Sentences with phrase «as pure action»

Type - 0's mechanics are not as smooth or responsive as a pure action game, but with its variable degrees of approach and potential for customization, it doesn't need to be.

In Tomb Raider, Alicia Vikander reboots Lara Croft as a pure action hero.

For this reason The Towering Inferno makes a better accounting of itself as a pure action film.

Quentin Tarantino's «Kill Bill, Volume 2» is an exuberant celebration of moviemaking, coasting with heedless joy from one audacious chapter to another, working as irony, working as satire, working as drama, working as pure action.

Not exact matches

We are not to suppose that we are capable in this world of loving our enemies (or even our neighbours), to the full measure in which God has loved us; or of being as completely disinterested and single - minded, as pure of worldly desire and anxiety, and as unreserved in self - sacrifice, as the words of Jesus demand; and yet these are the standards by which all our actions are judged.

On the other hand, since in every action we enter into relations with others which involve both ourselves and them, there can be no such thing as pure «unself» ishness.

The attempt of behaviouristic psychology, for example, to externalize reality into pure action - response not only denies the reality of the participating subjective consciousness but, equally important, the reality of personality as a more or less integral whole and the reality of the relations between persons as that which calls the personality into existence.

That is to say, man is not, as pure naturalism would have it, merely an object in nature which is acted upon and reacts according to fixed general laws, a passive receiver of prior causes and a non-willing, non-responsible transmitter of future effects, whose consciousness and action are completely caught up in the causal nexus of matter and time.

I wish to gather together what so far has been said and relate it to this basic Christian affirmation of God as love, «pure unbounded love», and nothing but that sheer love - in - action.

Unless a gift is in this fashion sacrificial — the giving up of something — it is argued, a gift reduces to a hidden contractual agreement, governed by a principle of self - interest; and actions out of self - interest, as Kant pointed out, are not pure gifts.

10 In On the Power of God (Quaestiones disputatae de potentia, 1266), he argued that God's existence and essence are identical, 11 wherefore there can be no admixture in God of both action and potentiality.12 Equally, as pure act, God can not be «composite» but must be «utterly simple.»

Earth could live longer as God said but actions by cor - rup - tors are speeding up the happening of the final date and hour by their wrong deeds and dis - respect to pure and clean nature envi - ronm - ents.

So if God is something like pure mind then just as I can not show you my mind I can only show you my body and my actions / words so does God reveal himself through Jesus.

We are never as free and uncoerced as we like to think we are; our ideas are never as general and unprejudiced as we innocently imagine; and our actions are never as pure and untainted as we pretend.

This relativistic conclusion can be avoided, he maintains, if we retain a proper view of intellect, i.e., as a tool for action rather than of pure speculation.

It is not pure potency, but so long as it is action or movement, neither is it act.

He replies to it by saying that in order for the freedom of the mind not to be pure, arbitrary contingency, as it is according to Sartre, it is enough that the mind be animated by a basic dynamism toward the One: the determinations of its thought as of its action would then not have to be supplied from without.

As early as the mid-third century Origen of Alexandria [9] had urged that the actions enjoined by scripture constitute a «practice» that begins a spiritual journey and comprises the Christian life of most people in time; it flowers into pure contemplation in the afterlife as the ultimate and certain reward of faithful practicAs early as the mid-third century Origen of Alexandria [9] had urged that the actions enjoined by scripture constitute a «practice» that begins a spiritual journey and comprises the Christian life of most people in time; it flowers into pure contemplation in the afterlife as the ultimate and certain reward of faithful practicas the mid-third century Origen of Alexandria [9] had urged that the actions enjoined by scripture constitute a «practice» that begins a spiritual journey and comprises the Christian life of most people in time; it flowers into pure contemplation in the afterlife as the ultimate and certain reward of faithful practicas the ultimate and certain reward of faithful practice.

In the third century stress fell on defining action as ascetical practice, as «acts» ultimately directed at oneself to purify one of all engagements with the everyday world that distract from pure contemplation.

Mindful that even as new principles are proclaimed, old habits die hard and citizens and politicians could tend to entangle government and religion (e.g., «the appointment of chaplains to the two houses of Congress» and «for the army and navy» and «[r] eligious proclamations by the Executive recommending thanksgivings and fasts»), he considered the question whether these actions were «consistent with the Constitution, and with the pure principle of religious freedom» and responded: «In strictness the answer on both points must be in the negative.

So sit back and enjoy eight minutes of pure WRC action as Ogier tackles the challenges of Rally Monte Carlo, on his way to the overall victory.

Few have Kondogbia down for such actions as he's seen as pure physical presence, but looks can be deceptive.

This makes no mention of the civil public action brought against Nestlé in Brazil that led to it ending production of Pure Life bottled water in the country, the criticism of its activities in countries such as Pakistan nor the many community battles across North America and elsewhere.

KARMA YOGA — The path of dedication to work — without any expectation in return (renouncing the fruit or rewards of one actions) as a form of action that is absolutely pure.

