Sentences with phrase «with less story»

He's proven himself to be a more slack jawed character director than Bill Condon with less story assurance than Rupert Sanders.

There are movies with less story that take 100 days.»

Not exact matches

The day after this story posted, an Amazon spokesman got back with a link to this post by evangelist Jeff Barr which claimed that Amazon cloud customers use 77 % fewer servers and 84 % less power than busineses that run their own data centers.

Instead, try building a relationship with the newer journalists; they are often hungry for stories and are receiving far less cold pitches.

Fill up your feed with motivational quotes, inspiring stories and exciting videos by following some of the latest and greatest in the industry — as well as some lesser - known names.

If you have a less general, more industry - specific announcement like a product launch or a new feature, it might be best to target publications with your story that fit within your industry vertical.

According to research conducted at the University of Toronto, study participants who read short - story fiction experienced far less need for «cognitive closure» compared with counterparts who read nonfiction essays.

According to a story in Bloomberg BusinessWeek, his reasoning goes like this: «Call me opportunistic; I thought I could get better people with less competition because we were willing to understand the skills and capabilities that many of these women had.»

Articles with clickbait headlines are annoying, but they ultimately do far less harm than articles with straightforward headlines but inaccurate information in the story itself.

The way the story goes is that an extended period of calm with steady growth and no recessions, nothing to make you nervous, makes investors less risk - averse, so more risk taking, and not just investors, but their financial intermediaries.

If the results are littered with people telling horror stories of losing their life savings or finishing the programs less knowledgeable than when they started... BEWARE!

With easy growth behind us and waves of uncertainty coming from all sides, investors and businesses seem less assured than before about the prospects of the Canadian growth story.

«Imagine if [the Daniels affair] came out on October 15, 2016, in the middle of the last debate with Hillary Clinton,» he said, apparently under the impression that linking the story to its potential electoral consequences would make the money seem less connected to the election.

Bottom line: Europe is an attractive investment story this year, with a narrative more about valuation and fundamentals, and less about late - cycle euphoria, than in other regions.

Talking snakes, talking donkeys, a boat at sea for half a year with a couple million animals, a temple less than 5000sq feet taking 150,000 workers and 7 years to complete, and then sacrificing 14 animals a minute for 7 days straight, a virgin birth story (like there weren't already a few of them before), a zombie invasion that no third party seemed to witness, a dude living in the belly of a fish for a couple days, a guys last words (before become back as a zombie) being «My god, my god, why hast thou forsaken me.»

Two, the parables of Adam and Eve are for less evolved humans, they're like children's bedtime stories with object lessons.

The genre also allows producers to invest less time in creating new stories and instead focus on retelling the same story over and over, with younger, cheaper, and more aesthetically appealing casts and the occasional newly invented set piece.

Whereas Blankets is a vulnerable coming - of - age and into - doubt story, Habibi» while still a bildungsroman» delves further into the muck of adulthood and back into religion, this time with less hesitation.

The story is interesting, and let me tell you, I resolved to complain a lot less after becoming re-acquainted with Ma and Pa Ingalls.

I know that I've shifted in what I blog over the years — less blogging about my tinies experiences / lives, for instance, less burn - down - the - Internet soapbox rants, less day - in - the - life blogging with simple stories from daily life — but that means that when I do write, it's with more thoughtfulness and intention, I hope.

And so the tale of a Green Knight with his chopped - off head still holding a knight of the Round Table to promises made is no less true than the tale of a man crammed with secrets who spontaneously combusts and leaves behind only a black, tallowy mark on the floorboards, and his story in turn is no less true than the tale of a Texas sharecropper's wife who has had a miscarriage only ten days before but just this morning was walking behind the mule and guiding the jerking plow.

This is less predictable than it may seem, since the prayers aren't from a celebrity evangelical preacher, but from a morbid, quirky Catholic who spent her short life with pet peacocks and wooden - leg - stealing Bible salesman stories.

It wasn't just about the subject matter — although it's tricky to write about such a tender and intimate time in a person's life, to tell your own story while still holding space for stories that are so different than your own, to attempt to shepherd people well in the liminal spaces of their faith journeys — but it was also just the season of life with being pregnant with our fourth and then giving birth and suddenly having four tinies between the ages of 9 and newborn meant I had a lot less time with a lot less energy (and even less sleep!)

So when Kim shared a small piece of her own story about leaving the institutionalized church and connecting to a less traditional community of believers, I mixed the well - meaning, thoughtful critiques in the comment section with some of the messages I've been getting from critics lately, and this is what I heard:

It was not so with Saint Augustine, who proposed in City of God that the story of the gospel is nothing less than the story of the world.

