Beneath the surface, though, it is a redemptive story of isolation and desperation.
A story of isolation in a hyperlinked world, it is written and performed with an emotional acuity that defies hashtag simplifications and 140-character limits.
Get ready to celebrate your holiday season with some brutally depressing stories of technological isolation and the slow decline of our species, everybody!
An inevitable-seeming descent into violence brings to mind another story of island isolation – The Lord of the Flies.
As he warns in his preface, Steward's life is, "in many ways, a story of obsession, isolation and failure," "characterized by constant disappointment, discouragement... and rejection".
Like "Gravity," like "The Martian," like any story of enforced isolation, "10 Cloverfield Lane" is a story of outer silence that's matched by an inner clamor in which the real story is told — one that surpasses its director's and writers' imagination.
Oliver fills the stage with gestures: with one hand, he draws a chair or a patch of grass or a person, and the atmosphere that he creates with his astonishing sentences is an extension of his body which is integral to the story of his isolation.
Oliver fills the stage with gestures: with one hand, he draws a chair or a patch of grass or a person, and the atmosphere that he creates with his astonishing sentences is an extension of his body — which is integral to the story of his isolation.
It is a historical note dwelling on the largely unknown story of the isolation of tungsten/wolfram in Spain, more precisely, in the Basque Country, very close to Donostia/San Sebastián, in the late 18th century.
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