Sentences with phrase «very human story»

I am sure he'll tell a very human story.

This little film, with it's very human story, was launched in time for Pickle's arrival at South By Southwest where it started with 30 users and left a few days later with 30,000...

Valkyria Revolution tells a very human story about war.

He speaks a very human story, full of regret and remorse for lost loved ones.

For a game filled with anthropomorphic animals, Ni No Kuni 2 tells a very human story.

«A very human story... a fine read focusing on the long lasting dysfunction of family.»

Landfalls is also a very human story.

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

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.

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.

The characters in this film are compelling and entertaining and because of them and the choice to use the shrinking aspect of the story as a jumpboard rather than an isolated boat with nowhere to go, this allows a very human story to shine through an unrealistic story mechanism.

Above all, it's a very human story and a very well - told one — which, in the end, makes it very hard to forget.

This is a very human story, and if you can invest yourself in it from the start, you may find yourself enjoying it as much as I did.

Taking a real - life story that is complicated and unsettling, Steven Spielberg uses all of his technical prowess to propel the narrative but also allows this very human story to touch the audience on a personal level.

Biomedical engineer Madhavan delivers an accessible and very human story of innovators, from Alfred Hitchcock's thought process crafting The Birds to a father motivated by grief to improve emergency response times.

A very human story about the history of the Peaberry coffee bean.

«Bennett has become a master of storytelling through character, and while there are clearly no people in these films, it was clearly a very human story, which we knew a director such as Bennett would zero in on and draw out very real human - like emotions from these poor inanimate objects,» Lennon said.

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

Not exact matches

And we feel like that's a very universal human story that we're trying to tap in to.

«Not blind optimism, not one that ignores the scale and scope of our challenges, but that hard - earned optimism, that's rooted in the stories of very real progress that have occurred throughout human history.»

The coverage of and commentary on these and similar stories has everything to do with profitability and very little to do with the advancement of social health and human wholeness.

I know of Christians who care deeply about genocide and human trafficking and refugees and hunger... but who speak with disdain about the very reporters who so often bring these stories to light.

In Tangled, the Walt Disney Company's new animated, feature - length, 3 - D adaptation of «Rapunzel,» critic Armond White finds, sadly, that the story of the girl with the very long locks not only «has been amped up from the morality tale told by the Brothers Grimm into a typically overactive Disney concoction of cute humans, comic animals, and one - dimensional villains,» but also that the film's «hyped - up story line... gives evidence that cultural standards have undergone a drastic change» in the decades since Walt Disney first set out to charm both children and adults with his animated retellings of fairy tales.

If we engage in the «de-mythologizing» of the Revelation to St. John the Divine, as we must also «de-mythologize» the creation stories in the book Genesis in the Old Testament, we realize that what is being said is that as human existence and the world in which that existence is set has its origin in the circumambient, everlasting, faithful Love that is nothing other than God — we recall Wesley's hymn, quoted a few paragraphs back, that «his nature and his Name is Love», and Dante's great closing line in The Divine Comedy about «the Love that moves the sun and the other stars» — so also the «end» toward which all creaturely existence moves is that very same Love.

For Bergson, like many process thinkers (Peirce, James and Dewey come particularly to mind), the entire concept of «necessity» only makes sense when applied internally to abstractions the intellect has already devised.11 Of course, one can tell an evolutionary story about how the human intellect came to be a separable function of consciousness that emphasizes abstraction (indeed, that is what Bergson does in Creative Evolution), but if one were to say that the course of development described in that story had to occur (i.e., necessarily) as it did, then one would be very far from Bergson's view (CE 218, 236, 270).

Rather, it is in the very manner in which he develops and emphasizes the distinctiveness of the Christian story — focusing on its own internal criteria for truth without reference to publicly accessible criteria of common human experience and rational inquiry — and the relation between the church and the world.

In the Koran there is very little in the way of story material, most of it is made up of the forthright commands of Ali, or directives for the conduct of human affairs in the Theocracy, or poetic expressions of religious insight given to the prophets.

