Sentences with phrase «as brooding»

Palmer tweaks the traditional family saga with wry social commentary and tinges of malevolence as brooding as an English winter rain.

It takes a lot of work, and Michael Fassbender's misplaced talents as a brooding Norwegian detective, to do all three at once.

With a similar precision to the sharp blade seen in the film's opening moments (helping create one of the most arresting depictions of equine violence since The Godfather), Thoroughbreds immediately announces its arrival into the annals of teen angst dramas, playing out as a brooding bildungsroman of female friendship and murderous pacts that translates as...

On the heels of his own breakthrough role with Inside Llewyn Davis, Oscar Isaac is effective as the brooding and sensual lover.

Affleck is mild - mannered but never mythic and despite his turn as a brooding Batman, gravitas still flees when he enters a room.

Franco, who's absolutely hysterical as the brooding, deluded Wiseau, leads a parade of familiar faces -LSB-...] delivering a winning, Ed Wood-esque blend of comedy and pathos that could very well earn its own cult status

Franco, who's absolutely hysterical as the brooding, deluded Wiseau, leads a parade of familiar faces, including his brother Dave, Seth Rogen, Alison Brie, Josh Hutcherson, Melanie Griffith and Sharon Stone, delivering a winning, Ed Wood-esque blend of comedy and pathos that could very well earn its own cult status when Warner Bros. locks in an as - yet - undetermined release date.

The ideal candidate for this material would be David Fincher or perhaps Steven Soderbergh; Stone's corny, indiscriminate direction recasts Snowden (Joseph Gordon - Levitt) as the brooding, fist - clenching hero of a bogus spy movie, complete with a couple of fictional mentors played by Rhys Ifans and Nicolas Cage.

Pederson (best known as the brooding cop in Ivan Sen's Mystery Road, and here playing against type to great effect) and Glenane are both terrifying with their respective characters» urges, which demand only sparse explanation and analysis in the film.

Wes Studi steals the show as brooding Magua oozing menace and screen presence throughout.

As Bond, we can see that Craig as a brooding side — all it would take is some sharp flashes of anger and we could have a fearsome villain.

Her powerfully - grounding performance is matched in intensity by those of Abigail Breslin as the taken for granted Anna; Sofia Vassilieva as the wasting away Kate; Jason Patric as the stoic family patriarch; Evan Ellingson as the brooding big brother; Alec Baldwin as a vulnerable crusader for the underdog; and Joan Cusack as a judge concerned about the best interest of the plaintiff.

Effectively remaking his earlier 1940s - set romp The Rocketeer, Joe Johnston directs Captain America not as a brooding exploration of human frailty, as today's superhero movies tend to be, but as a ripping yarn, one which has its share of funny lines, but without any irony to undermine the Boy's Own heroics.

What made the film so amazing was the portrayal by film legend Kurt Russell as the brooding anti-hero.

Death Metal Angola starts as a brooding national crisis doc and ends as a concert film.

Keaton doesn't play Wayne as a brooding neurotic; he's more of an eccentric, distracted, socially clumsy and ill at ease with his wealth.

With his shirt unbuttoned perhaps one button lower than necessary in his unsmiling photos, willy came off as a brooding hip film guy.

This awesome origami book shows you how to easily fold prehistoric favorites such as a brooding Brontosaurus, feisty Triceratops, menacing T. Rex, and ravaging Pterosauria.

In it is portrayed the call of God, the «lure» of Whitehead's concept, as well as the work of God both as immanent spirit and as a brooding purpose.

The Pharisees have not hitherto been mentioned, except that Matthew includes them (3:7) among those whom John the Baptist denounced as a brood of vipers.

More and more, as he brooded over the realities of sin and death, he sensed the hopelessness of his state apart from grace.

But as the brood gets bigger, we'll get a bit more decadent.

Duffy's curiosity about the parasite that she first noticed as a graduate student led her to read every published paper on parasites that attack developing embryos — commonly known as brood parasites — of Daphnia.

Though I was thinking of such things as The Brood began, revisiting the film was truly as if seeing it for the first time.

So does Patricia Clarkson, a local artist who's learned a bit about isolation as she broods in a lonely house and mourns her son.

Okay, but what about showing and working, how can those have any effect on her qualities as a brood bitch?

