Sentences with phrase «big themes like»

In a story that includes big themes like marriage and heartbreak and mortality, Jones could easily have overwritten Mildred's part by including much more back story than he did, Mildred going on and on about how bad she feels that her husband left her.

But this year's shortlist was a dog's dinner of artists with a hyperbolic splashing of big themes like «interaction».

Both authors talk about the big themes like love, life and death in different ways.

Using «Robinson Crusoe» as a starting point, this soulful and meditative tale about a shipwrecked man who washes up on a deserted island tackles some big themes like man vs. nature and the circle of life.

It's a gnarly and lubricious film that lambadas its way through an assortment of big themes like honour, masculinity and Oedipal rage.

Not exact matches

He was determined to make the biggest and greatest theme park ever seen, saying to a colleague, «I want it to look like nothing else in the world.»

Feloni: So that's kind of like a theme for all of your biggest wins, is the 9 - year - old's in there somewhere, but you're also --

«Things that Disney invented, like Disneyland, the theme parks, they were such big visions that no single individual could ever pull them off,» Bezos also told TAA, «unlike a lot of the things that Edison worked on.

How media companies can think more like startups One of the central themes of the RoadMap conference we just finished doing in San Francisco earlier this week was the importance of design, and how companies both big and small need to think about design in an age of ubiquitous connectivity — and not just design in the sense of how something looks or feels, but how it works and the relationship users have with it.

Thousands of shares, likes and comments later, speculation reached a fever pitch and they made their «big» announcement: They would be hosting a themed cruise.

The show combines talk about big social issues like race, poverty and violence, with deeply personal themes like failure, indentity and chasing your dreams, becoming one of the year's most acclaimed new shows.

I do, which is why I do things like make turkey - themed Thanksgiving snacks to put in my kids» lunches leading up to the big day.

His speeches, like the one at the Hotel Trades Council headquarters, are increasingly laced with the kind of big themes that become the rhetorical cornerstones of presidential campaigns.

Getting big money out of politics has been a central theme of her campaign to represent the 19th Congressional District, located in New York State's Hudson Valley and Catskills regions, like it was when she ran for governor in 2014.

Immediately I had in mind to go for all American brands like Tommy Hilfiger, Levi's, Ralph Lauren and Michael Kors to stay in the Big Apple theme.

But... even though my husband and I aren't big celebrators of this day, I do REALLY like all the red, pink and heart - themed clothing that exists for this day.

XOXO So today is the big V - Day... and although I know it's a little late to go out and buy some of these lipsticks if you have a hot date tonight (or if the family is going out for pizza like we are) BUT since February is also Heart Health Awareness month I figured i'd do another red themed Friday Favorites, and today's post is all about my favorite red lipsticks / glosses!

In America, bigger sizes (12 to 20 ounces being standard) mean we often make our lattes with double or triple shots of espresso and sometimes add flavors like vanilla, caramel, or seasonal - themed flavorings.

Big dumb disaster movies like 2012 and small indies like The Divide (about an underground bunker full of jerks who fail at survivalism but excel at destroying each other) and the upcoming apocalypse - themed Seth Rogen comedy The End of The World are all surfing the trending death - wave.

The soundtrack was magnificent and really catchy, I liked all the level and cutscene themes and big part of the character themes too.

Though the theme of resentment plays a big part in the film, Tom's emotional transformation is taken a little too far, to the point that you're not even sure if you like the main characters anymore.

It was a pleasure to spend time with such an accomplished group of performers every week, and when one considers the themes of abuse and control that surface in «Big Little Lies» in light of what has made headlines at the end of the year, it feels like an even more essential program in terms of we are in 2017 and where we're going next.

A simple damsel in distress movie that allows itself to focus on bigger themes, like characters and settings.

And though Akira seems like an even darker story, with its dystopian techno - horror themes and grand - scale action, Waititi has proved that he knows how to dig for the humanity of movies big and small.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening November 23, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS August Rush (PG for slight violence, mild profanity and mature themes) Freddie Highmore stars as the title character in this escapist fantasy about a promising musical prodigy who runs away from an orphanage to New York City to find his parents (Keri Russell and Jonathan Rhys Myers) only to end up living with a Fagin - like wizard (Robin Williams) and lots of other kids in a makeshift shelter in an abandoned theater which was once the Fillmore East.

succeeds precisely due to its mix of modern technological wonder, old school devotion to the themes that made the series the genre - defining behemoth it has been, and a measured understanding of what makes a story like this work on the big screen.

