Sentences with phrase «usual stories about»

Usual stories about people walking across the Thames.

However, while the Slider taking to the front seat is a nice and welcome change to the usual stories about the tablet's launch getting pushed back again and again, what we... [Read more...]

Not exact matches

And rigorous realism requires going far beyond the usual generalities; for the natural man fools himself about fact, can not bear to look at a situation as it is, invents stories to cover up reality.

And it reminded me of having read about Toscano's play about people in the Bible who do not fit the usual gender binary http://www.petersontoscano.com/transfigurations… so perhaps some stories did get told, though in ways that are hidden to those not open to seeing.

It's been a long road to get to this point, a story Bev opens up and talks about with her usual humor and unusual candor (which made me love her even more) and we can all only IMAGINE what will be going on in the Weidner household once those babies hit the threshold.

Media is full of horse $ hit as usual (see the story they made about Ozil) and whoever listen to them deserves plenty the same $ hit they consume everyday.

As usual a wonderfully informative and honest story from you about your growing family through open adoption.

And when journalists do a story about the topic, you always see that they go to the «usual suspects» to get the fringe side, and, for the counter-point, they call their local OB office.

It's so fun to see who relates to my funny stories lol This post was so different compared to my usual everything sequins and beads hah I'll never forget the battles my mom and I would have about tights - gosh I hated them Hope you have a great weekend as well!!

The cast is solid as usual but that doesn't really make much difference, its all about the stories and apart from the final one its all very drab.

The Lehane story, about a noble, good - guy Boston gangster in love and war and bootlegging, spins variations on the usual Tommy - gunning melees and cheap manipulations to keep the protagonist, a dull man portrayed dully by Affleck, in our good graces.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

«Happy Feet» is a familiar story about a wee outsider forced to struggle against the usual odds and misguided adults to discover his inner penguin.

Itís a routine but darker - than - usual story for a musical, about minor conflicts between farmers and cowboys, a couple of young lovers, and the obsessive farmhand who wants the girl for himself.

Earlier today, we already got the very first details about the characters and the story of Shin Megami Tensei IV Final, thanks to the usual leaks from Famitsu.

Based on two short stories (it shows) from Toronto - born author Craig Davidson, the film puts itself squarely in the specious Paul Haggis tradition of the crisscrossing tragedy but keeps the stakes pretty low much of the time, mostly sparing us the usual tortured hymns about how we're all connected at some primal level.

He devised the story — about a Niagara Falls couple (Ryan Reynolds and Mireille Enos) whose young daughter is abducted and held prisoner for eight years by a foppish psychopath (Kevin Durand)-- and his screenplay, co-written with TV - movie vet David Fraser, employs his usual structural gamesmanship, leaping to and fro in time and withholding crucial details.

The film's nominal story involves a terminally ill mother, a corpse found floating in the ocean, and a tentative teen romance; as usual, though, Kawase is mostly interested in having these characters speak her ideas aloud, handing them endless turgid dialogue about nature, death, and the link between the two.

But still, as usual we have a few questions about certain story points and character decisions.

It's a routine but darker - than - usual story for a musical, about minor conflicts between farmers and cowboys, a couple of young lovers, and the obsessive farmhand who wants the girl for himself.

For starters, it's a lot more uplifting than most sci - fi fare, eschewing the usual doom - mongering for a story about the power of optimism and perseverance that also doubles as one heckuva recruitment video for NASA.

Leading the pack is an audio commentary by director Ron Howard that is both informative and insightful, while the in - depth making - of featurette covers all of the usual details (casting, production design and costumes) as well as a few behind - the - scenes stories about the cast regarding their work on the film.

Only the Strong Survive is a 25 - minute making of that avoids the usual clichs by focusing more on the story and the characters, and through comments from the cast and crew, we learn more about how the film came together.

This week our humanities - class collaborators chose their usual eclectic mix of Times stories to read and write about.

Maureen Rover was having her usual coffee and muffin for breakfast one morning in the late 1990s when a newspaper story about New York City state test scores caught her attention.

That sorry circumstance is captured in the story about a writer who came home much earlier than usual to find his wife in bed with his literary agent.

