Sentences with phrase «character at his core»

Though adversity very much makes us stronger, even molding our character at its core.

«Joe» may not be a particularly pleasurable watch, but David Gordon Green certainly earns your time, attention and emotion by constructing a palpable reality with two thoughtful characters at its core.

It's very try hard to have a random drug lord offer an inspirational life message that gets our main character at his core.

Director Louis Leterrier («Clash of the Titans») drags the pair through the short, sharp ordeal of a spirited action comedy, all quick cuts and daring stunts, and one that just happens to feature an endearing but relatively limp Sacha Baron Cohen character at its core.

Ken Loach's socially enraged drama, a worthy winner at Cannes Film Festival last May, has a proud character at its core: a North England construction worker (Dave Johns) in his late fifties approaching obsolescence.

It is certainly not devoid of conflict though, as Josh and Cornelia are still Baumbach characters at their core.

Frank Darabont, writer and director of such classics as The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile and The Mist, discusses adapting works by Stephen King and keeping his characters at the core of the story.

A Partial History of Lost Causes is a deeply thoughtful novel, a pensive, multilayered look at a culture in transition and the lives of the two complex, memorable characters at its core.

Earthlock takes some risks, but it comes out relatively unscathed and is sure to entertain you with a really good story and characters at its core.

This was a personal story and only really had one character at its core playing the role of protagonist, this is shown further when you enter multiplayer and the second player is a carbon copy just with different coloured clothes.

Not exact matches

Indeed, it lies at the heart of his humanist conviction that there is a hard and stubborn core of human character which survives all the changes and chances of time.

This work is necessary to provide for practical theology a method and procedure (built at least in part on an ethic of principles) and help it to avoid the danger of associating the ethical core of practical theology with an ethic of virtue and character.

Chastened by our new awareness of the historicity, relativity, and linguistic constraints that shape all modes of human experience and consciousness, we may nonetheless attempt here to demonstrate that there already exists, even in the consciousness of skeptics and critics of revelation, a natural and ineradicable experience of the fact that reality at its core has the character of consistency and «fidelity» that emerges explicitly in the self - revelation of a promising God.

A government that makes a policy of denying the normative character of these customs in favor of a vague multiculturalism does so at the peril of the larger culture to which it owes, yes, its own core identity as a constitutional government.

At its core is a notion that is electrifying in its originality and its optimism: that character — not cognition — is central to success, and that character can be taught.

Yes, the parenting style works, but there are numerous ways that you can implement its core values and ideas and some might suit your and your child's character while others not at all.

For example, that near UV CD that showed a hydrophobic core, was weak in intensity, which is consistent with at least «partially molten character.»

At its core, American provides a 70s - style European character drama.

It's often a platformer and a third - person shooter, but it sometimes feels like a shoot»em up or a character action game, and it's all underpinned by RPG systems... Because of this muddled personality, it never fully delivers on anything, leaving us with an enjoyable experience, albeit one with a few issues at its core.

In regards to the characters, alot of the Mass Effect 2 squad mates are basically reduced to cameos and the returning characters other than maybe Liara (Bioware's golden girl), Garrus and Tali suffer from a lack of decent screentime and proper handling that affects their development at the core.

Tom is, clearly, a selfish character and I think that's at the core of the film's narrative.

Weeks ago at SXSW, Green confirmed that, indeed, the character and the core Eastbound crew will be leaving the U.S..

On one hand, Isle of Dogs appears to be a much darker entry in Anderson's filmography, but at its core, its characters are especially human (despite the fact that they're dogs), acting on their most basic core principles and instincts - like righting wrongs and helping a young boy find his dog.

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At the core of all of these characters... the American Dream.

And it made me understand what a sort of sad character she is at the core and not so much bad - ass and mysterious and cool so much as just guarded because she's been through a lot of... you know.

At the center of the film lies the team dynamic of six heroes, whose character moments honor their core concept.

Stardust plays like The Princess Bride as if directed by Terry GIlliam (a la The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Time Bandits) on a more subdued day, with eccentric characters and a meandering storyline that entertain more through visual confections, artistic flourishes, and deep character quirks galore that it does through the gist of the story at its core.

