Sentences with phrase «turning point of a story»

Now here's the magical turning point of the story.

Gradually, the pictures, mainly portraits, take on more and more touches of color; at the turning point of the story, when Masako leaves her parents» home for the city of Osaka, the bright red of her dress practically jumps off the page as staid passersby in brown and gray traditional clothing look at her in shock.

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Yet what some moguls might seem as liabilities DuVernay turned into strengths, using her indie training to maximize her resources, telling a black story from a black point of view, making sure that women's contributions were acknowledged and writing into the script her own passionate pleas for equality (albeit in the King style).

Whenever a discussion of alcohol comes up among members of my congregation, and someone mentions the story about Jesus turning water into wine for his first public miracle, one point is inevitably made: that the wine back then was watered down so much it had little or no alcoholic content, making it barely more than grape juice.

This is the story of the Battle of Lepanto, which marked the end of the Crusades and was a turning point in the history of Christianity.

This is the parabolic method of Jesus: to tell a story which turns upon a point which has its parallel or analogy within the experience of some of those to whom it is addressed.

A very sad story with a tremendous amount of pain and anguish turned positive... doesn't change the fact that this is simply adults playing make believe to the point that wishes become full on beliefs

Genesis and Exodus introduce us to the story and bring us to its crucial turning point, the arrival at Sinai and the reception of the Revelation.

A New York Times story over the weekend chronicled how some individuals and organizations eager to see same - sex marriage legalized have stopped trying to win others to their point of view through reasoned argument and have turned, instead, to emotional epithets as their main rhetorical tool.

In fact, the ominous turning point in the story of Israel's experience with war came when its elders asked the prophet Samuel to provide a king like that of other nations.

There are other scholars who defend the substantial historicity of the tomb pericope, and since we must reckon with this possibility, we now turn from the literary form of the story to its content to see in what way the latter may point to historical reliability rather than to legend.

Since a history of Faith Church had just been finished a few months before he arrived, Landry invited the committee to begin its work with a study of this history; the story of the church's founding, its significant experiences in the past, critical turning points, its line of important personages.

The answer is a story of God's grace and a tale of two turning points.

My point is that rather than look for the most correctly indoctrinated, we shld appreciate the heart that is correctly turned toward the good, regardless of the doctrines they may confess.We don't know the doctrines of the Roman Centurion or if he even had any, but the story suggests his heart and will were in the right place.I don't read that Jesus took credit for it.Don't let the Pauline «sub-narrative» blind you to the «grand narrative.»

The unfolding story of this year's Harvard - Westlake girls basketball team has more twists and turns than a Shakespearean play, but in reality the facts about the Wolverines» season up to this point makes a very strong case for it to be a tale of its own.

But, see, the point is that every draft pick is a mystery, the start of a story that will have expected and unexpected turns.

A lot of Arsenal fans did not expect us to get anything from today's away game against the Premier League leaders Man City, and that is how it turned out with De Bruyne, Aguero and Gabriel Jesus scoring to make it a comfortable 3 - 1 scoreline in the end, but that did not tell the whole story by any means and Arsene Wenger will surely point to a couple of key decisions that went the home side's way at crucial points of the game.

Listen as they talk about her story of breaking free from chronic dieting and disordered eating, how becoming a mom was a turning point for her, how to keep things simple in the kitchen, and her favorite tips to get tons of nutrition.

She recommends going into the room for a diaper change, dimming the lights and reading a story, then turning the lights off and singing a lullaby while rocking baby to the point of drowsiness.

As it turns out, though, my clever technique is used by many of the conference attendees, and Jenny Rosenstrach of Dinner: A Love Story even recommended it in her Power Point!

After three months of telling your stories, some say this could be the turning point of a humanitarian crisis impacting 400,000 people in public housing.

The meeting took place last Thursday at 131 - 23 31st Ave., currently a two - story warehouse and office space the owner would like to see turned into New York Spa of College Point.

It's the first plot point of the story that has many emotional twists and turns.

The fucking story in the trailer is the same as in the movie, and what's the point of seeing the movie then, when we know how the movie will turn out to be storywise?

Writer - director - star Michael Showalter (Wet Hot American Summer) attempts to turn the romantic comedy formula on its ear with The Baxter, a film that tells the story from the point of view of the poor schlep that typical romantic comedies usually leave stranded at the altar, while the bride - to - be runs off with the handsome leading male.

