Sentences with phrase «characters as they attempt»

Epically bad in virtually every way imaginable, Battleship follows several one - dimensional characters as they attempt to defeat a squadron of heavily - armed aliens - with the film, impressively (and laughably), incorporating elements from the eponymous children's game.

Directed and cowritten by Atom Egoyan, The Captive follows several characters as they attempt to solve the mystery of a little girl's abduction - with the child's parents (Ryan Reynolds» Matthew and Mireille Enos» Tina) quickly coming under suspicion by a pair of detectives (Rosario Dawson's Nicole and Scott Speedman's Jeffrey).

Another new mode was Buddy Battle that allows you to team up with a friend or AI controlled character as you attempt to outfight your enemy which does require some strategy in order to fine - tune your team - work.

Join Owen, Claire and other movie characters as they attempt to escape Jurassic World ™ and the deadly Indominus Rex.

In Framed you take control of a collection of culpable characters as they attempt to flee crime scenes and carry out other heinous activities.

The story follows both characters as they attempt to reclaim the throne from a mysterious character using the strange powers and abilities in the city of Karnaca.

Framed Collection Reviewed by Kieran Developer: Surprise Attack Games Publisher: Surprise Attack Games Category: Puzzle, Adventure, Music Release Date: 05.17.2018 Story In Framed you take control of a collection of culpable characters as they attempt to flee crime scenes and carry...

Unfortunately this means you won't be able to play any of the three «Club 99» players in the story mode since it focuses on two other characters as they attempt to make it from the college ranks to the professional sphere of the NFL and dealing with all the hardships along the way, including trust, betrayal, and family issues.

The game follows a cast of fourteen playable characters as they attempt to overthrow an imperial dictatorship in an industrial fantasy realm.

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Finally, you aren't even discussing your particular God character per se, you use a far more sweeping term, «Supernatural being», which would sweep in the very creatures and beings which you claim are as mythological — therefore, ironically, you confirm the analogy in the very same paragraph where you attempt to discredit it.

Schubert Ogden's theology as a whole is best characterized as an attempt to correct the «one - sidedly existentialist character» of Bultmann's theology1 by combining existentialist analysis with process philosophy in such a way that they mutually complement each other.2 This characterization applies likewise to Ogden's treatment of Christology in particular.

Much of my work in Character and the Christian Life (Trinity University Press, 1975) is an attempt to articulate a philosophical psychology (the self as agent) sufficient to support these claims for the importance of character in theologicaCharacter and the Christian Life (Trinity University Press, 1975) is an attempt to articulate a philosophical psychology (the self as agent) sufficient to support these claims for the importance of character in theologicacharacter in theological ethics.

Instead, I will assume that the case for neoclassical metaphysics can otherwise be made and attempt programmatically to show that the comprehensive purpose it formulates grounds justice as compound, grounds a substantive principle of justice that consistently implies the formative human rights of communicative respect.7 Toward the conclusion of this argument, I will also seek to identify an inclusive human right that is substantive in character.

And not only this; since each of these considerations readily becomes too abstract in character, is he not obliged as the next step to attempt to will, one after the other, each of these goals in order to find out what is the single thing he is to will, if it is a matter of willing only one thing?

In its attempt to ask big questions such as whence and whither humankind, Prometheus presents an action / monster suspense movie in the place of Kubrick's classic, but such deep questions remain to the end in the character of Dr. Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace).

@Magic - Just to be clear, in trying to show that the historical Jesus existed just as much as a Socrates or other historical character wasn't my attempt to show he was divine.

But as we attempt to understand the character of Christian existence in the primitive community, the decisive point is that the personal God was known as inwardly present without loss of the sense of responsible personhood.

Zionism's messianic character is evident in its attempt to end the role of the Jews as a ghost - people, to keep Jewry from retaining the status of an unclassifiable entity, and to reactivate the spiritual purpose to which Jews have traditionally considered themselves covenanted (NZ 177).

Note on the Historical papers — The student will be expected to appreciate both the character of the problems as in the minds of the thinkers of the time and the general nature of the solutions attempted, illustrated by the simplest details.

All attempts to know the transcendent aspect of events must be thought of as analogical in character.

This notion of the vector character of prehensions is basic to his attempt to describe the world as a multiplicity of actual things which are genuinely related.

These groups unwittingly weaken the impact of the Christian message either as they try to alter the distinctive character of entire denominations, attempting to turn liberal churches into conservative churches, or as they undermine the consistency of image projected by liberal churches in areas important to their particular constituency.

There is a scene — I will not state the context so as to not spoil the movie's enjoyment — in which a horse is ridden to death in an attempt to get a character to a doctor to save the character's life.

At the same time, modern attempts to construct a view of Jesus that omits any emphasis on the death, focusing instead on a message or practice Jesus taught without reference to his own fate — which are implausible as history and often lack distinctive Christian character.

NXT has enough love and Vince enough residual heat the Only way NXT comes off as the heels is if HHH attempts to lead the Invasion too soon after a stint as» The Authority»... if he came out as «Paul Levesque» or some such character distinction it'd seal it as well

And if you look at the Dudley / Barbosa signings as anything more than an attempt to buoy the minute - load with high - character veterans, then yeah, you'll probably be disappointed.

