Sentences with phrase «as the heroine works»

As the heroine works to unravel a web of secrets and lies, she begins to grasp the mysteries behind her family history and her grandfather's recent death.

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«As we celebrate June 12 as Democracy Day, let us remember the struggles and sacrifices of our heroes and heroines by continuing to be good citizens, by working hard and paying our taxeAs we celebrate June 12 as Democracy Day, let us remember the struggles and sacrifices of our heroes and heroines by continuing to be good citizens, by working hard and paying our taxeas Democracy Day, let us remember the struggles and sacrifices of our heroes and heroines by continuing to be good citizens, by working hard and paying our taxes.

James L. Brooks's comedy about people for whom work defines life stars Holly Hunter as the quintessential eighties heroine, juggling career and love, ethical lines and deadlines — and charts the era's shifts in the field of reporting.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

She then went to work for Cecil B. DeMille, who admired her courage and tenacity and cast her as the glamorously (and provocatively) garbed heroines of such lavish productions as Don't Change Your Husband (1918), Male and Female (1919), and The Affairs of Anatol (1920).

Gal Gadot is charismatic as the lead heroine; despite showing off impressive stunt work, I was more impressed with her emotional moments.

Sure to remind some of «Cellular,» the 2004 picture starring Kim Basinger, Chris Evans and Jason Statham, The Call is, for the most part, a gripping little tight - knit crime thriller directed by Brad Anderson («The Machinist «-RRB- and blessed with decent work by Halle Berry (Academy Award winner for «Monster's Ball «-RRB- as heroine Jordan, and Abigail Breslin (Oscar nominee for «Little Miss Sunshine «-RRB-, as Casey, the girl Jordan is trying to save.

Here we have a tough - but - tender cowgirl working her dead father's ranch with only a lovable grizzled old coot for a ranchhand; a somber villain moving through his dark house like Dracula in his castle, hatching designs on the heroine's land as well as her body; a land - grabbing industrialist conspiring with the local banker to turn rangeland into oil wells; a tall, quiet wrangler winning the girl's heart and saving her land to boot; singing cowboys, fireside heart - to - hearts, a crisis with hero and heroine trapped by villain in a burning building, a climactic shootout, and boy - gets - girl.

Whedon writes her as a «laugh - in - the - face - of - danger» kind of heroine and it really works here.

At times, it seems to be lionizing her, presenting her as something of a «working class heroine» fighting against discrimination.

First - time writer - director Courtney Moorehead Balaker does more skillful work showing the resolve that Keener's unassuming heroine has to muster as the case finally lands in US Supreme Court.

Once more, Katz works with a kinetic and inspired cast, featuring Game of Thrones hunk Nikolaj Coster - Waldau as the ex-cop Joe Denton, veteran heavies Robert Forster and Jacki Weaver as a very bewildered Mr. and Mrs. Denton, House of Cards heroine Molly Parker as an all - too - forgivable nurse, an ever - reliable Blair as an all - too - gullible friend, a supremely terrifying Healy as a mob boss» dickhead son, and the one and only Gary Cole as a dirty cop trying to cover his dirty ass.

The result is a trim, scrubbed work, as strange and distilled as a mid-1930s Tod Browning chiller, where the smallest hint of sentimentality or whimsy (say, the girls dancing to a pop song) is literally short - circuited and the mirror the heroine stares into in the final, closure - denying shot might have been pieced together from the same glass shards seen in the unnerving opening credits.

«The ghost is a metaphor,» the aspiring - author heroine says after a publisher dismisses her most recent work as a horror story (before telling her she should add a love story and complimenting her handwriting).

It's a random mishmash of juvenile ideas without a single lucid thread to hold them together, except for both the incessant CG bombast ripped off from video games and the works of Peter Jackson, the Wachowskis, and Quentin Tarantino, as well as the recurring lascivious gaze of Snyder's camera on the china - smooth skin and full lips of bleached - blond heroine Baby Doll (Emily Browning).

This cross-species romance is also an office romance, occurring as it does at the laxly run underground research facility (think Hellboy's bunker HQ, but populated mostly with humorless suits) where our speechless heroine works.

Roughly chronological, the listing is organized into subject headings such as Etiquette, Nurses, Girl Detectives, Tomboys, Working Girls, Heroines, and more.

Those ladies, showing us heroes and heroines and bending over us patiently to check our work as we sat around long Sunday school tables, were lifting us to higher places.

13 By Ken Akamatsu Kodansha Comics — I have to admit, I have no idea how time, dreamscapes, or indeed any aspect of magic work in Akamatsu's universe, and I suspect neither does he, as we're in a dreamscape that is also the past, except we also get the rest of the main UQ Holder heroines here as mind - controlled darkness versions of themselves, before EVERYONE is saved by Asuna showing up with her big - ass sword, something so unbelievable even Eva has to say she doesn't think she's the real Asuna.

It's not actively bad, and certainly good for a chuckle, but seeing this comedic take on a cafe, and the life of the plucky yet dense heroine, Hotori, who works there as a maid, I was reminded that most of the slice - of - life we see here these days tends to be 4 - koma style.

As for the starting point, Boyd, credits a trio of games for inspiring his work on Cosmic Star Heroine, and they're pretty heavy hitters.

- World End Syndrome is a love x mystery adventure game, set in a town called Mikamachi, and located in cove - protagonist moves there, and ends up meeting the various heroines - developed by Toybox, and published by Arc System Works - releasing in April 26 in Japan - characters: Rei Nikaidou (voiced by Ibuki Kudo): main member of an idol group known as «Zettai Zetsumei Panda» (which could be translated as Perfectly Dead Panda).

Sophia Vari: Recent Works August 17 - September 20, 1998 As part of the celebration of the dedication of Wichita State University's Plaza of Heroines, the Ulrich Museum has brought together an exhibition of maquettes, or small models, and drawings by Sophia Vari, the artist whose sculpture, Danseuse Espagnole, is the centerpiece of the plaza.

From early black - and - white photographs in which she poses as a Hitchcock heroine in unresolved scenes from films we almost recognise, to later works that more violently transfigure her features with monster makeup, Sherman evokes the tales that shape who people become.

By casting African American women as the «heroines» of her works, she makes a profound statement regarding gender and racial identity.

But her work as Aloy in Horizon: Zero Dawn may be her most impactful role to date, as she plays an inspiring heroine in the post-apocalyptic tribal landscape.