Sentences with phrase «twist the story as»

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Failure brings you closer to discovering what works, so instead of calling something a failure, reframe it as a pivot or plot twist in your life story.

The writing is exceptional; the plot constantly twists; the dialog is crisp and clever and never fails to drive the story forward; Damian Lewis is, as always, great; Paul Giamatti is, well, he's Paul Giamatti; the moment Wags, played by David Costabile (the ill - fated Gale Boetticher on Breaking Bad), appears in a scene, you instantly smile with anticipation.

Just to throw another twist into the story, this Neanderthal's mitochondria didn't come from the same group as those belonging to other previously analysed Neanderthal bones.

The story of Detroit as a dystopian wasteland has a certain twisted appeal, at least for those of us who don't live there.

The second time we looked at this, we saw the Findus twist bring new energy to the story and as the chart shows, Tesco's Buzz score — which tracks whether consumers have heard something positive or negative about a brand — went further down and is only showing the very first signs of recovery in the last week.

As they tell it, the Mast Brothers story is a tale of creativity and invention, an American dream with a hipster twist.

The point is what the bible says happened didn't happen as the bible says, and no amount of twisting the story to fit the facts will change that.

However, something as seemingly old - fashioned as fossil science may provide a new twist to this story.

It's a story that, with a few different twists, really could have led to a wretched life and a lonely death, as her grandmother warned.

However, while highlighting the poor quality of life of children in stories such as Oliver Twist and Little Dorrit, authors at that time did not follow today's pro-abortion attitude — namely that it is cruel to let children be born into squalor.

After being abused by my own sister, married to a Methodist minister in Maryland, who both choose to believe the lies, distortions and slander about me based on twisted stories designed to protect the abuser, when the facts are as plain and clear as the sun on their faces... all because they are «in relation» with the abuser, and I should have «kept my truth within the family» and not made it «public.»

But as it stares up, idly sitting there, the stories of «erotic» behavior, twisted ownership and historic encounters are lost on those lucky enough to see it.

As I say, the possible twists and turns of this story are unpredictable, but the story is not going to go away.

Like its predecessors, his new book is layered with statistical quirks and story twists, as the author crafts a compelling and ambitious argument designed to challenge and even change the reader's view of the world.

Yet, Ethan Canin succeeds — as the writers of Breaking Bad did with Walter White — in making us sympathetic to him and keeping us deeply engaged in all the twists and turns of his story.

In the plot of the local church the story of Christ weaves itself throughout the erotic narrative, sometimes accepting and affirming the church's story as it stands (thus linking Christ and Eros), sometimes teasing (or unfolding) the congregational narrative toward the promise of the kingdom, sometimes prophetically contradicting the erotic story by disputing (thus thickening) its development, and sometimes actually transforming congregational culture by twisting its plot.

Anyhow, the base for this salad is a BLT, but as you can see I made a delicious twist and I think the addition of other ingredients makes this salad absolutely amazing, To cut the story short, I hope you all going to enjoy a bowl full of this delicious salad.

The story has taken many twists and turns as detailed in the report above, but now The Sun have claimed that this isn't the first time that Simpson has been involved with a footballer.

The script that was rewriting itself had not finished though, there was one final twist to this story and thank goodness that worked out as a happier ending for the Gunners.

Another day, another big shift in the Jose Mourinho to Manchester United story... Last night, a series of sensational tweets exploded out of Manchester as the highly regarded United forum Red Issue, made some sweeping statements about the twisted power struggle currently going on behind the scenes at Old Trafford.

Sam George's revelation appear to introduce a different twist of the story as it suggests that the purchased vehicles were also included in the list presented to the new government as vehicles available for its use.

As a final dizzying twist to the story, people living on the farm and CFIA investigators recently developed influenza - like illness, says Clark.

This is the latest twist in a story that began in the late 1980s, when Kip Thorne and colleagues at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena suggested that although the construction of a time machine might pose considerable practical difficulties, there is nothing in the laws of physics as understood at present to make such a device an impossibility.

The film, which hits theaters February 16, is a modern twist on a romantic comedy (boy and girl meet, fall in love, but then break up, and are suddenly reunited, ending up in that awkward stage where they have to debate whether to wave hello while taking out the trash), but it's also a particularly female spin on the coming of age story, the likes of which we're only beginning to see onscreen as more women carve out a place for themselves in writer's rooms and director's chairs.

As the story hits its early surprise plot twist, we witness a reflection of America's social collapse with Mr. Megamind overseeing the carnage of infrastructure.

It was a little confusing at first but everything becomes clear as the film progresses, and there's a few twist and turns that make the story really interesting.

