Sentences with phrase «with narrative drive»

And the books, which are filled with mediums and modes of mark making, burst with narrative drive like Amazonian comics rendered abstract.

A Vast Conspiracy is written with the narrative drive of a sensational (if improbable) legal thriller, and Toobin brilliantly explores the high principle and low comedy that were the hallmarks of the story.

With no narrative driving the experience, you simply roam a handful of maps, hunting an array of quirky and dangerous beasts which you then recycle into gear and equipment.

Not exact matches

Mallaby, a Washington Post columnist and a senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, begins in 1900 with the birth of hedge fund inventor Alfred Winslow Jones, and presses forward through a narrative history of this most inscrutable of financial vehicles, and the men (and they are overwhelmingly men) who have driven them.

The key takeaway from the report is that it will feed into the slowdown narrative that has been building with the flattening yield curve, even though there is still broad - based strength in the components that drive the overall index reading.

More analysis (below) that shows conservative narratives were driving pack journalism in Canadian media to attack Trudeau with false premises... again I'm no Trudeau fan, but the Canadian MSM reporting and editorials are largely being driven by conservative partisans.

The narrative drive to Venkatesh's story lies in the protracted effort of the tenants to come to terms with the gang that loomed increasingly large in the project's history.

This section of the book represents history as it should be written — with a sagacious use of sources, a strong narrative drive, and an authentic whiff of the charged atmosphere of the times.

How Character - Driven Labels Are Driving Wine Sales: As the wine aisles swell with an ever - rising sea of brands, wine producers are looking to increasingly rich and imaginative narratives on which to build their brands...

I believe what you're saying is that one data point alone doesn't drive the narrative and that I agree with.

He does away with the contriving language of political correctness (particularly in regards to Muslims, Mexicans, immigrants, etc.) in an attempt to convince the electorate that he, in fact, «speaks true;» he engages in rhetoric that is, according to Senator Marco Rubio, «language that is deliberately offensive in order to drive media narrative.»

Republicans, who believe the issue could prove toxic in an environment in which voters already deeply distrust government and exasperated with insider - driven politics, have pursued a strategy to knock Democratic Senate candidates off balance and advance a larger narrative that the Obama administration has failed to live up to the high ethical standards and transparency it promised voters two years ago.

The ultimate source of sartorial zeitgeist, brands like Chanel and Dior have been directing the narrative on body shape since the New Look - defining beauty on a global scale with aspirational body types the driving force behind a culture bred on being thin.

Down a catwalk planted with up - ended mannequin legs, the collection itself continued the kind of character - driven narrative that Westwood is built on, as diverse bodies owned a chaos of ruffled prom gowns, buttoned «habit» hoods, floral and flowing hair prints, and wonky tailoring.

Especially when this layering of luxury is depicted via Louis Vuitton on six young, up - and - coming models as they act out the narrative of a woman leaving her hotel room and steps — along with her pet pooch — into her chauffeur - driven limousine.

Not necessarily epic stories complete with plot twists and gasp worthy moments, but just a narrative that helps drive the action forward.

His turn is not one of mere impersonation; Franco's Tommy is a driven person with clear and relatable motivations, making him a sympathetic protagonist to follow through this narrative.

Earnestly presented and well acted, particularly by newcomer Nicole Beharie in the central role, the film shares with many other such agenda - driven dramas a complete lack of narrative surprise, merely connecting the dots.

However, La La Land's rise at the Globes and subsequently with Oscar nominations set into motion a backlash, which is a problem in the days of Twitter, when a hashtag can drive the narrative in one direction or another.

To get the narrative drive she needed out of her soundtrack Ramsay was desperate to get the unique talents of her «We Need to Talk About Kevin» composer Jonny Greenwood («Phantom Thread») onboard, but the Radiohead guitarist - turned - Oscar nominated composer was on tour with the band.

Red Dead Redemption 2 will be a character - driven narrative experience, with the other outlaws in the gang being core elements of the plot.

It's executed with empathy, but not to the point where The Keepers lets a foregone conclusion drive the narrative.

The narrative drive of the game sees you playing as a new student who quickly gets involved with a Japanese version of Ghostbusters, called Gate Keepers.

With an actor such as Mulligan, always dependably watchable and interesting in even lesser narratives like Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps or when given less to do like in Drive, we as the audience want to connect with her, especially granting that we know she's our protagonWith an actor such as Mulligan, always dependably watchable and interesting in even lesser narratives like Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps or when given less to do like in Drive, we as the audience want to connect with her, especially granting that we know she's our protagonwith her, especially granting that we know she's our protagonist.

Its main concern isn't with the narrative momentum, or character - driven actions as it should be, but rather with big, hulking action set - pieces.

Refn's latest film, Only God Forgives, reunites him with Drive's star, Ryan Gosling, but it moves even further away from traditional narrative and into a near abstract, near hallucinogenic, near nihilistic subversion of traditional narrative and with it, the usual visceral, emotional, and intellectual pleasures associated with that form.

But where Hong relentlessly deconstructs his narratives, laying bare their artifices and exposing the lonely needs that drive us to invent them, Bogdanovich the classicist is content to faithfully recreate the form of the old (his zooms are subtle and patient, not Hong's wild, drunken lurches), with nothing but a sly wink to the audience to remind us of the precariousness of our ideals.

Story missions are separated by location, with the narrative being driven via journal pages that act as the story progression between levels.

