Sentences with phrase «with grand stories»

They always come back with grand stories of gnarly tubes, narrowly escaping killer sharks and recently one Gisele Bündchen sighting in Costa Rica.

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«It's like the old days when you went to a grand bazaar; you connect with someone, hear their story and understand why they're making their craft.»

In my family, we see life as a series of grand stories that simply must be populated with larger - than - life characters.

In any event, those who during most of the twentieth century were weaving statistics and theories into a grand and confidently told story of the secularization of the world are now having to cope with a quite different story that seems to be writing itself.

In the meantime, I hope you will join me in welcoming Don's words with the love and goodwill of fellow sojourners called into the much grander story of God's redeeming work in the world.

(Gabriel Fackre, The Christian Story [Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1978] 198) In Jesus, the vision of God becomes incarnate in our world and history, and in our obedience to and conformity with Jesus» Lordship and the power of his Spirit, we cooperate in keeping the vision alive in our midst.

Some highlights included hanging out with the ladies of Truett Seminary, dancing to «Call Me Maybe» with the youth of the United Methodist Virginia Conference, getting the chance be Nadia Bolz - Weber's roommate at Wild Goose West, and getting the grand tour of Chicago, complete with pizza, during STORY 2012.

By a miracle I am able to tell you the story of my grand crime for which they threatened me with death.

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Set 27 stories up in the heart of Downtown Grand Rapids, Cygnus27 delivers a Latin - inspired dining experience and sophisticated cocktail lounge with panoramic views of the Grand River and surrounding cityscape.

Set 27 stories up in the heart of Downtown Grand Rapids, Cygnus27 delivers a Latin - inspired menu and sophisticated cocktail lounge with panoramic views of the Grand River and surrounding cityscape.

The curved, half - moon design of the hotel catches eyes along the corridor with an iconic grand entrance that's open air, three stories high and over 300 ft. above sea level.

The half - moon design of the hotel is eye - catching and functional, maintaining the ocean vista as the prime focal point, with the three - story high open - air grand entrance having that same effect — drawing your eye right to the royal blue ocean ebbing and flowing in the not - so - far distance.

A father and baby bunny are trying to out - do one another with grand professions of their love for one another in this story.

The story is threaded with Bloomberg's desire to do something bigger, if not the presidency (which is clearly not in the cards) then something else on a grand scale.

«Taylor lied to a federal grand jury and, together with others, concocted a story that blamed the victim — who had serious physical ailments — for starting an altercation with correction officers,» U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement.

Correction Officer Byron Taylor, 32, helped other officers cover up the true nature of Spear's death by coming up with a fake story that made Spear look like the instigator, filing false Use of Force reports with the Department of Correction and repeatedly lying to the Bronx District Attorney's Office, DOC investigators and a federal grand jury said.

At 250,000 square feet and 10 stories high, the train hall with be 50 percent bigger than the existing Penn Station across the street, and larger than Grand Central Terminal, which has 233,000 square feet, according to Cuomo.

Although it bears traces of the conventional family drama, in its story of two estranged sisters — one a chaotic boozehound at the sharp end of a tragedy, the other a buttoned - up scientist who can't communicate with her son — its focus is much grander.

Senckenberg will celebrate its 200 - year success story with a colorful program consisting of numerous events, specially designed exhibitions and a grand museum party in the fall.

I touch on my recent Grand Solar Minimum debunking videos; on a new book that I am reading by Hector MacDonald called «Truth; How the Many Sides to Every Story Shape Our Reality», and also on Cambridge Analytica's successful hacking of democracy based on deep and dark manipulations of the on average 5,000 data points on each persons Facebook profile that they illegally hijacked from a Russian psychologist; as exposed by the guy from Canada with pink hair.

Today handed me a nearly - too - full plate of To - do's and classes and meetings and rehearsals, so it's only fitting that it brings a grand finale — Part 3 of my Love Story with the now fiancé!

Play Download: Going on a successful date with Schternvart's character model can be seen on the movie posters for the films The Mainframe and Silent But Violent in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories.

