Sentences with phrase «dramatic situation of»

This artistic research, which relates the present dramatic situation of refugees to the historical experience of flight and exile between 1933 and 1945, focuses on the fragility of individual and societal conditions triggered by wars, poverty and terrorism.

He added: «He himself wanted to introduce the work of the meeting, thanking the participants gathered to pray and reflect together on what to do to meet the dramatic situation of Christians living in the Middle East and other religious and ethnic minorities who are suffering because of the violence raging throughout the region.»

Not exact matches

If the borrower in the above situation had also taken out an additional $ 40,000 in unsubsidized direct federal loans to attend graduate school at the current interest rate of 5.8 percent, the differences in outcomes between repayment plans are even more dramatic (see chart below).

I time the market in the sense that when I find a commodity where the selling price is less than the cost of production, in other words, an industry that's in liquidation, I know that either the material becomes unavailable or the price goes up and the longer the situation lasts, the more dramatic the response will be.

The situation could become even more dramatic because the one - child policy has led to a grotesque distortion of the male - female ratio among young Chinese adults.

It is built upon the Burkian assumption that «the human situation created in literature is essentially dramatic» and devised as an analytical tool for students who would become «speakers» of an author's aesthetic text.

While they are rarely explicitly stated, they emerge in dramatic or narrative form in almost all forms of fictional and non-fiction programming: news, sports, drama, situation comedies, advertisements, soap operas, and children's cartoons.

Extensive studies of the content of American television, for example, have found that television programming repetitively presents a particular and consistent dramatic view of the world and life: what is good and what is bad, what has reality and what does not have reality, what power is and who holds power, how relationships should be conducted, and how one should behave in particular situations.

Our editorial takes up the Pope's own linking of the British riots to this «dramatic situation» in the world and the Church.

It is surely a «dramatic» situation that at the heart of our Catholic community we are pushing many, probably most, of our 14 year olds into the moral minefield of the current Religious Education GCSE.

What appears to be happening is that multiple strategies are emerging out of the current trend and contemporary practices, taking into account the urgent need to find solutions given the dramatic situation in which hundreds of millions of people in the world find themselves and which risks ending up in collective suicide.

Tolstoy, for instance, is an epic writer, whose books overflow with physical details and frequently threaten to overflow their own narrative structures and become as vast and as inconclusive as life itself, while Dostoevsky is a dramatic writer, whose books are full of fraught and urgent voices, at times almost disembodied, trapped in situations of immediate and pressing crisis, and surrounded by a physical world usually having no more substance than a collection of painted canvasses or pasteboard silhouettes at the back of the stage.

It is this dramatic situation whose urgency I wish to stress in the form of three essentially related propositions of which each of us carries the substance in his heart, without choosing, or without daring, to acknowledge them and accept their inexorable pressure and their natural logic.

Here is a dramatic demonstration that not one of us, even in the most awful circumstances, is simply caught up in a situation.

I don't doubt that this situation seems dramatic to the couple involved, but if this is the worst problem their relationship ever comes across they'll be really lucky, and as an onlooker I just can't muster a lot of interest.

Vatican Spokesman Father Federico Lombardi called the event «a dramatic confirmation of the tragic situation in which the Syrian population and its Christian communities are living.»

What happens in a crisis, or in any less dramatic problem situation involving unexpected, puzzling or discordant experiences, is this sudden shift of control of an ongoing activity to a higher level in the many - leveled hierarchy, from a semi-automatic to a more conscious performance, because the decision to be made or the problem to be solved is beyond the competence of the automatic pilot and must be referred to higher quarters.

He exploits his talents; he exploits the needs of his people; he exploits the drama of the human situation; he exploits the dramatic qualities of the gospel.

There's been plenty of talk about Paul Pogba's situation at Manchester United in the last few days, with some fears that he could be coming towards a dramatic end to his time at Old Trafford.

Opposition researchers are working hard on that, but in the meantime snapshots of the situation in towns with high student populations reveals a dramatic fall - off.

«In the scheme of things, it's obvious that this is not a no - big - deal situation, but I don't think anything dramatic is going to come out of this trial when it comes to the Cuomo administration or how it operates,» he said.

Through these two witnesses and wiretaps, the federal authorities describe various dramatic situations in which large sums of cash were traded by for political favors.

In Ghana, he said trade facilitation has been enhanced with a 57 % increase of volumes of goods processed at the Customs Technical Service Bureau which will have a very dramatic impact on Ghana's international investment competitiveness with direct impact «on our domestic economic situation, offering up much more job opportunity, and improve living standards for our people.»

«Mark Cannon had a progressively deteriorating neurological situation that was completely disregarded by nursing staff despite dramatic signs and symptoms of an active neurological emergency and Cannon's repeated requests for medical care,» the investigative report states.

