Sentences with phrase «character of our predicament»

A sermon should help us discern both the character of our predicament and possibilities for change.

Not exact matches

It's a classic moment in Lost history because it perfectly encapsulates John and Jack's characters, and because it points to a predicament to which we can all relate: Some of us really struggle to accept things on faith, while others seem to find it easy.

Because Kirk believ ed that such an understanding was best apprehended and transmitted through imaginative literature, it is only right that his short stories and fiction best enable one to appreciate the character of his insight into the human predicament.

But there is something more distinctly «turn - of - the - century» about Kathy Nicolo's character and predicament in particular.

The characters are zany and find themselves in all sorts of predicaments.

We don't feel emotionally drained like we did watching OZARK, but we're also acutely aware of each character's predicament, as they tumble headlong like those in a Greek tragedy.

Movies which essentially consist of a central character trapped in a difficult predicament can be great (Tom Hardy in Locke), or more likely not so great (Colin Farrell in Phone Booth or Ryan Reynolds in Buried).

Many of the characters don't know what's going on with the special young boy, which leaves the audience in the same predicament.

If you've seen Slums of Beverly Hills or Drop Dead Gorgeous, you are familiar with the whip - smart teen girl character who is clumsily navigating the whole «growing up» predicament.

That way, you can fully appreciate not only the superb ending but also the appearance of numerous returning characters whose predicaments are made even more amusing by your knowledge of them from previous encounters.

What is amazing is how each flick manages to involve you in the plight of its characters, and seduces you into immediately investing in them emotionally before resolving their predicaments in a satisfactory manner.

«When she asked me if I wanted to play Esti, my heart just kind of broke for the character and the predicament she's in, the pain of even contemplating leaving your community behind when it's strong and supportive, yet makes you deny a central part of yourself.»

Annoying supporting characters, glib dialogue, a problematically short running time, and constant, contrived solutions to inescapable predicaments prevent this final outing from being memorable or even as enjoyable as «The Lost World» — which couldn't match up to the perfection of the original.

One of the more difficult lines to straddle when creating a farcical work is balancing treating the characters and their predicament with enough seriousness while still letting the audience in on the fact that you get the underlying silliness of it all.

And so, apart from the couple of main playable characters whose importance is weaved into the narrative, it leaves the heroes — including the one you control — in a predicament.

Despite a rich cast who gets to perform a genuinely funny script, there is something touching about the predicament of these characters.

Whatever emotional connection to these characters might have been had out of their predicament is omitted almost entirely.

Grant gamely tries to tough it out on his own, but ends up wearing a glazed look of imminent disaster ~ a function of his character's predicament or the actor's?

As a prank, the resulting image of a man trying to free himself from the vise - like grip the machine has on his genitalia — complete with a (hopefully) prosthetic member that stretches to painful extremes — is certainly shocking and slightly humorous, but Knoxville and the scenarists offer no reason that the character is in that predicament in the first place.

Too, despite a nicely underplayed turn by Kinnear that triangulates the character's intelligence, sadness, and overall creepiness, Caliban's overly familiar existential predicament (loneliness, basically, plus the pain of rejection) takes up plenty of screentime while failing to generate the pathos Logan seems to expect.

The filmmaker specializes in characters who are broken, insecure, uncertain of their place in the world, usually outsiders in one way or another, and incapable of seeing any way out of their predicament.

Indeed, the concept of parallels seems to go hand in hand with the predicament that Binoche's character, Maria, finds herself in when she agrees to take part in a revival of the play that once upon a time sparked her career.

This isn't your typical summer blockbuster that requires knowledge of the backstory to understand the current predicament of the characters.

When he is able to send word of his predicament home to his wife (presumably Oduye's character), she hires a Yankee lawyer (Pitt) to see to her husband's freedom.

McCorkle is an acute observer of the foibles of domestic life, blending empathy for her characters» predicaments with an unsparing take on those grim circumstances.

Many of her characters are strong women, very different from the stereotype of the gender, who she places in real - life predicaments that stem from her own experiences.

- Houston Chronicle «There is an element of the miraculous in a collection of stories whose characters reveal the fundamental predicament of all parents and children....

McCorkle is an acute observer of the foibles of domestic life, and in stories like the title tale, in which a woman is yoked to her dying mother as a caretaker while her younger sisters carp at her from a distance, or «Surrender,» where a grandmother must suffer the childish cruelty of her late son's five - year - old daughter, she blends empathy for her characters» predicaments with an unsparing take on those grim circumstances.

It might sound bonkers, but such is main character Sissel's predicament at the outset of this ectoplasmic twist on the humble point - and - clicker.

The characters poke fun at each other and often make light of dire predicaments.

If anyone is deemed untrustworthy then they will be detained against their own will and with the lead character being found in this position within one of the largest arcologies on Earth called Neon Chrome; the only way to overcome the predicament is to take down the Overseer and the countless enemies that guard him.

Along the way, you will characters who are friendly to you and will help you out if you can get them out of the predicament they're currently in.

You play as «The Captain», a custom character who avoids getting pulled into the vortex, but passes out and wakes up months later in a predicament of sorts.

discussing the «true» endings to their favorite installments or the «true» motivations and predicaments of some of the characters.