Sentences with phrase «briefer than her appearance»

Emma Thompson has been either allowed or encouraged to painfully overact as divination professor Sibyl Trelawney, and Julie Christie's cameo as a Hogsmead tavern functionary is even briefer than her appearance in «Troy.»

Not exact matches

The prophecies cited here are those which speak of the immediate prelude to the Day of the Lord, and these Mark sees fulfilled in the appearance of John the Baptist, of whose ministry a brief account is given, just sufficient to introduce the significant words, «A stronger than I is coming after me.2.

The ones holding up banners were those brave enough to attend and actually vocalize what I am sure every Arsenal fan (even the AKB's) have thought at some stage or another — that JUST PERHAPS Wenger's time is up and he can not progress our club further than a fourth place finish and brief CL cameo appearance.

Forget the quality of opposition etc and other churlish remarks but our attacking boys done good; Ramsey for Wales, Welbz for England, Alexis for Chile, Mesut for Germany — brief but bright cameos from Santi and Ollie, appearances for Theo and Poldi (Low has him inked in as an 80 min impact guy — easier to do in an international setting than at club level).

Kenyon crossed the Atlantic in the latter stages of his career — making more than 50 appearances for the Vancouver White Caps either side of a brief spell with Bristol City.

More than an alcoholic, he's selfish and entirely pathetic, and his brief appearance in the film is its turning point.

Professor Bruttenholm (John Hurt, making a brief but welcome appearance) tells young Hellboy a bedtime story, which mostly consists of the kind of thing you'd expect to find in a picture like this — an ancient war, an uneasy truce, a portentous warning of reprisals — but the story itself is less remarkable than the manner in which del Toro depicts it.

John Goodman adds some color (as per usual) as Roland Turner, a jazz musician Llewyn meets on the road who might be more obnoxious than he is; Garrett Hedlund makes a brief appearance as Turner's driver, cigarette un-sharing, beat - poet Johnny Five; and F. Murray Abraham plays up the big whig (or as big as they get at this point) Bud Grossman, a potential label representative Llewyn has been eyeing in Chicago, his possible ticket for getting out of all of this mess.

SOUNDS: A bit like the atmospheric high tones that made a brief appearance in There Will Be Blood, Meek's Cutoff makes a little usage of high - pitched strings that sound more like air sirens than anything else.

(It's no accident that Heraclitus's The Cosmic Fragments, philosophical texts about the world rather than just man, makes a brief but pointed appearance.)

The ensemble couldn't be better, from Damon in paunchy - dork mode (think «Contagion» rather than Jason Bourne) and a joyously sleazy Waltz to brief but memorable appearances by the likes of Margo Martindale, Jason Sudeikis, Udo Kier, Laura Dern, Niecy Nash, Kerri Kenney and Neil Patrick Harris.

Finally, there's also a nice, if much too brief, appearance by Bruce Greenwood as a mining conglomeration bigwig that's loose, cagey and filled with eccentric charm, and it's a major pity the movie doesn't do more with him than it ultimately does.

Not even an appearance on the Today Show can guarantee more than a brief spike in sales.

Through a series of brief and often emotional conversations with various characters, players gradually learn the tragic history of the game's cast as well as its amnesiac adventurer, whose athletic ability and weapon skills are much more advanced than his appearance would suggest.