The team found that factors such as brood size, sex or hatching date played no significant role in a fledgling's survival.

Not exact matches

In any event, should you find yourself kissing your wife goodbye as she leaves for work in the morning, you can look after your brood with the confidence of a new - age man.

The elder Wojcicki is hardly a technologist; she's a longtime Palo Alto high school journalism teacher who wired her three daughters (a brood that also includes YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki) with what Anne describes as irrational optimism.

The Beverage Testing Institute — a reliable American tasting resource — describes it as tequila of «effortless grace and brooding power.»

Depeche Mode was particularly pivotal in blurring the line between what we know as «synth» music and rock — processing guitars through giant, modular synths so it was hard to tell the difference between what was human - made and what was a computer, and perhaps more important, bringing the blues - based, brooding, masculine energy of»60s and»70s rock into the mix.

Viz. some slimeball Russian mafioso with cash to burn buying first - class tickets for himself and his brood and having exactly the same rights as everyone else who paid the exorbitant amount just to savour a carefree luxury excursion.

Eat of the forbidden trees of socialized sensualities as many broods of people have committed themselves upon.

He may have read too many Lehane books, but I think that apocalypse comes from the same brood as revelation — it means to reveal or unveil, ripping away the veil so you can see what lies underneath everything.

Denouncing them as blind guides, fools, hypocrites and a brood of vipers, he uttered harsh public words condemning them for their many errors, including their preoccupation with tithing on small matters and their neglect of more important things such as justice and mercy (Matt.

The comic irony of Atwood's gospel is that as Offred sits brooding on «FAITH,» «HOPE» and «CHARITY» hatch (words that keep turning up in the tale).

«How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not!»

How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings,

Jesus was fond of calling the Pharisees a «brood of vipers,» plus his style as a traveling preacher was to teach in stories, or parables, that needed to stick in the minds of his audience.

(1) My own lines in these essays may not have been few enough; but they have not come easy, and I pray that by your own appropriation of them, and by the power of the Holy Spirit brooding always among us, you may receive them as more than given.

Whatever doubts may exist about the sources of this democracy, there can be none about the chief source of the morality that gives it life and substance... [From the Hebrew tradition, via the Puritans, come] the contract and all its corollaries; the higher law as something more than a «brooding omnipresence in the sky»; the concept of the competent and responsible individual; certain key ingredients of economic individualism; the insistence on a citizenry educated to understand its rights and duties; and the middle - class virtues, that high plateau of moral stability on which, so Americans believe, successful democracy must always build [Seedtime of the Republic (Harcourt, Brace, 1953, p. 55)-RSB-.

The Gospels prepare us to hear the word of grace by first making us hear the voice of John, the voice crying in the desert, denouncing and exposing the leaders of the people as a «brood of vipers» and calling all to a baptism of repentance.

As a wife and mother rereading these books to a brood of six, it is Caroline Wilder, the figure of «Ma,» who draws me in.

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

Jesus (according to scripture) referred to them as «children of the devil», «whitewashed tombs», «den of thieves», and «brood of vipers».

In my review I was not referring so much to his concession (quoted by Mr. Ghelardi) that if God does not exist then natural selection is our best available candidate for how complex forms came to be» although that quote certainly is as good an indication as any of my contention that the design argument will only end up becoming a breeding ground for atheism, a fetid terrarium for a whole new brood of Richard Dawkinses (not a pleasant thought, that).

A brooding sense of tile ages is one of its great things, potent now as it was when the Hebrew seer in mystic vision beheld the enthroned «Ancient of Days.»

They are brooding self - justifiers, recasting their betrayals as higher forms of obedience.

The Heaven that I have within myself is as attractive as any that has been promised or that I can imagine; and I am willing to let the growth lead where it will, as long as the anger and their brood have no part in misguiding it.»

Now as an arty egg - heady guy I can relate to the need (and sometimes temptation) to brood alone, but what I particularly notice is that this music often oscillates, as much of the classic 60s art pop did, between rhythmically simplistic evocations of lonely - ish innocence, say, the Mo Tucker and Marine Girls moments, and a-rhythmic plunges into enervated hopelessness, say, the The Loneliest Person in the World moments.