Sentences with phrase «as modern a character»

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The press release announcing the release of the unconventional real estate trailer describes the video's main character as «a modern day Cleopatra, complete with golden ladies in waiting.»

It isn't surprising that as the audiences who first became fans of characters like The Avengers, X-Men and Deadpool get older, that their modern movie adaptations will be marketed more toward adults.

But even the people who downplay his significance as an agent of historical change acknowledge the pathbreaking character of his writings, and just about everyone grants that he was the founder of modern Jewish philosophy.

In its modern form, the character is commonly depicted as a blackamoor, with blackface make - up, and dressed in stylized colourful Renaissance attire, akin to Maures in European heraldry, and similar to Moorish characters in the «Moors and Christians» Iberian folk festivals commemorating the Reconquista.

While we certainly need to be careful about putting theologians like Bonhoeffer on too high of pedestals, I still feel as though there are things about him that are both commendable and, if repeated by modern Christians, could help shape our collective character for the better.

In this modern vision, as in ancient gnosticism, the decline of real narrative has gone hand in hand with a blurring of the dialogical or event - character of man's existence and of the relation between God and Man.

The communists absurdly boast of their material success; at one point, characters describe shoebox Eastern Bloc cars as the world's best, and Bucharest as «one of the most modern cities in the world.»

Given the rapidly changing character of modern industrial civilization, it is also necessary to shift the emphasis in manners away from the external forms (which may have to be modified as the conditions of life shift) to the democratic meanings that they express.

But there is nothing in the scientific picture of the cosmos that forbids our envisaging the story of the universe, in its modern scientifically established character, as simultaneously a story shaped by the same promise that becomes explicit in historical revelation.

Stokes moves exceedingly close to Neville's description of Being - Itself when he characterizes creativity as «indeterminate [having] no character of its own,» yet possessing a fundamental (reality not reducible to the characteristics of the actual entities («Recent Interpretations of Whitehead's Creativity,» The Modern Schoolman, XXXIX, 2 [May 1962], 32sf.

He observes a surprising contrast between the self - consciously non-ethical character of modern economics and its historical evolution as an offshoot of ethics.

We agree about this, and also, in principle at least, that demythologizing throws into sharper relief the paradoxical or scandalous character of its claims, so that they become as clear for modern man as they were in apostolic times.

However, modern science has shown us that the table is not finally understood as a single entity but rather as a society of entities exceedingly different in character from the smooth, hard, passive, still, impenetrable surface we seem to experience.

In Modern Fantasy: Five Studies (Cambridge University Press, 1975), C. N. Manlove has argued that the use of the supernatural — and I would include magic — is not simply a possibility in the fantasy tale; it is a driving force in the story and takes a central role in the development and shaping of characters as well as plot.

Bultmann agrees that modern man can not accept the mythology, but he does not want him to have to content himself with a timeless sublimation of the gospel: he is looking for another alternative, which will rescue the historicity of the gospel and so retain its character as kerygma.

A modern reader would find it natural for there to be character development over time, as in the David and Jacob cycles, to which Linafelt devotes four pages (pp.42 - 45).

In the Introduction, I used the sprawling campus and geographical layout of Michigan State University as symptomatic and symbolic of the fragmentary character of modern knowledge.

This process, which I have called genetic assimilation, gives exactly the same end - result as the theory proposed by Lamarck, at one time espoused by Darwin but rejected by modern biology, of the direct inheritance of acquired characters.

Mayim Bialik as Amy Farrah Fowler in The Big Bang Theory Kathryn Joosten as Karen McCluskey in Desperate Housewives Julie Bowen as Claire Dunphy in Modern Family Sofia Vergara as Gloria Delgado - Pritchett in Modern Family Merritt Wever as Zoey Barkow in Nurse Jackie Kristen Wiig as various characters in Saturday Night Live

Ed O'Neill as Jay Pritchett in Modern Family Jesse Tyler Ferguson as Mitchell Pritchett in Modern Family Ty Burrell as Phil Dunphy in Modern Family Eric Stonestreet as Cameron Tucker in Modern Family Max Greenfield as Schmidt in New Girl Bill Hader as various characters in Saturday Night Live

This means that affirming something passionately enough — in this case the full reality of the profane, secular, worldly character of modern life — will somehow deliver to the seeker the opposite, the sacred, as a gift he does not deserve.

A word more about the inner character of the event - theoretical framework, which consists of (1) the usual quantificational theory of first order, extended to include the theory of virtual classes and relations, (2) the theory of identity, (3) Lesniewski's mereology or calculus of individuals, (4) logical syntax in its modern form, (5) a semantics or theory of reference both extensional and intentional, (6) variant renditions of systematic pragmatics as needed, (7) the theory of events, states, acts, and processes, and, finally, (8) a theory of structural or grammatical relations of the kind needed for the analysis of natural language.

A modern person would regard the pestilence as an epidemic, and the fact that it had important historical consequences does not change its character as such.

Ritual worship in general appears to the modern transcendentalist, as well as to the ultra-puritanic type of mind, as if addressed to a deity of an almost absurdly childish character, taking delight in toy - shop furniture, tapers and tinsel, costume and mumbling and mummery, and finding his «glory» incomprehensibly enhanced thereby: — just as on the other hand the formless spaciousness of pantheism appears quite empty to ritualistic natures, and the gaunt theism of evangelical sects seems intolerably bald and chalky and bleak.

At the same time, modern attempts to construct a view of Jesus that omits any emphasis on the death, focusing instead on a message or practice Jesus taught without reference to his own fate — which are implausible as history and often lack distinctive Christian character.

