This is the stuff of unapologetic melodrama, artfully structured in such a way that the rotating stories inform and enhance each other even when only one
character is in focus: absence is a presence, and that doesn't refer only to the missing mother in the family.
This is the stuff of unapologetic melodrama, artfully structured in such a way that the rotating stories inform each other even when only one
character is in focus.
Not exact matches
In books and movies, narrators skip over certain events or actions to
focus on others that
are more important or directly affect the story's
characters.
There has to
be way more tank - filling than tank - draining,» says Ruben Nieves, former Stanford University men's volleyball coach and current national director of training for the Positive Coaching Alliance, a nonprofit organization based
in Mountain View, Calif., that
focuses on teaching and encouraging positive
character - building
in youth and high school sports.
Choosing to photograph on the street as her way of studying the fashion world, Jeng
focuses her time
in NYC — and the city
is as much a
character as the stylish subjects on her blog «The NYC Streets.»
In a world of heightened capital concentration risk, increased
focus on the
character of trend
is crucial.
Groups of young friends who go to see some of the more death -
focused horror films
in vogue of late will routinely take bets on which stock
character will face a grisly end soonest, as when viewing the Final Destination series» a film series that
is, essentially, the apex of the set - piece disaster horror movie as orchestrated by MacGyver.
This procedure has
been very effective
in helping us shape our church
character and build our ethos and hone our practises as well as curtail our expenses to
focus on and meet only the requirements of these eight basic building blocks.
While not denying the impetus that abundance gives to the spirit of competition, I think it
is more enlightening
in this context to stress the similarity of
focus in both the religious and the secular versions of America's national
character.
The exploratory
character of paper
is evident
in its lack of sharp
focus.
Right now the Association of Theological Schools
in the United States and Canada
is conducting a major study of the public
character of theological education, with a special
focus on how seminaries can educate leaders who take their public role seriously.
Many of these creation imageries
are found
in the agricultural parables which
focus on similarities of natural processes and the working of the Kingdom of God, unlike parables with human
characters that center around human actions.
Third, I will treat
in detail the Hartshornian stance regarding abortion, a stance with which I agree, both to illustrate the aforementioned connection between moderation
in metaphysics and moderation
in ethics as well as to combat the charge that virtue ethics, because it
focuses more on the
character of agents than on their acts,
is incapable of treating the really difficult issues
in applied ethics.
The 2010 campaign
was also highly personalized, although not
in the usual sense of
focusing mainly on the President's
character attributes, as
was the case
in the Clinton «impeachment» mid-term election of 1998.
This list
is limited to those that
focus mainly on Jesus» life story as told
in the Gospels; thus, it does not include films about
characters who
are only peripherally connected to Jesus, such as Ben - Hur (1925, 1959).
Their
focus is not on imaginative construction but on what they call the «realistic narratives»
in scripture that render
characters and circumstances
in mutual interaction.
But, where mainstream critics took issue with an uneven script,
Focus on the Family's «Plugged
In Online» took issue with the main
character's actions not
being up the Boy Scout code of conduct.
Over the past several decades both philosophers and theologians within the academy have participated
in a revival of interest
in what
is generally called «virtue ethics» - an ethic that
focuses not so much upon what we ought to do, but upon
character, upon the sort of persons we ought to....
Sure I
was successfully avoiding some of the
character traits of the «contentious and vexing woman» found
in the book of Proverbs, but I wasn't really cultivating a gentle and quiet spirit, which
is the
focus of the month of October.
There had
been a shift
in focus to romance, valor and happy endings as opposed to the often grotesque scenarios and flawed
characters that populated the original stories.
Over the past several decades both philosophers and theologians within the academy have participated
in a revival of interest
in what
is generally called «virtue ethics» - an ethic that
focuses not so much upon what we ought to do, but upon
character, upon the sort of persons we ought to
be.
And we could say still further: A style of judging that insists on
focusing,
in a demanding way, on whether the law
is justified fits more aptly the true
character of law, whether the judges get the answer
in the case right or wrong.
So too, whereas the legal model
was focused on belief and therefore didn't involve our
character transformation as a central consideration, the covenant model
is all about
character, for its anchored
in faith, and as I've said, covenantal faith
is about our willingness to trust another and to live
in a trustworthy way
in relation to another.
For it
is a part of the distinctive
character of Jeremiah that he always sees himself
in dual
focus.
This
is the opening of The Lunch Line Fight: Looking at Different Perspectives, by Tosca Killoran and Jeff Hoffart, part of a series of 10 paperback books with a
focus on citizenship, mindfulness, empathy,
character and social - emotional skills, presented
in story book format.
