Sentences with phrase «than its source material»

The almost page - by - page summary is faithful to Taylor while being much more tightly written than the source material.

Based on a novel by P. D. James, the film is considerably more radical than the source material.

The trailer seemed very different than the source material, but over-proliferation of zombie - related content obscures how much of anomaly this picture really is: zombies have always roamed through low - budget settings, but what if someone had some serious dime to throw down on a zombie film?

The film adaptation is equally ridiculous and even more disjointed than its source material.

However, what keeps Last Holiday afloat when it's less than its source material is the collective charm of its stars — Queen Latifah, LL Cool J and Gerard Depardieu.

While it is obviously a good idea to not reveal too much with the first trailer, it does seem clear that Nocturnal Animals is heading down a far more sinister path than its source material; the 1993 novel Tony and Susan.

Is Iron Man the first comic - book movie better than its source material?

That's one of the many ways this remake plays it safer than its source material.

It served up exactly what you'd expect from the movie franchise that somehow managed to be even worse than its source material.

The film makes these points in a far more clear - headed, more resonant manner than its source material.

Dead - End Drive - In is a bit more literal - minded than its source material, though it does convey Carey's theme of alienation and decay in a swirl of junk culture.

Director Mary Harron turned Brett Easton Ellis» novel «American Psycho» into a far better film than the source material.

I did like Avary's explanation of why the town was abandoned, but I found his other changes to be far less effective than the source material.

VanderMeer has already praised Garland's Annihilation for being even «more surreal» than his source material and having what he has referred to as a «mind - blowing» ending - an ending that is likewise drawing praise in the first wave of social media reactions to the film.

Starting with one of the aspects the game does far better than its source material; the graphics.

South Park: The Stick of Truth — 2014's South Park game by Ubisoft and Obsidian Entertainment — was a delight, captivating with its spot - on animation that felt like you were watching a new episode, hilarious and outrageous humor that pushed even harder than the source material, and simple yet solid RPG gameplay that made combat fun and fit right in with the source material.

In short, because of the interactive nature of gaming, there's a capacity for gaming adaptations to be better and to mean more than their source material.

Not exact matches

The model for other studios to follow here would seem to be to, first, test your potential audience with more than just a vague idea and then deliver a product that is both true to its source material while also offering something beyond what viewers have already come to expect from typical superheroes (in this case, that would be the comedy, sex, and violence).

With a combined history of more than 140 years, today the association embraces all aspects of strategic supply chain management, including: purchasing / procurement, strategic sourcing, contract management, materials / inventory management, and logistics and transportation.

Participating designers created their pieces using responsibly - sourced materials, including mercury - free gold, to create styles that radiate a beauty that runs deeper than appearance.

While the over-the-docks prices of imported final goods increased by more than 10 per cent over the past year, prices of imported inputs into manufacturing rose by 6 per cent and the prices of domestically sourced raw materials fell (Table 6).

The evidence indicates that the written sources of our Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) are not later than c. AD 60; some of them have even been traced back to notes taken of our Lord's teaching while His words were actually being uttered... We have then in the Synoptic Gospels, the latest of which was complete between 40 - 50 years after the death of Christ, material which took shape at a still earlier time, some of it even before His death, and which, besides being for the most part 1st hand evidence, was transmitted along independent and trustworthy lines.»

This makes fiction based upon Scripture peculiarly problematic, at least for those who regard the work's underlying source as more than mere raw material: Is the novel, play, movie to be judged to some degree in accordance with its piety?

Some turn to the East, particularly to Taoism; some to Native American perspectives and other primal traditions; some to emerging feminist visions; still others to neglected themes or traditions within the Western heritage, ranging from materials in Pythagorean philosophy to neglected themes in Plato to Leibniz or Spinoza; and still others to twentieth - century philosophers such as Heidegger or to philosophical movements such as the Deep Ecology movement.9 As one would expect in an age characterized by a split between religion and philosophy, few environmental philosophers turn to sources in the Bible or Christian theology for help, though some — Robin Attfield, for example — argue that Christian history has been wrongly maligned by environmental philosophers, and that it can serve as a better resource than some might expect (WTEE 201 - 230).

Such authentic sayings, whose exact wording can not well be reconstructed, whose translation is uncertain, whose out - of - date thought patterns are obvious, are none the less more important historical sources for encountering Jesus» history and person than would be the chronological and psychological material the original quest sought in vain.

The materials that we possess for reconstructing the life and teaching of even the greatest of them — Hillel, for example, or Gamaliel II — fill less than a dozen pages, and must be collected from the most varied sources.