Godzilla succeeds precisely due to its mix of modern technological wonder, old school devotion to the themes that made the series the genre - defining behemoth it has been, and a measured understanding of what makes a story like this work on the big screen.

Big - ticket characters like franchise mascot Iron Man are represented, but Infinity War often plays more like a Guardians of the Galaxy story because they're more at home with the overt science - fiction themes of the film, and Gamora (Zoe Saldana, I Kill Giants) has had a multi-movie arc directly related to Thanos.

While she continued to star in smaller features like Hal Hartley's bleak comic tragedy Henry Fool (and later in the sequel, the espionage - themed Fay Grim), she also took on small roles in bigger pictures, most notably You've Got Mail, playing Tom Hanks» cold - hearted and wound - up girlfriend.

Sounds like a perfect job for Spanish director J.A. Bayona, whose feature debut was the horror film «The Orphanage,» but who proved he could handle big - screen disasters with the tsunami - themed «The Impossible.»

It is everything I like in a film, big performances, stylistic rigour, difficult themes, and that it utterly doesn't give a shit if anyone likes it or not.

However, along came more enlightened times, and the classic Western gave way to comedies like Blazing Saddles (1974), as well as iconoclastic variations on the theme a la Little Big Man (1970) and Dances with Wolves (1990).

The film is entrancing and evocative, like an evil younger cousin to A Bigger Splash and its shared themes of glamour deceiving a questionable moral compass underneath.

A Sequel, yes Zorpix, let them add better stuffs such as a big theme park to explore like Walt Disney for example.

And I think that is a conscious stylistic choice, not a directorial ego trip by Paul Thomas Anderson who tends to make big movies with big themes, most of which I have liked a lot (There Will Be Blood, Magnolia).

«Horses» were a big running theme at SXSW 2018 (what with Lean On Pete and The Rider also being showcased), yet none of these movies had horses quite like Boots Riley's Sorry to Bother You (though I won't spoil the joke beyond that).

Though the theme of resentment plays a big part in the story, Segel's emotional transformation is taken a little too far, to the point that you're not even sure if you like the main characters anymore.

Blu - ray Highlight: «Behind the Scenes of Kevin» isn't your typical making - of featurette, but rather an intelligent discussion about the movie with interviews from the cast and crew on a number of topics like adapting Lionel Shriver's controversial novel for the big screen, casting, production design and the film's various themes.

In programs on themes like these, it usually works best to break up the big question, tracking down the answers to smaller pieces as clues toward solving the overall mystery.

Though the surface takeaway is that the Douglas affair is one of conservatives and reformers taking over an affluent district, there's a much bigger story here: We are likely to see many, many more episodes like this in the months and years to come, though there will be variations on the theme.

The theme articles in this issue of Principal magazine underscore that personal networks are what will continue to thrive and drive the innovation that produced group voice - messaging platforms like Voxer, and what will generate the next «next big thing.»

BMW senior VP of design Adrian van Hooydonk calls the theme of the new bodywork «business athlete,» which is a more elegant way of saying «it looks a lot like a 3 Series, only bigger.»

Silly big power out of modest machinery will be Hyundai's theme at this year's SEMA show — witness the 708 - horsepower Sonata and the 1,000 - horsepower Genesis Coupe that will make this Genesis sedan seem like the nerdy kid brother in a family of quarterbacks.

Devoid of parents and with a limited time frame, it's like a social experiment where big coming - of - age themes like self - reliance, belonging, and friendship come into sharp relief and kids are forced to sink or swim.

People who identify birds while they travel are often surprised that the habit causes them to soak in much bigger themes about the world: watching birds inadvertently educates the birding traveler on subjects like geography, habitat and ecology, and in a way that is much more profound than studying the same subjects in textbooks.

The hotel is in a perfect position for watching whales, sailing, water - skiing, jet - skiing, hiking, paragliding or visiting one of the theme parks like Siam Park, the biggest in Europe.

Indeed, that was a major theme throughout my review of the game, and one of the biggest problems I had with it: huge potential utterly wasted by a developer who felt like they were never given the freedom to create the game they truly wanted to make, and instead had to badly fit it into the Battlefield template.

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

Sex and violence are large themes in the Witcher 2, but unlike other games which often feel like they're forcing sex into their game and then pointing at it with big neon signs and saying, «look how mature our game is!

The biggest knock against is that there is not a large variety in the actual puzzle mechanics, so the more that you play the game, the more that puzzles begin to feel like subtle variations on a theme.