So it turns out that it doesn't matter that all the promo material on the film — TV ads, trailers, everything — reveals the story's twist — Lincoln and Jordan and all their fellow citizens aren't survivors of a global disaster but rich people's insurance policies — because all that happens after the secret is revealed is that Bay can finally get down to doing what he loves to do: Stomp and crash and burn and destroy as Lincoln and Jordan escape into the real world — just 20 minutes into our future — and must be recaptured.

As the stakes escalate, Mark Perez's script still organically makes time for the characters» realities, like Max and Annie having trouble conceiving a child, without such story points feeling too forced, and plays on the expectations of thriller plot twists more than once.

«Coco,» which has the twists and turns of the kind of black - and - white melodramas Ernesto starred in, is in some respects as old - fashioned a story as they come about the close bonds of family; the many zestily - drawn characters speak entertainingly to the push and pull of tradition within that bubble and across generations.

And, aside from a conclusion I won't spoil except to say that it plays exactly like the meta - film twist at the end of Altman's THE PLAYER, Spielberg can't resist to inject a Gumpian «brush with history» as then Assistant Attorney General Rehnquist, a future Justice of the Supreme Court, calls to advise Bradlee the publication of the papers is prohibited by the Espionage Act of 1917 — just a beat too late to stop the story going to print.

Despite the rather distracting faux - Russian accents — as also heard in «Child 44» — all the performances are fine, but the story is convoluted to the point of being contorted, and the direction fails to energize the twists of the tale.

Feels like a script that was written backwards, as if the twist ending occurred to [writer - director] Caleo first and he then filled out a story to get to it.

Berg, best known as an actor («The Last Seduction»), brings wit, energy and a twisted kind of joy to a story that's little more than a tasteless anecdote.

There are science fiction films that deal with the subject of time travel and then there is Looper, which comes across as refreshingly original as well as entertaining, with a story full of interesting twists.

All and all, Alice Madness Returns is an exquisite alternative point of view of a classical story, given as a twisted gaming extravaganza.

Director Arthur Penn, at his peak, turned the movie into an ironic blend of twisted love story, dark comedy, caustic social portrait and breezy romantic crime thriller, with Bonnie and Clyde as a pair of deadly innocents, caught up in the poverty of the Depression and the turbulence of the»30s gangster period.

There is an attempt at some sort of twist ending, a la M. Night Shyamalan, but even this adds so very little to the story as a whole, and comes off like a gimmick just to give the film a «big reveal» even if it doesn't really merit one.

One of the best things about Treasure Planet is that it puts several twists on the original story, such as changing the parrot to being an alien called Morph; the crazy Ben Gunn becomes a robot who lost his memory banks; and the alien characteristics imbedded into the familiar characters also loosened its ties to Treasure Island.

Ayer's script, co-written by A Good Day to Die Hard's Skip Woods, isn't as tight, and though there are some twists thrown in late in the story, they're not particularly unexpected.

K is established as a purposefully shallow protagonist, initially meant to serve as the viewers» conduit into future Los Angeles, but several twists and a surprisingly powerful love story, aided by Gosling's subtle performance, make K a unique and heart - breaking hero.

That's why I'm putting it down as essential viewing for anyone who loves rock»n' roll, anyone who ever played in a band, anyone who grew up in the»60s, or anyone who'd simply like to see how a story that starts with one kind of twist — by Joey Dee and the Starliters — can end up six years later on a desolate Hollywood Boulevard with another, leaving us to ponder where music, and we, still might be headed.

Suggesting a period piece version of a film noir saga as envisioned by Stanley Kubrick, this twisted feminist drama is rooted in contentious racial - and gender - warfare issues, employing a meticulous formalism to recount its cutthroat story about Katherine's at - any - cost attempts to attain liberation.

Catching Fire presents mostly the same story as the first film, but speedier and with a slight twist as previous Hunger Games winners Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (the grim - jawed Josh Hutcherson) cause trouble for the capitol of Panem, the post-war-rebellion version of the United States, after their previous victory, which inspires small scale rebellions across the nation, mostly evident via graffiti.

Nash Edgerton (Joel's brother) directs with high energy and clearly relishes very dark humor of the story, with many twists and turns as the various bad guys collide with each other.

Per usual, Banshee's story is full of twists and unexpected connections, as well as its telltale brutal violence.

A familiar story of spies, disloyalty, twists, double - crossing and a nuclear plot to destroy the globe, the movie hops from Berlin to Rome, as Henry Cavill's American spy and Armie Hammer's Eastern Bloc stooge team up, with Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina) in tow.

And as his story twists...

Twist on original: Like Maleficent, this one is conceived as «the story you don't know», so we're guessing it will deal with how the perky pixie became so jealous in the first place.

As such, your liking for the film may come down to how interesting you find the modest twists and turns in the story.

This is the darker one of the two, though it's not as twisted as AI (# 6, 2001), you can definitely see Spielberg slowly starting to mature in these two films, perhaps under the influence of Stanley Kubrick and Philip K. Dick (who wrote the short story this film is based on).