Sentences with phrase «vignettes about»

Sure, it's a shiny, action - packed space romp, but above all else, Mass Effect 2 is an exciting, moving collection of sci - fi vignettes about love and loss.

Wilkes demonstrates the progression in his tape with a series of vignettes about teaching particular behaviors to different puppies and adult dogs.

This illustrated debut collection offers vignettes about her life from a curious and intimate perspective.

A Caldecott Honor Book, this includes three vignettes about the love of three diverse families.

Use Figure 2.1 and the vignettes about these real students to develop your explanation.

The personal vignettes about these six reformers make for interesting reading.

In a process typical of the program, students in the fall of 2004 spent two weeks writing, storyboarding, and illustrating personal vignettes about a notable event in their lives.

This book is a series of poetic vignettes about a young girl growing up in Chicago's Hispanic neighborhoods.

The story of a family seemingly cursed with repeated misfortune, the game is a series of nested vignettes about relatives who once lived in a large, now - abandoned house.

5 Centimeters per Second was a trilogy of vignettes about a couple who loved each other once but where split apart by geography, and their attempts and failures to reconnect over a lifetime.

An Animated World Where: Roxie Theater, 3117 16th St., 415-863-1087 When: Feb. 14, 15 Why: The animated portion of this year's Indiefest features 15 short - length concoctions highlighted by Backwards, Brooklyn cartoonist Aaron Hughes» told - in - reverse love story, and Fuzzy Insides, a series of four stop - motion vignettes about the secret after - hours passions of suburbanites.

In what can only be described as a particularly unique set of casting, Torun's film shuffles across the city with vignettes about a collection of individual moggies, following them around as they roam the streets, finding food, fighting, hunting, battling for attention from humans who aren't so much owners as casual caretakers, and thieving fish from markets and ports.

Meanwhile both the fast - talking, unreliable Billy and the slow - speaking, quietly menacing Hans feed ideas to Marty, little vignettes about revenge - seeking psychos of the sort that fascinate Tarantino.

Gael Garcia Bernal and Mia Wasikowska are among the six international directors whose vignettes about various aspects of love make up the anthology film «Madly.»

The dreaded «interactive map» leads to brief HiDef vignettes about the production's various locations narrated by a nameless fellow with specialized knowledge in the gentrification of Los Angeles, while «Worthy Adversaries: What's My Line Trivia» turns quoting Lebowski into a competitive sport.

8:00 pm — TCM — Radio Days This essentially plotless Woody Allen film consists of a series of nostalgic vignettes about a 1940s working class New York family.

Aptly named Max Youngman (Keith Poulson), a saucy steakhouse waiter on the outskirts of Everycity, USA, is the puckish Peter Pan type at the center of the film's sweetly ironic, loosely strung - together vignettes about life and love.

Five vignettes about LA women who are connected only by the film's poetic story - telling.

His new film, screening in the Un Certain Regard section of the festival, combines his skills at narrative and documentary filmmaking to create a brutal mockumentary of loosely connected vignettes about the propaganda - and conflict - riddled Donbass region in eastern Ukraine.

He focuses on five different organs — the stomach, the liver, the spleen, the heart, and the uterus — interspersing each chapter with vignettes about his own adventures with these body parts.

With sly wit and boyish wonder, Kean's vignettes about key events in the understanding of air include numerous entertaining detours, such as the work of «William McGonagall, probably the worst poet who ever lived,» and Le Pétomane, a flatulence artist.

The biggest publishing news of recent years has been Everyday Saints (literally translated, Unholy Holy People), in which Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov), head of Sretensky Monastery and reputed spiritual counselor to President Putin, offers a series of vignettes about his journey from Marxist atheism into Orthodox monasticism.

Also in the article, Markwell provided a strange vignette about spotting his wife in conversation at a party.

But I refuse to start with a vignette about college coeds hooking up in a frat..

Valeriya Safronova describes the video as a «six - and - a-half-minute phantasmagoric vignette about shifting perspectives, set to an original track by Thom Yorke, best known as the lead singer of Radiohead.

