Sentences with phrase «as powerful a character»

Scribblenauts Unmasked features thousands of DC Comics characters alongside Maxwell, as well as the powerful character creator that originally debuted in Scribblenauts Unlimited.

Poitras» journalistic eye digs into the rhetoric around al - Qaeda and the war on terror while also existing as a powerful character study.

«With Captain Marvel, she is as powerful a character as we've ever put in a movie,» Feige said.

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For these leaders, there is no other choice but to pursue relentlessly a depth of moral character grounded in legacy values, and as a result, to build a powerful memory that echoes into the future.

As one of his characters (the scientist and exnun Mary Malone) says, «The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake, that's all.»

(It is especially for this reason that a lifetime marriage commitment is such a powerful sacrament of God's own character as promise - keeper.

Her powerful voice is no surprise as her name is said to be given to those who have an inspirational character.

Shelly Silver, the powerful Democratic speaker of the state assembly, is the central character in a tale that seems as if it sprung from the imaginations of Kennedy, the great novelist of Albany corruption, and of Jon Stewart.

In a powerful triangle of characters, it is the interaction of the other two, Shaun Rivers as Sam and Dan Ings as his slimeball boss Nicholas, which dominates.

Mr. de Blasio, who has relied on the liberal Mr. Silver to act as a powerful voice for New York City in Albany, said he believed the Manhattan legislator's character to be unimpeachable.

Because Vivian is such a powerful and increasingly sympathetic character, I created three outfit sets revolving around independent career women who, like Vivian, are tough enough to carve out their own space in the world even when they feel as if they are all alone.

There's something powerful in that, in the simple fact that The Intern is so sympathetic to its older character - so resolutely on the side of a person who might, in other contexts, be dismissed or ignored or, as is so often the case, invisible.

Players choose one of nine epic Warcraft heroes to play as, and then take turns playing cards from their customizable decks to cast potent spells, use heroic weapons or abilities, or summon powerful characters to

The difficulty increases as you become stronger and stronger, so upgrade your character with powerful passive abilities.

Experimenting exclusively on beautiful, busty women, Osler hopes to create a race of super-persons, infusing his subjects with a powerful element known only as Character X. Fred and Sammy race against time to save Jerrie from becoming another of Osler's hideously mutated victims.

Rather than a cohesive narrative, Avengers: Infinity War resembles the penultimate sequence of every Marvel Studios production that has come before, an exhausting series of ultimately futile action scenes that endlessly proclaim the goodness and importance of the supposedly heroic characters as they engage in battle against an all - powerful foe.

What this prequel serves is to fill in all of the necessary gaps in order to flesh out just who all of the characters are, why they do what they do, and why the police can be seen as not much different than any one of the other powerful triad families in trying to maintain control of the city by any means necessary.

The teenagers are cocky, powerful and young just as most of our characters were when the audience was first introduced to them.

sung by Mick Jones as himself in a cameo that makes a strange sort of sense within the films context of cloning; a minor character with a freckle fetish who regards Anne of Green Gables as an erotic classic; and one of the most achingly powerful evocations of longing that I have ever seen.

The powerful film from director Gavin Hood (Tsotsi) and writer Guy Hibbert is a nail - biter as characters argue over the rules of engagement and the legality and morality of war in making a decision about a drone strike in Kenya that targets the Al - Shabaab militant group.

(The long tracking shot following Hopper's character outside a party, culminating in tears, still registers as one of the most powerful things he's done.)

Rampling, on the other hand, breathes real life and character into what could have been a mere caricature — as she did with Mitchum, she more than holds her own with Newman in their scenes together and as a result, her final scenes with him are undeniably powerful and affecting.

Which isn't to say that the film doesn't boast plenty of powerful and often disturbing sequences (it does), nor that its mostly - female cast don't deliver a forceful ensemble performance, with Natalie Portman exceptional as the traumatised but driven central character, biologist Lena.

Released for both iOS and Android, SNK Playmore's intense shoot - em - up has action to spare, as players select one of four characters and lay waste to a variety of evildoers (even nefarious Martians) using a handful of powerful weapons, such as the Heavy Machine Gun, Laser Shot and Flame Bottles.

He beat out Robert Towne for the job, pitching the film as an examination of the characters that inhabited these powerful bodies: why did they always do the right thing?

In addition to Isaac, Chastain and Oyelow, other actors deserve recognition for their work here: Albert Brooks is Abel's consigliore, in a style reminiscent of his Drive character; Alessandro Nivola is the most frightening type of gangster — the quiet, powerful kind; Catalina Sandino Moreno (Maria Full of Grace) is outstanding in her only scene; Elyes Gabel captures the frustrated driver looking for hope; Peter Gerety is spot on as the Teamsters lead; and Jerry Adler is a most unusual Jewish business man.

