Sentences with phrase «dubious characters»

Though many cite dubious characters like former Weather Channel founder John Coleman, and «Lord Monckton», as proof that there «is no global warming», such individuals are hardly a credible source of data.

Her films are attempts at weaving together portraits of morally dubious characters or events, and her sculptural practice employs a language of minimalism and abstraction to reformulate familiar objects into a state of ambiguity, navigating between negation and seduction.

In noir, morally dubious characters and double - crosses are pretty much par for the course.

American Made is one of the many children of «Goodfellas,» a true - crime story turned first - person narrative told by a charismatic ne'er - do - well surrounded by dubious characters and tantalizing subplots.

The grand tradition of French thrillers favors dark humor, morally dubious characters, and twisted plot developments.

This will not only save you from dubious characters, but will also go a long way to safeguarding other users too.

A main reproach that is often made to free online dating services is that the free subscription attracts all sorts of dubious characters.

In the past, top ranking members of the NPP, including the current Flagbearer, Nana Akufo Addo, have been linked to various dubious characters, including drug dealers and tricksters.

Certainly, oil has attracted a lot of dubious characters into the country and it's not just Ghana, also Nigeria and many other oil - producing countries on the continent.

Obviously these dubious characters must have liked his company a good deal better than they would have liked that of his critics, even if these had not held them at arm's length.

To this extent, then, the Hebrew thinkers were ready to concede a dubious character to human processes of knowledge.

White men are known to have a dubious character and they may desire the company of other women if they think you're not the one.

It helps protect the innocent and allows those of dubious character to get away with a little more.

My hope is that the mythical deities of professional publishing will identify for it infinite opportunities for both rational and irrational disposals, acquisitions and mergers, adding to it the steady flow of occasionally sociopathic senior managers and directors to impose upon it their mark, each after a short time to be removed and replaced by the next, of equally dubious character and effectiveness.

Not exact matches

It possesses magnificent character delineation: the great theme is the princely magnanimity of Joseph, envied by his lesser brothers, his life threatened, then at length spared only through the dubious device of selling him into slavery in Egypt; and there, his fortunes going from bad to worse, he was, for no fault of his own but indeed because of his integrity, hurled into an oriental prison to lie hopeless until some dubious chance should release him.

I doubt very much you are 50, and are a life long supporter and north London boy but if you are that makes your character even more dubious in my eyes as you should know better than to abide and what's more defend this nonsense year after year as you do.

It also offers clues to why characters like Gov. Cuomo's recently convicted top aide, Joe Percoco, and indicted former SUNY Polytechnic boss Alain Kaloyeros felt free to engage in dubious dealings in the name of economic development.

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Baker casts a compassionate and nonjudgmental gaze on every one of his struggling, screwed - up characters, even when they make dubious life choices.

A solid character piece that deftly probes the complicity of both sides in a morally dubious relationship.

One key figure of character consternation is the contrived Zuwanie security specialist Nils Lud (Jesper Christensen) who seems to have free reign through the corridors of power in spite of his clearly dubious intentions.

His uncompromising love for dubious and morally ambiguous characters is present, sparked with some female sensuality and a good serving of slasher film flavor.

I don't think he's ever filmed a villain, and even those characters that are dubious are portrayed with empathy.

A powerful epic - scale Western with a rich story full of nuances, following a complex character of dubious motivations in a search that stretches for many years - an anguishing journey set against the imposing vastness of the Monument Valley desert with stunning panoramic shots.

With focus given to both characters finding faith during their confinement, their road to redemption seems implausible, and dubious morals abound.

Still, I felt the Alfre Woodard character had something to be said for her dubious realism (the high school principal played by Forest Whitaker in «American Gun» would certainly agree with her) and that the ascendancy of Pierre Dulaine was a little too smooth.

Given the list's dubious origins — and even its formatting for a cast list is a little peculiar — and all these supposed comic book character connections (even the fact that it spells Betty Brant's name incorrectly), it's perhaps best to load your web shooters with cartridges of spider - salt for now.

Similarly premised on a tipping point between synthesis and disarray was the Kiwi anthology Waru, an unprecedented collaboration among eight Maori women filmmakers, each contributing a 10 - minute short film linked in more and less obvious ways to the funeral of the title character, a young boy who died amid dubious circumstances.

Cinematographer Barry Peterson (21 Jump Street) gives the lighting an atmospheric quality that besets energetic characters and the dubious faux - mystery.

There are serious miscalculations throughout The Lone Ranger, starting with the casting: Hammer plays the masked hero with the dim enthusiasm (or enthusiastic dimness) of Brendan Fraser at his most stilted; Depp's Tonto is an ethnically dubious repurposing of his popular Jack Sparrow character, more stoic but equally eccentric; and Helena Bonham Carter, as a brothel madam with a lethal fake leg, does little but add to the cartoon grotesquerie.

Despite being an unpopular character, and that by displaying a more than dubious double standard, its network of informants gave the power to know life, and dirty, almost anyone who could be someone, hence there are those who say while breath was the most powerful man in America.

One of the most wholly original slice of life character studies in years as a young «actress» befriends an old woman for dubious reasons to incongruously sweet results

Ryan Reynolds, whose dubious claim to quasi-fame was a starring role on little - watched, much - ridiculed sitcom Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place, plays the title character, Coolidge College's big man on campus — in more ways than one.

While these dubious moments are usually reserved for minor characters, it can still get very distracting.

Victoria (Laia Costa) is a young Spanish woman working in Berlin who falls in with some suspicious characters on her way out of a nightclub; this is the proverbial story of falling into dubious company and getting in way too deep.

In some ways its flaws are reminiscent of Thank You for Smoking — there's never really any doubt if the morally dubious main character's going to lose confidence in themselves.

Bigger, louder, and more, more, more seem to be the guiding principles of the film and while on their own they might make a pleasurable romp, it's dubious as to whether or not these pre-Skywalker adventures have really added anything of value to the character.

Parker and Novak do well but their characters» histories and ground situations are dubious concoctions.

The characters are mostly hateful, with the exception of Charlie's dubious pal Pete (Oliver Platt), a sodden lawyer.

Code Veronica also has the dubious distinction of having one of the single worst characters in the franchise.

Beyond Gally and other such milquetoast characters, the sense of subservience extends to the filmmakers themselves, who seem to refuse to dwell or even question the consequences of Red's dubious behavior.

«In Dubious Battle» is monotonous in its messaging, working only when it allows itself to be a character piece less tied to Having Something to Say.

In honour of our morally dubious cover stars, we thought we'd round up a list of our favourite movie characters: the guys and gals of cinema who have proved really good at being bad.

We meet a wide cross-section of characters whose intentions and relationships are initially far from clear, from horse trainers Turo Escalante (John Ortiz) and Walter Smith (Nick Nolte, pictured above with four - legged friend) to assorted jockeys, dubious businessmen, vets and agents.

But I am still a little dubious as they could run the risk of making those characters a bit crap as well.

Besides games like Partners in Time and Yoshi's Island 2 (which were both developed by third parties and can be considered dubious despite their greatness), the whole deal with characters interacting with their baby counterparts in the sports games simply can not be considered story canon.

CGI cutscenes have seen only basic touch - ups; character motions are still occasionally jerky, and the sometimes - dubious voice performances remain largely intact.

During the Tokyo Game Show today, they've confirmed yet another character from that leak a few days back, and it's the second character that had gamers dubious: Celica.

In this comprehensive video, the leading figure of a new generation describes his movies as a «safe space,» where you can explore dubious ideas or characters.