How To Use Good story In A Sentence
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Before we did anything we wrote and rewrote the script until we felt what we had got written down was a really good story.
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In this book she proves herself a good storyteller as well.
Christianity Today
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On the other hand, you shouldn't let actuality get in the way of a good story!
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Great action, good characters, good acting, good villains, a good story: I came out of the cinema grinning with delight.
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It's a pretty good story, actually, though I get bored by cards very quickly.
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I take an entirely different approach to it, and I say any decent photojournalist is a good storyteller, and they're probably not too bad technically.
Archive 2005-01-01
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Normally, we assume that shoot'em-up games need a good story to help you "care about the gameplay.
Games Without Frontiers: Bad Story, Great Game -- How Mediocrity Gooses 'Gears of War 2'
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That being said, I'm all for a good story, but narrative and story are two different things.
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They have yet to find a way of really telling a good story rather than just using narrative as a vehicle to get them from one visual gag to another.
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According to her, one ‘has to be a good teller in order to write a good story and provoke reactions.’
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Even with those who reoffend, there can be a relatively good story.
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This was supposed to be a feel-good story about a mission to save a wayward cow.
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This is a cracking good story, funny, sad, thrilling, and thought provoking.
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Adam had always shown much more proclivity for curling up in his father's lap near a warm fire and listening to a good story than for tromping through snowdrifts.
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She felt the excitement of a journalist on the track of a good story.
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Notice, too, that like good storytellers these advocates embellish the tale with some interesting exaggerations.
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A good story of more recent date, I must also note, of a well-known priest in Dublin, who being asked by Mr. Balfour one day whether the people under his charge took for gospel all the rawhead and bloody-bones tales about himself, replied, "Indeed, I wish they only feared and hated the devil half as much as they do you!
Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888)
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The old woman servant in the house, and her conversation with the heroine, constitute one of these artistic embellishments that turn a good story into an even better one.
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To be a really good storyteller, it helps to do different voices for different characters.
The Sun
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But it made a good story -- the solemn and polite bridge four trying to eat the raw leathery leaves.
Blaikie's Guide to Modern Manners
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Watching a rabble of butterflies virtually fill a six-story auditorium should be entertainment enough for adolescents not yet ruined by videogames, but Flight of the Butterflies in 3D has the added value of a good story.
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Good storytelling and allegory make uncomfortable bedfellows.
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It is a good story to tell in class, not only because it teaches students about magnetic dip, but because it is an excellent example of what makes a scientific experiment.
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It's a good story with very good characters, but not necessarily good as in likable.
Archive 2010-07-01
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But as to why it became so successful, well, I think -- I'm sure you'd agree that the simple story of murder and redemption of W.C. Miner's character through the work for the OED is a-- is quite a good story.
A Back-Story to The Man Who Loved China A Coincidence Most Curious and Telling
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She felt the excitement of a journalist on the track of a good story.
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A good story and setting can create an immersion that even superior technology cannot match.
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Review: A good story that grabs your attention right away with, for better or worse, a mental image of Santa and an elf locked in ... connubial congress.
REVIEW: Alternate Gerrolds by David Gerrold
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His fascination with the subtleties of human behaviour makes him a good storyteller.
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Everything about the film was good. Good acting, good story, good fun.
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As a journalist, she has always had a nose for a good story.
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Talking about stacking the deck-1) the guy runs Escape Pod,2) the guy wries a hell of a good story, and 3) If 2″ isn’t good enough he gets Paul Jenkins with his wonderful enunciation to read said story.
EP050: The Malcontent
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We've got a good story to tell about shoes made in Britain from the very best calf leather.
Times, Sunday Times
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This phrase captivated America over the past fortnight, and it featured in a glorious cultural feel-good story yesterday (Sydney time).
The Sydney Morning Herald News Headlines
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Again, it's a good story and one that's executed to film well, but it's not full of daisies and gumdrops.
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Call me old fashioned but I like a good story with some gripping characters.
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As such it's designed to work solely from the viewers' perspective, ergo pointing out that it's more about audience manipulation than it is about good storytelling.
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* I generally find my detector is quite accurate; however, it has no ability to detect if the good story is well executed.
Archive 2008-05-01
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A second equally good story describes mopping up an oil spill at sea.
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Da Kine hapa Prez talk good story and wear zori slipper like a good local boy.
Shaka Brah
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It's a good story, told with humor, humanity, and compassion.
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We've got a good story to tell about shoes made in Britain from the very best calf leather.
