Sentences with phrase «about flawed characters»

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Heath points out that, when asked about what motivates wrongdoing, most people say it has a lot to do with greed, or with other deep character flaws.

In fact, that this election became less about conflicting ideas for achieving the same goal (the common good of Americans) and more about making sure everyone knows your opponents» deep character flaws is axiomatic.

Religious conservatives complained about voters» indifference toward abortion and President Clinton's evident character flaws, while religious liberals lamented public apathy toward social injustice and Speaker Gingrich's ethical lapses.

What is deeply troubling about tragedy is that it involves more than our individual will to action, or our intellects; it involves character flaws so grave that they permeate the actions of complete families and whole communities.

... Many people expected evangelicals would forget about the issues and vote only on the character flaws of the two candidates, if they voted at all.

They assume my messiness is laziness, or some other character flaw, and that forgetting diaper wipes means I don't care about my kids.

But business interests aside — and he insists he had written off the idea of getting his money back long ago — Casale also said he has «bigger concerns» about Wendy Long's character that makes him believe she's too flawed to run again.

It's a clear pattern and a major character flaw, walking on the 4th Estate when they're asking legitimate questions about Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

The best thing about this show (and the story it's based on) is that its characters are irreparably flawed, but painlessly lovable nonetheless.

RULES OF ENGAGEMENT William Fried kin's court - martial drama about a Yemen massacre takes on additional interest because the main character, a fiery - eyed Marine combat hero (Samuel L. Jackson), is presented as a believably flawed man.

Just about every character in this tale about a wannabe pageant princess has a prominent flaw that only makes them more endearing, particularly Alan Arkin as the heroin - snorting granddad and Toni Collette as the over-worked mother.

It also corrects the major flaw of Iron Man (2008), which forgot about characters during its final battle, concentrating on the clashing and clanging of two digital blips.

J.R. gained fame for his large - scale photography exhibits / installations featuring people he happened to meet; Varda has earned acclaim for making movies about characters who are humanly flawed and realistic.

In Part 1 of our video interview, Haggis speaks with us about the nature of love, his love for flawed characters, the selfishness of artists, the painful process of writing the script, the influence of Blow - Up, and more.

Fesnadillo previously made the curious Intacto in his native Spain, a brilliant yet flawed thriller about luck as a commodity, and here he does honour the original 28 Days Later..., but thankfully starts from scratch with new characters.

Glascott spoke about Chekhov's creation of flawed human characters, her's was a bored, frustrated, neglected woman who behaved disgracefully and that all the characters in The Duel are both likeable and unlikeable.

It's certainly not the perfect option for that, having been subject to all sorts of criticism from its treatment of race relations to its arguable redemption arc for arguably its most despicable character to its stereotypical look at small town America (a movie made by an Irish director about the flaws of America seems like it could get an extra boost from a voting body like the HFPA).

Although the film ends with a hopeful note about putting the past behind and building upon happiness for the future, the downsides of pat characterizations is that we never get the sense that the burdens they carry and flaws in their character will ever allow them anything more then a temporary lift up out of the abyss of misanthropy.

Thankfully, because Bertino and Ketai put so much emphasis on crafting three - dimensional characters, because Kinsey, Cindy, Mike and Luke are all collectively flawed, each wanting to do what's best for the entire family even if they don't always know how to do it, caring about their collective fate still happens immediately.

There isn't a moment, either, when Weiner comes clean about his duplicitous acts or admits some sort of deep character flaw: He simply expects you to take him at face value and let his work — not his personal dalliances — define him.

From the grief - stricken Kristen Stewart contemplating the existence of her own spirituality as Maureen in Personal Shopper to the burgeoning determination that manifests slowly but surely in Mildred Loving's (Ruth Negga) incorrigible spirit in Loving as she seeks justice for her so - deemed illegal interracial marriage, to the existential despair of Emily Dickinson (Cynthia Nixon) in A Quiet Passion that is largely shaped by the suffocating position women had to endure in the 1800s — to say nothing of the micro-nuance on display in the tripartite Certain Women — I could ramble on for thousands of words about the things I've learned during this festival watching beautiful, brave, and flawed women characters try to move through their lonely fictional worlds.

Flaws with the filmmaking could perhaps have been forgiven for a tour - de-force central turn, but there's little to learn about the character once the first couple of reels are through.

It's a comic tragedy about deeply flawed characters wrestling with their consciences in a quiet, European city.

t's a comic tragedy about deeply flawed characters wrestling with their consciences in a quiet, European city.

Whether it's the warm emotional ties of a friendship, or the harsh dilemmas of everyday life, Brewer isn't afraid of exposing his character's flaws, nor is he modest about exploiting their strengths.

Granted, the characters aren't exactly saints, but for the most part, they're likable human beings with very real flaws that you actually care about.

The good news about Short Cuts is that it's Altman soup — with a few characters and situations from Carver stories tossed in for flavor — and for all its flaws it's real art, packed with irony.

Staff *** What is most lovely and amazing about this story of a family of confused women is director Holofcener's wit, timing, and affection for her highly flawed characters.

All the elements are in play for a crackling good, Macbeth - like tale about ambitious but fatally flawed characters, but the erratic screenplay by Christopher Kyle lacks confidence as it swings from glossy romance to creepy thriller, leaving us feeling detached along the way.

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The main flaw though was probably the author's failure to make any of the characters (as kids or adults) particularly charismatic or compelling and so for a reader it was really difficult to care about their story.

Andrea Kaufman does a marvelous job creating characters with major personality flaws and turns them into people with heart and substance... I especially enjoyed the intellectual aspects of the book as Gloria writes and comments about her women poets and she collaborates with Henry regarding the poetry / music of Van Morrison.

And while this adds an amusing thread, it is not especially important to the novel as a whole, which is really about a cast of highly flawed characters, each on a collision course towards personal disaster.

We've talked about character flaws.

Flawed is a New Adult series about people with super-human weaknesses, and each book focuses on a different main character, though the characters intermingle between the books.

If you want to be rude about it, then that's your character flaw, not mine.