Sentences with phrase «character of a great deal»

An intelligent eighteen - year - old in a sociology class who isn't a paid - up progressive quickly recognizes the ideological character of a great deal of social science.

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That means a great deal of turnover among the cast of characters inhabiting the great estates that frame this history, but their pathologies and indulgences have so much in common, they may as well be related.

«You look at what Trump says about America First, and most of it is very international in character and has a great deal of continuity with, say, US national security policy under Clinton, Bush, and in many ways even under Obama,» he says.

... Those who make a great profession of religion have need to walk very circumspectly, to abstain from all appearances of evil, and approaches towards it, because many eyes are upon them, that watch for their halting; their character is soon sullied (defiled, tainted), and they have a great deal of reputation to lose.

We know a great deal today about how our thinking is conditioned by culture, gender, and class interest, and is thoroughly perspectival in character, and we become rightly suspicious of every claim to truth that does not acknowledge its own conditionedness and relativity.

Important as these distinctions are, there is a great deal of uniformity in the Sufi attitude toward life, and this attitude has permeated the Muslim's character and outlook throughout the world of Islam.

These manuals follow a common pattern, taking up individual cases and indicating how they are to be resolved, and the directions they offer are remarkably similar in character.53 The greater number of cases discussed deal with moral perplexities — questions involving family life, economic activity, military service, political issues, the relationship of master and servant, the right use of recreation — but spiritual perplexities — involving «the great case which the Jews put to Peter and the jailer to Paul and Silas «54 undoubtedly received equal attention in actual pastoral work.

There is a great deal of character attached to it.

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The characters are almost always shown in front of vast backdrops, and a great deal of Malick's attention is concerned with animals, birds and insects.

Not bad medical drama hampered by the fact that for a great deal of the film Spader's character behaves like an idiot.

A decent character study whose main strength lies in two great performances by Foster and Harrelson, who shine in a sad story that deals with the psychological consequences of a terrible job, but the film also suffers from some tiresome pacing and unnecessary scenes.

For over a decade, sold out audiences have enjoyed Rocky Horror - like participation consisting of hilarious traditions such as screen - shouting, football playing, throwing spoons at the screen, rooting on the shockingly long establishing pans of San Francisco, and generally laughing hysterically at the film's clunky pseudo-Tennessee Williams dialogue, confused performances, and bizarre plot twists, like the mother - in - law character whose breast cancer ought to play like it matters a great deal, but really comes off as a non-sequitur.

The art, too, is wonderfully realised, both making the world a dangerous but curious place, and giving a great deal of life to the characters.

There's not a great deal of story to delve into here, with the plot merely used as a springboard to showcase a cast of character actors getting to do some kooky things along the way.

Consequently, the early episodes lag until enough plot points have gone by that the intrigue starts to really payoff, yet it's hard to really connect with any of the characters (Except maybe Joan, who Ross gives a great deal of depth to as the episodes wear on).

I would have to say my favorite Woody Allen movie is «The Curse of the Jade Scorpion» because it developed the main characters through each and every interaction, and a great deal of that was through dialogue, humor, and mystery.

Some characters get a great deal of screen time, while other talented actors — like James LeGros and Patton Oswalt — only appear briefly, even though they're all introduced with the same weight.

Weir employs a great deal of character touches and at least half of the film is about the men and their dealing with each other, putting the plot involving the French warship aside.

The Addams Family doesn't pretend to be anything more than a pure piece of entertainment for young and old, with lots of delicious dark humor, kooky characters, and a great deal of side jokes to keep the laughs coming, even if the plot isn't particularly gripping.

Considering that Black Panther has grossed more than $ 1 billion worldwide and is showing few signs of slowing down, it should benefit Avengers: Infinity War a great deal to have those characters and Wakanda featured so prominently.

It leaves plot threads hanging, has a great deal of uncertain character motivation, and transforms into a Tom Tykwer film near the end for no good reason.

There was a great deal of potential to be had with a game featuring many of Koei - Tecmo's back catalog of characters in a Dynasty Warriors setting, but it seems like the time they chose to make such a game was gravely misplaced.

Although this is a spin - off game, a great deal of content from the Animal Crossing series, like characters and furniture, is used smoothly and you get into a trance while creating elaborate rooms.

This movie is, in - essence, a 123 - minute trailer for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part Two as it spends a great deal of time getting us up to speed with our protagonists and accustomed to new characters whilst building toward the film's only true reveal which is certain to have fans lining up to see the final instalment.