Times, Sunday Times
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Catering to this segment, the television channel has decided to bring to screen a feel-good story of an underdog.
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Normally, we assume that shoot'em-up games need a good story to help you "care about the gameplay.
Games Without Frontiers: Bad Story, Great Game -- How Mediocrity Gooses 'Gears of War 2'
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He was tall and good-looking, dynamic and intelligent and it turned out that he had an eye for a good story.
Times, Sunday Times
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The term dambrod, which has already supplied materials for a good story, arises from adopting French terms into Scottish language, as dams were the pieces with which the game of draughts was played (Fr. dammes).
Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character
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a whacking good story
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I have to admit that I like certain fanciful ideas, and some of these I sort of entertain with just a little more than fictive suspension of disbelief for the sake of a good story, despite their being rather more mystical than my materialist instincts.
THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART ONE
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The goofy sketch trio finally make good on their early promise with good jokes, good rapport and surprisingly good storytelling.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's a pretty good story, and trying to espy its "interstitial" qualities adds nothing to its appeal.
Experimental Fiction
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She felt the excitement of a journalist on the track of a good story.
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What if they just aren't a very good storyteller?
Times, Sunday Times
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Everything about the film was good. Good acting, good story, good fun.
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Without it, through little fault of his own, Plutarch is left exposed as the supreme exemplar of the ageless dictum: never let the facts get in the way of a good story.
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As the anonymous reporter once said ‘never let the facts get in the way of a good story’.
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A good story is told of a pawky old Scot, who like many others, finds himself rather short of cash just now.
Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers
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With a modicum of imagination and a dash of invention, a good story could be built from this one.
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Like Orci said, a good story, not a slick gimmick, is the key to success.
Analyzing 2009 – Collider.com
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But still, over there, they recognise a rattling good story when they read one.
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Our results constructed a good story about the unique ethnohistory of the Hui.
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Again, I think this is a good story and I like my characters though I already cut the extraneous ones as too many for a shortish story.
Writing: The Process « Colleen Anderson
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As always, Irish Independent editor Vinnie Doyle displays an unerring eye for a good story.
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As a reporter, he had a nose for a good story.
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Anyway, it's a good story, whether or not it's true.
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I don't use their names, as a matter of course, but, too, "shoptalk" or a good story over dinner does not a public record make.
Fear of bloggers.
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The franchise-writer isn't at odds with the novel-writer - you can still tell a good story without upheaving everything.
That Feeling of Flying Through The Night
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A superb self-publicist, he was never one to let truth get in the way of a good story.
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Drew is a good storyteller, and he gets fine performances from his cast.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ultimately, though, Lessing provides a cracking good story that diverts, entertains and stimulates.
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Everything about the film was good. Good acting, good story, good fun.
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What should a renowned publishing house do when it wants to republish a not-so-good story and a very good story from a world-famous author posthumously?
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It's a cheerful feel-good story about offering sick children hope and happiness.
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This is more than a feel-good story.
Times, Sunday Times
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I will tell the officers of the _dogana_ at Ventimiglia a good story -- trust me!
Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo
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His fascination with the subtleties of human behaviour makes him a good storyteller.
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It's a good story but I dare say it's apocryphal.
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The lyrics are witty, and it's a rip-roaring good story.
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Getting a good story relies in part on luck, but here is a checklist that might help when something happens near you.
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Before we did anything we wrote and rewrote the script until we felt what we had got written down was a really good story.
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I still think it's a good story, but I don't think it's "grabby" enough for a mainstream mag.
In the mail
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Outrageous fortune always makes for a good story, while hard-earned success seems less worthy of comment.
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The Guinness Book of Records based the title solely on results from Google, so there is bound to be a debate as to how real it is, but hey, never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
Undercover Music News
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The fast break procession of big-time hoopsters completely overshadows the surprisingly feel-good storyline.
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Movies still have more money to spend and continue to push the envelope, but since the 1930s screening of King Kong it's clear that simply adequate special effects coupled with a good story are sufficient to engross audiences.
MIND MELD: Which Medium is Driving Science Fiction...Books or Film/TV?
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Bick spends too much time on the minutiae of the ride itself and at times strains to be didactic, which is unnecessary with such a good story.
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They admitted there was an underspend; they didn't have a good story to tell.
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His is a good story and his example is peerless, but increasingly it's old hat for the dark and dangerous reasons that football has been kidnapped by the all-pervasive influence of global television.
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Oh well, never let the truth get in the way of a good storyTrouble is it's nigh on impossible to read between somes lines when the quoter is not listening but rearranging their prejudices.
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