Sentences with phrase «wonder at the stories»

It's the centerpiece in our family room, and every time I look at it, I wonder at the stories it could tell.

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But at this point you may be wondering how the Ghomeshi story relates to your business.

«I think that every novelist has a single ideal reader; that at various points during the composition of a story, the writer is thinking, «I wonder what he / she will think when he / she reads this part?»

A Thursday New York Times story revealed that investment firm Andreessen Horowitz, which has a stake in Instagram, just led a $ 5 million funding round for the parent company of competitor Picplz — which in turn caused a blogger at Business Insider to wonder whether the apparent conflict of interest indicates that Instagram has been sold.

And it's unlike any other book I've ever written, for in addition to the memoir, it includes original poetry, short stories, soliloquies, and even a short screenplay — all aimed at capturing the wonder and beauty of Scripture, while honoring the best in biblical scholarship and acknowledging the challenges of its most difficult passages.

I sometimes wonder if folks judging the book solely by its most provocative stories looked only at the pictures!

Universal in its appeal, the story has become a favorite of millions, as it reveals a child's wonder at a new world, and the hope of capturing and keeping that wonder forever.»

And though it may seem abstract, even small, I think this single thread of wonder — this thread of tireless thankfulness and awe at what he'd been undeservedly given, at what he saw in the beauty of creation and in the story of the Gospel — is what binds all of Lewis» work together.

So, when a kid gets older, does she yell at Santa, wonder if Santa hates her, think of Santa as evil, or just realize Santa was a made up story.

I have wondered at times whether it isn't this old anticipation of the Kingdom that explains Keillor's childhood fascination with radio (a subject he returns to frequently in his New Yorker stories, published recently by Atheneum under the title Happy to Be Here).

What stands out in Luke are the depth of his human sympathies, his sense of wonder, amazement, and joy at the power of the gospel, his poetic insight which led him not only to tell the Christmas story in a way that captivates old and young alike after nineteen centuries, but also to incorporate such lovely poems as the «Magnificat» of Mary, Zachariah's «Benedictus,» and Simeon's «Nunc Dimittis.»

I want them to walk away knowing that they know a lot more about the story, that they've gone on an emotional journey with the characters, and at the end of it, they're still left wondering.

Part of me wonders if our resistance to telling the story is our lack of confidence in recognizing that just because Christians practice the faith incorrectly and inappropriately at times doesn't mean Christianity is false.

I wonder if CNN would hire me... at least they would get some stories on this page that haven't been recycled every day for the last week.

But I also wonder if horror is good at telling stories about women because horror, almost by definition, focuses on the vulnerability of its characters.

No wonder the death and resurrection, which stand at the center of the event, stand also at the center of the story!

At this point, you might be wondering why a guy who has spent his career fetishizing eccentric and fiercely independent restaurants would want to write a story — with zero irony — about a restaurant chain.

Eight pieces of its real estate come up so often in players» war stories that you wonder why no one has gotten beyond descriptions like «that swale, you know, at the foot of the green.»

HUMVN, Machine?He made a funny comment in one of the justarsenal stories earlier.He said Arsenal don't need a new CB.Can someone slap me.I was even shocked at the thumbs up he got.I feel so sorry for Arsenal and fans as well.We are really suffering.Till today how people rate Mertesacker is beyond me.The guy is not even a leader by example.I wonder why Hayden was sold as I think he could have surely done better and if Isaac Hayden solves his injury problems we gonna regret selling him.Even aliens know arsenal needs a CB.Aren't you guys tired of always starting the season short of players in positions where needed.It's like some of you want failure but you don't know you want.Arsenal should complete the squad this season.It's a must.

In a switch on the beloved hick flick story line, wonder trotter and kindly underdog owners show up at big Kentucky race with hearts high — and have them broken as a crafty rival driver blind - sides our hero

It would be the highest form of injustice to sell Walcott and keep Welbeck and Giroud.What an overrated bunch of players we have in our team.No wonder 95 % of Arsenal players always fade away in other teams when they leave.If we are selling Walcott then why aren't we doing the same to Giroud and Welbeck.Someone should tell me why Walcott leaves but they should stay.I know many fans feel Walcott hasn't yet turned out to be world class and all that but looking at his goals it's fair to say he's done his bit.If you sell a player in the same scenario as Walcott you sell him because he failed.But have Giroud and Welbeck not failed at what they were supposed to do?Arsenal is such a stubborn club.It looks like the stories of Eduardo and Van Persie have taught us nothing really.Their injuries denied us the trophies as we had no capable back ups.If Laca gets injured we are doomed mark my words.

The same old crap again.I wonder how many more times will we have to hear it.They both are at arsenal and are playing all right so why does not all these f *** ing pundits shut the hell up??? I just hope we tie them down to long term contracts so that all these stories shut down for good.If they want to move, the least we can expect is for someone to just clear that they will be leaving in january on for free next summer

I look at Serge Aurier and some of the stories that surround him and you wonder what will happen with him.

I do wonder what the story is with all of these handmade vintage dresses - I'd like to think the maker would be pleased at the new life they're getting.