The rooms have kept the authentic charm and character of the Inn's Arts and Craft style yet are now updated with a modern and light color palette as well as the amenities required by today's traveler.

The woman is either chastised for being so bold as to breastfeed in front of other people (like Sofia in Modern Family) or the woman's choice to breastfeed is being used as a severe character flaw (like Lysa Tully in Game of Thrones) or it's just some really funny, hilarious thing because boobs.

Due to the increasingly technological nature of modern warfare, veterans today return home with not only determination and a solid work ethic — character traits of good scientists as much as of good soldiers — but also with technical and other important job - related skills.

Infants as well as adults have a whole suite of characters which are distinct from modern humans (Schwartz & Tattersall, 1996).

But where Sightseers was merely incompetent, We're The Millers seems to take delight in human misery as an end or source of humour in itself; it doesn't use pain or suffering to deepen the characters, it simply offers it as a benchmark of modern comedy.

Obiviously Project Soul doesn't want to tackle a modern «Weapon Master» mode, the campaign is shallow as always (and cast with a bunch of unlikable characters).

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) is a brilliant directed film by Alejandro González Iñárritu, who manipulates the camera to give the illusion that the film is one continuous long take (which can get dizzying at times) giving a film that is resonate to a modern day audience as it examins these fictitious characters and their commentary on what it means to stay relevant.

Indeed, in the Q&A that followed the screening of In the Fade that I attended at New York's Museum of Modern Art, Akin went so far as to say that he wanted Katja to be a blonde - haired, blue - eyed avatar of himself; he wanted to cast a woman who would be a Nazi's ideal as the sworn enemy of Nazis, and to inject his own anger about the way he is treated as an «other» by neo-Nazis and their ilk into the character of an Aryan - looking woman who would otherwise be embraced by them.

As a portrait of modern journalism, though, it leaves quite a lot to be desired; this is the kind of film that has characters trade grandiose talking points about the ethics of reporting, but can't be bothered to show its reporter hero — still recovering from the damage factual inaccuracies did to his career — using a recording device during interviews.

The Colleens fit a comically exaggerated stereotype of modern teenagers by remaining glued to their phones, constantly texting, tweeting and introducing the other characters in the movie via photos and hashtags that they've uploaded to Instagram — or, as it's known in these Canuck parts, Insta - Can.

Cast members stayed in character (and were always addressed as such) on set, with no modern small talk in between takes.

Some of this involves quirky characters as you would expect to find in modern comedy, but even this aspect finds its natural groove early and never disappoints.

Gillespie smartly uses the known and builds upon it with context and some style, using «modern day» Tonya, Jeff and LaVona among others as interview subjects for a documentary of sorts that frames the film, but also has the characters speak into the camera in non-interview segments to help give Tonya some humanity, or at least make sure you have a better idea about all of her story and life coming out and you did going in.

Modern audiences are asked to believe that the character has been the same age for more than 50 years, and the series has bent or tinkered with its conventions ever so slightly as the decades have rolled past in order to stay relevant.

He gives us an old - fashioned Hollywood romantic charmer that's updated with modern touches such as interracial friendships and a main character who might still be a shark in a suit but is at least willing to be introspective about his darker side (which I assume is not very common among sports agents).

Hudd first came to serious critical attention with his portrayal of Guildenstern in a 1925 modern - dress production of Hamlet, and he later became a theatrical star in the play Too Good To Be True, in the role of Private Meek, a character modeled after T.E. Lawrence; as surviving photos from the production reveal, in costume he was a near dead - ringer for the real - life Lawrence.

And, while I'm growing a bit weary of her, I enjoyed Leslie Mann as the mother of some of these girls, and she nails the modern day new - age philosophy of parenting «these type» of girls to a T. All in all this is a glossy and fun film that will satisfy, but doesn't leave a strong legacy like the kind the characters aspie to have, Regardless, I dug it and think you should check it out.

Aside from the main themes and characters, there's that divorced - women's support group, run by Dorothy's cynical sister (the expertly wisecracking Bonnie Hunt); a «child - care technician» obsessed with modern jazz; and run - ins with various sporting figures, both real (from Frank Gifford to Katarina Witt) and fictional, such as a superstar quarterback played by TV's Jerry O'Connell, and his hard - nosed dad (an uncredited Beau Bridges).

It's clear right from the get - go that director Alan Poul and screenwriter Kate Angelo aren't looking to reinvent the wheel here, as the movie initially comes off as an almost prototypical example of a modern romantic comedy - with the less - than - innovative atmosphere cemented by the proliferation of wisecracking characters and the protagonists» initial encounter (which essentially defines the term «meet - cute»).

This explicit look at the ins and outs of modern - day polyamory follows characters grappling with the emotional and sexual drama of sharing their hearts, as well as their beds.

A modern - day retelling of Mark Twain's iconic books, Band of Robbers is a comedic adventure that reimagines the characters as grown men, and small - time crooks.

The characters are well written, familiar gameplay mechanics such as the whistling and being able to pick up bodies is back, the story has clever links to the story of the other AC games, the modern day is better and actually goes somewhere (albeit the ending is absolute wank) and the side missions are implemented well into the goal of the main story.

One of the definitions of modern realism — as in the films of Roberto Rossellini — is that it's an art of the seemingly extraneous: the incidental matter in the background surges to the foreground, making character and environment inseparable.

Unlike most modern RPGs to come out of Japan, Souls of Zill O'll favours character bonds and relationships as opposed to sexually ambiguous, scantily - clad schoolgirls and it really pays off; at times it's utterly epic.

While it's not as zany, if you love crazy fun ski movies like Hot Dog or Ski Patrol, Force Majeure is a brilliant modern take on that kind of ski movie comedy, but with added depth to the characters.