Sentences with phrase «character past act»

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But, granted those conditions, then reflection upon them — in that context, with those motives, and with that perspective — is fully as much an act of theologizing as any apprehension that strikes us out of the Bible, or Bultmann, or Barth, or any other alphabetical characters past or present.

The phrase «specious present» was William James»; its importance in the Whiteheadian view is that it marks the general character of primitive sense - awareness, and can be the character of the sense - awareness of what Whitehead calls «low grade organisms,» affected by their immediate past and directed to how they are going to act in the immediate future.

The authors of Human Sexuality are right to criticize much of past thinking on sexuality for its «act orientation,» but we have no idea what or how sexual activity should be embodied in our character until we know how marriage should be shaped and sustained.

Fastvold's idea of creating mystery amounts to watching characters behave in bizarre or erratic ways, leaving room to theorize what past traumas could cause someone to act in such a way.

The reckonings and realizations fly once Seeking a Friend hits the road, and for all the absurdity of its characters achieving clear - eyed, perfectly articulated peace with their past demons in this stretch of the movie (I'm guessing pants - shitting panic would be more the norm), it's a relief after the excruciatingly unfunny first act.

If you can look past the unrealistic premise you might find that the show has likable characters, strong acting and writing, and an interesting story to tell.

I was mesmerised every time he was on the screen, his character is brilliantly written and brilliantly acted, and look out for one of the most intricately realised scenes depicting a man confronting his past in episode 8 when Proctor encounters his estranged Amish family.

The trailer is cool, I'll give it that, but this is an an Emmerich movie, so the trajectory of the movie looks similar to his past work: thrilling first act, followed by hollow character moments and the second, and wrapping up the stupid plot in the third.

He'd previously experienced dark «blue» periods after completing past films, leading «My Left Foot» director Jim Sheridan to say «Daniel hates acting»; usually, the actor eventually found a new character with a story too tempting to resist.

Cool characters abound: Get Out Oscar nominee Daniel Kaluuya plays an impatient tribal leader, Forest Whitaker is a Wakanda shaman, Martin Freeman acts as a CIA agent drawn into the mix (although this is not like past examples of the CIA meddling in foreign regime change).

Violence: Characters discuss a man's past jail time for criminal acts.

However, while the career of his past involved finding twisted characters to throw himself into using his preferred Method acting technique, in his older age, he has admittedly in interviews that the time where his body and mind can take such strain is over.

This ultimately makes the lack of an English dub a bit more disappointing in the end, though; Tales games have included talented game voice - acting veterans like Troy Baker and Yuri Lowenthal in the past, and I would've enjoyed hearing their takes on some of these goofy, charming characters.

It also features voice - acting for characters, many of which are fan - favorites from past entries.

Visually stunning, well acted, but altogether too silly and far - fetched to really resonate, the film lacks the emotional heft, enormous sense of personal loss or sense of time from Reiner's film, and for a film so preoccupied with its central character's inability to forget or escape the past, it fades into memory all too quickly.

Brought to life by Peter Ustinov and, perhaps definitively, by David Suchet, the character's past incarnations are an even tougher act to follow than the railway mystery itself.

The voice acting in Past Cure is flat and uninteresting, the central character «Ian» looks like a cross between Ladybeard and Hugo Weaving and apparently is unable to jump despite being able to astrally project and manipulate objects telekinetically.

Arata's «cool» style of play is visualized as his opponent being immersed in water, the kanji of the poems scrolls past the characters in the opening, and characters acting impishly will wear devil horns that no one remarks upon.

In that title role, Mark Wahlberg acts much like most past Mark Wahlberg characters have acted.

The third act is a labyrinth of past transgressions coming to light and shady character motivations, but co - writer / director Ben Affleck, in his directorial debut, somehow manages to let the heart of Lehane's theme rise out of the murky plotting and allows the moral ambiguity of its characters and scenario to have an impact.

An attempt at a plot involving time travel occurs in the third act, but Goldsman doesn't seem to understand the rules that come with using such a story device; when one character's past self dies, the future incarnation inexplicably lives on.

A well written and brilliant mash up of «X-Men» characters, both past and future, «X-men: Days of Future Past» is a smartly crafted, brilliantly acted comic book related masterpipast and future, «X-men: Days of Future Past» is a smartly crafted, brilliantly acted comic book related masterpiPast» is a smartly crafted, brilliantly acted comic book related masterpiece!

His characters in Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days and Failure to Launch are not him, because, much as McConaughey may otherwise assess his acting abilities, he's still an idealized version of a person we can't relate to.

A lengthy act of explaining the past, motives, and ultimately strange behavior of its eponymous character, The Vanishing of Sidney Hall leaves little to the imagination and, by the end, a lot over which to be frustrated.

Using the metaphor of quantum entanglement — that objects brought together will continue to act in concert even if they are taken apart — Gilbert effortlessly times characters» present actions with key revelations about their past.

Answering questions about the Vermont setting, her characters and the act of writing, Heart Spring Mountain author Robin MacArthur imparts wisdom about landscape, our attempts to redefine our pasts and more.

The act of handing off a gift that you have received to someone else has been considered tacky in the past, as in the infamous Seinfeld episode when Elaine incredulously notes that a character «regifted» a label maker she had given him.

Then, on the other hand, on some of the minor quests you can participate in, the characters acting takes its own trip to the past.

The characters are bland and even if you look past the way the story is told via boxes of dialogue and some less - than - ideal voice acting, it just doesn't hold up well enough.

It also features voice - acting for characters, many of which are fan - favorites from past entries.

In the past, when two characters ran across one another while exploring Dracula's labyrinth of demons and death, it was simply two 2D sprites conversing to one another while text rolled across the screen or after the PSOne days, horrible voice acting.

Barry is one of the best characters in video gaming history after all, and even when getting past the bad acting seeing him die in such a pitiful way really hits home.

The voice acting for all the characters is pretty great as well, the cast from the past few Sonic games return and reprise their roles very well and definitely show their chemistry, as shown by how the characters are interacting with each other in the cut - scenes.

At first glance, the regional purview of Made in L.A. 2012 — on view this past summer at the Hammer Museum and LAXART as well as the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Art Park — might easily have suggested collective SoCal navel - gazing comparable to the scene at the end of each of the SNL skits, when the characters come together to stare into a mirror in a surrealistic act of group narcissism.

Federal Rule of Evidence 404 governs the use of character evidence, past crimes, and other acts.