Sentences with phrase «best leading men»

Jake laments that all the best leading men of Hollywood have been sucked into the superhero machine, making them unavailable to fill in as second lead (going so far as to mention Michael Fassbender, Robert Downey Jr. and Jeremy Renner).
Kitsch isn't a good leading man.
Paul Rudd was a really good leading man and Michael Douglas was great as his mentor.
Though Chris Hemsworth doesn't exactly look like your typical hacker, he's proven that he has the charisma and talent to be a really good leading man, and it's the collaboration between actor and director that gives me hope that, if nothing else, «Blackhat» will be a fun distraction.
The character of Shannon is thin on the page, and probably any good leading man could have delivered a competent performance — but Walken has imbued him with an internal — yet highly visceral — struggle.
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There are better leading men than Jason Sudeikis, who's usually more effective in supporting roles, but the rest of the cast is great, including Jennifer Aniston (tapping into her naughty side once again after the positive reception from «Horrible Bosses») and up - and - comer Will Poulter in what promises to be a scene - stealing performance.
The Bad: The Rock, before he was Dwayne Johnson, was not exactly the world's best leading man.

Not exact matches

In a throwaway line intended to highlight his perpetually boyish good looks, his agent Rick Yorn refers to DiCaprio as a character actor in a leading man's body.
One actor, probably Josh Brolin, is modeled after an unnamed CEO she calls the best dressed man on Wall Street: «For example, there is a company lead by an impeccably well - dressed man.
Curiously, while Sanders has a sizable lead over Trump in this poll, businesspeople weighing in with comments, without exception, said they do not think Sanders is the best man for the job.
Paying homage to the comics Other than cashing in on video games — the LEGO Batman games are leading Activision Blizzard's (Nasdaq: ATVI) The Amazing Spider - Man on the charts as of this writing — it isn't yet clear how Warner will make good on this freedom.
In its study, Unilever found that 77 percent of men and 55 percent of women believe that a man is the best choice to lead a high - stakes project.
We're hard - pressed to say which is best: Duke's Coach K (above, right), who has developed players for decades with a mixture of toughness and love — in the process becoming the winningest Division I men's college basketball coach in history and leading the U.S. Olympic men's basketball team to a pair of gold medals?
Here are six very important reasons why I think women make better entrepreneurs than men (and these characteristics also make women better equipped for doing business in the lead to 2020):
The entertainment behemoth, now owned by Disney, has realized that its superhero movie leads don't always have to be played by generic, well - muscled white men who are indistinguishable from one another.
Marie herself has appeared on Oprah and leads a dedicated community of successful, aspiring men and women looking to achieve a better life and business.
Broadly speaking, it describes the way unconscious generalizations about people («men are better leaders») lead people to ignore objective reality («these women are outscoring most of the men on the leadership test»).
I am, indeed, deeply regretful of the fact that you were not allowed to be compelled to sacrifice your life for the good of everyone else the way that men are required to do, and I have actually been a very vocal advocate for women to be allowed into combat conditions — indeed, to lead combat platoons.
Bloomberg Markets» Scarlet Fu led the discussion, which addressed a broad range of issues faced by young entrepreneurs — women and men alike — as well as the possibilities, obstacles, and advice for female entrepreneurs.
Not merely a collection of good ideas, this book spells out the 67 timeless principles and practices used by the world's most successful men and women — proven principles and strategies that can be adapted for your own life, whether you want to be the best salesperson in your company, become a leading architect, score top grades in school, lose weight, buy your dream home, make millions, or just get back in the job market.
Best Picture: «The Shape of Water» Lead Actor: Gary Oldman, «Darkest Hour» Lead Actress: Frances McDormand, «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» Supporting Actor: Sam Rockwell, «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» Supporting Actress: Allison Janney, «I, Tonya» Director: «The Shape of Water,» Guillermo del Toro Animated Feature: «Loving Vincent,» Animated Short: «Revolting Rhymes» Adapted Screenplay: «The Disaster Artist» Original Screenplay: «The Big Sick» Cinematography: «Blade Runner 2049» Roger Deakins Best Documentary Feature: «Last Men in Aleppo» Best Documentary Short Subject: «Traffic Stop» Best Live Action Short Film: «The Silent Child» Best Foreign Language Film: «The Insult» (Lebanon) Film Editing: «Baby Driver» Sound Editing: «Dunkirk» Sound Mixing: «Dunkirk» Production Design: «The Shape of Water» Original Score: «Star Wars: The Last Jedi Original Song: «This Is Me» from «The Greatest Showman» Makeup and Hair: «Darkest Hour» Costume Design: «Phantom Thread» Visual Effects: «Star Wars: The Last Jedi»
All of that, and there is no verifiable proof that any of it is or was ever true can lead a rational person to only one conclusion: a man - made fairy tale at best and a means of mind - control, torture and prejudice at worst.
Better to hope the blood - lust brutes displayed allowed the strong to shine like hammered blades, that pyramid of dead led up to man.
Travelling across the world, the evidence he collected would lead to the rescue of hundreds of women and children, as well as the prosecution of many of the pimps and sometimes the customers — including British men who had travelled to less well - policed countries to exploit the women and children there.
And isn't the relationship with God, and each spiritual journey going to lead us in different directions — why do we need to judge others who profess Love of God, who profess love of their fellow man, yet seem to us to act unkindly to others, how can we judge them unless we talk to them and understand them as well as God does.
