Sentences with phrase «character working through»

Its truly an act of love; a wonderful way for families to teach their children compassion and kindness while building character working through the challenges of training and preparing a dog for its forever home.

Watching these characters work through their estrangement, rediscover one another, and ultimately come to respect each other — all set against the recklessly ruthless backdrop of Southern dirt track racing — spoke to me and made this project exciting.

Not exact matches

Employees at the mill have deplorable working conditions and the main character works to create better conditions through the union.

What I tried to do was come up with common characters we face at work — like the «manterrupter» who interrupts you in a meeting, or the office mom who ends up taking on the mother lode of menial tasks — as well as some of the internal barriers, like the feeling of being an imposter, and then digging through the research to find out how you can push back against these things.

Then God begins a work in our lives through His word and by His Spirit to develop His character, the fruit if His Spirit, within the new nature that has been birthed in us.

Everyone must somehow put together his convictions about such matters as knowledge, the mass media, art, manners, work, play, nature, health, sex, class, race, economics, politics, international relations, and religion into a pattern for the formation of character through the curriculum.

It is meager and scattered, as was recently demonstrated to me by my 22 - year - old cousin, and a lot of it I learned through character work and scene study.

In fact the feel of the film is not dissimilar to Abrams» work on the Star Trek reboot, where familiar characters went through familiar stories to reboot a franchise in need of a kickstart.

This reprobate character is known not only through an individual's own experience with himself as he struggles with impulses too strong for his own strength to overcome, but also through his observation of the world about him, a world in which evil and its works are so terribly apparent, and in whose operations he is so inextricably involved.

Through the sacred character which they receive, men cooperate with Christ in His work of redemption and salvation: they are called «to an intimate participationwith Him in His words and works, His loves and cares» [13].

In terms of process philosophy, therefore, in one sense God is not responsible for the character of the conditions through which creativity works.

Helena is a traveller - from Colchester to Rome to Jerusalem - who begins her travels not knowing where she is going or why, but who ends the novel by being led, we assume, by a greater author who works through and with the narrator and his characters.

But we have seen as we have worked our way through that the main characters of the book were living in a time when many of them were asking, «Where is God?»

God's Power is Relational and Persuasive God's Power is Subservient to the healthy and dialogical relationship God has with creation God's Power works through a Shared Vision God's power is not unilateral or demanding God's power is not definitive of God's character (Bruce Epperly, «Divine Power — Unilateral or Relational?»

A movie like The Exorcist — as controversial as it is — also shows that, contrary to the mad scientist characters who try to seize power from God, God in fact manages to work His will through very flawed, human servants.

What does work, is telling them about food allergies through the eyes of friend or character in a book.

I feel his ability to work through what was sure to have been a depression and difficult time while he was injured illustrated his character and indicated his committment to the Arsenal cause.

The central premise of EL schools is that character is built not through lectures or direct instruction from teachers but through the experience of persevering through challenging academic work.

I'm working alone until my director DJ Mendel shows up from NY next week and it's a lonely thing to walk into a theater solo and face the first day of stumbling through rusty lines and characters that have become strangers and staging that no longer works.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

Along with continuing the work of appreciating the beauty of all races, through open dialogue about the importance of diversity in your school and / or neighborhood, it is critical to seek out media that features main characters of color.

The two young men had listened to Mario's speech as it began to come together, «and when you work in government... you go through such highs and lows together that you really bond or you wind up very distant from the other person, because you really get to see a person's character,» Andrew Cuomo said.

He now works on special effects animatronics for character robots in movies through his Kansas City firm Golem Group.

Bill wanted to develop a show about his experiences as a computer programmer, and he and Chuck worked on it together through Warner Bros. and CBS, and they decided that it would be better to make the characters scientists rather than software developers.

A companion robot is something you'll want to have because it does valuable work for you — but only if it also has an engaging character and personality, entertaining you through the way it interacts.

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.

This means your innate character traits like the desire to help people, a strong work ethic, etc. which can not be learned through training should already be in you.

The film bustles along through a series of reveals — a storytelling technique that can lose an audience's sympathy or suspension of disbelief pretty fast, but which works flawlessly here because the filmmakers and the performers know exactly who their characters are and what kind of world they live in.

Working through these moralistic quandaries is George Clooney, absent his usual Clooney charm, who conveys his character's career - hardened loneliness by glaring with suspicion at everyone who crosses his path in the beautifully - filmed small towns of Italy's Abruzzo region.