It isn't that playfulness has no place even in the grandest of stories, but Rowling's world of pointy hats, nosebleed nougat, and Latin - language shouting had a hard time supporting the weight she tried to place in it — as a result, she resorted to writing much of Deathly Hallows with caps lock on.

Hogwarts, the school of witchcraft and wizardry, s a celebration of the public school system with its houses, grand dining halls and traditional games as codified for lower - class kids in the early 20th century by Frank Richards in his stories about Greyfriars and St Jim's in the Magnet and the Gem.

For all the Hollywood obsession with high - concept and special effects, sometimes there's something enchanting about a simple story simply told, and a movie of small rather than grand gestures.

It's perhaps limited as it's focused toward amusement and tallying up the endings versus telling some kind of grand, cryptic story with it.

Easy, it was shot in 35 mm Technicolor, has been newly - preserved with an 8K resolution (7680x4320 pixels) digital master, and tells a classic story in grand fashion.

After making his name with three independent films in Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter and Mud, director Jeff Nichols approaches his fourth feature with a bigger budget, making it his first studio production and allowing him to operate on a slightly more ambitious and grander scale.

Yes, this film was made before all of these allegation stories made their way into the public eye, but I, Tonya deals with this particular notion in a very grand fashion.

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Blame the picture's settings, various brightly - lit exteriors and contemporary environments (office buildings, college campuses)-- even when the movie is in a grand old house, our aged heroes» Chow - duh Society huddled together in pools of shadow, scaring each other with spooky stories, the joke seems to be that someone is always turning on the lights.

At the film festival: Bruce LaBruce's subversive masterpiece, Gerontophilia, a lovely rom - com in which everybody fucks one another across all age and gender borders — desire shall bind us together; Juno Mak's Rigor Mortis, a touching albeit grim look at loss and damnation in the form of a Chinese hopping - vampire movie, with many a nod to the subgenre's clichés and conventions; Jealousy, Philippe Garrel's latest tale of love ground down by the mill of daily life, raw and naked even by his ascetic standards; Hayao Miyazaki's troublesome The Wind Rises, which frames the story of a fighter - plane designer as a grand romance of struggle and failure, with animation's supreme living master contemplating the price mankind can sometimes pay in the name of one dreamer's self - fulfillment, and the willful blindness and egocentricity it takes to realize one's vision; and finally to Yorgos Lanthimos's Necktie and Athina Rachel Tsangari's 24 Frames Per Century, their contributions to the Venice 70: Future Reloaded omnibus, not to mention the untitled pieces by Jean - Marie Straub, Monte Hellman, Amit Dutta, and Haile Gerima.

Much of the story centers on the smothering and painfully pretentious art world the trio inhabit and skewers the artistic community's grand delusions of changing the world with impenetrable academic theory, which makes the show sound unbearably dry.

John Wick: Chapter 2 La La Land A Brave Heart: The Lizzie Velasquez Story A Most Violent Year Adult Beginners Adventures of Power Afternoon Delight Alex of Venice All The Light In The Sky Amy Animal Kingdom Attenberg Avengers: Age of Ultron Bad Turn Worse Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest Bellflower Big Game Birdman Black Blue Ruin Blue Valentine Bones Brigade: An Autobiography Boyhood Brick Mansions Butter C.O.G. Ceremony Charlie Countryman Child of God Cop Car CXL Dark Places Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes Deadfall Don Jon Don't Think Twice Drive Dumb and Dumber To Embers Escape from Tomorrow Foxcatcher Frank Miller's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For Fubar: Balls to the Wall Fury Godzilla Going the Distance Gone Girl Grey Gardens Gridlocked Guardians of the Galaxy Holy Motors Holy Rollers Hungry Hearts Hunt for the Wilderpeople I Am Chris Farley Imperial Dreams In the Blood Inherent Vice Inside Out Iris Jack Goes Boating Jackass 3 Jersey Boys Joan Rivers: A Piece Of Work Joe Jurassic World Just Jim Kaboom Kill the Irishman Klovn: The Movie (Klown) Let Me In Liberal Arts Life Itself Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow Lola Versus Louder Than a Bomb Lucy LUV Mad Max: Fury Road Maggie Man of Steel Maps to the Stars Melancholia Men, Women, & Children Miami Connection Middle of Nowhere My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn Nature Calls Nightcrawler Nighthawks Oddsac One & Two Only God Forgives Peep World Pincus Pricecheck Prince Avalanche Rabbit Hole Raze Robot & Frank Rosewater Rubber Rudderless San Andreas Save the Date Scream 4 Sleepwalk With Me Smashed Snowpiercer Somewhere Southpaw Spring Breakers Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens Submarine Sun Don't Shine Take Shelter Take This Waltz Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Terminator Genisys The Amazing Spider - Man The Bastard Sings The Sweetest Song The Cold Lands The Comedy The Equalizer The Expendables 3 The Fault in Our Stars The Gambler The Girl The Girlfriend Experience The Grand Budapest Hotel The Hateful Eight The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 The Kids Are All Right The Kings of Summer The One I Love The Raid The Rambler The Revenant The Rover The Second Mother (Que Horas Ela Volta?)