To Ken Margo: I am totally agree with you about this evil thing going around the earth... this evil minded people is there everywhere regardless of faith... that was not what i was trying to say... my point was to be able to recognize the One True God who is Unseen and who has no partners as He is not in need of any partners but we the creation is in need of Him... thats all... I wish I could do something to stop all these taking place around the earth... I think we human fear the fed laws more than we fear the laws of our Creator, for example not to associate any partner with Him, taking the life of others, drug dealing, human trafficking, believing in hereafter and so on... I remember a story that I was talking with one of my friends... I was telling him look we all obey the law of the land so much like for example when we drive and no one moves even an inch when there is a school bus stop to pick / drop kids as it is a fed laws but when it comes to the laws of our Creator, we don't care... like having physical relationship outside of marriage and many more... then he said something nice... he said that its because we see the consequence of breaking the law of the land but we do not see the punishment of hereafter even though it is mentioned very details in Quran, it even gives pictures of hereafter....

Crites does not claim that reality itself is or has a story, but he places the presence of narrative at the very boundary of human knowing.

The company also has done a great job of telling a human story with a very visible founder appearing frequently in the media to talk about starting his company from nothing.

Ian Wilmut talks about serendipity, shared credit and the messy — and very human — story behind the breakthrough that paved the way for stem cell therapies

The cultural foundations of human language is a story very much in the making, says Daniel Everett, because it must see off notions that language is innate

Despite all its science fiction elements, Prometheus seems like a very human, philosophical story.

The Science Media Centre has produced a summary that sheds some light on why many scientists are increasingly dismayed by Antinori's activities: 1993 A British millionairess (59) gave birth to twins boys after fertility treatment by Dr Antinori, who said «The rich women from England.it's a very good story» 1999 It was reported, to the undisguised scepticism of many fertility experts, that Antinori had found a way of had helping infertile men by taking sperm producing element out of human testes and implanting them in rat testes, so that the rats would produce viable human sperm.

It takes the very human experiences of others and gives them a platform to tell their stories.

Inspired by the classic Batman stories in DC Comics and the revisionist versions of Frank Miller, Alan Moore and others, this Batman tale is very much Burton's and very much centered in the physical world of gravity and human limitations.

It's an underdog story that's a bit formulaic but very well set in its moment, and it tells of a very human experience: though it's about racism - Davis being the first black player to win the Heisman trophy - it's not too heavy - handed, and it's just as much about football, and built on a deep love and understanding of the game.

While this is definitely about animals and right around the world, this is also a very touching human story that cares about relationships and characters.

However i didn't care for the humans, the humour was pretty lame and the story was not very interesting.

Kubrick's sci - fi experiment intended to present its story almost purely with visual imagery and auditory signals with very little communicative human dialogue (similar to what was attempted in the surreal, fragmented, non-narrative imagery of the Qatsi trilogy - from 1983 - 2002, from Godfrey Reggio).

This isn't primarily an adventure story, though it's very suspenseful; it's first and foremost a profoundly sad tale of human frailty.

The human scale of this story about a very real threat to one Norwegian village makes the movie more tragic and also more chilling.

Nicolas Cage and Meg Ryan star in this story of the love between a celestial angel and a very human woman.

At the end of Anthropoid, we're introduced to one of this hidden character that emerges at the very end — who had been there all along in the story too — and isn't a human character, but someone it is given a voice towards the end.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

For all its techno - focus, a very human love story about our need for connection.

But in Midnight Special, he gets a little more cosmic, telling a very human sci - fi story about a concerned father (Michael Shannon) trying to keep his boy (Jaeden Lieberher) away from the Feds, who believe (correctly) that he has special powers.

All very interesting, no doubt, but this film tells its story in stilted fits and starts, and is oddly tasteful and decorous in its treatment of what one presumes was a human triangle born of deep passion.

«The Theory of Everything» is about the power of the human spirit, and while the first half makes for more compelling viewing compared to the generic story beats that encompass Hawking's later years, Redmayne and Jones are so good that even if their performances overshadow the movie itself, it's still very much must - see viewing.

David Cronenberg forges both a wicked social satire and a very human ghost story from today's celebrity - obsessed culture.