Sentences with phrase «better than the dialogue»

The music is not that great, but it is better than the dialogue.

His focus tends to be more on the intimate, apparently insignificant and unremarkable moments of everyday life, their humble materiality and physicality — and how they often lend visibility to moral dilemmas and equivocal feelings better than dialogue or, obviously, acting codes.

Not exact matches

Sometimes the best course of action is to lead a dialogue rather than give a straightforward presentation.

It's a good bet Bernanke and the Fed got a bit more than they bargained for with May rumblings of tapering and the actual mid-June Bernanke tapering dialogue in terms of interest rate movement recently.

But the purposes of theological dialogue are much better served by the assumption of two active and responsible partners than of one who is active (and guilt - ridden) and the other passive (and self - righteous).

Rather than viewing Moltmann's thought on play as developing chiefly out of a dialogue with American theology, it would be better to conclude that (1) his systematic interest in exploring the various ramifications of a theology of hope led him to investigate ecclesiology, which he found playful, and (2) his desire to counteract the seriousness of student revolutionaries, both in Germany and in America, led him into a consideration of play as an antidote.

I use to post a lot more than I do now, that was when there was «good dialogue», but I wearied of the nonsense.

Well, they are actually zero, since some earlier dialogue let us know that when he abandoned the cat, the car was less than three driving hours from Chicago.

The lamentable polarisation and confusion which has developed as a consequence of these conflicting interpretations of our present situation is only too familiar to anyone involved in the life of the Church and has led all too often into destructive polemic rather than real dialogue about the best way forward for Catholic Christianity in the third millennium.

While it is fine, indeed healthy, for Judaic scholars to engage in a heated exchange about the best way to approach interfaith dialogue, nothing can justify Prof. Novak's truly repugnant accusation that, in not ascribing to Dabru Emet, Prof. Levenson is somehow guilty of fostering «self - hatred» among Christians, or his insulting suggestion that Levenson would be better off teaching in an Orthodox yeshiva than at Harvard.

But the question of how to interpret the doctrine of the universality and unsurpassability of Christ in the context of inter-religious dialogue is now with us for good, and the fact that it will not go away means that we may be at least a little closer to an answer than we were before.

Through dialogue, these young men, precious to God, might come to see that the Christian view of Jesus is much earlier, more coherent, and better evidenced than the Muslim view of Jesus.

Dialogue works much better than warfare, but a good example is the most convincing reformer of all.

He is proving to be a better guide than Calvin, Luther, Thomas, Augustine, Athanasius or Irenaeus (with all of whom he was in continuous dialogue) because he was both more thorough and more rigorously systematic down to the smallest detail.

Mind you that wasn't the only thing you said in that particular thread that led me to the conclusion that attempting to have any real dialogue with you was pointless and I was already well on the way to that point from the countless encounters of you avoiding questions and offering nothing more to support your stance than «I'm right and you're wrong» or «read it again, it's clear».

This is just my opinion so hopefully we can all have a good dialogue on the above rather than have a go at each other

He is best known for advancing dialogue around college and youth sports, with The Nation writing in 2017 that Tom «has done more than any reporter in the country to educate all of us about the professionalization of youth sports.»

It's always better to be upfront about your concerns and keep engaged in a dialogue than to stew about the lack of communication while not doing something about it....

There is a great danger that the response to this challenge will sound something like this: Labour's internal democratisation simply empowers «good» working class people — plainly, those who are receptive to a left - wing political agenda — while there is in any case no point in engaging a dialogue with the «bad» working class people who hold socially conservative views, resent immigration and see UKIP rather than Labour as the «party of work.»

«In sum, the position of the department is that many of the bills currently under consideration today are better achieved through collaboration and dialogue between the council and the department, and among various city agencies and community stakeholders, rather than through legislation,» Bratton said.

The poor word choices, which resulted from the passion expressed by some, diverted the attention away from the legitimate concerns of the more than 500 hardworking mental - health workers, correctional officers, caregivers for developmentally - disabled individuals, administrative personnel and others who attended the rally to call for substantive dialogue with the governor about the direction we need to take the Empire State so that it serves all its citizens well, especially the most vulnerable among us.»

Building relationships on common ground rather than in the rough seas of controversy may be the best way to get beyond popular conflict narratives of science and religion dialogue, said speakers at DoSER's 2014 AAAS Annual Meeting Symposium, «Religious Communities, Science, Scientists, and Perceptions: A Comprehensive Survey.»

TMT spokesperson Sandra Dawson says her team had more than 300 «talk — story sessions» — the Hawaiian pidgin term for dialogue — with community members over the course of several years, including half a dozen well - attended public hearings, and that by their estimates well over half the island's population supports the project.

Internal and External Messages Pay attention to your internal dialogue as well as the stories you tell your family and friends, which can reflect — or even shape — your mental state more than you might think.

D9 did a better job than most at pointing out our human qualities — both good and ill — and opening an on - going dialogue to discuss it.

When you have dedicated episodes of these guys taking shelter from a storm, an entire episode with an awful hipstery filter fest, even more cringy dialogue and ridiculous death scenes that mean nothing other than just being shocking and violent; well that's when the show suffers.