Outdated «Sneak Peeks» are available for Beauty and the Beast: Special Edition, Cinderella II: Dreams Come True, The Hunchback of Notre Dame II, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Tarzan & Jane, 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure, and «Magic Happens» — a touching little vignette about a boy giving his father a Pooh plush to take with him on a business trip so he won't be lonely.

Read the vignette about Alesha and make a list of what a proficient reader does.

Read the vignette about Allewan Regional Middle School and discuss how Allewan Middle School allocated and reallocated its resources to support literacy.

Read the vignette about Ralph Dearden and make a list of all the things he did to create a literacy - rich school.

Read the vignette about Washington High School and list the ways that Washington High School used data to make instructional decisions.

Read the vignette about Christine Quinn and list the things that she did to begin a literacy initiative in her school district.

Read the vignette about Mike Dennis and discuss ways in which Ms. Rundel and others supported a new teacher to integrate literacy and learning.

Read the vignette about Madison High School and list the things that this literacy team does to promote literacy development in the school.

Read the vignette about Ms. Dean and make a list of the actions that teachers can take to support the literacy development of all students.

Read the vignette about Jalma Baker and make a list of the things that Jalma did to help everyone in the school get on board for the literacy initiative.

This quote was a line sung in a vignette about teacher leadership at the third -LSB-...]

After watching the video vignette about the NYC Leadership Academy, viewers might discuss the questions below.

Shot through the windows of his Union Square penthouse studio, it shows 24 hours of New York's skyline in the span of about 30 minutes and is interspersed with other short videos: an improbably hilarious vignette about Warhol and the Pope, a sizzlingly entertaining one about Gloria Vanderbilt and one about Sept. 11 that brought me to the verge of tears.

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Think about creating vignettes or little scenes to place your product or service in that gives that audience a sense of how they might use them.

In these three vignettes of the church confronting the world, we are forced to think anew about what we Christians have to offer and how it can be offered in a pluralistic, increasingly alienated and empty world.

The Pulitzer board wrote this about his album DAMN: «A virtuosic song collection, unified by its vernacular authenticity and rhythmic dynamism that offers affecting vignettes capturing the complexity of modern African - American life.»

When U.S. News & World Report ran a story in 1996 about the decline of civility, it opened with what it must have considered the man - bites - dog vignette — an account of a classroom where young people were taught to be polite.

Whittaker Chambers, he says, was «wrong, wrong, wrong»; one chapter's vignette has a character who appears to be a caricature of Hannah Arendt, and the character is pronounced a «fraud»; he thinks that if Hitler had been assassinated the Germans would have revived their stab - in - the - back theory, which would rankle again for years to come; and then there is that business about the death of a civilization, of which more presently.

Through these appearances, we've had the opportunity to know what resonated for people, what they were most curious about, and those are the vignettes and issues we addressed in the book.

But politics is about mobilizing people, not just about raising money, and a few weeks ago we got this vignette:

While unconscious race and social class biases were present in most trauma and acute - care clinicians surveyed about patient care management in a series of clinical vignettes, those biases were not associated with clinical decisions, according to a report published online by JAMA Surgery.

Clearer, but less dramatic, evidence for overdiagnosis comes from a 2012 study in which psychologist Katrin Bruchmüller of the University of Basel and her colleagues found that when given hypothetical vignettes of children who fell short of the DSM - IV diagnosis, about 17 percent of the 1,000 mental health professionals surveyed mistakenly diagnosed the kids with ADHD.

A unique blend of satires, vignettes, fictional book reviews, science articles and journalism, Nature Futures offers an eclectic mix of ideas and attitudes about the future.

This year's course, which takes place July 27 - 31 in ISB's conference facility, will offer a few new features, including lightning talks about systems biology technologies and a mini symposium consisting of research vignettes from nine ISB researchers.

«A virtuosic song collection unified by its vernacular authenticity and rhythmic dynamism that offers affecting vignettes capturing the complexity of modern African - American life,» the Pulitzer board wrote about his album, DAMN.