Sentences with phrase «by dramatic tension»

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The arrests, by national intelligence agents, marked the first at a Western oil firm in Venezuela and represent a dramatic escalation of growing tensions between PDVSA and foreign companies over control of supply contracts.

The arrests, by national intelligence agents, marked the first at a Western oil firm in Venezuela and represent a dramatic escalation of growing tensions between PDVSA and foreign companies over control of supply contracts, the sources told Reuters.

The dramatic tensions between church and world are too great to be sustained by purely human intellectual and moral exertion.

«Every Halloween I have a scary movie night, but the dramatic tension is broken by roving trick - or - treaters,» says Samara Morgan.

The screenplay by David Kajganich (The Invasion), based on Finkel's memoir, gradually develops tension while keeping its focus on the two main characters, even if it's embellished to fit a more conventional dramatic framework.

Any potential for dramatic tension and imaginative gunplay is squandered by repetitive enemy encounters, tedious action, and rudimentary objectives.

«CAN I BE ME» ● THE WOUND, by John Trengove, brims with dramatic tension as a man returns to his small, South African community to participate in the annual ceremony where teenage boys are initiated into manhood in an environment wholly dedicated to traditional male mores.

Unfortunately, the script drags considerably for the first hour, failing to wring any real dramatic tension from their decision to keep the money and unfairly tipping the balance in their favour by having them be in need of expensive IVF treatment, as well as facing eviction.

By trying to make one feel «in the moment» director David Ayer loses movement of dramatic tension.

For those of us who fail to see the dramatic tension of a 1,000 - year - old alien in the form of a young woman talking out loud to the internal monologue of that young woman trapped in the recesses of the consciousness of her presently occupied - by - an - alien body, this movie is an oddity.

But the producers» spectacular ambitions are undercut time and again by two factors: by the fact that the essential dramatic interest inheres in the grotesquely confined agonies of one man and, beyond that, in the unlikely (which is to say, in entertainment terms, likely) friendship and love of two men; and by the very nature of Franklin Schaffner as a director — that he is also one of the producers serves not so much to contradict my idea of Schaffner the director as to index an ambivalence that is the richest source of tension in the movie.

Even the best images get scuppered by awkward ones, as when Ozon follows a dark, misty tracking shot of Anna and Adrien returning home from a late - night dance with some boilerplate medium close - ups that dissipate dramatic tension and muffle expressive detail.

But it's Fiona Dourif who carries the dramatic weight of the film on her shoulders, succeeding in making us take the mystery and tension seriously even as people get decapitated by a red headed killer doll.

It's when the film reaches Candie's plantation that it drops off considerably, largely due to less dramatic tension as well as an unconvincing performance by Samuel L. Jackson as Candie's trusted house slave (while the other actors at least make some attempt at period verisimilitude, Jackson sounds as contempo as he did in Jackie Brown and Pulp Fiction).

The female co-stars, Michelle Williams and Anne Hathaway, limited as they are by small roles, both manage to steal scenes at times, with Williams particularly given the opportunity to bring true dramatic tension to her turn as Ennis» long - suffering wife.

WAVEMAKER AWARD (GRAND PRIZE) Sable Mire (USA 2015), directed by Bogui Adjorlolo and Isaac Pauls JURY STATEMENT: For its ambitious portrait of familial relationships infused with dramatic tension, stylish cinematography, strong acting performances, and a provocative ending.

By alternating questions between teams, each team has the same number of at - bats, and the dramatic tension is maximized since everyone can see who is ahead at any moment and what question difficulty is needed to score.

By alternating questions between teams, each team has the same number of at - bats, and the dramatic tension is maximized since everyone can see who is ahead at any moment and what difficulty of question is needed to score.

I'm not going to give you a lot of advice about writing dialog, or creating dramatic tension, or any of a dozen aspects of fiction writing that have already been covered in books written by more respected authors than I. For that matter, I'm also not going to give you a lot of rah - rah motivational advice about sticking with it and overcoming your doubts.

As tension mounts in the Indiana Territory, the boys» friendship is tested in this dramatic novel in verse, masterfully read by Picasso, Michael Bakkensen, and Tandy Cronyn.

There is a tenderness and softness emphasized by the choice of colors, yet dramatic tension activates the pieces.

Townsend's sculpture is characterized by a solemn tension, a dramatic sparseness and a striking material presence.

He also suggests it'd be valuable for me to do a story more broadly examining the tension over interpreting dramatic shortish - term events in a realm still beset by a paucity of data, and in some cases, even hypotheses.