Sentences with phrase «dramatic stakes with»

«This episode carried last week's intense dramatic stakes with a welcome degree of emotional gravitas.»

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The dramatic takeover battle for Warrnambool Cheese & Butter could take another turn in its dying moments, with Japanese - owned Lion looking like it will not sell its 10 per cent WCB stake into Canadian giant Saputo's offer.

(Paterson said immediately afterward that he was «disappointed, stunned and frankly chagrined» at the legislature's actions, and responded as best he could, with what amounts to a dramatic gesture: thousands of line - item vetoes of the legislature's budget that, relative to the overall amounts at stake, don't add up to much at all.)

As the story builds, these characters become richer and more complicated — and the stakes become more deadly — resulting in a movie with a delayed but no less potent dramatic punch.

Entertaining and light in its first two episodes, Trust turns more dramatic with higher stakes in episode three as a cold - blooded mafia killer enters the picture.

But maybe best of all, Trust offers a plot with significant dramatic stakes, even if the end is already a foregone conclusion.

Deep down, we all know that modern superhero movies are operating with even lower dramatic stakes than Star Wars or James Bond movies: beloved characters rarely stay dead after they've been killed, and no plot development, no matter how grave, is irreversible, so there's no possible way that what seems to be happening on the screen could really be happening.

With The Immigrant, director James Gray told a story of everyday cruelty and grace between three characters, broader sociopolitical concerns serving as the backdrop and elevating the dramatic stakes.

We tend to want to remember our greatest actors for their «big» moments — ones ripened with dramatic stakes and acted out with a heightened, sometimes histrionic, intensity.

But there's also a softness to the dramatic arc of the film, which doesn't so much march forward as waft along, with rather low stakes and all - too - easy resolutions.

A curiously joyless movie that tries to channel the giddy amorality of Dr. Strangelove but forgets to add jokes or dramatic stakes, War Dogs is a major whiff from Hangover trilogy director Todd Phillips, who won't be graduating to serious material like Anchorman's Adam McKay did with The Big Short.

A brisk, witty read in its first half, Kirn's novel sags in the home stretch because the dramatic stakes appear to be so low, particularly with its protagonist sustaining no constant relationship in the course of the narrative.

All three are at their most movie star charismatic here, with their formidable dramatic chops lending real gravitas and palpable emotional stakes as they continue their struggles and conflicts with each other and within in order to act for the greater benefit of their kind.

Deathly Hallows earns its PG - 13 rating with a swell of actual dramatic stakes, as characters are killed off unexpectedly to sustain the surprise and the triangle of pubescent wizardly valor engages in furious wand shoot - outs with assassins, including a spectacular gunfight inside a London café where Harry first learns there are no safe havens in which he can hide.

Sandra's weekend trying to convince her co-workers to vote for her may not sound particularly dramatic, but with the stakes the film establishes, it is plenty dramatic.

Stakes are too high and at every conceivable turn, mutating something that could have been an intense relationship drama with considerable dramatic potency into an affected disarray of flailing tonal shifts.

With so much at stake, we can not afford to ignore the evidence that this race for accountability will require a dramatic investment of time and resources if it is going to be successful.

With the heavy push for high - stakes testing, the questionable negative rhetoric by the Obama Administration and others about STEM, and the dramatic changes to the curriculum with Common Core State Standards, is this country going to wake -LSB-With the heavy push for high - stakes testing, the questionable negative rhetoric by the Obama Administration and others about STEM, and the dramatic changes to the curriculum with Common Core State Standards, is this country going to wake -LSB-with Common Core State Standards, is this country going to wake -LSB-...]