Sentences with phrase «as plot»

Abel demonstrates adult level reading comprehension and mastery of literary elements such as plot, character, and setting, but tends to read easy texts, enjoying reading the same author's works.

They can also use rubrics or simply probing questions in order to identify their successes and challenges, as well as plot their next steps.

Minimizing the merits of the lawsuit, the NEA simply paints the case as a plot by evil «corporate interests» to weaken unions.

The teacher union saw reconstitution as a plot to privatize the public schools.

Kids can buddy up online, read about «survival tips,» or visit forums such as the Plot Hospital and Word Wars.

Illustrate your eLearning course material in the form of a narrative, inserting relevant facts as plot points, dramatic pivots, and resolutions.

The first semester of the yearlong class is divided between learning the basics of videography (lighting and framing scenes, for instance) and storytelling (such as plot and character development).

Being as the plot revolves around ten characters involved in a one hour plus -LSB-...]

Rocky's lack of boxing - movie plot and false drama actually serves it well as a first movie; it establishes a lot of characters, from Adrian to Apollo Creed to Rocky's trainer Mickey (Burgess Meredith) and louse of a best friend (and prospective brother - in - law) Paulie (Burt Young), who will return to the series for years to come — characters who are so beloved by Stallone that even their absences from later sequels must be marked as plot points.

isn't quite as other - worldly gorgeous as those two earlier films (they're the only two other features I've seen from Shinkai), its combination of hand - drawn, computer and rotoscoped animation is a little more conventional, just as its plot and approach to narrative is a little more familiar.

Fisher emerges with a decent backstory and burning moral dilemma that makes for interesting viewing as the plot proceeds.

There isn't even too much mystery until the very end, as the plot focuses on the planning of the heist.

Every employee Derek and Melanie come across is single - mindedly interested only in themselves, so the betrayals meant to play as plot twists are telegraphed from the overlong introduction.

Or maybe not, because while initially it struggles to establish a consistent tone, as soon as the plot kicks off in earnest, the film picks up speed and confidence, venting plumes of sight gags, bloody violence and deadpan, dead - on cultural observations like powdery snow from a thematically - appropriate metaphorical snowplow.

Both savour the magnificent, intricate and extremely powerful screenplay and deliver with gusto as the plot slowly unwinds towards a truly exceptional and inevitable, devastating climax.

Fans will already know the character's secret identity, but the drama inherent in that set - up is never engaged with especially, because the Winter Soldier Is essentially wordless, and mostly brainwashed (between this and Hawkeye in «The Avengers,» Marvel writers should be banned from using that as a plot device at this point).

It's why the entire thing has been shot with three cameras, the better to avoid interfering with the brilliant dialogue — and why no one called «shenanigans» when stuff like «hey, I got into medical school so we only have a few months to figure out we're in love and shit» showed up as plot points.

Gunn relies on serious, wordy dialogue to explain the war between two alien races, the Kree and the Skrulls (a staple of the Marvel comic book universe), as well as the plot mechanics behind the sphere.

Such an idea only exists within an understanding of cinema as plot, and «content.»

The characters grow as plot unfolds, some meet sticky ends, granted, but the yoof get to take their hoodies off and they get to see beyond their own prejudices and all the while a very Kung - Fu David Carradine kind of message is being drummed out: you reap what you sew, And I loved the low budget effects.

As the plot progresses, Cheryl removes the unnecessary equipment in her pack, bringing only the basic necessities.

The other astronauts disappear completely for a chunk in the middle and it's kind of jarring when they show back up — there's not a ton of urgency in the space shuttle scenes, but it's not nearly as out of whack as the plot imbalance in Interstellar.

It hits all of the beats it is expected, and is not particularly innovative in its plotting (as much as plot can be innovative when based on true events).

What began as (apparently) a serious political film instead settles for the less demanding obligations of genre, as the plot becomes more far - fetched, edging toward fable.

