Sentences with phrase «central conflict between»

Even the central conflict between Dan and the record label he helped launch (led by Yasiin Bey) is a decade out of date.

Among the multiple lines of critical and cultural discourse surrounding the film, however, one particularly stands out: the notion of There Will Be Blood — with its central conflict between cutthroat oil prospector Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day - Lewis) and zealous small - town preacher Eli Sunday (Paul Dano) in 1911 California — as a kind of demonic origin tale for the state of contemporary American political culture, with narrow - minded religious fervor and bald - faced capitalistic excesses forming two sides of the same tarnished coin.

Great dialogue and performances make the central conflict between them fun to watch.

And when Johnson gets to zero in on that central conflict between Rey and Kylo Ren, The Last Jedi soars.

Most of the film focuses on the central conflict between Picard and Shinzon, and what's interesting about it is that it's not merely a matter of good vs. evil.

director Mike Mendez — that, while it has a charming sense of humor about itself, leans too heavily on CGI blood; The Girl With All The Gifts (B), a well - shot British zombie film that attempts to inject new life into a tired genre, and almost succeeds thanks to young star Sennia Nanua; and the disappointing Phantasm: Ravager (C --RRB-, a low - budget labor of love which, while it plays like a Phantasm fan film, ultimately undercuts the emotional closure it attempts to bring to the franchise by failing to resolve the central conflict between good and evil.

In attempting to balance the central conflict between Frank and Evelyn, a nature - vs.

What prevents Homefront from being the kick - ass action flick it could have been is the dilution of the movie's central conflict between Broker and Bodine by bringing in the bikers.

Sony has released three new teasers for the long - awaited — and long - delayed — The Dark Tower, and each serves as a bit of a primer on the complicated world of the Stephen King adaptation, outlining the central conflict between Idris Elba's good guy gunslinger and Matthew McConaughey's nefarious Man In Black.

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In the event of demand shocks, there is not a large conflict between the real and nominal objectives; the monetary response is the same to meet both objectives, and the actions of all the inflation - targeting central banks would not be significantly different.

He advised that the conflict between European governments and its central bank must end.

Even so committed an anti-Communist (and non-Marxist) as Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. took class conflict as self - evident, and in The Vital Center (1949) and elsewhere he depicted the central theme of American politics as the struggle for power between the business community and all other social groups.

The natural rights principles are central and primary, but they do not capture the broader vision of liberty Americans had from the beginning, let alone the dialogic conflict between various conceptions of liberty that developed over time.

In his discursive Acedia and Its Discontents: Metaphysical Boredom in an Empire of Desire, R. J. Snell makes much of that novel's central conflict, between the lightness of freedom and the weight of commitment and deep human entanglement.

It undermined my earlier assumption... that there could be no conflict between true ends, true answers to the central problems of life.

Whether we are liberal or conservative Christians, we must confess that the central problem of our lives is that we are torn apart by the conflict between our attraction to the good news of God's abundance and the power of our belief in scarcity — a belief that makes us greedy, mean and unneighborly.

One of the best football games for bettors to exploit this week in football is the conflict between Central Michigan vs. Minnesota.

Central to the conflicts was a growing struggle between Netsch and Madison over control of the park district.

The MTA is one of the central conflicts in the relationship between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio.

The conflict between the public's belief in teaching and the academic belief in research makes the central problem of the university unique; there's no other great social institution afflicted by such a radical division between public expectations and professional goals.

Their relationship conveys the conflicted identity of the central characters and the possibility of future harmony between the nations.

The director (who also co-wrote the script) invests ample time in fleshing out Wakanda and makes the dynamic between its villain Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan) and hero T'Challa (Boseman) much deeper, and more philosophically murky, than most central conflicts in Marvel movies are.

Even if the level of other characters» own development decreases as they move down the food chain of plot importance (Some speak of their lack of feelings of worth and act upon them, others give themselves neat nicknames and show off their abilities, and one seemingly appears only as fodder for the villain (After the pronouncement that said character is dead, we half expect the follow - up to be «And we have killed him»)-RRB-, there is at least this conflict of ideas between its central characters playing out as though it, instead of nifty superhuman talents, is what matters the most.

More important than anything, though, is the need for the central conflict, represented by the battle between freedom and control, between justice and authority, between Captain America and Iron Man, to feel genuine and earned.

Like a sunbaked Jules and Jim, the movie makes nimble use of its central love triangle, setting up conflicts between the characters as they move through the complicated political and social realities of Mexican life.

Between an obviously strained father and son bond, which drives the story's central conflict forward, to the subtle differences in opinion of all four characters that affect the two romantic relationships, «In Our Nature» genuinely looks at the petty differences that can unnecessarily drive people apart.

At the end of the 20th century at the end of the authoritarian New Order government in 1997 until 2000, Indonesia recorded a black history of violent conflict is ethnic conflict between Dayak and Madurese in West Kalimantan and South Kalimantan; riots in May 1998 which is the accumulation of public protests against the government; religious conflicts in Ambon; and also religious conflicts in Poso, Central Sulawesi.

Té, from North Richmond, falls in love with Harmony, from Central, amidst the violent conflict between these communities.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

Though not the central relationships in the book, the father - son pairings — between Charles Ryder and his emotionally remote father and Sebastian Flyte and the sinning Lord Marchmain — add texture to the story and no small measure of insight into these two young men's inner conflicts.

Slap bang at the crossroads between Central Asia, India and Persia, Afghanistan's location has guaranteed it a starring role in the Silk Road trade, the hippie trail and, sadly, a string of bloody conflicts.

Wargame: Red Dragon retains the same game mechanics that made the series so successful, but the action leaves Europe for the first time and moves to a conflict in central Asia between 1975 and 1991.

In contrast, the central conflict in Company of Heroes 2 is between Lev Isakovich and his Soviet superiors.

While the central conflict is between the Imperial and Chaos factions, the Eldar and Orks are also present to give things a bit of variety.

Between 2011 and 2016 she directed various portrait films in which a central conflict reappears: an individual dissident struggling to handle and subvert oppressive social structures.

The central issue on this appeal arises from an apparent conflict between the constitutional rights of a witness in a criminal proceeding and the constitutional rights of the accused in that same proceeding.37 The witness, N.S., an alleged victim of historical sexual assaults, contends that her religious beliefs dictate that she must wear a veil covering her face, except her eyes, when testifying.

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