Per THR, «All of the stories in The Turning revolve around turning points in the lives of the people of the Australian coastal town of ATurning revolve around turning points in the lives of the people of the Australian coastal town of Aturning points in the lives of the people of the Australian coastal town of Angelus.

Overlapping stories explore the turning points of ordinary people's lives in a portrait of a small coastal community.

But thankfully touch controls are used sparingly in the main story mode and never turn into a point of frustration.

And so there is something refreshing even within «Bad Moms» for its attempt to turn an eye toward stories that have often been overlooked and flipping the focus to a female point - of - view.

While Bracey is counting on «Point Break» to give him his big break, he's also excited about his upcoming turn in Mel Gibson «s «Hacksaw Ridge,» which chronicles the extraordinary true story of conscientious objector Desmond Doss, played by Andrew Garfield.

This is what happens in The Turning Point, the story of two former dancers -LRB-...

At no point has it felt like a tsunami of buzz, but the film has impressed everyone who's seen it, telling the story of an obsessive friendship turned quasi love affair between two young female friends that turns darker and more tragic as jealousy takes hold.

While the story of the successful man hitting his low point and having to turn his life around isn't original, the film is able to avoid cliche by making some interesting choices in how those themes are explored, which help them feel a little more unique.

Gore's message still resonates, but for every powerful moment or example of incontestable scientific fact there's also one where the point of all this gets diluted as it focuses on the former politician - turned - activist and not the story he is eager to tell.

Some of the developments feel a bit predictable — shot in the dull hues of gray that match Maud's life, Suffragette occasionally turns hard truths into platitudes — but the story is inspiring, buoyed by a fine cast, a pointed, important examination of the price paid for a shot at equality.

The story is of a group of people with all different skill sets coming together, it's set in a very agrarian pseudo-futuristic middle ages timeline, you spend a lot of time talking to people in towns, all travel is basically on foot between points A and B, and the battle system is very basic and turn - based, with a passive style.

This is the basic setup, but must be viewed as a jumping - off point for almost constant twists and turns and outward growth of the story.

They add even more to Samara's back story, the movie at one point turning into a subpar melding of Rosemary's Baby, Room and 10 Cloverfield Lane, its supposed surprises so obvious they might as well be accompanied by giant blinking neon lights.

Simplifying the story to that relationship and building the rest of the film around that would be a major turning point in the film's production path.

He is the author of No Homework and Recess All Day: How to Have Freedom and Democracy in Education (AERO, 2003) and is editor of Turning Points: 35 Visionaries in Education Tell Their Own Story (AERO, 2010).

The site «How to Blog a Book» points out numerous success stories of bloggers turned self - publishers, including Rachel Thompson, whose self - published self - help and advice books have landed her at the top of several Amazon lists.

From Stone's point of view, the importance of the Kindle — especially after the February 2009 release of the Kindle2 — is that it represents a turning point in the story of Amazon.

Are you able to define the purpose of each major turning point in a story?

The edit in her fast - turn story is a little rough on this point, but he's saying that they want to see «the Kindle experience» — regardless of device — put onto «Goodreads as close to their (the readers») fingertips as possible.»

-LSB-...] Grefer focuses on 3 types of repetition you'll find in fiction; Jami Gold defines what makes a story event a turning point; and Andi Cumbo - Floyd shares 5 tips for reading as a -LSB-...]

(Note that Camy mentions using the Black Moment for the Disaster, but many sources say to limit pitches to the first third or so of a story, so this might instead be the first turning point in the plot.)

Kephart has created a lyrical, beautiful story about a young woman at a turning point, struggling to reconcile her choices, find her place in the world and discover the true meaning of family.

The last word on animals in stories for adults however, is perhaps owed to Franz Kafka, famous for turning his main character into an insect, as in the novella Metamorphosis, but also someone with a little known penchant for writing short stories with a non-human point of view.

-LSB-...] sheet is break down of what happens in a story and when (inciting incident, turning points, ect.).

As he has with stunning effect in his previous books, McCullough tells the story from within — from the point of view of the amazing eighteenth century and of those who, caught up in events, had no sure way of knowing how things would turn out.