The well - chosen Tom Hardy plays the title character as a quiet but powerful man who knows how to survive in a desperate apocalyptic world.

«I don't know if it's something in the zeitgeist that's manifesting itself in these powerful portrayals of female characters in these really big hit movies as well as smaller indie movies.

• Perform new and powerful moves as «BIG - fig» characters like Hulk and Abomination.

Cut down entire legions of enemies as Link, Zelda and other characters from The Legend of Zelda series using over-the-top, powerful Dynasty Warriors - style moves.

The movie would have been just as powerful without Mariah Carey's character and some of the scenes with Louis at college feel a bit jarring.

Although combat commences quite easy in Dragon Quest VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past, as your characters become more powerful so do your enemies with some challenging boss battles thrown into the mix.

Regardless of its base motives, Basic Instinct gave us a powerful woman character who made its ostensible hero look like a whiny wimp, as Dargis implies, and in the long run that investment of power may have mattered as much as, or more than, the nonsense and nastiness.

In the demo, players will begin their journey as a Warrior, Mage or Ranger, and level up their character while gathering resources, crafting powerful weapons and armor and casting spells to defeat monsters in real - time combat as they explore just one of many expansive islands available in the full game.

But as a star vehicle, for both himself and the incomparable Vanessa Redgrave, it's a powerful match between actor and character.

Experience fast - paced action as Modern Sonic, thrilling platforming as Classic Sonic, and utilize powerful new gadgets as your own custom Hero Character.

Gosling and Stone's powerful chemistry is as palpable as it was in «Crazy Stupid Love» — they were that film's sole selling point — and each of them conveys their character's love of the arts and drive to succeed.

For the first time ever, thanks to the previously revealed third gameplay mechanic Sonic Forces possesses, players will actually get to create their own personal character in a Sonic game and wield a whole bunch of powerful unique weapons and as well as the press release I'll be sharing below, there's also a video and a few screenshots, so make sure you're comfy, because there is a lot to get though:

Sadly, I have not (yet) read the work, but imagine that it contains the same vibrant characters as her other books, with an equally powerful understanding of human desires (but without the violence).

The character's determination is just as powerful as Armstrong's greed, O'Dowd's best performance in anything as well.

With their powerful moral undercurrents, minimalist acting and ascetic style, Bresson's films (Mouchette would make an excellent companion piece to The Kid with a Bike) weren't concerned so much with stories and characters as with the ideas they helped to illuminate — namely the continual war between man's baser and higher instincts, between the evils of mistrust and crime, and the virtues of charity, compassion and love.

The climactic scene comes as the standout moment in a season filled with many highlights and powerful character moments.

If cinema tends to use nature as a tool for a character's self - discovery, these are examples of a growing tendency for nature to be depicted as something more powerful than the protagonist: less Robinson Crusoe and more Moby - Dick.

Players can also play online or offline and level up along unique character paths, allowing players to unlock more powerful Fuse - driven abilities as the game progresses.

There is something so powerful about it, maybe it was Hugh Jackman's performance as a father whose full of nothing but emptiness without his little girl or maybe Paul Dano's sinister character as a dreadfully disturbed man.

While I still hate the look of the battle system and I hate that Toads are the only friendly characters, the locations of the game look very unique for a Mario game, and the Hammer meter (They confirmed battles actually have a purpose, as they eventually upgrade your Paint Hammer's capacity, and painting cards while watching your paint reserves does bring more strategy then spamming your most powerful attacks in the Mario & Luigi games and older Paper Mario games) brings some diversity to the bland battle system.

Among the other fiction films to look for in theaters or on VOD: John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, in which Brendan Gleeson gives a beautifully modulated performance as a dedicated priest who is no match for the disillusionment of his parishioners and the rage of another inhabitant of his Irish seaside village, determined to take revenge against the priesthood for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child; the desultory God Help the Girl, the debut feature by Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian), all the more charming for its refusal to sell its musical numbers; Tim Sutton's delicate, impressionistic Memphis, a blues tone poem that trails contemporary recording artist Willis Earl Beal, playing a character close to himself who's looking for inspiration in a legendary city that's as much mirage as actuality; and two horror films, Jennifer Kent's uncanny, driving psychodrama The Babadook, with a remarkable performance by child actor Noah Wiseman, and Ana Lily Amirpour's less sustained A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which nonetheless generates some powerful political metaphors.

Some may find it hard as the game tries to balance out both characters in duel mode, which means that your buffed up hero will not be that powerful against the supposedly lowly enemy officer.

Michael B. Jordan's performance stood out as «Killmonger» despite having other powerful characters in the movie.

From the team that brought you Sonic Colors ™ and Sonic Generations ™, Sonic Forces has players experience fast paced action as Modern Sonic, catapult past perilous platforms as Classic Sonic, and use powerful gadgets as their own Custom Hero Character.