In watching this movie, you get the feeling that Braff set out, not to tell a story, but with the grand intentions of making us feel.

Winner of the 2015 Grand Jury Documentary prize at Sundance this past January, this film — produced and edited by women, and with a mostly - female crew — tells the story of the six young Angulo brothers, who were raised in New York City with little to no contact with the outside world.

Story Dominates Over Spectacle Take a step back to consider the nominees as a whole, and you'll see that this year's selections have placed a greater emphasis on character - driven stories with big ideas over grander, more technically accomplished directorial visions.

And though Akira seems like an even darker story, with its dystopian techno - horror themes and grand - scale action, Waititi has proved that he knows how to dig for the humanity of movies big and small.

If it is indeed his final work, it's a fitting one that's in keeping with the actor's career of telling stories of grand, often larger - than - life men whose self - identity clashes with, and often destroys, their relationships.

There's no central figure, Story instead using her snapshots of different individuals to suggest something grander — namely, Americans» inescapable entanglement with their country's prison system.

The Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic was presented to Fruitvale, directed by Ryan Coogler — The true story of Oscar, a 22 - year - old Bay Area resident who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family and strangers on the last day of 2008.

Alice and Simon represent different interactions teachers can have with their pupils, highlighting a major story current running beneath the film's grander themes of loss and immigration, modern teaching.

Grander in scope than any previous film in the series, the story spends most of its first 45 minutes globetrotting to catch us with all the key characters, and introducing us to the new ones, including the young Jean, Scott and Kurt, played winningly by Sophie Turner, Tye Sheridan and Kodi Smit - McPhee, respectively.

The story begins with Captain Sir John Lindsay (Matthew Goode), who fathered a daughter — Dido Elizabeth — with an African slave woman he rescued from a Spanish ship, taking that daughter from the slums where she's been living with her mother — now deceased — to the grand estate owned by his uncle, Lord Mansfield (Tom Wilkinson, excellent as always), who just happens to be the Lord Chief Justice of England.

As was the case with Beginners, he loves putting the personal in historical context, which makes the simple story feel grand.

But then Jackson isn't interested in a faithful interpretation of Tolkien's novel as much as backfilling a prequel story to The Lord of the Rings, transforming the novel's story of legacy and destiny warped into greed and hubris, a grand fantasy adventure with dragons and trolls and Shakespearean dimensions, into the initial stirrings of the evil Sauron and a war that will engulf the world and all the races.

Best Pictures «Argo» can orbit with Wings, Grand Hotel, Mutiny on the Bounty, The Life of Emile Zola, Mrs. Miniver, All the King's Men, An American in Paris, From Here to Eternity, Marty, Gigi, Ben - Hur, West Side Story, Tom Jones, My Fair Lady, A Man for All Seasons, In the Heat of the Night, Oliver!

The story of an artist living an idyllic life by the sea, whose philosophies are shaken to the core by the (implied) onset of World War III, the film winds its way to a grand conclusion, an image of humble apocalypse that, more than glimpses of the tragedies of war or the destruction of a nuclear holocaust, will stay with you for a lifetime.

Boxer's life allows the player to take their other characters in various story - driven matches with a variety of cut scenes to keep things interesting that lead you to the grand finale.