On paper, it sounds like Pixar in self-parody mode, applying the anthropomorphism of "Toy Story" and "Cars" to a movie about the wacky adventures of human emotions.
The book may be small in size and length, but it covers a truly amazing amount of material -- much of which was surprising and fresh even to one who has followed the adventures of human beings in space since the first Sputnik dazzled us with its little, insistent beep and its infinitesimal point of light across the night sky.
Most Star Trek stories depict the adventures of humans and aliens who serve in Starfleet, the space-borne humanitarian and peacekeeping armada of the United Federation of Planets.
The great adventure of the human species will continue, and the connection of each of us to that species and to the human adventure is our bond to eternity.
In addition to the political messages they carried (either directly or indirectly), Verdi's instinct for communicating the messy adventure of being human with pathos, empathy, and thrilling drama was simply unparalleled.
If Christianity is about anything, it's about the adventure of being human.
But a thread that runs through adventure after adventure is that of human cruelty, which shows itself both in the acts of individuals and in their unthinking acceptance of such institutions as slavery.
Forest fires prove an even greater threat as the film becomes an adventure story of humans versus nature a la Never Cry Wolf.
The Indian adventure is that of human beings of different ethnicities and religions, languages and beliefs, working together under the same roof, dreaming the same dreams.
The scenes portrayed the adventures of a human experiencing a new world, the planet Pandora, through the body of an alien.