But, more than a few people in that six - story glass building at Fair and Main in Kingston seem to be wondering what he'll be asking for this time around.

One wonders why such reprehensible acts of media terrorism and discreditable stories have been consistently targeted at my person.

If you hear the stories about the cuts and still wonder why our country needs to take these difficult decisions, then look at what is happening around us.

Look at the forums and message boards: They're filled with posts from people about to start these programs, dreading the initial phase and wondering if they'll be able to hack it (and with people telling war stories about how they survived it... or tried it and failed).

I remember another story where I was travelling in Australia and my English wasn't that great at the time and I was standing in front of savoury pies mth minced beef and back then I confused it with mint and was wondering what a weird combination that was.

So you're probably wondering why I wore this outfit for a weekend excursion to Central Park... Well the story is kinda goofy, maybe even a little embarrassing, but Nick and I thought it would be fun to get dressed up and play as if we were these big time shoppers dropping tons of $ $ at all the shops on 5th and Madison Avenues.

Fleeting faces and stories and names that you'll likely never cross paths with again and for a second, it makes you wonder (or at least, it makes me wonder) what their lives are like.

While I enjoy Negan's status quo change, the lack of overall focus still has me wondering what the ultimate purpose of the story is at this point.

Do you think the potential suitor would look at me and wonder, «what's her story?»

Take this game for example: keep a random encounters ratio of 10 monsters / minute, keep the non-existent interaction with the world, keep a simplicistic combat system (they weren't so simplicistic even back then) and discard good stories, nice graphics (the graphics of this game would have been considered amateurish at best on a super nes), gameplay, exploration, sense of wonder.

If you're a longtime reader of the Marvel series, you'll likely laugh at Reynolds» portrayal of Deadpool, you'll dig Will.i.am's Wraith, and you'll already know enough about Logan / Wolverine's back - and - front story to wonder how on earth an X-Men film could be so... bland.

The main character is a whizz at the ultra-violence and you wonder how he can be so good with his extremities until you find out with a nice bit of back story.

The story jumps around so much and with such inept transitions that at the end I couldn't help but wonder if Kapur ended up shooting a five - hour movie and leaving most of what made sense on the cutting room floor.

As it comes together, the sequences of emptiness and a character that wonders from place to place, start to work together to tell a very deep story of depression, loneliness, suicide, conscience, adulthood, alienation, desire, limitations, fear, paranoia and at the heart of it all, the disgust and regret of becoming a father, that take severe psychological and physical effects on the main character.

As a result, while you wonder at Zamperini's story, he remains a character rather than a person of flesh and blood whom you ache for, despite the wonderful effort by O'Connell.

Wonder Woman could have been a gauzy superhero origin story, but instead, it's steeped in war and loss, and the impact of Steve Trevor's death at the end is both well - earned and heartbreaking.

With compelling performances, a polyamorous love story, gorgeous costumes and a stunning narrative with subtle clues and hints of what's to come, Professor Marston and the Wonder Women is a beautiful story that not only looks at an origin story, but the invention of the modern day lie detector machine.

You can look at the independent heavy dramatic work that I've done or the big studio comedic work that I've done, and at the core of both are these lost souls wondering through this world, trying to figure out the funny, sad, strange, balance of their lives, and that's the story of me.

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The story was inspired by real events although if some of the decision - making depicted in the film is at all indicative of what really happened, one wonders why there aren't more train accidents.

Wonder of wonders, Infinity War actually succeeds, even if it's only telling half of an MCU - wrapping story that will conclude next year — and does so at a bladder - challenging running time exceeding two and a half hours (you'll want to stay for the obligatory post-credits sequence).

At the same time, there's always been that higher journalistic calling when a story becomes a quest, and so it is that the members of the Spotlight team rarely walk when they can run, pausing only to scribble furiously into notebooks — so much so that I did wonder at one point whether cassette recorders had made it to New EnglanAt the same time, there's always been that higher journalistic calling when a story becomes a quest, and so it is that the members of the Spotlight team rarely walk when they can run, pausing only to scribble furiously into notebooks — so much so that I did wonder at one point whether cassette recorders had made it to New Englanat one point whether cassette recorders had made it to New England.

Their story is told in mostly flashback as Marston is interviewed (or more aptly, interrogated) by a psychologist (Connie Britton) and executives at National Periodicals, the publisher of Wonder Woman, which Marston used to subvert preconceived notions, put forth his pet theories of behavioral psychology, and occasionally tease the bondage, role play, and BDSM with which he, Elizabeth, and Olive experiment.

This week, A.A. Dowd and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky marvel at the visual wonders of In The Heart Of The Sea, Ron Howard's silly but surprisingly robustMoby - Dick origin story.

In a superhero origin tale unlike any other, this is the true story of 1940s Harvard psychologist Dr. William Moulton Marston, the inventor of the lie detector and creator of the iconic Wonder Woman, who defends his feminist superhero against charges of «sexual perversity» while at the same time maintaining a secret that could have destroyed him.