«There is less fear of linking the Social Gospel with the stories of the Bible, especially the stories of Exodus and Jesus» healings.»

No less than other stories in the Jacob cycle, it reflects the background of the patriarchal age — frictions between groups (Hamor and Jacob); a level of sexual morality beyond the reach of our judgment and in any judgment ennobled by the integrity of Hamor and the love of his son for Dinah; the effort on the part of both families to effect a peaceful settlement honoring the religious sensibilities of the abused; the despicable violation of the terms of agreement by two of Jacob's sons; and finally, in perfect consonance with the general character of Jacob, his sharp rebuke of his sons not on moral but on utilitarian grounds:

If the CT shooter could only get his hands on a deer rifle with a 5 round clip then this story would have likely been far less tragic.

With this clue we can see that, whatever we may make of particular «miracles», the miracle - stories as a whole are saying precisely this: that where Jesus was, there was some incalculable and unaccountable energy at work for the dispersal of evil forces and the total renewal of human life; and that this was nothing less than the creative energy of the living God.

Either we must accept the stories more or less as they stand, with whatever subtle changes may appear required once we have rejected a literal physical miracle.

But there is one recurrent story from which, if I am honest, I have repeatedly averted my gaze when considering what to write about in these columns: the seemingly never - ending story of the world - wide pandemic of paedophile scandals among the Catholic clergy, and the apparently universal practice of episcopal cover - up, involving as it did (I use the past tense hopefully) a - to put it mildly - less than adequate concern with the sufferings of the victims.

Adherents of the new Christian sects, of which there were many competing ones, e.g., Ebonites, Gnostics, etc., would have been familiar with the Serapis and likely would not have wanted their godman to seem any less impressive than the gods of the Serapis and other religions of the time, so there would have been a need for a miraculous birth story and other miracle stories for their godman, as well.

«You may not be comfortable with Jesus talking of «changing his theology» but in this instance he did nothing less than change the story of Israel» (JT)

More story, less explosions would be just fine with me.

You may not be comfortable with Jesus talking of «changing his theology» but in this instance he did nothing less than change the story of Israel.

I've made peace, more or less, with my story.

Here, indeed, it is less formal, and story and teaching alternate more freely; yet even so each of these works provides examples of sequences of ethical precepts, more or less complete in themselves, and comparable with those which we found in - the epistles; and these are related to passages of narrative which serve to introduce them.

It was hard enough being my son, much less to struggle with mental illness; it was his story to tell, so to protect his dignity we kind of kept it quiet.

Take away those unprovable points of magic and you are left with a mildly entertaining set of stories, where the older the stories, the less credible they are even as a historical record.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

Most Likely to Totally Nail It in Less Than 600 Words: Mason Slater at Deeper Story with «Gender and the Gospel» «So then part of faithfully proclaiming that Gospel is proclaiming to the people of God that gender, social class, and ethnicity do not define who God can use and how he can use them... So yes, I think the neo-Reformed movement is right, gender roles have everything to do with the Gospel.

«This new way resulted in their recognizing that some parts of scriptures were no longer relevant for their ongoing life,» says Wright» — not, we must stress, because those parts were bad, or not God - given, or less inspired, but because they belonged with earlier parts of the story which had now reached its climax.»

The whole Christmas story, mingled as it is now with Santa Claus and other more or less pagan additions, seems much like a fairy tale for children.

«With a Little Help from [Paul's] Friends» (celebrity contributions from Jamie Oliver, Lauren Laverne, Joanna Lumley and others), the resource also contains cooking ideas, handy shopping tips and a supporter story, and is ideal for those who haven't necessarily considered eating less meat before but who would be open to trying something new and exciting.

RIGHT: Another private enterprise success story, Bluetongue Brewery on NSW's Central Coast made more beer with less water using a state - of - the - art CST water recovery plant.

Funny story - I'm waiting for coconut flour to make a flour less pancake recipe this week and was just starting to wonder... What if I just mixed bananas with two eggs.

With no match this weekend for Arsenal, there is less stories to throw about, so why not bring you an update of the latest speculation regarding our club's future transfers...

Remember like, less than a week ago, when a story published that explained how it was very likely that Mets» COO Jeff Wilpon was making his team's medical decisions, and that his primary concern had to do with how the Mets were viewed in this light and not necessarily the health of his players or whether the job was being done right?

Starting with the less sedate of those stories, below is a very short article I was sent yesterday evening concerning the latest news around the ongoing swimsuit debate.

News that Napoli and the Sox were near a deal broke less than an hour ago, with WEEI first breaking the story.