This highly creative story and firmly grounded landscape, combined with a familiar culture of bureaucratic red tape and politics - as - usual, creates a remarkable debut, one that speaks to — and about — our present state of affairs, as well as our wildest imaginations.

Her most recent work, The Artist of Disappearance, is a collection of three novellas set in the India of the not - too - distant past, written with Desai's usual elegance and cool sympathy.The first two stories are about individuals who hover at the edges of...

After encouraging the students to respond to the story (and the friendship that transcends race), talk about how the words are arranged on the page, particularly in contrast with the usual format for text in picture books.

In fact, it provided us some thing to cheer about from the usual tablet story of the iPad leading in every possible manner while the rest to play a catch up game.

It's a two - volume series about a vengeful guy with invisible skin described as «darker than Tezuka's usual fare... a thriller suspense revenge story that touches on the dark side of humanity and the extent one would go to get even.»

When conditions are usual and price action dulls down past the first couple of hours following successful trades, share your stories about profitable mornings and improving golf scores in the afternoon.

With new stories about flea and tick preventives available, are you rethinking your usual strategy?

Once a year, I like to take a column off from the usual education, rants and opinions I am so full of and take a breather to tell amusing stories about creatures and their people.

With combat designed from the ground up with new weapons and allies in mind, a story about learning and adapting combined with the usual Sony first - party polish.

A story about revenge and bomb flinging — lots of bomb flinging in fact — Bombslinger has taken the old school bombing genre and turned it on its head, throwing in a procedurally generated, character progression fuelled solo player mode in alongside your usual multiplayer options.

Just tack those onto the agenda right after the grousing about the always - online DRM, the usual Blizzard story, the mismanaged ingame economy, and how unfair [insert name of the hardest mode you've unlocked] is.

This weeks episode of the Rambler is here, Episode 21, includes all the gaming stuff we have been doing, including games such as, Shadows of War, South Park, Mario Odyssey, and a simply amazing story about the very much talked about Fornite We also have our usual rambler stuff, Follow on twitter, @tozol, @rikki32 All this and much more in this......

This weeks Cranky Gamers UK is here, with episode 438, with gaming slowing down regarding top releases, we still have a show with the usual CGUK stuff in it, crazy stories this week as usual, and the games we do have, are Crackdown, Burnout, Fornite, and Rikki tells us about a game he has played this week that may surprise you.

One of the very first things you notice about Final Fantasy VII's story is that it won't be the usual hero's journey that you're used to in RPGs.

Minecraft Story Mode hasn't taken all that long to return, if you think about the usual gap between TellTale seasons.

As is usual with most stories about Microsoft's sales figures and performance, a spokesperson attempted to redirect the conversation over to the fact that Xbox Live monthly active users were up by 13 %, bringing the total to 59 million.

This is going to be a story about deception, manipulation and some fantastical magic as usual.

On a related tangent, at The Escapist, Brendan Main opines about the brilliance of super villain «Psycho Mantis» from the Metal Gear Solid series, saying that: «The genius of Mantis as a villain is that he gets to rise above the usual cadre of Metal Gear Solid's half - vampires and nano - solidiers, to see the story for what it is.

Of course we know far too little about chaos - driven climate processes to be sure about this, since the lion's share of research funding is squandered on the usual narrow linear stories.

If there are multiverses that are in fact coupled — quantum bundles of universes, that sort of thing (which is the basis of my story, it being a bit boring to write about a world where the Lord of the Rings Universe really exists as a parallel Universe, only you can't get there from here or ever prove it — then perhaps we might one day be able to demonstrate this, but in the meantime the question is more science fiction or fantasy than something to believe or disbelieve in very strongly, with the usual rational default: Lack of belief pending positive evidence!

I have been getting emails from people that have lived around the world over the past month telling me stories about snow falling much later in the year that usual.

So usually I try to tell some humorous stories about how we started, how we didn't have any training and we're not your usual business people.

I don't see in this story any concern about the hearsay nature of the evidence — like that of any website, pretty well, surely — though that might depend on the use being made of it (i.e. the usual rules about what hearsay is and when it might be used anyway would apply.)

As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.