Sentences with phrase «about building a character»

«Is this policy primarily about building character or is it about influencing young people about the benefits of the armed forces?

But all of this is about building a character into the car.

We all go through some experiences that... they talk about building character and helping you prioritize and redirect your focuses.

Continuing our series of Road to the IGF interviews with nominees, we talk to the Fullbright Company's Steve Gaynor about building a character the team hopes is unique and nuanced enough that learning her story is motivation enough to interact with the world.

This message from Melissa Michaels provides both with her post about Building Character in Your Children.

Not exact matches

«For our purposes, we have a character that's natural at building empathy, whose story inspires passion and understanding about the world and a desire to help and participate,» Grenier says.

Your logo and colors are all about making a fast impression, whereas your image and character require some investment — they need to be built over time.

Now Twitter, which has 302 million active users, faces deep questions about the future of its messaging service, which is built around 140 - character snippets of text in a world that is increasingly about photos and video.

During my own times of adversity, believe me I have had a few tough ones and will have some for the rest of my life, I do not think about character building....

Readers are thus made to feel like witnesses to what actually happened, with access to the thoughts and motives both of the characters in the drama and of those who wrote about them, the authors of the sources used to build an uncluttered reality.

If we are engaged in chastity education rather than giving information about sex, it is easy to show that such education, is part of the character building for children that finds its natural place in the home.

(Look at the women in Ireland and The Dominican Rep. who died because of being denied an abortion recently) You are SO correct about Hitler being a xstian, google away... «Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith... We need believing people.»

These skills are helpful in building character and rediscovering the «vanishing» American adult the junior senator from Nebraska writes about.

«What young people really need is not more talk about the mechanics of sex and contraception, but encouragement to develop the character qualities of stability, faithfulness and commitment - the qualities they will need to build a strong and lasting marriage based on something that runs deeper than feelings and physical attraction.»

As William Rowe points out, when a fawn burns to death in a forest fire and no human being ever knows about it, this apparently unnecessary evil does nothing to build the character of human beings.

He believes Muray does not so much build on as offer an alternative to Hauerwas» thinking about virtue, character and Christian theology.

As such he does not so much build on as offer an alternative to Hauerwas» thinking about virtue, character and Christian theology.

How about talking him through it and building his character and confidence?

Over a chef salad at the small café just across the casino floor, Jimmy talks about a Vegas long passed, casinos that are barely a memory and the characters that built this town who are now on the cusp of being forgotten.

All football coaches like to think they are «building character,» but Lawrence High's Woolard nurses no illusion about how it's done.

We do not have street wisdom and about building the Emirates, as much as it makes financial sense and glitters so well, I think most of us will take an Highbury laden with trophies and full of life and character over a lifeless and bland Emirates where fans are not even allowed to passionately support their team.

If Mr wenger built a team who never lost it tells me he can build a team remember a team consists of 11 different characters with different back grounds beliefs and aspirations and problems with another 11 to back them up I remember years ago the press used to talk about arsenal and not having English players on the field never the less I know off our own fatalities as such we were somehow always coming up little short by injuries to such Edwardo vanpercie and even gas diaby ramsy rosiscky carzola and many more and others that did nt seem to gel well I am not blind and I know we are not doing well but to suggest that Mr wenger docent have a clue is totally preposterous and disrespectful

We talk about things like the «pink aisle» and the «action figure aisle» and «character clothes» - my kids don't have barbies or princesses or superheros or spongebob shirts... because who wants to play with an already dressed princess in a ready - made molded plastic castle when you can build a castle or design your own dress and who wants to wear spongebob on their shirt when he's a grumpy guy and the tye - dye shirt you make yourself is much cooler?

Your child can learn about emotions by building Emotion lego characters, and drawing their expressions on with dry erase pens.

She is the second of four characters in the natural baby care book about the Ten Building Blocks of Organic Baby Care.

Home education is not just about academics, it is a character - building journey for the whole family and especially for the parents!

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«It requires about 150 volunteers, including costumed characters, who scare people both on the grounds and in the buildings, and non-costumed volunteers who help with logistics,» DeFalco said.

He talks about how character is built through failure, especially for kids who are real successes as adolescents in the narrow realm of academics.

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Choosing lots of different books to read aloud will build your preschooler's vocabulary, and help your child learn about different topics and understand how stories are structured and what characters do in them.

I love to give gifts that help kids build character — there are so many awesome ways we can teach our kids about positive character traits and there are some amazing books, games, and other fun resources that can help.

Success, he argues, is about how young people build character.

The ICCC's plans have been heavily criticized by community leaders, who say the group was not upfront about the senior housing proposal and the buildings are out of character with the surrounding community.

He was concerned about building heights, and the effect raising them would have on the «character» of some neighborhoods, «something we work on all the time to protect.»

Premier Sports Blog exist to talk about the different aspects in athletics in which can be implemented into the athletic environment in order to build a positive, character - driven program!

Built for mobile, users upload a photo and 200 characters about an experience they enjoyed, rather than a review of a place so it focuses on recommendations.

The combat is a chore as the enemies have hitboxes larger than your dodge rolls meaning you will get hit EVERY TIME, the weapons are about as useful as a toothpick against a sword unless you're playing on super easy mode, the story is an illogical mess with some interesting world building mechanics, the characters are about as deep as a kiddy pool in a hotel resort, and the main character never shuts the hell up.

Gillespie smartly uses the known and builds upon it with context and some style, using «modern day» Tonya, Jeff and LaVona among others as interview subjects for a documentary of sorts that frames the film, but also has the characters speak into the camera in non-interview segments to help give Tonya some humanity, or at least make sure you have a better idea about all of her story and life coming out and you did going in.

It's hard to call it thrilling — these aren't characters you actually care about and De Palma isn't as concerned with building tension as playing visual games — but it sure sparkles.

Predators is well paced with a good build up and the right degree of character development you need to care about the fate of the human characters.

There's also great replay value as you can try different character builds and collect different sets of loot to swap about.

Sure, there are some stereotypes about Irish people in America covered here and not all characters are as round and interesting but it's still pretty damn exciting to follow the bomber's path of destruction and the booby traps and chain reactions he builds.

For the rest, he hired a screenwriter to build a story around these bits of business, along with characters the audience would care about.

As he tells Dr. Madeleine Swann (Léa Seydoux, «The Lobster»), Bond never stops to think about what he does, but the film does think about it, creating a sober and intriguing engagement with the character and his legacy that builds upon the concerns of «Skyfall.»

... As we await news on Disney's acquisition of 20th Century Fox and its plans for the X-Men and Fantastic Four, excitement is starting to build about the prospect of the characters being incorporated into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

A sprawling set of mostly unnecessary characters flounder around in the background (they're all about as sharply drawn as the cast of extras filling Times Square in one scene), building the importance of this ambitious rescue mission, sort of like Gravity churned through later period David Lean.

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.

In those 30 pages they never left the hut, never said what the point was of the entire adventure that everyone would soon go on, very little character building of the 13 Dwarves just a bunch of silly singing, eating and reading about how purplexed Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) was at the shenanigans going around him.

Moreover, Aronofsky, as an artist, skillfully uses this commentary to build a memorable character that we can care about.