Sentences with phrase «theme of familiar stories»

Based on the theme of familiar stories, this unit of work would link to your English curriculum and culminates in the children creating their own story mat for Bee - Bot.

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While many of the images represent scenes and figures unrecognisable without the stories that accompanied the original photographs, others show familiar news themes and events.

In addition to the question of whether Mr. de Blasio — who won a primary with middling turnout and a general with dismal turnout — has earned his stripes to set an agenda for the Democratic Party nationwide, back at home there is the familiar drumbeat that perhaps the mayor ought to pay attention to his own city, a theme that has spread beyond the territorial tabloids and into stories in the city's higher - minded broadsheets.

The story is infused with all of the familiar Tarantino themes, including a small but charming performance by Brad Pitt, and a legendary scene know as the «The Sicilian scene» involving Walken and Dennis Hopper.

Director Andrew Jarecki instantly finds himself unable to overcome the story's almost eye - rollingly familiar trajectory, as screenwriters Marcus Hinchey and Marc Smerling offer up a culture - clash romance that comes off as a pale imitation of other similarly - themed films (including Gosling's own The Notebook).

The story, stretched across a wristwatch - examining two and a quarter hours, follows the fortunes of Xavier and Lehnsherr as the CIA seeks to exploit the value of the super-powered mutants and put a stop to Shaw, though (in accordance with the series» familiar themes of prejudice and outsiderdom) many of the agency's top brass dismiss them disgustedly as a bunch of freaks and weirdos.

Based on Irwin Shaw's best - selling novel, the complex story - telling dives into familiar themes of strained human relationships and the naivete of the American dream.

Born in China starts in spring and follows their adventures (also monkeys and leopards and antelopes) for a year, organizing itself around cycles of nature that complement the familiar Disney circle - of - life theme, by now part of the corporate brand, but essential and necessary for the story at hand.

It treads familiar waters and doesn't offer anything new in story, but the characters are well - drawn, the narrative full of humor and depth, and the themes handled with a maturity that is absent in other films of this nature.

While the film's title screams warm nostalgia, Chan avoids channeling the familiar sentimentality that makes indies with similar themes too cloying, telling a more understated, refined story of a tense sibling rivalry and shared regret and reflection.

Turkish writer - director Nuri Bilge Ceylan («Once Upon a Time in Anatolia», «Winter Sleep») returns to familiar themes with this story of an aspiring writer who returns to his village with the aim of realising his ambition but who finds his father's debts becoming an obstacle.

Readers are already familiar with the everyday themes of getting a gas bill through the post or going round the shops to buy a new jumper, so can engage with the Liz and Joe stories from the beginning.»

As in the best collections, the stories enhance each other, forging connections between recurrent characters and building a world where real locations like Islamabad and Lahore blend with imagined households... Themes of struggle and progress may be familiar, but Mueenuddin's rich stories make them fresh and powerful, marking a debut as auspicious as any so far this year.

- uses the real - life puzzle format to retell the story of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time in the space of one hour - puzzles involve doing math, deciphering glyphs and turning in worksheets to a cast of Zelda - themed taskmasters - instead of being a small experience hosting just half a dozen players, this is one big room where teams of 6 face off against dozens of other teams - one puzzle involves decoding words from a series of brain teasers and then using a key to pull out individual letters to decipher the next instruction - involves multiple familiar characters from the series

The story is also very well - done, and fits perfectly with the overall theme of Warhammer 40K; it's obvious that the designers at Kuju are familiar with the 40K universe.

This balance of culture and psychology is the underlying theme of this show that continues the artist's exploration of myth, folklore and popular iconography including familiar stories such as Snow White.

I wrote this month's cover story, A Golden Age of Legal Tech Start - Ups, which highlights some themes about start - ups that will be familiar to regular readers of this blog, but which also highlights a unique event happening at Techshow this year, the first - ever Startup Alley and startup pitch competition.