Sentences with phrase «central presence»

The alarmingly central presence of Stiller's character's place of work («big box» store Costco) points to mainstream cinema's increasing reliance on product placement.

The arrival of Matić gives United a proper holding player for the first time in a while, and Eric Bailly looks to be blossoming into a charmingly effective central presence.

So with Banega, dropped deep and no central presence, Inter are forced into wide areas.

Basketball, bold urban landscapes, larger - than - life characters and red - hot visual pyrotechnics are the strong points of Mr. Lee's biggest three - ring circus, not to mention the central presence of Denzel Washington.

Pfeiffer is worried about her devout grandmother's reaction, Brian d'Arcy James's Matt Carroll finds a group of paedophile priests hidden alarmingly close to his house, and the well - connected Walter «Robby» Robinson (Michael Keaton, the film's central presence) is forced to confront friends who have been professionally complicit in wrongdoing.

The sheer craftsmanship with which Penn absorbs them into his movie's fabric, eliciting from each a miraculously unobtrusive performance which bolsters Nicholson's central presence, is pretty remarkable.

CES National Affiliate Centers The central presence of several Coalition of Essential Schools National Affiliate Centers — the Center for Collaborative Education, the Los Angeles Small Schools Collective, the Bay Area Coalition for Equitable Schools, CES Northwest, and the Michigan Coalition of Essential Schools — in this issue of Horace emphasizes the crucial role that intermediary organizations play in transforming

Vibrating uprooted olive trees are the central presence in Siobhán Hapaska's newly commissioned installation.

The central presence here, dividing the gallery into two distinct areas, was a pale - blue rectangular box almost as high as the room

Here one feels the central presence of one big idea in each canvas, twisting under examination, a hubbub of other murmured thoughts and doubts below.