Sentences with phrase «wondrous stories»

A book that is like your own larger - than - life Advent Calendar, opening up to 25 wondrous stories that tell the family tree of Jesus, from Creation to His Coming.

What It's About: «The wondrous story of the overly optimistic Trolls, with a constant song on their lips, and the comically pessimistic Bergens, who are only happy when they have trolls in their stomach.»

How he became the leading Republican in Illinois, then president, and then successful commander - in - chief is a wondrous story, brilliantly interpreted here.

March 2014 - An intimate, beautifully illustrated gift edition of poet laureate W.S. Merwin's wondrous story about how to resurrect a fallen tree.

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The story is headed «Pope Shares Iraq Concerns in Meeting with Bush» and is a wondrous mix of fatuity and fiction.

Wilson also has a chapter on «His Wondrous Birth» but his book deals with the entire gospel story.

This is a wondrous and energetic story which, with greater clarity than its parent, offers us a vision of paradise.

16 Trolls movie reviews & Metacritic score: Enter a colorful, wondrous world populated by hilariously unforgettable characters and discover the story of the

They may be gifted in being able to Trolls movie reviews & Metacritic score: Enter a colorful, wondrous world populated by hilariously unforgettable characters and discover the story of the

In this and other things, the story operates on a fluid dream - logic, or the storytelling logic of a very small child: Events melt into each other without urgency, and a simple act like making and drinking tea is treated with the same complacent, wondrous gravity as magic that calls wave - monsters into being.

The greatest of all Final Fantasy games, FF6 is a wondrous experience filled with memorable characters, a thrilling story and some of the best

This story kept me in my seat and watching Jackson as the punch drunk «champ» was a wondrous view into method acting - all the little mannerisms and especially the somehow energetic shuffle that achingly told of a body that is simply unable to do and go where the brain tells it to.

The greatest of all Final Fantasy games, FF6 is a wondrous experience filled with memorable characters, a thrilling story and some of the best music in video games.

And considering screenwriter Selznick was also the man behind the story for Oscar juggernaut «Hugo» a few years ago, we expect this one to be a wondrous spectacle as well.

Wondrous Boccaccio (Maraviglioso Boccaccio) Directed and written by Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani (Italy)-- International Premiere, Narrative Set against the backdrop of a black plague - stricken Florence, ten young men and women escape to a country estate where they spend their days telling different stories of love, fate, and resurrection.

Any number of great films, even leisurely paced ones, will provide wondrous examples of how much story detail you can pack into a scene and even within a single shot.

He holds a firm hand on his story, capturing wondrous and affectionate emotions from his characters.

From there the fertile imaginings of a visionary filmmaker can build a story that is a compelling, even wondrous, cinematic experience.

That's a beautiful sentiment that is carried over to this wondrous and heartwarming movie, a rare feel - good live - action film for the whole family that is about who we are on the inside, a sweet story with a strong message about doing the right thing.

The story co - writers / directors Richard Starzak and Mark Burton have put together is just as wondrous a creation as the detailed plasticine figures that play it out.

Breakthrough Series — Short Form «The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo» (YouTube) «Her Story» (herstoryshow.com)(WINNER) «The Movement» (Mic.com) «Sitting in Bathrooms with Trans People» (Seriously.TV) «Surviving» (YouTube)

Tesla at war with Edison's gang of hired goons in a wintry Overlook wonderland is a wondrous fantasia; a story told through twin diaries and a voiceover narration by consummate artist Caine shouldn't work as well as it does (and yet doesn't quite work as well as it might).

It's a melancholy story of how parents can love their children but not always do the right thing by them, even as the outside world looks upon their circumstances as enviable — even wondrous.

This holiday season, enter a colourful, wondrous world populated by hilariously unforgettable characters and discover the story of the overly optimistic Trolls, with a constant song on their lips, and the comedically pessimistic Bergens, who are only happy when they have trolls in their stomach.

The story: Thanks to the wondrous metal vibranium, Wakanda is a technologically advanced African nation.

Filmed and broadcast live from New York, this wondrous adaptation of the original Broadway musical tells the beloved story of Peter Pan (Allison Williams, HBO's Girls), a mischievous boy who ran away to have adventures in Neverland and never grow up!

This holiday season, enter a colorful, wondrous world populated by hilariously unforgettable characters and discover the story of the overly optimistic Trolls, with a constant song on their lips, and the comedicly pessimistic Bergens, who are only happy when they have trolls in their stomach.

This holiday season, enter a colorful, wondrous world populated by hilariously unforgettable characters and discover the story of the overly optimistic Trolls, with a constant song on their lips, and the comically pessimistic Bergens, who are only happy when they have trolls in their stomach.

Carter Burwell's wondrous score, which swells to a brilliant crescendo in the memorable climax, manages to elaborate on the story's emotional foundation even when words fail the two leads.

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Junot Díaz won the Pulitzer (and a pile of other awards) for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, but I've always been all about Drown, his first collection of short stories and the book that singled him out as the most promising literary voice of the Dominican - American community.

The core story is set in Venice in the sixteenth century, when the famed makers of Venetian glass were perfecting one of the old world's most wondrous inventions: the mirror.

Vaclav imagines their story unfolding like a fairy tale or the perfect illusion from his treasured Magician's Almanac, but among the many truths to be discovered in Haley Tanner's wondrous debut is that happily - ever - after is never a foregone conclusion.

Englander's wondrous and much - heralded collection of stories won the 2000 Pen / Malamud Award and was translated into more than a dozen languages.

A collection of ten short stories, beautifully written and exuberantly imagined, with an emotional precision behind their wondrous surfaces that makes them unforgettable.

Written much in the tradition of other metaphysical authors like Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist) and James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy), author Milan Ljubincic uses the powerful vehicle of fiction to weave a rich, allegorical story that illustrates how every one of us can find harmony and joy when we learn the language of our own hearts, and reawaken the wondrous spirit that already lies within us.

The wondrous Aimee Bender conjures the lush and moving story of a girl whose magical gift is really a devastating curse.

Confident and brilliant but never smug, the main narrator of Brief and Wondrous is so immediately likable, and the affection he has for the characters in his story so contagious, that you instantly fall in love with all of them.

Diaz's first collection of short stories in a decade is a beautifully stirring look at ruined relationships and lost love — and a more than worthy follow - up to his 2007 Pulitzer winner, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.

Author Val Silver and... Team Rescue contributors have compiled a spectrum of amusing, touching, rescued dog stories that demonstrate the power of the human - animal bond, the wondrous ability of animals to heal us... I heartily recommend Rescue Me.

Along each narrow stone street and at every bend there is something wondrous — a doorway, a garden, the stories of centuries in stone.

This short animated film tells the story of coral reefs with humor and admiration for these wondrous ecosystems.

For folks like us in the West, it's a wondrous explosion of stories both unknown and beautiful, all ripe for exploring from the inside out.

These realms are filled with beautiful colourful backgrounds and environments that contain wondrous creatures, which makes playing through the story somewhat bearable.

The old stories say we built an academy dedicated to learning and research on the shore of a wondrous sea, and that the waters themselves boiled and rose up to shatter the coast, washing away all that we had built.

While the story is pretty dreadful in this entry in the POP series (which shares a name with versions on other platforms but is, in fact, a game written and designed especially for the Wii), the gameplay is as good as any of its cousins, offering the same wondrous mix of acrobatic puzzle solving and less wondrous (but improved) combat.

If only the main story and gameplay could begin to keep up with the wondrous vision that the game's world - builders came up with, Epic Mickey 2 could have been a fantastic game.

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