By the end of a long day of critique, her «protective cloak» was at best in tatters, and perhaps that's the ultimate fate of most attempts for a media figure to live aggressively as a character rather than an honest person.

Any attempt to ignore the politics and treat it purely as a character study would have been a mistake as her ideology was so essential to who she was.

Had Silver's lawyers made any attempt to portray Silver as a man of character at the trial, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara would have undoubtedly seen to it that the Sheldon E. Silver farce had made it into the court record, probably during the testimony of Michael Whyland, Silver's spokesman who led the media attack on the Times story.

Such self - acquisitive characters are Ghana's bane to be feared, especially when they attempt translating their success into something so weird as seeking political office.

Versu, described as an «interactive reading experience where readers become the characters», is Evans's attempt to correct this.

The show doesn't know how to make the other characters as compelling as Bonnie and Clyde, so it gives everybody a ballad in an attempt to show us their feelings.

Director Ron Howard brings his usual light touch to the proceedings and manages to hold the viewer's interest even through the narrative's oddly action - packed final third (ie once the truth about Hannah's character is revealed, the film becomes more of a thriller than a cute little romantic comedy and there's even a chase sequence as the army attempts to capture the mermaid / woman).

Three different playable characters, A.I. controlled Team Combat and upgradeable weaponry and defenses help keep players alive as they attempt to eradicate the zombie hordes.

In the 1964 pilot episode, «Eleven Days To Zero», he was seen as the doomed first commander of the submarine Seaview, Capt. John Phillips, who is killed in an attempt on the life of Admiral Nelson (Richard Basehart); in «The X Factor», an episode from the following season, Hudson played the role of Captain Shire, who is killed off using the exact same footage depicting his character's death in the pilot episode.

Though an admirable attempt to allow the characters to tell their own story in their own voices, docu may be a bit too freely associative, as it becomes difficult at times to identify individual characters... Picture's second half, which proceeds in a more linear fashion, is resolutely gripping.

The film's apparent comic relief is Ruth's equally lonely and wacky neighbor, Tony (Elijah Wood), whose displays of self - taught martial artistry are meant to be funny but come off as a lazy attempt to add personality to an otherwise dull and one - dimensional character.

An unfocused, unfunny black comedy, Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb details the chaos that ensues after a nuclear attack is mistakenly triggered against the Soviet Union - with the film following a host of disparate figures, including George C. Scott's Buck Turgidson, Sterling Hayden's Jack D. Ripper, and Peter Sellers» title character, as they attempt to neutralize the threat.

We also meet new characters for this season such as Yves»n Steven - Yves, a cat burglar who attempts at stealing the guarded prize possession are always foiled by Steven, the happy go lucky guard dog; Next we get an introduction to Dot, Rosie's niece in the adventures of» Rosie and Dot».

It's a high - concept premise that's initially employed to impressively engrossing effect by filmmakers Caroline Labrèche and Steeve Léonard, as the directors deliver a strong opening stretch detailing Liam's near - silent attempts to piece together what's happened to him and why nearby people keep dropping dead — with Klattenhoff's stirring performance as the befuddled central character certainly perpetuating the intriguing atmosphere.

There is, as such, little doubt that the less - than - believable nature of the movie's premise isn't quite as problematic as one might've feared, as Niccol does an effective job of both transforming Timberlake's character into a likeable, compelling protagonist and peppering the proceedings with sequences of an unexpectedly engrossing variety (eg Will frantically attempts to reach his mother before she runs out of time).

The game attempts to include this character as a bigger part of the story but instead, it serves simply as a means of explaining how you're character obtains powers and that's it.

Keynes, as an heir to the Darwinian legacy, may have been attempting to redeem the character of his great - great grandfather in the writing of the book, in order clear up his grandfather's lackluster image — one denounced particularly by those of faith over the century and a half since the publication of... Origin....

Amour suffers from some pacing issues, although these are largely the result of Haneke using «dead space» (such as a sequence in which his camera spends an inordinate amount of time focused on paintings or an interminable scene in which Georges attempts to capture a pigeon that has entered his home) to establish a tone or develop a character.

Red West plays a man trying to distance himself from the world and Savane is wonderful, perhaps naive and eventually wise as he attempts to break through West's character's tough exterior.

Once a smuggler, always a smuggler, therefore excusing making no attempt to advance Han Solo as a character in middle age.

For all of its attempts at gut - wrenching conflicts, at the end, we are left with the same characters in the same situations as when we started.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

As for King, her character suffers a bit from cute kid syndrome thanks to a number of heavy - handed attempts at labeling her a hero and an excess of helpless screaming, but for the most part, King comes across as an appealingly mature character with some sasAs for King, her character suffers a bit from cute kid syndrome thanks to a number of heavy - handed attempts at labeling her a hero and an excess of helpless screaming, but for the most part, King comes across as an appealingly mature character with some sasas an appealingly mature character with some sass.

Harrelson suffers a related problem as in their attempts to make a memorable villain, the character is overdone and comes across as a one - dimensional psychotic from an exploitation film rather than the more muted drama he's supposed to be in.