Sentences with phrase «about human characters»

Whether it is the way in which their lips and mouths transfer, the way in which their hair appears to be like, or the eerie deadness of their eyes, one thing about human characters all the time feels a bit off.

Bay's focus has always been first and foremost about his human characters.

It is more about human characters doing whatever it takes under extreme circumstances to stay alive in terms of «action film» techniques.

Bay's focus has always been first and foremost about the human character - shaped stereotypes the likes of which populate all of his other films, from the wisecracking, fast - talking protagonist to the various grumbling, dorky comic - relief characters to the inevitable no - nonsense Special Forces guys.

The massive cast blends together and the plotlines messily overlap, per usual Altman style, but the small character moments revealed here are rich and reveal a lot of insight about human character.

Not exact matches

In the end, understanding the world is about understanding people, and fiction gives you the best, most nuanced, most varied human stories and character portrayals.

You might agree with the Times about how a wizard of Dumbledore's moral superiority should be immune to the weaknesses of human sexuality or you may side with some of Rowling's fans who think a strong gay character is leap for gay rights.

But neither can politics, particularly liberal democratic politics, function for long without reference to sustaining roots, and especially to assumptions about the inviolable sources of human dignity that can rightly be called religious in character.

The saga showcases elements of truth — truth about the human experience, the cosmos, the character of a hero, and the nature of life itself.

That faith, plus other perceptions about our personal lives and the course of human history, provided a dimension to our stories that I call their setting: the world the story sets in which story's plot can credibly unfold and its character develop.

For example, since skin color has no demonstrable relation to intellectual ability, esthetic sensitivity, or character, it follows that no significant conclusions about a person's characteristically human behavior can be drawn from the nature of his pigmentation.

Now meditation as an exercise in prayer is no different from this sort of natural and normal human experience, except that it is thought about God, about God's character and his activity in the world.

And back then, wasn't it the fans wrapped up in «theories» who were ultimately disappointed when they found out that Lost wasn't really concerned with answering the thousands of questions it had raised — that it was less a heady show about theology and science and more an emotional show about its characters and the human experience?

In the early modern period, political thinkers formulated a new conception of natural law, whose distinctive character has defined a distinctively modern tradition of thought about natural or human rights.

The Holocaust was, in largest part, the consequence of ideas about human nature, human rights, the imperatives of history and scientific progress, the character of law, the bonds and obligations of political community.

Niebuhr's optimism is not optimism about human achievements but about divine achievements that can transform the destructive character of our human achievements.

In Chinese the character for «trouble» is two women in the same house, which says something about the Chinese view of human relations.

Atheist and believer will disagree too about the definition of the human person, about the sources and character of power, about definitions of success and materialism, the power and place of reason in the struggle for bread.

The Corporeal Nature of Freedom and its Sphere Before speaking of the existence of freedom and in freedom something will have to be said about the specifically human creatureliness of freedom which will clarify the dialectical character of our relation to our own and other people's freedom.

That testing includes a continuing attention to whatever the special sciences tell us about the conditions and the character of human motivations.

In the Joseph story in Genesis, God brings about his purposes by working within the network of human causes; God never becomes a character within the story with whom other characters interact.

It is an opera about the fundamental duplicity of the human character; to depict this, Wagner puts the tenor's voice under the utmost stress to portray Tannhäuser's disjointed psychology.

When my new acquaintance discovered that I was a theologian and that I was particularly interested in studying how Romanesque art and architecture illustrated the Augustinian - Anselmian character of the faith of the early Middle Ages — with its profound pessimism about the human condition apart from grace — the conversation sent him into a mood of self - reproach and even to consideration of abandoning his dissertation topic.

But this sets off a titanic tug - of - war in several characters» souls about the relative claims of human and divine love.

