Sentences with phrase «actions of the other characters»

Students will create interactive scenes in which characters will respond to the actions of other characters initially through the telling of jokes.

The choices the player makes as the protagonist influence the emotions and actions of the other characters in the game, shifting the story in huge ways.

Not exact matches

Kids, like the rest of us, fall prey to this cognitive bias, which causes people to blame other people's bad actions on their horrible character and our own on circumstances beyond our control.

From playing various sports at the Olympic Games to beating other Nintendo characters senseless in Super Smash Bros., Mario has seen action in all kinds of video game genres.

In a plot of character, this pattern undergoes qualitative change in response to its adventures with other propositions (action) and to the emerging implications of its perspective on the past and anticipation of the future (thought).

He went on to say: «The other arts — architecture, painting, vestments, and the arts of movement — each contribute to and support the beauty of the liturgy, but still the art of music is greater even than that of any other art, because it forms a necessary or integral part of the solemn liturgy, because it is so intimately bound to the sacred action, defining and differentiating the various parts in character, motion and importance.»

In the above - mentioned person - and - rock discussion in which he rejected the superiority of the person's nonstone capacity for «inclusion» of the stone in his field of thought and action, Professor Nishitani maintained that Zen Nothingness (sunyata), because of its indeterminate character, could include both the person and the rock in a «loving» relation, in which (1) each party could relate to the other in the true meaning of «love,» without let or hindrance; and (2) at the same time respect the true identity of the other being without coercing it into any preformed, or prejudged, relational framework.

A friendship might be based either on the respective desires of the friends, as each brought satisfaction to the other, or on admiration of the excellence of one another's character and action.

Don Draper is marginal to most of its action; two watchable characters (Roger Sterling and Joan Harris) are absent from it entirely; and we endure two eruptions of gratuitous weirdness, one in the form of kinky sex, the other in the form of sexualized mutilation.

After an armistice was signed in the summer of 1953 the Century indicated its support of the United Nations action in Korea by asserting that «now that aggression has been restrained at great cost in life and material, it is to be hoped that communist expansionists have been taught a lesson and that no other test of like character will be demanded of United Nation members» (August 5).

Pick out stickers of your child's favorite character, whether it's Mickey Mouse or an action hero, and give him one sticker for each day that he behaves well (you can also assign stickers to chores or other actions).

Labour, on the other hand, says Cameron's response is typical of his character, and that he was unable to win the support of the country for military action against Assad because he failed to listen to the opinions of others.

«Several times we observed prolonged interactions that took on a game - like back - and - forth character, which is reminiscent of how preverbal toddlers interact by way of imitating other's play actions» says Dr. Gabriela - Alina Sauciuc, who conducted the study together with Persson.

Specifically, participants were less likely to make negative character inferences from their own unethical behavior than from others» unethical behavior, believed they would feel worse after an unethical action than others would, and believed they were less capable of extreme unethical behavior compared to others.

Other texts such as the Bhagavata Purana and Ramayana contain descriptions of the lives and actions of great sages and characters who have attained the highest states of yoga.

You have the option to play as Marlin, Dory, or Nemo and, as you live the action of the film's storyline, you'll meet all the other memorable characters.

Visceral action (including an opening sequence that masterfully sets the tone for the rest of the film); a sharply written and directed script; rich, dynamic characters; and, as promised, the world's cutest cat (other than yours if you have one) combine to create a gut - busting, endearing, salty - sweet, and highly re-watchable comedy.

That said, it's largely action and character driven, though with so many characters in play there's no way to avoid the necessity of some getting far more attention than others.

And both actors are a bit outside of their comfort zones in The Other Guys; Ferrell generally doesn't do a whole lot of action (admittedly, neither does his character), while Wahlberg has yet to star in a well - reviewed comedy (we loved I Heart Huckabees, but many critics didn't).

Dragon Ball Z Battle of Z will let players form teams with up to four characters to participate in group melee action, take on massive boss battles, or challenge other players around the world for brawls featuring up to eight characters on screen at the same time.

Other than a token fealty to the variable degrees by which characters» actions are governed by some sense of human connection instead of purely self - interest, Predators doesn't offer up much in the way of subtext or nuance.

While it is true that the unassailable main character who leaves a wake of bodies in their path isn't often a waiflike teen girl, and not all action flicks feature European scenery (a novelty for North American audiences), the gratuitous content is just like most other offerings in this genre.

Elsewhere, the classic stories of Cinderella (Anna Kendrick) and Red Riding Hood (Lilla Crawford)- among several other fairy tale characters - play out just as you remember them, only this time we also get to see the consequences of their actions.

With required action sequences, tie - ins to other Marvel appearances and characters, not to mention world - building and development of the hero, only so much time is left to spend on the villain.

