Sentences with phrase «dialogue about»

For 20 years, NCTAF has worked to drive and inform the national dialogue about the importance of great teaching, especially in hard - to - staff schools.

Ideally, examples like Staaby's will encourage a greater dialogue about an issue that is becoming too pressing and complex to simply ignore.

Ultimately, we're trying to create a dialogue about leadership within schools so that we can start to improve it.

«High - quality civic learning teaches the importance of community (both within the school and more broadly), respectful dialogue about controversial issues, creative problem solving, collaboration, teamwork, and the importance of diversity,» according to the authors.

The headiness of Ghost in the Shell exists beyond its more pseudo-philosophical dialogue about the differences between fantasy and reality that often spews from characters» mouths, with a notable exception being Kuze (Michael Pitt), a cyber-terrorist whose computer - generated speech patterns are played with wild - eyed hilarity by Pitt's obscure line readings.

He manages to make the man his own while delivering dialogue about what it is, exactly, that makes a man.

Its headiness exists beyond its more pseudo-philosophical dialogue about the differences between fantasy and reality.

Despite all the dialogue about Prometheus and Turing (and Wittgenstein), or the score which echoes the notes from Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the film is best exemplified by how Nathan remembers Ghostbusters - as that movie where the lady - ghost gives Dan Aykroyd a blow - job.

Jordan Peele's racially - charged suspense thriller, Get Out, has not only sparked a ton of dialogue about the terrifying nature of racism and Black masculinity onscreen, but it's also... Read More

There's the first part, the origin story part — the part no one actually likes — which drags on forever, filled with endless expository dialogue about science and past grudges, and science and other past grudges, and science and current grudges.

I want to keep the dialogue about racism open and alive.

It is starting a fairly interesting dialogue about the general concept of believing in a deity, without talking down to non-believers or pushing an agenda.

Yet in the end it contributes nothing in story or style that seems to add to the currently fashionable dialogue about rehabilitation and recidivism.

Challenges: Will U.S. voters take to a movie with few women (especially in the year of #MeToo) and minimal dialogue about an incident that took place before America entered the war?

The film initiates an important dialogue about the current techniques used in modern war, and in the same vein as THE HURT LOCKER and FULL METAL JACKET, illustrates how war is constantly being redefined according to the technologies and methods in play.

In 2001, I was invited by the editors of Christianity Today to write a weekly column called «Film Forum,» comparing and contrasting film reviews in the religious and mainstream press, and examining the nature of dialogue about art in the church and popular culture.

At one point he introduces a small bit of dialogue about Superman, and parallels can be drawn between «Midnight Special» and a superhero origin story, if superhero origin stories didn't follow such clear - cut paths.

«Given the environment right now socially, you'd think [academy voters] would be more conscious,» said Gil Robertson IV of Los Angeles» African American Film Critics Assn. «There seems to be little thought or consideration on how «Selma» in particular really does provide an opportunity for people to have some real dialogue about race relations.

Michael's obsession with defecation and Eddie's futile attempts at sexual relations, along with plenty of dialogue about surgically enhanced body parts, quickly become tiresome.

Woody Allen's latest film, Wonder Wheel, is the sixteenth «wonder» movie of the year, and it has everything you've come to expect from a Woody Allen film: New York locations, relationships complicated by suppressed misery, uncomfortable dialogue about an uncomfortable father / daughter relationship, and a legendary actress going for broke in a leading role.

«Mr. Mom» will always have a special place in my heart for one scene that has two very funny, quotable bits of dialogue about half a minute apart.

Jamie is the daughter of the town preacher (Peter Coyote), who predictably objects to his daughter's budding romance and spouts boilerplate dialogue about God and morality.

Thomas» breakdown feels like an attempt to illustrate a statistic, in the same way Good Kill's awkwardly offhand dialogue about how much a bombing run costs could've just as easily have been spoken directly into the camera by an expert in a suit.

In the candid interview, her first in several months after making a conscious effort to pull back, she explained why she has been so vocal in fighting for the gender pay gap, using her profile to open a dialogue about equality in Hollywood and beyond.

The meta - level layering and critical dialogue about horror movies in this sequence (characters with little to no development, predictable scare setups, and shocking turns that don't make much sense) are calls for variation that Kevin Williamson's script leave largely unanswered once the plot proper kicks into gear.