@Godpot... (God — pot... I'll have to try that... seems Dad has been holding back...) and that Moses character... I'll wager there was more than just a bush burnin» up there... (wouldn't know... me and that bird were trying to figure out the physics of stuffing «God» into a human womb right about that time... I'm thinking all these characters, not just me, were a bit «touched» as my child «Reality» likes to say...: 0)

This may be true with some people about some things, but overall, the Bible has grown organically, is very close to human experiences of people over centuries and millennia, speaks the truth about our frailty, draws characters that are complex, raw, and authentic, warts and all.

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.

It is abhorrent to my soul to talk inhumanly about greatness, to let it loom darkly at a distance in an indefinite form, to make out that it is great without making the human character of it evident — wherewith it ceases to be great.

Suffice it to say that the conceptuality which I accept — and accept because it seems to do justice to deep analysis of human experience and observation, as well as to the knowledge we now have of the way «things go» in the world — lays stress on the dynamic «event» character of that world; on the inter-relationships which exist in what is a societal universe, on the inadequacy of «substance» thinking to describe such a universe of «becoming» and «belonging», on the place of decisions in freedom by the creatures with the consequences which such decisions bring about, and on the central importance of persuasion rather than coercive force as a clue to the «going» of things in that universe.

I think he's a strong character too, seeing as a weaker human will turn to putty reading what «fans» write / think about him?

It's a wonderful story for a start, with some of the most perceptive characters ever created, but it's also full of wisdom about the nature of human relationships.

One thing that struck me about WeiWei was his ability to tell the human story and shine a light on individual characters abused by the Chinese state.

On a test of children's willingness to share any of 10 stickers with a child described as unable to participate in the experiment, listeners to the tale with human characters forked over an average of nearly three stickers, about one more than the kids had donated before the experiment.

The contest involves writing a 500 - word essay in English, or 1,500 characters in Japanese, about translational medicine, which is a relatively new scientific field where human health is promoted by facilitating communication among those dedicated to basic and clinical research and its application.

Although it's clear that participants are purposely placed in coercive situations, we nonetheless think we are seeing something real and noteworthy about the character and the psychology of fellow humans.

Such a strong reaction persuaded Pixar to avoid making uncannily realistic human characters — it has since focused its efforts on films about living toys, curious robots and talking cars to win Academy Awards and moviegoers» hearts.

Random House, 2011 New York Times columnist David Brooks invents two characters, Harold and Erica, to illustrate recent scientific discoveries about human nature and the quest for success, following their paths from birth to old age.

There were zero human characters I cared about.

Other films about miniature characters interacting with the human world can be found in Toy Story and Stuart Little.

While this is definitely about animals and right around the world, this is also a very touching human story that cares about relationships and characters.

Forget the lack of deep character development and insight into the human condition, that's not what this film ever promised to be about.

It would seem foolish to complain about shallow characterization in a film like this, though in my opinion it should have either actually developed compelling human characters or dwelt less on them.

About two - thirds of the way through Jonathan Glazer's Under The Skin, Scarlett Johansson's character - an alien masquerading as a human named «Laura» - decides to go rogue.

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.

Aside from these momentary lapses and some third - act stuff that wants us to take the characters far more seriously as human beings than we're capable of doing, «The Campaign» is an effective vulgar comedy about two idiots competing with each other.

There's little that's human about such a character, who becomes entirely defined by the crime perpetrated against her.

A documentary about trans women in Puerto Rico, Mala Mala offers viewers both the glitz and the humdrum from a variety of colorful yet human characters, from Ivana Fred, a politically - minded woman who spends her evenings passing out condoms to sex workers, to Sandy Rivera, a sex worker with a loving cisgender boyfriend.

The character designs are nothing to write home about, and the humans are a little clunky, but the environments look pretty good, and there are some relatively impressive sequences.

Which other Marvel character would openly (and happily) talk about the 2009 Dutch horror film «The Human Centipede» mid-conversation?

None of these monsters — and I've cited only a fraction of the full repertory — ever comes within hailing distance of a recognizable human; this caricaturing gives John Turturro an enjoyable turn as a vain Mexican bowler (who has practically nothing to do with the plot), but it shortchanges Steve Buscemi, who plays another bowling buddy of the Dude's, a relatively important character we're supposed to care about but mainly don't.