Sentences with phrase «animated by a desire»

The film suggests that Johnson was animated by a desire not to be seen as an «accidental president» who inherited the office thanks to tragedy.

Her work consistently displays a profound awareness of conditions beyond gender, class and nation — our human condition, animated by desire and vulnerability, power and mortality, warfare and spirituality.

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Even this nostalgia - tinted memory of a sensual moment of connection in a flagging relationship is wrapped up in an in - joke: animated by an urgent desire for weed, it is the only moment in the film that Doc runs anywhere.

Tormented by the voices of angels and demons (respectively personified by his dog and cat, supplied with animated mouths), Jerry Hickfang attempts — with little success — to negotiate a peaceful path between his desire to meet people and his habit of killing them.

Unrelentingly pedestrian cash grab where Disney remakes another one of their animated classics only does so by creating a carbon copy of the original that's content to pander to an audience's most basic desires with absolutely no wish to make a case for existing in its own right.

Professor Fernando Reimers, who has an ongoing collaboration with the NIE as part of the cross-national study of 21st century education he directs, expressed «I am deeply honored by this invitation of my colleagues in the NIE, to further our already productive exchanges, animated by our common desire to advance knowledge that can help all children gain the skills they will need to become architects of their own lives and contributing members of their communities.

At the same time psychologizing and seduced by her subject, the artist finds herself in a double bind, a dilemma that resonates with the muddled desire that animates her protagonist as he drifts from abject rants to declamations of heroic poetry or unashamed self - praise.

His desire for the utopian led him to work with Ken Knowlton in a co-operation at Bell Labs, where dozens of computer animated films and holographic experiments were created by the end of the 1960s.