Although it is not without some flaws typical of the kind of game, Berserk and the Band of the Hawk is an unmissable product for all gamers who grew up reading the immeasurable dark fantasy epic of Miura genius: the title manages to translate perfectly in pure action as appreciated in the pages eponymous manga.

I'm not saying I want just pure action but as said I would have loved to see more space beasties, the look of the film cries out for it.

She is partnered with Colonel Thomas Devoe (Clooney), who reads the action as a theft, pure and simple.

The second half of the film is pretty much pure action as the remaining members of the group try to evade their hunters and, at the same time, take the hunt to them.

John Wick: Chapter 2 doesn't mess with a good thing, expanding the setting as sequels are obligated to do, while firmly sticking to the foundations of what makes the action series such pure popcorn pleasure.

As you might expect, there are periods of drastic violence encouraged by pure hatred, as when in the earliest such action a group of Apaches raid the domicile of a white family, slaughtering all but the mother, Rosalie Quaid (Rosamund Pike), who escapes by hidinAs you might expect, there are periods of drastic violence encouraged by pure hatred, as when in the earliest such action a group of Apaches raid the domicile of a white family, slaughtering all but the mother, Rosalie Quaid (Rosamund Pike), who escapes by hidinas when in the earliest such action a group of Apaches raid the domicile of a white family, slaughtering all but the mother, Rosalie Quaid (Rosamund Pike), who escapes by hiding.

It's the combination of character development, action and pure emotion that drives the film, where even secondary characters have motivations; a wonderful moment a lesser film would have cut for time finds the shapeshifting Mystique (Rebecca Romijn) propositioning Wolverine, at first disguising herself as Wolvie's crush, Jean Grey (Famke Janssen), then purring, «No one has left scars like you.»

Were the film as all - action, little - talk as Kubrick's 2001 — a milestone impossible not to think of when watching ships and humans dance balletically through the silence of space — one could take it as a pure sensory experience.

As such, it completely abandons the stealth mechanics that had been Metal Gear's basis for two and a half decades... but if you're gonna go for pure action, there's no better partner to help out than developer PlatinumGames.

Little surprise in reading your review that you couldn't make it past the first 30 pages of the Hobbit... If all you want is a pure action movie with zero substance, I suggest you go watch The Transporter — or, as Antony points out, you can go watch Battleship again.

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Gosling's performance as the wounded soul with pure ambitions, flawed judgment, and passion that could turn to tenderness or violence bubbling just beneath his cool façade anchors the first section and carries through as a phantom defining so many of the characters» actions in the other acts of the movie.

From the visually compelling opening credits, to the action - packed ending, The Kingdom may have certain flaws in terms of its simplification of complex world events, but taken as a pure piece of entertainment, it is certainly more efficient and intellectually stimulating than most actioners of its ilk.

Russell, well, kills them all — just as he vowed to do in the trailers — and the film becomes a pure Rambo action film.

There isn't much to recommend Wasabi except for the offbeat mix of over-the-top humor and overly stylized action, and taken as a pure entertainment kind of film, it'll please most audiences who like French action - comedies.

On the other hand, the animals known as «farthiers» — huge horse / camel hybrids with faces like thin lambs — are pure action poetry.

Despite what we're sold about female empowerment, the women in this movie are pure fiction; stereotypical, one - dimensional characters designed as background filler in this high action male - oriented story.

But, despite having some suitably epic moments that deliver on a pure spectacle level, there are times driven by the CGI influenced action binge that seem ridiculously tedious as they fail to properly trick the human eye into believing.

Baby Driver isn't as much of a pure comedy as the Cornetto Trilogy or Scott Pilgrim (though there are some great laughs throughout), but it is certainly the apex of his action work.

It may not boast Gary Oldman doing a Russian accent, Nic Cage in a wife beater or Jack Lemmon at the controls but, with king of the disyllabic action movie skies, Liam Neeson, as its plucky hero, this is pure guilty pleasure cinema.

At its best, the film from screenwriter Anthony Jaswinski and director Jaume Collet - Serra («Non-Stop,» «Run All Night») is as close to a pure action film that mainstream cinema has seen since «Mad Max: Fury Road.»

by Walter Chaw Yoshiaki Kawajiri's name is probably not as familiar to anime's United States fanbase as Hayao Miyazaki, Katsuhiro Ôtomo, Mamoru Oshii, Isao Takahata, or Shinichirô Watanabe, but amid those in the «know,» his Ninja Scroll is among the best pure action / fantasy films of the last fifty years in any medium.

Tony Scott was as populist as they come in Hollywood, a man of action films, pure and simple.

If you saw the trailer and are expecting a pure action movie, you'll be disappointed as the movie is more science fiction and philosophy rather than action or thriller.

As a fight - filled sci - fi action movie, there aren't many films I think I would rather watch than The Matrix if I'm looking for some background noise that's predominantly fights and pure visual awesomeness to look up at and be distracted by.

While it isn't the work of art of Pan's Labyrinth, as a pure popcorn movie goes, it gets credit for being unlike all of the rest, in its own little universe of comic book action that you either embrace wholeheartedly or scratch your head at in befuddlement.