In «Paprika,» this connection between dreams and movies is worked to a fare - thee - well, but there are other levels of representation, too — Internet sites, which characters enter bodily, and, appearing now and then, a kind of collective unconscious, in which a parade of toys and icons (including the Statue of Liberty) march through an enormous city with a menacing, throbbing insistence that borders on the fascistic.

As writers, Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg run their characters through a bunch of funny situations, work in flashbacks and dream sequences to great effect (Harold & Kumar is, in the best possible way, something of a live action «Family Guy»), but their directing skills are nil.

What did make this movie work was the sense of «being there,» of watching these characters go through what they think are grand plans for themselves (Wikus proud of getting promoted; Christopher thinking he's finally going to fix the mothership and escape) only for random chance, selfishness, and the raw immediacy of simple survival kick in and having them struggle from moment to moment against hostile forces (MNU, the human slumlords, there is no difference between those two groups exploiting the aliens).

The stretched - out action set piece that takes up a majority of the middle section is a work of fine filmmaking craft and design, and it is seen mostly through the eyes of the central characters.

In his B + review for the AV Club, A.A. Dowd writes, «Zhao holds it together through the sheer range of her performance, reverse - engineering an emotional continuity — an arc, even — that connects characters and past work she's delivered for Jia.

Unlike series co-star Biel, Mitchell remained with the program throughout its run, and through many character changes that found Lucy marrying Kevin Kinkirk, working as an associate pastor, giving birth, and surviving both a miscarriage to twins and clinical depression.Although Mitchell branched out from television into cinematic work as early as 1996, with a turn in the fantasy - action thriller The Crow: City of Angels, and continued intermittent film appearances (such as a supporting role in 2005's slasher movie Saw II), she made no secret of her real passion: performing country music as a guitarist and vocalist.

If making a claim for the «majorness» of Let the Sunshine In, we might point to its philosophical pedigree, or its class - consciousness — Fabrice drips poison into Isabelle's ear to undermine her belief in a possible future with Blain's working - class character, Sylvain, and, in perhaps the least sympathetic moment of a character given many of them, Isabelle carries this load of venom home to pass along to her lover rather than suffering through its effects herself.

Coop works amazing and the specific character abilities made it interesting and necessary for teamwork through every part of the game so far.

We believe them as the characters and root for them to work through their troubles.

Each of you taking control of a different character, you really need to work together to get through each brutal encounter, combining spells and abilities to get the most out of each turn.

The screenwriters appear to have no concept of how action video games work, moving their characters haphazardly through a nondescript jungle with only fleeting instances of combat and problem - solving.

Stay through the end credits for a funny scene involving his character that likely had been intended as a set piece within the main body of the film, but which works much better out of the context.

Kaufman perfectly works this film through the multifaceted story and characters.

The 2 characters both have a past and issues to work through.

Through Jude, you have this other view of things, this character espousing the solidarity of the working man.

I really worked through the details of the character, because it was so important to me that there not be a false note.

His notable exceptions, such as the outstanding «Topsy - Turvy» and this movie, require him to work in a somewhat different vein, and be more attentive to composition and atmosphere and period - accurate psychology; but it's just as compelling a mode, because Leigh's emotionally reserved nature comes through more strongly, and seems attuned to his buttoned - up, often repressed characters, who shove negative thoughts way down inside themselves, practically to the bottoms of their feet, and soldier on.

Perez's most spellbinding moment takes place in the middle of a crowded shopping mall, when her character, Carla, spots a mother holding a baby about the same age as her dead son and hovers over the child like a ghost, apparently unseen despite being inches away; the look on Perez's face communicates both intense longing and boundless wonder, as if she's simultaneously working through the reality of death and suddenly comprehending the miracle of life.

But the movie has its own vibe, as Roskam and cinematographer Nicolas Karakatsanis work some remarkable effects with lighting, making Schoenaerts look simultaneously bulky and small, and as Roskam has his characters grunt at each other and move through sliding doors, on their way to the slaughter.

Armie Hammer believes he is «working through the stigma» of playing gay characters as a straight actor.The 31 - year - old star has appeared is three...

Luckily, Scott has a fantastic cast of actors to work with, who all add an element of plausibility to these complicated characters, most of whom have McCarthy's somewhat peculiar dialogue to power through — lesser actors would certainly have stumbled.