Sentences with phrase «central women characters»

She wants the reader to become involved in the lives of the three central women characters, but I never was convinced that they were close friends on a deep level.

Tuccillo's book is based on a central woman character that, along with four women, travel the world in search of love.

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Why would we do anything to further undermine one of the few pre-modern institutions that still survives on life support, and that is central to forming men and women of good character?

With her fifth novel, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1972), James creates a central character who is quite different from the detached Adam Dalgleish.

Most significant discussion of the Martha - Mary story found within Luke's central section (10:38 - 42) has been confined in recent years to studies which articulate Luke's view of the social character of the Gospel: by placing Mary «at the Lord's feet» (10:39), Luke is affirming liberated social identity for women disciples (cf. 8: l - 3).44

«A Good Woman,» a ham - fisted adaptation of Wilde's play «Lady Windermere's Fan,» suffers from a staggeringly bad miscasting of its central role and from a cut - and - paste screenplay that substitutes random insertions of Wilde epigrams for character.

Stylistically, The Invisible War is conventional and plainspoken, from its opening clips of vintage recruitment ads for women to its closing updates on the central characters.

Before any abduction takes place, «Difret» introduces its central character, attorney Meaza Ashenafi (Meron Getnet), a confident woman who heads an organization in Addis called the Adinet Women's Lawyers Assn. that successfully advocates for the rights of women and chilWomen's Lawyers Assn. that successfully advocates for the rights of women and chilwomen and children.

I take it that a good deal of this is owed to Ta - Nehisi Coates's success at elevating the series» women to central characters with influence and power that turns more on their minds and integrity than their bodies.

In her first major screen role, Daniela Vega, who plays Marina Vidal, the beleaguered central character in Chilean director Sebastián Lelio's A Fantastic Woman, elevates even the most mundane action — petting a dog, lifting an arm to activate a motion - sensor hallway light — into a gesture of minor majesty.

Namely its central performance from Mary Elizabeth Winstead, who carries this understated character study that rather uneventfully charts a workaholic woman's mildly difficult navigation through the denial that her marriage is over.

The young woman's body in this film was much more sexualized than the two men, which is ironic since she was not a central character.

Whether or not it's accurate to portray Travers as a woman on the verge of nervous breakdown because the movie version of her books might change a minor character and inflame her daddy issues (Personally, I doubt it), the conceit, like the central fight over ideas, works as drama.

It could have played its central character, a single and socially awkward woman in her 60s with a bad habit of hoarding, as a joke.

The film isn't about the central issue at stake; it's simply a character - study of one woman going through life who decides to make a specific choice when faced with a difficult situation.

It's not the Lady Birds who are seeing the movie, it's the moms of Lady Birds, and anecdotal reports say they're packing the place: women of the age and experience of Laurie Metcalf's not - central but not secondary character of the girl's mother.

As its release has gone wide, «Lady Bird» found its grateful audience, and it isn't men or even young women who might identify with Saoirse Ronan's teen central character.

The hard truth is that there have been 17 Marvel movies (including Spider - Man: Homecoming, Marvel's joint venture with Sony), and none of them have had a woman or person of color as the titular or central character.

When the character is a woman, a central relationship in the play, between the magician and her doted - on child, Miranda, sheds some of its traditional, patriarchal dynamic.

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uuu Friendship, marriage, and motherhood are considered in this film about a group of women including a best friend, two sisters, and an ex-stepmother helping the central character cope with the sudden loss of her husband.

All the usual suspects are there: a pretty dead woman, a shifty husband, and a fragile, somewhat unreliable central character.

Given that both the central characters are trans women and sex workers, Baker makes them three dimensional while also not ignoring their identities, and the film feels far more progressive than, say, the leaden «The Danish Girl.»

Slow, not terribly interested in lore or internal logic, and fatally hamstrung by the choice of actors like Billy Crystal and a zombified Emily Mortimer to voice its American dub, it's a regression for Miyazaki from his last two films (Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away) in almost every sense, starting with his decision to have a lonely young woman as the central character in place of the prepubescent little girls front and centre in most of his masterpieces (the last two films, Kiki's Delivery Service, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, and My Neighbor Totoro) and ending with a gross simplification of his usually complex themes of confidence and actualization into a colourless, flavourless drone about the hard - to - dispute badness of war.

What's so impressive about Marguerite is the beguiling credulity with which it handles it central character, a woman who could so easily be portrayed as either a punchline or an obnoxious shrew.

But there are also some important differences: Biff Grimes (Cagney) lacks Jim Corbett's gift for dominating the events of his own life; women have far greater importance here, with the title character (Rita Hayworth) and Amy (Olivia DeHavilland) being the central forces of the film; male friendship is complicated by betrayals and delusions (here the Jack Carson character is the traitor, while the unfortunate Grimes is rather like the Carson character in Gentleman Jim).

Austen's central character may not be a loveable woman on paper, but Beckinsale breathes new life into a story that is sure to captivate Austen fans everywhere.

The central character is Setsuko, a 40 - something Japanese woman, who's bored beyond belief with her life when her niece Mika (Shioli Kutsuna) talks her into taking a «free trial» English lesson.

Wonder Woman «s focus on luminous positivity in the face of the great darkness of World War One, as well as the ease in which its central team play off each other stands out even more when its lead character stars in something as flat - footed as this.

Richard Brittain wrote a book called the World Rose and admitted that a women that he had stalked became the central character.

For instance, when Updike wrote «Pygmalion,» he didn't have to overtly say much about his central character because readers already know that Pygmalion can only love women he creates himself.

She says that the thing she loved most about writing Eye Contact was creating a central character who was as much of a mystery as the perpetrator of the crime; she also comments that 20 % of Americans currently identify themselves as disabled, «an enormous group of people that has been underrepresented in books, movies and TV»; so her next book will be a mystery centered around a woman with cerebral palsy who is the unlikely center of a love triangle and the victim of a crime committed in its wake.

My next novel, The Suicide Sonata, weaves among three central characters: a Caucasian violinist with a fetish for Asian women, a Korean - American cellist who is obsessed with Alma Mahler, and a young Japanese - American stalker / would - be assassin.

This is the fourth book in the Bess Crawford Mysteries, and the central character is strong and likeable enough to carry the series, although I am not sure she is really a woman of her time.

It also has four of the eight demigods that a player chooses as a central character, specifically a vampire, a woman with a battle cat, a badass with a crossbow, and a castle with legs.

The central character of Manzana Misteriosa is Nina, a woman lost inside the Parque Neighborhood.

Her animation videos typically depict women as the central character in an anti-heroic role, often times as victims of absurd cruelty flecked with sexual overtones.

She uses as a reference traditional oral country stories and myth, but also takes the contemporary city woman as a central character, using a narrative guided by ambiguous and sensual feminine elements for a dreamlike reflection on a woman's daily life.