Sentences with phrase «actively rooting for»

All live in the soft sands and are rarely found during the day except by visiting rays or other fish actively rooting for them.

But what Olympus Has Fallen manages to be is a thoroughly engaging flick the captures your attention and has you actively rooting for national pride.

The film manipulates the audience into actively rooting for Miranda's innocence, if only because Paulina is thoroughly unappealing.

The initial emphasis on Jack's decidedly mundane endeavors - ie he eats dinner with a priest, he meets with the aforementioned client, etc, etc - proves instrumental in transforming the character into a surprisingly compelling and sympathetic figure, which inevitably does heighten the suspense once the tense and thoroughly engrossing third act rolls around (ie the viewer can't help but actively root for Jack's success).

Russell's warm, thoroughly ingratiating turn as the central character proves instrumental in cementing Waitress» mild success, and although it's impossible to downplay the effectiveness of the supporting cast (which includes Cheryl Hines and Shelly herself), Fillion offers up an endlessly charismatic performance that, while lamentably limited in screen time, essentially forces the viewer to actively root for the permanent coupling of Jenna and Jim.

The uniformly amateurish cast - Tobin's Bell's expectedly entertaining (yet strangely pointless) cameo appearance notwithstanding - only exacerbates the film's various problems, as even the most forgiving viewer will find it exceedingly difficult to actively root for any of these people (something that's true even of Sevier's character, given that he clearly died at the end of the original).

Though we actively root for Casey and want her to escape, this story is really about James McAvoy's Dennis.

Smith's source novel is a bleak and lurid affair, and on screen that story gives us very few people to actively root for as Hardy and Rapace get caught between dismissive superiors and a poisonous ex-comrade thwarting their investigation to find a cardboard killer.

However, it is the complex, nuanced, and likable Stanton who will grab readers as they blindly follow and actively root for him with each turn of the page.

Not exact matches

If you root for humans over machines, you should probably favor «actively managed» funds where real humans use their experience, smarts, and savvy to try making money.

My point here is that not only does revelation not conflict with the demands of reasonableness rooted in our desire to know; it actively promotes our desire to know and its concern for reality.

For over a decade in North Philly, my faith community has been actively teaching kids nonviolence rooted in the truth that it is more courageous to love our enemies than to kill them (a truth I have learned from Jesus).

In this world, fans actively root against their favorite franchise, hope for losses, and utterly disdain the possibility of making the playoffs.

There's also a twist that you can't help but put your finger on; one of those twists that you actively root against happening for how ludicrous the reality of it would feel.

For example, programs like Concept - Oriented Reading Instruction (Guthrie, Wigfield, & Perencevich, 2004) and Seeds of Science — Roots of Reading (Cervetti, Pearson, Bravo, & Barber, 2006) support readers» use of investigative skills for exploring and actively answering questions about scientific content in hands - on learning environmenFor example, programs like Concept - Oriented Reading Instruction (Guthrie, Wigfield, & Perencevich, 2004) and Seeds of Science — Roots of Reading (Cervetti, Pearson, Bravo, & Barber, 2006) support readers» use of investigative skills for exploring and actively answering questions about scientific content in hands - on learning environmenfor exploring and actively answering questions about scientific content in hands - on learning environments.

As Dr. Kristin Cuilla, Senior Director of Partnerships and Communication at the NTN shared, instead of parachuting teachers in, the NTN works actively with people who have roots in the community, paving the way for innovative practices to be sustained over time.

If you root for humans over machines, you should probably favor «actively managed» funds where real humans use their experience, smarts, and savvy to try making money.

To be sure, this new transformation had roots going further back than the 1990s, especially among artists, who for decades were actively preoccupied with politics, black power, women's liberation, gay liberation, and more.

We'll actively monitor the comments section at our full guide on rooting the Nexus 7 on Windows for any questions or concerns you may have.

My interest in working as a locker room attendant at The Roots Gym isn't something new — I have been actively looking for just such a position since the gym started its operations in 2013.