Despite all this, there's not a great deal of emotional range in the character or even in the film.

Very little happens beyond these explosions of violence, which leaves us to wade through a great deal of slo - mo and characters forever staring into the middle distance.

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2 Days in the Valley also has its share of violence, colorful characters, and a great deal of humor.

In FREEDOMLAND, Samuel L. Jackson's character, Lorenzo, spends a great deal of time professing his belief in God.

But both have a great deal of compassion for their characters.

McConaughey's performance at the center of this thought - provoking drama is the film's greatest asset, as he transforms himself not only into an unlikeable (defiantly, but not uncommonly, homophobic) character in Woodroof, but also has dropped a great deal of weight (a little over three dozen lbs.)

«It's poignant because the character has a great deal of trouble appreciating her life.

The movie doesn't fare quite so well in its who's - behind - it - all plot, I must report, with Dempsey's character being amazingly intuitive to the smallest of things, and one and one frequently adding up to a great deal more than two.

Theron and Boutella's characters benefit from a great deal of time in the quieter moments of the film where both characters get to express and feel which is obviously rare for super-spies.

Instead he settled on the raffish singer - songwriter Johnny Flynn, whose slender frame and scarred face has a great deal of character, hinting at both danger and vulnerability, two of the key ingredients for raw attraction.

However, there is still a great deal of interest in the animation studio's sequels, mostly because millions have fallen in love with the memorable characters and locales.

Frears includes plenty of pixilated video archival footage to give the film a kind of newsy immediacy; the characters, additionally, spend a great deal of time in front of the tube.

The film relies a great deal on the charisma and charm of Eugenio Derbez's character.

Thomas added, «I had a slight fear of taking on this role, because it has been done so many times before and when I'd read the screenplay, it was a brilliant story and revealed all sort of things that I didn't know about... It was kind of daunting prospect to take on this character but I felt very strongly about showing a woman who also sacrificed a great deal, who was incredibly... to support this man who drove her mad at times and who had his doubts and who had his weaknesses but yet was utterly charming and brutish.»

Gerry (Ben Mendelsohn) is an estate agent from Iowa who's addicted to gambling, ever more hopelessly, and who spends a great deal of time sitting in his car listening to an instructional CD called 200 Poker Tells, which lists the signs by which you can gauge an opponent's character and thought processes, and ideally, guess their cards: they might babble at the table, rub their nose, furrow their brow.

On one hand we have stories within stories, multi-tiered gameplay that puts a lot of its direction to the player, interesting design grouped with its innovative foundation and a great deal of character growth.

There's going to be a great deal written in the months and years to come about Black Panther, a great deal of it by people far more qualified to comment on the black diaspora than this writer, but it's a Marvel movie that also becomes more than just a Marvel movie by embracing the heritage of its source material and characters alike.

Amleth, the main character (and one of the previously - mentioned five traitors) has to deal with some severely divided loyalties over the course of the story, and it makes for great drama.

Outside of battles the infantile voice acting will grate all but the most hardened survivor of American anime dubs, while a great deal of time must be wasted flitting between various sub-menus as you manage your characters» abilities and equipment.

It's a recipe that provides an entertaining experience, but the dramatic moments depend perhaps too much on character and plot from previous films, so that they lose a great deal of punch if viewers haven't seen The Maze Runner or The Scorch Trials in some time - or at all.

It certainly doesn't hurt that both Guilbault and Drolet deliver subtle, nuanced performances (the plight of both their characters soon garners a great deal of sympathy from the viewer, something that's particularly true of Jeanne).

Because of Scorsese's attention to character, the internal tensions in the family promise a great deal, but nothing gets delivered; the telegraphic leaps of the narrative never give these people a chance to grow or reveal themselves beyond the plot points they're designed to articulate.

A combination of Tolkien's «Hobbit» text and material from his «Rings» appendices, the script, which again saw input from «Rings» film trilogy co-writers Fran Walsh and Phillippa Boyens, takes a great deal of liberties, bringing back familiar characters like Galadriel (Cate Blanchett), Elrond (Hugo Weaving) and Saruman (Christopher Lee), none of whom appear in the «Hobbit» book, and making ample, ominous mention of the «Necromancer,» who will evolve to become the dreaded Lord Sauron.

The whole sub-story about the mystery employee stealing thousands of dollars ultimately amounts to nothing, but Fox does hold her ground, managing to shed a great deal of light on Mann's character.