The Christian Right has lost its way and GOD himself thought the sheep needed to learn from their misguided, lying cheating and B - S - ing way... and well GOD can only lead you to water... Our Leaders are protect from the EVILS of man and in this election the EVIL doers all have green thumbs from the greedy money monsters....
It may be silly, but then getting paid minimum wage to read books when one is 18 years old ain't a bad gig, and this man and the library he led and the town which made this library possible are irreplaceable factors in both making and preserving important things like the opportunity to read good (or not so good) books in quiet solitude.
The evil that men do is worse because, in effect, they can do better; man's intellect and reason are reflections of divinity, signs of his higher nature, and they can lead him to the brink of grasping it.
If man is not made more in the image of God than woman is, then how does man leading church better represent the relationship of God to man than a woman leading church would?
At a church we once attended, we were assigned a new pastor, a middle aged man who had not pastored before, but felt his experience in leading home bible study groups well - qualified him to lead our church, a congregation of about 80.
It aims to lift up in witness a recognition that while the war and events leading up to it clearly revealed the worst of human potential, among some ordinary people it also brought forth the very best of which men and women are capable.
There has been much spurious research and false conclusions drawn by those known as «anti-Mormons» to lead people to a bad impression of a man who was about as good a man who ever lived - save Jesus, of course.
Bin Laden's death was the result of years of intelligence gathering, months of planning, the actions of a group of highly trained men, and, ultimately, the extremely well understood natural principal that high velocity lead smashing through your brain pan tends to kill you.
And whether it leads to a personal revelation for him, or simply just allows him to be more compassionate towards them professionally as a man of faith, I see only good from this.
Organized religion base on man's interpetation of god's word has lead to more excuses for atocities than man's self introspective of what is good and what is not...
We are led to see the world as good, men and women as good and other creatures as good because this is how the Creator saw them.
The teaching that men are to be the «spiritual leaders» of their homes is found nowhere in Scripture, and yet I — along with far too many young evangelical women — spent hours upon hours fretting over this in college, worrying I'd never find a guy who was more knowledgeable about the Bible than I, who was always more emotionally connected to God than I, who was better at leading in the church than I, and who consistently exhibited more faithfulness and wisdom than I. (In fact, under this paradigm, I came to see many of my gifts as liabilities, impediments to settling down with a good «spiritual leader»!)
Islam states that Allah created man with a disposition which leads him sometimes to choose the good and sometimes to choose the evil way of life.
Please... «study after study»... look at the state - sanctioned «godless» nations of the world... China, North Korea, Cuba... as I've stated... Hitler's regime was based largely on the theory of evolution which led to «eugenics» which led to «building a better man»... they touted their «science» and «reason».
Had Brown not been cut down, he may have grown into a more life affirming position; perhaps as an internationally renowned neurosurgeon, a nationally syndicated newscaster, a White House cabinet member, a military general, a preacher of the Gospel, or perhaps as a simple and ordinary man who loves his wife and leads his family well, like so many who sit in our congregations every Sunday.
No theory of dualism, but the urgency of the demand leads to the insight that the will of men as a rule is bad, that before God at least none can be called good.
The group that he led included people with considerable formal education (trainee ministers), who were used to working with the written and spoken word, as well as people with little education — unemployed men from the most depressed parts of Glasgow who were manually skilled and practically minded.
We shall have the root of the matter in us; we shall have come to recognize that in the history leading up to our Lord, and with the coming of Jesus himself, there were released into the world, and that in what we may rightly call an unprecedented fashion, energies for good which have changed the lives of men and through them the face of nature too, and that these same energies are still available whenever men turn, in faith and with utter self - surrender, to the Lord of all life.
We do find direction as well as control in the constitution of matter which leads to man, and through man to Christ as the Key to the meaning of Universe, the Centre of history and Lord of the Human mind and heart.
For all his loving - kindness, he did not hesitate to say that a man who led a little child astray would be better off dead.
The price a man or woman paid may well have been an increasingly bitter personality, a frustration that even led to physical disorders.
For one thing, man's free - will is a good deal more limited than is often supposed, and a few people have even been led to the conclusion that it is an illusion.
Well, you motivated me to go to the thesaurus and look up «leader»... how about baton, bellwether, big wheel, bigwig, boss, captain, chief, chieftain, commander, conductor, controller, counsellor, dean, dignitary, director, doyen, eminence, exec, foreman, forerunner, general, governor, guide, harbinger, head, head man, herald, honcho, kingpin, lead, lion *, luminary, maestro, manager, master, notability, notable, number one, officer, pacesetter, pilot, pioneer, precursor, president, principal, rector, ringleader, ruler, shepherd, skipper, superintendent, superior.
In short, prior to the 19th century women as well as men thought of themselves, and of each other, as passionate sexual beings, and often their passion led them to deviate from existing community norms.
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