014's The Grand Budapest Hotel, the film tells the story of a young boy (Koyu Rankin) who travels to the canine island in order to recover his quarantined pooch.

Goaded by the author's curiosity, Mr. Moustafa agrees to tell the story of the Grand Budapest over dinner.

He's also a fan of the young writer's work and agrees to tell him the story of how he came to own the establishment without buying it — over dinner in a grand ball room that is illuminated like a stage where the lights rise and fall on dramatic moments of Mr. Moustafa's story.

Starring Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, and rising young star Lucas Hedges (from both Moonrise Kingdom and The Grand Budapest Hotel), the film tells the story of Lee, a Boston handyman (played by Affleck) who is crippled by the sanctity of his own bitter isolation up until he is, ultimately, forced to face those tragedies of the past as well as welcome life - changing obligations following the unexpected death of his older brother.

The film tells an emotional story as grand as «It's A Wonderful Life» but on the scale of a micro-budget indie.

Anderson's intricately choreographed follow - up to 2014's The Grand Budapest Hotel, the film tells the story of a young boy (Koyu Rankin) who travels to the canine island in order to recover his...

For a film that beautifully tells the story of a truly incredible emotional and spiritual journey, the jury awards the grand prize for documentary filmmaking to Becoming Who I Was.

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B Secret of the Wings Rated G Available on DVD, Blu - ray and Blu - ray 3D While Disney's Tinker Bell movies haven't exactly told the greatest stories, the animators sure do show off their talent in grand style.

For example, Chipotle's national television ad, «Back to the Start,» told such a captivating story that it won the Cannes Film Lions Grand Prix.

In Grand Tourer, David Burgess-Wise tells the story of a magnificent car and its party - loving first owner / Delwyn Mallett enjoys the sights and sounds at Goodwood's annual Festival of Speed celebration of history's greatest cars and drivers / Pared - down and powerful, Jaguar's XK150S Roadster was the spiritual successor to the celebrated XK120.