Sentences with phrase «very human one»

With this opening line of Naslund's compelling new novel, a very human Marie Antoinette invites readers to live her story as she herself experiences it.

Landfalls is also a very human story.

In writing, our book characters will benefit from engaging in that very human behaviour, and make them easier to relate to.

A unique setting and a very human heroine make this a good recommendation for readers seeking an alternative to the urban whodunit.»

I found him to be a very human character.

Possessing both superhuman strengths and very human weaknesses, these creatures present an interesting paradox, much like the region they inhabit.

Read this book for the audacious and brave perspective that McKeon shines on our very human vulnerabilities.

But Canadian author Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven brings a breath of fresh air to the genre with her fourth novel, a beautiful and deeply felt story that uses its dystopian setting to explore our very human need for shared culture, art and stories.

These supernatural characters are grounded by the novel's detailed and vibrant setting in 1899 New York City, which teems with a host of very human characters, from rich socialites to resourceful immigrants.

Simonson's comedy of manners charms with its lovable and very human characters, as well as its wry wit and wisdom.

A thoughtful, poignant novel that explores the creation of Artificial Intelligence - illuminating the very human need for communication, connection, and understanding.

The delivery of this story gave it a very human feeling.

provide many light moments; the courtroom scene is pure farce; we discover the origin of Grace's obsession with shoes; we learn more about Fanwell's background; Grace's musings on physical and mental comfort are worth consideration, as is the concept of the guilt - free sofa; Mma Ramotswe's inner monologue is full of gentle philosophy and it was a lovely surprise for the reader to meet the much - quoted (and apparently very human) Clovis Anderson.

Because you have to relate to the characters on a very human level.

But as I said in my comment, the point of social media is to engage with people on a very human -LSB-...]

Viciously maligned by the western press of the time as the «Dragon Lady,» a manipulative, blood - thirsty woman who held onto power at all costs, the woman Min gives us is a compelling, very human leader who assumed power reluctantly, and who sacrificed all she had to protect those she loved and an empire that was doomed to die.

- Publishers Weekly «Kogan has crafted a cast of characters who are relevant, authentic, and very human.

You can bet that somewhere, in the deep, dark recesses of a bank data processing center, there sits and waits a very human, if not green - eyeshaded, financial analyst to whom problem cases are brought for sleuthing and reconciliation.

On the flip side, though she was very human, she also had few flaws and she never felt quite as real to me as Dennon did.

McDougall (right) went on to honor storytelling as a very human need, something as natural as breathing.

Woke Up Lonely is an original and deeply funny novel that explores our very human impulse to seek and repel intimacy with the people who matter to us most.

It demands an acceptance that in this very human endeavor, objective measures are not always possible and even when they can be applied, they can only measure a fraction what we want schools to accomplish.

Be assured that policymakers also feel this very human need.

The goal is a very human goal.»

Obviously, one plausible answer was almost certainly the very human ability to empathise with another, visibly fragile human being, who was having some difficulties.

He gave me a very human introduction to the art and science of research.

So step back, breathe, and observe your emotional reactions to the threats to your well being, property or status, and the very human desire to be «right» and to punish the «wrong».

Jim and Dawn sent fifty film crews, both pro and student, into the twenty - eight schools in Pasadena, California to paint an intimate, and very human, portrait of a day in the life of an American public school district.

This is representative of an age of foolishness in which the sacrifices are made by learners who desire and need to learn, but see no motivation in learning that stems from curiosity and a very human love of learning.

They're all examples of ways that a growing number of educators — in school and out, at libraries, museums and other cultural institutions, at home and at community gatherings — are engaging in making things and leveraging the learning associated with that very human impulse to create.

For better or worse, Anomalisa is a very human experience that follows a regular British chap on a business trip to Cincinnati.

But he's also a human being with very human problems.

High - profile murders like Ramsey's often provoke gawking, callous media treatment, turning us all into rubberneckers, but Casting JonBenet vigorously works against that tendency, fascinated by our psychological need to judge other people's lives, but also deeply mournful, even respectful, of the very human reasons why we do so.

Under the cleverness is a very human and humble story of growing up, and Page is engaging and energetic and palpably vulnerable under her self - possessed eccentricity.

At this moment, though he is a god with incredible powers and more than a thousand years under his belt, Thor's reaction was very human.

The teaser promises an atmospheric, terrifying tale, and showcases Garland's skill for blending the bizarre and the very human.

In most of his films, Roeg treats this very human tendency with bleak fatalism, but here it seems almost heroic.

His torments are neither cosmic nor epic but they are very human and seem random and undeserved.

His quietly ambitious films and very human stories manage to reach his audience on a level that few filmmakers can even aspire to.

This schism yields a lot of very human texture.

As I said before, it all feels very human and personal.

The strangest and most uncompromising of all musician biopics, Jean - Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet's 1968 debut feature, The Chronicle Of Anna Magdalena Bach disregards most conventions of costume drama to ask some very human questions about history, what it takes to be an artist, and what movies can tell us about ourselves.

A very human movie and one of the best remembrances of what it's actually like to be a kid.

-- Matt P. [LOVED] FIVE NIGHTS IN MAINE A very human story.

a dark, gritty, emotionally resonant film and despite the mutant element, it is very human with searing dialogue that hammers home the emotion of the film and the characters within it.

In telling her story, screenwriter Steven Rogers spent time with both Harding and Gillooly and utilizes their different versions of the events to tell a funny, insightful and very human story.

Every slip - up that Dwight makes, failing to cover his tracks, acting in a way that places others in danger, and basically diagramming a way for the killer's family to find him, comes from a very human moment.

It took a premise that could very easily go in the wrong direction (see Tim Burton's 2001 attempt) and anchored it with a very human story that just happened to be acted out by apes.

And though Henri and John are aliens, they still bleed very human - looking blood when they are injured during hand - to - hand combat.

Mr. Hooper does a remarkable job of creating a very human drama out of a historical period and event.