While I don't know if he will die first, I
am guessing that he will die
in Episode VIII as the trilogy begins to
focus more on the main
characters and less on the First Order.
All of us can
be for one day
in our life exceptional but
character is to have a target and maintain your
focus on that target.
One bigger question I have as it pertains to the entire franchise
is whether or not these
characters» stories end with Episode IX or whether they continue to
be the
focus in more films.
What I would say
is that
in terms of the personality, the
character and the
focus they have, they
're very similar.
Character Education: The Missouri Violence Prevention Curriculum Framework (2008) recommends that character education be taught in schools; especially focusing on responsibility and
Character Education: The Missouri Violence Prevention Curriculum Framework (2008) recommends that
character education be taught in schools; especially focusing on responsibility and
character education
be taught
in schools; especially
focusing on responsibility and respect.
She
is a licensed child and adolescent psychotherapist who has
focused her work on helping kids grow
in confidence,
character, and creativity, using a child - centered approach to therapy.
There
are performance
character strengths and moral
character strengths, and when you look at existing
character education programmes
in the US, a lot of them
focus on the moral: honesty, integrity sharing, inclusiveness.»
«Hearing their stories, looking at the work they've done to promote
character education and identify the values they want to embed
in their schools and seeing how positive they
are about this area of their school life has confirmed to me that
focusing on
character sits alongside gaining knowledge.
The Rhys Method ® Life Purpose Profiles
are based on the psychological work of Dr. Wilhelm Reich and Dr. Alexander Lowen that
focused on how the
character of an individual arises or
is stifled through trauma, or early core wounding
in childhood which
in turn affects both their mental and physical health.
The partnership of Pantone, Illumination and Universal has
been a meeting of like - minded design
focused entities, all of whom appreciate the Minions» place
in pop culture and wanted to come together to give these iconic
characters their own iconic color.»
Whereas Mackintosh
is centred on traditional craft and commercial product and presented
in Paris, Kostadinov's own line allows him to indulge
in narrative - led collections that
focus on a central
character.
The uniform
is not the
focus, I think the training and the work
in the Law Enforcement field develops a
character that I really like.
The site uses a questionnaire that analyzes 29
character traits and matches you accordingly — there
's a commendable
focus on personality rather than looks alone here — and while the signup process
is admittedly lengthy, you'll
be browsing comprehensive profiles of women who
are serious about dating once you
're in — no time -
wasters or ghosters here!
Discover the tale of each girl and Yaoi, primarily known as boys» love
in Japan,
is a Japanese genre of fictional media
focusing on romantic or sexual relationships between male
characters, typically marketed for a female audience and usually created by female authors.
With its
focus on Central African youth
in peril, interludes of dreamy stylization and non-native directorial perspective, «White Shadow» will routinely
be compared to Kim Nguyen's recent, Oscar - nominated child - soldier study «War Witch» — which also, as it happens, featured a significant albino
character.
The film's
focus on clumsy, inept
characters results
in a series of jokes that
are beyond lame; this
is the sort of stuff even Three Stooges fans would have a hard time defending.
It
's not about the thrills of killing zombies, this game
focuses on the realtionships between
characters in a zombie apocalypse scenario, and makes you see how ordinary people can get along (and indeed fall out)
in this scenario.
In the end, this
is again a very good horror comedy which needs to
focus less on the main
characters (lets face it, they
are cliches and the interest of this whole movie
is to the idea behind it) and more on the variety of monsters that
were created for this film.
Rather than coming off as an empty paean to the fans, though, the filmmakers» desire to
focus on the
characters as real people even
in the midst of pitched battle keeps even the shallowest viewer of the series engaged
in what could have easily
been just mindless action set pieces and explosions.
«American Wedding»
is more
focused than the other films, centering mostly on the crowd favorites and leaving the other less notable
characters in the dust.
Jax (Hunnam), who has always
been the weakest actor of the bunch, continues
in his mewling, self - righteous, conflicted ways, taking
focus from other more interesting
characters and stronger actors.
But at least I can die knowing that,
in the rare occasion that I do ever want to become a masked vigilante, I'll
be much better than Defendor, who
is the
character at
focus in Peter Stebbings» latest motion picture.
So while
in Carlos our
focus is on Carlos and his men, here we have other
characters, including eventually Annie, the star of the show.
It
's not too dissimilar from last year
's «A Man Called Ove»
in terms of
characters and plot, but the two films diverge
in focus.»
Going back to the main menu after the last episode finished, I had to laugh when I noticed that «Season One»
was indicated onscreen there but it turns out a second season
is actually
in the works -
focusing on a completely different story and
characters but dealing with the same theme, and the producers hope to continue
in an anthology format afterwards.