Bandai Namco has announced a brand new narrative - driven story adventure that they are currently developing in collaboration with the Aardman Studios, who are known for...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., (April 25, 2018)-- Leading interactive entertainment developer and publisher, BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment America Inc., today announces a collaboration with world famous Aardman Animation Studios and DigixArt to create 11 - 11: MEMORIES RETOLD, a story - driven narrative adventure, presented within a breathtaking art style reminiscent of paintings, that will deliver a wholly unique experience.

Suffering from pacing and monochromatic tonal issues — various types of drab torture for two hours — «Unbroken» is also overlong and eventually settles into a slog with little narrative drive.

With «Frances Ha,» Noah Baumbach's directing career entered a new stage emboldened by his work with co-writer and partner Greta Gerwig, though the scrappy nature of that narrative and Gerwig's vibrant performance led to the impression that it was more her voice than his driving the proceediWith «Frances Ha,» Noah Baumbach's directing career entered a new stage emboldened by his work with co-writer and partner Greta Gerwig, though the scrappy nature of that narrative and Gerwig's vibrant performance led to the impression that it was more her voice than his driving the proceediwith co-writer and partner Greta Gerwig, though the scrappy nature of that narrative and Gerwig's vibrant performance led to the impression that it was more her voice than his driving the proceedings.

Not helping is dialogue composed of the sort of shorthand catchphrase idioglossia meant to imply years of familiarity but only succeeding in making one pine for the days when Kasdan was penning (he shares a screenwriting credit here with Goldman) strong, character - driven genre pieces (The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Body Heat, Silverado) without narrative crutches and meandering shortcuts.

By moderating the driving force within the core narrative and littering the film with sexual metaphors in its place, leaves the film with very little in the way of plot development and it has simply nowhere to go.

Fallout and Elder Scrolls and any wRPG with a «generic,» customizable, mute plater character are far less narrative - driven than JRPGs, really.

Like the first movie, the narrative slows it down considerably with a flat and uninteresting case that drives the bland plot and eventually leads to a big action finale that feels like something you'd see in Bad Boys II.

DontNod, the team behind Life is Strange, has partnered with Bandai Namco in development on a new story driven, narrative IP.

The film concludes in a more conventional manner, perhaps, than might be expected, in that it's a flight to freedom — or maybe a fool's errand — but remains gripping and tense, balancing suspense and narrative drive with emotional entanglement and an unerring sense of dread.

The former half of the narrative contains one of Bissell's favorite scenes: When Sestero's worried mother warns the unearthly Wiseau, who's about to drive Greg from San Francisco to L.A., not to hurt or have sex with her son.

Ford's cinematic influences are overtly placed — everything from the iconography and satire of DR. STRANGELOVE (as shown in the war room scene), to the narrative drive of STRAW DOGS (as shown in the grippingly tense scenes with fictional Tony's harassers, led by a perfectly - cast Aaron Taylor - Johnson), to the tangible feel of David Lynch's oeuvre, to the cunning bite of Michael Haneke's FUNNY GAMES.

Taken collectively, these artifacts are the mother of all MacGuffins - plot devices that drive the narrative, but may or may not have much to do with the true message of the story.

Little Woods Feature Narrative Country: USA Director: Nia DaCosta Writer: Nia DaCosta Starring: Tessa Thompson, Lily James, Luke Kirby, James Badge Dale, Lance Reddick, Nia DaCosta In this dramatic thriller set in the fracking boomtown of Little Woods, North Dakota, two estranged sisters are driven to extremes when their mother dies, leaving them with one week to pay back her mortgage.

Right away you get a sense of what Refn is going for in The Neon Demon, opening with an arresting shot of a girl covered in blood and sprawled out on a fainting sofa — it's just one of many visual nods that drives the narrative forward, hinting at the story to follow.

During the story - driven scenes, everything is presented with a very clean and anime - based style and the narrative which — whilst spoken in Japanese — is subtitled in English.

But they deserve a movie that tells their tale of defiant resilience with less fuss and more narrative drive.

The American is a far more narrative driven film but to an extent it shares with The Limits of Control a focus on the process, waiting and build - up rather than being a guns blazing action film.

Overlord, with its continual refrain of a soldier's vision of his own probable annihilation, its ominous flash - forwards, and its striking mix of fiction and documentary, certainly has its place among the great death - driven modernist narratives of its era (Nicolas Roeg's 1973 Don't Look Now and Sam Peckinpah's films come immediately to mind), and it has a clear kinship with Kevin Brownlow's similarly handmade «period epics» It Happened Here (1964) and Winstanley (1975).

Reitman and Cody aren't especially interested in a narrative that's about a woman rediscovering the joys of family life — or, for that matter, one that's about a woman casting off those shackles, despite a late - movie sequence where Marlo and Tully tear it up in the former's old Bushwick haunts (complete with the perfectly and silently observed rigmarole of driving into Brooklyn from the suburbs even when there's not much traffic).

Opening this week at Tivoli Cinemas, Loving Vincent is sometimes a bit flat with its narrative thru - line, yet more than makes up for this with its earnest and engaging approach to discovering what drove Vincent van Gogh as a man and an artist.

Designed based on the challenges facing those affected by psychosis and created with the help of medical professionals, Debris explores the interplay between perception and reality in an unconventional, narrative - driven co-op format.