But it may be pointed out that (1) no one has ever «unstrung» the Marcan sequence more completely than the author of Matthew did in revising and reorganizing the Gospel of Mark for his special purposes: the book is taken apart and put together again in a new order, combined with the «Sayings Source» (Q) and with other materials, and arranged apparently for didactic use — as a manual, one might say, for the religious educators of the early Syrian church!

One trusts that the absence of Guiney and other Catholics from these pages is not because Woodworth numbers them among the «almost «Christians» or «non «Christians,» but simply because of considerations of length; in the preface he notes, for example, that he used far less than half his source material.

Rather than try to paint over this gut - wrenching aspect of the source material, Netflix puts this issue front and center.

For an understanding of Hinduism, it is better to have read a little introductory material and to have studied the Bhagavad Gita intensively than to have read more widely in secondary sources.

Were it true that a suddenly converted man as such is, as Edwards says, (Edwards says elsewhere: «I am bold to say that the work of God in the conversion of one soul, considered together with the source, foundation, and purchase of it, and also the benefit, end, and eternal issue of it, is a more glorious work of God than the creation of the whole material universe.»)

Moreover, secular myths having to do with individual freedom, material success, and perhaps especially the wonders of technology may be an even more powerful source of societal legitimation than, traditional religious arguments by virtue of being grounded in many assumptions that are virtually axiomatic in the culture.

However, the Jesus Seminar dates the Q material earlier than the traditions found in Mark, during the period 50 - 70 a.d. Mark, dated around 70 a.d., in fact fares poorly in the Seminar's judgment as a source for Jesus - sayings.

There can be no doubt that what we identify in the Tetrateuch (Genesis - Numbers) as P employs and incorporates in the fifth century some material as old or possibly older than J. And J in the tenth century may well have had as a primary source an earlier effort to bring together coherently a wide assortment of stories deemed to have significant bearing on the life of the people Israel.2 Certainly individual units in the J corpus had been in existence for centuries before they were integrated; and beyond any doubt these units were often strikingly modified in meaning in the context of the J work.

Although redaction criticism tended to give more respect and credit to the individuals who wrote the Gospels than source or form criticism had, it still placed a great emphasis on the prehistory of each Gospel and tended to disintegrate each text into material labeled «tradition» and other material labeled «redaction.»

And if evolutionary theory can be accommodated by calling creation accounts myths, presumably other aspects of the biblical world need to be corrected or altered in meaning when confronted by materials from more sources of knowledge than I wish to list.

E continues to require symbolization, whether or not it ever existed as a separate and roughly parallel source to J, as simply that hexateuchal material differing from or later than J but earlier than D or P. Cf. Gerhard von Rad, Genesis, translated by John H. Marks (from Dos erste Buch Mose) in the series Dos Alte Testament Deutseh, II (Gottingen, 1955; Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1961), pp. 23 if.

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Sustainably sourced materials abound throughout the office, including more than 12,000 board feet of wood reclaimed from sources such as container crates and barns.

Carpets made from naturally sourced materials are typically lower in VOCs than traditional synthetic fibers.

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Recognizing that they are less than perfect, we use the OMB and NSF definitions of R&D for our analyses and the OMB data as our basic source materials.

Although federal R&D data are less than perfect, the OMB figures, supplemented by data obtained directly from the agencies, do provide a good basic source of material for conducting an analysis of R&D budget trends.

Background Architects and engineers must design buildings to withstand a variety of forces, some stronger than others, from many sources: gravity, people inside, weight of building materials, weather and environmental impacts.

The porous carbon performed better as conductive electrode material than conventional carbon sources, often heat - treated coconut shells, coal or wood.

By adjusting the material properties of the object and the polarizations and synchronization of the individual light waves in the beam, physicists can make the object radiate more light forward along the beam than backward toward its source.

As photosynthesis favours the lighter isotope, carbon 12, over the heavier carbon 13, this «light» ratio finding suggests that organic material from biological sources may have been more abundant in diamond - forming zones early in the Earth's history than we find today,» explained Suzette Timmerman, lead author on the study.

A host of new techniques and technologies will be required to reduce emissions from these sources that includes reusing heat and power generated in manufacturing processes; recycling materials or substituting them; controlling greenhouse gases other than carbon dioxide (CO2); and, ultimately, capturing and burying the CO2 produced.

«Using broadly tunable laser sources rather than the fixed wavelength source used in this paper can extend this method to detection of other hydrocarbons, threat materials such as chemical warfare agents and explosives, and other biologically important substances used in healthcare and diagnostics,» said Hempler.

Materials chemists have been trying for years to make a new type of battery that can store solar or other light - sourced energy in chemical bonds rather than electrons, one that will release the energy on demand as heat instead of electricity — addressing the need for long - term, stable, efficient storage of solar power.