Sentence examples for shape a story from inspiring English sources

Elections are about narrative; as such, money and partisan reporting are vital to shape a story line that moves a majority of voters.

Esquire then worked with the writer to shape a story that would fit their May issue theme, which was about men turning 40.

As he writes, "government officials spreading secrets to shape a story and to advance their interests, large and small" have long been a staple of Washington.

BUT Britten understood the craft of opera beyond the craft of composing music: the way to shape a story into effective theater.

Dramaturg Emma Bernard has helped us shape a story, and two soloists – Melanie Pappenheim and Lorin Sklamberg – portray two unnamed main characters, who act out some of the survivors' testimonies.

Just as a cartographer makes sense of the world, Cole made sense of the territory of Twitter, shaping a story from chaos.

Mr. Brustein, founding director of both the American Repertory Theater and the Yale Repertory Theater, takes the few known facts about Shakespeare's last years and shapes a story that fits them, centering it on the writer's will.

Whereas Buster Keaton was a frozen-faced stoic and Harold Lloyd had his empty-framed glasses, Chaplin had his "little tramp", the ups-and-downs (mostly downs) of whose existence shaped a story of human resilience.

For all his mastery at inserting himself into and shaping a story line, though, he appears less sure how to cope with a crisis much closer to home: Mr. Jackson's oldest and namesake son, Jesse L. Jackson Jr., has vanished from public view, grappling for months with bipolar disorder.

From Sylvia Nasar's long, detailed biography of Nash, Goldsman has shaped a story about love, intellectual creativity, the closeness of genius to insanity and the benefits of psychiatry (Goldsman's parents are both shrinks), all leading up to that triumph of the human spirit that is director Ron Howard's stock-in-trade.

Producers, directors, host/interviewer, camera operators, editors (in this case the word means the people who put the shots together) may all be intimately involved in shaping a story.