Not necessarily, it looks like DK Tropical Freeze is not some mere «2D cartoon platformer», but has multiple tiers of action, with level interaction and very large intricate enemies attacking from the foreground and background, a lot of very highly detailed and fluidly animated elements within each level, not to mention who knows how advanced the enemy AI is for each character on the screen possibly acting independently or interdependently of each other, all this requires lots of processor power to pull off let alone maintain a steady 60 fps.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

Unlike the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm series which is more and more a mess of technical, balance and gameplay issues these days, Brave Soldiers delivers what is a nice, franchise - based fighting game, at first, i was expecting a simple fighting game with some button mashing, however, the game proved me wrong and i fell in love, the combo system, while easy, is a lot more deep than the one in the Naruto games, with all of the characters having two special attacks, two «burst attacks», a knock - away and a launcher respectively, a throw and an ultimate attack (called a «Big Bang Attack»), every character also has an universal dodge - action that sends them behind their enemies while spending one cosmo bar, making bar management that much precious and shielding you from a half - a-hour combo, unlike in the NUNS series, the fighting and the characters are nicely balanced, with every character being fun to play and viable at the same time, the game runs smoothly without frame - rate issues and the cell - shaded graphics, character models, arenas and effects alike are nice to the eye, battles are divided into rounds, with all the tiny nice stuff like character introductions and outros being intact (fun fact: the characters will even comment on their score after the battle), the game also features an awakening system, called the «Seventh Sense» awakening, unlike the NUNS awakening system which became severely unbalanced in the later game, every character simply gains a damage / defense boost, with the conditions being the same for all characters, eliminating situations when one character can use awakening at almost any point in the battle, or one awakening being drastically stronger than the other, the game has a story mode with three story arcs used to unlock characters, a collection mode, tournament modes, a survival mode, a series of special versus modes and online battle modes.

Unlike other bio-pics that relate a characters personal struggles to the larger story and actions that they become famous for, directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris make no attempt to connect those two aspects of King's life.

What's it all about: When the world learns that a comet will end life on Earth, it triggers the actions of an unusual group of characters that don't seem to have any connection to each other.

Other characters are brought on and primed for spin - offs: Tom Holland's Spider - Man, the second big - screen reboot of Spidey this century, impresses in a chattery cameo; Chadwick Boseman's Black Panther (a black character who isn't primarily someone's second best friend) is fluid in action and stiff out of costume in a potentially interesting way.

Some revolve around finding lost items, others investigating the actions of a sinister organisation, and it's arguable that the main drive of Tim's character to find his father quickly becomes overshadowed by every other problem.

There's no other games that really bring that blend of role playing elements, third - person action, and the simulated world and community - based character development.

As expected, the HBO series marks the arrival of a larger - than - life sci - fi epic jam packed with memorable characters, excellent turns from actors Ed Harris and Evan Rachel Wood (among others), and enrapturing action sequences that have emotional payoff to match.

Not that the characters look realistic, but within their established cartoon world, their movements are completely fluid, their environs intricately presented, and even the physics of their action carry the proportions necessary to avoid taking us out of the moment, as so many other recent animated films tend to do.

In some of those, characters from one frame even stand in top of the other frame — showing the battle in action as one player attempts to gain power (i.e. great players and privileges) over another.

Some of the characters assume guilt for the actions of others.

Language: English Genre: Crime / Action MPAA rating: R Director: Robert Rodriguez Actors: Clive Owen, Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba Plot: Four stories that interweave between each other told through the voices of characters involved.

The zone has been featured prominently in the universe of Superman but this movie gets much mileage out of its ability to bring characters and ideas from other stories into this action - packed spectacle.

This extends to other actions as well, such as sending a staff wielding character to heal a character on the brink of death.

This parody of gung ho action films lets you take control of characters who are obviously based on your typical line - up of stereotypes such as Rambo, Schwarzi and others who all have their special weapons and traits.

Boogie Nights contains more great characters and scenes than most movies deliver nowadays, and definitely is worth watching for no other reason than to view one of Hollywood's major filmmaking talents in action.

It's not spoiling anything to say that Steve refuses to fire the drone missile after first noticing the girl, and that's because the majority of Eye in the Sky follows its characters as they try to convince each other — and themselves — what the best plan of action is now that an innocent child's life might be ended by their decision.

He's pretty actively involved, he's got quite an important Infinity Stone that's in his vicinity, and that draws him into the action, as well as a couple of other characters» plights — and stuff happens.

Gosling's performance as the wounded soul with pure ambitions, flawed judgment, and passion that could turn to tenderness or violence bubbling just beneath his cool façade anchors the first section and carries through as a phantom defining so many of the characters» actions in the other acts of the movie.

Although all of the characters are detestable in terms of their actions and egotism, we like them all despite their vices, and seeing them engage with each other and constantly manipulate the situation proves to be one of the more subtle delights in a film full of such choice little moments.

While all of the other movies were trying to cram tons of high - energy action sequences and cool one - liners into just 30 seconds, the first trailer for Matthew Vaughn's X-Men prequel takes its time establishing a tone and a time period, putting drama and characters above flashy visual effects.

My cluelessness didn't bother me, because the film depends more on mood and character than many of the others, and key actions seem to be alarmingly taking place off - screen.

Many of our greatest action movies are about ordinary characters doing extraordinary things, but off - beat casting choices can add a whole other meta - dimension to this idea, showing us actors we'd previously not thought of as action heroes stepping up to play big parts.

Writer - director Shane Black's horribly enjoyable action comedy The Nice Guys is an jauntily arch return to this tradition, the story of two dishevelled and incompetent private detectives in 1970s Los Angeles — played by Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling — who have been expensively tasked with solving the mystery surrounding the death of a missing porn actress, and what other kind of fascinatingly damaged female character can there be?

Lovelace would appear to be, from her actions, a complex character with her own wishes, dreams and desires — many which would seem alien to you or me, and yet she is drawn to be an empty vessel, through which the wishes, dreams and desires of others are poured into.