«Faced with this dramatic situation, many look to the system of unemployment protection to try to determine the reasons why the percentage of the unemployed receiving no economic assistance, those who have fallen out of the system, has reached such alarming levels and to what extent receiving unemployment payments might have a negative effect on the possibility of rejoining the workforce,» comments Professor Daniel Pérez del Prado, of the Work and Social Security Law area that is part of the Social and International Private Law Department of the UC3M.

It is «also a little ironic or paradoxical» that the new road map has been approved as a boost to Spain's economy «at the same time when the situation that is being lived... in the universities and research centers is almost dramatic, and a matter of survival,» says Carlos Andradas Heranz, a mathematician at the Complutense University of Madrid and president of the Confederation of Spanish Scientific Societies.

Here the authors are not mentioning that values at the lower end of the spectrum represent a less dramatic situation than a value at the higher end of the spectrum, which probably would have really supported a climate catastrophe.

Worth the 3D price, good actting, reheated dramatic situations (and not because it's a remake), and not enough of the character faves (Plasse, Tennant, Farrell).

This dramatic demonstration of the power of social situations is relevant to many institutional settings, such as the Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq.

Sometimes they go through a dramatic transformation through a hostage situation or an extraterrestrial encounter, but for the most part, origin stories are just a compulsory part of the hero's bigger picture.

I watched the Youtube footage, I read up on it, but I was kind of thrown into it, which was perfect, because that's what it was on the train — everyone was just thrown into that dramatic and heart - wrenching and horrible situation.

Dialogue - heavy, with rapid - fire exchanges and witty banter part and parcel of the characters» vocal tool kit, it takes a five - person situation that lends itself to farce and teases it out to both comic and dramatic effect.

In place of plot, Hawks and his favorite screenwriter, Jules Furthman, set up a succession of comic and dramatic situations that pop with laughs, thrills, and frissons.

Even without any proper dramatic scenes, this swirling collage of a movie draws us into its story and situations, revealing deep truths about relationships.

McDonagh devises such a superb dramatic scenario — two people with a begrudging mutual respect, on opposite sides of an impossible situation, headed straight at each other like cars playing chicken — that it's almost a disappointment when the film ends up subverting its own trajectory, then squiggling off in other directions.

How the film's compelling star Jennifer Lawrence may feel about this sentiment is another matter, but this is a tale that, like any number of fanciful genre outings, both pulls you in with its intriguing central dramatic situation and pushes you out with some mightily far - fetched plot contrivances.

2015's rom - com «Trainwreck» isn't a great film, but the script from star Amy Schumer had plenty of winning comedic and dramatic material — not to mention relatable characters and believable situations.

Though Jake and Justine begin their new relationship on estranged footing, director Ross Katz is never estranged from the strengths of Adult Beginners — a cast that can operate equally well in dramatic and comedic situations, a smart script from Kroll and genuine moments of emotional and intellectual progress.

Moreover, the director always keeps the movie rooted in a compelling dramatic situation, with Pitt giving a very appealing turn as the seen - it - all veteran of the world's worst places whose desire to protect his family trumps his desire to save the world.

Stressing the need for long shots and deliberate pacing for effective comic gags, Spielberg underestimates the innovative spirit of his own visual style in dramatic situations.

With the most ludicrous of situations, no real laughs and its inability to decide if it wants to be a dramatic comedy or comedic drama or whatever, Identity Thief could be titled «Time and Money Thief,» since it is an apt description of what the viewer will suffer by seeing this most disappointing picture.

The film is peppered by Berkowitz's own narration, in which he makes wry comments and observations on the events in retrospect, and, I suspect, he's also taken certain dramatic liberties with some situations (most notably, the downward fortunes of his producer, Elie Samaha).

If you look back at the work of Alexander Payne, you will see that his movies have these serious and dramatic story lines but are mixed well with just enough humor that can be found in those situations.

He writes clever dialogue and realistic situations that these characters get into, which ultimately increases the greatness of the story and the dramatic material.

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Bourne's award - winning historical romances, set at the turn of the nineteenth century in England and on the Continent, showcase Potter's talent for underscoring the emotional depths of captivating characters placed in dramatic situations.

If the borrower in the above situation had also taken out an additional $ 40,000 in unsubsidized direct federal loans to attend graduate school at the current interest rate of 5.8 percent, the differences in outcomes between repayment plans are even more dramatic (see chart below).

While Nadia's story has the dramatic twist of the March event, the efforts taken to help her are completely standard for Cat Town, where staff and specially trained volunteers work in fast - changing, often unpredictable, situations to give shy, sick and stressed cats the attention and care they need to thrive.

Often we think of pet emergencies as dramatic situations where some trauma has happened, bleeding must be stopped, pain is severe, and act...

This would have been less of a dramatic situation if the horse had been in the front of the line.