Everything The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2 wants to say comes fast and heavy - handed as the plot reaches its conclusion.

If this show's lineup is as good as its plot, «Pose» will be Murphy's greatest triumph.

They spark as the plot deepens, and your loyalties are divided.

Naomi Watts (pictured below), as a neighbour who knows more than she can say, effectively replaces Weisz as the plot clanks gears.

The heroes are shown as capable of making mistakes while the villains actually react to events as people and not as plot devices.

I actually liked the sequel a bit better than the original, as the plot was more fully realized, although Cat People was more technically accomplished.

No need to go into much detail as the plot / mission is as preposterous as the others in the franchise.

And were they really joking about date rape, or just using the drug on themselves as a plot device?

and included a heap more characters, as well as plot points, and that rubbed the studio — always keen to fit in as many sessions of a film a day it can — up the wrong way.

As the plot continues, this combination of thoughtless bigotry and more aggressive brutality accelerates, making the film increasingly provocative.

What Rememory wants to show us about those ideas is constantly deferred for a routine mystery that only incorporates those ideas as plot devices.

More often the laughs die down as the plot gets a little serious.

Pity no original ideas await her as the plot loses focus in the garish fauna.

Supporting players Ellen Barkin, Fritz Weaver and Dustin Hoffman show up as those impacted by the magic shoes as the plot dives into a real estate shakedown.

Doc would be correct, of course, and as the plot of Thomas Pynchon's potboiler pastiche Inherent Vice grinds into high gear, he'll run afoul of several alive - folks - thought - dead, mysterious cults, more mysterious cartels, crazy drugs, loaded guns, subversives, countersubversives, obscure nautical laws, a band of dentists gone bad, and, worst of all, he will witness firsthand the slow strangulation of a certain dream of free living at the hands of nefarious historical forces.

Just as the plot in noir inevitably climaxes as all of the deceptions pile up, The Man Who Wasn't There mounts to an anticlimax — the final irony — where a sort of fatalistic joke on the main character finally brings about order, even if it is a bit distorted.

While he's an integral part of the Batman mythos, he's often used as a plot device that simply exists to give Batman information on whatever crime he's attempting to solve.

This Adam Sandler film with a budget so badly wants to be Ghostbusters, but while the cast is decent, the writing makes as little sense as its plot about aliens attacking Earth with 80s Atari games.

The hole in the bathroom wall isn't the only hole in the film, as plot holes galore permeate the production.

Beyond sussing out that much, non-Potter aficionados can expect to be left scratching their heads as plot point after plot point go unexplained.

As the plot turns to examine more of Jessie's past, Gugino conveys takes Jessie's horror and denial to new levels.

In short, adrenalin junkies will love it, but everyone else will probably be left wondering whatever happened to trifling matters such as plot, dialogue and plain old credibility.

Even with its unimpressive story and its over-reliance on Peter Parker's parents as a plot device, the charm of Garfield and Stone persevered enough to make the film interesting at the very least and at times even something resembling a film that deserves praise.

Meanwhile, Clemons proves that she needs to be getting more work across the board as a character whose mixed race and sexuality are never used as a plot device, but merely something that is part of her everyday life.

And, for me, the kind of the big, like the aha moment, if you want to call it that, was I met with Tom Holland and he kind of put it really succinctly and saying, if we do the origin of Drake, that is something that we haven't seen as the plot of games 1, 2, 3, 4; we've seen a snippet of an origin of Sully and Drake meeting in the past, but here's maybe an opportunity to do a treasure - hunting action movie with attitude, with a protagonist — and chapter of the protagonist's life — that you can't get for free, at home, by just playing the game.

Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, There was a crooked man... follows several crooks - including Kirk Douglas» Paris Pitman Jr, Hume Cronyn's Dudley Whinner, and Burgess Meredith's Missouri Kid - as they plot their escape from a well - fortified prison located smack - dab in the middle of the Arizona desert (Henry Fonda plays the warden of said prison).