I've never been a fan, as a rule of horror movies, however, the trailer drew me to this one and i'm glad it did, the awful acting we usually get in horror movies wasn't there this time round, in fact, the whole cast were excellent, the special effects were really very good and the humorous, intelligent dialogue (another thing you don't usually get in horrors) was brilliant, loved the film, Chris Hemsworth, although with less to do in this than he does in Thor, was great in it too.

I'm not saying it's the best comedy you will ever see, because it is not that, but I definitely think this movie has more clever dialogue than many people give it credit for.

I like Aloy, but she conveyed herself better in actions than in dialogue.

Famke Janssen is also a treat for the eyes and Anthony Heald is amusing as the obligatory back stabbing weasel and although the dialogue is little more than samples from the A to Z of lame one liners it's quite good fun.

He's a devotee of unadorned camerawork and semi-improvised dialogue — but some actors are better at improv than others.

I'm sorry too, «Scandal» fans but even though this particular return was better than a lot of previous episodes, the show is totally overrated for it's childish approach of political relationships, overacting and dialogue - spitting nonsense.

The Dolby TrueHD 5.1 mix is a little better than the Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 on the HD side and standard Dolby Digital 5.1 on the DVD side, with a decent soundfield, dialogue that is usually recorded well and a music score typical of the genre by Craig Armstrong and Ar Rahman.

On big screen TVs the image comes alive better than any previous home video incarnation, but it's the superlative 5.1 surround remix (at 24 - bit from the 35 mm LCRS and dialogue - music - effects tracks) that most impresses.

There's a lot of heart poured in from the talented cast to make this a cut above most in the genre, and there is quite a bit of good romantic dialogue and situations to make this deeper than the superficial relationship we usually get.

This movie is a mixed bag on one side is Kevin Hart mostly improvising which give most of, if not all of the film's funny dialogue, he also shares good chemistry with Ice Cube, on the other side the scripted jokes, are most of the time well lame, this fun to watch now than most of the movies are ****

Zemeckis, a gooey crowd - pleaser at heart, overplays the hushed reverence at times, using heavy - handed dialogue to suggest that it was Petit's audacious walk that «brought them to life» for many New Yorkers (the towers were famously derided as giant filing cabinets upon construction) and closing on a final shot better suited to a postage stamp than a movie.

Hell, Tilda Swinton had less dialogue than everyone else, yet she was able to give the best and most honest performance out of everyone!

Whereas before when the Dynamo is activated and inverts Shantae's magic to make her evil, and her friends snap her out of it within seconds, thanks to some well - spoken dialogue, it turns out Shantae's friends did more than just say a few lines.

People will despise this movie for its quirky dialogue and its over-exposed lead, but given a chance, Jennifer's Body is entertaining, a little bit different, and deserves better than it's gotten, despite some obvious flaws.

Of course, everything about «Pompeii» feels half - assed — from its bland romance, to its terrible dialogue, to the worthless addition of 3D — and though it's slightly better than last month's «The Legend of Hercules,» the film is still a pretty miserable viewing experience.

Like many of his lines, these sentences would be better suited for bumper stickers rather than movie dialogue.

He even manages most of the material better than Michael Clarke Duncan («The Green Mile,» «The Whole Nine Yards») who is just too much of an actor to deliver the cheesy dialogue with the right mix of sincerity and irony, and Peter Facinelli («Can't Hardly Wait,» «The Big Kahuna»), whose thin - voiced delivery doesn't convey the necessary petulant malevolence.

The stellar cast could play every single one of these roles in their sleep but that doesn't make them guilty of lazy performances; Anthony Mackie's conflicted cop is empathetic at times and well in need of a slap at others while Casey «better - in - every - way - than - his - brother - when - on - screen» Affleck is likable if not always blessed with the best lines of dialogue to deliver.

It's a mixed blessing, of course, as good Holmes should probably be more of a dialogue - driven thing than an exploding - glass, riding - chandeliers sort of thing.

The actors aren't all well cast (I counted only about three I'd consider to be above average for their respective roles — Acker as Beatrice, Fillion (Waitress, White Noise 2) in the supporting role of Dogberry - the only time the audience I viewed the film with laughed at anything in the film that came from actual dialogue, rather than the injected slapstick and actors occasionally comical facial expressions, came from Fillion's delivery - and British actor Paul Meston in the minuscule part of Friar Francis) The rest often appear as though they're reciting lines without any sense of meaning in the words they are saying, and when one of those happens to be the male romantic lead, that's one hell of a liability.

It's still a Crowe film, though, and there's an intangible quality that keeps it likable even when it's not particularly good, animating it as the dialogue lands with a thud, the chemistry fizzles, and ultimately moral plays as more corny than true.

Whit Stillman adapting Jane Austen works better than I imagined, seamlessly merging his comic rhythms into the Regency dialogue and story structure of her epistolary novella Lady Susan.

Far from staid, the picture illustrates nothing but Brownian motion — shaking shit up real good and filming the results for two long hours to a parade of ironic pop songs and barely - heard snatches of dialogue written by someone I'd like to see do better than this, Donnie Darko creator Richard Kelly.

Other than the bad language, this may be a good watch for older audiences who are looking for strong dialogue and acting versus special effects and action.