Fan sites were born in worship of these films and slowly but surely those fan sites took over the dialogue about film and pretty soon there wasn't a lot of difference between fandom and film criticism.

Despite Beau Knapp's best efforts to deliver expository dialogue about Nic's relationship with Haley in a conversational way, the opening of «The Signal» feels too much like what it is: a set - up for what's to come.

The film's nominal story involves a terminally ill mother, a corpse found floating in the ocean, and a tentative teen romance; as usual, though, Kawase is mostly interested in having these characters speak her ideas aloud, handing them endless turgid dialogue about nature, death, and the link between the two.

Because Kara Wade (Biel) is a girl, she's given the dialogue about collateral damage and the morality of long - range mechanized warfare; because Henry is black, he gets the business end of a mountain when a flying washing machine outsmarts him; and because Rob Cohen is the director of this mess, there are a lot of CGI point - of - view shots of electrical currents going through wires.

Montag's inner turmoil is expressed through flashbacks to seeing his father arrested as a child, Beatty spouts Bradbury's most verbose and opaque lines of dialogue about knowledge, and Clarisse is just an escort for Montag's heroic journey.

Taking place in a cornfield somewhere in southern Germany, the film evokes Malick's work not only because of its heavy - handed philosophising dialogue but also because of its strained attempt to infuse its cinematography with the very meaning that its dialogue about philosophy, including Being and Time, never achieves.

are more of the same; truth is that most of these elisions are interchangeable with those that made it to air, though because there's a God in heaven, a dialogue about how Hilary Swank could more than likely kick the ever living shit out of ex-hubby Chad Lowe did make the final cut.

Leo mutters some stupid dialogue about «sending monkeys to do men's jobs,» and so on, before being sucked into a time tunnel in the middle of a magnetic storm in space.

Even Peter Capaldi — the self - appointed security scrooge of Windsor Gardens — chews through dialogue about delinquent bear danger levels reaching sky - high.

While she had already mentioned her «non-linear» sexuality in the past, partly from answering questions about her androgynous fashion - sense, her third record comes at the time of her most concise «coming out» and she has laid the process out for all to see during a time where a more open dialogue about different variations on sexuality and gender is starting to take place.

Bolstered by a strong supporting cast of older comedy actors (Thomas Hayden Church and Lisa Kudrow appear as teachers), she takes what could have been tricky subject matter and instead creates a mature dialogue about American teenage relationships.

A prolonged finale is compromised by obvious dialogue about individual freedom and conformity that restates points director Neil Burger (Limitless) already has made.

At a time when Hollywood is engaged in an ongoing dialogue about women directors, there turns out to be an abundance of women behind the camera this year.

The film also has an undercurrent of ugliness to it, intentional to a certain extent, with more shots and dialogue about human waste than is typical for a law enforcement thriller.

It fires on all cylinders as its stunning visuals, score, and the questions posed by Amy Adams» Dr. Banks mirror the exact dialogue about communication that the film seeks out.

Watching this guy deliver lots of portentous expository dialogue about witches and dark magic with a penis drawn on his face is kind of amazing.

Almost non-stop hackneyed dialogue about the nature of art, delivered with bizarre accent and performance choices, in a cumbersomely arced dual narrative about the power of one - dimensional women to inspire and enable spectacular men.

After some clunky expository dialogue about the nature of the wand that Voldemort has stolen and a sword that materializes when needed, we're off and running, with a plot hatched to break into the famed goblin bank Gringotts and destroy one of the remaining horcruxes — physical manifestations of Voldemort's splintered soul.

I am pleased to see people attempting dialogue about what makes a film good or bad.

Studies have found that dialogue concerning travel results in more matches than dialogue about films.

A stroll through the Museum Of Sex's 20,000 permanent artifacts and NSFW exhibits is a great way for your and your date to have a dialogue about your sexual preferences in a sex positive and empowering environment — just be sure that you and your date are comfortable before committing to a day of inflatable boob bouncing and staring at statues of skeletons boning.

It also found that dialogue concerning travel resulted in more matches than dialogue about films.

The setup encourages an open dialogue about how to create a mutual beneficial and respectful relationship.

* Opens a universally compelling and pressing dialogue about how our relationships are changing» Ashna Ali, NY Press.

A dating website for stoners created by stoners, 420Singles goes «beyond buds» by making romantic connections as well as starting a dialogue about the legalization of marijuana and other related news.