Here's the Street Fighter 5 Season 3 Patch Notes for general changes — stuff that impacts the game system at a core level or every character in the game in some way:

Just a caveat for those seeking titillation: After Dark My Sweet is not an edge - of your - seat thriller, nor is it a soft - core sex thriller, so those going into it thinking it will be may be disappointed at the subtle pace and casual character development.

The problem is that these moments are rather few in what might have worked better as a character study, as the story at its core is not particularly new or interesting, and plods along to a predictable beat to its ultimate conclusion that feels too long in coming.

Our core characters at MI6 are all back and the script makes good use out of them by putting them right in the middle of the action.

Utilizing characters that seemingly pose actual threats to one another assists in building the necessary drama that basically every movie needs at its core.

At the same time, after three years, the core characters are just as enjoyable, to say nothing of their savage bon mots, so perhaps a little indulgence would be just fine.

Pegg although playing for laughs still manages to peel away the layers of his character to expose a tragic and broken man at his core.

It is a love story at its core with intelligent characters and writing.

Yet at the same time, this new film is too concerned with being level - headed and realistic, to properly restore the sense of irrational, overwhelming and primal fear that is at the core of the story and which constitutes the true basis of identity for each of the characters.

At his worst, such as with Jumper, the emotional core of his characters come off as flimsy, cheaply sold, and gruelingly familiar in every nuance of delivery and dialogue.

It can seem frustrating at first as your character is pretty useless with only running and dashing in your arsenal but as you progress you can unlock more abilities to make your life easier and this is where the core of the game kicks in.

Another new edition is Sam Claflin who plays Philip, a missionary who provides a Christian infused moral core to the violence, treachery and greed which these characters partake in at any given moment.

Ayoub is Moroccan - Dutch, a detail that de Jong interweaves through the film with a mastery reminiscent of John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13, where ethnicity is one of the film's core interests, but remains at the periphery, sporadically commented on by characters as a source of anxiety and conflict, but seldom utilized or exploited for unearned pleas of significance.

The story is quite simple at its core: the evil villain Lord Vortech has opened dimensional rifts in the homes of many beloved Lego characters, causing chaos in their worlds.

At the recent press day, Core, Ramirez, Bracey, wingsuit stunt pilot Jeb Corliss, professional free climber Chris Sharma, Alcon producers Andrew A. Kosove and Broderick Johnson, and 2nd unit director Philip Boston talked about how they went about creating the ultimate sports movie, how the actors viewed their characters and built the bro - mance, the challenges of coordinating a production that shot around the world in 11 countries and on 4 continents, why all the 2nd unit work was shot prior to the first unit work, why vision and authenticity were paramount, why the imagination, energy and focus required to shoot a film in camera is much greater than when visual effects are used everywhere, and why it took courage to make this film.

Observe and Report is neither successful at showing us the humor in its characters, nor the core reasons for their tragedy.

At the film's core is Fabrice Luchini's wonderful performance as a man who is obsessed with the woman next door whom he associates with his favorite fictional character, Emma Bovary.»

At its core Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D is a faux 3D side scrolling platformer that requires players to navigate their character from left to right as they avoid or defeat enemies, collect power - ups and bonuses (K - O - N - G) and have a classic gaming experience on the 3DS.

Blu - ray exclusives will be familiar to loyal Universal customers, beginning with three core U-Control features: a Picture in Picture option that includes cast and crew interviews, set footage, and pre-production art (like storyboards); the Bourne Dossier, which give access to high - tech superspy information technology (like pop - up Agent Status, Character Dossiers, Field Reports with «GPS - enhanced satellite views of the locations,» and other «top secret training material»); and Bourne Orientation, which jumps out of the film to provide literal orientation (globally speaking) and figurative orientation: information about what's driving Bourne at key junctures in the story (answering that eternal actor's question: «What's my motivation?»).

But its characters are also wrought with angst and loss and longing and tears in the rain — and there's a proper, adult love story at its core.

The reason for this is due to that essential relationship at the film's core — Davis and George, the performance from Johnson — which is amongst his best, and the CGI artists behind the scenes who in George have created a character to really warm to.

At the narrative's core is her relationship with the title character, a perky, sprite - ish younger woman played by Mackenzie Davis, who is almost irritatingly too good to be true.